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Growth Scrutiny Committee - Monday, 14th March, 2022 1.00 pm
Apologies for absence had been received from Councillors M Emmens, A Hutchinson and M Roe.
Councillor L Hartshorne joined the meeting virtually and so was unable to vote or be classed as present.
To approve as a correct record and the Chair to sign the Minutes of the Growth Scrutiny Committee held on 24 January 2022.
RESOLVED – That the Minutes of the Growth Scrutiny Committee held on 24 January 2022 were approved as a correct record and signed by the Chair.
Spotlight Scrutiny Review
Approval of Project Plan and Timetable
Members agreed with the aims and objectives of the review as set out in Appendix 4a. They considered that there was also an overarching aim to improve Council services and growth.
RESOLVED – That Committee approved the project plan and timetable.
Consideration of Briefing Paper and Relevant Documentation
RESOLVED – The briefing paper and relevant documentation were noted.
Consideration of Questions that Members wish to ask Stakeholders
RESOLVED – The questions were approved.
Scrutiny Review - Spotlight Review - The Council's Communication with Businesses
· Mark Ross – D2N2 Business Advisor
· Business CBE+
· Business Ian Hands Consultancy
· Karl Apps – Assistant Director – Economic Development, Regeneration & Housing Delivery
Interview One with Mark Ross D2N2 Advisor, Marie Cooper CBE+ and Ian Hans Consultancy
Members heard from Ian Hands Consultancy that it was often difficult to receive engagement from businesses. Out of 1300 business contacted, only 10% had responded. The majority of good data have been obtained via door knocking exercises taken place in towns, rather than surveys, emails or social media.
Committee were also informed that businesses only tend to approach the Council when they are in need of a specific Council service or function such as transactional arrangements.
Businesses advised Committee that were a number of events happening throughout the region such as Corner Stone meetings held by the County Council or Destination Chesterfield. It was suggested that the District Council could send a representative to these events as a networking exercise.
Businesses also considered that a key or single point of contact would be beneficial as it would allow for closer working relationships and a reduction in time taken to achieve answers or results.
Committee heard that when notifying eligible businesses about grant schemes, it was important not to overload them with information but instead explain the benefits and potential achievements. It was suggested that the Council could conduct phone calls with any eligible business.
Businesses outlined their main concerns post-Covid which were recruitment, import and export concerns, logistics, and energy.
Members discussed the interview at length and considered that a Council Relationship Manager for Businesses or business account managers could be a good way of improving connections with local businesses. The District could also work alongside local businesses with resilience planning and community engagement.
Interview Two with the Assistant Director Economic Development, Regeneration & Housing Delivery
Assistant Director Economic Development, Regeneration & Housing Delivery delivered a presentation to Committee on the Council's business engagement. This highlighted historical and current engagement as well as some points on what has worked well such as; door knocking, business grants and business networks. Areas that had not worked well included passive forms of communication such as leaflets and emails, promoting what businesses require rather than what the funder has on offer, reaching the decision maker in the business.
Committee also heard future plans such as a business ambassador for the Clay Cross Town Deal, the visitor economy network, localised initiatives and a Clay Cross Town Deal Newsletter.
Members asked the Assistant Director a series of questions and heard that the Council had not been very successful connecting with businesses in the past and that a more targeted approach was needed for the future.
A number of businesses would not engage with the Council due to negative stigma attached to the organisation. To combat this, the Council would be jointly branding webinars and events with the East Midlands Chamber.
The Officer considered that a micro-site and/or separate social media pages solely focussed around businesses could be a good idea as it would help to create a more targeted approach and could be updated regularly so business would have a desire to look ... view the full minutes text for item GSC/57/21-22
Scrutiny Review
Triangulation of Evidence
The Committee then considered all of the evidence which it had received during its review of the Council's engagement with local business.
Committee identified areas of good practice such as the temporary resource in Mark Ross as a business advisor funded by the Covid grant, the effective use of door knocking and face to face engagement, the amount of services offered by the Council.
Members also highlighted a number of areas for improvement. These included; a lack of a dedicated and appropriate channel of communication, a lack of a single point of contact, and a struggle to effectively define and communicate what it offered to businesses.
RESOLVED – That the draft report on the Committee's review be prepared and submitted to Committee for approval.
There were no additional urgent items.
The next meeting of the Growth Scrutiny Committee will take place on Monday, 9 May 2022 at 1.00 pm.
The next meeting of the Growth Scrutiny Committee would be held on Monday 9 May at 1pm.
The next meeting of the Growth Scrutiny Committee would be held in the Council Chamber, District Council Offices, 2013 Mill Lane, Wingerworth, Chesterfield, S42 6NG.


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Hockey fan Harper says NHL lockout would shine spotlight on other leagues
TORONTO - Like most hockey fans, Prime Minister Stephen Harper is hoping there won't be a work stoppage in the National Hockey League this fall.
But Harper says a lockout could have one bright spot.
"The one positive thing that a strike does is draw attention to other high-calibre hockey that is played in this country and around the world," Harper said Monday. "That all said, I don't think I have to tell you as a hockey fan, I certainly hope along with everybody else there will not be a strike or a lockout.''
Harper mentioned university, junior and women's hockey as alternatives to the NHL.
The NHL and the NHL Players' Association are currently trying to negotiate a new collective agreement.
The league has said if one can't be worked out by Sept. 15—the date the current deal expires—it will lock out its players.
The NHL lost the entire 2004-05 season to a lockout.
Harper, known for being a passionate hockey fan, made the comments Monday at the opening of Ryerson University's new athletics centre in the former Maple Leaf Gardens.
The event prompted hockey-related questions from the media, including one about where Harper was when Paul Henderson scored his famous goal in the 1972 Summit Series.
"Well I don't think anyone who was alive at that particular time is really going to forget where they were," said Harper. "I was in the gymnasium at John Althouse Middle School in Etobicoke along with several hundred other grade 7 and 8s watching the great moment, not just the Henderson goal but the come-from-behind victory."
Harper went on to say one of the perks of being prime minister is that he's had the opportunity to meet Henderson and other members of that famous team.
The 40th anniversary of the Summit Series is next month.

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Home Blog DeGette 'fracking' amendment doesn't fly; ExxonMobil shareholders vote
DeGette 'fracking' amendment doesn't fly; ExxonMobil shareholders vote
David O. Williams
Colorado Rep. Diana DeGette's bid to get full public disclosure of the chemicals used in the hydraulic fracturing of natural gas wells was withdrawn as an amendment to a Safe Drinking Water Act bill Wednesday after debate by the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
The committee passed the "Assistance, Quality, and Affordability Act of 2010 (pdf)," which amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to increase funding to states, water systems and "disadvantaged communities," step up EPA enforcement and encourage better environmental and financial management of water systems, among other things. But the committee did not accept DeGette's hydraulic fracturing amendment.
Hydraulic fracturing is the widely used process of injecting water, sand and undisclosed chemicals under high pressure into natural gas wells to fracture tight formations and free up more gas. Critics in Colorado and elsewhere are concerned it can lead to contamination of groundwater supplies, and DeGette wants to remove a 2005 exemption for the process under the Safe Drinking Water Act.
As the Safe Drinking Water Act bill moves through Congress, environmentalists want to see the hydraulic fracturing issue revisited.
"Congress has an opportunity to address the growing threats to our drinking water coming from dangerous gas drilling practices. We encourage our representatives in Congress to make certain that drilling for natural gas does not come at the expense of our drinking water. And we support all efforts to make sure that toxic chemicals aren't coming out of our taps," Piper Crowell, Clean Water Advocate for Environment America, said in a release.
In other hydraulic fracturing, or fracking news, investors holding 26.3 percent of the stock of ExxonMobil – set to become the nation's largest natural gas producer with the acquisition of XTO Energy – supported a proposal asking the company to disclose fracking chemicals.
Put forth by the shareholder advocacy group "As You Sow," which holds nearly 17,000 ExxonMobil shares, the proposal received five times the usual level of support for a first-time environmental resolution put forth to the board of a major energy company, according to the group.
"Today's vote sent a strong message to ExxonMobil that shareholders are concerned about how it is dealing with hydraulic fracturing, especially in light of the expansion that will make it the nation's largest natural gas company," As You Sow's Michael Passoff said in a release.
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Irish eyes are smiling and all of golf may be grinning as a more mature Rory McIlroy may just be getting started. The Northern Irishman, who will turn 30 on May 4, won his first The Players Championship title on Sunday, a year after his last victory, the 2018 Arnold Palmer Invitational.
McIlroy won it with a 16-under par 272, one shot ahead of local favorite, 48-year-old Jim Furyk.
McIlroy started the final round one shot back. He got off to a rough start with a double bogie on the 4th hole and a bogie on the 7th. He rallied back with birdies on the 9th, 11th and 12th, where he took the solo lead at 15-under. He bogied the 14th, missing a 5-footer for par. But with birdies on the 15th and 16th, he grabbed the outright lead again. Then he parred the iconic par 3, 17th; stuck with his driver on the 18th, hitting another massive drive; and smacked an aggressive approach shot and then two-putt for par and the win.
And what a boost this victory should provide McIlroy, who will be attempting for the fifth time to complete the career Grand Slam at The Masters, April 11-14. The last Major title he won was surprisingly almost four years ago at the 2014 PGA Championship.
But direct any criticism elsewhere, such as the fact that he was winless the last nine times he played in the final pairing. It was his sixth straight top ten on the PGA Tour, bettering his previous streak of five in 2015. With his massive talent, he should have won more than four Major Titles by now. The more mature McIlroy isn't allowing expectations placed on him by others, or negativism, intrude his new outlook on life.
McIlroy, with his renewed confidence and refreshed attitude, needed a par or better on the final hole to win. The fact that he stuck with his driver on the treacherous 18th, crushed it and then continued to play aggressive on his approach shot, which landed to the left of the hole, not far from the edge of the green and the water, reinforced his commitment to his game plan. He two-putt for par and the win.
McIlroy joins Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods in reaching 15 wins and four majors before turning 30 years of age.
And with this year's Open Championship being played at Royal Portrush in Northern Ireland this July, very close to where Rory grew up, the scenario for McIlroy to dominate this season increases. It's a course McIlroy is most familiar with. He even holds the course record, a 61, which he shot when he was 16- years- old in 2005.
I've seen the Majors he's won in record-breaking fashion. I've had a front row seat in witnessing his enormous talent. If he can maintain a killer instinct and be consistent with his putter, the sky's the limit.
There you have it. I like this new attitude. It will take him to even greater heights!


As it turns out not so "Odd"…as expected.
I figured at some point I would be updating this story, and was confident that the SR wouldn't provide any background to their stories.
I wonder if Kutak Rock LLP was worried about the insurance they were required to carry with the contract if Hession was involved. Whether they were or not chances are we will be on the hook if something goes down the toilet.
You might notice that it was Roy J Koegen of River Park Square Case fame, who is now with Kutak Rock, signed the contract.
Since Hession is no longer with Kutak Rock that must mean a new contract directly with Hession, which will be interesting to read.
I gave a presentation to a nice group of folks recently who wanted to know why I started this news sight. This might help to explain why…someone has to get the truth and the facts to the people of Spokane.
As a true Spokanite who has lived here all my life, I have noticed that for some reason everything seems to evolve in a circular fashion with the same players always returning to involvement in controversy.
This short and sweet SR story announcing that former Mayor Dennis Hession will be the overseer of our defense against the Straub lawsuit makes me wonder.
People from outside of Spokane I'm sure would think it is odd that Mayor Condon has chosen Dennis Hession to run our defense of the Straub lawsuit given his background as Mayor of the City of Spokane and everything that transpired during his term. In reality this is SOP for our City and few people understand.
I think we should take a look at some of the facts that would bring most people to the conclusion the choice was odd at best, keeping in mind that again this whole thing involves management of the Spokane Police Department. In defense of some of the young reporters that give you most of your news today, most were still in college learning how to be reporters when a lot of this went on, but the true background is and always has been easily available to them.
For people that don't recall Dennis Hession was appointed by the City Council as our Mayor Pro Tem when Jim West was recalled, he was then officially appointed Mayor on January 3rd, 2006 to complete West's term. He ran for election as Spokane's Mayor against Mary Verner who eventually won and was sworn in on November 9th, 2007. Verner actually inherited the mess left by the Hession Administration during his short term, the least of which was the Otto Zehm case and cover-up which started on March 18th, 2006.
This Inlander Article from July 19th, 2006 to an extent sums things up, and I have to ask how many times since 2006 have we heard over and over the same thing in Hession's quote from the story?
"When we have mistakes that call into question the credibility of the Police Department, we need to act," Hession said at his news conference.
What I intend to do is just hit some of the highlights regarding Hession, and I'll leave out most of the facts concerning Hession and Rocky Treppiedi who was handling the Zehm case for Hession.
Back in 2006 Tom Clouse along with Bill Morlin, Benjamin Shors and Jody Lawrence-Turner started to put together facts and a timeline which includes information regarding Hession. Tom Clouse who did all of the primary reporting on the Zehm case but was transferred to Sports after what I have heard was a tiff between Clouse and his bosses over the Zehm case coverage. Bill Morlin retired, Benjamin Shors is at WSU, and Jody Lawrence-Turner is still with the SR. All of them would be great resources for young reporters working today.
The failed attempt to hire Don Pierce ended with Hession's hiring of another consultant Mike Worley.
The statement by Kirkpatrick in the story above could not have been further from the truth as history has proven.
I'm pretty sure I'm one of the very few people who at the time actually studied the Worley report which did offer some solid points most of which were for the most part ignored by SPD. I have mentioned the Worley report a number of times in the past so here it is for you folks to review.
During Hession's time as Mayor many folks, including myself, did not care for his administrations lack of transparency. One of the things that chapped me were his efforts to keep "The Matrix Report" from public scrutiny. We even paid a PR firm to guide Hession through the inevitable roll-out as he knew that at some point he would have to deal with the report which reflected very negatively on his administration. Back in the day when the SR actually did some investigative reporting and the Matrix Report was leaked, now long in the tooth reporter, Mike Prager did some good reporting on the lack of transparency.
As far as The Matrix Report is concerned it only really came up once as far as our current Mayor is concerned and that was in the story below by Johnathan Brunt who had the perfect opportunity to question Condon about a lot of other aspects concerning the report that have an impact on what we are dealing with today. In fairness it would have been hard for Brunt to realize the significance.
A consultant hired by the city to review city services in 2006 said that the city was not investing enough in its urban forest. Should the city do more to plant and maintain street trees? If so, how?
The City should optimize current budget for urban forestry. The Matrix report had many recommendations that have been largely ignored by the current administration. City development guidelines currently require tree placement for most new development or significant changes to existing buildings. The city should use those guidelines to partner with citizens to improve the City's urban forest.
As most folks know I have continually tried to point to The Matrix Report and its importance as it relates to what we have today. I hope Rachel Alexander reads this story of mine.
The SPD seems to be having a great deal of difficulty fulfilling Recommendation 10.5 of the COPS/DOJ Report. You can make your own guess as to why they are having difficulties, but you should keep this in mind, having an independent staffing analysis done on a law enforcement agency is done all the time is nothing new. It is obvious, to me at least, that when the consultants from COPS/DOJ did their thing the obvious hit them right in the face… "There is something wrong here!".
Interviewees from both the community and the SPD noted that a lack of adequate staffing directly impacts the SPD's ability to conduct community outreach and improve police-community relationships.
SPD should conduct a staffing analysis to determine if the department is meeting its operational needs and has an adequate amount of staff to ensure its continued mission, objectives and community policing principles.
The Office of Justice Program's Diagnostic Center will provide technical assistance to SPD to analyze its workload. The panel studying this met on June 12, 2015 and held additional meetings in July.
The Facts Are That HESSION'S Matrix Report DID EXACTLY WHAT COPS/DOJ Recommended!
IMO, not much has changed since the Matrix Report and as a matter of fact things have gotten worse starting in 2012 when all kinds of fluff programs came into existence with Mayor Condon and Frank Straub. I am getting tired of repeating it, but I'll do it again. SPD's COMPSTAT DATA IS BUNK! The only real data that was helpful from the standpoint of oversight and evaluating how SPD was doing was the AIM (Accountability Information Management System), which we paid for, and was quickly eliminated once Frank Straub hit town.
The Inlander in this story is just starting to get to the bottom of the BUNK STUFF.
Here is a copy of the SPD portion of Hession's Matrix Report for you to review.
If you were to compare the AIM Data to the Matrix Report, as I have, you would find that nothing changed…but that is for another day.
With all the controversy surrounding the Condon Administration I thought it real odd that he would choose the local office of Omaha based Kutak Rock LLP to handle this job, a job which just adds more lawyers and more expense, especially with Hession's background and the involvement of another lawyer in that firm Roy J Koegen who was the bond attorney during the River Park Square Case.
But in retrospect…maybe not so odd!
I'll stop here for today…lots to digest.
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Im a big fan of your web page here love your work! I know out of anybody you would be the right person to ask this but I read there was a federal investigation underway involving Spokane County Deputy Samuel Turner in fact he was put on leave it was a story published by the spokesman review but no other news about the findings on this investigation do you know anything about this? Any info would be great! keep up the awesome work! I love it!
I don't know I'll check PACER for you as soon as I get a chance.
Nothing entered in PACER Eastern District of Washington. However depending on the case it might not be entered.
Have to agree with your appraisal of Buff's work, Jill.
Thankful he is willing to do the heavy lifting on uncovering the story on fightin' Phil Tyler and his byin with the Ozman. Clearly, someone did not do their due diligence. What say you, Ozman?
The more things change the more they stay the same! That contract proved an interesting read. Any idea on how much money was paid out under that contract? And of course, when you get it, I'd like to look over the new contract with Hession as I am curious over if he will self-insure?
When I get it I'll post it. I believe it is now in the process. Hession is the last lawyer in Spokane I would want determining what is ACP.
Thanks, as always, for taking the time to keep this blog going with informative articles that can not be found elsewhere; a much needed service to the citizens of Spokane.
Found the contract to be very revealing and like the above post would like to know how much the payout is and then, going forward, how much more the city will be gouged for this alleged legal advice to Condon and his top executives?
Spokane has a penchant for going back to the same poisonous well to draw from and then, when things go south, citizens are left wondering what the hell just happened?
Unfortunately, that may be true!
He is Charlie Bird now.
According to Shelia Chase, this is what happened to your friend Sled.
Charlie, some confuse you with Sled. Just wanted to let everyone know that Sled after much consideration deleted the moniker he used voluntarily. He was not banned or anything close to that. It was his decision alone and one the mods and others respected. When one's participation on a newspaper comment section threatened his livelihood and the safety of his child, he did what he believed to be the responsible thing and removed himself.
Now that thread was funny. Boy do people react when their lack of credibility is exposed. I would of thought the mod would have deleted some of that stuff. I've been busy with other stories but it looks like I'm going to have to do a more in depth on Andrew and Sheila.
Is it just me or in that photo does Hession look like he just sat on a tack?


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Navratri Vrat Recipes: Butter Paneer ~No onion, garlic and very simple to make!
Navratri is here and we are all fasting but this doesn't mean that we can't experiment a little with food and have ourselves recipes that not only look delicious but also are tasty!
Today, I'll share with you a simplified vrat version of Butter Paneer which is really very simple to make and tastes amazing. This can be eaten not only in Navratri but in any fast or even on normal days.
1) Puree the blanched tomatoes.
2) Heat white butter in a round bottom pan and add tej patta, green chilli to it.
3) Add the tomato puree, curd and stir well. Add the red chilli powder and cook till the oil leaves the sides of the tomato paste.
4) Add the remaining white butter, sugar, salt and stir till the butter melts and the gravy gets thick.
5) Add the paneer cubes and cook for 3-4 minutes.
6) Add crushed kasuri methi, garam masala and stir.
7) Switch off the flame and garnish with fresh coriander and serve hot with the crispy Lauki Paratha or Sama ke Chawal (Vrat Rice).
1) For this dish, it's better to use ripe, red tomatoes.
2) Sugar quantity depends upon your taste and you can variate it accordingly.
3) Add Paneer and then cook only for a few minutes else it will get rubbery and ruin the taste of the dish.
4) Kasuri methi should be added at the last and the flame switched off else their is the danger of the gravy getting bitter.


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Beornwulf's defeat at the Battle of Ellandun marked the end of Mercian dominance
Beornwulf († 826) was a Mercian nobleman who became the King of Mercia. Although not of the Mercian royal family himself he usurped the throne from Ceolwulf in 823. He ruled Mercia until his death three years later.
King of Mercia[change | change source]
Little is known about Beornwulf's family. He played a large part in Ceolwulf I losing the throne in 823. He succeeded Ceolwulf as king in the summer of 823.[1] Beornwulf continued the campaign against Powys started by Coenwulf and his brother Ceolwulf I.[1] By the end of 823 Powys was being controlled by Mercia. By 825 Beornwulf had extended his authority over Kent, Essex and Middlesex.[2] In 825 Beornwulf invaded Wessex.[a] In what Frank Stenton called "one of the most decisive battles of Anglo-Saxon history" Egbert defeated Beornwulf[2] at the Battle of Ellandun.[1] This was the end of the Mercian kings dominating England.[2] Egbert sent his son Athelwulf with an army to overthrow Baldred, the Mercian sub-king.[3] As a result, all of Kent, Surrey, Sussex and East Anglia submitted to Egbert of Wessex.[3] Egbert was cautious though. He kew Mercia had a powerful army and did not attack Mercia directly.[4] Instead he instigated the East Anglians to revolt against Beornwulf.[4] When Beornwulf tried to recover East Anglia in 826 he was killed in the attempt.[2] He was succeeded by one of his ealdormen, Ludeca of Mercia.
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↑ This broke a 23 year peace between Mercia and Wessex. Egbert's rising power and designs on Kent is almost certainly what drove Beornwulf to attack Wessex.[1]
↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Mike Ashley, The Mammoth Book of British Kings and Queens (New york: Carroll & Graf, 1999), p. 261
↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Frank Stenton, Anglo-Saxon England (Oxford University Press, 1971), p. 231
↑ 3.0 3.1 Barbara Yorke, Wessex in the early Middle Ages (London; New York: Leicester University Press, 1995), p. 94
↑ 4.0 4.1 Sharon Turner, The history of the Anglo-Saxons from the earliest period to the, Vol. I (Philadelphia: Carey & Hart, 1841), p. 280
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Have a search element included so visitors can search your website content. If visitors are searching for something specific, they should be able to use a search box. Without this tool, the visitor might leave and go searching on another website. Put the search box in the upper right hand corner of the page because this is usually the first place people look for one.
Educate yourself about shortcuts, then make a habit of employing them. There are many shortcuts that can be used when designing your website. Learn as much as you can about shortcuts. You can even learn HTML codes that will allow for quick changes across all your pages without needing to redo them one by one.
There are plenty of free and paid tools that exist to help you create a stunning website. They are easy to understand, and your website will be up and ready before you know it. If your website does not look good, then you will not have many visitors on your site.
Create an opt-in newsletter to entice your visitors to return often. When a customer can get frequently updated on things, they will keep visiting to see more. It is good practice to place the newsletter signup form in your website's side bar. Furthermore, you should always keep track of everyone who signs up. You can avoid some reputation-damaging trouble by making sure that your newsletter only goes out to visitors who have explicitly requested it.
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Abstract: The purpose of this bioinformatic project was to develop an understanding of how gene evolution shaped morphological complexity within the vertebrate lineage by evaluating protein sequence variations within hoxa2, hoxb2, hoxa11, and hoxd11 genes from six selected organisms. Hox genes are responsible for patterning the embryo during development and influence cellular differentiation and organization. In order for organisms to develop vertebrae and other bones, the genetic code to produce skeletal tissue had to become evolutionarily available. The hox gene and subsequent protein data were collected from the NCBI database, analyzed using the NCBI Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST), Clustal?, and MEGA 6. Phylogenetic trees were constructed through MEGA version 6 and subsequently used to evaluate hox gene conservation and degeneration among the selected species.
Carr, Kari. (2015). Bioinformatic exploration of Hoxa2, Hoxb2, Hoxa11, and Hoxd11 in vertebrate evolution. Unpublished manuscript, Honors College, East Carolina University, Greenville, N.C.
Bioinformatic exploration of Hoxa2, Hoxb2, Hoxa11, and Hoxd11 in vertebrate evolution http://hdl.handle.net/10342/4793 The described resource references, cites, or otherwise points to the related resource.


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Kenn Harper (aka Ilisaijikutaaq, tall teacher) is a Canadian writer, historian and former businessman. He is the author of Give Me My Father's Body, an account of Greenland Inuk Minik Wallace, had a regular column on Arctic history in Nunatsiaq News and is a former landlord.

Early life
Harper relocated to the Arctic in 1966 as a teacher at Broughton Island, now known as Qikiqtarjuaq. He later lived in Padloping Island, Pangnirtung, Arctic Bay (all in the Canadian Eastern Arctic) and Qaanaaq, Greenland, and worked at various times as a teacher, development officer, and entrepreneur. He eventually settled in Iqaluit, Nunavut, where he bought the Arctic Ventures general store, which was previously owned by Bryan Pearson. He sold the company to Arctic Co-operatives Limited in 2012.

Harper became known as a historian of the Arctic. For ten years (2005-2015), he wrote "Taissumani", a regular column on Arctic history in Nunatsiaq News. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. In 1986 he published Give Me My Father's Body: The Life of Minik, the New York Eskimo, which tells the story of Minik Wallace, a member of the Inughuit or "Polar Eskimo" tribe who was among a group taken by Robert Peary from his home in northwest Greenland to New York City. It was republished under the same title in 2000 by Steerforth Press. In 2017 Steerforth Press published a much-expanded version, containing new information on Minik's life, under the title Minik, The New York Eskimo.

From 2005 to 2017, Harper was Honorary Danish Consul, an unpaid posting in Iqaluit. On 9 June 2014, Harper was recognised by the Government of Denmark for his work with the presentation of the Order of the Dannebrog. The appointment of Ridder (Knight) had been made in April and was approved by the Government of Canada.

Harper is also an enthusiastic wrestling fan, notable for bringing Maximum Pro Wrestling to Iqaluit as a charity show to raise money for youth sports.

Harper is fluent in English, Inuktitut and conversational Danish.

Works
 Give Me My Father's Body: The Life of Minik, The New York Eskimo. Iqaluit: Blacklead Books, 1986, and South Royalton, Vermont: Steerforth Press, 2000.
 In Those Days: Collected Writings on Arctic History. Book 1: Inuit Lives. Iqaluit: Inhabit Media, 2014.
 In Those Days: Collected Writings on Arctic History. Book 2: Arctic Crime and Punishment. Iqaluit: Inhabit Media, 2015.
 Minik, The New York Eskimo. Hanover, New Hampshire: Steerforth Press, 2017.
 Thou Shalt Do No Murder: Inuit, Injustice and the Canadian Arctic. Iqaluit: Nunavut Arctic College Media, 2017.
 In Those Days: Collected Writings on Arctic History. Book 3: Tales of Arctic Whaling. Iqaluit: Inhabit Media, 2018.
 In Those Days: Collected Writings on Arctic History. Book 4: Shamans, Spirits, and Faith in the Inuit North. Iqaluit: Inhabit Media, 2019.
 In Those Days: Collected Writings on Arctic History. Book 5: Inuit and Explorers. Iqaluit: Inhabit Media, 2022.

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Platformatics is a Bloomington, Indiana-based tech company founded by several experienced Silicon Valley innovators. Our mission is to transform commercial lighting through innovative hardware and software applications that improve productivity and comfort, beautify environments, and conserve energy for building owners, operators, and tenants.
Matt Laherty is a visionary leader, innovator, and entrepreneur with over 20 years of Silicon Valley product and market development experience. Mr. Laherty is the CEO of Platformatics, a technology company that specializes in lighting controls and commercial building IoT applications. Platformatics creates beautiful environments through intelligent applications.
Prior to founding Platformatics, Mr. Laherty was the creator and leader of Cisco Systems' Digital Ceiling program. Matt spent 15 years at Cisco where he developed numerous new products, features, and strategies that helped the company pursue opportunities in several markets including PoE, the smart grid, smart buildings, and lighting. Mr. Laherty launched Cisco's first IEEE compliant Power over Ethernet (PoE) product and named the technology in 2003. After departing the LAN switching team, Mr. Laherty conceived and led Cisco's EnergyWise program. Matt has numerous patents in energy, Power over Ethernet and lighting. Mr. Laherty is passionate about helping customers solve complex problems with simple solutions that improve their condition by saving money and conserving energy.
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Siefer has been a pioneer in developing robust communications and embedded controls for harsh industrial environments. This experience has carried forward into energy management and building automation with solutions such as Cisco's EnergyWise and Light as a Service based on Power over Ethernet technology. Siefer has also contributed to the communications community through contributions into multiple industry standards organizations.
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The Legacy Team is an outlet for those who are called and equipped to finance the Kingdom of God and to leave a legacy. The Legacy Team serves our church with the gift of giving.
We have different gifts, according to the grace given to each of us. If your gift is prophesying, then prophesy in accordance with your faith; if it is serving, then serve; if it is teaching, then teach; if it is to encourage, then give encouragement; if it is giving, then give generously; if it is to lead, do it diligently; if it is to show mercy, do it cheerfully.
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Two specific countries that we believe God is calling us to partner with are Cambodia and Nepal. The pastors that we have relationship with in these nations are praying that God would help them with the resources that they desperately need to effectively fulfill His call.
Our goal is a Legacy offering of $200,000 to give 150 pastors the resources and education they desperately need for their churches, marriages, families, and leadership to reach the lost in Nepal and Cambodia.
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Our East Bay Campus is finally getting a permanent home! The days of being a church that has to set-up and tear-down every week are finally coming to an end.
Napa Campus has unfortunately hit a ceiling, and cannot grow until they move into a larger facility.
Can you see two new homes for our growing campuses, where new people can experience the power and presence of God? Where new ministries like Champions Club can welcome families that have never been able to come to church together? We can!
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As Roseville has seen significant growth, we believe that the next step is to bring a powerful and similar sense of support to the city of Roseville the way we have brought this to our other campus communities. Can you see it? Can you see a vibrant community with a diverse population of growing families that are joining together to feed the hungry, help the widow and orphan, and clothe those in need? To help cover this responsibility, we have an opportunity for sustainable income to help fund these goals through a Thrift Store in Vacaville.
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TFH San Francisco and TFH Orange County church plants have been two of the most successful and exciting Legacy Stories that we have celebrated in the past two years. As God is moving in our state, we know that He has big plans for the incredible city of Oakland!
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What is the Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) student figure and how is it calculated?
The FTE student figure is your official enrolment as of October 31st of the immediately preceding school year. The FTE student figure is the total of full-time students plus a calculation of part-time students. Students that attend half of the time would be counted as one-half of a FTE student. For example, if you had 360 full-time students and 164 part-time students, the FTE for your school would be 442 (360 + 164 / 2 = 442).
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The submission of the FTE student figure is required every year as outlined in your licence and is to be submitted annually by May 15th.
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Investigations of gaseous electrochemical reactions on zirconia electrolytes using amperometric sensors.
Sensors incorporating zirconia electrolytes have been widely used for monitoring oxygen concentration and the air-to-fuel ratio of combustion systems. The aim of this work was to investigate the extension of this technology to other gases and to gas mixtures.
related to the corrresponding change in the thermodynamic stability of CO at this temperature, ie 2CO ; ==t C1 + C02.
Zirconia pump-gauges with small enclosed volume (< Imm3) and laser drilled diffusion holes were constructed with the novel addition of reference electrodes. These were operated with current-interruption circuitry and rapid subsequent data aquisition. This enabled, for the first time, the overvoltage due to charge transfer on the internal pumping electrode to be isolated: interesting behaviour was revealed. The overvoltage increased as oxygen-containing gases were, reduced and then. in the case of NO, decreased as the reduction reached completion. The gauge EMF remained remarkably stable while NO was being reduced. Reduction of S02 was shown to generate electronic conductivity in the yttria-stabilised zirconia.
Based upon'the results obtained, two sensor designs are proposed. The first is a lean-bum combustion sensor eliminating the possibility of an ambiguous response in rich- and lean-bum conditions. By reducing the activity of the external pumping electrode while maintaining a highly active internal pumping electrode the response in rich-bum conditions would be insignificant while the response in leanbum conditions would be maintained.
response the sweep rate would need to be less than 0.2mV/s. Consequently, it is proposed that an array of sensors operating at a range of fixed pump voltages would greatly reduce the response time.
A computer-controlled apparatus was built with which to perform the experimental work. The apparatus controlled the furnace temperature, gas mixing apparatus and a potentiolstat/gaivanostat. The latter was purpose built so that all current and voltage ranges could be selected by the computer and current interruption performed automatically. Using software written in Turbo Pascal the apparatus was capable of performing a wide range of tests, unattended over periods of months.


It's time to plant those college seeds!
Join The MOSS Foundation for their 2nd Annual Texas HBCU College Fair. This event will bring local and national historically Black Colleges and Universities to Killeen.
Students and Parents will receive college information and have the opportunity to apply on site.


In the days before he left office, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's administration planted a chemical time bomb in California strawberry fields that, if not defused, could cause cancer, thyroid toxicity, permanent neurological damage, and miscarriages, according to 54 distinguished chemists, including five Nobel laureates (PDF).
The chemical in question is called methyl iodide (or iodomethane) and is marketed under the trade name MIDAS by Arysta LifeScience, a Tokyo-based firm that is the world's largest privately held agrichemical company. Methyl iodide is a fumigant that is injected into fields before planting to kill insects, microorganisms, fungi, weed seeds—virtually every living organism.
Claiming that it can also kill the humans who handle it or are unfortunate enough to live in the vicinity of farms (PDF), a group of farm workers and environmental health organizations filed suit late last year to reverse California's Department of Pesticide Regulation's approval of methyl iodide's use.
"We are going to court to challenge the last-minute approval of this cancer-causing pesticide," said Paul Towers, director of Pesticide Watch Education Fund, a public health and environmental organization that is one of the plaintiffs. "The department did this despite the state's own Scientific Review Committee's unanimous warning that it was too toxic to be let out of the laboratory."
But the plaintiffs are also taking aim at the tactics officials used to get the approval through before the arrival of a new, perhaps less agribusiness-friendly administration. Realizing they hadn't left themselves enough time to fully implement the approval process before Governor Jerry Brown was sworn in, they declared an "emergency." Under the law, registration of pesticides for restricted use can be fast-tracked in California in emergency situations.
"They created their own emergency," said Greg Loarie, an attorney at Earthjustice, a public-interest law firm that is handling the case. "They didn't have to register methyl iodide. They could have waited; they just didn't want to. So our lawsuit claims that the purported emergency is bogus."
Interest in methyl iodide has risen as a result of the phasing-out of methyl bromide, chemical agriculture's fumigant du-jour until it began to be eliminated in the 1990s because of the severe damage it caused to the stratosphere's ozone layer. In terms of human health, however, the changeover represented a leap from the frying pan into the fire.
When the Bush-era Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was considering allowing methyl iodide's use as a pesticide, the 54 chemists mentioned earlier in this post sent the agency a detailed letter that was at times scathing and at others pleading (PDF). "Agents like methyl iodide are extraordinarily well-known cancer hazards in the chemical community," they wrote. "Because of methyl iodide's high volatility and water solubility, broad use of this chemical in agriculture will guarantee substantial releases to air, surface waters, and ground water, and will result in exposures for many people."
The researchers concluded: "It is astounding then that the Office of Pesticide Programs is working to legalize one of the more toxic chemicals used in manufacturing into the environment."
It's worth noting that when scientists want to create experimental cancer cells in the laboratory they use methyl iodide.
But warnings from members of the scientific community—even Nobel Prize winners—went unheard at the EPA, which cleared the way for methyl iodide's use in the 46 states that don't have their own environmental protection units. Of the four states that do, New York and Washington refused to allow it. Florida and California have given the chemical their blessing.
For the time being, California's decision to approve the chemical is something of a moot point. Fumigants are not typically applied during the winter. Come spring, Loarie is not ruling out using a legal injunction to stop methyl iodide's use until the Department of Pesticide Regulation obeys the law.
Correction: This piece originally included several references to methyl bromide when it should have referred to methyl iodide.


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make a difference to individuals who want to give up, have had enough of fighting to stay alive, who feel socially isolated.
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Palm Beach director Rachel Ward discusses importance of female directors in the industry
By Christine Estera| 3 months ago
This year, we saw one movie released after the other that were directed by women — and English-born actress and filmmaker Rachel Ward says it's about time.
Along with Olivia Wilde's directorial debut in Booksmart and Rachel Griffiths biographical sports drama Ride Like A Girl, 62-year-old Ward took the helm in the Aussie-made drama Palm Beach, directing her husband and homegrown hero Bryan Brown.
Rachel Ward directed Palm Beach, while husband Bryan Brown produced the film. (AAP)
"I think it's fantastic that women are taking these directorial roles now. I think that it's about commitment and about confidence to believe that we can take these roles," Ward tells 9Honey Celebrity during a recent promotional tour in Sydney. "I think certainly for me I just couldn't imagine that I was going to be allowed to helm a story that I was going to be the storyteller and it was from my perspective — from a female perspective.
"As women in this industry, we've really been marginalised for a very very long time, so for the women who find themselves in that position, and have the confidence to go, 'Yes, I have a right to be behind this camera, I have the right to tell a female story, I have a right to be in this playing field,' I think the more, the better."
The last feature film Ward (seen here on the set of Palm Beach) directed was the award-winning Beautiful Kate in 2009. (Universal Pictures)
Ward had the privilege of directing a stellar cast in Palm Beach. The movie sees friends reuniting in the Sydney seaside suburb for the 60th birthday of Brown's character, Frank. As with many reunions, a host of past and present problems arise. Laughter, tears and tragedy are brought to the screen by a who's who of acting greats, such as Greta Scacchi, Sam Neill, Jacqueline McKenzie, Richard E. Grant, Heather Mitchell and, of course, Brown.
From left to right: Bryan Brown, Richard E. Grant, Greta Scacchi and Heather Mitchell in Palm Beach. (Universal Pictures)
"It wasn't really hard finding the right actors for those roles because when you've been in the industry for 40 years, your address book has got a few stellar actors in it at that point, so a lot of them are friends," says Ward. "I've worked as an actor with Jackie and Heather and Greta and Sam and Richard and Bryan, so we've all worked together over the years.
"Obviously, you want to populate the film with the right people and want to populate it with actors who people want to go and see and love," she adds. "But they were great roles, particularly the women who don't have the choice of endless great roles. There's many more great roles for men than there is for women. They were going, 'Yes please, this is one I can get my teeth into.'"
Of course, this isn't the first time Ward has been behind the camera. This year marked the 10th anniversary of Beautiful Kate, the first feature film she directed back in 2009. The movie about a man returning to the Aussie outback to farewell his dying father scored seven AFI Award nominations (now known as the AACTAs), including a Best Director nod for Ward.
"I just felt pressure to make another film," Ward admits to 9Honey Celebrity about why she hadn't directed a feature film up until Palm Beach. "I just really wanted to make another film, as you do as a filmmaker, but it's a very competitive industry. It's a small box of funds, and there's a lot of very good filmmakers in Australia. I just wanted to make another film and you cannot guarantee whether it's going to be good, bad or indifferent — you just do your best. You have faith in the way you express yourself, the way you see the world, and you hope it comes together in some way, and that other people can connect to it and enjoy it."
Palm Beach is available on Blu-Ray and DVD on November 13.
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Anodic TiO2 in ReRAM: Influence of Si-doping on the Resistive Switching Properties of Titanium Oxide
Authors: Zaffora, A.; Di Franco, F.; Aglieri, V.; Macaluso, R.; Habazaki, H.; Di Quarto, F.; Santamaria, M.
Type: Proceedings (TIPOLOGIA NON ATTIVA)
OA Link: http://hdl.handle.net/10447/223296
TiO2 has attracted much attention due to its potential widespread applications, including capacitors, photocatalysis, solar energy conversion and, more recently, redox-based random access memories (ReRAM). For micro and nano-electronics applications, TiO2 is usually grown through Chemical and Physical Vapour Deposition techniques, such as Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD), Pulsed Laser Deposition (PLD), Sputtering and so on. In ReRAM field, the control of oxide structure (crystallinity, defects concentration etc.) and the choice of electrodes are crucial to have resistive switching phenomena inside the oxide. Thus, anodizing can be proposed as a simple and low cost way to grow TiO2 and to tune its structure, thickness and morphology by controlling substrate composition and oxidation conditions. Furthermore, it has been demonstrated that incorporation of foreign species, such as Si, during anodic titanium oxide growth can suppress field crystallization [1], modify solid state properties (dielectric constant, band gap etc. [2]) and, thus, change defects concentration and distribution inside TiO2. In this work we want to study the occurrence of resistive switching phenomena in anodic films grown on Ti and Ti-17at.%Si to 5 V (Ag/AgCl) in 1 M H3PO4. Photoelectrochemical measurements were performed in order to estimate band gap, flat band potential and conductivity type of the films as a function of growing conditions, while information of the dielectric constant of the oxides were obtained by impedance and differential capacitance measurements. The experimental results showed that incorporation of silicon in TiO2 has no significant effect on the band gap of the oxide, which resulted very close to that usually measured for amorphous anodic titanium oxide. On the other hand, a significant effect of silicon was evidence on dielectric constant of the anodic films which resulted to be sensitively lower than that of anodic TiO2. Quasi static current-voltage measurements were carried out to verify the presence of resistive switching phenomena into both the oxides, i.e. if the resistance of the twoterminal element (Metal/Anodic film/Pt) changes under application of an external electric field between two stable states, a high-resistive state (HRS) and a low-resistive state (LRS). Durability tests were also carried out to assess the possible use of this device as ReRAM. The obtained results were rationalized taking into account the effect of anodizing conditions and Si incorporation on the amorphosity and stoichiometry of TiO2. References [1] H. Habazaki, et. al., Corr. Sci., 45, (2003), 2063. [2] F. Di Quarto, et. al., , Electrochim. Acta, 110, (2013), 157.


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Q: Minimum distance between convex Hull: Naive approach In order to compute minimum distance between convex hulls, can we just use a naive approach like measuring all the points from first convex hull to second convex hull? And take the minimum value?

A: No !
The hulls are convex polygons, and the closest distance between two convex polygons can occur between two vertices or between a vertex and an edge. (Not counting the overlapping polygons.)

If the hulls have many sides, the total work is proportional to $NM$. You can do a little better as follows:
Try all edges of the polygon that has the less sides, say $N$. For a given edge, the distance of the vertices of the other polygon to the line of support is a function with a single minimum. The minimum can be detected as the vertex of the other polygon that joins a "nearing" edge and a "moving away" edge.
By a process similar to a dichotomic search, this vertex can be detected in $\log_2M$ operations, giving a total workload proportional to $N\log_2M$.


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I know that you're on a mission to make a difference in the world; to make a powerful, positive impact, through your gifts, talents and whatever other ways you can, and to influence others to do the same.
That's one of the reasons I love working with small business owners – by supporting you to bring your business to life and helping you make it sustainable in every sense, I indirectly increase my impact, through you.
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In addition, I choose to spread the love, such that when something good happens to my business, there's a direct impact somewhere else in the world
So when someone books a call, or signs up for one of my programmes, or other great things happen for my business, I create Impacts in one of these 4 areas:
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Sustainable Development Goals / B1G1
On 25 September 2015, world leaders from all sectors convened to adopt 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). They represent the global community's next step in ending poverty, fighting inequality and injustice, and tackling climate change etc. p to 2030s.
I have chosen to use the wonderful B1G1 platform www.b1g1.com for this giving. It allows me to create impacts on hundreds of projects covering all of the SDGs.
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I believe that enterprise and business has the ability to empower whole economies – not the giant multi-nationals, but small local, often micro businesses
By empowering someone, especially women in the so-called 3rd world, to start/maintain a business:
It takes them, and perhaps more importantly their children out of subsistence living, and enhances their sense of self-worth and possibility
It allows them to choose to educate their children, especially their girls, giving them far greater opportunities in the future
It may even employ other people, giving them the same opportunity for independence and choice
To this end, I regularly make loans, education and other bursaries to micro-businesses around the globe, through the brilliant funding platform Kiva www.kiva.com
To date, we've funded 56 micro-businesses, in 26 countries
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Water is life – it's a basic human right, yet 785 million people in the world live without clean water.
That's nearly 1 in 10 people worldwide or ten times the population of the UK. The majority live in isolated rural areas and spend hours every day walking to collect water for their family. Not only does walking for water keep children out of school or take up time that parents could be using to earn money, but the water often carries diseases that can make everyone sick.
But access to clean water means education, income and health - especially for women and children.
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Q: CN1: Change textcolor from second line of multibutton I want to change the textcolor of the second line from the multibutton. I am using the new GUI builder and I've created the multibutton programmatically.
I already tried it with different solutions like getting the text and then try to change the color. But I can't convert the String to a Multibutton so it's not possible to change the color of the text
Bestellungen bestellungen = new Bestellungen();
            bestellungen.getOrders();
        //Show orders in app
        Container conOrders = new Container(BoxLayout.y());
        conOrders.setUIID("conOrders");
        conOrders.setScrollableY(true);

        //Get elements from array
        for (int i = 0; i < bestellungen.getOrdersArr().size(); i++) {
            String order = bestellungen.getOrdersArr().get(i);
            String status = bestellungen.getOrdersStatusArr().get(i);

            MultiButton mb = new MultiButton(order);

            //TODO: CHANGE THE COLORS of line2
            switch (status) {
                case "completed":
                    //Change the second line to color green
                    mb.setTextLine2(status);
                    break;
                case "processing":
                    //Change the second line to color yellow
                    mb.setTextLine2(status);
                    break;
                case "cancelled":
                    //Change the second line to color red
                    mb.setTextLine2(status);
                    break;
                default:
                    mb.setTextLine2(status);
                    break;
            }

            conOrders.add(mb);

        }

If the String of status is "completed" then the TextLine2 text should be green and so on... Any help will be appreciated.

A: The simple solution is setUIIDLine2 then define the UIID in the theme to have the color you want.
However if you want direct control over the label color you can hack the container hierarchy. Notice that this is a bit of a hack and might change in future updates of Codename One.
It relies on the fact that a MultiButton is a container-component with child-controls and thus,
the second line (which is a label) can be accessed by climbing down the hierarchy.
There is only one small difficulty that is that the hierarchy depends on the
orientation. Thus, one has to differentiate both cases:
//  Vertical orientation
//
//  MultiButton
//      |
//      |-- Container
//      |      |
//      |      |-- Container
//      |      |      |
//      |      |      |-- Label (name=Line2)    <--- this one!
//      |      |      |-- Label (name=Line3)
//      |      |      |-- Label (name=Line4)
//      |      |
//      |      |-- Label (name=Line1)
//      |
//      |-- Container
//      |      |
//      |      |-- Label (name=icon)
//      |
//      |-- Container
//             |
//             |-- Button (name=emblem)
//
// ------------------------------------------------------------
//
//  Horizontal orientation
//
//  MultiButton
//      |
//      |-- Container
//      |      |
//      |      |-- Container
//      |      |      |
//      |      |      |-- Label (name=Line3)
//      |      |      |-- Label (name=Line4)
//      |      |
//      |      |-- Label (name=Line1)
//      |      |
//      |      |-- Container
//      |      |      |
//      |      |      |-- Label (name=Line2)    <--- this one!
//      |      |
//      |-- Container
//      |      |
//      |      |-- Label (name=icon)
//      |
//      |-- Container
//             |
//             |-- Button (name=emblem)
//
private void setLine2Color(MultiButton multiButton, int color) {
    List<Component> childsLevel1 = multiButton.getChildrenAsList(false);
    Container firstContainerLevel1 = (Container)childsLevel1.get(0);
    List<Component> childsLevel2 = firstContainerLevel1.getChildrenAsList(false);
    Container targetContainerLevel2 = (Container)childsLevel2.get(multiButton.isHorizontalLayout() ? 2 : 0);
    List<Component> childsLevel3 = targetContainerLevel2.getChildrenAsList(false);
    Label firstLabelLevel3 = (Label)childsLevel3.get(0);
    firstLabelLevel3.getAllStyles().setFgColor(color);
}

I've tried several cases and it seems to work:

Thus, the following should work for you:
MultiButton mb = new MultiButton(order);

switch (status) {
    case "completed":
        //Change the second line to color green
        setLine2Color(mb, 0x00ff00);
        mb.setTextLine2(status);
        break;
    case "processing":
        //Change the second line to color yellow
        setLine2Color(mb, 0xffff00);
        mb.setTextLine2(status);
        break;
    case "cancelled":
        //Change the second line to color red
        setLine2Color(mb, 0xff0000);
        mb.setTextLine2(status);
        break;
    default:
        mb.setTextLine2(status);
        break;
}


The Kansas Supreme Court has appointed Peter S. Johnston of the firm to the Kansas Board of Law Examiners for a five-year term that starts July 1, 2016.
The 10-member Kansas Board of Law Examiners is composed of both judges and lawyers. It manages and grades a twice-yearly bar examination and conducts hearings on applicants' character as well as fitness to practice law. It also makes recommendations to the Supreme Court on policies and procedures related to bar admission.


Fig. 1 Proteolysis extends beyond protein degradation. (Lai et al. 2015) Creative Biolabs provides the one-stop service for the analysis of endogenous peptidome. Based on our comprehensive analysis platform, scientists from Creative Biolabs are able to identify and validate the peptidome information with high accuracy and reproducibility.
Endogenous peptidome represents the array of native peptides that are present in different intracellular or extracellular space of organisms, such as body fluids, primarily blood plasma and cerebral spinal fluid (CSF). The generation of these peptides is persistent and related to active synthesis or proteolysis. These peptides may play roles as cytokines, growth factors and peptide hormones, which are involved in various physiological functions. In addition, pathological diseases can also lead to specific proteolytic cleavage, indicating endogenous peptidome investigations may provide valuable information in clinical diagnostics. Through peptidome analysis, in which the vast majority of hyper-abundant proteins are properly removed, the identification and quantification of endogenous peptides not only offer useful data about disease status, drug efficacy and toxicity, but also promote the biomarker discovery. Furthermore, the analysis of peptidome is able to better the understanding of protease-substrate relationship and protease function in healthy and pathological conditions.
Creative Biolabs has established a comprehensive analysis platform for endogenous peptidome. Our scientists are confident in analyzing the endogenous peptidome from a broad range of samples, including but not limited to cell cultures, tissue extracts and various body fluids (e.g. plasma, serum, urine, tears, saliva, CSF or synovial fluid). With our endogenous peptidome analysis platform, the samples containing peptides and small proteins can be enriched and more than 90% of protein will be removed before analysis. The obtained peptidome libraries are the ideal source to discover novel bioactive agents. In addition, the peptidome libraries can be further investigated and analyzed properly by our LC-MS/MS system. Our scientists can identify the interested endogenous peptides and compare the peptide expression level between different biochemical processes, and in this manner the accurate and reproducible results will be finally delivered.
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When an office environment is untidy, the works around the office are normally not happy and comfortable with their operational surrounding. This will not be favourable for business as their productivity levels are already interfered with. Thus, it is important to ensure that there is regular cleaning of the office environment as it is healthy. It will also make your employees feel more comfortable to work around the office and in turn you will realize good results coming from the work they are performing. Office Cleaning services are very common. So many companies have specialised in this business around the world. Therefore, you need to be very careful when selecting a company that will be taking care of the office chores. You can always keep an eye out for certain traits that will help you make an informed decision about Office Cleaning companies.
Wide range of services, trained personnel and flexible- Office Cleaning encompasses so many things. There is the cleaning of the floors, carpets, windows, surfaces, windows, the different machines found in the office among other things that are company specific. When you choose a company that offers hard floor cleaning and dusting only, whenever you want your windows cleaned you would have to hire another cleaning company. This will mean that you will have different companies coming to clean and it can result to a lot of confusion. Hiring highly trained personnel is beneficial as it assures you of getting the job perfectly done. When the cleaners you have hired are flexible, you are sure of them being in a position to adjust their cleaning schedule whenever you require them to without any problems. This is normally called for whenever there is a function in the office or otherwise.
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Gifts of Insurance
A gift of your life insurance policy is an excellent way to make a gift to the Sequoia Hospital Foundation. If you have a life insurance policy that has outlasted its original purpose, consider making a gift of your insurance policy to the Sequoia Hospital Foundation. For example, you may have purchased a policy to provide for minor children and they are now financially independent adults.
Gift of Insurance
Benefits of gifts of life insurance
Receive a charitable income tax deduction
If the Sequoia Hospital Foundation retains the policy to maturity, you can receive additional tax deductions by making annual gifts so that we can pay the premiums
If the Sequoia Hospital Foundation cashes in the policy, you will be able to see firsthand how your gift supports our charitable work
If we retain the policy to maturity, or you name us as a beneficiary, once the policy matures, the proceeds of your policy will be paid to our organization so that we can use the proceeds to further our charitable work
How to make a gift of life insurance
To make a gift of life insurance, please contact your life insurance provider, request a beneficiary designation form from the insurer and include the Sequoia Hospital Foundation as the beneficiary of your policy.
If you have any questions about making a gift of a life insurance policy, please contact us. We would be happy to answer questions that you have.
Please let us know if you have already named us as a beneficiary of your life insurance policy. We would like to thank you and recognize you for your gift.
You can also designate the Sequoia Hospital Foundation as a partial, full or contingent beneficiary of your life insurance policy. You will continue to own and can make use of the policy during your lifetime. Your estate may benefit from an estate tax charitable deduction.
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A University employee in Frist Campus Center said that many of her friends, cousins, and fellow church members would be affected.
She expressed uncertainty over the future, but was hopeful that people would rally against the removal of Haitian immigrants. "If they put their voice together, something will be done," she said. The 'Prince' granted anonymity to several University employees due to the subject's sensitive nature. Campus Dining administration told the 'Prince' in an email not to talk to its employees.
In interviews with several Campus Dining employees who would be affected or had loved ones who would be affected by the termination of TPS, the employees expressed worry over their jobs and how to support their family.
Countries are given a TPS designation if certain circumstances, such as a natural disaster or civil war, make returning to the country too dangerous. Congress gave Haiti the designation after an earthquake ravaged the country in January 2010. Under the program, Haitians who entered the United States up to a year after the disaster without authorization or who overstayed their visas could apply for temporary protection from removal and the ability to legally work and travel. TPS designation does not provide a pathway to legal permanent residence.
Under the Obama administration, TPS designation for Haiti was renewed multiple times.
The stated reason for the termination is the significant progress in the "stability and quality of life" for Haitian citizens, according to a press release from the Department of Homeland Security. It cited a 97 percent decrease in the number of displaced people in Haiti.
Yet many Haitian immigrants remain worried about their future. The removal of TPS will force affected Haitians to either leave the country by July 22, 2019 or apply for another legal status.
One Campus Dining employee mentioned that while he would not be affected by the policy change, he knew up to 10 of his colleagues who worked in the same dining hall with him would be. He expressed sympathy for his colleagues who work every day worrying about their immigration status.


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require 'spec_helper'

describe AdminAction do

  before :each do
    @admins = []
    @admin_hash = {'name' => "Mazen"}
    @admin_action = AdminAction.new
  end

  it 'should add admin when the name is valid' do
    @admin_action.add_admin @admins, @admin_hash
    expect(@admins.length).to eq(1)
  end

  it 'should return the admin when the id is valid' do
    admin = Admin.new "Mazen"
    @admins << admin
    my_admin = @admin_action.get_admin @admins, admin.id
    expect(my_admin['name']).to eq("Mazen")
  end

  it 'should edit the admin when the info provided is valid' do
    admin = Admin.new "Mazen"
    @admins << admin
    @admin_action.edit_admin @admins, admin.id, {'name' => "Ataya"}
    expect(admin.name).to eq("Ataya")
  end
  it 'should return the admins' do
    @admins = [(Admin.new "Mazen"), (Admin.new "Ataya")]
    admins = @admin_action.get_admins @admins
    expect(admins['admins'].length).to eq(2)
  end
  it 'should return the revenue' do
    result = @admin_action.get_revenue  [], nil, nil
    expect(result['wine_revenue']).to eq(0)
  end

  it 'should return the monthly selection' do
    result = @admin_action.get_monthly_selection [], 1
    expect(result).to be_nil()
  end

  it 'should return all the monthly selections' do
    result = @admin_action.get_monthly_selections []
    expect(result['monthly_selections'].length).to eq(0)
  end

  it 'should add the monthly selection when it is valid' do
    monthly_selections = []
    result = @admin_action.add_monthly_selection monthly_selections, {'type' => "AR", 'selection_month'=> 'Feb/2015', 'wines' => [{
        "variety" => "RED",
          "wine_type" => "TABLE",
          "label_name"=> "The Mission",
          "grape" => "Merlot",
          "region" => "Napa",
          "country" => "USA",
          "maker" => "Sterling",
          "year" => "2014"
      }] }, []
    expect(monthly_selections.length).to eq(1)
  end

  it 'Should return the number of subscribers' do
    result = @admin_action.get_subscribers_number [1,2,3,4,5]
    expect(result['num_of_subs']).to eq(5)
  end

end


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Black Female Playwrights Want You to Face Facts. The Harsh Ones.
From far left, Carlo Albán, Jack Willis, Kevin Kenerly, Terri McMahon, Kimberly Scott and K.T. Vogt, in the Oregon Shakespeare Festival production of Lynn Nottage's "Sweat."
JENNY GRAHAM / OREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL
By CHARLES ISHERWOOD
It's not unusual for theater, like many of the arts, to address a pressing social or political issue. But what strikes me as unusual this fall is that most of such work comes from notable black female playwrights: Sarah Jones, Anna Deavere Smithand Lynn Nottage all have new (or new to New York) works that grapple with problems preoccupying contemporary culture.
What's more, the Signature Theater Company will begin its celebration of the work of Suzan-Lori Parks, whose plays, while stylistically exploratory and tremendously varied, nevertheless often have a powerful social consciousness. (Another example: Danai Gurira, whose "Eclipsed," about sexual abuse of women in African civil wars, was a Tony nominee for best play this year and opens in San Francisco in the spring.)
With Black Lives Matter and #OscarsSoWhite galvanizing attention; N.F.L. football players stirring controversy by failing to stand for the national anthem, to protest endemic racism; and even Beyoncé taking fierce political stands in her new music, these playwrights are in sync with the national mood, using the tools of theater to bring us face to face with hard facts about the world we live in.
I am particularly looking forward to a further bracing encounter with Ms. Nottage's "Sweat," which I first saw at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and which begins performances at the Public Theater in October.
In shaping this well-wrought drama about factory laborers facing bleak futures, Ms. Nottage and her director, Kate Whoriskey, drew on interviews with residents of a Pennsylvania city ranked among the poorest in the country. Mostly set in a bar where the workers hang out, the play explores the tensions — racial, interpersonal and otherwise — that tear at the fabric of the community, as jobs in manufacturing that once provided a solid middle-class living for millions of Americans grow scarce.
I probably don't need to remind you that anger at the decline of the rust-belt economies has been much discussed in the presidential election this year. But as in her previous plays, including "Intimate Apparel" and "Ruined," Ms. Nottage nimbly avoids the didactic in her exploration of the fallout from the collapse of manufacturing. "Sweat" handily earns its grabby title, pulsing with the intensity of drama drawn directly from the hard-lived experiences of its characters.
The playwright Sarah Jones, whose "Sell/Buy/Date" explores the lives of workers in the sex industry.
The playwright and performer Anna Deavere Smith has a long history of addressing topics of meaty political or social currency, having examined racial conflict in "Fires in the Mirror" and "Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992," and more recently the chronically problem-plagued health care system in "Let Me Down Easy."
Her new show, "Notes From the Field: Doing Time in Education," focuses on how the failings of public schools are ineluctably intertwined with the high incarceration rates of young men, and young black men in particular.
Drawing, as always, on dozens of interviews, Ms. Smith once again is the sole performer, using her virtuosic acting skills to embody various characters discussing an issue that has been boiling up in the public sphere for more than a year, as the deaths of black men at the hands of the police has become a matter of national attention. The production, directed by Leonard Foglia, is now at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Mass., and begins performances in October at the Second Stage Theater in New York.
The playwright and performer Anna Deavere Smith will star in her "Notes From the Field: Doing Time in Education."
EVGENIA ELISEEVA
And this fall brings the welcome return of Sarah Jones, like Ms. Smith an incandescent performer who holds the stage on her own, most famously in her show "Bridge & Tunnel," seen on Broadway in 2006. In her latest, "Sell/Buy/Date," which begins performances in September and is presented by the Manhattan Theater Club, Ms. Jones explores the lives of workers in the sex industry. Like Ms. Smith — and, for that matter, Ms. Nottage — Ms. Jones likes to draw from life, and conducted nearly 100 interviews to gather material for the show, in which she will portray almost 20 different characters.
And, finally, this fall Ms. Parks becomes only the second black woman to have a series of productions dedicated to her work at the Signature Theater, after the pioneering playwright Adrienne Kennedy. Ms. Parks's "residency" will comprise four plays, spanning both this season and next.
It starts in October with "The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World," a surrealistic play that riffs pointedly on stereotypes of black culture as it depicts what the title suggests, an event that takes place over and over. In the spring comes "Venus," which explores the life of a South African woman, Saartjie Baartman, who became an object of public fascination — not of a flattering kind — when she was taken to London to be exhibited in freak shows.
It may well be a coincidence that the season will bring us a rich handful of plays by black women addressing issues reverberating through American culture today (and yesterday, and the day before). Or it may be an indication that while many playwrights continue to concentrate on staple American-theater themes of troubled families and personal strife, black women are using their gifts to widen our perspectives and confront truths that it might be more comfortable to ignore.


The experience of the Resurrection is the single most significant event in all of history. It is the turning point for all of creation towards God. Yet, for all these claims, it is the experience of grace felt in the heart of each and every Christian that makes Jesus' Easter claims believable. Blessed Easter to you all!
THANK YOU'S – I want to thank all who helped with the services this past week. The heart and soul of any parish community is the weekly liturgy, and our Holy Week liturgies are the most important services of the whole year. Thanks to all who helped make these services special and holy!
A big "thank you" to all the members of our Liturgy Committees for their fine efforts this week, and all year round. They are on the most important committee of the parish, They have served us well!
A special thank you to Loene and Jim Herman and to Mitch Siegel. Loene and Jim prepared the food for our Holy Family "Seder" meal and Mitch lead us through the Seder service.
ANNE'S PARISH-WIDE MEETING Next Sunday, after the 8:30 a.m. Mass, the St. Anne's Parish Council is hosting a parish-wide meeting to discuss any of your concerns for the future of the parish. Among the things we hope to discuss are the parish's Pastoral Plan for when I go to jail, the hiring of Dolores Klein as a part time Pastoral Assistant and what happens when I return from jail. There are also major maintenance and capital improvement issues that need to be addressed.
Because I will need to be in Mondamin for the 10:30 a.m. Mass at Holy Family, I will be leaving the meeting early. The Parish Council and I thought that my leaving the meeting early might be a good thing. It will give you and the Parish Council a chance to discuss issues among yourselves without my presence or input. My absence from the second half of the meeting should serve to remind you that the success and future of St. Anne's does not depend upon your priest! It depends upon you!
With Sr. Therese leaving, there will no longer be a Harrison County Resource Person. The hiring of Dolores Klein, together with the likelihood of my going to jail for six months, will find the parish entering a new chapter of it's life. The success or failure of this new phase will have much to do with the attitude and spirit the people bring to the effort. Hopefully, the parish-wide meeting will bring us together with some common hopes and expectations. Please make every effort to participate next Sunday.
BISHOP CHARLES BUSWELL TO BE WITH US MAY 9TH AND 10TH – Bishop Charles Buswell, the retired Bishop of Pueblo, Colorado, will be with us May 9th and 10th. Bishop Buswell will be in the area for the May 10th "Bishop Dingman Memorial Line Crossing". He was a close and dear friend of Bishop Dingman. He will be the main celebrant and homilist at the May 10th, 3:00 p.m. Mass at Holy Rosary Parish in Glenwood, Iowa, and will join others in "crossing the line" at SAC. Bishop Buswell will be staying with me at the rectory, and he will be joining us for our Mother's Day Masses.