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Prince William and Kate Middleton to remain in Norfolk with children
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Prince William and Kate Middleton will 'remain at Anmer Hall' for lockdown after closure of Prince George and Princess Charlotte's school
Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have no reason to return to Kensington Palace
Prince George and Princess Charlotte were due to start back at school today
Latest England lockdown restrictions means schools now shut across country
Prince William and Kate Middleton are likely to remain at Anmer Hall and resume homeschooling their children, after England was plunged into Lockdown 3.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have spent previous lockdown periods at their country residence in Norfolk, where they have been staying since Christmas.
Prince George, seven, and Princess Charlotte, five, were due to return to return to their school, Thomas' Battersea, on January 6.
However the latest coronavirus restrictions across England mean schools are now shut and not expected to open before the half term break in mid-February.
It is believed the Cambridges had intended to return to their London base at Kensington Palace, but now have no reason to return to the capital, and the law advises against essential travel, Hello! reports.
Prince William and Kate Middleton are likely to remain at Anmer Hall and resume homeschooling their children Prince George, seven, Prince Louis, two, and Princess Charlotte, five (pictured together in a shot for their 2020 Christmas card)
It means they'll likely enjoy a low-key family celebration there for the Duchess' 39th birthday on January 9.
William and Kate, both 38, will be required to begin homeschooling Princes George and Louis and Princess Charlotte again, as they did during the first lockdown in March last year.
They previously admitted to finding it 'challenging' to teach their three children – whom they said had 'got such stamina'.
The couple even 'kept it going' through the Easter holidays without telling them, with Kate admitting: 'I feel very mean. The children have got such stamina, I don't know how.
It is believed the Cambridges had intended to return to their London base at Kensington Palace, but now have no reason to return to the capital, and the law advises against essential travel. Pictured with their children attending a special pantomime performance at London's Palladium Theatre in December
'Honestly, you get to the end of the day and you write down the list of all the things that you've done in that day.'
She added: 'It's just having that bit of structure actually. And it's great, there's so many great tips online and fun activities that you can do with the children, so it hasn't been all hardcore.'
A source in April claimed Kate 'led' the homeschooling efforts of the eldest two, while organising playtime for two-year-old Louis every day, while her husband also 'rolled his sleeves up' to help out.
They added that the Duke and Duchess found the experience 'hugely rewarding'.
In July William admitted his patience was tested while homeschooling and he struggled to teach Year 2 maths.
Speaking on BBC Radio 5Live's That Peter Crouch podcast, which was recorded partially via Zoom and partially at Kensington Palace in March, the heir said: 'I've found it pretty testing, not going to lie, trying to keep the children engaged in some kind of work, it's been an interesting few months.'
He added: 'I've learned through homeschooling that my patience is a lot shorter than I thought it was, that's probably been the biggest eye opener for me, and that my wife has super patience.
'Basically we're a good team tag session, I come in with the children and try and get them to do something and Catherine comes in when frankly everything has gone wrong.
'I have to admit I'm a bit embarrassed about my maths knowledge, I can't do Year 2 maths.'
Prince William revealed his patience was tested while homeschooling his children in the first lockdown, and that he struggled to teach Year 2 maths. He is pictured, right, in September 2019 with Princess Charlotte (left), Kate (second left) and Prince George (second right) as the royal children attended their first day of school for the year
While the Duchess of Cambridge studied maths to A-level, William hasn't pursued the subject since his GCSEs at Eton.
Royal expert Victoria Arbiter said the couple saw lockdown as 'a rare gift' because royal children are usually 'unavoidably denied the privilege of prolonged time with their parents'.
She commented that the combination of Kate's focus on early years education and the Middleton's 'nurturing presence', alongside Prince William's focus on mental well being and the Windsor traditions, would lead the Cambridge children 'to be the most well-adjusted generation the royals have ever known'.
Kensington Palace declined to comment on their whereabouts.
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Ubisoft: Beyond Good & Evil 2 is "still in production"
By Johnny Cullen, Thursday, 14 January 2010 10:36 GMT
Speaking with Gamekult, Ubisoft France boss Geoffroy Sardin has revealed that Beyond Good and Evil 2 is still in production.
Good news, innit.
Asked if both the pig-based sequel and I Am Alive were still on the go, he said (via translations):
"They are still in production every two …"
The last anything was heard on BG&E2 was when the game was, apparently, put on hold last August.
Some leaked footage, apparently of the game, came out nearly three weeks before E3 last year.
The game was first shown at Ubidays 2008, but since then, nothing official has come from Ubisoft in terms of media.


General Admission Seating may be booked in advance here for $10. Tickets may be left for you at Will Call or picked up and paid for at Chester County High School from Ellen Brown, CCHS bookkeeper.
Any tickets not paid for prior to 15 minutes before show time will be released and resold.
If you don't reserve general admission here, they are $12 at the door.
Reserved Seating Tickets must be purchased at CCHS from Ellen Brown, bookkeeper. Reserved Tickets must be paid for at the time the seats are selected.
Monday night is student night! Any student from any school can get in for $5 at the door (you cannot preorder student tickets, those are only sold at the door that night)!


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Simon the Monster Hunter builds the ultimate monster hunting machine in an attempt to capture a real monster.Feeling like Ickis and Oblina are not paying him enough attention, Krumm moves out of their dorm room and into the room of two other monsters.
Oblina loses her lips when they get caught on a construction barricade and ripped off.A case of mistaken identity leaves Ickis thinking six lobsters are actually monsters.
When Ickis gets stuck in a toilet in Rock Star Suede's house, the monsters' only hope is to disguise Ickis in Suede's coat and hat and try to walk home. When Ickis meets a monster with a human face, he not only gains a private tutor, he makes a friend.
Aaahh!!! Real Monsters - Series 4 - Episode 4 - Watch the Watch/She Likes Me?
While getting ready to do a scare at a hypnotist's show, Ickis stares at the hypnotist's watch and inadvertently gets hypnotized. Through a series of misinterpretations, Krumm is convinced that Oblina has a crush on him.
When a group of "cool" girl-monsters shuns the obsessively rule-bound Oblina, she transforms breaking every rule she can./When Ickis takes a break from scaring to eat the grime of a dirty car, he inadvertently ends up in a car wash.
Ickis, Krumm and Oblina get trapped inside a nuclear power plant when they set off a warning device closing down the entire facility.The monsters are overjoyed when the famous Loch Ness Monster pays a visit to The Academy to give a guest lecture.
Ickis is accidentally thrown through the air by a bulldozer and inadvertently saves a group of students. A substitute teacher arrives, announcing that The Gromble has "gone away" and that he will be taking over.
Shortly McGinty escapes from prison and leads the police on a chase that takes him to the dump, where the cops mistake Ickis for McGinty and haul him off to prison.
The Gromble assigns Ickis to be "pair-scare" partners with the dreaded, unpopular Zimbo. Ickis and Zimbo are miserable with the match and instantly start bickering. Ickis discovers as easy way out of getting his homework done.
The Academy instantly shuts down, transforming itself into a camouflaged cave, when a human spy is discovered inside. The Gromble is in love with the Library Monster, and he's not as strict as he used to be.
Ickis is perpetually late for class, so The Gromble hangs a big clock around his neck to remind him to be on time./The Gromble is sick and Simpah, the horrible Cafeteria Monster, has been put in charge of the students.
Simon the Monster Hunter hires three of the greatest hunters in the world to help him capture Ickis and prove to the world that monsters do exist./A hungry parasite named Sal invades Oblina's stomach, causing her to eat everything in sight.
The Academy is gearing up for the Scaring Olympics. The Gromble wants desperately to win the competition and is pushing his students to do their best./Ickis, Krumm and Oblina get trapped in a garbage compactor and the only thing they can do is bicker.


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import sklearn.linear_model

from autosklearn.pipeline.components.regression.ard_regression import ARDRegression

from .test_base import BaseRegressionComponentTest

class ARDRegressionComponentTest(BaseRegressionComponentTest):

    __test__ = True

    res = dict()
    res["default_boston"] = 0.7033160711079323
    res["default_boston_iterative"] = None
    res["default_boston_sparse"] = None
    res["default_boston_iterative_sparse"] = None
    res["default_diabetes"] = 0.4172008418124077
    res["default_diabetes_iterative"] = None
    res["default_diabetes_sparse"] = None
    res["default_diabetes_iterative_sparse"] = None

    sk_mod = sklearn.linear_model.ARDRegression

    module = ARDRegression

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We have a 1968 Shasta LoFlyte travel trailer available. This trailer is in fairly good shape, but does need some work to make it perfect. The trailer is able to be camped in as is. The previous owners modified the original cabinets to incorporate a queen sized mattress, which resulted in the removal of the ice box and range. We do have a replacement range, which is period correct and included in the price. The camper needs two jalousie windows replaced as the previous owners replaced them with plexiglass. The trailer still has it's original iconic Shasta wings!
This unit is available "as is" or is available to be restored by Silver Moose Restorations. For for information or photos, please contact us at silvermooseme@gmail.com.


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Each year the Virginia Museum of History & Culture recognizes authors of the best articles to appear in the society's quarterly journal, the Virginia Magazine of History & Biography, as well as authors of works in the field of Virginia biography.
The William M. E. Rachal Award was established in 1985 for the overall best article to appear in the VMHB. Each year a committee of the journal's editorial advisory board selects the author whose essay has best advanced the cause of scholarship in Virginia history. The award carries a cash prize of $250 and honors the long-time editor of the journal, Will Rachal, who served from 1953 to 1980. View a list of past William M. E. Rachel Award recipients.
The C. Coleman McGehee Award was established in 1995 to recognize the best article written by a graduate student in the VMHB. The prize, which carries a cash award of $250, was created in memory of C. Coleman McGehee, who served as president of the society from 1992 to 1994. View a list of past C. Coleman McGehee Award recipients.
The Richard Slatten Award was established in 1997, thanks to a generous bequest, to recognize excellence in the field of Virginia Biography. This prize, which carries a cash award of $1,000, honors the person whose work made the most significant contribution to biographical study. Members of the public can nominate a candidate for this prize by sending their nomination by April 1, 2022, to Richard Slatten Award Committee, Virginia Museum of History & Culture, P.O. Box 7311, Richmond, VA 23221. View a list of past Richard Slatten Award recipients.


Newport Aquarium was named the Best Aquarium by the website, www.10best.com. This national travel and attraction website had asked readers to vote for aquariums across the country. In their first "Readers Choice Travel Awards", the Newport Aquarium was rated number one in the Best Aquarium category.
The Newport Aquarium has over 70 exhibits. One of the favorite new ones is the Penguin Palooza Exhibit sponsored by Krogers. Every morning there is a Penguin Parade outside the Aquarium. You can also take a behind the scenes tour of the exhibit to see the miles of piping that it takes to maintain the one million gallon enclosure. Kids can also experience Penguin Encounters, 20 minute visits up close and personal with penguins. Pictures are allowed.
Multiple environments for aquatic life will be seen during your visit. Meet up with the Amazon, a bog, a bayou, a coral reef, the Ohio riverbank, and shore animals. And don't forget the SHARKS!
Other aquariums that received top awards include Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta, Monterey Bay Aquarium in California and the National Aquarium in Baltimore.


New coach Eric Tinkler can take the Chilli Boys to the next level in South African soccer, Chippa United chief operations officer Lukhanyo Mzinzi says.
Former Bafana Bafana midfielder Tinkler, who will arrive in Port Elizabeth to take charge of the side on Thursday evening, was dramatically announced as a replacement for Dan "Dance" Malesela, who was shown the door by the Absa Premiership club on Wednesday.
"We as Chippa United can confirm that we have parted ways with Dan Malesela after a very lengthy meeting that we had as the management on Tuesday," Mzinzi said.
"We have immediately found a replacement in Eric Tinkler, who has worked with various clubs in the league.
"He had a very impressive spell at Cape Town City before joining SuperSport United.
"He was also with Orlando Pirates in their Caf final.
Numerous attempts to reach Tinkler proved unsuccessful on Wednesday.
Mzinzi said the decision to fire Malesela – after only three matches this season – had been a painful one.
According to Mzinzi, Malesela's axing was based not only on results but a combination of "other soccer-related matters".
Chippa have recorded two losses and a draw in their opening three matches and, as a result, are second last on the log with only one point.
They were beaten 2-0 by Bloemfontein Celtic in their league opener, followed by a 1-0 loss to Orlando Pirates.
Their most recent result was a 2-2 draw against Black Leopards in East London at the weekend.
"The way we started this season and how we played against Bloemfontein Celtic, Orlando Pirates and Black Leopards, with two games being home fixtures, was not impressive," Mzinzi said.
"In our meeting, we analysed the players we have, the players we lost and the players we bought this season, experienced and younger.
"It was a very painful decision to release [Malesela] because those who are close to the club know how close the chairman is with coach Dan," he said.
Malesela said he had received his letter of termination late on Tuesday night.
He declined to elaborate what was stated in the letter, saying it was a personal contractual matter between him and the club.
The former Orlando Pirates skipper said he had nothing immediate planned.
"I'll be leaving Port Elizabeth tomorrow," he said.
"I have already spoken to the players. It's just unfortunate that I was never afforded a chance to do things at Chippa.
During the 2016/2017 season, he was placed on "special leave" due to poor results, but was later brought back as results went downhill.
He helped save the club from being relegated.
Last season, he was fired in September having also only played three matches' all of them defeats, and vowed to never come back to Chippa.
He made a surprise return to the team in May, replacing Serbian coach Vladislav Heric.
He said he would only go back to Chippa if a "certain individual" had left the club.
"I committed myself last time to say I am not coming back and then I came back," the coach said.
"So, you will never know how things will pan out, this is football.


What Is a Corner Filter?
Corner filters are any filters where the water is drawn through filter media in a plastic or acrylic box, which sits inside the tank. Most of the time these filters are made of plastic and are powered by an external air pump.
The box itself will have holes in the top and bottom or front and back, depending on the way that water is moved. The box itself can be opened to accept a variety of filter media, however, usually these filters will use filter floss or batting and a small amount of activated filter carbon.
How Does a Corner Filter Work?
A corner filter uses bubbles of air from an external air pump or an integral water pump to draw water out of the filter box. As water is drawn out through the holes in the top or back of the filter, it is replaced by water that comes in through the holes in the bottom or front of the filter. This action pulls the water through the filter media. The floss in the filter will provide mechanical filtration and the carbon in the filter will provide chemical filtration. Both the carbon and the floss, as well as the sides of the container will provide a bed for the bacteria of a biological filter. Most corner filters primarily provide mechanical filtration.
What Maintenance Does a Corner Filter Require?
You will have to regularly change the media in your corner filter. The amount of carbon that can be used in most corner filters provide viable chemical filtration for 1 to 4 weeks, depending on tank load, tank size, what other filtration is available, cleaning schedule, and whether or not any chemicals, additives, plant foods, or medications have been used in the tank. Remember to remove any carbon from the tank or filter before you medicate (if the carbon is working, it should remove the medication from the tank in under an hour, in which case your fish won't get treated).
The floss or sponge(s) will need to be rinsed or replaced every time it becomes dirty. As with the carbon, this will need to be done every 1 to 4 weeks, depending on tank load, kind of fish, feeding schedule, type of food, cleaning schedule, and what other filtration is available.
What Should I Be Aware Of with a Corner Filter?
Most corner filters are reasonably efficient filters, but corner filters require a lot of maintenance, and the regular maintenance of the filter requires the replacement of the filter media. If you have a corner filter, you should consider getting a second filter so that you do not remove all of your bacteria bed every time you clean the filter. Removal of the biological filter media (and its bacteria bed) will cause your tank to cycle again, which can be fatal to your fish.
Usually, the biggest issue with corner filters is that they are often used in small tanks and bowls, where you can least afford to be losing water volume and space to an internal filter.
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Tag: Weekly Briefing
All things Weekly Briefing from Broadcast Dialogue, Canada's broadcast industry publication of record.
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This really wonderful piece of art (great use of color!) was in a McDonalds on the drive in to my in-laws. I think it was somewhere in northwest Georgia.
What a cool find at 10 PM at night.
I painted the 3" version of the soon-to-be-painted 16" x 20" Poolside work I plan next.
Again, rough values, no small brushes or detail.
To give you an impression of the size of these, here are the two sketches I've done of this one next to a dime.
They're small. And fun, actually. I'm surprised by the satisfaction I get in painting these rough thumbnails of what is to be a larger work.
I learned with this sketch that lighter is better. The warm areas feel balanced to me. The cool of the blue, the warmth of the wooden fence in the background. The sunlight on the woman herself and in the palm fronds. You can't see it in these smaller versions, but she is eating up the sunshine in the peace found by a backyard pool. I hope to capture that in the larger work.
I'm satisfied with the palette I've chosen for this. Next step is to get over the chicken sensation I get before starting something new. Yep, starting a work always makes me jittery. But I ignore it, or it would never happen. I'm excited to see how it turns out.
Read the whole story of "Poolside"
I'm currently listening to one of the most profound songs that I know, which is the 2001 version of Joni Mitchell's "Both Sides Now." Not her original, but the one that she did with full orchestra behind her.
I'm lucky... as a programmer by trade, I get to listen - pretty much uninterrupted - to music through my headphones for hours every day. I'd been using little earbuds lately, but yesterday I switched back to my big, head-engulfing Aiwa headphones and the sound quality is supreme. It's the difference between looking at pictures of the Bahamas and actually being in the warm sand and clear water of the Bahamas.
If you compare listening through normal speakers and listening through earbuds and then listening through high quality headphones, headphones win. By far. You can hear the musicians' subtleties, the ambient hollow in the faint echo of a drum... It's stunning. It's more. It makes me love music to where I crave it that experience again and again.
If headphones escalate the music experience that I have, then what's the equivalent for art?
Most of us view art casually, much like most people listen to music. Were it not for the isolated position that I have as a programmer, I'd be one of those people.
Prior to last December, art wasn't important to me. I didn't crave it. Pleasant, but non-essential. Not so today. Having painted and lived through the re-assembly of color and form, I know it more now. While one doesn't have to be making the music to appreciate it more, one shouldn't have to be a painter to have a heightened experience of art.
So what is the visual equivalent of headphones?
As I sit and think about it, I think it's actually owning the piece, in full-scale reproduction or print, and being able to be alone with it, in isolation, to look at it and consider it.
We all own hundreds, or even thousands, of songs. But we own so little art. Is that because songs are 99¢ each and art is, well, at least a $20 purchase at Wal-Mart or $hundreds from a private atrist or gallery?
I know that Bill Gates' home has large, flat-panel screens that displays works from his collection. I know also that some companies are trying to get consumers to purchase art in bulk for display on their plasma screens at home.
Seems to me like like there's an opportunity here for indpendent artists... much like MP3's made it available for independent musicians to release their music to the world without music companies.
I'm close... time now for the tiny brushes and really small, time-consuming detail work.
Someday, I'll try my hand at this, but I need to get a grip on painting reality first.
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Parents Outraged at Austin's New Sex-Ed Curriculum That Trains Children to Become LGBT Activists
On Tuesday morning, the Austin Independent School District (ISD) school board approved a radical new sex-education curriculum for grades 3-8 that encourages all kinds of sex at young ages, urges kids to join LGBT "pride" parades, and aims to redefine biological sex and erase the words "mom" and "dad" from children's vocabulary.
More than 100 people testified against the new curriculum on Monday night, and testimony lasted until after midnight. Yet the school board unanimously approved the new curriculum.
"This vote by the Austin ISD Board sends a clear message: people of faith and traditional moral values are not welcome in Austin ISD," David Walls, vice president of Texas Values and a parent in Austin ISD, said in a statement. "By passing this curriculum, Austin ISD has broken the sacred trust that parents put in their children's schools. Austin ISD parents have no reason to entrust their children to a school district that weaponizes education to indoctrinate children into the LGBT political movement."
In a document revealing the radical nature of the curriculum, Texas Values drew attention to materials for the Grades 3-5 curriculum that encourage children to abandon the terms "mother" and "father" or "mom" and "dad."
"Use Gender Inclusive Language," the curriculum advises teachers. "It is important to avoid terms which refer only to 'male' and 'female' identities when speaking with young children as this can limit their understanding of gender into binaries and can exclude children who may not identify within these identities. For example, when discussing family members or adults they may have in their life, try not to only use terms like 'mom' or 'dad'. Try integrating words like, 'parents' or, 'guardians' to include children whose parents might not fit into 'traditional' concepts of family structures."
While the curriculum gives this advice to teachers, it would likely have the effect of teachers telling kids to stop using words like "mom" and "dad" but instead to employ gender-neutral language.
Another exercise encourages teachers to avoid the phrase "your mother gave birth to you," and instead to ask, "Are you close with your birth parents?"
This erasure of biological sex runs throughout the curriculum. In the draft document for Grade 6, the curriculum defines "biological sex" as something arbitrary — assigned and "decided" by the doctor, rather than rooted in DNA and merely recognized at birth.
The Grade 6 materials define "biological sex" as "sex assigned at birth according to genitalia," and encourage teachers to "explain that when someone is born, a doctor looks at them and decides what sex they are. Usually if a doctor sees a pen*s they will say the baby is male, if they see a vag*na they will say the baby is female, and if they see that the baby's genitalia don't quite look like either, they'll say the baby is intersex. Explain that although people usually assume that people with a pen*s are boys and people with a vag*na are girls, sex does NOT always match with gender identity (i.e. someone with a penis might identify as a girl)."
Contrary to this pro-transgender definition, biological sex is not "assigned" and it is not "decided" at the whim of a doctor. People with two X chromosomes are female, and people with one X and one Y are male, from the moment of conception. Even before birth, males and females develop differently. Biological sex is not arbitrary, but this propagandistic lie is politically convenient for transgender activists who wish to emphasize gender identity over biological reality.
The curriculum does not just use political propaganda to turn kids into LGBT activists, however. The Grade 6 materials also encourage students to attend a "pride rally" or to become "an ally to someone who identifies as LGBT by showing support and acceptance." The curriculum suggests these activities as tools to teach students to "challenge homophobia."
Across the grade levels, teachers are encouraged to normalize LGBT identities and relationships. Materials include a "sexuality match game" and videos promoting homosexuality. One story attempts to normalize homosexual activity by narrating the relationship between 14-year-old Peyton and 17-year-old Jordan — a relationship in which Jordan pressures Peyton to have sex. Peyton hides his relationship with Jordan from his "parent."
More than 7,000 people have signed Texas Values' petition against the sex-ed curriculum.
Human beings are male and female, and the natural way of reproduction involves one male and one female, also known as a father and a mother. It is truly Orwellian to push teachers to reject these terms and the more affectionate "Mom" and "Dad." These activists would undermine reality — inserting their ideology into the sacred bond between parent and child.
Americans need to speak out against the transgender revolution and the sexualization of children.
Bristol University hires slavery history professor to see whether it needs to apologise for colonial past
Bristol University has hired a professor of slavery history in an attempt to discover whether it needs to apologise for its colonial past.
The institution has commissioned Prof Olivette Otele, an expert in the history of colonialism in Britain and France, to carry out a two year research project into the involvement of the University of Bristol and the wider city in the transatlantic slave trade.
The university said it will decide at the end of the two years how to appropriately acknowledge its past links with colonialism, which could include making a public apology or statement.
It comes after a campaign by Bristol students to rename the Wills Memorial Building, which was named after the university's founding chancellor Henry Overton Wills III. The Wills family derived their wealth from shipping tobacco from the New World into Bristol.
The university announced in 2017 that it would not rename the building, saying: "We cannot alter the past but we can enable reflection upon it and add to knowledge about slavery past and present."
Bristol is the latest institution to investigate its past links with colonialism. Earlier this year, Glasgow University became the first in Britain to announce a package of reparations for its benefit from the slave trade.
It pledged to raise £20 million over the next 20 years to fund a new research centre which will be a joint venture with the University of the West Indies.
Cambridge University has also launched an inquiry into how the 800-year-old institution benefited from the slave trade.
Researchers have been commissioned to pour over the university's archives to how much it gained from the "Atlantic slave trade and other forms of coerced labour during the colonial era".
The two-year inquiry will examine whether financial bequests made to departments, libraries and museums were made possible from the profits of slavery.
It will also probe how far Cambridge academics "reinforced and validated race-based thinking between the 18th and early 20th Century".
Bristol's official participation in the transatlantic slave trade started in 1698, though experts say Bristolian ships illegally traded in slaves well before then.
Bristol merchants financed more than 2,000 slaving voyages between 1698 and 1807, with ships carrying more than 500,000 people from Africa to slave labour in the Americas.
Professor Judith Squires, Bristol University's provost and deputy vice-Chancellor said: "As an institution founded in 1909, we are not a direct beneficiary of the slave trade, but we fully acknowledge that we financially benefited indirectly via philanthropic support from families who had made money from businesses involved in the transatlantic slave trade.
"This new role provides us with a unique and important opportunity to interrogate our history, working with staff, students and local communities to explore the University's historical links to slavery and to debate how we should best respond to our past in order to shape our future as an inclusive University community."
'Unconscionable conduct': Australian private college fined $4.2m
A private education college that deliberately targeted disadvantaged and illiterate prospective students by offering them free laptops has been fined $4.2 million by the Federal Court.
Unique International College, which operated out of a single room in Granville in Sydney's west, sold online diploma courses worth up to $25,000 often targeting vulnerable communities in former Aboriginal missions in regional NSW.
In six separate cases, Unique International College was found to have failed to inform students of the cost of the course they were signing up to, did not tell them they would incur a debt and did not give them copies of the contract they signed.
One judgment, relating to a 19-year-old with learning conditions who was signed up by Unique in Wagga Wagga, stated it was "exploitation of an obviously very vulnerable person for financial gain".
"(Unique's conduct) involved the exploitation of an uneducated indigenous person with no understanding of what he was agreeing to in return for a laptop which was worth substantially less than the debt which was being incurred," Justice Nye Perram found in his Federal Court judgment on Thursday.
"It is difficult to imagine unconscionable conduct which could be worse."
Each of the six people were left with a VET FEE-HELP debt of $26,400, according to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.
"These students enrolled by Unique were unlikely to be able to complete the courses, but would have been left with significant lifetime student debt," ACCC Chair Rod Sims said.
"Some of these consumers enrolled in courses by Unique had poor literacy skills, and others could not use computer or did not have an internet connection.
"The ACCC will always prioritise taking action against businesses which engage in egregious conduct impacting vulnerable and disadvantaged consumers," Mr Sims said.
Using the new VET FEE-HELP student redress measures, the government in the process of cancelling the debts of eligible consumers enrolled by Unique.
In 2017 the Federal Court found the college made false or misleading representations and engaged in behaviour amounting to unconscionable conduct, following evidence that more than 3100 students never completed a single unit of any of the college's management or marketing courses, costing taxpayers more than $47 million in student loans.
During the trial the court heard evidence that the owner of the college, Amarjit Singh, transferred $22 million from his business account to his family's account on one day in 2015, in addition to transferring a $5.7 million Kenthurst property owned by the college to another family member in the same year.
But in 2018 the company successfully appealed, with the Federal Court finding there was insufficient evidence that its conduct amounted to a system of unconscionable conduct beyond the six consumers still currently involved in the matter.
Justice Perram found Unique acted deliberately in remote communities on a number of occasions, including Walgett in October 2014, Wagga Wagga in March 2015 and Bourke in June 2015 but "was ignorant" to the fact it was contravening consumer law.
"One of Unique's employee witnesses stated in cross-examination that he had not in fact heard of (Australian Consumer Law)," Justice Perram wrote.
The college has been found to have acted unconscionably in connection with goods or services, made false or misleading representations, failed to inform of a termination period, did not give a required document to a consumer and contravened requirements for all unsolicited consumer agreements.
It has previously had its registration cancelled and is no longer operating. The college operators have 28 days to pay the fine.
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BANGKOK, 11 January 2023: Thai Vietjet launched a Lucky January promotion on Tuesday, offering special fares with a starting price of THB 599 (inclusive of taxes and fees) for travel on the airline's domestic network.
The promotional fares are available for booking until 15 January 2023, with the travel period from 22 January 2023 to 31 October 2023 (excludes public holidays and terms and conditions applied).
You can book the fare at www.vietjetair.com for all destinations in the domestic network. That includes Bangkok (Suvarnabhumi) to Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai, Phuket, Krabi, Hat Yai, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Surat Thani, Udon Thani, Khon Kaen, and Ubon Ratchathani. It also includes cross-country routes from Phuket to Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai.
The promotional fares are also available on all other distribution channels, including www.vietjetair.com, mobile app "Vietjet Air", via Facebook at www.facebook.com/VietJetThailand by clicking the "Booking" tab, as well as travel agencies and booking offices.
(Source: Thai Vietjet).
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Q: How to enable bot to find Skype group chat it was added to previously? I am creating a bot with Microsoft Bot Framework that is supposed to, when receives notification from CI server, notify about build events participants of a particular chat group in Skype.
I don't quite get it, when I've added Skype bot to the chat, it has received an activity that presumably would have allowed me to save some Id at that stage. But since I need the bot to be proactive and post messages based on external stimuli, I would need to know the reference to that group chat permanently, including after re-deployment. But after redeployments, I don't have a conversation reference.
In theory, what bit of data, given that I save it during add time, would enable me to proactively send messages at any given point in time?

A: If it is ok that all participants "join" the conversation by writing first to the bot and if your bot accepts messages in similar Post method
public async Task<HttpResponseMessage> Post([FromBody]Activity activity)
{
    string rawActivity = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(activity);
    Save(rawActivity);
}

Then you are able to send messages to that conversation from your bot any time by using following code. You can restart or even redeploy your bot in the meantime. I have tested about one week as maximum time between consecutive messages.
public void MethodInvokedByExternalEvent(string externalMessage)
{
    var activity = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Activity>(GetStoredActivity());
    var replyActivity = activity.CreateReply(externalMessage);

    ResourceResponse reply = null;
    using (var client = new ConnectorClient(new Uri(activity.ServiceUrl)))
    {
        reply = client.Conversations.ReplyToActivity(replyActivity);
    }
}

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A few weeks ago, I went to a student council leadership conference with my 6th grade student council. Student council is the best extracurricular job in the school. These kids are some of the best students I had last year, and it's fun to work with them on projects that improve our school.
One of the presentations was about thinking with your head vs thinking with your heart. The presentation itself was loud and crazy and full of pterodactyl noises (aka the kids loved it), but I think about the message almost daily, weeks later.
Think with your heart, not your head. It can be applied to things as simple as approaching someone in the hallway whom you haven't seen in a while. If you think with your head, you could be thinking "this is awkward. I haven't talked to them in forever. I don't know what to say. I think I'll just keep walking and pretend like I'm on my cell phone." But, if you think with your heart, you walk up to that person, smile, and say hi, because everyone needs a friend, and this is a great opportunity.
I go through the head vs. heart battle daily in my job. My head says "it's late on a weeknight, I've been at work for 10 hours, and I'm not going to waste time writing nice notes to a few students right now. My self-preservation is more important." My heart says "Of course I'll take a few extra minutes to help this child understand how amazing they are. I want to foster that trust relationship between students and teacher."
When it comes to my future, I am a huge head over-thinker. The thought of starting a family, moving to another state, grad school, etc. practically sets me into a panic. Stability! Income! Career choices! Student loans! my head screams at me. But when I think with my heart, I remember what's most important. Family! Happiness! My husband! Faith! My heart reassures me that if I focus on what's most important, everything will work out.
One of the things I like best about little kids is that thinking with their heart comes to naturally to them. It's easy to express what's in their heart, such as "that makes me sad," "I want to play outside!" and "I love you." Adults aren't like that. Adults oftentimes have to think in their head by necessity (those bills won't pay themselves, after all). But, I think we get so used to thinking in our head that we often forget how to think with our heart.
Thinking with your heart means finding the truth in all situations. The truth is, it's more important to be a friend than give into awkwardness and isolation by passing someone silently in the hall. The truth is, it's more important to stand up for the person who's being bullied, even if that makes you lose a friend or two, because you know it's right. The truth is, thinking with your heart gives you courage and helps you be the best version of yourself.
Is it easy or hard?
How do you remind yourself to stay in your heart?
This is great. I'm a brain-first person, but I think being a teacher is making me a little more heart-centered. It's hard not to experience more love and feelings being around these awesome and frustrating kids, right?! Great post. Loved this.
I love this Brooke. I think its hard for some people and easy for others. I am also a brain-first person, practicality is my middle name. However, its days when I find myself thinking with my heart that I find myself happiest and those around me. Thanks for sharing. Miss you.
Very nicely said Brooke - thanks for writing this!
Right now I mostly think with my bladder. Like "where is a clean bathroom? Will I make it there? Can I run or will that make things worse?" etc. Excited for the day when I can start thinking with other body parts.
Haha, I love you Wuckle!
Wow thank you so much for this post. SUCH a wonderful reminder.


Being able to separate temporary global macroeconomic influences – caused by fluctuations in exchange rates, interest rates and inflation – from intrinsic performance – related to a superior product, production process or management - is crucial to the assessment of the development of a firm's competiveness.
Against that background, the paper analyzes institutions' role in making firms supply outside shareholders with relevant information corresponding to satisfactory transparency from the shareholder perspective. Based on a sample of the 100 largest public European firms it is found no firm provided information to the level deemed satisfactory by the outside shareholder. One explanation may be that optimal transparency for the firm does not equal satisfactory transparency for the outside shareholder.
However, the implementation of IFRS/IAS 1 in the EU as of 2005, and a company's international cross-listing activities exhibit associations with better supply of information and a narrowing of the gap. Shareholders in the Anglo-Saxon corporate governance system are provided with more relevant information than those in other corporate governance systems.
The paper adds to the literature on the role of institutions in international corporate governance, with the particular focus on information asymmetries in an international business context.


These reproducible worksheets include an outline of each capital and lower case letter, and pictures that help children learn letters and letter-sound correspondence. These worksheets can be used on their own or with the corresponding Phonic Faces alphabet storybook. Children can color each Phonic Faces character and pictures that begin with that sound. The themes for the letters correspond with the Phonic Faces book for that letter or letter digraph. 60 pages include upper and lower case letters and digraphs.


Educating our children is made easier with the use of new devices available today. iPad games and apps for kids are not just a mindless waste of time. There are tons of educational apps that can help your kids learn more. Finding the best ones is the challenge.


I'm quite a beginner in Unity and I mostly used it to export terrains (.dae or .fbx) from Sketchup or Mapertive directly to Unity. Everything worked well until today when I suddenly can't edit terrain. I've used every same procedure (Assets-Import new asset-Set terrrain and Terrain colider--Resize...) as before. Also tried reinstalling everything and just nothing works as it did.
As far as I know, you can't import a model as a terrain object. Those are two separate concepts in Unity. The Terrain component generates it's own model, and can only import from a heightmap.
It has worked for me perfectly before without any extensions or anything. Just exported 3d model from Sketchup, added it to unity and then I could add trees, paint with brush, etc.
If I generate flat terrain in unity works fine and so should heightmaps from .raw.
@fortisvenaliter is correct. Whatever you were doing before, you can't have used an fbx/dae as a terrain mesh. Unity terrain meshes are generated dynamically from a 2D heightmap array (with dynamic LOD etc.) and splat/detail maps are stored as associated 2d arrays.
Your screenshot appears to show a single object with an (unassigned) terrain component and a mesh component, but the two are unrelated.
If anyone is interested into making terrains I can highly recommend Mapertive. It's a free tool which lets you export terrain to 3D (.dae). You can then pre-edit (add detail in mesh) it in sketchup (save as .fbx) and import it into Unity the way I wrote above. It's better than import from Google Maps because you can make huuuge terrains (one on a picture should be a bit less than 20 square kilometers) and i find it more accurate than exporting it from terrain.party > raw > unity terrain.
If you want more info feel free to contact me.
@StayeDevelopments, when you say "everything works now (except painting brush but i'll figure that out)", if you want to put a prefab on the mountain, for example, a truck, then this truck is placed over or is placed on the basic terrain in y=0? Because I have this problem. I import a .fbx (a 3D map) from SketchUp, after I put it in a Unity terrain, but if I want paint this 3D map, I am painting the terrain instead of the 3D map (Location_Terrain / Mesh). Thank you!


Anambra State governor, Chief Willie Obiano has appointed Mrs Ify Obinabo, a female journalist with the state owned media outfit, Anambra Broadcasting Service, ABS, as the caretaker chairman of Orumba North local government area.
Mrs Obinabo was first appointed Special Assistant to the governor on Agriculture, before she was elevated as council boss.
The journalist, who is also known in the area as a renowned farmer, assumed office on Friday, promising to turn the fortune of the council area around, using agriculture as her main focus.
In her acceptance speech, Mrs Obinabo said the appointment was in line with her burning desire to serve her people, especially at the grassroots.
"I assure you all, I will carry everyone alone in this government. I am inviting you all, especially my fellow farmers to come and let's work things out for our local government," she said.
Obinabo is the first female local government chairman of the council. She commended her predecessor, Mr Emeka Aforka for his developmental strides in the area.
She, however, promised to intensify efforts to sustain the tempo of development already recorded in the local government.


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The BDMC acknowledged that it had reached a compromise with the Financial Services Commission of Ontario (FSCO) and would cease all mortgage intermediation work. The BDMC said it had collected C$920 million for property development from over 14,000 people. BDMC has entered into an agreement with FAAN Mortgage Administrators to manage and manage outstanding mortgage syndications in Fortress properties on behalf of BDMC.
Mortgage syndication, which bundles the resources of individual creditors to fund property developments, has gained ground in Canada as individuals sought ways to make better profits from their deposits with low interest rate banking deposits. Over the past ten years, more than 20,000 small savers have invested up to C$1.5 billion (US$1.2 billion) in revolving credit facilities, mainly in Ontario, according to government regulators.
Approximately 90 per cent of these assets, according to the source, have ended in a lost or run the threat of doing so, and fortress development accounts for more than half of the investment. On Friday, the regulatory authority said that it had withdrawn the broker licences of Petrozza and three other persons, urging them to stop all mortgage brokerage immediately.
BDMC's main broker, Ildina Galati-Ferrante, gave up her broker licence and had to stop all mortgage brokerage work.
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50 pct outstanding payments of media for two-year cleared, NA told
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly was informed on Thursday that fifty percent outstanding payments of the media for the Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf (PTI) government's two year tenure have been cleared.
Minister for Information and Broadcasting Shibli Faraz told the house during question hour that the remaining fifty percent will be cleared in a week time as Prime Minister Imran Khan has given special directions on the matter. He said the outstanding amount of the last two years was 1.15 billion rupees.
The minister for information and broadcasting said the present government had not recruited any person in Pakistan Television except the top management to uplift the national broadcaster. He regretted that the institutions such as PTV, PIA and Pakistan Steel Mills were destroyed by previous governments through political appointments.
Also Read: MPA Uzma Kardar removed from Media Strategy Committee
Minister of State for Climate Change Zartaj Gul said ten billion tree tsunami project is being executed in all the federating units. She said eighty four thousand Nigehbans have been employed for the protection of newly planted saplings. She said an agreement has been signed with the ministry of communication for plantation of trees along motorways and highways.
Parliamentary Secretary for Federal Education and Professional Training Wajiha Akram said a uniform curriculum for primary level has been finalized after consultations with the stakeholders for implementation from March next year. She said the move is aimed at ensuring quality education.
Parliamentary Secretary for Aviation Jamil Ahmad Khan expressed the confidence that the European Union will soon lift ban on the PIA flight operations to their countries. He said efforts are afoot to meet all their safety standards. He said the present government should be appreciated for taking action against the pilots holding dubious licenses.
Responding to the points of PML-N Parliamentary Leader Khawaja Asif, Minister for Human Rights Shireen Mazari recalled it was the PML-N government which had accepted the jurisdiction of International Court for Justice (ICJ) in Kulbhushan Jadhav case. She said the PTI and PPP at that time had extremely opposed this move. She said we now have to implement the ICJ decision as it has given its judgment in the case.
PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto opposed the promulgation of an Ordinance which allows the Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav to file a review petition against his conviction and sentence.
Later, the PPP Chairman pointed out lack of quorum. On counting the House was not found in order and the chair temporarily suspended proceedings of the House.
The House will now meet again tomorrow at 11 in the morning.
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Q: C4533 warning: why does goto skip variable initialization? I'm getting:

warning C4533: initialization of 'b' is skipped by goto FreeDC.

But if the code gets to the label FreeDC in WM_CREATE, 'b' is not initialized. How its initialization could be skiped, if it is not initialized in that situation. I just don't understand the warning.
#include <windows.h>

class A
{
    int i;

    public:
    A() {};
    A(int i) : i(i) {}
};

LRESULT CALLBACK WndProc(HWND, UINT, UINT, LONG);

HINSTANCE ghInstance;

/************************************************************************************************************************

    WinMain(hInstance, hPrevInstance, pszCmdLine, nCmdShow)

************************************************************************************************************************/

int APIENTRY WinMain (HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance, LPSTR pszCmdLine, int nCmdShow)
{
    ghInstance = hInstance;

    WNDCLASSEX  wndclassx;

    wndclassx.cbSize        = sizeof(WNDCLASSEX);
    wndclassx.style         = CS_HREDRAW | CS_VREDRAW;
    wndclassx.lpfnWndProc   = WndProc;
    wndclassx.cbClsExtra    = 0;
    wndclassx.cbWndExtra    = 0;
    wndclassx.hInstance     = hInstance;
    wndclassx.hIcon         = NULL;
    wndclassx.hCursor       = LoadCursor(NULL, IDC_ARROW);
    wndclassx.hbrBackground = (HBRUSH)(COLOR_WINDOW + 1);
    wndclassx.lpszMenuName  = NULL;
    wndclassx.lpszClassName = L"WndProc";
    wndclassx.hIconSm       = NULL;

    if( !RegisterClassEx(&wndclassx) ) return 0;

    HWND hWnd = CreateWindow(L"WndProc", L"", WS_OVERLAPPEDWINDOW, CW_USEDEFAULT, CW_USEDEFAULT, CW_USEDEFAULT,
                             CW_USEDEFAULT, NULL, NULL, hInstance, NULL);

    ShowWindow(hWnd, SW_SHOWMAXIMIZED);
    UpdateWindow(hWnd);

    MSG msg;

    while( GetMessage(&msg, NULL, 0, 0) )
    {
        TranslateMessage(&msg);
        DispatchMessage(&msg);
    }

    //  Retorna msg.wParam

    return (int)msg.wParam;
}

/************************************************************************************************************************

    WndProc(hwnd, message, wParam, lParam)

************************************************************************************************************************/

LRESULT CALLBACK WndProc (HWND hwnd, UINT message, UINT wParam, LONG lParam)

{
    static A a;
    static int i;

    switch ( message )
    {
        case WM_CREATE:
        {
            HDC hDC;
            if( !(hDC = GetDC(hwnd)) ) return -1;

            int iLogPixelsY = GetDeviceCaps(hDC, LOGPIXELSY);

            LOGFONT lf;
            memset(&lf, 0, sizeof(LOGFONT));
            lf.lfHeight = -MulDiv(11, iLogPixelsY, 72);
            wcscpy_s(lf.lfFaceName, LF_FACESIZE, L"Cambria Math");

            HFONT hFont;
            if( !(hFont = CreateFontIndirect(&lf)) ) goto FreeDC;

            hFont = (HFONT)SelectObject(hDC, hFont);

            int j = 5;
            i = j;

            A b(2);
            a = b;
            return 0;

            FreeDC: ReleaseDC(hwnd, hDC);
            return -1;
        }
        break;

        case WM_DESTROY:

        PostQuitMessage(0);
        break;

        default:

        return DefWindowProc(hwnd, message, wParam, lParam);
    }
    return 0;
}

A: b's constructor won't called if you use goto, and yet it's still in scope. This is technically an error, although some compilers only give off a warning.
Here's an example:
int main() {
  goto foo;
  int bar = 5;
  foo:
  ++bar; // doesn't work if goto is used - bar isn't initialized
}

It may seem like you are not using b, but its destructor is still being called:
int main() {
  goto foo;
  A b;
  foo:
  b.~A(); // compiler silently adds destructor and other cleanup here
          // won't work if goto is used - b isn't initialized
}

A: You could avoid the problem by introducing a suitable local scope that gets skipped by the goto:
        HFONT hFont;

        if( !(hFont = CreateFontIndirect(&lf)) )
        {
          goto FreeDC;
        }

        hFont = (HFONT)SelectObject(hDC, hFont);

        {               // new scope; skipped entirely by goto
          int j = 5;
          i = j;

          A b;
          a = b(2);
        }

        return 0;

    FreeDC:
        ReleaseDC(hwnd, hDC);
        return -1;

If you think about C++ and scopes and automatic object lifetimes really carefully, you'll come to conclude that goto really wreaks havoc with the entire programming model. That's why there are many (often quietly implied) conditions on where you can go-to and wher not. Generally, jumping into the middle of a scope is problematic if the scope contains new automatic variables. We avoid this by introducing a new, local scope that the goto jump skips entirely.

A: I honestly don't know, but why are you using a goto when an if statement will suffice?
if( (hFont = CreateFontIndirect(&lf)) ) {
    hFont = (HFONT)SelectObject(hDC, hFont);

    int j = 5;
    i = j;

    A b;
    a = b(2);
    return 0;
}
else {
    FreeDC: ReleaseDC(hwnd, hDC);
    return -1;
}

// break; here is unnecessary.

A: You must not skip an object's initialization with either goto or switch [*](that holds for user-defined types as well as primitive types like ints). In your case, you are not using the object whose initialization you've skipped, so the best solution would be to make this clear to the compiler by limiting the scope of b.
        if( !(hFont = CreateFontIndirect(&lf)) ) goto FreeDC;

        hFont = (HFONT)SelectObject(hDC, hFont);

        int j = 5;
        i = j;
    {
        A b;
        a = b(2);
        return 0;
    }
        FreeDC: ReleaseDC(hwnd, hDC);

[*] so these would be illegal:
switch(x) {
    case 1:
        int y=1;
    case 2:
        // y not initialized if x==2

and
if (x) goto l;
int y=1;
l: // y not initialized if x!=0

This particularly matters if y is a reference, a constant or a user-defined object with nontrivial constructor.
The standard says it in 6.7/3:

It is possible to transfer into a block, but not in a way that
  bypasses declarations with initialization. A program that jumps
  from a point where a local variable with automatic storage duration is
  not in scope to a point where it is in scope is ill-formed unless the
  variable has POD type (3.9) and is declared without an initializer
  (8.5).

A: Consider a smaller, trivial test case:
struct Object {
   Object(int i) : i(i) { }
   int i;
};

int main() {
    Object a(5);
    goto Label;
    Object b(6);
  Label:
    cout << a.i << " " << b.i << endl;
}

At that last line, a.i is obviously 5.  But what is the value of b.i?  When that object was created, it was supposed to be initialized to 6, but you explicitly told the program to skip that line.  It could be anything.
Now, lets pretend Object is a more useful type:
struct Object {
  Object(int i) : p(new int(i)) { }
  ~Object() { delete p; }
  //insert copy/move constructors/assignment here
  int* p;
};

int main() {
    Object a(5);
    goto Label;
    Object b(6);
  Label:
    cout << *a.p << endl;
}

Now, you never actually use b.p, so it looks like the fact that you skipped the initialization is no big deal.  a.p was properly initialized, so this will output 5, no problem.  But then you return from main, and destructors start being called... including b.~Object(), which calls delete p;.  But b.p was never initialized, so who knows what that line will do?
In these cases, I believe the code is actually ill-formed, and the compiler is required to reject it.  It appears that instead of outright rejecting it, the compiler is chosing to warn you about the possible issues, so that you can decide for yourself if there is a concern.


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Big Lake Hit and Run Case Solved
Alliance Report
Freedom—July 24, 2019—A late-night hit and run boat crash near Long Sands a year ago was solved using a combination of old-fashioned detective work and tips from the public that stemmed from social media publicity about the incident.
That's according to Sergeant Dave Ouelette of the Marine Patrol Division of the N.H. State Police. Ouelette was the lead investigator in the case, which resulted in the arrest and conviction of 31-year old Matiah F. Haloon of Tewskbury, Massachusetts.
Haloon was indicted on a Class B felony for failing to report an accident involving the operation of a vessel that caused personal injury and property damage.
As the result of a negotiated agreement, she pled guilty to a Class A misdemeanor on June 13, and was sentenced to 30 days, suspended. She was directed to pay $13,120 in restitution to Chubb Insurance and $680 to the owner of the boat. Additionally, she must perform 80 hours of community service and write a "meaningful letter of apology" to the victim. Her boat license was suspended for one year.
Haloon, who was staying on the lake as a guest, was piloting her host's pontoon boat around midnight after the July 4th fireworks last year when she rammed a vessel that was moored near Long Sands and took off. Although it was dark, area residents were able to provide the Marine Patrol with a general description of the boat. They also reported hearing an onboard discussion that one of the passengers had facial lacerations and was bleeding.
The owner of the damaged boat used the Facebook group "I Boat on Ossipee Lake" to ask the public to provide tips to the Marine Patrol, a request that was also posted on the Ossipee Lake Alliance website.
Because they patrol all parts of Ossipee Lake, the Marine Patrol officers under Ouelette's command are familiar with which boats reside where and who owns them. With that knowledge, Ouelette and officers Edward Boisvert and Michael Gendron began sleuthing and asking questions.
As word circulated that the accident was a felony crime and under serious investigation, a number of people eventually "stepped up and did the right thing" by providing tips that led officers to Haloon, Ouelette said.
State Boating Laws Are Clear
Accidents of any kind, let alone hit and run accidents, are relatively rare on Ossipee Lake, but boaters should understand what to do in case they're involved in one, or witness one.
N.H. RSA 270:1-a provides that "The operator of a vessel who knows or reasonably should have known that he or she has just been involved in any accident that involved death, personal injury, or damage to property, shall immediately stop said vessel at the scene of the accident, render any assistance that he or she is capable of giving to the occupants of any other vessel involved in the accident, and give the operator or owner of any other vessel involved in such accident, and to any person injured, and to the owner of any property damaged, the operator's name and the owner's name and address, the vessel registration number, and the name and address of each occupant."
Unless a Marine Patrol officer is on hand to write a report, the law further provides that the operator of a vessel involved in an accident must file a written report to the Department of Safety within fifteen days of the incident.
In an important way, a boat accident has the potential to be legally be more serious than an auto accident. Whereas state law pertaining to auto accidents references serious bodily injuries, state boating law references any injury.
A boater who fails to adhere to RSA 270:1-a risks being charged with a felony crime and faces serious consequences, as evidenced in the Haloon case.
The bottom line for Ouelette, who supervises Marine Patrol officers across much of the state, is promoting boater safety.
"There were more than 95,000 boat registrations in the state last year, and while most boaters are responsible operators, accidents can happen on the water just as they do on roadways. When they do, boaters have a duty to report them immediately. That's the law."
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'Deaths of despair' are on the rise
By Cathy Dyson
The Free Lance-Start
FREDERICKSBURG, Va. (AP) — In the months since her baby sister overdosed on heroin laced with fentanyl, Rene Myers has been sickened by the reaction from so-called friends.
They want to write off Dorothy Nicole Ries as nothing more than a druggie who died at her own hands. They suggest the 25-year-old Nicole, known as "Coley" to her brother and three sisters, was a drain on society and, really, what did it matter if one more junkie overdosed?
That kind of thinking made Myers reach out to The Free Lance-Star. She wanted to put a face on the opioid crisis, an epidemic that claims 115 Americans every day, according to the Centers for Disease Control.
"It was not who she was, it was just a part of her," said Myers, a 31-year-old Spotsylvania County resident and wife, waitress and mother of two daughters. "She was this bubbly, happy person who would do anything to make you feel better if you were having a bad day. She was a normal girl. She just had her demons."
So do many others of the same age and racial background, according to a study from Virginia Commonwealth University's Center on Society and Health.
The report notes an alarming rise in specific deaths among Virginia's white population, ages 25-54.
While overall death rates for all whites decreased between 1995 and 2014, deaths by drug overdoses, suicides and health problems caused by alcohol and drug poisoning have jumped 83 percent in the same time frame for those aged 25-54, according to the study.
The report looked at the mortality rate for "stress-related conditions," which have been described in other studies as "deaths of despair."
Call them what you want, they're creating a public health crisis that hasn't been seen in the state before — at least among this population.
"Middle-class white households were largely protected from the social disadvantage and economic insecurity that are common today, and that people of color have experienced for generations," the report noted.
Denis Nissim-Sabat, a retired clinical psychologist and University of Mary Washington professor, says these types of deaths long have been prevalent in communities of color.
"My concern is, and others have said this, is we're now paying attention when it hits whites," he said.
The suicide rate for American Indians and Alaska Natives is 16.93 per 100,000 people, compared to the overall U.S. rate of 12.08 per 100,000, according to the Suicide Prevention Resource Center. Likewise, when African-Americans used drugs, "it wasn't seen as a health issue, it was seen as a criminal issue," Nissim-Sabat.
The report acknowledges those factors and states that, between 2010 and 2014, the death rate among blacks in Virginia still was 1.2 times higher than of whites.
The study aimed to look at what is causing these stress-related conditions, or SRC deaths, among whites. It offers a sobering statement about the impact of opioid drugs, substances primarily used for pain relief.
"The opioid crisis is the tip of an iceberg," according to the report. "Many people are dying from the use of other drugs, alcohol abuse, the injuries and diseases they cause, and suicides. The root causes that are driving people to their deaths must be addressed."
While the SRC mortality rates among young whites climbed in every region of Virginia, they were higher in more rural and less populated areas, where people had lower incomes and more child poverty, less health insurance and more older housing.
The highest rates were found in regions that border Kentucky and West Virginia, along with rural areas of the Shenandoah Valley and in the Eastern Shore.
But even the most populated and affluent region of the state — the Northern Virginia area, which includes Fredericksburg and the counties of Spotsylvania and Stafford — were affected. SRC death rates in Northern Virginia were the lowest in the state, but still increased by 57 percent after 1995, the report stated.
A chart for Fredericksburg showed 30,985 whites ages 25-64 years, and for statistical reasons, "it is hard for a population that small to produce statistically significant increases," said Steven Woolf, a VCU professor and senior adviser with the Center on Society and Health.
The SRC death rate among Fredericksburg whites increased 39 percent after 1995.
"You shouldn't jump to the conclusion that the increase in Fredericksburg wasn't as great as elsewhere," Woolf said.
Besides, rates in one of its neighboring localities were off the charts.
In Spotsylvania County, there was a 273-percent increase in the rate of drug overdoses after 2000, "and this was statistically significant," Woolf said.
Sharon Killian, a clinical services director at the Rappahannock Area Community Services Board, said the report mirrors what she sees among her clients.
She recently had a group meeting with eight adults. Seven of the eight were males, and all were white.
Except for one participant, every person in the group was the first in his or her family to use drugs. Most were raised in the church and came from two-parent households.
As they talked about "how this happened to me," Killian saw a pattern emerge.
"Families are busy, schedules are packed, both parents are working, kids are in activities, there's not a lot of family time that's not structured," she said. "When they are together, they're on their phones."
There's not one single cause that leads to people using drugs or contemplating suicide. But when people have a trauma or don't have time to bond with others — or have a "conglomerate of stress" in the family — Killian says it creates a perfect storm.
"At the end of the day, bonding is the cornerstone for all of us," she said. "When you have the bond and something interrupts it, or you don't have that bond at all, you essentially have a hole in your heart. And you're going to fill it with something."
Drugs and alcohol are easy targets, Killian said, because they don't talk back.
A society that seemingly has everything at its fingertips also has more stress-related problems than prior generations.
"We are the most in debt, overweight, addicted group of adults walking the planet. Why? Because we are numbing something," said Allison Sampson-Jackson, an expert in Adverse Childhood Experiences, or ACEs. "We offload hurt instead of lean into pain and cope with it."
She recently spoke at a Fredericksburg town hall meeting of more than 200 people about the impact childhood trauma can have on physical and mental health for the rest of a person's life.
In her travels, she meets people who never learned how to connect with others, to share their feelings or even be aware of different emotions a person has.
"We are pushed more today to move faster, get more done, have things, yet we have lost the art of connection, breathing, rest and play," she said. "The average person today gets more information on their smartphone in one day than our grandparents and great-grandparents got in a year."
"We need a culture change," she added.
The VCU report doesn't cite constant access to the worldwide web as a potential cause of higher deaths of despair.
But it does suggest that life conditions for whites ages 25-54 are drastically different from what their parents and grandparents faced — and that this subset doesn't have the resilience to deal with the cumulative stress.
After World War II, loyal workers could count on a job for life with health insurance, a pension and other benefits. These ideal setups no longer exist, and frustration and hopelessness increase anxiety and depression, the report stressed. They produce harmful coping behaviors, whether it's overeating or smoking, drug use or suicide.
Myers watched her little sister struggle with pills, then street drugs, from her teen years on, after an episode that Myers doesn't want to discuss. She and her family tried, through repeat rehab and treatments, to loosen the grip of addiction, but the disease won.
"It hurts because you do all this for somebody who is an amazing person," Myers said, "but just can't look in the mirror and see it for herself."
There's little comfort in knowing that many others face the same anguish over the loss of a loved one.
"Growing up, death was an old-person thing; it was your grandmother or grandfather," Myers said. "Now we're burying our friends and our siblings. Our children will probably see more deaths in 10 years than we did our whole lives."
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By Jackie Marchildon
NewsGirls & Women
A Woman or Girl Is Killed in Canada Every 2.5 Days: Report
It found 148 women and girls were killed by violence in 2018.
For the last 40 years, a woman or girl was killed every 2.5 days in Canada, according to a report released Wednesday.
The report, #CallItFemicide, found that this trend has remained roughly the same for the last four decades.
This was the first annual report by the Canadian Femicide Observatory for Justice and Accountability, and was published in response to the United Nations' call for the creation of femicide observatories around the world.
It found that 148 women and girls were killed by violence in 2018, with the highest rates in Nunavut, followed by the Yukon, New Brunswick, and Manitoba.
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Many of these deaths were femicides — the killing of women or girls usually committed by men.
"Men are the primary perpetrators of femicide and, as stated by the United Nations Secretary-General, in a report on the progress towards Sustainable Development goals, this violence is perpetuated and maintained through broader patriarchal systems of oppression and ongoing gender inequality," the report states.
The research team followed media reports of potential femicides in 2018, and tracked the social and legal reactions to these crimes.
Through this study, they hope to identify femicide trends, patterns, and circumstances and narrow down future research themes.
It may be difficult to know at first if women/girls have been killed 'because' of their gender; research includes all killings of women/girls & works to differentiate those influenced by gendered contexts/motives. See #CFOJA inaugural report: https://t.co/Y6OckiKqVupic.twitter.com/3jQwspXOdS
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The researchers found that 53% of those killed were killed by male partners, 13% by other male family members, 13% by male acquaintances and 21% by male strangers — a pattern observed worldwide.
This means that 79% of the time, the victims knew their assailant.
Patricia Lewis was likely one such victim. She was allegedly murdered in her home in Guelph, Ontario, and her son, Lawrence Kemp, was charged with second-degree murder in November 2018, according to HuffPost Canada.
"As women, we're vigilant about our safety. We're trained to be aware of our safety in terms of strangers, but really it's not about that. It's about the people we know," Kemp's niece Connie Marangwanda told HuffPost Canada. "Think of all the women out there being abused and controlled in their own home that we don't even know about it. These women are not getting help and society tends to judge them, instead of supporting them."
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Prof. Myrna Dawson, head of the Canadian Femicide Observatory for Justice and Accountability, noted that this is not an issue in Canada alone.
"Monitoring the situation over the last year, we were very much impacted in real time," Dawson told HuffPost Canada. "We would get up every other day and face another case of a woman or girl being killed."
The report also serves as a means to remember the names of all 148 victims.
This report provides a "minimum estimate" as some murder cases have not yet been reported or identified as homicides. Researchers are also tracking data for 2016 and 2017, and plan to document earlier years as well.
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To extend the project beyond its initial context, I am interested in making prints using the slats of the chairs. Each person who donates $60 or more to the project will have his or her name carved into one of the seat slats. In exchange, that person will receive a limited edition woodblock print.
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Athletics legend Usain Bolt put on a masterclass – sort of – in a training session with Borussia Dortmund on Friday, even nutmegging a BVB youngster.
The eight-time Olympic champion, who retired following the 2017 athletics world championships in London last year, has swapped his spikes for studs and will captain the World XI at Soccer Aid later this summer.
And he has been getting in plenty of practice ahead of his Old Trafford debut, wrangling a trip to Dortmund to train with the players during the international break.
While some of Dortmund's bigger names are away with their national teams, there were still plenty of stars on show, and it was World Cup winner Mario Gotze who set up Bolt's best moment.
In a small-sided game, Bolt raced onto Gotze's cross and directed an excellent header into the bottom corner (42:20 below), wheeling away before giving the German a thumbs up for the pass.
The flair didn't stop there, with Bolt – who clearly has good feet for a big man – nearly scoring an outrageous dink having already nutmegged an unsuspecting academy player.
However, whether he actually meant the nutmeg is a different matter, with some fans suggesting he was attempting a drag-back that went wrong, and manager Peter Stoeger appeared to share a joke with him about it afterwards.
Bolt's pace was obvious even in such a tight pitch, and he showed good composure to set up a gilt-edged chance for Christian Pulisic who blazed over.
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COVID-19 Is an Unmissable Chance to Put People and the Planet First
Jennifer Morgan
Executive Director of Greenpeace International
Jennifer Morgan argues that now is the time to create something better this time: a world that puts well-being for people and the planet first, and to act now for a greener, healthier, more just world.
This is a moment that is testing our very humanity. It is also a moment when, if we are not on the frontlines of this pandemic, we can take a moment to look a bit further into the distance to imagine what the world will look like in the coming weeks and months, which will help form our longer-term future.
What if this moment isn't just one tragedy in the long history of human civilization? Not just another pandemic soon to be forgotten in the ebb and flow of our collective memory, but a defining moment for humanity, for the world? What if, in five, 10, 50 years' time, when we look back on this crisis, we see it was a turning point?
As our response to COVID-19 must be global, science-based, collaborative and holistic, so must we create a world that is also able to efficiently and effectively address the next pandemic and other global crises like the climate emergency.
People in power today must step back from the way things are currently decided and instead act on the answers to these two questions in dealing with COVID-19 and the climate emergency: What do we need to do to create a more resilient and fair system that protects the most vulnerable people? How can we move the focus of our economies away from practices that put us in exposed situations like pandemics and the climate emergency, and rather put the emphasis on the well-being of people and the planet, understanding how interconnected they are?
GDP Is Not the Metric to Measure Success
To kickstart a solution, we must recognize that the primary focus on short-term growth and GDP is misplaced, and instead home in on the well-being of people and the environment. Not only is GDP an outdated way of measuring economic performance and, by default, social progress, it is harmful. GDP fails to measure — and therefore can't tell us — if our health services are functioning, if we are living within our planetary boundaries, if people are being treated equally and with respect.
To quote the editorial board of the Financial Times from April 3: "Radical reforms — reversing the prevailing policy direction of the last four decades — will need to be put on the table. Governments will have to accept a more active role in the economy. They must see public services as investments rather than liabilities and look for ways to make labor markets less insecure. Redistribution will again be on the agenda; the privileges of the elderly and wealthy in question. Policies until recently considered eccentric, such as basic income and wealth taxes, will have to be in the mix."
This debate is occurring right now in China, where Ma Jun, a prominent adviser to the country's central bank, is advocating for the government to drop a specific growth target as it is not the most relevant goal at this moment in time.
One approach to replace GDP would be a well-being index, which would help drive a more resilient, sustainable and just world to address future pandemics and the climate emergency.
A New Way to Measure Progress
What could replace GDP? One approach would be a well-being index, informed by the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals, which would help drive a more resilient, sustainable and just world to address future pandemics and the climate emergency. Priority would be given to ensure no one is left with basic needs unfulfilled — health care, food, education, housing, mobility, culture — and that each of those is consistent with a healthy and stable environment.
This would also help encourage a shift in the hierarchy of norms of our decision-making on the local, national and international level. Decision-making and enforcement capacity for organizations ensuring human, social and environmental rights would be tangibly boosted. Agreements such as the Paris Agreement, CITES or the Convention on Biological Diversity would be a driving force in decision-making, not an afterthought or "when convenient."
International financial institutions would then move from conditionality based on structural adjustment and growth to supporting economic diversification — away from extractivism and wasteful consumption.
COVID-19 Is an Opportunity to Change Course
With the prioritization of well-being, the trillions going into "recovery packages" in response to COVID-19 would embrace the kind of world we need to thrive, not just survive. These plans would provide support for economic activities that promote the creation of job-guarantee schemes, ecological farming and forestry, low-impact fisheries, ecosystem conservation and restoration, sustainable mobility, and the promotion of cooperatives and community-led planning. Trust me, that list is not exhaustive!
This focus on people and planet would also mean zero financial incentives, subsidies, bailouts or enabling policy measures allowing for, or leading to, further expansion of fossil fuel exploration and extraction, and industrial agriculture market share. Going forward, any public support for service and industry sectors, both primary and secondary, would be combined with mandatory plans for full decarbonization and ending biodiversity loss within 10 years.
The recognition of rights of local and indigenous communities, their intrinsic link to nature and their role in protecting it, would be honored and central to decision-making. Trade agreements would be reset to respond to human dignity first and foremost and to foster a positive relationship between society and nature.
Why? Because we decide to create something better this time: a world that puts well-being for people and the planet first. We are a part of nature, and by protecting it, we protect ourselves.
This is a future not only worth imagining, but worth fighting for. Such opportunities for huge progressive change are rare. Let's act now for a greener, healthier, more just world.
A version of this article originally appeared on the World Economic Forum's Agenda blog.
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Jennifer Morgan is an executive director of Greenpeace International. Formerly, Global Director for the Climate Program at the World Resources Institute, Global Climate Change Director at Third Generation Environmentalism (E3G) and led the Global Climate Change Program at the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF). Passionate about helping countries, governments and individuals take positive action to achieve a zero-carbon future and strong proponent of the need of companies to "go green" and invest in sustainable technologies.
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