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Assignment on Social Problems
Subject: Sociology Topic: Assignment
Social Problems is the official publication of the The Society for the Study of Social Problems. A social problem is a condition that at least some people in a community view as being undesirable. Everyone would agree about some social problems, such as murders and DWI traffic deaths. Other social problems may be viewed as such by certain groups of people.
Social issues are matters which directly or indirectly affect many or all members of a society and are considered to be problems, controversies related to moral values, or both.
Social Problems is the official publication of the The Society for the Study of Social Problems. It is a quarterly journal published by University of California Press, in Berkeley, California. It was first published in 1953.
Some of the areas covered by the journal include: conflict, social action, and change; crime and juvenile delinquency; drinking and drugs; health, health policy, and health services; mental health poverty, class, and inequality; racial and ethnic minorities; sexual behavior, politics, and communities; youth, aging, and the life course. Among Sociology journals ranked by the Institute for Scientific Information, Social Problems was ranked 5th, with an impact factor of 1.796.
A social problem is a condition that at least some people in a community view as being undesirable. Everyone would agree about some social problems, such as murders and DWI traffic deaths. Other social problems may be viewed as such by certain groups of people. Teenagers who play loud music in a public park obviously do not view it as a problem, but some other people may consider it an undesirable social condition. Some nonsmokers view smoking as an undesirable social condition that should be banned or restricted in public buildings.
Every newspaper is filled with stories about undesirable social conditions. Examples include crime, violence, drug abuse, and environmental problems. Such social problems can be found at the local, state, national and international levels. You will be focusing in the Public Policy Analyst on social problems in your own community.
Specific community locations
Your own community consists of…
your school and your school district;
your village, town or city;
your county.
The four examples of social problems above could possibly exist in all of these communities. For example, there could be a problem of increased stealing within your school or throughout the school district. Likewise, local police agencies—village, town, city and county—maintain statistics on crimes such as thefts within their jurisdiction.
When you describe the social problem in step 1, you must specify the geographical setting. Some examples include Lehman High School, the Bronx High School District, the Bronx, New York City, or New York State. As mentioned before, PPA will be used only for local and state social problems.
Crime:
Crime is the breach of rules or laws for which some governing authority (via mechanisms such as legal systems) can ultimately prescribe a conviction. Individual human societies may each define crime and crimes differently. While every crime violates the law, not every violation of the law counts as a crime; for example: breaches of contract and of other civil law may rank as "offences" or as "infractions". Modern societies generally regard crimes as offenses against the public or the state, distinguished from torts (offenses against private parties that can give rise to a civil cause of action).
When informal relationships and sanctions prove insufficient to establish and maintain a desired social order, a government or a sovereign state may impose more formalized or stricter systems of social control. With institutional and legal machinery at their disposal, agents of the State can compel populations to conform to codes, and can opt to punish or to attempt to reform those who do not conform.
Authorities employ various mechanisms to regulate (encouraging or discouraging) certain behaviors in general. Governing or administering agencies may for example codify rules into laws, police citizens and visitors to ensure that they comply with those laws, and implement other policies and practices which legislators or administrators have prescribed with the aim of discouraging or preventing crime. In addition, authorities provide remedies and sanctions, and collectively these constitute a criminal justice system. Legal sanctions vary widely in their severity, they may include (for example) incarceration of temporary character aimed at reforming the convict. Some jurisdictions have penal codes written to inflict permanent harsh punishments: legal mutilation, capital punishment or life without parole.
The sociologist Richard Quinney has written about the relationship between society and crime. When Quinney states "crime is a social phenomenon" he envisages both how individuals conceive crime and how populations perceive it, based on societal norms.
The label of "crime" and the accompanying social stigma normally confine their scope to those activities seen as injurious to the general population or to the State, including some that cause serious loss or damage to individuals. Those who apply the labels of "crime" or "criminal" intend to assert the hegemony of a dominant population, or to reflect a consensus of condemnation for the identified behavior and to justify any punishments prescribed by the State (in the event that standard processing tries and convicts an accused person of a crime).
Feminism:
Feminism refers to political, cultural, and economic movements aimed at establishing greater rights, legal protection for women and/or women's liberation. Feminism includes some of the sociological theories and philosophies concerned with issues of gender difference. It is also a movement that campaigns for women's rights and interests. Nancy Cott defines feminism as the belief in the importance of gender equality, invalidating the idea of gender hierarchy as a socially constructed concept
Feminists are persons of either sex, or females only (in which case males may be profeminists), who believe in feminism.
According to Maggie Humm and Rebecca Walker, the history of feminism can be divided into three waves. The first wave transpired in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the second occurred in the 1960s and 1970s, and the third extends from the 1990s to the present. Feminist theory emerged from these feminist movements. It is manifest in a variety of disciplines such as feminist geography, feminist history, feminist theology, and feminist literary criticism.
Feminism has changed traditional perspectives on a wide range of areas in human life, from culture to law. Feminist activists have campaigned for women's legal rights—such as rights of contract, property rights, and voting rights—while also promoting women's rights to bodily integrity and autonomy, abortion rights, and reproductive rights. They have struggled to protect women and girls from domestic violence, sexual harassment, and rape. On economic matters, feminists have advocated for workplace rights, including maternity leave and equal pay, and against other forms of gender-specific discrimination against women. Although the terms feminism and feminist did not gain widespread use until the 1970s, they were already being used in public parlance much earlier; for instance, Katharine Hepburn speaks of the "feminist movement" in the 1942 film Woman of the Year.
During much of its history, feminist movements and theories were led predominantly by middle-class white women from Western Europe and North America. However, at least since Sojourner Truth's 1851 speech to American feminists, women of other races have proposed alternative feminisms. This trend accelerated in the 1960s with the civil rights movement in the United States and the collapse of European colonialism in Africa, the Caribbean, parts of Latin America, and Southeast Asia. Since that time, women in former European colonies and the Third World have proposed "Post-colonial" and "Third World" feminisms. Some Postcolonial feminists, such as Chandra Talpade Mohanty, are critical of Western feminism for being ethnocentric. Black feminists, such as Angela Davis and Alice Walker, share this view.
Drugs:
The prohibition of drugs through sumptuary legislation or religious law is a common means of attempting to prevent drug use. Prohibition of drugs has existed at various levels of government or other authority from the Middle Ages to the present.
While most drugs are legal to possess, many governments regulate the manufacture, distribution, marketing, and sale of some drugs, for instance through a prescription system. Only certain drugs are banned with a "blanket prohibition" against all use. However, a continuing problem remains in effect, as the prohibited drugs continue to be available through illegal trade, see illegal drug trade, also known as the Black Market. The most widely banned substances include psychoactive drugs, although blanket prohibition also extends to some steroids and other drugs. Many governments do not criminalize the possession of a limited quantity of certain drugs for personal use, while still prohibiting their sale or manufacture, or possession in large quantities. Some laws set a specific volume of a particular drug, above which is considered ipso jure to be evidence of trafficking or sale of the drug.
Islamic countries mostly prohibit the use of alcohol. Many non-Islamic governments levy a sin tax on alcohol and tobacco products, and restrict alcohol and tobacco from sales or gifts to minors. Other common restrictions include bans on outdoor drinking and indoor smoking. The United States (1920–1933), Finland (1919–1932), Norway (1916–1927), Canada, Iceland (1915–1922) and the USSR (1914–1925) had alcohol prohibition
AIDS:
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
This condition progressively reduces the effectiveness of the immune system and leaves individuals susceptible to opportunistic infections and tumors. HIV is transmitted through direct contact of a mucous membrane or the bloodstream with a bodily fluid containing HIV, such as blood, semen, vaginal fluid, preseminal fluid, and breast milk.
This transmission can involve anal, vaginal or oral sex, blood transfusion, contaminated hypodermic needles, exchange between mother and baby during pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or other exposure to one of the above bodily fluids.
AIDS is now a pandemic. In 2007, it was estimated that 33.2 million people lived with the disease worldwide, and that AIDS killed an estimated 2.1 million people, including 330,000 children. Over three-quarters of these deaths occurred in sub-Saharan Africa.
Genetic research indicates that HIV originated in west-central Africa during the late nineteenth or early twentieth century. AIDS was first recognized by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 1981 and its cause, HIV, identified in the early 1980s.
Although treatments for AIDS and HIV can slow the course of the disease, there is currently no vaccine or cure. Antiretroviral treatment reduces both the mortality and the morbidity of HIV infection, but these drugs are expensive and routine access to antiretroviral medication is not available in all countries. Due to the difficulty in treating HIV infection, preventing infection is a key aim in controlling the AIDS pandemic, with health organizations promoting safe sex and needle-exchange programmes in attempts to slow the spread of the virus.
Pornography:
Pornography or porn is the portrayal of explicit sexual subject matter for the purposes of sexual excitement and erotic satisfaction.
Pornography may use any of a variety of media, ranging from books, magazines, postcards, photos, sculpture, drawing, painting, animation, sound recording, film, video, or video game. However, when sexual acts are performed for a live audience, by definition, it is not pornography, as the term applies to the depiction of the act, rather than the act itself. Thus, portrayals such as sex shows and striptease are not classified as pornography.
A pornographic model poses for pornographic photographs. A pornographic actor, also called porn star, acts in pornographic films. In cases where few actor skills are required a performer in pornographic films is also called a pornographic model.
Pornography has often been subject to censorship and legal restraints on publication on grounds of obscenity. Such grounds and the very definition of what is or is not pornography have differed in different historical, cultural and national contexts.
Over the past few decades, an immense industry for the production and consumption of pornography has grown, with the increasing use of the VCR, the DVD, and the Internet, as well as the emergence of social attitudes more tolerant of sexual portrayals. Amateur pornography has become widely popular and generally distributed via the Internet for free.
Rape:
In criminal law, rape is an assault by a person involving sexual intercourse with another person without that person's consent. Outside of law, the term is often used interchangeably with sexual assault, a closely related (but in most jurisdictions technically distinct) form of assault typically including rape and other forms of non-consensual sexual activity.
The rate of reporting, prosecution and convictions for rape varies considerably in different jurisdictions. The U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics (1999) estimated that 91% of U.S. rape victims are female and 9% are male, with 99% of the offenders being male.
In one survey of women, only two percent of respondents who stated they were sexually assaulted said that the assault was perpetrated by a stranger. Several studies argue that male-male prisoner rape might be the most common and least-reported form of rape, with some studies suggesting such rapes are substantially more common in both per-capita and raw-number totals than male-female rapes in the general population.
When part of a widespread and systematic practice, rape and sexual slavery are recognized as crimes against humanity and war crimes. Rape is also recognized as an element of the crime of genocide when committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a targeted ethnic group.
Dowry:
A dowry (also known as trousseau or ocher or, in Latin, dos, or in Croatian and Slovenian, dote) is the money, goods, or estate that a woman brings to her husband in marriage. It contrasts with bride price, which is paid to the bride's parents, and dower, which is property settled on the bride herself by the groom at the time of marriage. The same culture may simultaneously practice both dowry and bride price. Dowry is an ancient custom, and its existence may well predate records of it.
Child Labor:
Child labor refers to the employment of children at regular and sustained labor. This practice is considered exploitative by many international organizations and is illegal in many countries. Child labor was utilized to varying extents through most of history, but entered public dispute with the advent of universal schooling, with changes in working conditions during the industrial revolution, and with the emergence of the concepts of workers' and children's rights.
In many developed countries, it is considered inappropriate or exploitative if a child below a certain age works (excluding household chores or school-related work). An employer is usually not permitted to hire a child below a certain minimum age. This minimum age depends on the country and the type of work involved. States ratifying the Minimum Age Convention adopted by the International Labour Organization in 1973, have adopted minimum ages varying from 14 to 16. Child labor laws in the United States set the minimum age to work in an establishment without restrictions and without parents' consent at age 16.
The incidence of child labor in the world decreased from 25 to 10 percent between 1960 and 2003, according to the World Bank.
Racism:
Racism is the belief that race is a primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race. As a practice, it means the same thing as racial discrimination. In the case of institutional racism, certain racial groups may be denied rights or benefits, or receive preferential treatment.
Racial discrimination typically points out taxonomic differences between different groups of people, although anyone may be discriminated against on an ethnic or cultural basis, independently of their somatic differences. According to the United Nations conventions, there is no distinction between the term racial discrimination and ethnic discrimination.
Bullying:
Bullying is a form of abuse. It comprises repeated acts over time that involves a real or perceived imbalance of power with the more powerful individual or group abusing those who are less powerful. The power imbalance may be social power and/or physical power. The victim of bullying is sometimes referred to as a target.
Bullying consists of three basic types of abuse – emotional, verbal and physical. It typically involves subtle methods of coercion such as psychological manipulation. Bullying can be defined in many different ways. Although the UK currently has no legal definition of bullying, some US states have laws against it.
Bullying in school and the workplace is also referred to as peer abuse. Robert W. Fuller has analyzed bullying in the context of rankism.
Bullying can occur in any context in which human beings interact with each other. This includes school, church, the workplace, home and neighborhoods. It is even a common push factor in migration. Bullying can exist between social groups, social classes and even between countries (see Jingoism).
Divorce:
Divorce (or the dissolution of marriage) is the final termination of a marital union, cancelling the legal duties and responsibilities of marriage and dissolving the bonds of matrimony between the parties. In most countries divorce requires the sanction of a court or other authority in a legal process. The legal process for divorce may also involve issues of spousal support, child custody, child support, distribution of property and division of debt.
In Western countries, a divorce does not declare a marriage null and void, as in an annulment, but it does cancel the married status of the parties. Where monogamy is law, this allows each former partner to marry another. Where polygyny is legal, divorce allows the woman to marry another. Divorce laws vary considerably around the world. Divorce is not permitted in some countries, such as in Malta and in the Philippines, though an annulment is permitted. From 1971 to 1996, four European countries legalised divorce: Spain, Italy, Portugal and the Republic of Ireland.
Societies differ in resources, culture, tradition, wealth, and political power. The same could be said of people. Despite these differences, societies and people share the potential to develop and overcome historical limitations. It is not easy to define this capacity for change in the 1990s, but it includes the expectations, beliefs, and values that cause people to look ahead, to take actions, and to hope that tomorrow will be different, better, and more rewarding than today. This capacity, not easy to measure, is often behind most processes of human change from the migration to urban centre to changes in social mobility, from cultural assimilation to political mobilization, or to the emergence of new forms of community organization. One of the main challenges of the current human development approach is to make this capacity the driving force for social reform.
Social policies are an effective way to face this challenge. Although there is no question about the importance of measures such as antipoverty programs, social integration efforts, political reforms, and employment programs, more than ever before there is an urgent need to design and implement social policies that explicitly address the goals of human development. This means that the conception and operation of social polices must be looked at from a holistic, integrated perspective. This in itself is a major challenge in the prevailing circumstances of crisis of development paradigms, social frustration, economic incertitude, political disorientation, and external conditions, particularly in developing countries. At the same time, however, it seems more important than ever before that these countries have means and opportunities at their disposal to improve the social and human development conditions of their societies.
This perception, perhaps optimistic, emerges, in part, as a result of examining the social reform processes — decentralization, institutional reform, and democratization — under way in countries like Canada and those of the Latin American region. The differences among these countries are indeed many, and common conclusions about these societies, their social reform approaches, and their policy systems cannot be easily drawn from a comparative perspective. In spite of these differences, however, there are also similarities that help to identify lessons and, above all, to identify words of caution about the opportunities and pitfalls that can be faced in social policymaking in a world where globalization has become the predominant context of human development.
The following sections focus on some of the strategic areas for analysis and research on social policy that have emerged from the previous chapters. Although the reality of social reform in Canada and Latin America is too fluid to provide an exhaustive overview of the issues, opportunities, and prospects these countries face, an attempt is made to outline the main points to help set a research agenda on the principal topics related to social reform, the policymaking processes, the economic factors influencing social policymaking, and the needs for policy evaluation. Some ideas are also advanced about how a multifaceted research strategy might contribute by providing timely and relevant knowledge to reduce the current uncertainty affecting public policy in these countries.
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Certares Acquires The Embassy Suites Atlanta Midtown In Partnership With Highlands Investments And Monomoy Property Ventures
Certares | October 26, 2021
Certares Management LLC a leading investment specialist dedicated to the travel, tourism and hospitality sectors (together with its affiliates, "Certares"), in partnership with Highlands Investments LLC ("Highlands") and Monomoy Property Ventures LLC ("MPV"), today announced the acquisition of the 181 key, new-build Embassy Suites Atlanta Midtown located at 290 17th Street NW in Midtown Atlanta, Georgia. The deal also included the acquisition of an adjacent land parcel and an income-producing parking component.Located in the Atlantic Station area of Midtown, the all-suites property features a lobby bar, restaurant, large fitness area and pool, along with 2,600 square feet of meeting space. The rooms average approximately 500 square feet, and each has a private kitchenette and separate living room area. The hotel sits adjacent to Microsoft's new eastern U.S. headquarters and near Georgia Tech's main Atlanta campus. HEI Hotels & Resorts ("HEI"), a leading hospitality management company that owns and/or operates 84 hotels and resorts throughout the United States, has been selected to operate the property.
"We are thrilled to acquire this brand-new asset in the heart of Atlantic Station. Midtown Atlanta is the city's preeminent submarket for technology and healthcare talent recruitment and is seeing an array of corporate relocations and expansions. We look forward to working closely with Highlands, MPV and HEI to ensure the property delivers a great experience to its guests."
-Nolan Hecht, Senior Managing Director & Head of Real Estate at Certares
Jordan Kary, Founder and Principal of Highlands, added, "We are big believers in both Atlanta and, more specifically, the Midtown Atlanta submarket, and we are excited to acquire this high-quality hotel together with Certares, MPV and HEI. The property's location together with its all-suites rooms and amenity offerings makes the asset well-positioned for outsized growth. We look forward to continuing to identify opportunities to acquire great pieces of real estate at attractive values and working to ensure best-in-class operations and oversight."
"High-quality real estate structured off-market from a motivated seller, in an excellent location within a growth MSA, the Embassy Suites Atlanta Midtown is illustrative of the types of investments MPV is successfully targeting as we establish our business,We look forward to building on a close relationship with Certares, Highlands, HEI and Hilton as we execute on our business plan at this asset, and to participating in the substantial ongoing growth in the midtown Atlanta business community."
-Kevin Vaughan, Founder of MPV.
About Certares Management LLC
Established in 2012, Certares focuses on direct investments in proprietary transactions, leveraging deep sector experience in the travel and hospitality industries, and with a consistent emphasis on partnership with management teams to drive growth. Certares brings together a team with decades of both operational and investment experience in private equity, travel, tourism, hospitality and travel-related business and consumer services. For more information, please visit www.certares.com.
About Highlands Investments LLC
Founded in 2020, Highlands Investments LLC is a New York-based real estate investment and asset management company that employs a value approach to investing and targets select product types and geographic regions across the United States and Canada. Prompted by the shifting dynamics in the global real estate industry, the company's primary objectives include sourcing and negotiating target driven acquisition opportunities and managing investments throughout their lifecycle. Highlands focuses on identifying opportunistic acquisitions at attractive values with the potential to enhance returns at the asset level through operational improvements and through long-term economic recovery. To learn more, visit https://www.highlandsinv.com/.
About Monomoy Property Ventures LLC
Monomoy Property Ventures (MPV) is a New York-based real estate investment, development and management firm with an extensive track record sourcing, acquiring and redeveloping lodging assets. MPV purchases land parcels and existing buildings in enduring, high-barrier locations in select resort and urban markets in the United States. Through physical and operational repositioning or ground-up construction, MPV seeks to improve buildings, destinations, neighborhoods and the built environment while providing attractive financial returns to our company and investment partners. Through current and prior ventures, Principals of MPV have executed on over $1.4 billion of lodging investments across 23 hotels. For further information, please visit www.MonomoyPropertyVentures.com.
About HEI Hotels & Resorts
HEI Hotels & Resorts, headquartered in Norwalk, Conn., is a leading hospitality investment and management company that owns and/or operates over 80 luxury, upper-upscale and upscale independent and branded hotels and resorts throughout the United States. HEI's branding partners include Marriott, Hilton, Hyatt, IHG and Accor. Taking a holistic approach to creating value for its investors and employees, HEI sets the highest standards across all aspects of hotel management and operation and focuses on central principles of excellence and continuous improvement. HEI prides itself on some of the highest employee satisfaction scores in the hospitality industry, fuels local economic prosperity by investing in communities and is committed to environmental stewardship and sustainability. To learn more about HEI, please visit www.heihotels.com
Pre-Trip Innovation Starting on The Right Path
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Amex Trendex Data: Millennials still using vacation days
Amex | September 21, 2020
With the fall-travel season on the horizon, one thing many consumers can agree on is that they would give anything to travel like they used to. According to the Amex Trendex , a monthly trend report from American Express, 44% of U.S. adults would give up using their cell phone to be able to travel safely and comfortably outside of the U.S. right now. As the world of travel continues to evolve, Amex Trendex uncovers unique trends pointing to how consumers are feeling about travel today and in the future.
Travel tech Start-Up Bookaway Secures USD 46 million in Investor Funding
Bookaway | July 17, 2021
Start-up in travel technology Bookaway has secured USD46 million in venture capital from Aleph, Corner Ventures, and Entrée Capital to establish the Bookaway Group, which will bring together ground and sea transportation companies from across the world. The group has collaborated to digitalize the USD 157 billion sector, where 95% of activities remain offline (local buses, trains, ferries.) As a result, local suppliers can connect and reach even more travelers by offering an online platform for up-to-date information, reviews, and booking while increasing access to every part of the globe (over 100,000 routes and counting). Getbybus, known for providing tens of thousands of routes in and around the Balkans and Western Europe, is the first to join the Bookaway Group, followed by 12Go, which has the biggest network of local transport choices in and around South East Asia. The Bookaway Group, in collaboration with Bookaway, provides access to more than 100,000 transit routes, user evaluations, and round-the-clock assistance in 14,600 locations across 80 countries. The Bookaway Group aims to bridge the global gap between travelers and local transportation providers, allowing travelers to discover and book transportation options anywhere in the world, regardless of the language they speak or how remote the location is. Bookaway has grown from a tiny Tel Aviv start-up to one of the world's top ground transportation companies in less than four years, with plans to expand further in the United States, China, and Latin America. Since 2018, Bookaway has secured USD 35 million in Series B funding to establish the Bookaway Group, following USD 11 million in Seed and Series A funding. Aleph, a major Israeli investor, has been a loyal supporter since 2019.
CLEAR S-1 Proves Biometrics' Growth Beyond the Travel Industry
CLEAR | June 09, 2021
Biometrics are poised to make the leap beyond airports and act as a passport to any number of environments where crowds gather in post-COVID reopening. To that end, biometric security firm CLEAR filed its S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), paving the way for an initial public offering (IPO) on the New York Stock Exchange. CLEAR may arguably be best known for its origin that ties into creating "a frictionless travel experience while enhancing homeland security," as described in the prospectus. At a high level, the company's biometric security service offers subscriptions to its services, speeding up passenger flow through TSA lines at the airport. But branching into other use cases shows how fungible, in a way, biometrics tech can be, where knowing who is who — for admission, for security, or commerce — is an essential deployment. But along the way, as CLEAR's filing shows, the pivot beyond travel — where demand is only now recovering from the ravages of the pandemic — will help determine whether the firm will see ignition. CLEAR points to the "convenience economy" as a critical driver for using biometrics in a bid to streamline everyday interactions. Tracking The Enrollments Digging into the prospectus, since inception, there have been 5.6 million cumulative enrollments, with 61 million cumulative use cases across its platform. Along with the decline in travel-related activity, first-quarter revenues slipped 17 percent as U.S. domestic flyers dropped by 60 percent. But the company remarked in its prospectus that a trend in its favor would be the reopening of and return to secular growth in the travel industry. As travel declined, cumulative enrollments on the platform were up more than 12 percent, to 5.2 million. Looking across the entire year, revenue was up 20 percent to 230.8 million in 2020, while net loss narrowed to $9.3 million from $54.2 million. Moreover, the company has debuted its Health Pass app, which stores healthcare-related data such as COVID test and vaccine records, which can help members show credentials required to enter a sporting event. CLEAR has partnered with 26 sports and entertainment partners and 67 Health Pass-enabled partners. That reach helps give coverage to 110 locations, including offices, theaters, and theme parks. Launched in 2010, CLEAR's biometric security service is popular among frequent fliers who purchase subscriptions for $179 a year. Along with gaining the ability to speed through airport lines, subscribers can also use the service at sports stadiums and entertainment venues. Looking Toward Scale CLEAR defines the total addressable markets, by vertical, as being rather significant. In aviation and travel, 90 million American adults fly at least twice annually, while 31 million flies at least six times annually. In hospitality, there were 1.3 billion room nights occupied in 2019, pre-pandemic, in the U.S. Per data from ESPN, across major sports leagues, there were 130 million sports attendees in 2019. The movement into adjacent use cases depends on how many consumers embrace $179 annual subscriptions (the price of Clear PLUS) and whether the populations that do so will justify partners signing on with the technology platform.
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Comment by AB: Johnpaul Altamirano, Sean Cheetham and Jeff Nentrup paint themselves into traditional Wild West compositions, including portraits of each other in period cowboy get-ups, spruced up with occasional contemporary accents like motorcycles or aluminum beer cans. I hardly ever go to a show of art by artists who not only know how to paint in classic styles, but who also know how to imbue that work with a satisfying component of contemplative and cognitive chops (it's usually either one or the other). But here you get art for the mind as well as the eye. I like it. In the gallery's front windows are glass by Esque Studio including the obligatory skull and gun. Yep... two components of contemporary urban art that I see absolutely everywhere. Worth a visit.
Art by Sean Cheetham at Fouladi Projects.
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Glass art by Esque Studio at Fouladi Projects.
Space - Johnpaul Altamirano, Sean Cheetham, Jeff Nentrup art at Fouladi Projects.
ArtZone 461 Gallery: Parallel Universes - Miranda Putman and Randy Beckelheimer.
Review by RWM: There is something about abstract painting that can be monumental and spectacular. The artwork here fits that bill. Though not on the big white walls of a museum, the assembled artwork can be shocking and unnerving. Great to see a whole painting filled with one color. Nice to see chaos, though slightly monochromatic, on the wall. These fine art abstractions follow a tradition of more representational work at this gallery.
Art by Miranda Putman at ArtZone 461 Gallery.
Randy Beckelheimer art at ArtZone 461 Gallery.
Color field art by Randy Beckelheimer.
Modern Eden Gallery: Fiction - 2nd Annual Portrait Invitational.
Artists: Jasmine Worth, Chrystal Chan, Soey Milk, Craig LaRotonda, Glenn Arthur, Melissa Morgan, Sandra Yagi, Chris Sedgwick, Albert Ramos, Scott Holloway, Bradley Platz, Amy Minchew, Terry Ribera, Jaxon Northon, Edith Lebeau, Lance Hewison, Leilani Bustamante, Catherine Moore, Robert Bowen, Sidharth Chaturvedi, Christina Lank, Ahren Hertel, Kassie McMahon, Akira Beard, Henry Schreiber, Brianna Angelakis, Alec Huxley, Laura Buss.
Comment by AB: You should really get your portrait painted. Yes... you... the person reading this. It's way better than a photograph, even one taken by a really good photographer (sorry photographers). Why? Because you get that unique hand-done artistic interpretation that no camera can capture. In case you're thinking about it, some of the more impeccable practitioners in this show will definitely help you make up your mind. Book a commission. You won't regret it 'cause you'll never look as good as you do right now. No... wait. I take that back. A skilled portrait artist can make you look even better than you do right now-- way better. Go see.
L-R, Melissa Morgan, Brianna Angelakis (like it), Alec Huxley, Kassie McMahan.
Kassie McMahan portrait above closer at Modern Eden Gallery (nicely done).
Art by Jaxon Northon above closer (like it) at Modern Eden Gallery.
Portrait art by Terry Ribera at Modern Eden Gallery.
L-R, art by Ahren Hertel, Catherine Moore, Than Others.
Portrait art by Chris Sedgwick at Modern Eden Gallery.
Art by Christina Lank (left) - Sandra Yagi (right).
Art by Craig LaRotonda at Modern Eden Gallery.
Overview - group portrait art show at Modern Eden Gallery.


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import org.jeecgframework.core.common.service.CommonService;

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public interface MenuInitService extends CommonService{

	public void initMenu();
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Many stores are now being emptied as one of the most difficult seasons in living memory comes to an end. However, the late start to the new season means all those crops still in store will be in demand, providing they can meet buyers' specifications.
Evidence of breakdown due to soft rot and blight is still being seen from a few stores (this has been slowed in cold stores) and, with prices at record levels, surprises like this are certainly unwelcome. Continued vigilance is therefore important to ensure quality is maintained and delivered.
If you have refrigeration systems in your stores, it is important to get the fridge serviced on an annual basis and to ensure your 'F' gas records are all up to date. 'F' gas records are a legal requirement on all systems with a charge of 3kg or more, so potato storage systems are included.
Once you know when the store will be unloaded (if it isn't already), get in touch with contractors in good time to arrange for your service work to be done over the summer. Don't wait until the companies have their diaries full!
If you are still using R22 refrigerant (check your service sheets or look around your compressor to find the label that identifies the type used in your system), you really need to be planning ahead to deal with its phase out on 31 Dec 2014. No replacement of R22 can be made after this date — even from reclaimed stocks so, basically, there are two options.
Option 1 is to replace the fridge system which is obviously expensive and might only be considered if the system is written-off and due for renewal. Option 2 is to move to an alternative 'drop-in' refrigerant. If you do not act you are taking a risk as, if your systems break down or develop a leak after 1 Jan 2015, you won't be able to get them repaired. It is therefore strongly recommended that you speak now with your refrigeration specialist if you still have systems charged with R22 in use. Visit www.f-gas.org for more information.
With the heightened emphasis on controls within the Potato Industry CIPC Stewardship scheme (www.potato.org.uk/cipc), now is an ideal time to consider specialist post-harvest training to BASIS standard for store managers and advisors.
Sutton Bridge Crop Storage Research is hosting the next course on Wednesday 8 & Thursday 9 May with the BASIS exam following on Friday 17 May.
For those not based in the East, there is the alternative of a second course being held at the Farm Energy Centre at Stoneleigh on 11 & 12 June with the course exam on Friday 21 June.
The tutor for both courses is John Horrocks, a BASIS Approved Trainer with 38 years' experience in the UK and European Potato Industry, who is UK BASIS and FACTS qualified.
To register for AHDB Potatoes events, please call Miya Kotecha on 0247 647 8782.
A series of regional evening and breakfast CIPC briefings is planned for July, if there is news to impart following the Advisory Committee on Pesticides' Review of CIPC.
British Potato 2013, Great Yorkshire Showground, Harrogate, Yorks.
Call the AHDB Potatoes's Storage Advice Line on 0800 02 82 111 for free telephone advice on storage.


This is a great punch for young and old. This recipe came to us by one of our girl scout leaders many years ago and the family has been using it ever since! We put maraschino cherries in the bottom of the round gelatin mold, add water and freeze. Float the ice in the punch upside down and the cherries make it festive! Great for any occasion!
Heat water and sugar until the sugar dissolves.
Combine juices, soda, orange slices and 1 jar cherries with juice in your punch bowl.
Add sugar syrup and stir well.
Drop in Sherbet by spoonfuls.
Using a gelatin mold, pour 1 jar cherries and juice in the bottom of the mold. Fill with water and do not cover.
Place in freezer until fully frozen solid and ready to be placed in punch.
To remove ice from mold, run surface of the mold under cold water and it should drop out.


With two days to go before Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before Congress, new questions are still arising about the data Cambridge Analytica acquired from Facebook users — and how Congress can play a role in stopping similar events from occurring again.
U.K.-based data firm Cambridge Analytica has come under fire in recent weeks following initial reports that the firm, which had connections to the Trump campaign, used data from 50 million Facebook users on behalf of its clients. That number was later adjusted, as Facebook said Wednesday that the data firm may have acquired data from 87 million users.
According to Christopher Wylie, a former Cambridge Analytica employee who served as the whistleblower for the firm's misdeeds, that number may actually be even higher. In an interview Sunday on Meet the Press, Wylie told host Chuck Todd that it was possible that the number of Facebook users targeted by Cambridge Analytica is even more than Facebook believes.
"I think that it could be higher. Absolutely," Wylie said Sunday.
Wylie added Sunday that however much data was taken, it wasn't only used by a few people. The whistleblower said it's likely that "a lot of people" had access to the data or derivatives of it, and it could be stored in places throughout the world — including Russia.
"Part of the reason why I spoke was so this could be looked at, because I think there is a genuine risk that this data has been accessed by quite a few people and that it could be stored in various parts of the world, including Russia, given the fact that the professor who was managing the data harvesting process was going back and forth between the U.K. and to Russia," Wylie said Sunday.
Wylie added that while he couldn't definitively say whether the Trump campaign had used the Cambridge Analytica data as part of its election efforts, it's likely that the data was misused in some way.
"There is a substantial risk that this data was misused, and given what we know about the company and the lengths that they're willing to do for their clients, I think it is worth a serious investigation," Wylie said.
The whistleblower noted Sunday that he was cooperating with American authorities, including Congress and the U.S. Department of Justice. One of the members of Congress investigating the scandal, Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.), said Sunday that the problem is bigger than just Cambridge Analytica, however — and Facebook needs to change as a result.
In an interview Sunday on CBS's Face the Nation, Kennedy said that he hoped Zuckerberg would be "forthcoming and frank" about the challenges Facebook faces with regards to both data protection and propagating "fake news." The Senator sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee, which Zuckerberg will appear before on Tuesday.
"Facebook knows more about its business, its algorithms, its methodology, than any of us in Congress do. I'm hoping that Mr. Zuckerberg will come to the table and say, 'Okay here are the problems, here are some suggested solutions, let's talk it through together,'" Kennedy said Sunday.
The social network has ramped up its efforts in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal and revelations about how the social network was used by the Russians to spread "fake news" during the 2016 campaign. Facebook has released new privacy tools and terms of service, and now requires verified identities for political ads. The social network has also said it will roll out privacy changes that comply with the European Union's impending General Data Protection Regulation, which takes effect May 25, to users worldwide.
"My biggest worry in all of this — and I have many, many questions, Mr. Zuckerberg — but my biggest worry with all this is that the privacy issue and what I call ... the propagandist issue are both too big for Facebook to fix, and that's the frightening part," Kennedy added.


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Q: "Proving" the definition of the Laplace Transform from two properties Suppose $\mathbf{G}$ is the class of piecewise continuous functions of exponential order from $[0,\infty)$ to $\mathbb{R}$ and that $\mathcal{L}$ is a transformation defined on elements of $\mathbf{G}$ satisfying the two properties

* For $f,\,g\in\mathbf{G}$ and $c_1,\,c_2\in\mathbb{R}, \mathcal{L}\{c_1f+c_2g\}=c_1\mathcal{L}\{f\}+c_2\mathcal{L}\{g\}$

* $\mathcal{L}\{f^\prime(t)\}=s\mathcal{L}\{f(t)\}-f(0)$
Certain elementary properties of Laplace transforms follow easily from these two.
For example:
$\mathcal{L}\{0\}$ follows from property ($1$).
Let $f(t)=1$ for $t\ge0$. Then $\mathcal{L}\{1^\prime\}=s\mathcal{L}\{1\}-1$ therefore
$$\mathcal{L}\{1\}=\dfrac{1}{s}\tag{1}$$
Using this as a basis step and using property ($2$) to prove that for $n\ge0$
$$ \mathcal{L}\{t^{n+1}\}=\dfrac{s}{n+1}\mathcal{L}\{t^n\}$$
one may establish the inductive step showing that
$$\mathcal{L}\{t^n\}=\dfrac{n!}{s^{n+1}}\tag{2}$$
Also, since property ($2$) gives $\mathcal{L}\{\left(e^{at}\right)^\prime\}=s\mathcal{L}\{e^{at}\}-e^0$ we immediately get
$$ \mathcal{L}\{e^{at}\}=\dfrac{1}{s-a}\tag{3}$$
From $\mathcal{L}\{(\cos t)^\prime\}=s\mathcal{L}\{\cos t\}-1$ we obtain
$$ \mathcal{L}\{\sin t\}+s\mathcal{L}\{\cos t\}=1$$
and from $\mathcal{L}\{(\sin t)^\prime\}=s\mathcal{L}\{\sin t\}-0$ we obtain
$$ s\mathcal{L}\{\sin t\}-\mathcal{L}\{\cos t\}=0$$
And the solution of these two gives
$$ \mathcal{L}\{\sin at\}=\dfrac{a}{s^2+a^2}\tag{4}$$
$$ \mathcal{L}\{\cos at\}=\dfrac{s}{s^2+a^2}\tag{5}$$
When I first adopted this approach decades ago in a differential equations class I believed I also had a proof that
$$ \mathcal{L}\{f(t)\}=\int_0^\infty e^{-st}f(t)\,dt$$
but I cannot recall it so I may have been mistaken.
Can anyone prove this usual definition of the Laplace transform from the two properties at the top of this post?

A: Here's a Heaviside-like heuristic proof, which makes some assumptions about smoothness and continuity (it's probably possible to tighten this up into a genuine proof, but this is a first approximation).
Suppose $f$ is an analytic function in $\mathbf{G}$, with a power series that converges everywhere, and $\mathcal{L}[f](s)$ finite in a neighbourhood of $s=0$ (there are plenty of these, such as sufficiently negative exponentials). Then, by expanding in a power series about the origin, we find
$$ \mathcal{L}[xf](s) = -\mathcal{L}[f]'(s), $$
and further, induction gives
$$ \mathcal{L}\left[ x^n f\right](s) = \left(-D\right)^n \mathcal{L}[f](s), $$
where $D=d/ds$.
Now, the important thing to know next is that for smooth functions,
$$ e^{hD} F(s) = \sum_{n=0}^{\infty} \frac{h^n }{n!} D^n F(s) = \sum_{n=0}^{\infty} \frac{h^n }{n!} F^{(n)}(s) = f(s+h). $$
Then by linearity,
$$ \mathcal{L}\left[ e^{-ax} f\right](s) = \mathcal{L}\left[ \sum_{n=0}^{\infty} (-a)^n\frac{x^n}{n!} f\right](s) = \sum_{n=0}^{\infty} \frac{(-a)^n}{n!} \mathcal{L}\left[x^n f\right](s) = \sum_{n=0}^{\infty} \frac{(-a)^n}{n!}(-D)^n \mathcal{L}[f](s) = e^{aD} \mathcal{L}[f](s) = \mathcal{L}[f](s+a) $$
It remains to determine $\mathcal{L}[f]$ at one point; the way we set things up, this may as well be $s=0$. The derivative property gives, if $\mathcal{L}[f](0)$ and $\mathcal{L}[f'](0)$ exist,
$$ \mathcal{L}[f'](0) = -f(0). $$
There is, of course, another well-known linear operator that does this: $\int_0^{\infty} f'(x) \, dx = -f(0)$. It follows that where both operators are defined, they are equal, viz.
$$ \mathcal{L}[f](s) = \int_0^{\infty} e^{-sx} f(x) \, dx, $$
although again, one needs to be careful about convergence and so on.

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Oil and Gas Industry Sees a More Subdued Recovery: Baird Survey
in Closing Bell Story / Exploration and Production (E&P) / Oil and Gas 360 Articles by— Oil & Gas 360
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Oil prices expected to stay at or below $50 for the next six months
Lower for longer is starting to truly set in with the oil and gas industry as buyside investors and the industry see a more muted outlook for oil and gas prices on the horizon. A survey that polled primarily buyside investors and members of the oil and gas industry conducted by Baird Equity Research saw little hope of a full recovery in the next six months.
The results of the survey showed that about 75% of the respondents see pricing staying sub-$50 per barrel for the first half of 2016. The respondents expected some modest increases in price following the first six months of the year, with 53% of those polled saying that expect oil prices to reach $50-$60 per barrel over the next year. Their long-term outlook was bleaker however, with an increasing number of respondents saying that long-term equilibrium for oil prices would end up below $80 per barrel.
Lower crude prices are expected to impact the capital budgets of E&P companies further, with respondents expecting 20%-30% cuts in capital spending. Large cuts in spending will also push U.S. production down further than previously expected. Respondents believe that 2016 U.S. output will contract by close to 10%, but from the mid-single-digits when the poll was last conducted.
On the natural gas side, those asked about pricing said that $4 per MMBtu seemed increasingly unlikely for a long-term price. Short-term concerns over high inventories and expanding production in the Appalachian, along with growing prospects for Utica development, have pushed expectations for natural gas lower.
Source: Baird
Despite the lower expectations for natural gas pricing, Baird believes that efficiencies could push breakevens in the Marcellus below $2 per Mcf, with further downside in breakevens in the Haynesville possible as well.
The cream of the crop rises to the top
As companies continue to feel pressure from lower oil prices, those with the best positions are beginning to shine. Permian and SCOOP/STACK/Springer plays were listed as the preferred areas of operation for those included in the survey, beating out plays like the Eagle Ford, Marcellus and the Niobrara.
While the outlook from those polled in the survey was more pessimistic than during the past, Baird believes the market is overly bearish.
"The extremely oversold technical status of the energy sector suggests increased potential for major snap-back rallies," said the company. "With sentiment so one-sided, we suspect some major eventual buying opportunity lies ahead though we suspect prudence still pays out over the near term."
Politics remains a wildcard as well, with Iran's return to global export markets expected to add to the pressure major exporting countries in OPEC are feeling. Less affluent members of OPEC are increasingly unhappy with the low price of oil as their export-dependent economies suffer.
Opportunities exist for strong balance sheets during recovery
Companies with strong balance sheets will be well positioned to take advantage of opportunities as they become available says Baird.
Tags: Baird, natural gas, Oil, Permian, Price recovery, SCOOP, STACK


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Colorful husband charged in Washington socialite's death
This 2004 photo shows German socialite Viola Drath during the annual Woodrow Wilson home garden party and hat contest in Washington. A murder case involving a 91-year-old Washington socialite and her much-younger husband has taken a series of bizarre turns. Associated PressAP
WASHINGTON -- She was a 91-year-old expatriate journalist with a deep fluency in foreign affairs and a taste for fashion and art. Her husband, German-born and four decades her junior, boasted of wide-reaching connections in international circles, claimed to be an Iraqi army brigadier general and strolled the neighborhood in a military-style uniform while puffing cigars.
The peculiar marriage of Viola Drath and Albrecht Muth, by turns tempestuous and detached, ended last August when Drath was found dead inside the couple's fashionable row house. Her husband, who reported finding her body, was charged with murder.
The slaying of an elderly socialite in the tony Georgetown neighborhood captivated Washington. But the substance of the allegations has so far been overshadowed by bizarre twists and turns that have lent the case a circus-like atmosphere and veered it off-course.
Muth, 47, has fired his lawyers, suggested the killing was an Iranian hit and demanded the right to wear in court a military uniform that prosecutors say was actually tailor-made for him in South Carolina. He has gone on hunger strikes, likened himself to Moses and Jesus and reported visions of the archangel Gabriel. As prosecutors seek an indictment, a judge has sent Muth to a mental hospital and ordered a psychiatric evaluation before he can stand trial. An assessment of his mental competency is expected next month.
Friends say they were befuddled by the marriage. Drath was a stately presence in political and social circles; Muth appeared a much-younger poseur. They say she gravitated to him to placate her loneliness after her first husband's death while he glommed onto her social status to gain access to a world of dignitaries. It was a marriage, Muth has said, of "convenience." But it was also tainted by allegations of domestic violence and interrupted by Muth's affair with a man.
"My own view was it was kind of odd for a woman of her heritage and a woman of her brains to marry a young guy like that. What is it -- a 40-year difference?" said Warren Adler, a novelist who met Drath when she wrote on culture and fashion for a magazine, "Washington Dossier," his wife edited.
She told him it was comfortable; he left it alone.
Drath's family wouldn't discuss the relationship, but one daughter said the death of a mentally sharp woman whose energy and intellectual heft belied her age has been devastating.
"She had many years ahead of her. We had many plans, and it's just left a huge hole," Fran Drath said.
Drath, who was born in Dusseldorf, Germany, and moved to America with her first husband after World War II, balanced varied passions as a young woman: She wrote plays and books, including one on former West German chancellor Willy Brandt, studied painting and covered art and fashion. She was also passionate about German-American relations, proposing negotiations on German reunification and authoring columns for The Washington Times and Handelsblatt, a German newspaper.
She took fact-finding missions to foreign countries, lectured at colleges and served on commissions. She organized dinner parties and celebrations, including a 60th anniversary commemoration of Victory-In-Europe Day where guests were greeted with a bagpipe serenade, according to a Washington Times report at the time.
"I would not characterize her as particularly a socialite. She was more intellectual. She wore hats which people didn't wear, and she was always beautifully coiffed and dressed in what I always thought of as old-world tradition," Adler said.
She met her first husband, Col. Francis Drath, a U.S. Army official and deputy U.S. military governor of Bavaria, when she was hired to be his interpreter in Europe. It was instant love, their daughter recalled. The couple wed after the war and settled in Nebraska before moving to Washington in 1968 because of Francis Drath's Selective Service System job.
They were devoted companions. After Francis's 1986 death, Viola Drath spoke openly of her loneliness.
"I think she wanted what she'd had before, which is somebody who loved her, somebody who shielded her, somebody to stand up against the world for her," said friend Donna Shor, who writes a society column for Washington Life magazine.
Added Fran Drath: "My mother did not want to be by herself. She missed a great companion."
Enter Albrecht Muth.
Muth claims to have encountered Drath in the early 1980s. At the time, he says, he was helping organize foreign press relations for Republicans in Washington. In Muth, she seemed to have found an intellectually curious younger man knowledgeable about Germany and international affairs, a daily partner for heady, topical conversation.
"I changed her life," Muth wrote in an email shared with The Associated Press. "Opening up vistas she could now take, could have taken decades earlier."
Details of his biography remain murky, but a 1990 wedding announcement in The Washington Post identified Muth as a prelaw honor student and godson of an East German politician. They were wed by a Virginia Supreme Court chief justice. Muth says he first asked U.S. Supreme Court Antonin Scalia to officiate.
In conversation, he'd smoothly name-drop foreign politicians and discuss international affairs with a fluency that made him seem authentic. Unsolicited, he'd dash off cryptic emails sprinkled with acronyms and intimations of inside information. Hours before his arrest, he shared with the AP an email to someone with a Pentagon address discussing both his wife's death and Iraqi government turmoil.
"I have to take a slain wife out to Arlington, mourn her, then find her killer," he wrote.
Muth, with his military uniform, erudite speech and regal airs, fancied himself a "lead actor in a drama," Shor said. He played the role of the "perfect butler" at dinner parties, said George Schwab, a friend of Drath's and the president of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy.
"He always struck me as being the perfect waiter, the way he served with one hand in the back," Schwab said. "Everything was just perfect as if he had gone to school."
After attending a dinner party he organized, Shor contacted him to fact-check something for an item she was writing.
Muth erupted.
"He said, 'No, you must not write about that dinner,"' Shor recalled. "And I said, 'What?' And he said, 'I said anything said there was off the record."'
Shor was flabbergasted, believing nothing particularly interesting had been shared.
Over the years and in different circumstances, prosecutors say, he claimed to be an East German spy and CIA operative, among other identities. He sometimes sported an eye patch, the better to support a tall tale about having lost an eye while protecting the U.S. ambassador to Paraguay. He showed off certificates purporting to designate him an Iraqi brigadier general, but prosecutors say those were store-bought.
In reality, authorities say, Muth was unemployed, supported by a monthly allowance from his wife. The Iraqi embassy says he's not connected to the government or military.
Some of Drath's friends say she recognized Muth's claims as fantasy. Shor recalled he was once up for an honor and Drath asked her to intercede and prevent him from winning -- fearing he'd be humiliated and exposed as a fraud. Schwab once inquired of Muth's eye patch; Drath said Muth was "just trying to call attention to himself."
Beneath the formal demeanor were signs of trouble.
Muth was charged with assaulting Drath by banging her head against the floor and striking her with a chair in 2006. A man with whom Muth has acknowledged a romantic relationship received a protective order in 2004, alleging Muth threatened to kill him.
The morning of Aug. 12, Muth called 911 after finding his wife unresponsive in an upstairs bathroom. He emailed reporters an obituary, stating Drath had died of head injuries from a fall. But her death was called a homicide. Detectives grew suspicious.
There were no signs anyone had broken into the home, Muth became anxious when police observed scratches on his forehead, and a neighbor reported hearing a faint cry and "sinister laugh," a police affidavit says. Upon Drath's death, police said, he presented her family with a forged document stating that he was entitled to part of her estate.
He was charged Aug. 16 with second-degree murder. He has proclaimed his innocence and, at his first court hearing, a public defender called the evidence lacking. Muth later fired his lawyers in part for failing to relay his messages to the White House and Defense Department, though a judge this month declared him temporarily incompetent for trial and directed the attorneys to step in amid concerns about his mental and physical health.
Meanwhile, the case now turns on whether Muth is competent for trial and, if not now, when he might be.
A doctor has described him as "delusional;" others see an abusive swindler.
Schwab, for one, said he tried to warn Drath away from Muth.
"I kept on saying, 'Viola, my fear is your life is at stake."'
Her reply: "I know, I know -- but I am in control."


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5 Difference Between Embassy And High Commission
A permanent diplomatic mission is typically referred to as either an Embassy or High Commission, and the head of the mission is referred to as Ambassador and High Commissioner respectively. A High Commission is a permanent residence for any diplomatic mission of a state which is member of commonwealth to a state which is a member of commonwealth. Embassy is a permanent residence for any diplomatic mission of a state which is not member of commonwealth to a state which is either a member or not a member of commonwealth.
Embassies and High commissions are located at the capital cities of the host states. Embassies and high commissions deal with sending government to host government bilateral relations. Usually Embassies and high commissions consist of a political department in charge of handling these relations and also study the policies of the host government, to report to their own governments.
Also Embassies and High Commissions include a Cultural Department responsible for the promotion of the culture of the embassy's country or student exchange and a trade department responsible for promotion of exports to the host country.
High Commissions and Embassies may include a Consular Section, in charge of documenting, repatriating and generally assisting the nationals of the Embassy's country as well as they issue visas to the nationals of the host country who intend to travel to the embassy's country. They also may authenticate documents produced in the host country to be used in the embassy's country.
What You Need To Know About High Commission
High Commissions are diplomatic missions sent to Commonwealth countries.
The head of diplomatic mission is referred to as High Commissioner.
The term '' high commissioner'' is used when the sending and the receiving country both belong to the British Commonwealth.
A high commissioner from one Commonwealth nation to another carries a simple informal letter of introduction from one head of government to that of another.
In the British Empire, High Commissioners were envoys of the Imperial government to manage colonies and tributaries not fully under the sovereignty of the empire.
What You Need To Know About Embassy
Embassies are diplomatic missions sent to non-Commonwealth countries.
The head of the diplomatic mission is referred to as Ambassador.
When either country involved is not a member of the commonwealth, the term ambassador is used in this regard.
Ambassador carry formal letters of credence from their head of state addressed to the head of the host country.
Since the rise of International Corporation, Ambassadors are responsible to foster good diplomatic relations between countries. He or she also works for peace and stopping of illegal activities such as terrorism, human trafficking, drug trade etc.
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Difference Between Ambassador And High Commissioner In Tabular Form
BASIS OF COMPARISON AMBASSADOR HIGH COMMISSIONER
Description Embassies are diplomatic missions sent to non-Commonwealth countries. High Commissions are diplomatic missions sent to Commonwealth countries.
Head Of Mission The head of the diplomatic mission is referred to as Ambassador. The head of diplomatic mission is referred to as High Commissioner.
Use Of The Terms When either country involved is not a member of the commonwealth, the term ambassador is used in this regard. The term '' high commissioner'' is used when the sending and the receiving country both belong to the British Commonwealth.
Introduction To The Host Country Ambassador carry formal letters of credence from their head of state addressed to the head of the host country. A high commissioner from one Commonwealth nation to another carries a simple informal letter of introduction from one head of government to that of another.
History In the British Empire, High Commissioners were envoys of the Imperial government to manage colonies and tributaries not fully under the sovereignty of the empire. Since the rise of International Corporation, Ambassadors are responsible to foster good diplomatic relations between countries. He or she also works for peace and stopping of illegal activities such as terrorism, human trafficking, drug trade etc.
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Q: can istio support route to different service by dynamic part of uri path I know istio is supporting route to different service by static rule as below:
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apiVersion: networking.istio.io/v1alpha3
kind: VirtualService
metadata:
  name: my-virtualservice
spec:
  hosts:
  - "*"
  gateways:
  - my-gateway
  http:
  - match:
    - uri:
        prefix: /applications/app-a
    route:
    - destination:
        host: app-a
        port:
          number: 9080

But i have the requirement that, I have dynamically created services when there is new user or new configuration is coming. If i use the "static" way, then I have to create new virtual service every time or update existing virtual service.
I don't find any documentation mentioned this kind of usage, but can i use something like "regex" or some other way to create one rule to apply to all those new created services without updating virtual service every time? Below is something not work, but try to demonstrate my idea:
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apiVersion: networking.istio.io/v1alpha3
kind: VirtualService
metadata:
  name: my-virtualservice
spec:
  hosts:
  - "*"
  gateways:
  - my-gateway
  http:
  - match:
    - uri:
        regex: /applications/(?<appname>.*)
    route:
    - destination:
        host: $('appname')--svc
        port:
          number: 9080

Of course, any suggestion would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

A: I do not think Istio can do what you ask. The good side of it is that you must control all the entry points into your cluster - which application is accessible and how it is accessible - less security holes.

A: I am not sure but on github they use regexp in VirtualService:
  - match:
    - headers:
        cookie:
          regex: "^(.*?;)?(user=dev-123)(;.*)?"

so you could try to use something like:
apiVersion: networking.istio.io/v1alpha3
kind: VirtualService
metadata:
 name: my-virtualservice
spec:
 hosts:
 - "*"
 gateways:
 - my-gateway
 http:
 - match:
   - uri:
       prefix:
         regex: "/applications/(?<appname>.*)"
   route:
   - destination:
       host: match_group['appname']
       port:
         number: 9080

instead of regix


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Q: Any recommendations for Sqlite C# ORM code generation Can anyone recommend an Sqlite C# ORM code generation tool.
I have found the Habanero framework, any comments on that?
Thanks
UPDATE
I have gone with Subsonic in this instance. To help anyone else out, here is a 'basic' example of creating a class and using Subsonic and Sqlite together.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Data.SQLite;
using SubSonic;
using SubSonic.Schema;
using SubSonic.Repository;
using SubSonic.DataProviders;

namespace SubsonicSqliteTest
{
    public class User
    {
        public User()
        {
            ID = Guid.NewGuid();

            // Set Defaults
            FirstName = String.Empty;
            LastName = String.Empty;
            Username = String.Empty;
            Password = String.Empty;
            IsAdministrator = 0;
        }

        public Guid ID { get; set; }
        public string FirstName { get; set; }
        public string LastName { get; set; }
        public string Username { get; set; }
        public string Password { get; set; }
        public int IsAdministrator { get; set; }
        public DateTime? CreatedDate { get; set; }
        public DateTime? LastUpdatedDate { get; set; }

        public static User Get(Guid id)
        {
            string databasePath = System.IO.Path.Combine(System.IO.Path.GetDirectoryName(Application.ExecutablePath), "Database.db");
            IDataProvider provider = ProviderFactory.GetProvider("Data Source=" + databasePath + ";Version=3;New=True;Pooling=True;Max Pool Size=1;", "System.Data.SQLite");
            var repository = new SimpleRepository(provider, SimpleRepositoryOptions.RunMigrations);
            var users = from user in repository.All<User>()
                        where user.ID == id
                        select user;

            foreach (var user in users)
            {
                return user;
            }

            return null;
        }

        public User Save()
        {
            string databasePath = System.IO.Path.Combine(System.IO.Path.GetDirectoryName(Application.ExecutablePath), "Database.db");
            IDataProvider provider = ProviderFactory.GetProvider("Data Source=" + databasePath + ";Version=3;New=True;Pooling=True;Max Pool Size=1;", "System.Data.SQLite");
            var repository = new SimpleRepository(provider, SimpleRepositoryOptions.RunMigrations);
            repository.Add(this);
            return this;
        }
    }
}

A: Others have already posted about NHibernate (especially with Fluent NHibernate) and ADO.Net Entity Framework which are both great.  You may also want to look at SubSonic.  If you are considering SQLite then your database requirements must be fairly simple and SubSonic's SimpleRepository option is super easy to use.

A: Several .NET object-relational mappers support SQLite.  See this question a list of .NET ORMs: of the ones mentioned there, I know that NHibernate and LightSpeed support SQLite, as does the Entity Framework does via the provider mentioned in eWolf's answer.  I am not sure about others.
In terms of code generation, LightSpeed and the Entity Framework (via System.Data.SQLite) include tools for importing an existing SQLite database schema; I'm not sure about NHibernate.  (Disclosure: I work for the company that makes LightSpeed; trying to keep the answer factual though!)

A: I don't know if it is exactly what you're looking for; have you already seen this?
http://sqlite.phxsoftware.com/
You can use it with ADO.NET 2.0 or the ADO.NET 3.5 Entity Framework.

A: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHibernate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADO.NET_Entity_Framework
you can also use the linq to sql magic thingy

A: This is a very powerful ORM, generate the code friendly http://www.schematrix.com


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Blowhard Techie Cheapskates – Real Estate Developer Hands Largest Ever Gift To Stanford: $151m
Our Silicon Valley techie visionaries are so busy changing the world that they draw the line at drawing-down their wealth. Not everyone is that short-sighted or greedy:
Stanford University said a $151 million donation is the largest gift the school has ever received from a single living person.
The university announced the donation from Silicon Valley real estate developer John Arrillaga Sr. on Monday.
It's not the first philanthropic record made by Arrillaga. The 1960 graduate gave the university $100 million in 2006 — then the largest donation of its kind. His name graces buildings across campus and his family's endowed scholarships support 50 students a year.
Silicon Valley Developer Gives $151M Gift To Stanford « CBS San Francisco
Stanford has produced many wealthy techies but hasn't taught them much about giving back to their alma mater, or about supporting their communities. Silicon Valley's public schools are a disgrace and its cities struggle with the same problems of unemployment, homelessness, violence, and cuts in services as any other place in the country.
Silicon Valley's blowhard claims of changing the world is mostly hot air stinking with the halitosis of hypocrisy.
Silicon Valley needs to learn how to walk its talk and change its little corner of the world for the better.
Please see: Techno-Optimists Celebrated In Silicon Valley Visionary Awards -SVW


Single Malt Scotch, by definition, is produced at a single distillery in Scotland using only water and malted barley distilled in pot stills. This section is for all of those single malts from outside of Scotland!!!


On the lookout for a modest Android device with a slightly dated flavor of the operating that is relatively cheap, but still packs some oomph? This Gionee S10 Lite could be an option.
The Gionee S10 Lite is an LTE-supported dual SIM Android device running the Nougat flavor of the operating system out of the box, albeit skinned (heavily) with Gionee's custom user interface – Amigo UI.
The device, which looks well built, has all the bells and whistles of a two-year-old flagship Android smartphone design-wise. We're talking a fingerprint reader mounted in front of the device which also doubles as a home button, a form factor reminiscent of the iPhone 7, a display covered with a 2.5D glass which tapers into rounded corners around the front of the device like we've all come to expect with modern devices.
The display itself is an IPS LCD panel which stretches 5.2 inches diagonally across the front of the device and has a resolution of around 1280 by 720 pixels, putting the device's display density at around 282 pixels per inch.
Under the hood, the device is running Qualcomm's Snapdragon 427, which makes it a 64bit quad-core device with a CPU frequency clocked at around 1.4GHz.
For seamless multitasking, the Gionee S10 Lite packs a generous 4 gigabytes of RAM and to store media files and stuff, the device has onboard internal storage of 32 gigabytes.
Find 32GB internal storage minute?
You can extend this storage space further by means of an external microSD card (supported capacities up to 128GB).
For selfies and snaps, the Gionee S10 Lite sports a 16-megapixel front-facing shooter alongside a dedicated LED flashlight for those situations where you'd also want to take self-shots in low lit environments.
The primary camera, which also has it's own dedicated LED flash, is a 13MP lens.
Finally, the device ships with a non-removable 3100 mAh Lithium Polymer battery which, ideally, should be able to hold up for a full day of mid usage.


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Těchoraz () je malá vesnice, stará přes 600 let. Dnes je částí města Červená Řečice v okrese Pelhřimov. Nachází se 4 km na jihovýchod od Červené Řečice a 6 km severně od Pelhřimova. V roce 2009 zde bylo evidováno 49 adres. V roce 2001 zde trvale žilo 44 obyvatel.

Těchoraz je také název katastrálního území o rozloze 5,62 km2.

Zajímavosti
V centru obce se nachází kaple a výklenková kaplička, požární zbrojnice a rybník.

Jižní hranici katastru tvoří potok Hejlovka s bývalým hodějovicfkým mlýnem.

Východně od obce vede zelená turistická značka kolem hospodářského dvora Těchorázek s památným křížem.

Obrazová galerie

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Externí odkazy

Místní části v Červené Řečici
Sídla v Křemešnické vrchovině

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EPIA – European Photovoltaic Industry Association ofrece unas prácticas profesionales en su departamento de comunicación de Bruselas. Solo para los universitarios que pueden firmar un convenio con su universidad.
Entre los requisitos, nivel alto de inglés y estudiar Ciencias de la Comunicación, Periodismo o equivalentes.
Entre las principales tareas destacan el mantenimiento de la paguna web y de las redes sociales de la entidad, la redacción de notas de presa y la colaboración en las RRPP.
European Photovoltaic Industry Association, Brussels, Belgium.
Political Communications Intern – 6 months Internship Availability: August 2012 EPIA, the European Photovoltaic (PV) Industry Association, with headquarters in Brussels, is recruiting a Political Communications Intern to work in its office in Brussels. EPIA represents members active along the whole solar PV value chain: from silicon, cells and module production to systems development and PV electricity generation as well as marketing and sales. EPIA's mission is to give its global membership a distinct and effective voice in the European market, especially in the EU. EPIA is a highly dynamic and multi-cultural organisation at the centre of EU affairs .
As per Belgian legislation, a monthly reimbursement (750EUR) for expenses on a standard basis is planned.
A signed Convention de Stage (a tripartite agreement signed by EPIA, the intern and his/her university or college) is required.
Prospective interns must fulfill this requirement to apply.
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After a competitive national search, Heritage Sandy Springs has selected Melissa Swindell as its new Director of Historic Resources and Education Programs, according to a press release from the non-profit.
Swindell, an Atlanta-area native, most recently served as curator of the Andrew County Museum and Historical Society (ACMHS) in Savannah, MO, a position she has held since 2013. Prior to ACMHS, Swindell's distinguished experience also includes serving as a Research Associate and a Goldman Sachs Fellow with the Smithsonian Institution: National Museum of American History (NMAH) Office of Curatorial Affairs.
As director of Historic Resources and Education Programs, Swindell will be responsible for all programming and exhibitions out of the Heritage Sandy Springs Museum, and developing a robust calendar of educational outreach and curriculum-based programs for children and adults.
"We were very fortunate to find Melissa. Her curatorial and scholarly achievements, combined with her skills in exhibition development, curriculum development and collections management will help build new educational and programming initiatives at Heritage Sandy Springs," said Carol Thompson, executive director.