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It's time to accept that the P-word is as bad as the N-word
A scandal at Yorkshire County Cricket Club, where use of the word ?Paki? was considered ?banter?, has been very revealing on Britain's casual racism and lingering colonial attitudes. It has to signal a turning point.
In the late 1990s, while researching my book, 'Looking for a Fight', I wound up moving from London to the northern city of Sheffield, South Yorkshire. A former bedrock of industrial Britain, the 'Steel City' had seen better times following years of declining productivity, urban decay and loss of civic pride. Once world famous for the 'Sheffield Steel' hallmark, this dirty, grimy and thoroughly unattractive metropolis had become, to use a Trumpism, something of a 'sh*thole'.
Nevertheless, this being the heart of what locals call 'God's country' there is still a certain arrogance that comes with being a Yorkshireman, which is symbolic of wider Anglotariat delusions of grandeur, cultural supremacy and, you guessed it, racism.
Here's an example. One afternoon, in the boxing gym where I trained five days a week in my quest to become a professional fighter, one of the boxers shouted out to a smattering of patrons sparring and working the bags, "Does anyone want 'owt from Paki shop?"
"You what?" I asked.
"Do you want 'owt from Paki shop?"
"Bro, you can't say 'Paki shop'. That's racist."
"Dave, what you talking about? It's a shop and it's owned by Pakis. So, it's a Paki shop."
Despite having a sizeable Asian clientele - Sheffield has an ethnic minority population of 19 percent - this sort of locker room 'logic' and bigoted mentality pervades many parts of Britain. But while Brits love to cover their eyes and pretend that racism is a niche, plebian problem, Yorkshire County Cricket Club's (YCCC) embroilment in a racial #MeToo-style sporting scandal proves otherwise. After an internal investigation found that former player, 30-year-old Azeem Rafiq suffered "bullying and racial harassment" from current batsman Gary Ballance to such a scale that he contemplated suicide, the club, the sport and English middle-class pretentions have been rocked to their very foundations.
However, having found that Zimbabwean-born Ballance repeatedly called Rafiq a "Paki", a YCCC panel dismissed this as "friendly banter" and awarded former England opener Ballance a new three-year contract for his troubles. Nice work if you can get it.
Born in Pakistan, Rafiq played for Yorkshire between 2008 and 2018 and first revealed institutional racism at the club back in September 2020. Since then, a second Asian ex-Yorkshire cricketer has gone on to claim that a teammate "urinated on his head" and, according to The Sun "accused senior squad members of saying they used a Muslim player's prayer mat to clean up after having sex with a woman on her period".
These disgusting revelations have seen Yorkshire face "financial oblivion" as sponsors turn their back on what has become a toxic brand, and the England and Wales Cricket Board suspend the club from hosting England matches on its hallowed Headingly turf until "it has clearly demonstrated it can meet the standards expected of an international venue".
The scandal has also seen chairman, Roger Hutton fall on his sword and be replaced, somewhat conveniently, by Kenyan-born Kamlesh Kumar Patel, Lord Patel of Bradford. To cap it all, for now at least, club and country 'legend' Michael Vaughan, who has worked as an analyst for 12 years on the BBC's 'Test Match Special' has been dropped from 'The Tuffers and Vaughan Cricket Show' on the corporation's 5Live radio channel following allegations of racism. Vaughan, who represented Yorkshire from 1991 until retirement in 2009, and played for England from 1999 to 2008, is accused of telling a group of Asian players, including Rafiq, "Too many of you lot, we need to do something about it."
Vaughan of course denies any wrongdoing whatsoever.
While football might be Britain's national sport, it is cricket that embodies the Englishman's fantasy of cultural superiority, fair play, order and all that class-riddled colonial tosh. The English middle-classes are so fond of looking down at the plebs and their gauche pastimes such as football or the violent world of boxing - as exemplified by gaudy world heavyweight champ, Tyson 'The Gypsy King' Fury - that bourgeois activities such as cricket, rugby, tennis, golf, and varsity sports get a pass.
Replete as they are with country club memberships, stripy neckties and fussy rules and regulations, the exclusivity of English white-collar sports not only keeps the riff-raff out, it helps to maintain a neo-colonial smoke and mirrors act of entitlement that belies corrosive institutional discrimination. This is one of the reasons why football is an easy target for relentless accusations of racism while the bourgeois sports get off scot-free.
Largely plebian and populated by untold millions of participants and spectators domestically, and countless billions worldwide, is it any wonder that racism rears its ugly head now and again in the 'beautiful game'? Yet while football has to weather the storm of taking the knee, monkey chants and racist tweets, players, fans and managers, cricket quietly goes about its business keeping the doors firmly shut on those it doesn't want, echoing the kind of colour bars, Jim Crow professional segregation and racist and classist practices on which modern Britain was built and in many cases, is still run.
Still, Yorkshire's fall from grace is long overdue. Up until 1992, YCCC had a "born in Yorkshire rule" that meant that only white players from the county or those given the nod could play for the club, a form of sporting apartheid that excluded promising local Asian players. My father even used to tell me that Yorkshire legend Freddie Trueman, albeit while playing for England, would hurl racist abuse at the fans at his native ground, Bourda, in Georgetown, Guyana, when England played the West Indies there.
But potted histories aside, the fact that the YCCC, English cricket and an analogous political establishment are now mired in sleaze has exposed the degree to which anti-Asian sentiment underpins British society. While the UK has one of the most ethnically diverse government cabinets of any Western nation, one cannot help but think that complacency has set in thanks to Asian 'integration' at the highest levels. Rishi Sunak, Priti Patel, Sajid Javid, Suella Braverman and Sadiq Khan, for instance, are respectively the Chancellor, Home Secretary, Health Secretary, Attorney-General and Mayor for London, yet, like most Asians, all have suffered chronic racial abuse despite their 'status'. And one of the key modes of casualising racism, as the YCCC has done, is to write-off everyday bigotry as harmless "banter".
Even as the wickets came tumbling down around him, outgoing YCCC chairman Roger Hutton claimed there was no one at the club he would "personally consider racist". Playing dumb is another common trope. When Strictly Come Dancing's Anton du Beke said that dance partner Laila Rouass "looked like a Paki" for wearing fake tan, the show's then host Bruce Forsyth dismissed the comment thus: "We used to have a sense of humour about this. You go back 25, 30, 40 years and there has always been a bit of humour about the whole thing. At one time the Americans used to call us 'limeys' which doesn't sound very nice, but we used to laugh about it. Everybody has a nickname."
Applying false equivalence is yet another half-baked racist strategy. When the late Forsyth came out with this drivel, he was 81 years old and thus easily dismissible as a dinosaur. But if I were to use my modest reach to call a woman "a c***", a gay man "a fag" or a Jew "a kike" I'd be cancelled out of all memory.
Still, I know white people who would think more than thrice about using the N-word, even in context, yet wouldn't hesitate to use the P-word, do a head wobble or use a mock Indian accent "for a laugh". But in many respects, the P-word is often more pejorative than the N-word. It doesn't have the reclamatory pop cultural reach, for one thing. You won't hear it used in music or film or on the street by Indian hood rats; and it's often compounded with other adjectives, epithets or verbs such as "bashing" which gives it a violent edge.
As the writer Nirpal Dhaliwal told me, "Just as 'nigger' is from the Spanish and Portuguese 'negro', meaning 'black', 'Paki' as an abbreviation for 'Pakistani' doesn't make it any less offensive. It's the contemptuous inference of inferiority that makes it nasty. Neither word has ever been used in respect or affection by white people."
Just because South Asians are not over-exposed in mainstream popular culture in the UK and US in the way that black people are, it doesn't mean racism against them isn't widely communicated. Scratch under the surface, on the street, in social media, in the cricket club, and it's there for all to see.
But we all know that there's more to racism than just name calling; and it's in the area of integration that the real prejudice comes through. When I talk to Indian and Pakistani friends, they still see themselves as 'othered' by white society despite holding down good jobs or careers or being part of cosmopolitan 'elite' social networks. Likewise, when I talk to Anglophone friends and acquaintances, the diehards still refrain "they're not like us", "they don't speak our language" or "they don't integrate" - a sad indictment of entrenched bigotry that gives permission to discriminate.
At the heart of it all, as I find with anti-Afrocentrism, too, such prejudice isn't about brown people not playing the game. On the contrary: it's that they're playing it too well and thus embarrassing their white peers. Having been invented by English elites, like so many 'sports,' racism is a confection they now find themselves hopeless at playing. For the truth is, whether it is discrimination aimed at cricketers, politicians or kids on the street, none of this is about supremacy or superiority; it's about fallibility, envy, insecurity and an inherent sense of inferiority. If this wasn't so, there'd no fear of competition. Howzat!
As the phoney culture war rages on, ideologues of every hue and racists of every shade of white continue to weaponize language. The aim of the game: drag Britain back to an era of colonial slurs, slander and salaciousness that defames black and brown people, making us victims on the one hand, and troublemakers on the other when we cry bullshit. But we're hip to such sledging. The P-word is as bad as the N-word. Period. Until Yorkshire County Cricket Club and the rest of their ilk realise that, they remain on a very sticky wicket.
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Bell's Nexus features a hybrid-electric propulsion system.
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Bell, one of Uber's flying taxi partners, revealed the design of its vertical takeoff and landing air taxi at CES, a five-person hybrid-electric powered vehicle with six tilting ducted fans. The company showed off the cabin of its air taxi at CES last year, and this year, it's debuting a scale model of the vehicle now dubbed the Bell Nexus.
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"As space at the ground level becomes limited, we must solve transportation challenges in the vertical dimension -- and that's where Bell's on-demand mobility vision takes hold," Bell CEO Mitch Snyder said in a statement. "The industry has anticipated the reveal of our air taxi for some time, so Bell is very proud of this moment. We believe the design, taken with our strategic approach to build this infrastructure, will lead to the successful deployment of the Bell Nexus to the world."
Uber is working with a number of companies on its future air taxi service, and Bell was an early partner. In May, Uber showed off one of its air taxi prototypes at its Uber Elevate Summit, and it has said it aims to have aircrafts available for commercial operations by 2023. CNBC says Uber called Bell's design a "major step" in its effort to develop "an on-demand Uber Air network."
In line with Uber's plans, Bell's director of innovation, Scott Drennan, told The Verge that the company intends to have Nexus in operation by the "mid 2020s." "This is not a toy. This is an aircraft you would feel safe and comfortable bringing your family into," he said. The Verge also reports that Bell won't have a working prototype until closer to its official launch.
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Mohammad Reza Golzar (, born  March 21, 1977) is an Iranian actor.

Early life
Mohammad Reza Golzar  was born on 21 March 1977 in Tehran in a family of Azerbaijani origin. His close friend Aria Sajadi helped him with his acting skills.

Career
Before starting his acting career with Sam and Narges, he gained fame as the guitarist of the Iranian music band, Arian Band. He is now a singer of the Rezzar Band led by Hamed Baradaran.

In 2000, he was invited to act in Sam and Narges by Iranian director, Iraj Ghaderi. He started to gain popularity after acting in more films such as Shaam-e Akhar, Zahr-e Asal, and  Boutique.

Golzar gained media attention when it was revealed that he was paid £55,000 for 3 days work while shooting Democracy in Bright Daylight in 2009, a relatively high fee for the country.

He is a graduate of Mechanical Engineering from Islamic Azad University. Golzar started his music career in 1998 as a guitarist with one of his close friends Arian Sajadi. He has played guitar, organ and percussion with Arian Sajadi.

Filmography
 Sam o Nargess (2000 – Iraj Ghaderi)
 Zamaneh (2001 – Hamidreza Salahmand)
 Bala-ye Shaher, Payeen-e Shahr (2002 – Akbar Khamin)
 Shaam-e Akhar (The Last Supper) (2002 – Fereydoun Jeyrani)
 Zahr-e Asal (2003 – Ebrahim Sheibani)
 Boutique (2003 – Hamid Nematollah)
 Cheshmane Siah (2003 – Iraj Ghaderi)
 Taleh (2006 – Siroos Alvand)
 Coma (2004 – Arash Moayerian)
 Gol-e Yakh (2005 – Kiomars Pourahmad)
 Sham-e Aroosi (2006 – Ebrahim Vahidzadeh)
 Atash Bas (Cease Fire) (2006 – Tahmineh Milani)
 Kalagh Par (2007 – Shahram Shah Hosseini)
 Tofighe Ejbari (2008 – Mohammad Hossein Latifi)
 Majnoone leyli (2008 – Ghasem Jafari)
 Democracy Tou Rouze Roshan (2009 – Ali Atshani)
 Two Sisters (2010 – Mohammad Banki)
 To Va Man (2011 – Mohammad Banki)
 Shish - o - Besh (Six and Five) (2011)
 Made in Iran 1 - (2011 – Mohammad Hossein Latifi)
 Atom Heart Mother (2013 – Ali Ahmadzadeh)
 I want to dance (2014 – Bahman Farmanara)
 Love is not Closed (2014– Bijan Birang)
 Salaam Mumbai (2016 – Ghorban Mohammadpour)
 Ayeneh Baghal (2017 – Manochehr Hadi)
 Rahman 1400 (2017 – Manochehr Hadi)
 We Are All Together (2018 Kamal Tabrizi)
 Gisoo ( Asheghane2 ) (2020 Manochehr Hadi)

References

External links

 Mohammad Reza Golzar on Spotify

1977 births
Living people
Iranian guitarists
People from Tehran
Iranian male models
Iranian pop singers
Iranian Azerbaijanis
Iranian pop musicians
21st-century guitarists
Iranian male film actors
Islamic Azad University alumni
21st-century Iranian male actors

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CoolSculpting appears to be the newest and latest way to lose fat and look better. The wonder of medicine has brought cool-sculpting to the mainstream. What is it?
Cool-sculpting is a noninvasive procedure that freezes certain fat cells. Once these cells are sufficiently cooled, they die. The dead fat cells then deteriorate and are expelled from the body.
The parts of the body treated end up with fewer fat cells. The end result seems to be a more sculpted body shape.
Some Important Points About Fat Cells.
The cool-sculpting technique only eliminates certain types of fat cells. Without getting to technical, the cells being treated are those just below the skin surface. These subcutaneous fat is not to be confused with the deeper fat cells known as visceral fat.
Both types of fat cells contribute to excess body weight, being overweight, and being considered obese.
Visceral fat, or deep fat, is usually the fat that creates health risks. The subcutaneous fat is associated with what many consider 'stubborn belly fat'.
Fat associated with being overweight, or obesity are not the fat cells cool-sculpting will treat. Weight loss is not a goal of cool-sculpting. While a few pounds may be lost following a procedure, that is not the intention.
In a nutshell, cool-sculpting is done for purposes of vanity. It is not about a healthier you.
A review of the promotional website material indicates the target market to be adults who are, for the most part, under forty. They are motivated to enhance their appearance.
For older people, there may be value in reducing fat in such places as the arms or below the chin. For most, the motivation is still vanity.
The procedure is noninvasive, and has few risks. The side effects are negligible, according to those who offer the procedure.
According to web information, procedures take 35 to 60 minutes on average. There is no sedative, put patients are welcome to nap if they choose.
A gel pack is attached to the area to be sculpted. The temperature can be as cold as -5 degrees celsius. They report there may be discomfort until the treated area becomes nub.
A vacuum is attached, and the skin, along with the underlying fat cells, are pulled into the area of the gel pack to isolate the cells that are to be treated. The cells are chilled to the point they die.
The results of the procedure are not immediately noticed. It can take weeks, or even months for the cells to decompose and finally be eliminated from the body. As this occurs, the results become evident.
In the meantime, redness, or other less sightly side effects will be present.
According to medical evidence, the answer is no. All people have a finite number of fat cells. When people gain weight, it is the increase in size, not the number of fat cells that create the effect of looking fat.
Conversely, when people lose weight through diet and exercise, the burning of fat, shrinks the size of fat cells, not the number of fat cells.
Fat cells have a purpose. One purpose is padding. Fat cells protect parts of the body. An example of this is often seen in older adults. Aging people, those past seventy and into their eighties, often lose body fat. That is to say, the fat cells get smaller. A fall without the padding may result in a broken hip.
While breaking a hip is not always due to the loss of padding, it can play a role.
Cool-sculpting sounds rather 'cool'. It has a purpose, but better health is not it. Cleaning out what some consider unsightly fat cells has no more impact on healthy living than a face lift.
Don't misunderstand. Having a procedure because you want to look different, or better, or you want to feel better about who you are, is all fine. Don't spend two to four thousand dollars thinking it's a healthy choice.
A cool-sculpting procedure today can be completely offset by reckless eating habits tomorrow.
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The cool-sculpting advocates are quick to point out that the procedure is not a solution for those considered fat. The better choice of those overweight or obese, is to begin a healthy weight loss program.
When you have found success and achieved your target body weight, cool-sculpting can be a wonderful way to clean up some of the stubborn places.
Cool-sculpting is becoming popular. If you're interested, be sure of your motives. Secure in that, it simply becomes a personal choice.


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Q: Does CodeIgniter 4 'DatabaseHandler' support SQLSRV to store sessions I know the CI4 'DatabaseHandler' driver support relational databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL to store sessions. I was able to use SQLSRV in CI3 and was wondering is this still a possibility.

A: SQLSRV store sessions
I looked a bit more into the issue, currently there is a CI4 bug report Bug: can't use SQLSRV as Session DatabaseHandler:

Exception 'now' is not a recognized built-in function name [SQLSRV].
I'm running Codeigniter in the configuration parameters mentioned
above and when I set the application settings to store the sessions in
the database (public $sessionDriver =
'CodeIgniter\Session\Handlers\DatabaseHandler';) and I created the
table "ci_sessions" in the SQL Server database but when I refresh any
page I come across with one exception: Informing that the now()
function does not exist.

the same report also suggests a work around from @websignsistemas  /Session/Handlers/DatabaseHandler.php changing the line (around 177) replacing the CI now() method with php's getdate().
if (! $this->db->table($this->table)->set('timestamp', 'getdate()', false)->insert($insertData)) {
    return $this->fail();
}

by @kenjis, the issue awaits implementation:

It seems SQL Server has advisory locking mechanisms.
https://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/176424/does-microsoft-sql-server-offer-an-advisory-locks-feature-like-postgres

SQLSRV database connection:
the CI4 docs confirm MSSQL support (via SQLSRV driver) Server Requirements:

Currently supported databases are:
...
MSSQL via the SQLSRV driver (version 2005 and above only)
...

connection is similar to CI3.x as pointed out by @InsiteFX How to connect SQLSRV using SQLSRV driver?:

make sure that you have all of the Microsoft drivers installed.
It should not matter if it is CI 3 or CI 4 the configuration should be
the same.

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import { ComponentFixture, TestBed } from '@angular/core/testing';
import { TopMenuComponent } from './top-menu.component';

describe('TopMenuComponent', () => {
  let component: TopMenuComponent;
  let fixture: ComponentFixture<TopMenuComponent>;

  // Helpers
  const getListItems = () => {
    const list: HTMLUListElement = fixture.debugElement.nativeElement.querySelector('ul');
    return Array.from(list.querySelectorAll('li'));
  };
  const getSelected = (items: HTMLLIElement[]) =>
    items.filter(item => item.classList.contains('selected'));

  beforeEach(() => {
    TestBed.configureTestingModule({
      declarations: [
        TopMenuComponent,
      ],
    });

    fixture = TestBed.createComponent(TopMenuComponent);
    component = fixture.componentInstance;

    component.nodes = [
      {url: 'api', title: 'API', tooltip: 'API docs'},
      {url: 'features', title: 'Features', tooltip: 'Angular features overview'},
    ];
    fixture.detectChanges();
  });

  it('should create an item for each navigation node', () => {
    const items = getListItems();
    const links = items.map(item => item.querySelector('a'))
                      .filter((link): link is NonNullable<typeof link> => link !== null);

    expect(links.length).toBe(2);
    expect(links.map(link => link.pathname)).toEqual(['/api', '/features']);
    expect(links.map(link => link.textContent)).toEqual(['API', 'Features']);
    expect(links.map(link => link.title)).toEqual(['API docs', 'Angular features overview']);
  });

  it('should mark the currently selected node with `.selected`', () => {
    const items = getListItems();
    expect(getSelected(items)).toEqual([]);

    component.currentNode = {url: 'api', view: 'foo', nodes: []};
    fixture.detectChanges();
    expect(getSelected(items)).toEqual([items[0]]);

    component.currentNode = {url: 'features', view: 'foo', nodes: []};
    fixture.detectChanges();
    expect(getSelected(items)).toEqual([items[1]]);

    component.currentNode = {url: 'something/else', view: 'foo', nodes: []};
    fixture.detectChanges();
    expect(getSelected(items)).toEqual([]);
  });

  it('should not mark any node with `.selected` if the current URL is undefined', () => {
    component.nodes = [
      {url: '', title: 'API', tooltip: 'API docs'},
      {url: undefined, title: 'Features', tooltip: 'Angular features overview'},
    ];
    fixture.detectChanges();
    const items = getListItems();

    component.currentNode = undefined;
    fixture.detectChanges();
    expect(getSelected(items)).toEqual([]);
  });

  it('should correctly mark a node with `.selected` even if its URL is empty', () => {
    component.nodes = [
      {url: '', title: 'API', tooltip: 'API docs'},
      {url: undefined, title: 'Features', tooltip: 'Angular features overview'},
    ];
    fixture.detectChanges();
    const items = getListItems();

    component.currentNode = {url: '', view: 'Empty url', nodes: []};
    fixture.detectChanges();
    expect(getSelected(items)).toEqual([items[0]]);
  });
});

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set -eo pipefail
ORIGINFILES="origin-master origin-master-api origin-master-controllers origin-node"
OCPFILES="atomic-openshift-master atomic-openshift-master-api atomic-openshift-master-controllers atomic-openshift-node"

die(){
  echo "$1"
  exit $2
}

usage(){
  echo "$0 [path]"
  echo "  path  The directory where the backup will be stored"
  echo "        /backup/\$(hostname)/\$(date +%Y%m%d) by default"
  echo "Examples:"
  echo "    $0 /my/mountpoint/\$(hostname)"
}

ocpfiles(){
  mkdir -p ${BACKUPLOCATION}/etc/sysconfig
  echo "Exporting OCP related files to ${BACKUPLOCATION}"
  cp -aR /etc/origin ${BACKUPLOCATION}/etc
  for file in ${ORIGINFILES} ${OCPFILES}
  do
    if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/${file} ]
    then
      cp -aR /etc/sysconfig/${file} ${BACKUPLOCATION}/etc/sysconfig/
    fi
  done
}

otherfiles(){
  mkdir -p ${BACKUPLOCATION}/etc/sysconfig
  mkdir -p ${BACKUPLOCATION}/etc/pki/ca-trust/source
  echo "Exporting other important files to ${BACKUPLOCATION}"
  if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/flanneld ]
  then
    cp -a /etc/sysconfig/flanneld \
      ${BACKUPLOCATION}/etc/sysconfig/
  fi
  cp -aR /etc/sysconfig/{iptables,docker-*} \
    ${BACKUPLOCATION}/etc/sysconfig/
  if [ -d /etc/cni ]
  then
    cp -aR /etc/cni ${BACKUPLOCATION}/etc/
  fi
  cp -aR /etc/dnsmasq* ${BACKUPLOCATION}/etc/
  cp -aR /etc/pki/ca-trust/source/anchors \
    ${BACKUPLOCATION}/etc/pki/ca-trust/source/
}

packagelist(){
  echo "Creating a list of rpms installed in ${BACKUPLOCATION}"
  rpm -qa | sort > ${BACKUPLOCATION}/packages.txt
}

if [[ ( $@ == "--help") ||  $@ == "-h" ]]
then
  usage
  exit 0
fi

BACKUPLOCATION=${1:-"/backup/$(hostname)/$(date +%Y%m%d)"}

mkdir -p ${BACKUPLOCATION}

ocpfiles
otherfiles
packagelist

exit 0


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11/18/2008 SFO on Track with New Toy Train Exhibition
07/16/2013 Philippine Basketry of the Luzon Cordillera from the Fowler Museum at UCLA
02/24/2009 Painted Wings: A History of Airline Identity Now on View at SFO
04/03/2009 Wright at Home at SFO
04/29/2009 Woven Legacies: Basketry of Native North America Now on View at SFO
05/12/2009 The Art of Transformation
05/29/2009 SFO Hits a Home Run
10/14/2009 Scenes from Myths and Daily Life: Exhibition and Lecture at SFO Explore Ancient Mediterranean Pottery
11/13/2009 SFO Hits the Jackpot!
12/28/2009 SFO Scores Maximum Points with New Pinball Exhibition
01/27/2010 The Resplendent Stone: Chinese Jades from the 18th through 20th Centuries on View at San Francisco International Airport
03/29/2010 Evolution of a Royal Vision: The Birth of Meissen Porcelain Exhibition at San Francisco International Airport Celebrates the 300th Anniversary of the Meissen Porcelain Factory
04/26/2010 New Exhibition at San Francisco International Airport Honors Japan Airlines
05/04/2010 On View at SFO-Shanghai: High-Rise Architecture and the Remaking of China's Gateway to the World
06/24/2010 Hidden Meanings: Symbolism in Chinese Art Now on View at SFO
07/27/2010 Liberian Helmet Masks of the Sande and Poro Societies from the Collections of the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology Now on View at SFO
08/10/2010 SFO and SFCVB's Twitter Photo Challenge Inspires Tweeters
09/28/2010 San Francisco International Airport Celebrates the History of Japanese Ceramics
11/02/2010 San Francisco International Airport to Host Free Lecture on Symbolism in Chinese Art
01/07/2011 A Grand Tour of Europe at SFO


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Fast Five and Star Trek Beyond director Justin Lin put together this short film for Google's Spotlight Story program in 2016, and it's still one of the more ambitious live action VR shorts out there. Lin opts to use 360 cameras to put you in what feels like a big budget blockbuster, with an alien hellbent on chasing you through the subway. It's absolutely thrilling. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QS36ftzGBhw&t=1s
From the different headsets we've tested, the hardware is sound and the setup is simple, but position tracking isn't as accurate as tethered headsets with external sensors or the Rift S' new outward-facing tracking cameras. Also, the Windows Mixed Reality store doesn't have as many compelling VR experiences as the Rift and SteamVR stores, though you can use SteamVR games on Windows Mixed Reality headsets, again with some software wrestling. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Amkov-Mini-360-Video-Camera-V1-Action-Camera-Dual-Image-Stabilization-Mini-Panorama-Camera-360-Degree/32859282955.html
VR can simulate real workspaces for workplace occupational safety and health purposes, educational purposes, and training purposes. It can be used to provide learners with a virtual environment where they can develop their skills without the real-world consequences of failing. It has been used and studied in primary education,[57] military,[58][59] astronaut training,[60][61][62] flight simulators,[63] miner training,[64] architectural design,[65] driver training[66] and bridge inspection.[67] Immersive VR engineering systems enable engineers to see virtual prototypes prior to the availability of any physical prototypes.[68] Supplementing training with virtual training environments has been claimed to offer avenues of realism in military[69] and healthcare[70] training while minimizing cost.[71] It also has been claimed to reduce military training costs by minimizing the amounts of ammunition expended during training periods.[69]
While they can offer a taste of VR, mobile headsets don't provide the full experience. They tend to offer three-degrees-of-freedom (3DOF) motion tracking, following your direction but not your position. They also only come with one motion controller, which is also 3DOF-only. You don't get the same immersiveness you do with six-degrees-of-freedom (6DOF) motion tracking and dual motion controllers, which might be why Google and Samsung have been largely quiet lately about their mobile headsets. The Nintendo Labo VR Kit is its own unique case, but it's more of a novelty for Switch owners. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6IVy__hc9NgrBYqpgfIQeg
Special input devices are required for interaction with the virtual world. These include the 3D mouse, the wired glove, motion controllers, and optical tracking sensors. Controllers typically use optical tracking systems (primarily infrared cameras) for location and navigation, so that the user can move freely without wiring. Some input devices provide the user with force feedback to the hands or other parts of the body, so that the human being can orientate himself in the three-dimensional world through haptics and sensor technology as a further sensory sensation and carry out realistic simulations. Additional haptic feedback can be obtained from omnidirectional treadmills (with which walking in virtual space is controlled by real walking movements) and vibration gloves and suits.
In 1968, Ivan Sutherland, with the help of his students including Bob Sproull, created what was widely considered to be the first head-mounted display system for use in immersive simulation applications. It was primitive both in terms of user interface and visual realism, and the HMD to be worn by the user was so heavy that it had to be suspended from the ceiling. The graphics comprising the virtual environment were simple wire-frame model rooms. The formidable appearance of the device inspired its name, The Sword of Damocles. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Ugreen-Universal-car-phone-holder-air-vent-monut-GPS-stand-360-adjustable-mobile-phone-holder-for/32626150303.html
The Oculus Touch controllers have made a world of difference since their arrival. Compared to the other headsets' controllers, they're our favourite – they conform to your hand and allow for some finger recognition, like a thumbs-up. Not just that, but when it comes to games Oculus has come on leaps and bounds. That's been largely helped by some developer cash injections from Facebook, giving us quality, polished titles like Lone Echo and Robo Recall. Room-scale support has been added too, though you'll need to purchase at least one additional sensor to get it to Vive-level tracking, and even then the Vive tracking experience is a little better in our experience. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdNHr_lWIOo&t=1s
In 2014, Sony announced Project Morpheus (its code name for the PlayStation VR), a virtual reality headset for the PlayStation 4 video game console.[37] In 2015, Google announced Cardboard, a do-it-yourself stereoscopic viewer: the user places their smartphone in the cardboard holder, which they wear on their head. Michael Naimark was appointed Google's first-ever 'resident artist' in their new VR division. The Kickstarter campaign for Gloveone, a pair of gloves providing motion tracking and haptic feedback, was successfully funded, with over $150,000 in contributions.[38] Also in 2015, Razer unveiled its open source project OSVR. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/CCD-HD-night-vision-car-rear-view-camera-front-view-side-view-rear-monitor-for-360/451832973.html
A virtual environment should provide the appropriate responses – in real time- as the person explores their surroundings. The problems arise when there is a delay between the person's actions and system response or latency which then disrupts their experience. The person becomes aware that they are in an artificial environment and adjusts their behaviour accordingly which results in a stilted, mechanical form of interaction. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-KXHJfrCus&t=1s
Wherever it is too dangerous, expensive or impractical to do something in reality, virtual reality is the answer. From trainee fighter pilots to medical applications trainee surgeons, virtual reality allows us to take virtual risks in order to gain real world experience. As the cost of virtual reality goes down and it becomes more mainstream you can expect more serious uses, such as education or productivity applications, to come to the fore. Virtual reality and its cousin augmented reality could substantively change the way we interface with our digital technologies. Continuing the trend of humanising our technology.
No conversation about Mixed Reality HMDs is ever complete until someone brings up Apple. Yes, the company has no available or announced devices in this space — but there isn't a soul following technology trends that doesn't believe the Cupertino giant isn't a) working on some kind of AR glasses, b) acquiring companies that make lenses and materials that are perfect for some kind of AR glasses, and c) talking about AR as a transformational technology every time a microphone appears. The rumor mill says Apple's glasses could appear in 2019, but we have our money on a 2020 launch, alongside a newly redesigned and reimagined iPhone that moves away from the "iPhone X design" for the first time since it launched. Stay tuned. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vluoggq_3WU&t=1s
But the competition is closer than ever. Vive is also excellent (and still offers the best room scale), while the Sony PlayStation VR is a big seller thanks to its significantly lower price and the ubiquity of PlayStation 4 consoles ready to run it. There are now better standalone VR headsets too if you want a hassle-free route to the immersive realms. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Insta360-Nano-S-4K-360-VR-Video-Panoramic-Camera-20MP-photos-for-iphone/32965833937.html
Everything that we know about our reality comes by way of our senses. In other words, our entire experience of reality is simply a combination of sensory information and our brains sense-making mechanisms for that information. It stands to reason then, that if you can present your senses with made-up information, your perception of reality would also change in response to it. You would be presented with a version of reality that isn't really there, but from your perspective it would be perceived as real. Something we would refer to as a virtual reality.
In our hands-on time with the Odyssey, we felt it was the one Mixed Reality headset that's on the same level as Oculus Rift. It has a premium, comfortable feel that the other headsets, from the likes of Lenovo, Acer and HP don't have. For Windows Mixed Reality right now, Samsung holds the bar. With the arrival of the Odyssey+, Samsung has improved things further with double the pixel count than the first Odyssey and an Anti-SDE (Screen-Door Effect) Display, aimed at mitigating a condition that can lead to mild dizziness and nausea. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/360-Lace-Frontal-Wigs-For-Black-Women-Curly-Wig-With-Baby-Hair-Pre-Plucked-180-Density/32815608547.html
But the competition is closer than ever. Vive is also excellent (and still offers the best room scale), while the Sony PlayStation VR is a big seller thanks to its significantly lower price and the ubiquity of PlayStation 4 consoles ready to run it. There are now better standalone VR headsets too if you want a hassle-free route to the immersive realms.
Naming discrepancies aside, the concept remains the same - using computer technology to create a simulated, three-dimensional world that a user can manipulate and explore while feeling as if he were in that world. Scientists, theorists and engineers have designed dozens of devices and applications to achieve this goal. Opinions differ on what exactly constitutes a true VR experience, but in general it should include: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ucy2-Eh-Ns&t=1s
In 2016, HTC shipped its first units of the HTC Vive SteamVR headset.[40] This marked the first major commercial release of sensor-based tracking, allowing for free movement of users within a defined space.[41] A patent filed by Sony in 2017 showed they were developing a similar location tracking technology to the Vive for PlayStation VR, with the potential for the development of a wireless headset.[42] https://www.aliexpress.com/item/VR-360-HD-Security-Camera-wireless-WIFI-panoramic-Home-Security-Surveillance-System-960P-IP-Camera-Panorama/32859898895.html
The Oculus Quest costs twice as much as the Oculus Go, but it's well worth it. It has a more powerful Snapdragon 835 processor and a sharper OLED screen, but more importantly it offers full 6DOF motion tracking with dual motion controls. In fact, it uses the same Oculus Touch controllers as the Oculus Rift S. It's limited to Oculus' mobile software store, like the Oculus Go, so it won't provide the same selection as the PC-based Rift S and its much bigger Oculus Store. Still, there are already some very compelling experiences on it, like Beat Saber and Superhot VR, that make it well worth your attention. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sucKPk0znbM&t=1s
HTC's Vive is a comprehensive package that includes a headset, two motion controllers, and two base stations for defining a "whole-room" VR area. It's technically impressive, and can track your movements in a 10-foot cube instead of just from your seat. It also includes a set of motion controllers more advanced than the PlayStation Move. PC-tethered VR systems like the Vive need plenty of power, with HTC recommending at least an Intel Core i5-4590 CPU and a GeForce GTX 970 GPU. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ0fKW5PttM&t=1s


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Penukonda Fort
Penukonda is in the Anantapur District of Andhra Pradesh. As per the 2011 census the population of the town is 27,382. It is about 70 km south of Anatapur and about 143 km north of Bengaluru on National Highway 44 or the Bengaluru-Hyderabad Highway. In 2017 KIA Motorsof South Korea announced the location of an automobile manufacturing plant near Penukonda with an estimated investment of 2 billion dollars. A functioning Korean Restaurant on the main street in the town attests to the validity of the announcement.
Based upon inscriptions archaeologists have determined that the well-known Penukonda Fort was built during the 14th century by Vira Virupanna Udaiyar, the son of one of the founders of Vijaynagar Empire Bukka I. The fort is in ruins and it is difficult to see the full configuration of the original structure. The remnants, however, give a fairly good picture of what it might have been at its zenith. It is easy enough to imagine that it was a formidable fort that was built for effective defence with moats and bastions. At one time there were seven bastions along the perimeter of the fort. At the Yerramanchi Gate, the main entrance, there is a large granite sculpture of god Hanuman that is 11 feet tall. The narrow streets and some dwellings inside the fort bear witness to their origins from the 14th century.
On the way to the fort hill, overlooking Penukonda town
Fort walls on the way to the top of fort hill
Jeep road to the fort hill
Entrance to the fort hill complex
Mantapa at the Royal Centre on top of the fort hill
Dilapidated abandoned Lakshmi Narasimha Temple on top of the fort hill
Mantapa opposite to the temple
View of the Royal Centre ruins
Broken gopura of Lakshmi Narasimha Temple
Ruins of Lakshmi Narasimha Temple
Garbha Gudi of Lakshmi Narasimha Temple
Gopuras
A large kalyani with a mantapa at the Royal Centre
Hanumantha carving at the fort entrance
Pedestrian entry to the fort
Yerramanchi Gate: Main fort gate in Penukonda town
A temple at the entrance of Penukonda Fort complex
The Mosque is an imposing building. The entrance is clearly through what was at one time a Hindu temple entrance with a gopura. The gopura has been demolished or has been let to suffer the vagaries of nature. The entrance way has maintained the Hindu temple columns indicating a preference for appropriating established architecture to ensure legitimacy of the succeeding ruler. Given this fact, it is reasonable to assume that the original Hindu temple was razed to make way for the Mosque.
A hindu temple converted mosque in Penukonda
The following description is provided by the Archaeology and Museums Department:
An old Hindu palace i.e. Gagan Mahal is located to the south of Ramaswamy and Eshwara temples. It was the summer palace and harem of Vijayanagara rulers. The building is facing east and composes of two stories of arcade chambers, square on plan with corner tower on the northern side. In front of the building there are steps leading into the building also staircases on either sides leads to the first floor. The ground floor consisting with recessed and forty five foliated arches in the pavilion reminiscent of the Lodi type of arches in the buildings of Delhi. The middle of the ground floor and first floor made a provision of rooms. The first floor has twelve arches and eight windows. The surface of the walls of building is coated with stucco. The pyramidal roof built-up in tiers is obviously adopted from Sikhara of the Dravidan style. The tower has six projecting windows supported by brackets. It was built by a combination of Indo-Persian architectural style known as Indo-Sarcanic adopted by Vijayanagara kings. The palace was built without a single rafter, a unique specimen architecture.
Gagan Mahal Palace built in 1585
Painting of Sr Krishna Devaraya inside the palace
Peek into village outside the palace
The Timmarasu Prison is a monument to a great tragedy. Even great leaders like Krishna Deva Raya were driven by unfounded rumours (fake news), innuendos, and character assassinations. Belated remorse, regrettably, does not remedy the error. The small stylized building leaves no doubt that a prisoner could not escape the confines of this small space in the mold of isolation chambers in contemporary prisons. The three largest mass murderers of the twentieth century, Mao Tse Tung, Stalin, and Hitler would approve of the accommodation.
Thimmarasu Jail
The Basavana Bavi (Well) is an impressive deep stepped tank on a smaller scale than the one at the Royal Centre in Vijaynagar. The two entrances to the steps leading to the well are under two large bulls. Looked at from the rear it is bound to bring smiles to the face of the onlooker. There is a contemporary school building that is under construction abutting the historic well and the historic mantapa. It is a shame that this has been permitted in an area suffused with heritage. Tastelessness, evidently, is not unique to the current President of the United States.
Basavana Baavi (well)
(Click on the photographs for an enlarged view)
Text: Narasim Katary
Photographs: Srik Parthasarathy
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Topnews, Politik, Bilaterale Beziehungen,...
Report on the Ninth South Africa-Germany Bi-National Commission, 14-16.11.2016, Berlin
The South Africa-Germany Bi-national Commission is held every two years, alternating between Berlin and Pretoria. The two partner countries debate global challenges and coordinate possible collaboration in politics, the economy, environment, development cooperation, defence, education, science, technology, culture and labour and social affairs.
The Commission was established as a result of President Nelson Mandela's state visit to Germany in 1996. Ever since, the Bi-national Commission has contributed immensely to further strengthening South African-German relations. In 2014, the Commission met for the eighth time, in Pretoria.
The Ninth Session of the South Africa-Germany Binational Commission (BNC), co-chaired by the Minister of International Relations and Cooperation of the Republic of South Africa, Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, and the Foreign Minister of the Federal Republic of Germany, Dr. Frank-Walter Steinmeier took place in Berlin on 16th November 2016.
The BNC is the principal instrument to steer the intra-governmental relations between South Africa and Germany. It meets every alternate year with the participation of several Ministries from both governments in order to establish an agenda and programme for joint action.
This BNC discussed cooperation in the fields of renewable energies, environment and climate, education and vocational training, but also in development cooperation, science and technology, employment and social affairs as well as culture. Both countries agreed to consider issuing a commemorative stamp in celebration of the 100th anniversary of former President Nelson Mandela's birth in collaboration with the relevant institutions.
The third meeting of the Joint Committee on VET (Vocational Educational Training) was held on 14 November 2016 in Germany on the margins of the 9th South Africa-Germany BNC. During the meeting of the Joint Committee on VET, the Joint Declaration was prolonged by three years via an addendum which was signed by representatives from both ministries. The Joint Declaration, initially established in 2013, outlined a commitment by the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) to cooperate in the area of vocational education and training (VET).
South Africa remained Germany's most important trading partner on the African continent in 2015 with total trade 15.5 bn Euro. The two sides agreed to make joint efforts to boost South Africa's exports to Germany, particularly the high value added, as laid out by IPAP sectors, considering Nine Point Plan imperatives.
In the context of the adoption of the Agenda 2030 and the Paris Agreement on climate change in September and December 2015, participants of the BNC agreed that it has to measure its success with the degree to which its work contributes to the realisation of the SDGs and the Paris objectives.
The participants discussed enhanced cooperation in international contexts such as the EU-African relations and the upcoming Summit in November 2017, the UN Security Council reform and the G20 under the upcoming German Presidency. They shared their concerns and discussed ideas regarding on-going crises in Europe, the Middle East and in Africa. They agreed that South Africa and Germany should enhance their efforts in crisis prevention and management, including in enhancing the capabilities of the African Union and the other regional organisations in Africa.
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Het Rassemblement du Centre (RC) is een Franstalige conservatieve politieke beweging in België, rechtervleugel van het Centre démocrate humaniste.
Het RC is de opvolger van het Centre politique des indépendants et cadres chrétiens (CEPIC).

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Belgische politieke partij


A course focused on the financing aspects of grain elevator operations with special emphasis on fulfilling the financial requirements associated with basis trading activities. Designed to prepare the ag-lender with the knowledge, ability and resources to attract and service high-performing grain loans and prepare the grain organization for effective discussions with their lenders.
Understand how and why grain operations utilize basis trading to make their money …. And why that makes this sector such a good credit risk.
Understand how grain loans are properly secured and the red-flags that signal trouble.
Gain the knowledge and confidence to represent the elevator client fairly and effectively to the loan committee.
Understand the implications of Mark-to-Market on your Borrowing Base Report.
Use planning and borrowing base projections to identify future money needs to stay prepared for any market environment.
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The best way to make a video is to film what you like and like what you film. I set out to make a video, weather got in my way, but I tried anyway.
Here's the behind the scenes on my latest short film Capture It. I used the Rode Videomic and Rode Videomic Pro to capture location sound and ambiance. I used both microphones directly on the cameras without external recorders. All done on one side of Oahu, Hawaii.


Here are the results from the 2018 Beaufort County Corn Hybrid Trials (also attached as a printable PDF).
As you know, this was a challenging year for corn production. We originally planted three locations but lost the Pinetown trial due to the frequent rainfall we experienced early in the season.
Both of the remaining trials were planted on 30″ rows at a population of 34K. The Poole Farms location was planted on May 9, and the 3B Farms location was planted on May 10. Each trial was managed for maximum yield.
Thanks to Poole Farms and 3B Farms for the fuel, land, equipment, and crop production inputs needed to make these trials successful. We cannot do these trials without great cooperating farmers.
Also thanks to Scott Tilley, Area Specialized Grains Agent, N.C. Cooperative Extension of Hyde County agent Andrea Gibbs, and Kellie Luton (our intern this summer) for helping with planting and harvesting these trials.


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https://www.newmilfordspectrum.com/news/education/article/Goodyear-teacher-to-be-sentenced-for-sexual-14090165.php
Goodyear teacher gets 20 years for sexual abuse of boy
Terry Tang and Jacques Billeaud, Associated Press
Updated 5:08 pm EDT, Friday, July 12, 2019
Brittany Zamora wipes away a tear as her attorney, Belen Olmedo Guerra, pats her shoulder. Zamora was sentenced to 20 years in prison by Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Sherry Stephens in Phoenix, Friday, July 12, 2019. Judge Stephens also handed down two lifetime terms of probation to the former Goodyear, Arizona, teacher for molesting a 13-year-old student. (Tom Tingle/Arizona Republic via AP, Pool) less
Brittany Zamora wipes away a tear as her attorney, Belen Olmedo Guerra, pats her shoulder. Zamora was sentenced to 20 years in prison by Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Sherry Stephens in Phoenix, Friday, ... more
Photo: Tom Tingle, AP
PHOENIX (AP) — A former suburban Phoenix elementary school teacher avoided the maximum sentence Friday for sexually abusing a 13-year-old student, including engaging in a sexual act in the presence of a second boy.
Judge Sherry Stephens opted to sentence Brittany Ann Zamora to 20 years in prison instead of the 27 years prosecutors had asked for under a plea agreement. Zamora will also be on lifetime probation upon her release and have to register as a sex offender.
"The defendant did accept responsibility by pleading guilty. She has expressed her remorse. She has no prior criminal history," Stephens said.
Zamora, 28, apologized in court to the victims and to her family.
"I'm not a threat to society by any means," she said, sniffling at times. "I'm a good genuine person who made a mistake and regrets it deeply."
Authorities say Zamora had multiple sexual encounters with the 13-year-old boy in a classroom at Las Brisas Academy in Goodyear and in her car during February and March 2018. Some physical contact between Zamora, who at the time was 27 years old, and the sixth-grader occurred during class while other students were watching a video, according to documents.
Investigators also say a second boy, age 11, had seen Zamora having sex with the 13-year-old student. They say Zamora showed naked photos to both boys and asked them sexual questions.
Both children's families had asked the judge to deliver the harshest punishment possible. In a statement read by their attorney, the 13-year-old's father and stepmother called Zamora a "twisted monster" who stole their son's innocence.
"He will miss out on so many important emotions and feelings when it comes to relationships with women for the rest of his life — all because his trust was betrayed by sixth-grade school teacher," they wrote.
His family also argued that Zamora would likely receive a stiffer sentence if she were a man who had committed the same crimes with a girl.
"I'm also angry at those who say they think abuse like this of a woman on a young man is somehow les serious if it happened to a girl instead of a boy," the 13-year-old's mother said in a statement. "Every child no matter their sex deserves to have their period of adulthood free of monsters."
Zamora's defense attorney and family said the crimes were out of character for her. They cited her father's abandonment of her when she was 13 years old and ongoing issues with anxiety, depression and obsessive compulsive disorder as mitigating factors.
"She's a great candidate for rehabilitation," defense attorney Belen Olmedo Guerra said. "She wants to change her life and she's already started that."
Zamora could have faced 40 years in prison for her guilty pleas a month ago to sexual conduct with a minor, attempted child molestation and public sexual indecency.
Her plea deal called for her to be sentenced to at least 20 years on the sexual conduct conviction and didn't make recommendations on the other two convictions.
As part of the plea agreement, 12 other criminal charges against Zamora will be dismissed.
The boy told authorities that the sexual encounters began after he and Zamora started messaging each other in a classroom chat group. Police say Zamora sent the boy nude photos after sending messages to each other.
She was arrested in March 2018 after the victim's father and stepmother discovered text messages between her and the child. Zamora and her husband, Daniel, had called the boy's father, pleading for him not to call police, the father told authorities.
Daniel Zamora was named in a lawsuit filed by the boy's family but the two parties have since settled for an undisclosed amount, the Arizona Republic reported . The suit alleged Daniel Zamora never alerted authorities about the molestation. He also left the victim's father emotionally distressed by his phone calls, attorney Steve Weinberger said.
Attorneys declined to comment on the judge's sentencing decision. They said they plan to focus on holding school administrators accountable.
A lawsuit filed by the parents said the Liberty School District failed to investigate reports of misconduct involving Brittany Zamora, an allegation the district has denied.
The lawsuit alleged three students told the school's principal about six weeks before Brittany Zamora's arrest that there was an inappropriate relationship between the teacher and student.
The district said in court records that the principal talked to the students about rumors of the relationship, but acknowledged he didn't immediately notify police or the victim's parents about the rumor.


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Ewart Everton Brown (born 31 March 1968), better known by his stage name of Mad Cobra or simply Cobra is a Jamaican reggae musician.[1][2]
Mad Cobra performing in 2010
Ewart Everton Brown
(1968-03-31) 31 March 1968 (age 51)
Dancehall, reggae fusion
Teddybears, Run–D.M.C.
He was born in Kingston, Jamaica, raised in the parish of St. Mary, in Islington a settlement in the hilly, North of the parish capital Port Maria. He then relocated back to the place of his birth during his teenage years.[1] He began performing under his stage name, taken from a character in the G.I. Joe comic books, while still in his teens.[2] He honed his talents on several local sound systems before entering the studio.[2]
His first single, 1989's "Respect Woman", was produced by his uncle, Tuff Gong engineer Delroy "Spiderman" Thompson.[1][3] His next single, "Na Go Work", featured Tricia McKay, giving him his first hit,[2] and bringing him to the attention of producers Captain Sinbad and Carl Nelson. Together they released a string of hit dancehall singles, including "Shoot to Kill", "Merciless Bad Boy", and "Ze Taurus", which featured tough, gangsta rap-style lyrics in keeping with the current trends of that time.[2]
In 1990, Cobra began working with producer Donovan Germain and songwriter Dave Kelly on the Penthouse Records label.[1] This partnership spawned a series of major hits in Jamaica, including "Yush", "Gundelero", "Bad Boy Talk", and "Feeling Lonely" (with Beres Hammond). He released his first full-length album in 1991, entitled Bad Boy Talk,[2] and over the next year worked with several different producers on yet more hit tracks ("O.P.P" with King Jammy, "Tek Him" with Bobby Digital, "Be Patient" with Sly & Robbie). In 1991 and 1992, Mad Cobra broke into the UK Reggae charts with five number one hits,[2] bringing with it a backlash over concerns about the anti-gay sentiments of tracks such as "Crucifixion".[1]
In the wake of his British success, Mad Cobra signed a deal in America with Columbia Records.[1] His next LP was entitled Hard to Wet, Easy to Dry, and featured "Flex", a single which interpolated elements of The Temptations' "Just My Imagination".[1] It was a smash hit, topping the US Rap Singles chart, hitting #7 on the R&B chart, and peaking at #13 on the Billboard Hot 100. The success of the single propelled the album to #125 on the Billboard Top 200, but the follow-up, "Legacy", failed to chart, and for the next several years Cobra's hitmaking remained primarily in Jamaica with songs such as 1993's "Mek Noise" and "Matti Haffie Move". Around this time, Cobra became involved in rivalries with fellow reggae artists Ninjaman and Buju Banton. He also made a guest appearance on rap group Run-D.M.C.'s "What's Next" on their album Down with the King.
In 1994, Cobra returned with Venom, again recording with King Jammy. Jamaican hit singles from the 1994-1995 period included "Length and Bend", "Fat and Buff", and "Selassie I Rules", now adopting "conscious" lyrics.[2] In 1996, Columbia Records released Milkman in the US market. The album peaked at #12 on Billboard's Top Reggae Albums chart and featured a minor hit, "Big Long John", which charted briefly on the US Dance and R&B Singles charts. In 1998, a track with Mr. Vegas entitled "Guns High" charted in some countries in Europe, and a number of re-releases of his Jamaican material were issued on VP. Further albums were issued in 2001 (Cobra) and 2004 (Words of Warning). Most recently, Cobra was heard on "Cobrastyle", from Teddybears' 2004 album, Fresh and reissued in 2006 on their album Soft Machine.
On the night of 11 May 2010, Mad Cobra was shot three times in the upper body near his home in Braeton, only a day after another dancehall artist, Oneil Edwards of the group Voice Mail, was also shot in Duhaney Park. He was carried to the Spanish Town Hospital for treatment.[4]
[5] It was later ascertained that the vehicle Mad Cobra was traveling in had shone its light on a group of men and this had angered them. When Mad Cobra came out to appease the men, he was shot.[6] He was released from hospital later that week. On the following Monday night, his house was shot up by unknown assailants but no one was injured during the incident.[7]
DiscographyEdit
Ex-clusive (Charm, 1991)
Bad Boy Talk (Penthouse Records, 1991)
Spotlight (Top Rank, 1992)
Bad Boy Talk (Penthouse, 1992)
Merciless Bad Boy (Sinbad, 1992)
Hard to Wet, Easy to Dry (Columbia Records, 1992)
Goldmine (RAS Records, 1993)
Mister Pleasure (VP Records, 1994)
Venom (Greensleeves Records, 1994)
Step Aside (VP, 1994)
Your Wish (Culture Press, 1994)
Exclusive Decision (VP Records, 1996)
Sexperience (Critique Records,1996)
Playaz in Paradise (New Quest, 1996)
Milkman (Capitol Records, 1996)
OK Ride On (EMI, 1999)
Cobra (Artists Only Records, 2001)
Exclusive (Charm, 2003)
Words of Warning (Heartbeat Records, 2004)
Snypa Way (DJR Records, 2006)
Helta Skelta (DJR Records, 2009)
^ a b c d e f g Huey, Steve "Mad Cobra Biography", Allmusic, retrieved 2010-01-31
^ a b c d e f g h Larkin, Colin (1998) The Virgin Encyclopedia of Reggae, Virgin Books, ISBN 0-7535-0242-9, p. 63-4, 177-8
^ Moskowitz, David V. (2006) Caribbean Popular Music: an Encyclopedia of Reggae, Mento, Ska, Rock Steady, and Dancehall, Greenwood Press, ISBN 0-313-33158-8, p. 184-5
^ "Mad Cobra Shot and Injured". mydancehallmadness.com.com. Archived from the original on 28 May 2012. Retrieved 15 April 2012.
^ "Cobra shot; Oneil still critical". JamaicaObserver.com. Retrieved 15 April 2012.
^ "Cobra Discharged From Hospital". ZIP FM. Retrieved 15 April 2012.
^ "Mad Cobra House Shot Up!". ZIP FM. Retrieved 15 April 2012.
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mad_Cobra&oldid=936154642"


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Paulina Alejandra del Moral Vela (born 22 August 1983) is a Mexican politician affiliated with the PRI. She currently serves as Deputy of the LXII Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing the State of Mexico.

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21st-century Mexican women politicians
Deputies of the LXII Legislature of Mexico


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The Wonderlust Style	 15 January, 2017
Tokyo, a City Made for the Ultimate Foodie.
Written by: @cazadordelomejor
Japan is the ultimate foodie experience. Being one of the biggest food-experience seekers there is, I knew my next big trip had to be somewhere far, somewhere different and somewhere with a strong food culture. One step into Narita International Airport and I was already dreaming of what I'd be having for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Tokyo is a city with a huge food palette. You can scour the various neighborhoods and alleyways for the tastiest Ramen, Yakitori, Izakaya, Sushi, Tempura, Udon, Okonomiyaki, and Soba. You'll find that many restaurants specialize on only one type of dish – it's perfected from generation to generation.
Here is my breakdown of Tokyo's six main districts and the food that can be devoured in each:
Tsukiji & Ginza
Home to the renowned Tsukiji Fish Market, you cannot leave this area without enjoying a traditional sushi omakase at Sushi Daiwa. This hole in the wall sushi joint opens up at 5:30 AM, get there early to get a seat. Then head to the inner market at Tsukiji which opens up to the public at 10:00 AM and navigate the enormous halls of the biggest seafood market in the world.
Sushi Omakase at Sushi Daiwa
Lunch menu at Sushi Tokami
Tori Paitan with an Egg at Kagari Soba
Japanese Confectionaries at Higashiya
House Blend at Cafe de L'Ambre
Seasonal Cocktail at Ginza Music Bar
Yakitori at BirdLand
Harajuku & Aoyama
Bursting with restaurants, coffee spots, shops, boutiques and vintage stores, it is one of the best neighborhoods to get your shopping and eating game on. Stroll along Omotesandō Street and see shops converted into architectural destinations. There's something special about Aoyama that kept me going back every other day – to sample a dessert at the newly renovated Pierre Hermé, try out the Mr. Roboto pastry sold exclusively at Dominique Ansel Bakery in Japan, or enjoy a cold brew at Blue Bottle.
Order the entire menu at Harajuku Gyoza (a few doors down from Harajuku Gyoza is a small takeout window serving one of the best Chicken Karaage I've ever tried)
Raspberry-Rose Madeleine at Pierre Hermé
Mr. Roboto and a Seasonal Cronut at Dominique Ansel Bakery Japan
Salmon-Avocado Pancakes at Rainbow Pancake
Cold Brew at Blue Bottle Coffee
A calm neighborhood where Buddhist temples are nestled between streets full of tempura restaurants. Its main attraction is the Senso-Ji Buddhist temple, an architectural beauty that is best to be visited when there is absolutely no one around, early in the morning or right at sundown to snap some National Geographic worthy shots.
Exactly what you imagine Tokyo to be. Tall skyscrapers, colorful billboards, enormous crosswalks, and futuristic department stores with incredible underground food halls (Depachika) that must be visited. One of the highlights of my trip was drinks and live jazz at the New York Bar, high above Tokyo. Get a table right in front of the stage to create an unforgettable experience. A contrasting part of Shinjuku that makes it so special is Golden Gai, a small and cozy nightlife district where you'll stumble across tiny bars, each with its own charm.
Albatross Bar
New York Bar, Park Hyatt Hotel
Isetan Depachika
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Cocktail Omakase at Gen Yamamoto (Minato Area)
Multi-Course menu at Narisawa (Minato Area)
Tsukemen at Rokurinsha (Tokyo Station)
A trip to Japan involves a lot of eating, walking, discovering, interacting with locals (they love foreigners), and will leave you wanting to move there as soon as possible, or at least that's what happened to me. If you're flying out of Narita, don't forget to grab a farewell sushi at Kyotatsu.
Tips for first-time travelers to Japan:
Pocket Concierge is a great platform that will help you secure reservations for Michelin starred restaurants
Be sure to pick up a Suica Transit Card upon arrival at the airport to navigate local public transit
If you plan on travelling outside of Tokyo, be sure to purchase a Japan Railway Pass, it provides bullet train transportation at a great price
Pocket Wi-Fi is a necessity in order to use Google maps and make navigating around Japan easy, these can be rented at the airport
Follow along on my food experiences @cazadordelomejor on Instagram – Boston is up next!
The Wonderlust Style	 5 January, 2016
New Restaurants in Miami for 2016
Bachour Bakery & Bistro
By Chef Antonio Bachour whose creations are gorgeous compositions of color and form, and best of all, they're delicious. The pastry genius, along with Henry Hane, is opening a 40-seat bistro and bakery at 600 Brickell Ave., featuring breakfast and lunch offerings. Of course, the chef's impeccable pastries will be showcased. Once the eatery opens, Miami could very well experience its own Dominique Ansel-like lines and frenzy for Bachour's edible works.
Alinea Pop-Up
The bad news is this amazing restaurant is not opening permanently in Miami, but this three-Michelin-starred restaurant by Grant Achatz and Nic Kokonas is popping up at the Faena Hotel Miami Beach. Alinea's unique dining experience will be available from February 17 and continuing through March 13. The dinners are already sold out, but Alinea is accepting names for a wait list. Visit alineamiami.tocktix.com. for reservations.
3. Trust & Co.
By Chef Jerry Flynn this will be a chef-driven restaurant in Coral Gables that will offer craft cocktails. Located in the former Azucar Cuban Cuisine space (2 Aragon Ave.), will feature a menu of local produce, seafood, and proteins in an industrial-chic setting. The cuisine is described as "diverse American" with Latin, French, and Italian influences. Trust & Co. is expected to open shortly.
Sullivan St. Bakery
James Beard Award nominee Jim Lahey is planning a commercial and retail bakery at 5550-5570 NE Fourth Ave. in Little Haiti. The 4,000-square-foot location will first house a wholesale business and eventually expand to retail. Lahey's New York City operation supplies bread to about 250 restaurants. The baking chef has had his sights set on Miami for more than two decades, and now that he's found a space, he's not in any rush. "It'll take us about six months to get into the groove with people. It's a different labor market in terms of where people come from." Don't expect to enjoy Lahey's famed bread in Miami in the immediate future. Pressed for a completion date of his new bakery, Lahey simply said, "It's still TBD."
Quinto La Huella
This one has me anxiously waiting. Uruguay's Parador La Huella is the most lauded restaurant in that country. Latin America's 50 Best Restaurants calls it a "breezy seaside grill, whose high-end beach shack appearance speaks of lazy lounging and barefoot walks along the sand." Now the owners — Gustavo Barbero, Martin Pittaluga, and Guzman Artagaveytia — are bringing their high-end beach shack to the East Miami Hotel at Brickell City Centre. The restaurant, along with a rooftop bar, Sugar, was originally scheduled for a winter 2015 opening, but the hotel's website takes reservations beginning May 1.
Will come to in mid January to Coconut Grove and join the great dining establishments of the neighborhood.. What makes this one special is the chef behind it. Michael Beltran, the former sous-chef at the Cypress Room, has worked alongside Miami's culinary elite of Michael Schwartz and Hedy Goldsmith. The chef will serve family-oriented food, mostly prepared in the restaurant's wood grill..
Opened its doors December 2015 at 801 Brickell Avenue. Behind the concept is the man responsible for mega-nightclubs LIV and Story, David Grutman, along with Jeffrey Chodorow , who's best known locally with his work with China Grill management. The menu is self-described as "Asian cuisine designed to take guests on a culinary journey of the Marco Polo trail." The highlights are peking duck, dim sum, and the tuna dishes. The restaurant is now open nightly for happy hour and dinner. For more information call 305-534-2211.
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As football stretches on into chillier weather every Sunday, make sure to stay warm as you cheer the Monsters of the Midway to victory in this Chicago Bears knit hat. This navy knit is accented on teh crown and the cuff with faint white and orange stitched pattern designs. The team's alternate script "B" logo is embroidered on the front of the cuff in orange thread. The team's "GSH" sleeve logo is embroidered on the back of the hat to the right of a liquid chrome NFL shield logo. You'll be nice and warm thanks to the fleece lining of the hat that will insulate you against cold weather. Stay warm while cheering the Bears to victory in this Chicago Bears knit hat.


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Fran Reilly is the New Executive Director of the News Leaders Association
Posted Friday, May 1, 2020 4:55 pm
Press Release | News Leaders Association
Fran Reilly, an innovative leader with a 30-year career building sustainable growth in media, is the new Executive Director of the News Leaders Association.
Reilly is passionate about the future of journalism, leadership development and sponsoring diversity initiatives that strengthen newsrooms. She is an outspoken advocate for ethical standards and protection of our First Amendment Rights at a time when freedom of the press is under assault across our nation. NLA supports and develops leaders of newsrooms dedicated to independent, fact-based journalism essential to informing our democracy.
Reilly joins News Leaders after a national search that brought forward many terrific candidates. In our view Fran is the right leader at this critical juncture and we could not be happier.
Michael Days, vice president of Diversity and Inclusion at The Philadelphia Inquirer and president of the News Leaders Association, welcomed Reilly to the NLA family.
"Fran is charged with taking two legacy organizations, ASNE and APME, that decided not merely to merge, but to create a spirited new organization focused on being the indispensable home for news leaders, regardless of platform," Days said. "No doubt she will be a driving force in getting us where we need to go."
Before joining News Leaders, Reilly spent many years in the media and start-up space, ranging from top director roles to advising start-ups. Most recently, she served as Executive Director and Publisher of City Limits News, New York City's oldest nonprofit investigative news agency. Reilly's career has been marked by identifying opportunities and helping mission-driven organizations find their voice and expand.
Formerly a strategy, marketing and business development executive at media companies, including Time Inc. and Scholastic, she specializes in start-ups, turn-arounds and digital expansion. Reilly has developed and executed successful growth strategies for media ventures and journalism start-ups. Her focus has been on the growth of nonprofits to build audiences, increase and diversify revenue, and create content that has a transformational impact on the audiences they serve.
Reilly joins News Leaders as the nonprofit is rolling out a strategic plan to reshape the organization into the leading training and leadership organization whose mission is to strengthen democracy. News Leaders has built a diverse board that reflects the changing landscape of media organizations and the country and continues to be leader in diversity training via its Emerging Leaders Institute.
Nancy Barnes, previous NLA president and Senior Vice President for News for National Public Radio, lead the search committee for the new executive director.
"We are thrilled to have Fran joining NLA at such a critical moment in our history," Barnes said. "Welcome!"
Reilly will play a key role in reshaping NLA, whose mission is to foster and develop the highest standards of trustworthy, truth-seeking journalism; to advocate for open, honest and transparent government; to fight for free speech and an independent press; to nurture the next generation of news leaders committed to spreading knowledge that informs democracy. Our goal is for all citizens to be informed by accurate, truthful, independent reporting so they can demand the best from our democratic institutions.
"There is simply no more important mission today than to ensure our local and national newsrooms have diverse, strong leadership equipped to meet the challenge of providing truthful, independent reporting," Reilly said. "The NLA Board and community embody the values of our most talented, committed news leaders. I am thrilled to have the opportunity to work with them in setting a new path forward."
Reilly joined NLA on Friday, May 1. She will be based in New York and Washington, D.C.


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Q: Handling unhandled exception in GUI I am mostly writing a small tools for tech savvy people, e.g. programmers, engineers etc. As those tools are usually quick hacks improved over time I know that there are going to be unhandled exceptions and the users are not going to mind. I would like the user to be able to send me the traceback so I can examine what happened and possibly improve the application.
I usually do wxPython programming but I have done some Java recently. I have hooked up the TaskDialog class to the Thread.UncaughtExceptionHandler() and I am quite happy with the result. Especially that it can catch and handle exceptions from any thread:

I was doing something similar in wxPython for a long time. However:

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*I had to write a decorator-hack to be able to print exceptions from another thread well.

*Even when functional, the result is quite ugly.

Here is the code for both Java and wxPython so you can see what I have done:
Java:
import java.awt.EventQueue;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.UIManager;
import javax.swing.UnsupportedLookAndFeelException;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import java.awt.GridBagLayout;
import java.awt.GridBagConstraints;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;

import com.ezware.dialog.task.TaskDialogs;

public class SwingExceptionTest {

    private JFrame frame;

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        try {
            UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.getSystemLookAndFeelClassName());
        }
        catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
        }
        catch (InstantiationException e) {
        }
        catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
        }
        catch (UnsupportedLookAndFeelException e) {
        }

        Thread.setDefaultUncaughtExceptionHandler(new Thread.UncaughtExceptionHandler() {
            public void uncaughtException(Thread t, Throwable e) {
                TaskDialogs.showException(e);
            }
        });

        EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
            public void run() {
                try {
                    SwingExceptionTest window = new SwingExceptionTest();
                    window.frame.setVisible(true);
                } catch (Exception e) {
                    e.printStackTrace();
                }
            }
        });
    }

    public SwingExceptionTest() {
        initialize();
    }

    private void initialize() {
        frame = new JFrame();
        frame.setBounds(100, 100, 600, 400);
        frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        GridBagLayout gridBagLayout = new GridBagLayout();
        gridBagLayout.columnWidths = new int[]{0, 0};
        gridBagLayout.rowHeights = new int[]{0, 0};
        gridBagLayout.columnWeights = new double[]{0.0, Double.MIN_VALUE};
        gridBagLayout.rowWeights = new double[]{0.0, Double.MIN_VALUE};
        frame.getContentPane().setLayout(gridBagLayout);

        JButton btnNewButton = new JButton("Throw!");
        btnNewButton.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
            public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent arg0) {
                onButton();
            }
        });
        GridBagConstraints gbc_btnNewButton = new GridBagConstraints();
        gbc_btnNewButton.gridx = 0;
        gbc_btnNewButton.gridy = 0;
        frame.getContentPane().add(btnNewButton, gbc_btnNewButton);
    }

    protected void onButton(){
        Thread worker = new Thread() {
            public void run() {
                throw new RuntimeException("Exception!");
            }
        };
        worker.start();
    }

}

wxPython:
import StringIO
import sys
import traceback
import wx
from wx.lib.delayedresult import startWorker

def thread_guard(f):
    def thread_guard_wrapper(*args, **kwargs) :
        try:
            r = f(*args, **kwargs)
            return r
        except Exception:
            exc = sys.exc_info()
            output = StringIO.StringIO()
            traceback.print_exception(exc[0], exc[1], exc[2], file=output)
            raise Exception("<THREAD GUARD>\n\n" + output.getvalue())
    return thread_guard_wrapper

@thread_guard
def thread_func():
    return 1 / 0

def thread_done(result):
    r = result.get()
    print r

class MainWindow(wx.Frame):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        wx.Frame.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)

        self.panel = wx.Panel(self)
        self.button = wx.Button(self.panel, label="Throw!")
        self.button.Bind(wx.EVT_BUTTON, self.OnButton)

        self.sizer = wx.BoxSizer()
        self.sizer.Add(self.button)

        self.panel.SetSizerAndFit(self.sizer)
        self.Show()

    def OnButton(self, e):
        startWorker(thread_done, thread_func)

app = wx.App(True)
win = MainWindow(None, size=(600, 400))
app.MainLoop()

Now the question:
Can I do easily something similar to Java solution in wxPython? Or maybe, is there a better way in either Java or wxPython?

A: In Python you can set sys.execpthook to a function that you want to be called for uncaught exceptions.  Then you won't need the decorators, you can just deal with the exceptions centrally in your hook function instead.
And rather than just printing the exception traceback text and letting it be displayed in the stock stdout window you can do something more intelligent with it, like using a dialog to display the text and have controls that allow the user to send the error information back to the developer, to ignore future errors, to restart the application, or whatever you want.

A: In Java, if TaskDialog is not available, you may be able to use JOptionPane, as shown here. From a thread other than the event dispatch thread, wrap the call using EventQueue.invokeLater(), as suggested here. Also consider adding an optional provision to invoke Desktop#mail().