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Is There A JK Rowling Book Which May Never Be Published?
By John Tindale in Books / Authors on 10 July 2017
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Will we ever see the Fancy Dress themed book?
Jk Rowling has certainly been busy, with four short stories as well as work on 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them', all coming out in the last year. However, it would seem that there will be one piece which may never be published.
JK Rowling attends the London Premiere of Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them
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Candy Crowley Leaves CNN After Nearly Three Decades
By Ed Biggs in Movies / TV / Theatre on 06 December 2014
After 27 years as a political correspondent, the popular 'State of the Union' talk show host leaves the network.
It's the end of an era at CNN as journalist Candy Crowley, a longstanding political reporter, is leaving the company after 27 years. She was CNN's chief political correspondent.
Crowley, 65, was the host of CNN's Sunday morning talk show 'State of the Union', a political magazine show that rounds up the week's most significant news, and puts politicians, senators, Cabinet members and the like under the media spotlight through candid interviews.
Candy Crowley covered Barack Obama's (above) campaigns
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Piers Morgan Declines New Deal At CNN, Announces His Departure
By Michael West in Movies / TV / Theatre on 02 September 2014
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Piers Morgan has abruptly announced his departure from CNN, but is he sending out a message to potential suitors?
Piers Morgan, whose brash interviewing style looked like it may even work stateside for a short period, has left CNN, announcing his departure on Twitter. The 49-year-old never reached the venerable heights of his processor 'Larry King Live' and although proving hugely entertaining at times, he is now no longer an employee of the network.
Piers Morgan has officially left CNN [Getty/Ramin Talaie]
Morgan's primetime show was cancelled six months ago but, according to the Guardian, he apparently remained on the payroll as negotiations continued over a new role at the network. However, when offered the chance by CNN boss Jeff Zucker to host 40 interview specials over a two-year period, Morgan declined.
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Jon Stewart Takes CNN To Task For Boston Bombings Reportage
By Jack de Aguilar in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 18 April 2013
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The political comic has serious issues with CNN and their reporting
John King's erroneous report that a suspect had been identified in conjuction with the Boston bombings triggered a trail of CNN slip-ups on which Daily Show host Jon Stewart made them pay. Chris Cuomo, Fran Townsend and King tried to put the error down to third parties, dodgy sources and mystical events.
"There's clearly something afoot today," said King, possibly trying to pin the blame on Harry Potter. "We're getting some conflicting reports about an arrest," said Coumo. "The information has been dribbling and drabbling—there's obviously been a lot of confusion," added Townsend, using words that don't really mean anything to explain what happened. Cuomo then summed it all up by saying: "We don't know what's right or not right at this point, and as Anderson always says, you don't want to go down the road of speculation wrongfully." Well, step in Mr. Stewart, who always knows the right (funny) thing to say. "Well, that's what you were doing!" he said/screamed in reply.
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Tapper Leaves ABC – New Role At CNN Beckons For Jake Tapper
By Hayley Avron in Movies / TV / Theatre on 21 December 2012
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Jake Tapper leaves ABC, The Hollywood Reporter has informed us. The network's White House correspondent will be leaving to join CNN, where he will become their own chief Washington correspondent.
Tapper will also be hosting a weekday program on CNN. The move marks the end of four years as the White House link at ABC, where he has worked since the 2008 political elections. Tapper was also sent to cover Obama's campaign during the 2012 elections.
The news of Tapper's departure was broken by ABC's president Ben Sherwood, who sent an email to the network's staffers yesterday (December 20, 2012). The email also announced that Jonathan Karl would be promoted to the slot left vacant by Jake's departure. "For years, Jake has set the pace for the White House press corps," the email read. "A ferocious reporter – and now a best-selling author - he has built a reputation as one of the most prolific and multi-talented journalists on the beat, scoring scoop after scoop."
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CNN Films – CNN's New Documentary Venture, Starts With 'Girl Rising'
By Hayley Avron on 08 October 2012
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CNN have announced the creation of CNN Films, a new arm of the CNN empire that will source feature length documentaries to be aired on CNN and CNN International, as well as receiving distribution in movie theatres. The news was announced by Mark Whitaker, who revealed that the first film to be released by CNN Films will be Girl Rising, which features the voices of Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez.
Girl Rising is the movie that inspired a global action campaign that was launched in order to promote education for girls, called 10x10. The documentary tells the tale of girls from around the world, all fighting to overcome "impossible odds" in order that they can realize their dreams. This inspirational tale will reportedly be aired in Spring 2013. "CNN Films will bring distinguished, thought-provoking documentary programming to our global audiences on all our television, online and mobile platforms," said Whitaker, and added "We want these documentaries to tell compelling stories and stimulate important discussions across CNN's other programs and websites."
CNN plan that the documentaries will span a variety of subject matters, including politics, as well as social and economic subjects. The premiere of each movie will be accompanied by a series of programs related to the subject matter in question. The CNN reports revealed: "In-depth interviews, expert commentary, roundtable discussions, debates, and behind-the-scenes footage will be featured across all of CNN's broadcast and online platforms.
Emily Maitlis, CNN and Piers Morgan - Emily Maitlis, London, England - at the launch of CNN's 'Piers Morgan Tonight' at the Mandarin Oriental hotel. - Outside Arrivals Tuesday 7th December 2010
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And Just Like That review: How to solve a problem like Samantha Jones?
*Warning: This article contains huge spoilers from the very first episode of And Just Like That.
And Just Like That… Carrie Bradshaw, Miranda Hobbes and Charlotte York are back on television after two questionable movies and the dramatic real-life fall out between Sarah Jessica Parker and Kim Cattrall that appears to be behind the exit of Samantha Jones.
When the revival of Sex and The City was announced I, like much of the fandom, was sceptical, to put it kindly.
My faith in Carrie and her clique was shattered. As a franchise, it thrived in the 90s and noughties and that's exactly where it should stay.
And then came the confirmation Kim Cattrall was out. How could Sex and the City continue without its sex?
As it happens, more seamlessly than I imagined.
Rather than trying to recreate the magic of Sex and The City, the show that single-handedly changed the playing field for women and their relationship with sex, And Just Like That is very much its own less glamorous, more sombre entity.
Carrie is back in a big way (Picture: 2021 WarnerMedia Direct, LLC.)
The world has changed and with it, the Sex and The City ladies had to change too.
Carrie no longer has her New York Times column to justify spending her week nights in some fabulous cocktail bar (I have now reached my 30s and realised that is an impossible dream), Miranda has left corporate law to fight for human rights, while Charlotte is struggling to balance life as two very different teenage daughters.
Their chats over brunch are no longer horny or shocking, but meaningful and poignant. That is essentially the beating heart of And Just Like That, following three women striving to be the best they can be and adapting to the new world around them.
The elephant in the room is addressed within seconds: what happened to Samantha Jones?
'It's like she's dead, you never even talk about her?' says Miranda, turning to a stone cold Carrie.
Kim Cattrall's Samantha is not back (Picture: New Line Cinema/Hbo/Village Roadshow/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock)
In short, Carrie dropped Samantha as the publicist for her new book. Subsequently, Sam has abandoned the Big Apple for a new job in London and, in turn, left her entire life, including her friendships behind.
Trying to make sense of Sex and The City with Samantha felt as though it could be an impossible task but actually And Just Like That's conundrum is solved pretty naturally. Life happens and as it turns out the friendships we thought would last forever have an expiry date.
However, at the end of episode one there's a much bigger tragedy driving And Just Like That than the end of the fab four. Big dies.
It's the rug pull which, while a punch in the gut, gives And Just Like That a purpose beyond resurrecting the career of its cast and making a lot of people a lot of money.
Whether of the popular opinion that Big is Carrie's biggest mistake or not, his sudden death is a blow. While I have spent two decades complaining about Big as if he treated my own best friend as an afterthought, I wept as Carrie held her toxic husband, and looked into his eyes for the very last time.
The crew is (mostly) back (Picture: 2021 WarnerMedia Direct, LLC.)
While yet to see what future lies ahead for Carrie, the prospect of navigating her grief and perhaps even dating again in her 50s feels like a story worth exploring.
Elsewhere, sans Samantha is the arrival of more bold women to admire instead.
Righting the wrongs of the Sex and The City's colour-blindness, Karen Pittman stars as Dr. Nya Wallace, a Black professor Miranda painfully befriends while awkwardly othering and exposing her white saviour complex, and Nicole Ari Parker plays Lisa Todd Wexley a socialite literally described by Antony as 'the Black Charlotte'. Their additions admittedly often feel forced but well-intentioned and welcomed.
And Just Like That isn't the randy comedy of Sex and The City and nor could or should it be. It's moved on. But it is still very much achieves being the welcomed catch up with Carrie, Miranda and Charlotte fans will be rooting for and failed to get from two movies.
If anything, Sarah Jessica Parker fits into Carrie's shoes with more familiarity. As one of the most contentious protagonists on television, Carrie has rattled many Sex and the City fans – in her 30s, she was a terrible friend. The moment she covers Charlotte's engagement ring with a post-it note still gives me chills.
She's returned, however, with more resilience and charm, flittering between grief and her quick one-liners like only Carrie can.
I'll admit, And Just Like That's triumph is unexpected. I firmly accepted my goodbye to Sex and The City 10 years ago, but in 2021 there is definitely space for a new, albeit different friend, in And Just Like That.
And Just Like That airs tonight at 9pm on Sky Comedy and is available to stream on NOW.

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At KLAX and KATL, is there a normal altitude at which aircraft are handed off to Departure?
You might want to check out airnav.com It has tons of info on each airport. It has all the departure procedures in the left column near the bottom. Just browsing quickly, most seem to end at or below 3000.
Around 400 feet agl in the real world.
If you want to see/hear how it is done in real life, I'd recommend checking out the LAX Webcam (Cam 2 is best to view when the departure hand off takes place) in conjunction with LiveATC.net (KLAX Tower - South). I find these sites to be very entertaining and educational.
Remember there's a slight time delay between actual voice transmission and when you hear it on LiveATC.net which could translate into several hundred feet depending on a/c rate of climb.
Good point ... hopefully one can figure out the delay after watching for a short time. That's why I prefer the webcam instead of just following along with FlightRadar24 or FlightAware.
Also, from an eyeball perspective it seems like the initial climb rate might be a little higher in real life than in Pro.


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The downside of being Goldman Sachs
Pricey over time.
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Being an elite brand with household name recognition has clear advantages for attracting talent. Goldman Sachs, for example, recently said it accepted only 4% of the people that applied for its analyst program. A new paper (paywall) confirms that the most prestigious investment banks get the best talent out of business schools school without having to pay a premium.
But the prestige of firms like Goldman Sachs—which helps in hiring—has major drawbacks when it comes to managing retention and compensation over time, according to the study from Wharton professor Matthew Bidwell and co-authors, which looked at MBAs in investment banking. Early hires are high quality and surprisingly cheap. But as they move up the organizational ladder, that prestigious experience makes them extremely expensive to keep.
Prestige is attractive because the name and status of the firm will help employees for the rest of their careers. The authors of the new study calculated employer status by looking at survey data from career data company Vault, and ranking firms from 1 (least prestigious) to 50 (most prestigious). A one unit increase in an MBA's perception of a firm's reputation nearly doubled the likelihood they would accept an offer, according to the paper.
Firms get a few years of surplus benefit from those early career employees because they can't leave right away, as other companies are often suspicious of those who want to jump ship too soon. Salary advantages don't fully kick in until an employee has five years of experience. But, over time, the salary premium at top companies gets so high that employees capture a lot of the value of a firm's status.
You can see this in the chart below. Job rank refers to an employee's position in the organizational hierarchy. One would be an entry-level associate, and nine a senior executive. Pay rapidly increases at higher levels of prestigious firms:
Image: Wharton
According to the paper, a high-status employer pays 15% more for someone at the vice president level than a lower-tier firm. Since these firms are already seen as being better, those that get promoted only see their value increase more in the eyes of others.
Once someone hits the executive level at a top firm, everyone knows they're good, so the value of staying isn't that high. That's when they start demanding more money.
The title of the paper (paywall) begins "I used to work at Goldman Sachs!" which sums things up pretty well. As the research shows, once someone can say that, her perceived value increases.
The study doesn't address the separate, obvious question, of whether the high-prestige firms are best equipped to pay higher salaries because of the premiums they can in turn charge clients. Higher fees and higher compensation are arguably their business models.
Firms looking to boost their prestige should look at why it matters to employees in the first place. People can flock to these firms because of their brands and reputation, networks, training offered, high-achieving staffs, and better career options for their alumni.
The first thing a firm looking to get better talent may want to concentrate on is providing more training and support to ensure that its alumni move on to great things. Those that already have high status can take advantage by hiring lots of entry level workers.


The opportunity to see The Far Meadow passed me by, ill health, poverty, can't quite remember which; if it was poverty there is a certain wealth of riches in what is presented before me.
Foreign Land is an interesting album that might be very well received in such places. Italy is the main one that springs to mind. Lifting it above what may be by some considered pastiche are the vocals of Marguerita Alexandrou, she sings with the strength and power of Grace Slick (Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, Starship), that said there is also something very English about this polished performance. I do love that slight vibrato, so many clones at times and Marguerita is not one of them.
The keyboards are beautiful, and only one player! Multiple instruments, multiple styles, very possibly a test-tube baby combining the DNA of Banks, Wakeman, Moraz, Tomita, and numerous other creatures of the keys. In terms of the sound palate, I can hear many of my youth, elements, restructured to produce a modern progressive beast; it is working for me, the balance and attack heard first through a set of Beats headphones, and the drums are perfectly placed within that soundscape – a baby bear porridge, just right.
If the notes read right, and I assume they do, the mastering of this is down to the Bad Elephant label alleged ogre, David Elliott. Classy work, David. It would be easy make this album contiguous in a timeline with Genesis' Trespass from 1970, but though there are places that have that feel it is not dated. I'm rather taken with it.
So, it opens with a Tangerine Dream style synthesiser piece, before mixing everything up and Ms Alexandrou starts to sing. It is quite a long intro before her appearance, but she is welcome when she arrives, following Paul Bringloe's staccato drums and Eliot Minn's keys, her lyrics delivered in the same punchy style. I remain for now in my Grace Slick/White Rabbit moment, I also get an essence of perhaps what a Genesis in an alternative universe may have been. I would have said the lead singer in a frock, but Mr Gabriel had that aspect covered. Halfway through an 18-and-a-half-minute opener, and more changes than a cross city trip on a London bus (a Routemaster of course). It's brave to open an album with a track this long in our throwaway society, but I feel it gives more hope and pleasure than pop by numbers, especially as the track now seems to have a little Emerson interlude. All the players have entered, some beautiful bass from Keith Buckman, and superb lead guitar Dennis Warren; very Hackett/Gilmour if you can imagine the two as one. I think I shall become a watcher, if not of the skies, at least The Far Meadow.
Only five tracks, but definite value for money, the second being Sulis Rise. That band Yes are here at times, and lyrics sometimes have that soundbite appeal of a Jon Anderson special. The phrasing is similar too. There are no fillers here, every track a full meal, and the album a banquet. The light does indeed dance, close to a bossa nova in fact, they'd get away with that live on one passage, before switching to a subtle Banksian repeating melody, and a hint of Turn of the Century. I may be referencing others works, but it is a review, I am by nature analytical, and I find that my ears are pleased and not disturbed by similarities (those of the overly analytical).
Mud has a different texture – well it would, would it not? It has a fun Gothic intro and it makes me smile. As said, or at least hinted, I just get a feeling of a love for making new music, as well as what the band may also have heard over the years. Marguerita's voice is strong throughout this relatively short track, no faults elsewhere either, and I'm still smiling.
Escape is in order for The Fugitive, and if you think you have found an appropriate pigeonhole for The Far Meadow, forget it. This track owes as much to jazz rock fusion at its best whilst still wearing its prog both old and new (I loathe the term Neo, pseudo-intellectual wordsmithery) on its sleeve. l like the curved ball that I believe The Fugitive carries, it is the same as before, but different. Which brings us to the eponymous track, Foreign Land.
Foreign Land inhabits the spaces similar to the first three tracks, blending much, acoustic and electric, and if I'm honest a quality that drew me to Genesis back in 1973. In terms of modern keys and the ability to reproduce a variety of sounds, I cannot tell what is an original instrument (harpsichord or spinet?) and what comes from a box of tricks; who cares? Again, the jazz influence shines, and I can only imagine that Paul, Denis, and Keith may have played a little. Even at 11 minutes I find I am still attentive.
A well-constructed album, and though there is much I am aware to come, well in for a shout for top five come year's end. The Far Meadow are scheduled to appear at Summer's End in early October, and with this as a reference point, they're worth the ticket price. Foreign Land is, I think, an essential purchase for lovers of the mellower end of today's progressive music. If you want rock riffs and angry vocals you may be disappointed, but anything else with a touch of delightful fusion, then send them the money. You'll make an alleged grumpy old man at BEM happy at least.
It matters not the colour of my passport, the borders to be crossed, Foreign Land is another country to which I suspect I shall choose to become a frequent traveller.


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AFL boss pushes mid-year trade period
AFL chief Gillon McLachlan has made another bold push for a mid-year trade period, declaring it would help to create a more equal competition.
Gillon McLachlan says Port would have benefited from a mid-year trade period in 2016, when star ruckman Paddy Ryder wasn't available. Photo: Michael Errey/InDaily
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McLachlan is confident the long-discussed concept will be introduced in coming years despite having little support from clubs.
He said the league was keen to facilitate greater player movement to help struggling teams rebuild more quickly.
"It's one of the only times where you have the weaker clubs – ie. the club lower down the ladder – having more leverage in the trade," McLachlan told an AFL website podcast.
"It's four, five or six years for a club to get in the position to be competing deep into the finals.
"And you might get the wrong couple of injuries, and you've got everything right and you're travelling well (but) you need a player."
McLachlan cited Port Adelaide in 2016 as an example of a club who could have strongly benefited from mid-year trading.
With Paddy Ryder banned for the season and Matthew Lobbe out with a knee injury, the Power were forced to play pinch-hitter Jackson Trengove as their full-time ruckman.
Their midfield suffered and Port went on to finish 10th.
McLachlan said Port could have engaged with a club such as St Kilda who at the time had a surplus of big men, stressing that the Saints would have had the leverage and were under no obligation to make a deal.
"The reason some people don't like it is there's an emotive side to the trade, but there's no difference to the end of the year," he said.
"No one likes change generally. Our clubs like it as little as anyone. I think we'll get there on that."
McLachlan signalled that live trading of prospective draftees on the night of the draft was also on the agenda.
Just 28 players changed clubs during the recent trade and free-agency window and McLachlan said the sky would not fall in if mid-year trading was introduced.
"Players are incredibly loyal. We get to the end of the trade period and people are bemoaning the lack of trades and player movement," he said.
"If anything, I think there needs to be more player movement."
– AAP
Gillon McLachlan
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27 And G-d created man in His image; in the image of G-d He created him; male and female He created them.
29 And G-d said, "Behold, I have given you every seed bearing herb, which is upon the surface of the entire earth, and every tree that has seed bearing fruit; it will be yours for food.
30 And to all the beasts of the earth and to all the fowl of the heavens, and to everything that moves upon the earth, in which there is a living spirit, every green herb to eat," and it was so.
31 And G-d saw all that He had made, and behold it was very good, and it was evening and it was morning, the sixth day.
Think of the beauty of being made in the image of G-d— I am made in that image, Rabbi is made in that image, you are made in that image, everybody in this sanctuary is made in G-d's image… everyone you will ever meet or see or hear about is made in that image. Humanity is not just a creation; humanity is like unto G-d.
There is more in this, though. Adonai, who has dominion over the whole Universe, gives us dominion over the world that was just created. Leaving aside the somewhat questionable job humanity has done with that dominion, , we are not created as objects or as servants but to be a ruler like G-d himself. Mind you, this is this is all of humanity in the image of G-d and as ruler… there is no mediation… no king… no demigod… that intervenes. This was revolutionary thinking in the Bronze Age; it, frankly, is pretty revolutionary thinking in this Atomic Age and Computer Age .
2 Speak to the entire congregation of the children of Israel, and say to them, You shall be holy, for I, the Lord, your G-d, am holy.
9 When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not fully reap the corner of your field, nor shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest.
10 And you shall not glean your vineyard, nor shall you collect the [fallen] individual grapes of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the poor and the stranger. I am the Lord, your G-d.
13 You shall not oppress your fellow. You shall not rob. The hired worker's wage shall not remain with you overnight until morning.
14 You shall not curse a deaf person. You shall not place a stumbling block before a blind person, and you shall fear your G-d. I am the Lord.
15 You shall commit no injustice in judgment; you shall not favor a poor person or respect a great man; you shall judge your fellow with righteousness.
All of this speaks to Social Justice as a Jewish Value, as the word of G-d. These are our Commandments, what we are to do.. We are to care for the poor & hungry. We are to care for the stranger, the immigrant. We are not to steal. We are to care for those working for us. We are to protect the disabled..
We have so many words to study: the Torah, the Talmud, all the commentators. Even though we are called the people of the book, Judaism is not a religion of words alone. It is a faith based in deeds. It is not just enough to believe. But how do we, as individuals and as a community, make these words into deeds?
My life as a social justice activist began as a young teen in the mid and late 70s, I was motivated by what I saw as some horrible things.
Watching tv as a young working class child in Northern Kentucky, I was horrified by the way the TV news seemed to make the war dead and injured look like sports scores. Additionally, I began to believe that the US was on the wrong side in places like Nicaragua before the Sandinista revolution and in El Salvador. I became very active in the anti-war movement. I did not see the support of death squads as worth my or other young kids' lives.
Reproductive rights became very important to me partially because I wanted to make sure that my sisters had access to abortion if they wanted one. Every person has a right to control their own body, and it was important to protect that right. Protecting that right meant escorting women into clinics as Right-to-Lifers and Operation Rescue members tried to blockade the clinics. It meant hanging out at night at clinics that had received credible bomb threats; we were at the doors, in the alleys, and in the buildings to stop any would-be bombers. Keeping these clinics open and operating meant that the women who went there could make their own choices about their bodies.
The economic crisis of 2008, as markets crashed, businesses failed, and factories closed around the country, was extremely bad. 2008, as bad as it was, was the third or fourth wave of economic collapse in large areas of the country. I would argue that for many throughout the US and the world, this crisis has been going on since the early 1970s. Following the Arab oil embargo, a large swath of this country lost jobs and became a rustbelt. As a result of this economic collapse, I eventually came to LA in 1984 on board a Trailways bus. Many others left as I did, but, for those who chose or had to stay (like my sisters and brothers), they faced an ever-deepening spiral, economically and socially.
As many of you know I work for a Labor Union representing workers throughout LA county. These include oil workers and carwash workers. My work includes making sure that people receive the wages and benefits that have been agreed to, helping workers not be mistreated at work, and helping immigrant workers enjoy the rights they have by living in this country. Occasionally, I hear that Unions used to be really important, but that they are not needed anymore. Given that wage theft is such a wide-spread crime in the US, this work remains important. In fact, this work is more than that; it is about making sure people are treated fairly and decently at the place they spend at least 40 hours per week. It is making sure everyone is respected as and treated as a human being.
I have not listed these for consideration as activities for others or for the congregation, but I do want to make sure that Social Justice be seen in a very wide view.
The Torah says "Justice, Justice you shall pursue" (Deuteronomy 16:20), but what happens when justice is not pursued, when economic and social conditions are not addressed or not seen as being addressed? Germany is a case in point — the inability to address an economic crisis, to solve rampant inflation led to a circumstance where a scapegoating racist murderous regime came to power. The Nazis took advantage of this situation and appealed to the worst in people; millions died in the Holocaust and war ravaged Europe as a result. We are now seeing a resurgence of white supremacist ideology in the US, now calling itself White Nationalism. The economic crisis of 2008 is partially to blame; unresolved economic woes cause people to find someone or something to blame. These are the times we live in.
I don't expect anyone in this room to agree with me on particular parts of my activism for social justice; what I am asking is that people go back and re-read Parshah Kedoshim and think about how to make these commandments real as an individual, as a congregation, and as a society. Our beliefs are a part of our identity; without deeds, though, that identity is merely a self-description. As we face the coming year, let's face the challenge of working to make Social Justice a reality.


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Pitchfork Presents Stage at Berlin Festival
Featuring My Bloody Valentine, Savages, John Talabot, Pantha du Prince, Parquet Courts, more
Sarah Gulinski
This year's Berlin Festival takes place September 6-7 at Flughafen Tempelhof. Pitchfork is happy to announce that we will present the Pitchfork Stage @ Hangar 2, which will include performances from My Bloody Valentine, Savages, John Talabot (live), Pantha du Prince, Parquet Courts, Villagers, Is Tropical, and more. Check out the stage's schedule below.
Other acts performing at this year's Berlin Festival include Björk, Blur, Pet Shop Boys, Justice (DJ), Röyksopp (DJ), Klaxons, Ellie Goulding, Bastille, and more.
16:00 Parquet Courts
17:00 Bosnian Rainbows
18:30 Villagers
20:00 Get Well Soon
21:30 Tomahawk
23:00 John Talabot (live)
15:30 Ruen Brothers
16:45 Is Tropical
18:15 Savages
20:00 My Bloody Valentine
21:45 Turbostaat
23:00 Pantha du Prince
Here's a trailer for the festival:
Berlin Festival


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Home » Modern Slavery Statement
Halma plc (Halma) supports the provisions set out in the Modern Slavery Act 2015 (Act) and has taken steps to prevent modern slavery occurring in its supply chain and within its own operations.
This statement has been published in accordance with Section 54 of the Act and applies to Halma and its subsidiaries (the Group). The individual companies which meet the requirement to report under the Act have been specifically mentioned below.
Halma has worked in partnership with STOP THE TRAFFIK since 2019, a UK-based charity which works to disrupt and prevent human trafficking by raising awareness, informing and equipping individuals, organisations and communities to take action to combat this global crime. STOP THE TRAFFIK conducted a modern slavery risk mapping exercise on our supply chain. Over the coming year, we will be working with STOP THE TRAFFIK to assess the output from this exercise and identify areas of risk.
Business Structure and Supply Chains
Halma employs over 7,200 people in 44 businesses operating in more than 25 countries. Halma plc does not have a centralised procurement function. Each business is a separate legal entity, and has its own board of directors with accountability within a clear legal and compliance framework.
Our purpose - to grow a safer, cleaner, healthier future for everyone, every day - drives our strategy and culture. Our companies and products have a core focus on safety, health and environmental markets.
Figure 1: Distribution of Halma's production and office facilities
Our 44 businesses are grouped within four sectors:
Process Safety – 7 Businesses
Technologies that protect people and assets at work.
Infrastructure Safety – 13 Businesses
Technologies that save lives, protect infrastructure and enable safe movement.
Environmental & Analysis – 11 Businesses
Technologies that monitor and protect the environment and ensure the quality and availability of life-critical resources.
Medical – 13 Businesses
Technologies that enhance the quality of life for patients and improve the quality of care delivered by healthcare providers.
You can find out more about our businesses and what they do here.
The location of our businesses and corporate offices can be found in our Group directory here.
Halma is the parent company of the Group and employs a leadership team who set the framework under which our businesses operate. We have an autonomous organisational structure with each Halma company a separate legal entity run by a board of directors and officers with clear lines of accountability. As the directors and officers of their companies, local management are empowered to lead their business and are responsible for developing their own supply chains, but must operate within the Group's compliance and control framework. All businesses are required to complete a semi-annual internal control certificate which confirms that they have complied with key areas of control and compliance mandated by in Group's policies and procedures (see Policies and Procedure below for more information). This certificate includes a specific provision confirming that all employees have read and signed our Code of Conduct which communicates our approach to critical human rights, business conduct and ethical matters, including modern slavery.
8 Halma companies have either met, or met in the past, the reporting criteria under the Act:
Apollo Fire Detectors Limited (Apollo)
Designs and manufactures fire detectors for commercial and industrial applications.
Bureau d'Electronique Appliquée S.A. (BEA)
Designs and manufactures motion, presence and safety sensors.
CenTrak, Inc. (CenTrak)
Designs and manufactures real-time location services for healthcare facilities.
Crowcon Detection Instruments Limited (Crowcon)
Designs and manufactures gas detection instruments.
HWM-Water Ltd (HWM)
Designs and manufactures monitoring and telemetry equipment for water, wastewater and gas networks.
Medicel AG (Medicel)
Designs and manufactures specialist eye surgery instruments.
Microsurgical Technology (MST)
Designs and manufacturers surgical devices and instruments used to improve sight.
Texecom Limited (Texecom)
Designs and manufactures electronic intruder alarm systems.
In 2019, STOP THE TRAFFIK conducted a modern slavery risk mapping of our global supply chain, which is effectively the aggregate of the separate supply chains of each individual Halma company. The findings of this project showed that our companies spent approximately £540 million annually with over 11,000 suppliers across 60 countries. The majority of our suppliers operated in the USA (33%), the UK (28%), China (7%), and Germany (4%). Approximately 3,900 of these suppliers were considered to be 'significant suppliers' (meaning a total annual spend of £10,000 or more) and collectively represented approximately 97% of our annual supplier expenditure. These significant suppliers were distributed across 49 countries. The suppliers by continent is shown in figure 2 below.
Figure 2: Distribution of significant suppliers in 2019 representing approximately 97% of annual expenditure
Halma has a culture of openness, integrity and accountability. We require our employees to act fairly in their dealings with fellow employees, customers, suppliers and business partners. We are committed to preventing modern slavery and human trafficking in our operations and in our supply chains. The Group has a range of policies and procedures which mitigate the risk of modern slavery.
1. Modern Slavery Act Policy
Halma has created a policy for all businesses within the Group, in order to promote a culture of awareness and best practice on Modern Slavery. This policy is important as it encourages a consistent approach to modern slavery prevention across our de-centralised company structure.
The policy outlines:
What modern slavery is, which industries are at heightened vulnerability, which countries and sectors are known to be high-risk, and which indicators should raise concerns.
The requirements of the Act.
Recommendations for best practice mitigation and methods for determining their operations and supply chain modern slavery risk.
All businesses are required to review and consider the areas set out within the policy.
2. Code of Conduct
Our worldwide Code of Conduct (Code) sets out the ethical standards that govern the activities of the Group, our employees, and business partners. The Code includes a specific provision concerning the prevention of modern slavery and human trafficking, setting out:
Our clear commitment to never tolerate, or engage with those who do tolerate modern slavery, human trafficking, and other abuses of labour rights.
An explanation of how modern slavery prevention falls within the remit of our Human Rights and Labour Conditions Policy.
The Code is available on our website and has been translated into 9 languages which include the official languages of 20 of the 26 countries our businesses operate in.
It is a Group-wide requirement that all of our employees receive, and sign to acknowledge that they have read, the Code.
3. Human Rights and Labour Conditions Policy
Modern slavery prevention falls within Halma's human rights approach to sustainability. Halma's Human Rights and Labour Conditions policy endorses the dignity and rights of all individuals as established in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work. The policy commits Halma to integrate compliance with human rights throughout the Group's activities, ensuring that human rights are respected at all times and are protected within the Halma's sphere of our influence.
The Policy includes several commitments which are key for modern slavery prevention:
To never tolerate forced or bonded labour, and to never require employees to leave deposits or identity documents with their employer.
To never tolerate child labour and to require all employees to be above the minimum legal working age.
To respect any employee's right to form or join a trade union, and to never discriminate against members of trade unions.
To ensure that employees always have the freedom to leave their employer.
Our Human Rights and Labour Conditions Policy can be found here.
4. Whistleblowing Policy
The Group has a clear whistleblowing policy and an established third-party whistleblowing service, accessible both online and by telephone, which allows employees in any of our businesses to raise concerns in confidence, anonymously (where permitted by law) and independent of their company. Our third-party whistleblowing facility is not limited to employees and can be used by anyone, including our customers and suppliers.
In order to ensure that the mechanism remains accessible and trusted by our employees, the whistleblowing policy explains how the process works, how anonymity will be preserved, and an assurance that a whistleblower will not be treated negatively for raising an issue in good faith. Halma's Board (and Audit Committee where concerns relate to potential financial misconduct or fraud) reviews the nature of reports made through the whistleblowing channel in order to ensure that it remains an effective mechanism for raising concerns, that such reports are properly investigated under the direction of the Company Secretary and that there are no recurring trends that would suggest underlying cultural or ethical issues in the Group.
Any suspected or confirmed cases of modern slavery or human trafficking should be reported through the whistleblowing service. No suspected or confirmed cases of modern slavery have been reported to date.
Our Whistleblowing Policy can be found within our Code.
5. Sale and Distribution Terms and Conditions
During 2018/19, our UK businesses updated their standard sale and distribution terms and conditions. These terms specifically include a clause on compliance with anti-slavery laws and require distributors to not engage in any modern slavery practice. During 2019/20 our US lawyers created standard sale terms requiring anti-slavery compliance.
In 2019/20 Halma worked with STOP THE TRAFFIK to conduct a modern slavery risk map of our global supply chain.
STOP THE TRAFFIK's inherent risk mapping methodology consists of ranking each supplier on a scale of 1 to 5 based on their economic sector and country of operation, where 1 is the lowest risk of modern slavery, and 5 is the highest. These rankings combine intelligence from multiple open-source datasets with analysis from STOP THE TRAFFIK's human trafficking Research and Intelligence Team. The inherent risk mapping is a theoretical modern slavery ranking which identifies where risks are most likely to be within our supply chain, it does not confirm their existence.
The risk-mapping project identified that 13.5% (£72.9m) of our 2018/19 procurement expenditure related to 422 suppliers categorised as high-risk due to their country of operation or economic sector. These suppliers broadly fell into two risk areas:
Manufacturers in China producing electrical and metal components for our products.
Suppliers operating across Europe and North America in high-risk sectors, providing our company with services such as logistics, warehousing, labour provision, and construction.
Based on these inherent risk findings, we have worked with STOP THE TRAFFIK to develop a mitigation plan that will prioritise the Halma companies which are most exposed to these types of high-risk suppliers. We will be providing support and advice to these Halma companies to enable them to conduct effective due diligence and mitigate their inherent supply chain risk.
Our supplier due diligence activities are conducted at the individual company level.
Below is a summary of the steps taken to prevent modern slavery by those companies that meet, or have met in the past, the Modern Slavery Act threshold.
1. Apollo
Apollo's commitment to respecting human rights and preventing modern slavery is outlined in its supplier handbook which is sent to all suppliers. This handbook clearly states that all Apollo suppliers are required to comply with modern slavery laws and respect human rights, and that failure to do so could void supplier agreements.
All suppliers are assessed annually for a variety of risk variables, including modern slavery prevention. Risk factors such as suppliers' country of operations, membership to the Responsible Business Alliance, and company Modern Slavery Statements are all assessed. When a supplier is perceived to be high-risk for modern slavery, full on-site audits are carried out. Apollo will use STOP THE TRAFFIK's risk mapping process to inform its annual supplier assessment. In addition, the Apollo board and relevant employees have undertaken Halma's Modern Slavery Act compliance training.
2. BEA
All of BEA's suppliers are audited before starting any new business, a specific question on compliance with the Modern Slavery Act is a key trigger before new business can commence with BEA.
For incumbent suppliers, BEA Quality and Purchasing teams visit and audit each supplier regularly (this can be every four months or every two years, depending on vendor turnover with BEA). These audits review working conditions, the working environment, worker safety and labour conditions.
BEA do not have any business with any vendors that operate in countries deemed, by STOP THE TRAFFIK, as high-risk for modern slavery.
In 2019/20, BEA reviewed its purchasing terms and conditions to ensure that they met best practice. BEA's purchasing terms and conditions now include a specific requirement on the adherence to the UK Modern Slavery Act which all suppliers must comply with. These purchasing terms and conditions can be viewed on the BEA website and are available in English, French and Chinese.
The BEA board and relevant employees have undertaken Halma's Modern Slavery Act compliance training.
3. CenTrak
As a part of new supplier due diligence and on-boarding, implemented in 2019/20, all new suppliers are required to complete a supplier questionnaire related to modern slavery and human trafficking. The questionnaire establishes each supplier's operations and supply chain risk. It includes questions which review: the policies and procedures the suppliers have introduced to mitigate their modern slavery risk; how they manage their own supply chain risk; and what awareness training the supplier has conducted. The CenTrak board and relevant employees have undertaken Halma's Modern Slavery Act compliance training.
4. Crowcon
Crowcon conducts a preliminary modern slavery risk assessment on all its suppliers. This risk assessment is based upon geography, the commodity being purchased and the nature of the transaction.
In 2019/20, Crowcon has continued to audit and assess all of its key suppliers. Crowcon's supplier quality manager has visited the majority of suppliers that are located in high-risk countries according to the Global Slavery Index. All core suppliers have been required to complete a supplier quality audit questionnaire - which includes questions on preventing modern slavery and vetting sub-contractors and suppliers.
Crowcon plans to refresh its code of conduct agreements with its suppliers and also send updated supplier questionnaires, which include questions regarding their suppliers' modern slavery risk, so that the tier two supply chain can be assessed for high-risk activities. The Crowcon board and relevant employees have undertaken Halma's Modern Slavery Act compliance training.
5. HWM
This is the first year that HWM has qualified for reporting under the Modern Slavery Act. HWM has complied with Halma's Modern Slavery Act policy and all senior management and those involved in supply chain have undertaken Halma's Modern Slavery Act compliance training. Staff have re-signed the Halma Code of Conduct, confirming their understanding and commitment to the policy. The findings from STOP THE TRAFFIK's risk mapping will help to identify any high-risk suppliers and prioritise mitigation activities.
6. Medicel
Medicel's supplier quality agreement includes a provision that requires suppliers to comply with the Modern Slavery Act. In addition, Medicel uses a Supplier Labour Standard Assurance Questionnaire that requires suppliers to provide due diligence information such as the number of migrants they employ, if there is a workers' representative and a summary of the steps that have been taken to mitigate risk, such as labour standards policies and informing staff of their rights. Every new or existing supplier based in a country with a perceived high prevalence of modern slavery is being audited. The Medicel board and relevant employees have undertaken Halma's Modern Slavery Act compliance training.
7. MST
This is the first year that MST has qualified for reporting under the Modern Slavery Act. MST has complied with Halma's Modern Slavery Act policy and all senior management have undertaken Halma's Modern Slavery Act compliance training. MST has performed a risk assessment using data from NGOs to identify high-risk suppliers in locations where prevalence is high and government oversight is low. An on-site audit was carried out in 2019 for its largest risk supplier in India. MST has reviewed policies and initiated updates to its standard supplier agreement for all purchases, which now require compliance with the Modern Slavery Act.
8. Texecom
Texecom is committed to respecting human rights and preventing modern slavery. Texecom has fully complied with Halma's Modern Slavery Act Policy and members of the board, and senior leadership team, have undertaken Halma's Modern Slavery Act compliance training.Texecom are rolling out new supplier monitoring and compliance requirements through 2020/21 to further reduce risk factors. This will include a supplier handbook that will define to its suppliers the consequences of not complying with the Modern Slavery Act. The findings from STOP THE TRAFFIK's risk mapping will help to identify any high-risk suppliers and prioritise mitigation activities.
During 2017/18, Halma launched online modern slavery awareness training in partnership with VinciWorks. Senior management, subsidiary board directors and other relevant employees are automatically enrolled on this course. To date, over 2,800 employees have successfully completed this online compliance training, an increase of 1,600 since our last statement. The training covers:
What modern slavery is and which groups are at heightened vulnerability.
How modern slavery affects UK companies and what are the legal implications.
How to identify high-risk suppliers and operations.
How to identify cases of modern slavery and how to report concerns.
As Group Chief Executive, I will continue to lead this important agenda for our Halma and our Group and will report annually on the steps that we have taken and will be taking to prevent modern slavery.
A copy of this Statement is available on the Company's website at www.halma.com and also at the Modern Slavery Registry which is maintained by the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre.
This statement was approved by the Board of Halma and signed on its behalf by:
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ULM will host a ribbon cutting of The Hub at 10 a.m. on August 12.
KEDM Public Radio
Published August 3, 2022 at 11:14 AM EDT
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The University of Louisiana Monroe will host a ribbon cutting of The Hub at 10 a.m. on August 12 at the corner of University Avenue and Northeast Drive on campus. All are invited to attend the celebration and tour the facility.
The Hub will serve as the new student union building and will feature five food vendors, including Starbucks, Subway, Flip Kitchen, Bento Sushi, Chick-fil-A, and a small market with fresh food and groceries.
The contemporary two-story building has a 23,000 square-foot floor plan with seating for more than 600. It will serve as a gathering place for students to study, eat and socialize. The $11.6 million facility is a partnership with Aramark, which provides food services at ULM. Aramark invested $6 million in the project, with the remainder coming from student facilities fees.
The ribbon cutting comes in time for the first day of the fall semester on August 17.
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Mohonk Agreement is a framework and principles for the certification of ecotourism and sustainable tourism

History
The Mohonk Agreement was an informal consensus for the harmonization and development  of a common baseline for sustainable tourism and ecotourism certification. It was developed  among most of the world's important certification programs at that time, who met at Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz, New York on November 17–19, 2000. It was the first consensus agreement that clearly differentiates between sustainable tourism, whose principles can be applied to any kind of tourism at any scale, and ecotourism, which is a subset of sustainable tourism with a clearly defined relationship of the business and its clients with nature, conservation, local culture, and interpretation.

Importance
It has since served as a principle reference for the development of most sustainable tourism and ecotourism certification programs around the world, as well as a fundamental reference for: the World Tourism Organization's (UN-WTO) indicators for certification in "A Guidebook for Indicators of Sustainable Development for Tourism Destinations", the "VISIT Standard" for European certification standards, the "Baseline Criteria for Sustainable Tourism Certification in the Americas" of the Sustainable Tourism Certification Network of the Americas. It is expected, along with more recent developments, such as those just cited, to form part of the baseline criteria for a future accreditation program, currently under development, tentatively entitled the "Sustainable Tourism Stewardship Council" or STSC.

Structure of the agreement
The Mohonk Agreement lists the general principles and elements that should be the components of any certification program for sustainable tourism or the smaller niche of ecotourism. The principal aspects that should be part of any program are:

 Overall
 Adaptation to local geographic (including sociocultural) conditions and sectors of the tourist industry, while complying with a series of universal principles.
 Clear objectives, benefits, and procedures.
 A defined standard with criteria that meet the objective, exceed what is required by law, and balance performance and process-based elements.
The program should be transparent, free of conflicts of interest, and require audits, as well as considering the interests of consumers and local communities.
For sustainable tourism certification, criteria that reduce negative environmental and sociocultural impacts while benefiting the place where tourism takes place:
 General aspects: six basic criteria are listed
 Sociocultural aspects: four basic criteria are listed
 Environmental aspects: twelve basic criteria are listed
 Economic aspects: four basic criteria are listed
 For ecotourism certification, there is a clear differentiation as a niche within sustainable tourism that not only reduces negative impacts, but also produces net positive impacts for the environment and the communities that are visited.
 All of the criteria for sustainable tourism listed above should be met, preferable to best industry practice.
 There are seven additional general criteria that clearly differentiate ecotourism from sustainable tourism in general.

External links
Full text of the Mohonk Agreement
Further discussion of the impact of the agreement
A Guidebook for Indicators of Sustainable Development for Tourism Destinations
VISIT Standard for European certification standards
Baseline Criteria for Sustainable Tourism Certification in the Americas, Sustainable Tourism Certification Network of the Americas
Sustainable Tourism Stewardship Council

Ecotourism

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The present quasi-experimental study was conducted in ward G22, a milieu therapy unit at Cape Town's Groote Schuur Hospital. It examines self-esteem of patients prior to and subsequent to completion of the therapeutic milieu programme, using a self-report questionnaire, the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale. This questionnaire was used to measure the level of self-esteem after completion of a 9-12 week stay in G22. The questionnaire was administered to twenty-three successive patients admitted to the unit. Of these one terminated prematurely by committing suicide, while the questionnaire was re-administered to the remaining twenty-two subjects in the final week of their treatment. Protocols were computer scored and quantitatively analysed using Wilcoxon Rank Sum and Signed Rank tests of significance. This analysis indicated that there was a general improvement in self-esteem of subjects after completion of the therapeutic milieu programme, while there was a significant improvement in self-esteem of older subjects when compared with the younger subjects. Other variables such as language, gender and length of stay did not significantly affect the results.
Sujee, S. 1999. The Assessment of self-esteem before and after a therapeutic milieu programme. University of Cape Town.


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In the course of the BMB symposium Identity and globalization – Design for the city.


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The gun the fierce: Momo users reached 50 million
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today mobile social applications Momo officially announced, registered users have reached 50 million.
"less than two years, the number of users reached 50 million, group exceeds 700000, location number more than 62 million. From found near a person, to find like-minded with yourself a group of people. Mobile social life, by the stranger stranger."
Momo launched in August 2011, launched a year 10 million users. Since Momo successively introduced group, message boards, and other functions. In march this year Momo announced users rapid growth to 30 million. Less than four months, Momo rapid increase to 50 million users.
although devoted to devoted to the development of speed rapid growth can be used to describe, but there is no lack of the industry have a lot of question devoted to the voice of the stranger. These voices besides around Momo commercialization prospect is unknown, also for Momo users questioned the growth space
"at the moment, restricting the stranger devoted to the main factors of user growth in addition to the micro letter, mobile phone QQ alternative role, another important reason is devoted to the stranger was born. Rely on "booty call artifact" realized with WeChat differentiation, let Momo rather strong to survive, the industry generally believe that strange dating is man's original requirements, needs can be met. However is such background and positioning, let the stranger stranger users can't rapid growth as micro letter. At present, from the stranger stranger not stealth user view, basically all is the men and women under the age of 30, after a lot of married men and women has withdrawn from the stranger stranger, because "artifact" around the barrel of the gun position for married people is very taboo."
however, devoted to devoted to the official is through various measures to downplay about gun artifact of image. Momo launched version 4.0, the expression of charge store and membership service in addition to being the industry as a commercial layout thought, enhance the user viscosity of purpose is also very obvious.
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Bomb kills 9 at Iraqi wedding party
July 8, 2009, 6:38 PM UTC / Source: The Associated Press
A bomb planted on a well-wisher's car at a wedding celebration in Iraq on Wednesday killed nine people and injured 15 others outside the house of the groom, a police lieutenant, authorities said.
At least eight people died in other violence around the country.
The wedding attack happened at around 5 p.m. in Musayyib, 40 miles south of Baghdad, as guests gathered at the groom's gate before heading to the bride's house in line with tradition, a police officer and a hospital medic said on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.
Even though insurgents attack regularly, Iraq is far more secure now than in the past years of war. U.S. combat forces pulled back from cities to bases outside urban centers at the end of June, signaling confidence in the ability of Iraqi forces to keep order.
Militants have been driven out of many of their strongholds, although the northern city of Mosul remains a trouble spot.
A civilian, a soldier and two suspected insurgents died in clashes there on Wednesday, and a car bomb north of the city killed three civilians and injured 15 others, police officers said, also on condition of anonymity.
West of Baghdad, a bomb exploded at a house around the predominantly Sunni district of Abu Ghraib, killing a man and his 16-year-old son as they spread manure to fertilize their garden, police said. Five men in a neighboring house were injured and taken to a hospital.
On Wednesday, Iraqi officials said the Kurdish-run north of the country could not vote this month on a draft constitution, a document perceived by Iraqi Arabs as an effort to expand Kurdish authority at the expense of the central government.
Tension between Kurds and Arabs, particularly around the northern, oil-rich area of Kirkuk, is seen as a major threat to Iraqi stability.
Proposed constitution on hold
The election commission chairman, Faraj al-Haidari, said Kurds can't hold a referendum on a proposed constitution on the same day as elections for a regional parliament on July 25.
"The commission now has little time to prepare for the referendum, and we also have shortages and problems with vote papers and printing material," al-Haidari said.
The draft constitution would expand the boundaries of the Kurdish-run region to include Kirkuk, something strongly opposed by the Arab residents of the disputed city.
The Kurdish parliament planned to discuss the issue Thursday in the regional capital, Irbil.


South Africa made a bit of history as they beat Nigeria 2-0 in an Africa Cup of Nations qualifier on Saturday afternoon to record their first win over the Super Eagles in a competitive match.
However, according to the BBC, the match balls used in Uyo were ones that South Africa use for training. Why? because Nigeria's 250 balls are stuck in a port, awaiting official clearance.
One Super Eagles player reportedly branded the absence of the Nigeria balls a "national disgrace".
Back in January, CAF, the continent's governing body, sent 250 footballs to Nigeria for use in all Champions League, Confederation Cup and international matches. However, the balls were originally sent to the wrong address and the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) only recently realised.
Nigerian players have been training with footballs from their kit sponsors ever since, and only got to try South Africa's ones in the pre-match warm-up on Saturday.
"To borrow match balls from your opponent is not only bizarre but embarrassing," one Nigerian player told the BBC, wishing to retain his anonymity.
So, when will Nigeria actually get their shipment of balls?
A NFF official said: "We are working on it now and remain confident that we will get the balls out before the weekend."
South Africa's win came via two second-half goals from former Bournemouth striker Tokelo Rantie and Percy Tau.


Social media is a great place to collaborate, discover and share. I am an active user of some social media communities like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn where i have joined groups made for developers to keep myself updated, share and discover about the market trends. I am always looking for places and tools to make my life easier as a developer. Here are some of the social media communities just made for developers. These tools will help you in the development run. Enjoy!
Mashant is a social network dedicated to developers. Beginner or expert, web or system developer, come share with your friends the projects in which you worked, your achievements, your discoveries and much more.
Forrst is a community. It's a place where designers, engineers and developers can share their work and get the feedback they need. They can learn from each other what it means to give feedback and give it effectively. All with the goal of getting better at their craft.
Geeklist is a vibrant platform for geeks to discover, connect and share the great work they have done. Developers worldwide, and their work, are nowhere to be found or discovered. In Geeklist we provide the global developer community a place to get credit where credit is due. A place to share their resources and links with each other.
Snipplr is your solution. Now, all of our code snippets are stored in one place. Best of all, the other guys at work have access to each others' code library. With Snippl You can keep all of your frequently used code snippets in one place that's accessible from any computer. You can share your code with other visitors and use what they post, too.
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Q: python pandas .filter() method using boolean mask I have a dataframe (z) that looks like this:
timestamp                   source  price
2004-01-05 14:55:09+00:00   Bank1   420.975
2004-01-05 14:55:10+00:00   Bank2   421.0
2004-01-05 14:55:22+00:00   Bank1   421.075
2004-01-05 14:55:34+00:00   Bank1   420.975
2004-01-05 14:55:39+00:00   Bank1   421.175
2004-01-05 14:55:45+00:00   Bank1   421.075
2004-01-05 14:55:52+00:00   Bank1   421.175
2004-01-05 14:56:12+00:00   Bank2   421.1
2004-01-05 14:56:33+00:00   Bank1   421.275

Sometimes, there are time windows where Bank 2 submits only 1 quote - I need to throw out all days like this because I need 2 or more quotes by a bank. If Bank 2 appears 1 or fewer times, throw out the day.
I've accomplished this by creating a boolean mask from which I plan to filter out all days that satisfy the criteria:
r = z.groupby([z.index.date, z['source']]).size() > 1
    # return boolean for each day/source if it appears at least once
r = r.groupby(level=0).all() == True
    # ie. if the datetime 0th-level index contains all True, return True, otherwise False (meaning one source failed the criteria)

This yields:
2004-01-05  True
2004-01-06  True
2004-01-07  True
2004-01-08  False
2004-01-09  True

Perfect. Now I just need to filter it from the original dataframe z while keeping the original structure (ie. second-level frequency, not day-by-day). That means use the df.filter() method.
My original dataframe has the same structure (and their .shape[0]'s are the same):
2004-01-05  94
2004-01-06  24
2004-01-07  62
2004-01-08  30
2004-01-09  36

Great.
Here's where I get confused. I run:
t = y.groupby(y.index.date).filter(lambda x: [x for x in r])

And receive TypeError: filter function returned a list, but expected a scalar bool.

*

*Basically, I need the lambda function simply return each x (boolean) in r.

I solved this in a really convoluted instead (just take the whole thing I solved before and don't throw it into an r variable, but instead make it part of the lambda function).
t = y.groupby(y.index.date).filter(lambda x: (x.groupby([x.index.date, x['source']]).size() > 1).groupby(level=0).all() == True) # ie. the datetime 0th-level index

This is super messy and there must be a basic way to say, here is my dataframe z, then groupby('z.index.date'), then .filter() based on the boolean mask r.
Edit: this is what I found from the pandas tutorial, but I'm for some reason, the .between_time() part doesn't work. It filters out everything with length <= 1, not only when the .between_time() condition are true.
t = y.groupby([y.index.date, y['source']]).filter(lambda x: len(x.between_time('14:00','15:00') > 1)

A: The original approach you suggested is correct, although you have to use a transform on the groups (by date AND source) instead of an apply. transform return the group information with the same structure of the original dataframe.
grp = z.groupby([z.index.date,z.source])
counts = grp.transform('count')  #counts the records for each group and index the information with the same structure of z

filtered_z = z[counts > 1] #final filtering

A: I think I figured this out for dates:
create a new column for dates only in dataframe z
z['date'] = z.index.date

then keep the days that are in the boolean series r
z[z['date'].isin(r.index)]

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Foreign And Commonwealth Affairs
Territorial Waters
Mr. McCartney
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on the delineation of the territorial sea boundaries between the United Kingdom and (a) France, (b) Belgium and (c) the Irish Republic. [37286]
Sir Nicholas Bonsor
The agreement with France relating to the territorial sea boundary in the straits of Dover, Cm 733, entered into force on 6 April 1989. The territorial seas of the United Kingdom and Belgium do not meet, but there is an agreement for the delimitation of the continental shelf between the United Kingdom and Belgium, Cm 2499. The delimitation of the continental shelf between the United Kingdom and the Irish Republic is the subject of a 1988 agreement, Cm 990 and a 1992 protocol, Cm 2227.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many nautical square miles of the United Kingdom's territorial seas are claimed by the Irish Republic in its constitution; and what percentage of the total United Kingdom territorial seas that represents. [37287]
Mr. Rifkind
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Film Review: Humor Me Offers Far Too Little to Laugh About
This adaptation of a long-running web series doesn't hold muster at feature length
by Danielle Solzman
on January 12, 2018, 12:45pm
Humor Me is essentially the feature film adaption of writer-director Sam Hoffman's web series Old Jews Telling Jokes, and much like ideas that are typically created for a web series, the execution of the material appears to be just a bit too lacking to serve the purpose of a full-length film.
An acclaimed playwright, Nate Kroll (Jemaine Clement) loses out on the opportunity to finish his new play when producer C.C. Rudin (Bebe Neuwirth) fires him in the film's first few minutes. If this isn't enough, Nate comes home to find his wife, Nirit (Maria Dizzia) with her bags packed; she's ready to leave him if he can't get his life together. Nate is now in the awful position of having no income, and he has no choice but to move in with his widowed father, Bob (Elliott Gould), in the Cranberry Bog retirement golf community.
Nate isn't a fan of his father resorting to humor to deal with everything, including the passing of Nate's mother. They don't appear to have the best relationship, and Nate just wants to do his own work, much to his dad's dismay. Nate is soon forced to work under Ellis (Willie Carpenter), a former Marine in charge of the retirement community, and it's while working for Ellis that Bob discovers a senior citizen theater troupe with hopes of staging a musical on the premises.
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It's not until after Bob's heart attack that both Nate and his dad realize that the two of them are different people with different ways of telling stories. When Bob tells his jokes, Hoffman opts to display them in black-and white, with Gould providing a voice-over. Most of his jokes are about a guy named Zimmerman, and the first one in the film sees Zimmerman losing his genitalia in a car accident and a punchline that you'll hardly see coming.
The lack of developed female characters ultimately plays to the detriment of Hoffman's script, and film. For example, Neuwirth's producer appears in the film for maybe all of five minutes, if not fewer. The same can be said for Dizzia; as soon as she announces that she's leaving Nate, she's as good as gone. Both characters have a combined five to ten minutes on screen at best. The issues is not just that they have minimal screen time, but thatthere's an opportunity missed to explore Nate's relationship with his wife and the working relationship with C.C.. Instead, Nirit and C.C.'s purpose seems to be making it tough for Nate in whatever way possible in order to drive the film forward.
Moreover, it's an…interesting decision to have the seniors put on a performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado. The opera is set in Japan, and Hoffman features a cast of older white American women made up to look Japanese. If contemporary productions are drawing criticism and being forced into changes or cancellations, why is this performance allowed to happen in this film, even for laughs? Did anyone involved stop to think that maybe it wasn't a good idea to go forward with this particular opera? Whether or not they did, they could have at least thought better before starting production, because it's nothing but cringe-inducing at best. Nothing about making up older white Americans to look Japanese is funny.
Humor Me suffers the same fate as so many Saturday Night Live sketches-turned-movies. They work better as sketches than as a 90-minute film. Old Jews Telling Jokes is best off being left alone. Even a few better-developed women likely wouldn't be enough to save the film.
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from __future__ import absolute_import, print_function

import os
import sys

from setuptools import setup

version_info = {
    'name': 'ravstack',
    'version': '1.1.0',
    'description': 'Run OpenStack and oVirt on Ravello Systems.',
    'author': 'Geert Jansen',
    'author_email': 'geertj@gmail.com',
    'url': 'https://github.com/geertj/ravstack',
    'license': 'MIT',
    'classifiers': [
        'Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable',
        'License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License',
        'Operating System :: POSIX',
        'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7',
        'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.3',
        'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.4'
    ]
}

topdir, _ = os.path.split(os.path.abspath(__file__))

def get_requirements():
    """Parse a requirements.txt file and return as a list."""
    lines = []
    with open(os.path.join(topdir, 'requirements.txt')) as fin:
        for line in fin:
            if ' ' not in line:
                lines.append(line.rstrip())
    if sys.version_info[0] == 2:
        with open(os.path.join(topdir, 'requirements-27.txt')) as fin:
            for line in fin:
                if ' ' not in line:
                    lines.append(line.rstrip())
    return lines

if __name__ == '__main__':
    setup(
        packages=['ravstack'],
        package_dir={'': 'lib'},
        install_requires=get_requirements(),
        entry_points={'console_scripts': ['ravstack = ravstack.main:run_main']},
        **version_info)


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