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Jaden Smith, Gigi Hadid, and Zoe Kravitz Are the Faces of Spring 2016
by Gillian Sagansky
This season, brands like Marc Jacobs, Calvin Klein, and Balmain recruited a surprising, yet recognizable, cast including both legendary models and the children of legendary models.
Who: Jaden Smith
Campaign: Louis Vuitton.
Flanked by models, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith's 17-year-old son dons Nicolas Ghesquiere's newest women's ready-to-wear collection in the Bruce Weber-shot campaign.
Who: Gigi Hadid
Campaign: Versace
Donatella Versace's very first Instagram post was a selfie of her and Hadid, announcing the 21-year-old supermodel as the new face of the brand. Now that's a good way to get Insta-followers.
Who: Zoe Kravitz
Campaign: Balenciaga
A close friend of Wang's, Kravitz, who appears alongside the model Anna Ewers, was already a veteran of his runway before being tapped for the Steven Klein-shot ads.
Who: Iris Law
Campaign: Illustrated People.
Why: Jude Law's daughter makes her modeling debut in the campaign from London-based label Illustrated People.
Who: Lana Wachowski
Campaign: Marc Jacobs
The transgender director first caught Jacobs's eye with her powerful acceptance speech when she received the Human Rights Campaign Visionary Award in 2012.
Who: Lydia Hearst
Campaign: Equinox
It's a Page Six item turned instant classic image: Lydia Hearst breastfeeds twin newborns while dining in a fancy restaurant. Thank you, Steven Klein.
Who: Julia Garner, Matilda Lutz, India Salvor Menuez, Millie Brady
Campaign: Miu Miu
Miuccia Prada always has an eye for up and coming talent: here are three budding actresses and Menuez, an artist who also acts, in the campaign shot by Steven Meisel.
Who: Zoe Kravitz and Lisa Bonet
Campaign: Calvin Klein
Kravitz is double-dipping between brands apparently, this time hand-in-hand with her mom, Lisa Bonet, in Calvin Klein's accessories ads.
Who: Hailey Baldwin and Ruby Rose
Campaign: Ralph Lauren, Denim and Supply
Baldwin and Orange is the New Black star Ruby Rose stalk the cobblestoned streets of New York in photos by Mark Seliger.
Who: Jemima Kirke
Campaign: Current / Elliot
The 30-year-old Girls star looks free-spirited in a loose-fitting boyfriend jean and relaxed blouse for the denim brand, in pictures shot by Cass Bird and styled by Stevie Dance.
Who: Claudia Schiffer, Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell
Campaign: Balmain
The '90s are back in the best way. Olivier Rousteign tapped three of our favorite cover girls and made them look more fabulous than ever.


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Cambridge's moving brothels targeted in war against 'nasty' sex trade as gangs enslave children
Police investigating the burgeoning sex trade in the city have now visited more than 100 prostitutes including one who did not even know she was in Cambridge
Tom Canning
Detective Inspector Nick Skipworth. (Image: Keith Jones)
Police investigating the burgeoning sex trade in the city have now visited more than 100 prostitutes including one who did not even know she was in Cambridge.
Detective Inspector Nick Skipworth has revealed how travelling sex workers rent apartments in the city for up to £1,500 a week and how the force is investigating mobile "brothels" advertised online.
The officer has also lifted the lid how police target "nasty" organised gangs who traffic women – turning them into modern day slaves.
He told how a handful of 100 sex workers visited by police knew 999 was the way to contact officer and one girl did not know which city she was in.
Officers also helped a 16-year-old girl being used by human traffickers as a sex slave.
He told the News: "I set up an operation which explores the online area of people selling sex and we have a protocol which has been running in Cambridge where we visit sex workers and police anything we need to police, but primarily to safeguard individual sex workers.
"We do that through the internet and we do that by physically visiting them. As a result of that about 100 females were visited. Only a handful knew 999 was the number to get through to police which just demonstrates their vulnerability.
"Some have been trafficked and we found one who was 16. And so we track down the people who used her and found that the girl had been trafficked around the country."
Leads from visiting sex workers led to the smashing of organised crime gangs.
Now the officer is joining forces with Cambridge City Council to tackle the misery trade.
Det Insp Skipworth said: "We have uncovered organised crime and we have seized assets and in one job we have frozen about £1 million on assets. So we are proactively managing these issues. Next week we are demonstrating the tactics we use to Cambridge City Council's Community Safety Partnership to help safeguard these individuals and if we can assist them from a council point of view, that would be a real win for us as well.
"There is a whole variety of different types of sex workers out there from the poor trafficked victim of modern day slavery to people who make a living from it, but there is so much associated criminality with it. "This isn't people on street corners. This is people in rented apartments and we are seeing people paying £1,500 a week on rent and a week later they are in Aberdeen. They move about across the country.
"We have encountered a lot of Romanian girls who are trafficked and in one case the girl didn't even know she was in Cambridge and didn't have a phone – we had to make contact with her through a man in London – and she was given crack cocaine so this can be a really nasty business."
Now the police are investigating a new form of the trade which has hit Cambridge – travelling brothels.
Det Insp Skipworth said: "As for Cambridge sex parties, you need to pay to go to those parties and if you've got two or more females in a property whoa re selling sex for money, that property is a brothel.
"So these people advertising sex parties of any descriptio and say there is going to be a number of women in a properly who you pay for sex with, that creates a brothel and that is a criminal offence as is profiteering from a brothel. This is a crime. It's the same as saying legal highs – its nonsense."
Cambridge City Council

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Mugello contains all the most beautiful and typical aspects of the Tuscan landscape, and is located just a few kilometres north of Florence. The region is linked to the capital of Tuscany not only because of its geographical proximity. Over the centuries, Mugello has been a main source of food and cultural supplies to Florence, and was a place of leisure and joy for Florentine men. Some of Italy's best artists have lived in Mugello, including Giotto, Beato Angelico, and Benvenuto Cellini. It is also where Italy's famed Medici family originated.
Visiting Mugello on bike means pedalling on country roads between vineyards and olive trees, where the slopes are sweet and the climbs and descents take us on a discovery of new places. Bike is the ideal means of transport for an authentic Mugello experience. Travelling at a slow pace is the best way to appreciate the beauty that surrounds us.
Cultivation, meadows and rivers form a colourful chessboard that is dotted with farmhouses, medieval villages, churches and noble villas. The great thing about bike riding is also the ability to take breaks along the way. It's only when you stop at a farmyard or stand in front of a Romanesque church facade that you can appreciate the intimacy of this land, where the coexistence between popular and religious beliefs derive from the traditions of peasant culture, of which we can still trace back today.
Hundreds of kilometres of suburban and country roads, mule tracks and carrarecce connect the Mugello valley to surrounding mountain forests. The bike tacks that run alongside the main river are a real treat for all types of cyclists and walkers to experience. This area is far from traffic and noises. Instead, the bike paths cross small inhabited towns, anthropic or wild natural environments, and sites of remarkable historical and artistic interest.


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Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, also known as the Dover trial, was a federal law suit brought about by Tammy Kitzmiller and 10 other plaintiffs against the Dover Area School District and its board of directors. The case ran in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, from late September to early November 2005.
Kitzmiller originated when the Dover Area School District Board of Education in Dover, Pennsylvania voted 6-3 to "challenge" evolution, under the leadership of creationist Bill Buckingham, by adding a one paragraph disclaimer to the local high school biology curriculum garbling the regular curriculum with teach the controversy and promoting the "scientific alternative" of intelligent design (ID) and using Of Pandas and People as a reference. The dissenting members of the school board resigned in protest and the measure carried.
Buckingham had previously wanted to use the textbook Of Pandas and People in the classroom to teach both sides of the creation-evolution "debate", but was shot down because teaching creationism was previously ruled unconstitutional. See Edwards v. Aguillard.
Angered about being forced to teach about ID, the entire science teaching faculty of Dover High School refused to read the statement, citing a clause in the Pennsylvania code of education allowing them not to be forced to teach something they thought false. As a result, the statement was, instead, read by the assistant superintendent during what the school staff felt was a forced classroom interruption. Local parents, weary of their children being taught a false controversy surrounding evolution, filed a class-action lawsuit.
Using the Lemon v. Kurtzman test, the court found that intelligent design was primarily religious and fostered unnecessary entanglement of church and state. The court further found that intelligent design is not science.
The 'Lemon' test examines three points.
Does the action have a purely secular purpose?
Does the action promote or inhibit religion?
Does the action result in an entanglement of the state and religion?
A failure of any of the three conditions means it is unconstitutional under the establishment clause.
The testimony of Dover School Board members in the Kitzmiller case, who lied in affidavits and on the stand to protect the ID policy, was deceitful and an example of creationists willing to bend the truth to see their own agenda furthered.
""One consistency among the Dover School Board members' testimony, which was marked by selective memories and outright lies under oath, as will be discussed in more detail below, is that they did not think they needed to be knowledgeable about ID… We disagree.
One of the primary forces behind the intelligent design policy, Alan Bonsell, went above and beyond in this respect, offering testimony so suspicious and facetious that the judge took the prerogative to examine the witness himself. These two citations are but two characteristic examples.
Creationists have also criticized the ACLU, an amicus curiae in the case, for the fact that the plaintiffs requested attorney's fees as a damages award against the school district in the case. However, not only did the ACLU not have control over this (lead counsel was not the ACLU, but the private law firm, Pepper Hamilton LLP), but this is also a standard remedy.
Those who disagree with our holding will likely mark it as the product of an activist judge. If so, they will have erred as this is manifestly not an activist Court. Rather, this case came to us as the result of the activism of an ill-informed faction on a school board, aided by a national public interest law firm eager to find a constitutional test case on ID, who in combination drove the Board to adopt an imprudent and ultimately unconstitutional policy. The breathtaking inanity of the Board's decision is evident when considered against the factual backdrop which has now been fully revealed through this trial. The students, parents, and teachers [**173] of the Dover Area School District deserved better than to be dragged into this legal maelstrom, with its resulting utter waste of monetary and personal resources.
Jones' obvious anger was provoked by the same deceit noted above.
Creationists criticized Jones' opinion as being "90% copied from the ACLU's briefs" (though a statistical analysis found the actual amount more like 35%). Nonetheless, close examining of the similarities reveals that only the "findings of fact" in the opinion were thus transcribed, not the entire opinion as the Discovery Institute misrepresents. It should be noted that incorporation of a brief in an opinion's findings of fact is standard and appropriate, and is often used by the court to avoid a duplication of effort where the argument coincides with judicial opinion.
Another common allegation is that the ruling was unfair, as it "prohibited appeal." No judge can foreclose appeal. Settlements, agreed upon by the parties and signed by the judge as a formality, may foreclose appeal, but this type of agreement is by definition consensual by both parties. The fact that Kitzmiller was not appealed is telling.
The Dover Area School Board voted to pay a $1,000,000 legal fee plus a $1 settlement to each of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit. The school district and its taxpayers have paid a heavy price because a few creationism-pushing school board members thought that the Constitution did not apply to them. The plaintiffs' legal fees and expenses actually totaled more than $2 million, but their law firm, Pepper Hamilton LLP, agreed to charge only for its expenses "in recognition of the limited resources of the district and of the change in the school board's composition after the November 2005 election."
In addition, several school board members lied about their activities and motives in attempting to subvert the Establishment Clause. They wanted to bring a god into the classroom, then lied about what they were trying to do and how they were going about it, apparently not only denying evolution, but also denying some of the central tenets of their religion. One of them, Buckingham, then proceeded to ironically call the judge a clown.
The defendants in Kitzmiller were the members of the Dover School Board, in their official capacity. They could have appealed the decision in their official capacity as a school board. However, by the time the case concluded, Dover voters had replaced the pro-creationist school board with members more in line with residents' wishes. Without a pro-creationist agenda, the new school board saw no need to appeal a decision they favored.
The trial demonstrated even a conservative, Christian, Bush-appointed judge didn't buy the "intelligent design is not religiously motivated!" claim; worse, the pro-ID members of the Dover school board sabotaged their own cause by repeatedly bragging to friendly audiences that their real intent was getting religious indoctrination back in schools. Since then, ID advocates have mostly dropped any pretense of a secular or scientific purpose. The Discovery Institute's "Top Questions" page still includes a token protest that "the scientific theory of intelligent design is agnostic regarding the source of design and has no commitment to defending Genesis, the Bible or any other sacred text," but numerous articles on the site betray their religious agenda.
Judge Jones decision (139 page pdf file).
National Center for Science Education - Legal documents, news summaries, and podcasts from the case.
Intelligent Design on Trial, a PBS NOVA documentary (available to watch online).
↑ John E. Jones III in Kitzmiller, 400 F. Supp. 2d 707, n.7 727.
↑ Edward Hume, "Monkey Girl," especially chapters 14-17, available here for purchase.
↑ See ACLU on CP.
↑ See 42 U.S.C. §1988, providing attorney's fees as a standard award in any § 1983 suit.
↑ Comment on Dembski's blog here.
↑ See one example here.
↑ This is another one of Andrew Schlafly's odd statements, viewable here.
↑ OUR OPINION: Investigate perjury in Dover ID case Judge Jones issued a broad, sensible ruling - finding that some board members lied.
↑ See Humes, supra, afterword.
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Q: Override Hide of main form with button in second form I have a stupid and i think dumb question.
i am building an windows application to go to an login page for an website but it has 2 forms 1 to go to the login and redirect to the stock exachange acount of the user that works fine but when the user clicks the stock exchage rate bunnton the main forn wil hide.
Now for the seccond form there i have a button that need to override that hide but it does'nt
code for the button on de Koers Form to go back to the Belegen form
have tried if else statements but they dont work.
  private void Belegen_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {

            Belegen.Show();
            this.Hide();
        }

The button om the Belegen form to open stock reates Koers form
private void Koersen_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {

            Koers Koers = new Koers();
            Koers.Show();
            this.Hide();

        }

Can some one help me out.
basicly what i want is when i click the Koers button Bellegen need to hide and when ik click Belegen in the Koers form Koers needs to hide and belegen needs to be unhidden but Koers need to be opend als well and both forms need to be usable not just one.

A: I don't really understandy your description, but looking at the code, you should use instances of the forms, and not static calls on the classes themselves.
public class Test {

private Belegen belegen; // do not forget to initialize
private Koers koers; // do not forget to initialize

private void Belegen_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {

    this.belegen.Show();
        this.Hide();
    }

private void Koersen_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        koers.Show();
        this.Hide();

    }
}

You might have split those two two forms in your example. Then you just need to have a reference to Koersen in the Belegen form, and vice versa.

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Q: To many IF's. Is there a better way? I have this code:
If CheckBox1.Checked = True Then
            My.Computer.FileSystem.RenameFile("C:\Users\mario\Desktop\Dominio\1\Pc - S.txt", "Pc - S - A.txt")
            'Sleep(2000) ' to sleep for 2 second
            System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(2000)
            My.Computer.FileSystem.RenameFile("C:\Users\mario\Desktop\Dominio\1\Pc - S - A.txt", "Pc - S.txt")
        End If

        If CheckBox2.Checked = True Then
            My.Computer.FileSystem.RenameFile("C:\Users\mario\Desktop\Dominio\2\Pc - S.txt", "Pc - S - A.txt")
            'Sleep(2000) ' to sleep for 2 second
            My.Computer.FileSystem.RenameFile("C:\Users\mario\Desktop\Dominio\2\Pc - S - A.txt", "Pc - S.txt")
        End If

And it continues with another 24 if's. I need them to change the name all at the same time and then wait two seconds and change it again all at the same time.Will i need to have 48(24+24) IF's?
Explanation:
Im creating a super simple way of shuting down the computers at my school. Here is my idea(hope you can understand it)
I put a program at every computer at school (in the regestry at the startup) that does the following:
(Atencion not really in a programing language)
for(1){
sleep 1000        // wait 1 sec

if.FILE.EXISTS(\\domain\folder1\shutdown.txt) then{

    do: shutdown pc   // if file exist it shutdowns the pc

}

}
So what this does is if there is a file in a certain directory in the domain, it shutsdown the pc.
Im doing this for 24 pcs, so i need to shutdown them individualy, therefor the many folders.
So i could simply rename the files by hand, but for 24 pcs that is a lot of work. So im developing a aplication that asks me what pcs i want to shutdown and then does:
1: Rename file.
2: Wait 2 or more seconds (so the computers in the network have time to verify if there is such file)
3: rename back the file so when the pc restarts it doesnt shutdown again.
Did you get what im trying to do? And yes there are more orthodox ways of doing this. but this is really simple, and this is more of a test than anything. (Later will be using more proper ways of doing this and do other options over the network)

A: Since the only difference is a single number in the filepath, why not do something like this?
var dict = new Dictionary<CheckBox, string>();
dict.Add(CheckBox1, "1");
dict.Add(CheckBox2, "2");
//etc

foreach (var kvp in dict)
{
    if(kvp.Key.Checked == true)
    {
        My.Computer.FileSystem.RenameFile(String.Format("C:\Users\mario\Desktop\Dominio\{0}\Pc - S.txt", kvp.Value ), "Pc - S - A.txt")
    }
}

We create a generic dictionary to store the association of the checkboxes to the string/number and then loop through the dictionary, checking the values. We use a format string (you could use string concatenation instead) to insert the string/number into the filepath string.
Note, this is in C#, as I'm not a VB programmer. The syntax will likely be slightly different.

A: Since your intention is to remotely shut down the PC's, why not actually shut them down from your code, rather than some hackish "create files then wait 2 seconds" approach?
Again, this is C# but the translation should be pretty straightforward:
var ComputerNames = new List<string>() {"Computer1", "Computer2", "Computer3"};

foreach(var pc in ComputerNames)
{
    Process.Start("shutdown","-s -m \\\\" + pc);
}


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Why Stuart, not Fort Pierce, has inside track on Virgin Trains station | Gil Smart
Stuart or Martin County may sign on as public 'partners' in quest for grants to build new bridge, but what would they get in return?
Why Stuart, not Fort Pierce, has inside track on Virgin Trains station | Gil Smart Stuart or Martin County may sign on as public 'partners' in quest for grants to build new bridge, but what would they get in return? Check out this story on tcpalm.com: https://www.tcpalm.com/story/opinion/columnists/gil-smart/2019/11/01/would-stuart-get-virgin-trains-station-if-backs-quest-new-bridge/4107373002/
Gil Smart, Treasure Coast Newspapers Published 10:51 a.m. ET Nov. 1, 2019
Every time we write something about Virgin Trains, formerly Brightline, formerly whatever, the same comments show up time and again:
STOP THE TRAIN! IT'LL RUIN OUR SMALL TOWN!
Folks — it's way too late for that.
The train is coming. Or I should say "trains" — some 32 per day, zipping through Treasure Coast communities on their way to or from Orlando or Miami.
The battle over this has been fought and lost — except in Indian River County, which continues to throw money down the rathole hoping some judge, somewhere, will finally nix the train.
More: Virgin Trains to replace St. Lucie River railroad bridge
More: Bridge replacement will help boaters, change Stuart skyline
That's not going to happen.
So rather than rhetorically draping our bodies across the tracks, or demanding public officials do so, maybe we ought to focus on getting what we can out of this deal.
The Florida East Coast railroad bridge is seen spanning the St. Lucie River, parallel to the Roosevelt Bridge, on Wednesday, Oct 30, 2019, in Stuart. Virgin Trains USA has announced their intentions to replace the aging bridge, a single track span, with a double-track span costing around $100 million and taking around two years to build. (Photo: ERIC HASERT/TCPALM)
Don't look now, but that seems to be happening in Stuart. And if so — it might mean Fort Pierce gets left out in the cold.
Officially, both cities remain in the running for a promised Treasure Coast station. But in June, Fort Pierce officials rejected a proposal by Virgin Trains to redevelop the H.D. King site in the city's downtown, picking another firm instead.
There's another spot the station could go, on Depot Drive behind the Sunrise Theatre. Fort Pierce Mayor Linda Hudson told me the city remains the "logical location" for a Treasure Coast stop, and "we will continue to vie for the station until we are chosen, or some other place is."
Twenty miles south, though, they're doing more than vying. They're moving.
In recent weeks, Virgin Trains has been speaking with Stuart and Martin County officials, wondering if they might be willing to sign on as "private partners" to pursue millions in federal grants. The money would permit Virgin Trains to replace the old railroad bridge in Stuart with a modern "lift bridge."
I had no idea what a "lift bridge" was until I Googled it; unlike a drawbridge, the span, as it rises, remains parallel with the deck. Though Virgin Trains officials say their engineering hasn't been completed so no drawings are yet available, the structure is likely to be huge, with 80-foot tall metal lift towers.
A Brightline train traveling north crosses East Ocean Avenue and Northeast Fourth Street in Boynton Beach. (Photo: LEAH VOSS/TCPALM)
In Stuart, with its four-story height limit, it'll be interesting to see what folks think about this.
But the bridge, if built, would solve several problems. As my colleague Ed Killer wrote recently, the boating community likes the idea. Vertical clearance under the new, double-tracked span would increase from the current 6.5 feet at mean high tide to 18 feet. Horizontal clearance would be more than tripled, from 50 to 180 feet, and the number of underwater piers would be halved.
Bottom line, the new bridge would make life a lot easier for most boaters, who were among the train's most vocal opponents because of the impact the up-and-down of the existing railroad bridge would have on marine traffic.
What's interesting, though, is that until now, Virgin Trains has never fully acknowledged the existing, single-track railroad span was a problem. The new bridge proposal seems a tacit admission it is.
But how to pay the estimated $100 million cost? Ah, that's where the city of Stuart, or maybe Martin County, comes in.
See, there's Federal Railway Administration grant money out there which could help foot the bill. Virgin Trains officials have suggested it might be very helpful if local governments could help the firm pursue the grant, maybe even acting as co-applicants.
"They made it very clear they didn't expect the city to kick in anything," said Stuart City Attorney Mike Mortell. But, if either the city or the county or both were to officially back the grant request, and local legislative leaders sign on, it might shake the money tree.
Gil Smart (Photo: JEREMIAH WILSON/TCPALM)
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Stuart commissioners could vote on a resolution declaring support for the bridge and/or the grant effort as soon as Nov. 12, Mortell said. Meanwhile, some Martin County officials like the idea of a train station at the county fairgrounds site on Dixie Highway instead. They, too, have been chatting with Virgin officials.
If the governments sign on as "partners," one would think Virgin Trains would look kindly upon their efforts when it comes time to decide on a spot for the train station.
"I suppose we could apply for the grant and then (Virgin Trains) could say, 'Nope, we're going to put the station in Fort Pierce,' " Mortell said.
No no no, don't call it a quid pro quo. Call it ... interested parties seeking a mutually beneficial agreement.
The train is coming; so why shouldn't Stuart officials try to get a new bridge, and a station, out of the deal? That's a pretty small price to pay for all the disruption, right?
Meanwhile ... well, sorry Fort Pierce. There are myriad reasons why the Sunrise City is a perfect place for a stop.
But that train appears to be leaving the station.
Gil Smart is a TCPalm columnist and a member of the Editorial Board. His columns reflect his opinion. Readers may reach him at gil.smart@tcpalm.com, by phone at 772-223-4741 or via Twitter at @TCPalmGilSmart.
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Surya is considered to be the king of planets. Surya is worshipped by Hindus from all over the world. Surya is also known to be the only form of god that can be seen on a daily basis. Pleasing the sun is not an easy job but it is vital for those who have Surya Dosha. If you have the surya dosha or you suspect the probability then you should start Surya Puja as soon as possible.
Om hram hreem hroum sah suryaya namah.
This simple mantra should be repeated 6000 times in a time span of 40 days as it will please Surya Devta.
Gayatri Mantra can also be repeated along with the abovementioned mantra. Gayatri Mantra is most powerful at suryasta or sundown time.
Surya Stotra should also be repeated.
The devotee should observe fast on every Sunday and perform this puja wholeheartedly.
Doing charity on Sundays is also a good and vital step that will please Surya Devta. Don't forget to give away wheat or sugar candies on Sundays as such form of charity is the best to satisfy Surya Devta.
This puja will benefit those who seek assistance in keeping their father's health at peak. Father-son or father daughter relations can also improve by doing this puja.
This puja also gives peace to the soul of a living person or even a dead one.
This puja would give you courage to solve all your problems and face your fears.
This puja will also help you to attain fame.


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The living space is an open layout, and the kitchen has a modern style with red cabinets, a two-level island and cork floors. Unfinished ceilings give it an industrial look. The style contrasts nicely with more classical architectural details and exposed brick. The bedroom floors are wood, and the windows take in a sweeping view of Albany. A gas insert would make the fireplace functional.
Taxes: $4,042. Monthly HOA fee of $493 includes heat and hot water. List price: $235,000. Listing agent Colin McDonald of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Blake will host an open house from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday. Contact him at 518-505-4977.


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David Yip
Position: Associate Professor of Practice in Cinematic Arts/ Senior Lecturer
Email: daveyip@ust.hk
Research Area (s): Cinematic Arts, Visual Communication, Interactive Storytelling
Background: David is a veteran in creative industries and media education. He joined the TV and Film industries after graduating from UC Berkeley and USC School of Cinematic Arts in the 90s. Since 1998, David became a founding faculty of the School of Creative Media of City University of Hong Kong and later in 2011 a founding faculty of the creative arts programs and launched popular programs in animation, visual effects and interactive entertainment in The Open University of Hong Kong (now retitled The Metropolitan University of Hong Kong). As a writer, director and producer, David has been commissioned to create TV drama, animation, documentary for museum and interactive VR project on cinematic surrealism. David is active in doing applied projects and consultancy works for the government and local and overseas creative industries. Since obtaining Doctor of Education from University of Bristol in 2015, David has published several book chapters and conference papers in Springer on interactive media and visual storytelling. David's key research interest is to integrate theory and practice with new media technology in areas of cinematic arts, visual communications and expressions, interactive narrative and virtual production.
For more information, please visit www.daveyip.com
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Methodologies of Experimental Animation
CMAA6101 - Week 13 Seminar Topic: Methodologies of Experimental Animation Invited speakers: Max Hattler, Tianran Duan (40-50min talk for each speaker with Q&A after) Zoom Meeting information: Topic:
Jake Zhang
Position: Assistant Professor of Practice in Digital Arts Email: jakezhang@ust.hk Research Area (s): Storytelling, Screen design & world building strategies, Creator & user experience in process of creating


Opportunity to occupy well-presented offices with allocated parking in close proximity to Epsom Town Centre. The offices benefit from central heating, good natural light & an independent security alarm. The offices are accessed via a shared main entrance with shared kitchen & W.C facilities available at the ground floor level.


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Q: DVBT Radio channels have no sound on vlc i play dvbt tv channels without any problem on vlc
but the radio channels have no sound
i did run vlc from terminal and got this error messages:
[h264 @ 0x7f04000f3f80] mmco: unref short failure
[h264 @ 0x7f04000f3f80] mmco: unref short failure
[h264 @ 0x7f04000f3f80] mmco: unref short failure
[00007f0404158938] ts demux: MPEG-4 descriptor not found for pid 0x3f3 type 0x11
[00007f0404158938] ts demux: MPEG-4 descriptor not found for pid 0x623 type 0x11
[00007f0404168738] packetizer_mpeg4audio packetizer: AAC channels: 1 samplerate: 24000
[00007f0404158938] ts demux error: libdvbpsi error (PSI decoder): TS discontinuity (received 8, expected 11) for PID 18
[00007f0404158938] ts demux error: libdvbpsi error (PSI decoder): TS discontinuity (received 9, expected 12) for PID 18
[00007f0404158938] ts demux error: libdvbpsi error (PSI decoder): TS discontinuity (received 15, expected 7) for PID 18

...
[00007f0404158938] ts demux error: libdvbpsi error (misc PSI): Bad CRC_32 table 0x50 !!!

please help me
thanks

A: today,i upgrade the linux kernel to 4.2.0.19
and
vlc plays radio without any problem


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Review: Island of Lost Girls by Jennifer McMahon
This book. Where to start? I started reading Island of Lost Girls the evening of December 25th after working on my Self Journal. All these weeks of being unable to immerse myself in a novel start to finish had to come to an end. No waiting until the New Year. No more trying to find a place in my schedule. It was now or never. Sit down and read a book already! I'd already DNF'd John Irving's Prayer for Owen Meany and JD Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye. The former was sooooo good but sooooo long and I just couldn't continue. Multiple attempts were total failures. Maybe I'll try again later. Maybe I'll forgive and forget. The Catcher in the Rye? I think I made it through four chapters but couldn't get past the swearing. An occasional swear in a novel, fine. Whatever. Characters are unruly, I get it. But every other word? All the time? Nah. Not for me. Done and don't regret it.
So, last night, I went back to my TBR pile, which, to be honest, isn't even that big. I was content to set myself up for a modicum of success. Island of the Lost Girls has a lot going for it. Short (255 pages), intriguing cover (What's with the frog?), and mysterious story line. This is the second line from the blurb on the back cover:
"She (Rhonda) watches, unmoving, as someone dressed in a rabbit costume kidnaps a young girl."
I'm not even going to lie. The first fifteen pages or so were not an easy read. Maybe the challenge stemmed from my inability to turn off the productive part of my brain that insists on doing something all the time. But, I was easily confused by the number of characters that were introduced at breakneck speed. Suzy, Rhonda, Suzy's parents, Lizzy, Peter (both the real Peter and some Peter Rabbit version of a Peter), Suzy's nana, Pat, Jim (Pat's husband), Trudy, the cop, Ernie, Tock, Laura Lee (who might have been Suzy's nana...it was hard to tell). I could go on.
It was frustrating and hard to follow to say the least.
However, I was really intrigued by the premise of the story and McMahon has a way of painting a picture. Plus, I was determined to finish a book--any book. I focused on the main character (Rhonda) and hoped I wouldn't get too confused in the process.
The book alternates between 2006 when Rhonda witnessed the kidnapping and 1993, a particularly interesting summer in Rhonda's youth when life was all about her unrequited crush on a boy, her best friend whose behavior changes, and some mysterious adult problems that occur between Rhonda's parents and her best friend's parents. Both time periods are inexplicably intertwined and Rhonda's left to sort them both out while trying to help solve the mystery of little Ernie's kidnapping. This particular passage on page 93 stood out to me.
"I think we should kick her ass," said Lizzy. She was perched on the roof of the car, waving her coat hanger hook through the air, wooden sword drawn. She had on black satin pants tucked into an old pair of her father's motorcycle boots. They were way too big for her feet, so she wore them with lots of pairs of socks. She had a ruffled white shirt with a wide lapel and an old red velvet jacket that she'd sewn some gold trim to. On her head was the big splurge, an actual pirate hat from the costume shop up in Burlington."
This attention to detail kept me reading, even when I wasn't a hundred percent sure who was doing what to whom. The description was accurate for a young high school girl playing dress up with her friends in the early '90s who were intent in putting on a backwoods community theater production.
McMahon surprised me with the twists and turns of the story and how eloquently she brought everything to a close during the last few chapters. The ending was neat without being too tidy. It's a mystery that's well done overall. I would have preferred a less busy cast of characters or at least a slower or different introduction to all of them as they were all relevant in their own way.
Have you read Island of Lost Girls? Or McMahon's other novel, Promise Not to Tell? If so, what did you think of it/them? Drop a comment and let me know. I'd love to hear your thoughts.


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Here are the places in Aberdeenshire that only locals know how to pronounce
Strachan, Bennachie and Maud - easy, richt? Well, there are plenty of towns in Aberdeenshire that many visitors and outsiders have trouble pronouncing. We've selected just a few that give locals a good laugh.
Maud is actually pronounced "Maa'd" (Image: Google Maps)
All across the UK, counties and shires play host to some small locations tucked out of the way that you don't hear the names of all too often.
Some of them might come with a name that seems all too easy to pronounce that you might get totally wrong, whilst others almost look like gibberish.
And here in Aberdeenshire, we have a few places that can be quite deceptive to visitors from near and far.
It can always be a good laugh hearing someone get the name of your local town or village wrong. With that said, here are some of the place names people from outside Aberdeenshire regularly struggle with.
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Finzean
"Fingin" is how you pronunce the first village on the list, and it's easy to see why those from further afield might be easily caught out by this one.
You can find Finzean just south of Aboyne, although it might not just be the stunning scenery you remember given the challenge the name presents.
Crimond
Pronounced as "Creemin", the village of Crimond sits between Peterhead and Fraserburgh.
And it is the home of motor racing royalty, as Jim Clark's Formula One career came to life in the area.
The village of Crimond, Aberdeenshire, which is pronounced "Creemin" (Image: Google Maps)
Stuartfield
"Crichie" derives from the Gaelic word for "Creachann."
And despite the best efforts of John Burnett-Stuart to rename the town Stuartfield, the locals have maintained the name of Crichie, which means the summit of a rock in its Gaelic translation.
Aberchirder has a number of names for the farming town. Take your pick from "Aberherder", "Foggieloan", or simply "Foggie."
We'll leave it with you which name you opt for, but it stands out as one of the very few places to have several identities.
Bennachie
Despite playing host to Aberdeenshire's highest peak – the 1,732ft Mither Tap – it is mostly remembered once again for a name that catches visitors off guard.
Quite simply, you pronounce this one as "Ben-a-hee" - not quite as extreme a difference as others.
No, it's not just the name of the ex-Scotland gaffer and Dons legend, it's the name of an Aberdeenshire town that has become known as "Straan".
Ditch the middle consonants and you're up to speed with the local pronunciation.
Harlaw
Doric language kicks in again for this part of the shire, as Harlaw is pronounced "Herlaa."
You might know it more for its infamously bloody battle rather than its name however.
You would be forgiven for thinking this is one of the places you cannot get wrong.
But, the locals actually pronounce it as "Maa'd"; another sign that some town names here look like they are designed to catch visitors out.
Rosehearty
"Rizzarty" village lies on the Moray Firth coastline near the town of Fraserburgh.
Its picturesque beach is a sight to behold, and the clear blue waters are postcard perfect – the name is not too difficult either, but still can catch out those from afar.
Findochty
Findochty was initially founded back in 1716, and to the locals, the fishing village is pronounced "Finechty".
Another slight change, but still one that will confuse those not so familiar with the area.
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var ethPriceUSD = 205.452;

// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Accounts
// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
var accounts = [];
var accountNames = {};

addAccount(eth.accounts[0], "Account #0 - Miner");
addAccount(eth.accounts[1], "Account #1 - Contract Owner");
addAccount(eth.accounts[2], "Account #2 - Multisig");
addAccount(eth.accounts[3], "Account #3");
addAccount(eth.accounts[4], "Account #4");
addAccount(eth.accounts[5], "Account #5");
addAccount(eth.accounts[6], "Account #6");
addAccount(eth.accounts[7], "Account #7");
addAccount(eth.accounts[8], "Account #8");
addAccount(eth.accounts[9], "Account #9");

var minerAccount = eth.accounts[0];
var contractOwnerAccount = eth.accounts[1];
var multisig = eth.accounts[2];
var account3 = eth.accounts[3];
var account4 = eth.accounts[4];
var account5 = eth.accounts[5];
var account6 = eth.accounts[6];
var account7 = eth.accounts[7];
var account8 = eth.accounts[8];
var account9 = eth.accounts[9];

var baseBlock = eth.blockNumber;

function unlockAccounts(password) {
  for (var i = 0; i < eth.accounts.length; i++) {
    personal.unlockAccount(eth.accounts[i], password, 100000);
  }
}

function addAccount(account, accountName) {
  accounts.push(account);
  accountNames[account] = accountName;
}

// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Token Contract
// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
var tokenContractAddress = null;
var tokenContractAbi = null;

function addTokenContractAddressAndAbi(address, tokenAbi) {
  tokenContractAddress = address;
  tokenContractAbi = tokenAbi;
}

// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Account ETH and token balances
// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
function printBalances() {
  var token = tokenContractAddress == null || tokenContractAbi == null ? null : web3.eth.contract(tokenContractAbi).at(tokenContractAddress);
  var decimals = token == null ? 18 : token.decimals();
  var i = 0;
  var totalTokenBalance = new BigNumber(0);
  console.log("RESULT:  # Account                                             EtherBalanceChange                          Token Name");
  console.log("RESULT: -- ------------------------------------------ --------------------------- ------------------------------ ---------------------------");
  accounts.forEach(function(e) {
    var etherBalanceBaseBlock = eth.getBalance(e, baseBlock);
    var etherBalance = web3.fromWei(eth.getBalance(e).minus(etherBalanceBaseBlock), "ether");
    var tokenBalance = token == null ? new BigNumber(0) : token.balanceOf(e).shift(-decimals);
    totalTokenBalance = totalTokenBalance.add(tokenBalance);
    console.log("RESULT: " + pad2(i) + " " + e  + " " + pad(etherBalance) + " " + padToken(tokenBalance, decimals) + " " + accountNames[e]);
    i++;
  });
  console.log("RESULT: -- ------------------------------------------ --------------------------- ------------------------------ ---------------------------");
  console.log("RESULT:                                                                           " + padToken(totalTokenBalance, decimals) + " Total Token Balances");
  console.log("RESULT: -- ------------------------------------------ --------------------------- ------------------------------ ---------------------------");
  console.log("RESULT: ");
}

function pad2(s) {
  var o = s.toFixed(0);
  while (o.length < 2) {
    o = " " + o;
  }
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}

function pad(s) {
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    o = " " + o;
  }
  return o;
}

function padToken(s, decimals) {
  var o = s.toFixed(decimals);
  var l = parseInt(decimals)+12;
  while (o.length < l) {
    o = " " + o;
  }
  return o;
}

// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Transaction status
// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
function printTxData(name, txId) {
  var tx = eth.getTransaction(txId);
  var txReceipt = eth.getTransactionReceipt(txId);
  var gasPrice = tx.gasPrice;
  var gasCostETH = tx.gasPrice.mul(txReceipt.gasUsed).div(1e18);
  var gasCostUSD = gasCostETH.mul(ethPriceUSD);
  console.log("RESULT: " + name + " gas=" + tx.gas + " gasUsed=" + txReceipt.gasUsed + " costETH=" + gasCostETH +
    " costUSD=" + gasCostUSD + " @ ETH/USD=" + ethPriceUSD + " gasPrice=" + gasPrice + " block=" +
    txReceipt.blockNumber + " txId=" + txId);
}

function assertEtherBalance(account, expectedBalance) {
  var etherBalance = web3.fromWei(eth.getBalance(account), "ether");
  if (etherBalance == expectedBalance) {
    console.log("RESULT: OK " + account + " has expected balance " + expectedBalance);
  } else {
    console.log("RESULT: FAILURE " + account + " has balance " + etherBalance + " <> expected " + expectedBalance);
  }
}

function gasEqualsGasUsed(tx) {
  var gas = eth.getTransaction(tx).gas;
  var gasUsed = eth.getTransactionReceipt(tx).gasUsed;
  return (gas == gasUsed);
}

function failIfGasEqualsGasUsed(tx, msg) {
  var gas = eth.getTransaction(tx).gas;
  var gasUsed = eth.getTransactionReceipt(tx).gasUsed;
  if (gas == gasUsed) {
    console.log("RESULT: FAIL " + msg);
    return 0;
  } else {
    console.log("RESULT: PASS " + msg);
    return 1;
  }
}

function passIfGasEqualsGasUsed(tx, msg) {
  var gas = eth.getTransaction(tx).gas;
  var gasUsed = eth.getTransactionReceipt(tx).gasUsed;
  if (gas == gasUsed) {
    console.log("RESULT: PASS " + msg);
    return 1;
  } else {
    console.log("RESULT: FAIL " + msg);
    return 0;
  }
}

function failIfGasEqualsGasUsedOrContractAddressNull(contractAddress, tx, msg) {
  if (contractAddress == null) {
    console.log("RESULT: FAIL " + msg);
    return 0;
  } else {
    var gas = eth.getTransaction(tx).gas;
    var gasUsed = eth.getTransactionReceipt(tx).gasUsed;
    if (gas == gasUsed) {
      console.log("RESULT: FAIL " + msg);
      return 0;
    } else {
      console.log("RESULT: PASS " + msg);
      return 1;
    }
  }
}

//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Crowdsale Contract
//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
var crowdsaleContractAddress = null;
var crowdsaleContractAbi = null;

function addCrowdsaleContractAddressAndAbi(address, abi) {
  crowdsaleContractAddress = address;
  crowdsaleContractAbi = abi;
}

var crowdsaleFromBlock = 0;
function printCrowdsaleContractDetails() {
  console.log("RESULT: crowdsaleContractAddress=" + crowdsaleContractAddress);
  // console.log("RESULT: crowdsaleContractAbi=" + JSON.stringify(crowdsaleContractAbi));
  if (crowdsaleContractAddress != null && crowdsaleContractAbi != null) {
    var contract = eth.contract(crowdsaleContractAbi).at(crowdsaleContractAddress);
    console.log("RESULT: crowdsale.controller=" + contract.controller());
    console.log("RESULT: crowdsale.exchangeRate=" + contract.exchangeRate());
    console.log("RESULT: crowdsale.investor_bonus=" + contract.investor_bonus());
    console.log("RESULT: crowdsale.wct=" + contract.wct());
    console.log("RESULT: crowdsale.preSaleWallet=" + contract.preSaleWallet());
    console.log("RESULT: crowdsale.totalSupplyCap=" + contract.totalSupplyCap().shift(-18));
    console.log("RESULT: crowdsale.totalSold=" + contract.totalSold().shift(-18));
    console.log("RESULT: crowdsale.minimum_investment=" + contract.minimum_investment().shift(-18));
    console.log("RESULT: crowdsale.startBlock=" + contract.startBlock());
    console.log("RESULT: crowdsale.endBlock=" + contract.endBlock());
    console.log("RESULT: crowdsale.initializedBlock=" + contract.initializedBlock());
    console.log("RESULT: crowdsale.finalizedBlock=" + contract.finalizedBlock());
    console.log("RESULT: crowdsale.paused=" + contract.paused());
    console.log("RESULT: crowdsale.transferable=" + contract.transferable());
    var latestBlock = eth.blockNumber;
    var i;

    var newSaleEvents = contract.NewSale({}, { fromBlock: crowdsaleFromBlock, toBlock: latestBlock });
    i = 0;
    newSaleEvents.watch(function (error, result) {
      console.log("RESULT: NewSale " + i++ + " #" + result.blockNumber + ": " + JSON.stringify(result.args));
    });
    newSaleEvents.stopWatching();

    var initializedEvents = contract.Initialized({}, { fromBlock: crowdsaleFromBlock, toBlock: latestBlock });
    i = 0;
    initializedEvents.watch(function (error, result) {
      console.log("RESULT: Initialized " + i++ + " #" + result.blockNumber + ": " + JSON.stringify(result.args));
    });
    initializedEvents.stopWatching();

    var finalizedEvents = contract.Finalized({}, { fromBlock: crowdsaleFromBlock, toBlock: latestBlock });
    i = 0;
    finalizedEvents.watch(function (error, result) {
      console.log("RESULT: Finalized " + i++ + " #" + result.blockNumber + ": " + JSON.stringify(result.args));
    });
    finalizedEvents.stopWatching();

    crowdsaleFromBlock = parseInt(latestBlock) + 1;
  }
}

//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Token Contract
//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
var tokenFromBlock = 0;
function printTokenContractDetails() {
  console.log("RESULT: tokenContractAddress=" + tokenContractAddress);
  // console.log("RESULT: tokenContractAbi=" + JSON.stringify(tokenContractAbi));
  if (tokenContractAddress != null && tokenContractAbi != null) {
    var contract = eth.contract(tokenContractAbi).at(tokenContractAddress);
    var decimals = contract.decimals();
    console.log("RESULT: token.controller=" + contract.controller());
    console.log("RESULT: token.symbol=" + contract.symbol());
    console.log("RESULT: token.name=" + contract.name());
    console.log("RESULT: token.decimals=" + decimals);
    console.log("RESULT: token.totalSupply=" + contract.totalSupply().shift(-decimals));
    // console.log("RESULT: token.totalSupplyHistory=" + contract.totalSupplyHistory());
    // console.log("RESULT: token.mintingFinished=" + contract.mintingFinished());

    var latestBlock = eth.blockNumber;
    var i;

    var totalSupplyHistoryLength = contract.totalSupplyHistoryLength();
    for (i = 0; i < totalSupplyHistoryLength; i++) {
      var e = contract.totalSupplyHistory(i);
      console.log("RESULT: totalSupplyHistory(" + i + ") = " + e[0] + " => " + e[1].shift(-decimals));
    }

    var balanceHistoryLength = contract.balanceHistoryLength(account3);
    for (i = 0; i < balanceHistoryLength; i++) {
      var e = contract.balanceHistory(account3, i);
      console.log("RESULT: balanceHistory(" + account3 + ", " + i + ") = " + e[0] + " => " + e[1].shift(-decimals));
    }

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Persistent Poverty Is More Pervasive in Nonmetro Counties
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Finding: Rural Poverty & Well-Being
by Dean Jolliffe
During the 1990s, America experienced unprecedented economic growth, and the national poverty rate declined from a decade high of over 15 percent in 1993 to a low of 11.3 percent in 2000. A brief recession in 2001 led to an increase in poverty, with the most recent estimates indicating that just over 12 percent of the American population was poor in 2002. Not only is the poverty rate an important social indicator of the well-being of the least well off, but it is also a primary input for shaping many Federal policies and targeting program benefits.
Poverty is not distributed equally across the United States. Although most of the Nation's poor live in metropolitan (metro) areas, poverty rates have been consistently higher in nonmetropolitan (nonmetro) areas in every year since the 1960s, when poverty rates were first officially recorded. Even with similar patterns of change in poverty rates over time, a metro-nonmetro gap in poverty rates persists. In the 1980s, the average incidence of poverty was 4.4 percentage points higher in nonmetro areas than in metro areas. During the 1990s, the gap declined and the average difference fell to 2.6 percentage points.
Time is an important dimension of poverty: Someone who is poor today but not tomorrow may be better off than someone who is poor today and poor tomorrow. To shed light on this aspect of poverty, ERS defined counties as being persistently poor if 20 percent or more of their populations were living in poverty over the last 30 years (measured by the 1970, 1980, 1990, and 2000 decennial censuses). This definition yielded 386 persistently poor counties in the U.S., representing 4 percent of the U.S. population. A majority (340 of 386) of the persistent-poverty counties are nonmetro counties. Persistent poverty is also more pervasive in the most rural areas, as seen in the share of counties that were persistently poor—4 percent of metro counties, 13 percent of micropolitan counties (the more urbanized nonmetro counties), and 18 percent of noncore, nonmetro counties (the most rural of nonmetro counties). (For more information on these classifications, see "Behind the Data" in Amber Waves, September 2003.)
A strong regional pattern of poverty and persistent poverty also emerges. No persistent-poverty counties are found in the Northeast, and only 60 of the nonmetro persistent-poverty counties are in the Midwest and West. The remaining 280 nonmetro persistent-poverty counties are in the South, comprising 25 percent of the total nonmetro population there. Furthermore, the nonmetro South, with over 40 percent of the U.S. nonmetro population, has a significantly higher incidence of poverty. Poverty estimates for 2002 indicate that, in the South, 17.5 percent of nonmetro residents were poor compared with 14.2 percent of all nonmetro residents. Understanding differences in poverty between nonmetro and metro areas of the U.S. is important to understanding differences in well-being across these areas and can help inform the policy dialogue on poverty reduction strategies.
This article is drawn from...
Rural Poverty at a Glance , by Dean Jolliffe, USDA, Economic Research Service, July 2004


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Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court cleared a key procedural hurdle in the Senate on Friday, and his confirmation now seems all but certain, after a key swing vote, Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, declared her support in a speech on the Senate floor.
Moments after Collins completed her remarks, Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., announced in a statement that he too will support the nomination when it comes up for a final vote.
That final vote is expected as soon as Saturday.
The House voted 361-61 to approve a spending bill to avoid a shutdown threat until early December. President Trump has said he plans to sign the legislation.
The legislation also includes a full year of funding for the Departments of Defense, Labor and Health and Human Services and a short-term extension of the Violence Against Women Act; but it has no new money for Trump's proposed wall with Mexico.
Sen. Lindsey Graham doesn't want to replace his best friend, Sen. John McCain — he wants to lead a march in McCain's footsteps.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., on Tuesday delayed efforts to rename the Russell Senate Office in honor of Sen. John McCain by creating an official group to vet a variety of memorial options.
McConnell announced plans for the bipartisan committee just days after Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., first suggested renaming the building to memorialize McCain, who died Saturday at 81. Republican reaction to the Schumer proposal was mixed, even as Sen. Jeff Flake, McCain's fellow Arizona Republican, signed on as a co-sponsor.
The beginning of the national memorial for Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., has been marred by a fight over a sign of public respect, as President Trump initially avoided issuing a proclamation to lower flags to half-staff at all federal properties in McCain's honor.
Flags were lowered at government buildings across Washington and across the country Saturday evening after McCain died, as is standard practice for a sitting member of Congress.
A prominent outside group supporting House Democrats is out with a new ad attacking top House Republican leaders as a scandal-plagued trio following in the mold of disreputable party predecessors.
The new ad, called "Answer," opens with old news footage of former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich while a menacing male voice says, "They've shut down the government," before reminding viewers of unsavory moments for each of the three Republicans vying for the top House leadership spots.
Senate Democrats threatened to sue the National Archives to obtain documents from Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's career as a White House official during President George W. Bush's administration.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., told reporters Thursday that Democrats will file a lawsuit if the National Archives does not respond to their Freedom of Information Act request. The suit is a last-ditch effort to obtain the documents ahead of confirmation hearings set begin Sept. 4.
North Dakota Sen. Heidi Heitkamp is one of the most vulnerable Democrats running for re-election in this year's midterm elections. Her future may depend on how closely she can align herself with President Trump without angering members of her own party.
Heitkamp must walk that fine line because she's campaigning in a state that went for Trump by more than 35 points in 2016. That pressure was on display this week after she became one of the first Democrats to meet privately with Judge Brett Kavanaugh, Trump's pick to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy.
Congressional Republicans keep trying to downplay the possibility of a government shutdown this fall, just weeks ahead of midterm elections, even as President Trump returns again and again to that very scenario.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has been clear that he wants Judge Brett Kavanaugh confirmed to the Supreme Court before this fall's election no matter what.
House Speaker Paul Ryan on Tuesday downplayed a threat by President Trump to revoke security clearances for a number intelligence officials who served under President Barack Obama as "trolling" and not a political act.
"I think he's trolling people, honestly," Ryan told reporters. "This is something that is in the purview of the executive branch."
House Speaker Paul Ryan has been speaking to reporters on Capitol Hill today, saying that he is willing to consider additional sanctions on Russia and also emphasizing that Russia did interfere in the presidential election in 2016.
Congressional Republicans are growing increasingly worried that President Trump is on the verge of a trade war with China. But they're also realizing there is almost nothing they can do to stop him.
House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., put it bluntly during an event at The Economic Club of Washington on Thursday.
"You would have to pass a law to say don't raise those tariffs and the president would have to sign that law," Ryan said. "That's not going to happen."
House Republicans and outside conservative groups are rallying around Ohio GOP Rep. Jim Jordan as he fights off allegations that he was aware that the Ohio State team doctor was sexually abusing wrestlers more than 20 years ago — back when Jordan was an assistant coach.
Personal scandals often end political careers on Capitol Hill, but so far, House Republicans are rallying to Jordan's side, including House Speaker Paul Ryan — the man whose job Jordan hopes to take.
President Trump's nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to fill the Supreme Court vacancy left by retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy was met with swift partisan response from many in Congress, emphasizing the power of a narrow group of uncommitted senators.
A large number of Senate Democrats, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., immediately announced that they plan to vote against Kavanaugh.
Despite all the Democrats' special election wins, high voter turnout in primaries and polls showing strong party enthusiasm heading into the midterms, the fact remains that Democrats are still stuck at their lowest level of power in nearly a century.
Even though President Trump's poll numbers have stabilized, party leaders see 2018 as a chance to seize back one key lever of government: the House of Representatives. But Democrats and their core voters can't seem to agree on the best direction to take.


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The Future of the Professions
How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts, Updated Edition
Richard Susskind and Daniel Susskind
Presents groundbreaking research on how technology will transform the work, and relevancy, of professionals
Provides key insights for policymakers, professionals, and academics alike
Surveys the future challenges faced across a variety of sectors and industries, and the new opportunities these may bring
New and updated preface provides an overview of recent critical developments within the professions
This book predicts the decline of today's professions and introduces the people and systems that will replace them. In an internet-enhanced society, according to Richard Susskind and Daniel Susskind, we will neither need nor want doctors, teachers, accountants, architects, the clergy, consultants, lawyers, and many others, to work as they did in the 20th century.
The Future of the Professions explains how increasingly capable technologies - from telepresence to artificial intelligence - will place the 'practical expertise' of the finest specialists at the fingertips of everyone, often at no or low cost and without face-to-face interaction.
The authors challenge the 'grand bargain' - the arrangement that grants various monopolies to today's professionals. They argue that our current professions are antiquated, opaque and no longer affordable, and that the expertise of their best is enjoyed only by a few. In their place, they propose five new models for producing and distributing expertise in society.
The book raises profound policy issues, not least about employment (they envisage a new generation of 'open-collared workers') and about control over online expertise (they warn of new 'gatekeepers') - in an era when machines become more capable than human beings at most tasks.
With a new preface exploring recent critical developments, this updated edition builds on the authors' groundbreaking research into more than a dozen professions. Illustrated with numerous examples from each, this is the first book to assess and question the relevance of the professions in the 21st century.
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I: Change
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Conclusion: What Future Should We Want?
Professor Richard Susskind OBE is an author, speaker, and independent adviser to international professional firms and national governments. He is President of the Society for Computers and Law, IT Adviser to the Lord Chief Justice of England, and Chair of the Advisory Board of the Oxford Internet Institute. His numerous books include the best-sellers iThe End of Lawyers?: Rethinking the nature of legal services (OUP, 2008) and Tomorrow's Lawyers: An Introduction to Your Future (OUP, 2013). His work has been translated into more than 10 languages, and he has been invited to speak in over 40 countries. He was educated at the University of Glasgow and Balliol College, Oxford.
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AUSTIN – On Wednesday, March 14th, Representative Ryan Guillen (D-Rural South Texas) hosted a Virtual Town Hall on Facebook Live to provide South Texans with a forum to answer their questions and inform them of helpful services available through his office.
"The goal of these online gatherings is to make everything more accessible for everyone. We wanted folks to join in from anywhere and ask about the topics that are most important to them," said Guillen. "It is essential to keep everyone up to speed with what is going on in Texas government and to give them an opportunity to make their voice heard."
Accessed via Facebook or though Ryan Guillen's website, the Virtual Town Hall went live at 6pm. He started the town hall by letting viewers know about events he will be hosting and programs that are available to the people of South Texas. That was followed by the representative answering questions that were submitted to him, ranging from what is to be expected in the next legislative session to healthcare. Participants were able to submit questions before or during the event via Facebook and email, and those that were not answered during the town hall will be answered at a later time.
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I'm excited to announce a new film photography zine (because the world needs another one) that I've been planning on doing for quite a while. With Cadillac Ranch Dressing, I want to serve as a vehicle for up-and-coming film photographers to be able to showcase their work, as well as providing inspiration through the work of better known photographers.
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Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Saxony
Area of the Saxon Church
The Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Saxony (Evangelisch-Lutherische Landeskirche Sachsens) is one of 22 member Churches of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD), covering most of the state of Saxony. Its headquarters are in Dresden, and its bishop (styled Bishop of Saxony[1]) has his or her seat at Meissen Cathedral.
1 Historical significance
2 Parishioners
3 Practices
Historical significance[edit]
Historically, its organisation became an example for other Protestant churches to be founded throughout Europe, the so-called "Saxon model" of a church as introduced by Martin Luther itself. It was closely tied to the state, whereby the Elector of Saxony protected the evangelical faith in his jurisdiction. Since the Reformation, the Lutheran orthodoxy (the "purest form" of Lutheranism) prevailed among the general population in Saxony and was secured first by its Ernestine and later Albertine Wettin rulers. Beginning in the 17th century, Pietism also gained a significant following, especially among the working class.
Parishioners[edit]
1922: 4,509,000,[2] then by parishioners by far the biggest Lutheran church in Germany
2013: 754,451[3]
Practices[edit]
Ordination of women and blessing of same-sex unions were allowed.[6]
^ The Bishop's title on his/her own home page.
^ Sebastian Müller-Rolli in collaboration with Reiner Anselm, Evangelische Schulpolitik in Deutschland 1918–1958: Dokumente und Darstellung, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1999, (=Eine Veröffentlichung des Comenius-Instituts Münster), p. 29. ISBN 3-525-61362-8.
^ The Lutheran World Federation – 2013 Membership Figures Lutheran World
^ Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland - Kirchemitgliederzahlen Stand 31.12.2015 EKD Januar 2017
^ Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland - Kirchemitgliederzahlen Stand 31.12.2017 ekd.de
^ Evlks.de:"Segnung von Paaren in Eingetragener Lebenspartnerschaft" in Sachsen möglich (German) Archived 2016-10-19 at the Wayback Machine, 18 October 2016
The Lutheran Church in Saxony - homepage (Eng.)
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ZTE Nubia X – two screens, and better selfies?
There are a number of smartphone brands that have never officially launched in Australia. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't be aware of them. After all, you could probably get a grey import (at the owner's risk) from overseas. One of the more interesting brands is Nubia, owned by ZTE, one of the largest Chinese manufacturers (though it's been banned from operating in certain markets for fear of espionage). Nonetheless, it can still build interesting devices such as the new Nubia X. It's got two screens, no notch and no selfie camera.
Does this mean the Nubia X has removed two of the more annoying things about modern phones? People posing randomly on the street with their selfie camera, and that stupid notch? Let's find out.
The biggest selling point about the Nubia X no doubt is the dual screens. The primary is a 6.36 IPS screen with 2280×1080 resolution. This makes a 19:9 aspect ratio. Also, the notch is gone. In order to have no notch, the Nubia X has sacrificed the front facing selfie camera. Never fear, vain-glorious smartphone users, you can still take selfies.
With the cameras all on the back, and with a second smaller screen, one can still see and doll themselves up in preparation for a good selfie. The Nubia X's second screen is only 1520×720, but still offers enough clarity to take pictures with. The second screen is blended seamlessly into the rear aluminium body and as long as whatever you display has a black or dark background, you won't even notice the boundaries.
Speaking of the cameras, the primary unit is 24MP with an f/1.7 aperture paired with a secondary 16MP sensor with an f/1.8 aperture. There's also an LED two tone flash. Indeed, using the rear cameras to take selfies would actually help with the quality of the photos.
The phone will be powered by a Snapdragon 845 – the latest and greatest from Qualcomm – and can come with either 6GB or 8GB of RAM. There's either 64GB or 128GB of storage for your data.
The Nubia X will ship soon, and come with Android 8.1 overlaid with Nubia's own custom version six UI. With the price of the 8GB, 128GB storage version set at around US$600 (looking at close to AU$1,000), it's cheaper than most other flagships. It does also have other gimmicks that could entice new users.