The son of two opera singers, Raymon Geis has been surrounded by the world of singing from a young age and has been actively performing for 13 years. 2015-2016 season Raymon made his debut with Sarasota opera as Parpignol in their production of La bohème and covered the role of Florestan in their production of Beethoven's Fidelio. He also performed the role of Beadle Bamford in Opera on the Avalon's 2016 production of Sweeney Todd in St. John's Newfoundland. Other recent appearances include roles such as Rodolfo and Rinuccio in Puccini's La bohème and Gianni Schicchi, Sam in Carlisle Floyd's Susannah, and Quint from Britten's TheTurn of the Screw. He was also selected as a Young Artist for the Bel Canto at Caramoor 2012/13 Seasons where he covered the role of Thibault in Verdi's Les vêpres siciliennes. An active concert soloist, Raymon has been involved in numerous performances including J.S. Bach's Magnificat, Handel's Messiah, Mozart's Coronation Mass, and A. Ramirez's folk-mass Missa Criolla. Raymon intends to further his understanding and appreciation for music and singing so that he can extend the power of music through song to his family, friends, and the rest of the world.


Today was the last day of classes. And with that, one year of undergrad down.
Some updates are in order. For starters, Train and John Legend performed at Penn last Friday to celebrate a record-breaking fundraising campaign. A bunch of student groups put on top-notch performances too. Basically the whole school attended, plus alumni and faculty, so Penn Park was packed. The energy was over the top, da music was on point, and it was an A+ way to start the weekend. One of the most boppin' nights of the year.
Spring's here, things are greener, campus cherry blossoms are doin' their thang. Penn Preview Days have been underway too. It's been refreshing not to be the youngest on campus for a while, and to see prefrosh even more lost than I was/still am.
Aside from that, there've been a lot of lasts for the year: last chem labs, last essays, last problem sets, last projects. Things have really wound down.
Hurrah, hurrah—here's to another super three years.


HUMAN – Solving the Global Workforce Crisis in Healthcare book launch (1) in Australia is on 10 and 11 April in Melbourne and Sydney. Kevin Hardy met up with author, Mark Britnell, in London in March as he has over a number of years since they first met. They are the conversations that inspire. Mark is the Global Chairman & Senior Partner for Healthcare, Government & Infrastructure at KPMG International. He oversees revenues of $6 billion supporting 40,000 staff across 157 countries.
He is one of the foremost global experts on healthcare systems and has a pioneering and inspiring global vision for health in both the developed and developing world. Mark has dedicated his entire professional life to healthcare and has led organisations at local, regional, national and global levels – provider and payer, public and private. Over the past 9 years, he has worked in 75 countries gaining a unique first-hand experience.
Kevin: Why did you title the book "Human"?
I called the book Human for two reasons: firstly, the essence of care is all about the kind heart and warm touch of a human being and, secondly, I believe humans are capable of solving huge problems such as the global workforce crisis in healthcare if we collectively put our minds to it.
Kevin: You say that we have to reframe the debate about workforce planning and shift our thinking to productivity, health and wealth creation. What do you mean by that?
We face a world in healthcare where there is too much work with too few workers (an 18 million shortfall by 2030). We need to become more productive in care delivery. Productivity is the catalyst for economic growth, wealth creation and wage increases. So health is wealth. And we need to reframe the health debate to one of national productivity.
Kevin; In fact, you talk about a 20% increase in productivity. How must the future look to achieve this?
Kevin: You have travelled the world looking at 80 or so systems. How do you think we can learn and adapt from each other in order to fit our own context and challenges?
As I said in my first book – In Search of the Perfect Health System – which looked at comparative and relative strengths and weaknesses of 25 country health systems, every country has something to teach and every country has something to learn. I outline 12 facets of a Perfect Health System drawn from different countries across the world.
Kevin: Technology changes faster that we seemingly can adapt. What things can AI, Genomics, Digital change predict in terms of health status and conditions long term? Therefore, does that lead us to being able to identify future circumstances like domestic violence, addictions etc and potentially work a lot more closely with other agencies to better manage conditions and save lives (and hence find ways to achieve the 20% productivity gains you talk about)?
Yes, AI can be used to improve population health management by supporting patients with long term conditions. It's already being used in Israel, for example.
Kevin: Do you have a view about how to start this or give it a focus?
The Clalit HMO in Israel is already using AI to segment and stratify its population to provide more anticipatory care. In the new book, I look at 5 clinical trends that will drive 16% to 20% productivity. These 5 trends are being implemented in different places across the world. So, we need better diffusion and adoption.
Kevin: Sometimes I get the impression that we give away our power and stop taking responsibility for our health. How do we overcome this?
I dedicate an entire chapter to patients as partners and communities as carers. For example, Montifore Health System in the Bronx, New York uses remote patient monitoring to reduce hospitals admissions by 30% while relatives are paid (and trained) in Germany to care for aged family members at home.
Kevin: What is the role of remote and digital; primary care; self-responsibility; integrated systems of care come together?
They're all included in the book chapters!
Kevin: What question have I not asked Mark?
You should ask "can we do it?". We're currently hurtling towards a global workforce crisis in healthcare so we need to act now, think differently and use a much wider range of assets – technology, patients, communities as well as supporting our healthcare professionals in a much more caring and constructive fashion.
(1) The launch events dates. If anyone is interested in attending either event, please reach out directly to Bethany Kunsa (bkunsa@kpmg.com.au) National Sector Manager Health, Ageing & Human Services. If you need additional information, don't hesitate.


IRVINE, Calif. – BYU-Hawaii women's volleyball fell in four sets (25-22, 25-19, 16-25, 25-20) to Concordia Irvine on Monday at CU Arena.
Sinamoni Tonga led the Seasiders (6-7, 4-1 PacWest) with a match high 18 kills and Ying Chun (Michelle) Chen added a double-double 38 assists and 10 digs. The Eagles (7-9, 3-4 PacWest) were led by Rachel Flynn's double-double of 15 kills and 11 digs.
BYU-Hawaii jumped off to a quick 3-0 lead in the first set, but were unable to hold on to the momentum. Concordia Irvine went on two crucial 3-0 runs late in the first set to open up a lead and take a 25-22 victory. Nine unforced errors by the Seasiders proved to be the difference in the first set as the Eagles were able to play off those errors while only committing five of their own.
The second set began with the teams trading points to a 16-16 tie. Concordia Irvine then opened up a small 19-17 lead with a 3-0 run on three BYU-Hawaii errors. The Seasiders kept things within a point until Logan Grove sparked a set-ending 5-point run to put the Eagles up 2-0 in the match.
BYU-Hawaii found its offensive groove in the third set with a .381 hitting percentage. The Eagles jumped off to a quick start taking a 6-2 lead, but Tonga took over the set to help the Seasiders tie the match at 16-16. Malary Reid and Leilani Adolpho led BYU-Hawaii on a 9-0 run to close the set and keep the match alive.
The Seasiders used a 3-point run early in the fourth set to take a 7-4 lead, but it was short lived as a 6-0 run by the Eagles gave them the advantage. Concordia Irvine then used several BYU-Hawaii errors to extend its lead to seven at 19-12. A 3-0 Seasider run cut the lead back to four to keep the set close, but the Eagles consistent attack kept them in front to take the match 25-20.
BYU-Hawaii will take on conference opponent California Baptist on Tuesday at 7 p.m. HST. Live stats and video will be available online.


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US Studies Centre touts significance of US-Australian investment ties
Oscar Grenfell@Oscar_Grenfell
The US Studies Centre (USSC), a prominent think-tank at the University of Sydney, launched a major research project in April to highlight the economic ties and investment flows between the US and Australia. The project, to involve reports, "case studies" and public events, is being jointly sponsored by the USSC and the American Chamber of Commerce in Australia (AmCham).
Rather than a scholarly examination of indices and economic trends, the project is a profoundly political exercise. Its purpose is to send a clear message to the Australian political and business establishment that, despite its important trade ties with China, there can be no equivocation on the US military alliance as Washington accelerates its war plans against Beijing.
The project was launched in the context of ever-greater US demands that Australia play a frontline role in Washington's preparations for military conflict with North Korea, and above all, China.
Australia has already been integrated into the massive US military build-up in the Asia-Pacific, formally announced by US President Barack Obama from the floor of the Australian parliament in 2011. The Labor government of Julia Gillard agreed to a new US Marine presence and expanded access to other bases in northern Australia as well as greater military "interoperability"—policies deepened by subsequent governments.
The Australian ruling class, however, confronts a fundamental dilemma between its strategic dependence on the US and its economic ties with China, now Australia's largest trading partner. The tensions in ruling circles have been sharpened by worsening geo-political tensions in Asia and globally, compounded by the uncertainties produced by Trump's election as US president, his erratic and reckless foreign policies, and his "America first" demagogy.
Concerned that Australia could waver, a procession of high-level American "deep state" representatives have visited Australia in recent months to insist, in very public forums, on the "unbreakable" character of the US alliance.
In April, John McCain, chairman of the US Senate Armed Services Committee, delivered an extraordinary address at an event hosted by the USSC. He broke with a decades-long political taboo of not criticising the US president while abroad, telling Australian dignitaries and foreign policy experts he shared their concerns about the Trump administration.
Alluding to efforts by sections of the US intelligence and military establishment to oust Trump, McCain commented that while presidents come and go, relations between the US and Australia were "eternal." In a menacing threat to those in Australia advocating a more independent foreign policy, he warned: "No-one has ever got rich betting against America, my friends, and now is not a good time to start."
In similar remarks at the National Press Club in June, James Clapper, former US Director of National Intelligence, delivered a broadside against the US president, while stressing the importance of the US alliance. Both McCain and Clapper made a point of noting the close economic ties between the two countries, particularly Australia's heavy dependence on Wall Street and US investment.
These comments carry an unmistakable threat that any turn away from the US alliance would have serious repercussions—economic as well as political. Two Australian prime ministers—Gough Whitlam in 1975 and Kevin Rudd in 2010—were ousted in political coups that were backed by the US. At the same time, the recent high-level visits underscored the extent to which Washington is mobilising the substantial pro-US networks within the Australian political establishment.
McCain's choice of the USSC to deliver his speech was no accident. The centre was established in 2007 with the express purpose of combating popular hostility to Australian participation in US-led wars, and propagandising in favour of the US alliance. It has been funded by US and Australian authorities, and subsidised by corporations in both countries.
The new project on US-Australian economic ties is designed to underpin the threat made in McCain's speech that Australia has no choice but to unconditionally maintain the US alliance.
Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop first made the point in 2014 that the US, as Australia's largest investment partner, was just as important economically as strategically. The comments were directed at those warning that Australian involvement in the US military build-up against Beijing would jeopardise trade relations with China.
Initial research published by the USSC project echoed this theme, bearing the headline: "By the numbers: How the US is Australia's indispensable economic partner."
Published in the Australian Financial Review in April, the report declared: "Cumulatively, two-way investment between the US and Australia totals $1.45 trillion, dwarfing Australia's other bilateral economic relationships." It compared this with Chinese investment, stating: "The $80 billion that Australia received in new US investment in 2015 is larger than the total value of China's cumulative investments in Australia."
The report noted that the US accounted for a quarter of inbound foreign direct investment. However, it placed particular emphasis on the heavy reliance of the Australian economy on US finance. Many of Australia's largest businesses, in manufacturing, mining and agriculture, are ultimately owned by US financial entities.
The major Australian banks depend no less on US capital. The report commented: "Australian banks have a foreign funding ratio of 24 percent, with 11.8 percent of capital being foreign short term and 'rolled over' on a regular basis." It said the vast bulk of this capital is from the US. Over recent months, fears of a new financial crisis have centred on warnings that Australia's banking sector is heavily exposed to bad debt in the property sector, threatening a liquidity crisis.
The report also drew attention to the $1.5 billion spent by US corporations on research and development in 2014, comparing the figure to the $9.5 billion outlay by the federal government over the same period.
The stress placed on Australia's reliance on Wall Street and US corporations was a thinly-veiled warning that any move away from the alliance could have financial repercussions.
The report concluded by making plain the purpose of the USSC project. "No shortage of commentary insists that Australia faces a choice between a long-time ally in the US and an economic behemoth in China," it stated, labelling this view "naïve at best, intellectually lazy at worst," and "a false dilemma."
The report declared: "Amid increasing tensions in the Asia region, the security alliance should not be undervalued. But Trump and Turnbull would do well to point to Australia's economic relationship with the United States, a dynamic and vital cornerstone of our national prosperity—its relevance resting not on any appeal to values, but on a clear-eyed appreciation of our material interests."
In other words, the cornerstone of the alliance is not the deceitful phrases often used about "democracy" and "shared values," but the material interests and profits of the financial elite.
The media and political establishment welcomed the USSC project. There have been no allegations of "US interference" in Australian politics, even though the funding provided by the US Chamber of Commerce is a transparent attempt to influence politicians, corporations and public opinion. Similar interventions by the US corporate elite, and its extensive networks of supporters in the media, think-tanks, universities, political parties, trade unions and state apparatus in Australia, likewise pass without comment.
This stands in marked contrast to the hysterical campaign being waged in the media against supposed "Chinese interference" in Australian public and political life. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Fairfax, and other outlets have run scurrilous reports claiming that the Chinese government and business figures are influencing both major political parties, the press and the universities.
This anti-Chinese campaign, like the USSC's efforts, is aimed at placing the country on a war footing, in preparation for conflict with China. The USSC and other think-tanks have pointed with increasing alarm to widespread hostility among working people to Australian involvement in any Asia-Pacific conflict.
A USSC survey last month found that 61 percent of Australian respondents thought US influence in the region over the next five years would be "negative." Some 72 percent said China had the most influence in the region. The report also stated: "Australians are indifferent with respect to the value of American versus Chinese influence on Australia."
It is to overcome these anti-war sentiments that the Australian media and political establishment is denouncing "Chinese influence" and vilifying China, while the USSC is promoting the merits of Australian and US economic ties, along with the military alliance that has led already to Australian involvement in a succession of illegal US-led wars.
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The working class must have a political voice, which the Australian ruling class is seeking to stifle with this legislation.
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Q: Can't open a local PDF in webview using file:// I need to display a PDF file located in my app dir in a webwiev without using Google Docs.
This is my code for the webview:
public void OpenPDF() {
WebView webview = new WebView(this);
    setContentView(webview);
    webview.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
    webview.loadUrl("file://mnt/data/data/com.example.android/files/Docs/test.pdf");;
}

I get a blank webview instead of below code works
public void OpenPDF() {
WebView webview = new WebView(this);
    setContentView(webview);
    webview.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
    webview.loadUrl("file://mnt/data/data/com.example.android/files/Docs/test.html");
}

I tested directly in my web browser with file://mnt/data/data/com.example.android/files/Docs/test.pdf and test.html and it worked for both. I installed a PDF reader.
07-25 17:09:07.967: W/webcore(11347): java.lang.Throwable: EventHub.removeMessages(int what = 107) is not supported before the WebViewCore is set up.
07-25 17:09:07.967: W/webcore(11347):   at android.webkit.WebViewCore$EventHub.removeMessages(WebViewCore.java:1683)
07-25 17:09:07.967: W/webcore(11347):   at android.webkit.WebViewCore$EventHub.access$7900(WebViewCore.java:926)
07-25 17:09:07.967: W/webcore(11347):   at android.webkit.WebViewCore.removeMessages(WebViewCore.java:1795)
07-25 17:09:07.967: W/webcore(11347):   at android.webkit.WebView.sendOurVisibleRect(WebView.java:2917)
07-25 17:09:07.967: W/webcore(11347):   at android.webkit.ZoomManager.setZoomScale(ZoomManager.java:593)
07-25 17:09:07.967: W/webcore(11347):   at android.webkit.ZoomManager.access$1700(ZoomManager.java:49)
07-25 17:09:07.967: W/webcore(11347):   at android.webkit.ZoomManager$PostScale.run(ZoomManager.java:984)
07-25 17:09:07.967: W/webcore(11347):   at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:605)
07-25 17:09:07.967: W/webcore(11347):   at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:92)
07-25 17:09:07.967: W/webcore(11347):   at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
07-25 17:09:07.967: W/webcore(11347):   at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4424)
07-25 17:09:07.967: W/webcore(11347):   at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
07-25 17:09:07.967: W/webcore(11347):   at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
07-25 17:09:07.967: W/webcore(11347):   at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:784)
07-25 17:09:07.967: W/webcore(11347):   at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:551)
07-25 17:09:07.967: W/webcore(11347):   at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

Any ideas about why only pdf files won't open ?

A: Their seems to be an answer to your question already in stack overflow at Open Local Html File in Webview - Android
to sum it up : Usage of file:/// before your actual path should solve your problem for everything except .pdf files
Webview does not support PDF in android :(. You need to use google doc according to different sources.

A: I think you should try with 3 slashes, like that:
webview.loadUrl("file:///mnt/data/data/com.example.android/files/Docs/test.pdf");

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TuS Nettelstedt-Lübbecke, ofta förkortat TuS N-Lübbecke, är en tysk handbollsklubb från stadsdelen Nettelstedt i staden Lübbecke, Nordrhein-Westfalen, bildad 1912. Moderföreningen heter TuS Nettelstedt, medan herrelitlaget bär tillägget "-Lübbecke". Hemmamatcherna spelas i Merkur Arena. Klubbens största meriter är seger i Tyska cupen 1981, Cupvinnarcupen 1981 samt EHF City Cup 1997 och 1998.

Spelartrupp

Meriter
 Cupvinnarcupmästare 1981
 EHF City Cup-mästare 1997 och 1998
 Tyska cupmästare 1981

Spelare i urval

  Mark Dragunski (1997–1998)
  Talant Dujsjebajev (1997–1998)
  Slavko Goluža (1998–1999)
  Mattias Gustafsson (2010–2014)
  Dener Jaanimaa (2018–)
  Herbert Lübking (1970–1978)
  Zoran Mikulić (1996–2001)
  Kristian Svensson (2010–2013)
  Bogdan Wenta (1995–2000)

Referenser

Externa länkar

Handbollsklubbar i Tyskland
Sportklubbar i Nordrhein-Westfalen

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Where is Titus Bramble now?
Having spent 13 seasons in the Premier League with four different clubs, Titus Bramble retired from playing professionally in 2013 after being released by Sunderland.
Bramble has since embarked on a coaching career with former club Ipswich Town and is currently coaching within their academy.
In 2014, he spoke out against the possible English application of The Rooney Rule saying that it was a disgrace that it would be compulsory to interview a certain number of people from ethnic minorities for available managerial positions.
Bramble is also studying for his UEFA coaching badges with the Football Association of Wales where he will be following in the footsteps of graduates such as Thierry Henry and Patrick Vieira.
In August 2017, Bramble made a return to competitive football with non-league side Stowmarket Town on a one-year contract.


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CBC Union Wants 50 per cent Increase of Tax Money
The union representing CBC workers says the broadcaster needs a 50% increase in funding on top of the $1.1 billion it already gets from taxpayers.
Alex Levasseur, head of Radio-Canada's union, said the public broadcaster is headed for destruction if its "broken" funding model isn't changed.
Canadians need to ask themselves if they want the CBC, and how they're going to fund it properly, Levasseur said.
Corrosive Element at CBC
The CBC will have more cash if the New Democrats are elected to govern the nation later this year. But a funding boost might not be enough to help the troubled public broadcaster, says one of its most outspoken critics.
Writer and journalism instructor Andrew Mitrovica is a former CBC employee, where he worked at the Fifth Estate.
Now an outspoken critic of CBC operations, he said while "money is always good," the NDP would also need to take a look at the inner workings of the public broadcaster if it wanted to successfully fix the organization.
"They need to think more deeply about organizational and structural problems at the CBC," Mitrovica said. "You've got to look at some of the people running the CBC."
He said there's been a corrosive element in the broadcaster that has been eating away at what the CBC is supposed to be about, and furthering the private financial interests of a few people rather than fulfilling its role to serve the public at large.
Criminal Suit Against CBC To Proceed
A criminal prosecution launched by Winnipeg clothing designer Peter Nygard against CBC producers and Fifth Estate host Bob McKeown is being allowed to proceed.
In a 28-page decision released Monday, Manitoba Court of Queen's Bench Justice Doug Alba confirmed a lower court decision made in 2013 about the case, which has Nygard mounting a private criminal prosecution for defamatory libel against McKeown and CBC producers Tim Sawa and Morris Karp.
CBC needs to rethink its purpose
Earlier this month, John Whittingdale rose in Britain's House of Commons to announce a sweeping review of the BBC, promising a wholesale overhaul of the cherished public broadcaster's mandate, funding, governance and programming.
If the BBC, with its more than £5-billion ($10.1-billion) in revenue, global reach and dominant position on British television, is in need of a rethink, what can be said of the CBC?
Either Canada's public broadcaster will continue to limp along – resisting calls to refine its outdated and overly broad mandate to reflect a multichannel, multiplatform universe – or it will admit that much of the programming on which it spends its scarce resources is redundant.
The question facing Canadians is whether there's a place for CBC, period.
Exposed - Senate report on CBC
On July 20, 2015, he Senate of Canada released a report that is garnering a lot of attention. Here is just a bit of what is included. Go tio the full report at the bottom.
Time for Change:
The CBC/Radio-Canada in the Twenty-first Century
The CBC/Radio-Canada is losing its audience to the hundreds of alternative channels and video-streaming services provided by private-sector companies that have converged broadcasting and telecommunications operations to take advantage of the multi-platform, Internet-based world of communications.
Some recommendations of the report:
CBC/Radio-Canada, in consultation with the Government of Canada, explore alternative funding models and additional ways to generate revenue to minimize the Corporation's dependence on government appropriations.
CBC/Radio-Canada be more transparent in its operations, specifically with regard to the disclosure of financial information, procurement and contracts, and salaries; and it must make such disclosure easily accessible to the public.
As a public broadcaster, the CBC/Radio-Canada must be mindful of its use of public funds, and review all non-executive salaries and compensation to ensure they are in line with those for comparable positions with private broadcasters.
Both CBC/Radio-Canada Ombudsmen report to the Corporation's Board of Directors to ensure accountability at all levels of the Corporation, including the Senior Executive Team.
Senate report says CBC needs to be transparent and accountable
A Senate committee's report into the CBC's future released this week was aptly titled "Time for Change." It is.
The CBC is losing audience to Netflix, YouTube and other online video streaming services. Its television ratings are falling and its content increasingly lacks relevance for Canadians.
Meanwhile, controversy over a corporate culture that rejects transparency and accountability has eroded public confidence in the CBC, as has scandal surrounding high-profile personalities.
The committee also made clear the CBC, like the British public broadcaster, the BBC, needs to be transparent and accountable for how it spends public money.
They've previously gone to court, courtesy of the taxpayer, to fight certain access to information requests.
730 CBC employees make over $100k a year
While the CBC did disclose that approximately 730 employees are paid more than $100,000 a year, the taxpayer funded corporation won't tell Parliament who they are and exactly how much they earn.
The only employee whose salary range and expenses the broadcaster was willing to divulge was CBC/Radio-Canada President Hubert Lacroix. The CBC said Lacroix's salary, set by the Governor in Council, was between $358,400 and $421,600 in 2011.
Exposed - CBC Sunshine Club
This is quite the sunshine list of CBC employees being paid with Canadian Taxpayer money.
In the "can you believe this" department: as of April 14, 2014 over 10% of the "CBC ON-AIR GROUPS" made over $100,000 a year.
4 employees made of $300k/year with the average pay among the 4 being almost $486k/year
6 employees made between $250k and $299k with the average being just over $270k/year
21 employees made between $150k and $199k with the average being just over $179k/year
Over $20 million dollars a year going to the CBC Sunshine Club and another $80 million going to the rest of the CBC employees in this group.
Your tax dollars hard at work.
See the CBC document here.
CBC president Hubert Lacroix insulted taxpayers
CBC says Peter Mansbridge makes just $80,000
CBC president Hubert Lacroix insulted and disrespected taxpayers by not fully disclosing the salaries of high-level CBC employees, said senators on a committee studying the public broadcaster's future.
For instance, Lacroix's submission revealed that the host of CBC's The National, Peter Mansbridge, one of the most famous journalists in Canada, makes roughly $80,000 -- the same as a lower-level reporter.
The CBC has often refused to disclose its financial information, despite its annual $1-billion taxpayer subsidy.
Will CBC respond to Senate request?
A Senate committee is calling on Canada's public broadcaster to publicly disclose how much employees make and ensure non-executives aren't getting paid more than their peers in private broadcasting.
The Senate's communications committee is also calling on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation to find new ways to fund its operations to limit the amount of funding it receives from the federal government.
The report also references scandals involving former radio host Jian Ghomeshi and business correspondent Amanda Lang in calling for stricter policies to prevent problems, rather than having to react after they become public.
NDP promise of hope to CBC
The NDP is promising to restore $115 million to the CBC.
NDP Leader Tom Mulcair made the election commitment in Montreal on Thursday.
That means increasing current funding to CBC/Radio-Canada by $115 million over three fiscal years in hopes it will allow the public broadcaster to evolve in a changing media landscape, Mulcair said.
The Prime Minister's Office said the CBC faces "challenges in this rapidly changing media environment to which no mainstream broadcaster is immune."
"The CBC's viewership has declined, despite getting more than $1 billion in direct subsidies every year from taxpayers. CBC is responsible for its own operations, and it is up to the CBC to provide programming that Canadians actually want to watch and listen to," a PMO spokesperson wrote in email to CBC News.
U.K. Government Questions Funding of Public Broadcaster
The U.K.'s right-wing Conservative Party government kicked off a review process Thursday that will question the purpose, scale and funding of publicly-owned broadcaster the BBC, whose revenue last year totaled £4.81 billion ($7.48 billion).
In his introduction to the consultation document, Whittingdale said the government must seek answers to some "hard question." These included: "What should the BBC be trying to achieve in an age where consumer choice is now far more extensive than it has been before?
The review process will lead to the passing into legislation of a new 10-year charter for the BBC, which will come into force at the beginning of 2017. This charter will protect the BBC's freedom, and imposes on it a requirement to be politically impartial, but also restricts the scope of its operations and defines the way it is funded. It also sets out how the BBC is governed.
Whittingdale said in Parliament that revenue from the compulsory television license, which last year contributed £3.74 billion ($5.82 billion) to the BBC's treasure chest, will remain at the present level in the short-term, but the review would look at whether the broadcaster could be funded by a voluntary subscription instead in the long-term.
PS - good idea for the CBC?
Jokes don't last long as CBC President Hubert Lacroix address journalism class
On Jan. 21, Hubert Lacroix, the CEO of CBC/Radio-Canada, addressed a journalism class in order to discuss the future of Canada's public broadcaster.
"Before I start this, full transparency: I'm a double McGill grad," he said, and the students in the class laughed. After making a few more jokes about his background, Lacroix began talking about CBC, and the jokes were soon a thing of the past. Instead, during the nearly 90-minutes he spent talking to students, three themes seemed to keep coming back: financing, Canadian content, and scandals.
Understandably, concerns came through on the many scandals the CBC has lately been associated with.
CBC puts bottom line before Canadian identity
The NHL's new 12-year, multi-billion dollar television rights deal with Rogers made it obvious that the public broadcaster no longer has the means to compete with private interests in the high-stakes game of professional sports.
In addition to no longer competing for pro sports broadcasting rights, CBC president Hubert Lacroix said the network "will also cover fewer events and fewer sports. In addition, our involvement in amateur sports will be reduced. We will only broadcast events that allow us to break even."
The CBC's mandate specifically states that it should "contribute to shared national consciousness and identity." With more sports set to disappear, a Canadian identity that is already so hard to define will be receiving fewer contributions from our public broadcaster.
Did CBC documentary distort a piece of human history
Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist and author Paul Watson says he quit The Toronto Star after he was repeatedly told to back off from reporting a story he thought merited "significant public interest."
Since last year, Watson had been pursuing a story about complaints from federal civil servants and experts involved in the search for the Franklin expedition in the Arctic.
However, Watson said many of those working on the project felt the facts around the discovery of the long-lost HMS Erebus had been distorted.
In May, Watson received a copy of a letter former BlackBerry co-CEO Jim Balsillie sent to Environment Minister Leona Aglukkaq and to the Prime Minister's Office.
In the letter, Balsillie raises concerns about the "misleading characterization" of the search project presented in the CBC's documentary "Franklin's Lost Ships" which aired April 9.
Balsillie's letter takes aim at The Royal Canadian Geographical Society in particular for creating "new and exaggerated narratives" in the CBC documentary for its own "exclusive benefit" and that of its partners.
Balsillie goes on to list other errors in the CBC documentary.
"Those 129 men died trying to expand the horizons of human knowledge," Watson said.
"That's a story of human history and if facts are being misrepresented, that's distorting a piece of human history. That to me is not a small thing."
CBC needs to more than just apologize
The Janice Rubin report into the Jian Ghomeshi affair released last week confirmed the CBC failed to deal with "behaviour that was disrespectful, including behaviour that is considered to create an intimidating, humiliating, hostile or offensive work environment."
In response, president and chief executive Hubert Lacroix apologized to Canadians for this massive lapse in professional conduct.
The report calls for a number of measures that'll go a long way toward cleaning up this mess: an independent survey in which staff can anonymously take part; a confidential hotline so employees can call in with concerns; and an ombudsman for workplace issues.
Unless these measures are put in place, CBC's apology will ring false.
Canadians shell out $1 billion a year for this operation. They deserve better.
We wouldn't accept this culture from a regular government office. The CBC should be treated no differently.
Does CBC president Hubert Lacroix believe in transparency
For a man who says he is dedicated to transparency, CBC president Hubert Lacroix has a funny way of showing it.
In spite of taking a $1,500-per-month after-tax living allowance to cover his trips to Ottawa, Lacroix also submitted receipts for reimbursement pocketing an extra $29,678 in ineligible expenses.
That's on top of his salary, which ranges between $358,400 and $421,600 per year plus perks.
Sen. Don Plett, recently the subject of CBC stories on his own expenses, was particularly outraged.
Plett pressed Lacroix on why he discovered the mistake in June, paid back in September but the public did not find out until Sun Media reported on the issue in February.
Despite his claims of promoting transparency, Lacroix's tenure at CBC has been one of trying to keep the public from knowing how tax dollars are spent.
Hubert Lacroix continues to bring disdain and disgust
The embattled CEO of Canadian Broadcasting Corp. continues to bring disdain and disgust while appearing at a Senate Committee. Hubert Lacroix has been found to file over 40,000 dollars fraudulent expenses, lost the NHL Hockey contract, marshalled the cover up of Jian Ghomeshi and the number of issues of such catastrophic effects. The double standards all seem fine with Mssr. Lacroix.
While the unravelling of CBC continues at every level there are to many disasters to attend to. The corporation promised a thorough review of Sexual complaints however, an investigation into a known pervert in CBC Charlottetown continues to be buried in the mire. Like answers in PEI on sexual predator, Lacroix does not make any sense.
At some point you might expect someone to step up and take action, maybe firing Lacroix and a number of other cavalier coverup executives, they seem abundant as people start to see how CBC 'works'.
Original article here.
Move to kill CBC comes from within
It seems that there's a move a foot to kill the CBC. And it's coming from within.
Hubert Lacroix, the reigning President of our Nation's broadcaster looks like Gordon Gekko a business guy/bureaucrat brought in to dismantle the CBC one block at a time.
The big question is why are the staffers so quietly walking the plank as layer after layer of lay offs occur?
Has the CBC served its purpose and not needed in our country any longer?
Clearly the CBC needs to be re-defined and then Canadians need to decide if they want to fund it and use it.
Is it time for the CBC staff to buy the "Beeb" and run it as a co-op? Would CBC staff and their unions for example, take a 50% pay cut to take control over their own destinies instead of being bull dozed by one particular leader or party?
Could they compete in the current market place?
CBC HQ symbol of all that is wrong
CBC is a sick animal and has been so for a long time. It's not just the Jian Ghomeshi affair that has exposed as much. The nasty internal backlash against Fifth Estate broadcaster Linden MacIntyre, who had dared to remark upon the corp.'s celebrity culture, also showed it.
CBC News Network Managing Editor Jennifer Harwood (and also a couple of rival journalists) reacted vindictively.
The CBC does many things well but needs to return to the principles of its public service role with alacrity.
Let the CBC get rid of its Toronto headquarters, a dysfunctional building with an enormous footprint in prime commercial real estate that is also, with its hollow core, the symbol of all that is wrong with its present culture, not least its treatment of virtually all criticism as mortal attack to which it must be impervious.
Exposed - CBC to put TV and radio on back burner
A defiant CBC/Radio-Canada president Hubert Lacroix on Thursday refused to resign in the face of heated calls to do so at an earlier employee town hall meeting.
What he and Heather Conway, EVP of English Services, who was also on the call, are trying to do includes shifting the CBC from conventional TV to digital and mobile content and spaces, reduce in-house production and cut supper-hour newscasts to a baseline 30 minutes and in some cases 60 minutes or 90 minutes, and cut up to 1,500 staff by 2020 on top of those identified in April.
"We have to start to shift our investment dollars into building mobile product. That means not taking a traditional TV product and making it smaller for a smaller screen. That means producing content for a mobile device," Conway explained.
That process, to start within 12 months, will mean inverting the CBC workforce from its current state of TV and radio first.
"We will start to say, let's start producing for mobile first, then digital, then radio, then television," Conway outlined.
Realizing that vision will entail additional job cuts to those already unveiled in April.
CBC slashing workforce
The CBC is slashing some 20 per cent of its workforce over the next five years, while cutting back evening newscasts and in-house production and raising the possibility of selling its flagship headquarters in Toronto.
By 2020, CBC plans to cut 1,000 to 1,500 positions (the broadcaster says it currently has 7,500 employees). It says that goal will in part be fulfilled by retirements and attrition and that roughly 500 of these jobs will be eliminated over the next 12 to 15 months.
The new job losses are in addition to the 657 the broadcaster announced in April. The CBC is grappling with a $130-million budget shortfall due to federal cuts, declining advertising revenues and the loss of hockey rights to Rogers Media.
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President-elect Biden on DC demonstrations: It's not protest. It's insurrection
President-elect Joe Biden speaks as unrest continues at the US Capitol
Amid violent protests at the US Capitol, President-elect Joe Biden gave a forceful condemnation of the pro-Trump demonstration.
The protests came as members of Congress were set to count the Electoral College votes. But a number of GOP members of Congress were set to present objections to the Electoral College count.
"At this hour, our democracy unprecedented assault," Biden said. "Unlike we have seen anything we have seen in modern time. An assault on the citadel of liberty. The capitol itself."
Biden challenged President Donald Trump to give a more forceful condemnation of the protests.
"I call on President trump to go on national television now to fulfill his oath and defend the constitution and end to this siege," Biden said.
"The world's watching. Like so many other Americans, I am shocked and saddened that our nation, so long the beacon of light and hope for democracy, has come to such a dark moment," Biden added.


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Haryana Public Service Commission has declared HPSC Civil Judge Mains 2019 result. Candidates who have appeared in the written exam can check their results through the official site at hpsc.gov.in.
Haryana Public Service Commission has declared HPSC Civil Judge Mains 2019 result on April 11, 2019. Candidates who have appeared in the written examination can check their results through the official site of HPSC at hpsc.gov.in. The main written examination was conducted from March 15 to March 17, 2019.
A total of 9 candidates have qualified the main examination. Candidates who have appeared for the examination can check these steps to know their results.
Visit the official site of Haryana Public Service Commission at hpsc.gov.in.
Click on the result section that is available on the left side of the home page.
A new page will open where candidates will have to click on the first link available.
Check your results through the PDF file opened.
Download the pdf file and keep a hard copy of the same for further need.
Candidates who have qualified the main examination will be called for viva-voca test. The details of the viva voca test will be released by the Commission soon. The selection of the candidate will be on the basis of marks obtained in preliminary exam, main exam and viva-voca test.
The examination was conducted to fill 107 Civil Judge (Junior Division) posts in the state. The official notification was released on September 1, 2018, and the last date was September 30, 2018. The preliminary examination was conducted on December 22, 2018. Candidates can check for more related information through the official site of HPSC.


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Katelin Edwards has been in the crazy world of cannabis compliance since October 2016. Before working at Simplifya, Katelin worked for a national cannabis company. She graduated from University of Colorado at Boulder in May 2017 with a bachelor's degree in business. It was through the Real Estate Program at the Leeds School of Business where Katelin was first introduced to the idea of working in the cannabis industry. While in school, Katelin participated in the CU in DC program, where she spent a semester in Washington, DC working as an intern for CU's Office of Federal Relations. Katelin is a Colorado native who loves to snowboard and cheer on the Denver Broncos.


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Lam Hok Hei (, born 18 September 1991 in Hong Kong) is a Hong Kong professional footballer who currently plays as a forward for Hong Kong Premier League club Rangers.

Club career

Rangers
Lam started his professional football career in Hong Kong 09. In 2008, he signed for Rangers. He quickly established himself as a regular first team member. In January 2013, Rangers' manager Philip Lee said that he would let Lam make the decision about his own future.

Persija Jakarta
On 18 May 2013, Lam announced that he had joined Indonesia Super League club Persija Jakarta for a four-month loan contract.

On 26 May 2013, Lam made his line-up debut for Persija Jakarta against Persidafon Dafonsoro, and he played for about 70 minutes before being injured. Persija Jakarta won, 1–0.

On 1 June 2013, Lam made his second appearance, against Persiwa Wamena; in this match, Lam made his first assist, on a goal by Rachmat Afandi, and Persija Jakarta won, 3–0.

South China
Lam scored his first goal for South China in the 2015 AFC Cup.

Eastern
Following Eastern's 2016–17 season playoff win, chairman Peter Leung announced that the club had signed Lam from South China.

Rangers
On 23 September 2019, Lam was loaned to Rangers for a season. He officially joined the club after the end of the 2019–20 season.

Lam was in good form at the start of the 2020–21 season, scoring 4 goals in 7 appearances including 1 league goal and 3 cup goals.

On 4 August 2022, Lam returned to Rangers.

International career
Lam scored his first international goal for Hong Kong on 14 November 2012 in the match against Malaysia at the Shah Alam Stadium. The game ended 1–1.

Career statistics

Club
As of 31 May 2014

International
As of 28 March 2015

References

External links

1991 births
Living people
Hong Kong footballers
Fourway Athletics players
Eastern Sports Club footballers
South China AA players
Hong Kong Rangers FC players
Hong Kong First Division League players
Hong Kong Premier League players
Liga 1 (Indonesia) players
Persija Jakarta players
Expatriate footballers in Indonesia
Hong Kong expatriate footballers
Hong Kong international footballers
Footballers at the 2010 Asian Games
Footballers at the 2014 Asian Games
Association football forwards
Asian Games competitors for Hong Kong
Hong Kong League XI representative players


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Q: Count occurrences if cell is not null I have a table as shown below:
Code   Aug-19   Sep-19  Oct-19  Nov-19  Dec-19  Jan-20  Consistency
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ABC     NULL    501.2   584.56  NULL    NULL    NULL        NULL
DEF     NULL    NULL    NULL    260.4   222    323.77       NULL

I need to take the occurrences in the months column and update the consistency column as
Code   Aug-19   Sep-19  Oct-19  Nov-19  Dec-19  Jan-20  Consistency
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ABC     NULL    501.2   584.56  NULL    NULL    NULL        2
DEF     NULL    NULL    NULL    260.4   222    323.77       3

The columns [Aug-19],[Sep-19]... are dynamic which will change month on month.
How can I achieve this?

A: You might have to use ugly CASE expressions here:
UPDATE yourTable
SET Consistency = CASE WHEN [Aug-19] IS NOT NULL THEN 1 ELSE 0 END +
                  CASE WHEN [Sep-19] IS NOT NULL THEN 1 ELSE 0 END +
                  CASE WHEN [Oct-19] IS NOT NULL THEN 1 ELSE 0 END +
                  CASE WHEN [Nov-19] IS NOT NULL THEN 1 ELSE 0 END +
                  CASE WHEN [Dec-19] IS NOT NULL THEN 1 ELSE 0 END +
                  CASE WHEN [Jan-20] IS NOT NULL THEN 1 ELSE 0 END;

Note that having the need to do this is a serious sign that your database table design is not optimal.  It would be much better to just maintain a single date column.  Then, obtaining the non NULL count for every code would just require a typical GROUP BY operation.  Consider a table looking something like the following:
Code | Date         | Val
ABC  | '2019-08-01' | NULL
ABC  | '2019-09-01' | 501.2
ABC  | '2019-10-01' | 584.56
ABC  | '2019-11-01' | NULL
ABC  | '2019-12-01' | NULL
ABC  | '2029-01-01' | NULL
DEF  | '2019-08-01' | NULL
DEF  | '2019-09-01' | NULL
DEF  | '2019-10-01' | NULL
DEF  | '2019-11-01' | 260.4
DEF  | '2019-12-01' | 222
DEF  | '2029-01-01' | 323.77

Now you only need this query:
SELECT
    Code,
    COUNT(Val) AS Consistency
FROM yourNewTable
GROUP BY
    Code;


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Goel (O Go'el HaDahm) é um termo hebraico para a palavra ("redimir"), semelhante a "redentor", pelo qual a Bíblia hebraica e a tradição rabínica denotam um parente relativo apto a restaurar os direitos perdidos por uma pessoa próxima. Goel costuma ser usado também em contextos de vingança, geralmente como "vingança de sangue".

No Livro de Isaías, Deus é chamado de Redentor de Israel e, ademais, em Isaías Deus é aquele que redime pessoas cativas em circunstâncias grandiosas. No cristianismo o título Goel é aplicado a Cristo, como redentor que pagou um alto preço pela humanidade.

O Livro de Rute registra um caso literal no qual aplica-se o termo goel para Boaz, que redimiu Rute e Noemi, em um caso de parentela relativa.

Ver também
 Boaz
 Redentor

Ligações externas
Donald A. Leggett: The Levirate and Goel Institutions in the Old Testament With Special Attention to the Book of Ruth Doctoral dissertation at the Free University in Amsterdam. Cherry Hill, N.J. 1974, Mack Publishing Company.

Palavras, frases e expressões em hebraico
Livro de Rute


"If you're going to build a nationally recognized university, you want to recruit the best faculty and students you can. And all of them need to be welcomed and treated equitably on campus and throughout the community. It's the smart thing to do and it's the right thing to do."
Kaitlin Legg, M.Ed., is a student affairs scholar-practitioner, administrator, and educator with a focus on LGBT populations, diversity and inclusion, and change-resistant organizations. She helps communities and higher education professionals reach their equity, diversity and inclusion goals through strategic capacity building, joyful connectedness, and transformative learning processes. She serves as Director of the LGBT Resource Center at the University of North Florida.


Brett Harned is a lovely guy – I met him at the Digital PM Summit in 2016 – and he's a confident presenter, easily conveying his passion for the subject to a crowd. He knows how to take a complex message and package it in a way that takes you on a journey, coupled with beautiful visuals* that underpin the message. He's the engine behind much of the digital project management community online and in person.
In Project Management for Humans he has taken his experience, ideas and good practice and distilled them into a fun, practical book.
I love the writing style. It flows, it's certainly not stilted and the book is packed with information. I read it quickly and still learned something.
I also enjoyed the section on resolving conflict and having difficult conversations, complete with transcript of a conversation Brett had and how it turned out.
I learned about story points. It was a helpful and easy-to-understand explanation. I also enjoyed the section on resolving conflict and having difficult conversations, complete with transcript of a conversation Brett had and how it turned out.
The book doesn't have a lot of exercises, but there are some. There's one that is so compelling it made me wonder if the Gantt Museum actually exists somewhere.
There are also outlines for templates and sample layouts that will save you time. There are also case studies and stories from other project managers (including one from me which I had forgotten I had written until I read it in the book). The case study from Dave Prior in Chapter 1 is very funny and that sets the tone for the rest of the book.
Each chapter ends with a TL;DR (how very 'digital') which summarises the key points for you.
The book reminded me of Project Management for You by Cesar Abeid. I feel it's very much aimed at people who won't read project management books, or don't think they are the audience for the more academic, hardback texts and want something quick, accessible and yet delivers on the key points they need to be able to successfully run projects because that's, you know, the point.
This book is like a mentoring conversation with your fun uncle. It's easy to read, includes loads of examples that bring the concepts to life in ways anyone can understand and it's grounded in business practice that really works. Brett's done the thinking about how to make your projects successful and distilled it into what you really need to know to deliver on your targets time and time again. Recommended.
In Project Management for Humans @brettharned shows how to make your projects successful.
* Random fact: Having looked at the slides from the DPM conference the previous year, I knew I had to seriously up my game in a room full of digital, web and graphic design people. The DPM event was the catalyst I needed to review my own presentation slide decks and just do better. So I have Brett to thank for that!
Brett kindly sent me a proof copy of his book to read in advance of publication.
I had this book and it helped guide my way towards being a project manager. I highly recommend this to all aspiring PM's out there and if you're also looking for a PM tool, I recommend using Proggio. Just get to know more about the tool here – https://goo.gl/n6oEFM.
Thanks for giving me a new project management book to read. I am glad that it's written for actual human brings instead of test proctors.
It really is worth a read!


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Congratulations, Scarlett, on your new book! And, enjoy your celebration.
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I will definitely be adding this book to my TBR list!
You had me at SEAL and Ocean's Eleven.
Got to love Navy SEAL (even former SEALS) stories! Congrats on the new release, Scarlett!
Congrats on your new book release, Scarlett. The story sounds great, like something I'd really enjoy reading. Looking forward to it!
Congrats on the release, sounds like an amazing read!
Getting over the loss of someone you love varies from person to person. In Cabe's case, keeping busy with work seems to be his way of coping. Filing a sexual harassment charge is a sure way to put yourself in the crosshairs of scrutiny and ridicule. You can become a pariah to coworkers. It will be interesting to see these two characters work together and work out their relationship.


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The government's Crimes Legislation Amendment Bill seeks to modify the defence available under self-defence when a person uses force to resist arrest. It also requires judges to take a person's occupation into account during the sentencing process if the person's occupation exposes them to higher levels of risk of assault.
The private member's bill, Crimes (Offences Against Police) Amendment Bill, seeks to create aggravated assault offences in the Criminal Code 1990 where there are assaults and other offences against police. The bill uses a similar provision to that introduced in relation to aggravated offences against pregnant women.
The committee report recommends that both bills not be supported. However, I have included dissenting comments in relation to the Crimes (Offences Against Police) Amendment Bill, because I think that this bill is worthy of support.
For the first bill we received an impressive array of representations from the law community about the unfortunate consequences for the state of law in the ACT if this bill were to be introduced. It became quite clear to the committee after hearing these contributions that the defence of self-defence, although rarely used in court, is integral to our legal heritage, that this legal heritage goes back to the Magna Carta and that at the very least it would be a very bad precedent to remove these provisions.
I need to put on the record my dissatisfaction with the approach of the government to this. This committee report was called for by the Assembly in February, and the committee held a series of hearings in April in relation to this, but it was only on the day of the hearings that the committee received the government's submission to that investigation. For the record, there was a motion passed on 23 February referring these bills to the justice and community safety committee. I spoke adversely to the attorney in the hearings about the tardy response of the government to this inquiry. It makes it very difficult for committee members to ask insightful questions when you only get the government's submission that you are supposed to be asking the questions about when the government is essentially sitting down at the table.
The government's submission dwelt on the jurisprudence that would support the approach that the government is taking and I asked a number of questions of the government in relation to why the government was relying on cases from individual states within the United States, not the United States Supreme Court, and why it had not relied on jurisprudence in a number of common law countries. I asked, on behalf of the committee, for some answers to questions about whether there was other jurisprudence closer to home than, say, the individual states in the United States.
Members of the committee put a number of questions on notice, most of which have not been answered, and this is addressed in the committee report as well. This is a most unsatisfactory and disrespectful approach to the committee from the Attorney-General and I think the Attorney-General has some explaining to do about why he would treat the committee in this way.


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Georgia: OLB D'Andre Walker is thriving as an edge rusher with four sacks and three forced fumbles.
The Bulldogs haven't visited Death Valley since RB Knowshon Moreno, QB Mathew Stafford and WR A.J. Green helped Georgia put up 52 points in a two-TD triumph in 2008. Bulldogs LB Darryl Gamble also returned two interceptions for TDs. ... These teams have played 10 previous times when both were ranked between 1987 and 2013 and have split those games evenly. ... Georgia has won the past two meetings, defeating the Tigers 44-41 in Athens in 2013. ... Georgia is scoring 42.8 points per game while its 13 points allowed per game ranks second nationally. ... The Bulldogs have won every game this season by at least two TDs. ... Under coach Ed Orgeron, LSU has yet to lose two straight, going 6-0 in games following a loss. Also under Orgeron, LSU is 14-0 when it has a 100-yard rusher. ... LSU RB Nick Brossette is averaging 96 yards per game after rushing for 95 last week at Florida.


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This dish is a classic and a lot of people really have their own take they prefer. Well this is mine! And there are a few tricks or important points to note that make the extra good version extra good. First of all I really cook the bacon- to the point of overcooking- where it is so crispy, it almost tastes burnt. You want that super crispy, easy to crumble bacon. I think at that stage you definitely get more of the bacon flavour in the salad, and the bacon crunch sticks around even after a day or two.
Also I like to use small chunks of cheese versus shredded cheese. I don't know why it makes it better but for me I just prefer it. Normally I'm not a cheese person but it really balances out the flavours. I personally prefer an Old Cheddar and that's what I use. While I wouldn't normally prefer the chunkier cheese version, in this salad it really works.
As for the rest of it, well its hard to go wrong. The dressing is super quick and easy to make. The sugar is essential I'm sure, but I've never tried not adding it. I'm sure you could cut the sugar in half and still have a great dressing. Let me know how that goes in the comments!
The sunflower seeds are a good addition and don't impact the flavour significantly. I find that onion however can make the dish taste more onion like though. Which I personally don't like- it is not an onion dish, it's a broccoli, bacon, dish. I love onion in my salad but I don't add it to this one. You should though if you like a bit of onion flavour and want to add some extra flavour to this salad.
Cook the bacon (on medium heat) until its really crispy, maybe even a little overcooked, and will crumble easily into bits, let it cool off.
Prepare the Dressing by combining all the ingredients and mix well, let it sit for 15 minutes before adding it to the salad.
What makes this dish so good is in part the dressing. The sugar helps I'm sure, but the mixture of the sour cream, mayo, and vinegar does wonders as well. It's only a little time consuming because you have to chop up so much. That's not to difficult though if you have a decent knife to do the chopping.
It is great to bring to parties because once you've made it, it goes in the fridge and is served cold. I usually let it sit about a half hour before I take a bite, and it is always good for the next couple days after you make it. That's if you have any leftovers! The only time I have leftovers is if I secretly make it then don't tell anyone, and sometimes I do that just so I can have it all.


Bryn Forbes is trying to learn a new skill, at the highest possible level, in front of nearly 20,000 people per game.
He's trying to become a point guard, something that most who play the positions have spent a lifetime trying to perfect.
Forbes, who is undersized as a shooting guard at 6-foot-3, has spent a lot of time with the Spurs' development league affiliate in Austin trying to develop that skill. The 23-year-old had never played point guard until this year.
The point guard role is arguably the hardest position to master on the court.
You have to be aware of the time and the score at every moment. You have to look out for any mismatches, get players where they need to be and instantaneously scan whether a player is in a position of strength or weakness.
"Playing the point guard position I think is a lot more mental than some of the other roles I've played," Forbes said.
Forbes was undrafted last year out of Michigan State, likely because of his size. He played for the Spurs' Summer League team, then was signed in July.
Over 26 games with the Spurs this season, he's averaged 1.7 points, 0.5 rebounds and 0.2 assists in six minutes a game.
But with Tony Parker battling various bumps and bruises throughout the season, and Dejounte Murray out several weeks because of a groin injury, the Spurs have been thin at point guard, so Forbes has been seeing some minutes.
He played 24 minutes against Golden State on March 11, finishing with eight points on 3-for-7 shooting.
But Forbes has yet to record more than one assist in an NBA game.
Parker, a four-time NBA champion with the Spurs at point guard, said Forbes is in a tough spot right now.
Forbes has played in 18 games for the Austin Spurs this season, where he's practiced and honed the point guard role. He's averaged 23.8 points and 2.4 assists during those games.
Forbes said Popovich approached him midseason and told him to play point guard for the Austin Spurs so he could further develop his repertoire.
Forbes said he trusts Popovich and was eager to act on the coach's request.
Forbes said he has fully embraced his new role, and is glad to be seeing more minutes.
"I'm just a lot more comfortable, especially with the ball in my hands," Forbes said.


The immune system is contantly performing surveillance to detect foreign organisms that might do harm. But pathogens, for their part, have evolved a number of strategies to evade this detection, such as secreting proteins that hinder a host's ability to mount an immune response.
In a new study, a team of researchers led by Igor E. Brodsky of the University of Pennsylvania, identified a "back-up alarm" system in host cells that responds to a pathogen's attempt to subvert the immune system.
The findings address the long-standing question of how a host can generate an immune response to something that is designed to shut off that very response. A potential future application of this new understanding may enable the cell-death pathway triggered by bacteria to be harnessed in order to target tumor cells and encourage their demise.
The work appears in the Journal of Experimental Medicine.
A major way that the immune system recognizes pathogens is by detecting patterns that are shared among microbes but are distinct from a host's own cells. Pathogens, however, don't make it easy for immune cells to destroy them. Some can inject proteins into host cells that interfere with this detection, allowing an infection to become established.
Yersinia bacteria, certain species of which cause plague and gastrointestinal disease in humans, is one such pathogen. These bacteria inject a protein, YopJ, into immune cells, that interferes with key signaling pathways, thereby blocking the production of cytokines that could otherwise communicate with other cells about the infection and inducing apoptosis, a form of cell death, which had generally been thought to be non-inflammatory—in other words, a quiet death.
Yet humans and mice can survive Yersinia infections because somehow their immune systems become aware of the presence of an invader.
To understand how host cells overcome Yersinia's insidious strategy, Brodsky's team focused on the activity of an enzyme called RIPK1. RIPK1 was known to play a key role in signaling in respose to an immune cell detecting pathogen-associated patterns as well as inducing cell death.
Two recent papers in Nature Cell Biology describe the mechanism of how RIPK1 helps a cell switch between pro-survival and pro-death functions. And while it was known that interfering with this pathway can induce cells to die, there had never been a good physiological explanation for why that should be the case.
The resarchers relied upon a strain of mouse, created by GlaxoSmithKline, that possesses a specific mutation in RIPK1 that renders the enzyme unable to trigger the apoptosis pathway upon encountering Yersinia bacteria.
"This mouse was really useful for us to be able to distinguish between the inflammatory response and apoptosis," Brodsky said.
When these mice were infected with Yersinia, their cells did not undergo apoptosis. Instead, these animals became extremely sensitive to infection, succumbing to an infection that normal mice almost always survive. Bacteria could be found dispersed throughout the body, whereas in normal mice Yersinia was typically confined to the lymph nodes, spleen and liver.
While apoptosis is normally considered non-inflammatory, the researchers showed that RIPK1-induced apoptosis itself promotes cytokine production, presumably by uninfected bystander cells, which helps in recruiting an inflammatory response and plays a role in promoting survival of the host.
The researchers also noticed that the infected lymph nodes from mice that could not undergo RIPK1-induced apoptosis were unable to form granulomas, areas of organized immune cells that can form in response to many infectious or inflammatory stimuli, and are thought to be places of bacterial containment. This suggested that RIPK1-induced apoptosis might promote containment of the bacteria by allowing the immune system to form these granulomas.
Though Brodsky said the research is still at an early stage, one possible therapeutic implication of the work could serve as a way to push cancer cells, which typically grow and thrive without hindrance from the immune system, to their own death.
"We could imagine that modifying bacteria that trigger these pathways, or delivering this bacterial protein to tumor cells, could be potentially useful as an anti-cancer therapeutic," he said.
In future work, Brodsky and colleagues will further investigate the signals that infected cells release in order to start cytokine production by bystander cells. They hope to decipher which molecular pathways are most important in the process. The researchers would also like to develop a more detailed understanding of how granulomas form.


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Q: Need for new String[0] in the Set toArray() method I am trying to convert a Set to an Array.
Set<String> s = new HashSet<String>(Arrays.asList("mango","guava","apple"));
String[] a = s.toArray(new String[0]);
for(String x:a)
      System.out.println(x);

And it works fine. But I don't understand the significance of new String[0] in String[] a = s.toArray(new String[0]);.
I mean initially I was trying String[] a = c.toArray();, but it wan't working. Why is the need for new String[0].

A: The parameter is a result of one of the many well-known limitations in the Java generics system. Basically, the parameter is needed in order to be able to return an array of the correct type.

A: It is the array into which the elements of the Set are to be stored, if it is big enough; otherwise, a new array of the same runtime type is allocated for this purpose.
Object[] toArray(), returns an Object[] which cannot be cast to String[] or any other type array.
 T[] toArray(T[] a) , returns an array containing all of the elements in this set; the runtime type of the returned array is that of the specified array. If the set fits in the specified array, it is returned therein. Otherwise, a new array is allocated with the runtime type of the specified array and the size of this set.
If you go through the implementing code (I'm posting the code from OpenJDK) , it will be clear for you :
 public <T> T[] toArray(T[] a) {
     if (a.length < size)
     // Make a new array of a's runtime type, but my contents:
     return (T[]) Arrays.copyOf(elementData, size, a.getClass());
     System.arraycopy(elementData, 0, a, 0, size);
     if (a.length > size)
         a[size] = null;
    return a;
 }


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Ads to highlight savings safety net
The organisation responsible for compensating savers if a bank or building society goes bust has launched a campaign to raise awareness of the financial cover it provides.
Deposits of up to £85,000 for single accounts and £170,000 for joint accounts are covered by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) after the limit was recently increased from £50,000 to match a new European Economic Area compensation level of 100,000 euro.
The FSCS launched the multimillion-pound ad campaign after research found that only 3% of people knew of the organisation, compared with 9% in 2009 and 20% in January 2008, soon after the run on Northern Rock.
The group, which has made record payouts in the last few years, also found that 47% of people knew there was a compensation scheme but did not know it was implemented by the FSCS.
Its scheme covers savings in UK banks and subsidiaries of foreign banks which operate in the UK but does not cover deposits in UK branches of European banks, which are covered by the relevant compensation scheme in the country where the bank has its head office.


Years & Years have just announced details of their highly anticipated second album Palo Santo, to be released on July 6th via Polydor Records. The first official single from Palo Santo is set to arrive very soon.
Today's album announcement is accompanied by the first official trailer for the band's short film (of the same name), featuring Years & Years' front-man Olly Alexander, as well as the legendary Academy Award-winning actress Dame Judi Dench. Watch it below!
The British trio recently made a welcome and surprise return with their critically acclaimed track Sanctify, which reached No. 1 in the UK upon release, sold 1.5 million copies, and was nominated for 5 BRIT Awards.
A band intuitively connected to great, homespun British pop classicism, Palo Santo announces Years & Years' ascension to the world stage. At the core is Olly Alexander, a once-in-a-generation front-man who understands more than most his responsibility as a pop star. His personal leap forward in scope and ambition is reflected in the album's colorful mix of collaborators, which range from Kid Harpoon, Greg Kurstin, Julia Michaels and Justin Tranter to Steve Mac, Jessie Shatkin and Sarah Hudson. On Palo Santo, Years & Years' impact on pop feels truly tribal, one in which the minority is always the majority, and everyone is welcome.
Part full-blooded, escapist fantasia and part social comment, for Years & Years this is about outlier pop as futurism once more, offering solutions when the wider world is transforming beyond recognition. With Olly drawing as much inspiration from cult sci-fi as the multi-sensory pop of Prince, Bowie or Gaga, in Palo Santo Years & Years have created the perfect space in which to tell their most intimate, personal stories; on identity, sexuality, performance, and ultimately, what it means to be human.


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I read this article and found it very interesting, thought it might be something for you. The article is called Meet Me in The Gardens and is located at https://www.totallydublin.ie/event/meet-me-in-the-gardens/.
'Meet Me in The Gardens', written by Sharon McCoy, and directed by Aoibhinn Marie Gilroy, aims to plunge the audience into the gripping 200-year history of Ireland's National Botanic Gardens. A series of 4 short plays, 'Meet Me in the Garden' takes place outdoors in various locations around the gardens. This site-specific performance is based on real characters and true life events, spanning the cholera epidemic to the onset of World War II. (Performances are not seated).


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Home › NELSON Horatio - Autograph Letter Signed 1803 on board the Victory while blockading Toulon
NELSON Horatio - Autograph Letter Signed 1803 on board the Victory while blockading Toulon
Horatio NELSON (1758-1805)
Autograph Letter Signed ("Nelson & Bronte") to Major General William Villettes [Commander in Chief of the British Army in the Mediterranean, based at Malta], giving news of the situation in Spain, Genoa, Toulon and Sicily.
2 pages 4to, Victory, 27 August 1803.
"You can hardly expect news from us when one day merely passeth away & another cometh, patience is a virtue with us, the Enemy are ready to come forth, and we are perfectly ready to meet them, the time must be left to them, but it will arrive and soon in my opinion, & hope keeps us alert & healthy. By the French papers which probably you have seen you will know that there has been a serious riot, not to call it Rebellion in Dublin. Lord Kilwarden the chief justice was killed, but I am sure that all is quieted again. Spain as yet is friendly to us, how long it will last must be as the French please. Large bodys of Troops are collected at Genoa & at Toulon, that they are fixed & in rade. Sardinia is also certain, and in that Island no preparations are making to resist them and those in Sicily are very trifling indeed it seems more to keep us from interfering than to keep the French out, God grant us an honourable Peace and soon is the sincere wish of my Dear General of Your faithful friend."
In a postscript, he adds "When you have read the papers send them to Sir Alex. Ball and then they had better be burnt."
The short-lived peace of Amiens had collapsed in May 1803, only days after Nelson was appointed to the Mediterranean command. By June he was in the Mediterranean, and a month later he joined the fleet blockading Toulon. As the French found themselves blockaded on all sides of their coast, both Atlantic and Mediterranean, Nelson's hope was that they could be lured out to face him in battle. Those hopes, and his prediction that the enemy would come "soon in my opinion", were not realized, despite the fact that Nelson later stated that he had never actually blockaded the port of Toulon, but rather gave the enemy "every opportunity . . . to put to sea". His "enemy" was French Rear Admiral Louis de La Touche-Tréville, who died in Toulon in August 1804, while Nelson was still on board the Victory, hoping for a battle. La Touche-Tréville's replacement was Admiral Pierre Villeneuve who, in January 1805, finally sailed out of Toulon, unseen by the British in a storm. Nelson's next encounter with Villeneuve was to come ten months later at Trafalgar.
The rebellion in Dublin mentioned here was headed by Robert Emmet, who had spent some time in France trying procure French assistance for an Irish uprising, with no results. Returning to Ireland, Emmet headed an unsuccessful attempt to capture Dublin Castle. Lord Kilwarden, the Lord Chief Justice of Ireland much reviled for the prosecution and execution of William Orr, was caught in the resulting disturbances in the streets of Dublin and killed.
The integral blank leaf, docketed, has become detached from the letter.
Not in Nicolas.