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Statute Number: 8-1,141
Article Title: GENERAL PROVISIONS
Brief Description: Distinctive license plates; procedure for issuance; requirements;
fees; exceptions; discontinuance of certain plates.
8-1,141. Distinctive license plates; procedure for issuance; requirements; fees; exceptions; discontinuance of certain plates. (a) Any new distinctive license plate authorized for issuance on and after July 1, 1994, shall be subject to the personalized license plate fee prescribed by K.S.A. 8-132(c), and amendments thereto. This section shall not apply to any distinctive license plate authorized prior to July 1, 1994.
(b) The director of vehicles shall not issue any new distinctive license plate authorized for issuance on and after July 1, 1995, unless there is a guarantee of an initial issuance of at least 500 license plates.
(c) The provisions of this section shall not apply to distinctive license plates issued under the provisions of K.S.A. 8-1,145, or K.S.A. 2018 Supp. 8-177d, 8-1,163, 8-1,166, 8-1,185, 8-1,186, 8-1,187 or 8-1,188, and amendments thereto.
(d) The provisions of subsection (a), shall not apply to distinctive license plates issued under the provisions of K.S.A. 8-1,146 or 8-1,148, and amendments thereto, or K.S.A. 2018 Supp. 8-1,153, 8-1,158 or 8-1,161, and amendments thereto.
(e) The provisions of subsection (f) shall not apply to distinctive license plates issued under the provisions of K.S.A. 2018 Supp. 8-1,160 and 8-1,183, and amendments thereto, except that the division shall delay the manufacturing and issuance of such distinctive license plate until the division has received not less than 1,000 orders for such plate, including payment of the personalized license plate fee required under subsection (a). Upon certification by the director of vehicles to the director of accounts and reports that not less than 1,000 paid orders for such plate have been received, the director of accounts and reports shall transfer $40,000 from the state highway fund to the distinctive license plate fund.
(f) (1) Any person or organization sponsoring any distinctive license plate authorized by the legislature on and after July 1, 2004, shall submit to the division of vehicles a nonrefundable amount not to exceed $20,000, to defray the division's cost for developing such distinctive license plate.
(2) All moneys received under this subsection shall be remitted by the secretary of revenue to the state treasurer in accordance with the provisions of K.S.A. 75-4215, and amendments thereto. Upon receipt of each such remittance, the state treasurer shall deposit the entire amount in the state treasury to the credit of the distinctive license plate fund which is hereby created in the state treasury. All moneys credited to the distinctive license plate fund shall be used by the department of revenue only for the purpose associated with the development of distinctive license plates. All expenditures from the distinctive license plate application fee fund shall be made in accordance with appropriation acts, upon warrants of the director of accounts and reports issued pursuant to vouchers approved by the secretary of the department of revenue.
(g) (1) Except for educational institution license plates issued under K.S.A. 8-1,142, and amendments thereto, the director of vehicles shall discontinue the issuance of any distinctive license plate authorized prior to July 1, 2004, and which is subject to the provisions of subsection (b) if:
(A) Less than 500 license plates, including annual renewals, are issued for that distinctive license plate by July 1, 2006; and
(B) less than 250 license plates, including annual renewals, are issued for that distinctive license plate during any subsequent two-year period after July 1, 2006.
(2) The director of vehicles shall discontinue the issuance of any distinctive license plate authorized on and after July 1, 2004, if:
(A) Less than 500 plates, including annual renewals, are issued for that distinctive license plate by the end of the second year of sales; and
(B) less than 250 license plates, including annual renewals, are issued for that distinctive license plate during any subsequent two-year period.
(h) An application for any distinctive license plate issued after December 31, 2012, and the corresponding royalty fee may be collected either by the county treasurer or the entity benefiting from the issuance of the distinctive license plate. Annual royalty payments collected by the county treasurers shall be remitted to the state treasurer in accordance with the provisions of K.S.A. 75-4215, and amendments thereto. Upon receipt of each such remittance the state treasurer shall deposit the entire amount in the state treasury to the credit of a segregated royalty fund which shall be administered by the state treasurer. All expenditures from the royalty fund shall be made in accordance with appropriation acts upon warrants of the director of accounts and reports issued pursuant to vouchers approved by the state treasurer or the state treasurer's designee. Payments from the royalty fund shall be made to the entity benefiting from the issuance of the distinctive license plate on a monthly basis.
(i) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for any distinctive license plate, the division shall produce such distinctive license plate for a motorcycle upon request to the division by the organization sponsoring the distinctive license plate.
(j) In addition to any residency requirements for all distinctive license plates, any person not a resident of Kansas, serving as a member of the armed forces stationed in this state shall be eligible to apply for any distinctive license plate as if the individual was a resident of this state. Such person shall be eligible to renew the distinctive license plate registration as long as the person is still stationed in this state at the time the registration is renewed.
History: L. 1994, ch. 12, § 2; L. 1995, ch. 84, § 2; L. 1997, ch. 40, § 2; L. 1999, ch. 125, § 10; L. 2004, ch. 170, § 1; L. 2007, ch. 161, § 2; L. 2008, ch. 59, § 2; L. 2009, ch. 89, § 4; L. 2010, ch. 164, § 7; L. 2011, ch. 35, § 2; L. 2012, ch. 130, § 9; L. 2014, ch. 77, § 5; L. 2018, ch. 63, § 3; July 1.


I switched from Unity to Gnome Shell in Ubuntu. Now Chrome has the buttons on the left side, but I want them on the right. How can I fix this without switching to the system titlebar?
I also tried gconf-editor and modifying apps>metacity>general>button_layout, but that doesn't make any difference.
You alternatively make chrome use the system theme in options under appearance. This is for people who are still searching for how to make chrome take on a more native appearance.
Works only for all metacity windows, but not for the integrated in new Chrome buttons... To make it work, just need to check the option to see title bar in the browser's settings..
Where does Empathy go when minimized in Gnome3 shell?
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Nothing could separate Sheffield United and Sheffield Wednesday in their Sky Bet Championship clash at Bramall Lane, as the two sides played out a 0-0 draw.
Proceedings were tight in the first-half, with the Blades creating the game's first opening, as John Lundstram lifted the ball onto the roof of the net after four minutes.
Jordan Rhodes went close for the visitors when he placed a header wide of the goal, following Liam Palmer's cross from the right flank.
Goalless is how it would stand at half-time though, with neither side being able to find that breakthrough.
Respective opportunities came for both United and Wednesday at the start of the second-half, with Clayton Donaldson drawing a fine save out of Joe Wildsmith, before the Owls' Daniel Pudil fired just wide.
The visitors were then reduced to 10 men with just under 30 minutes left on the clock, as Glenn Loovens was dismissed for picking up a second yellow card.
As the game edged towards its conclusion, Leon Clarke and Adam Reach had chances to win it, but a point each is what both teams would have to settle for.


Mrs Manic: It's time for some paintball fun!
Back in August of last year, a group of guys were down at Tesco all dressed in combats showing off the latest air guns... Elite Force paintball caught the boys' eyes and Nicholas decided that's what he wanted to do for his 9th birthday this year.
So, I booked it all up back then and yesterday I took Nicholas along with his brother Alexander and 4 of his friends - Jack, Ryan, Harry & Reuben up to Upminster to Elite to run around shooting people.
Blues vs. Reds (although the red team were a bit pants) and they thrashed them!
They got 4 games that after spliting one end and the other they actually got like 8 games over 4 different "maps".
When the games were over I took all the muddy little people home to our house for a pizza tea and chocolate cake!
Jack and Ryan slept over and suffice to say, Nicholas had a good almost week long celebration of turning 9 years old!


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Bashir Ahmad Mir's life is marked with tragedy. It is that experience which pushed him to help others who have suffered similarly. Mir's father was an active political worker of the National Conference in Kashmir in the 1990s. Over the course of a few months in 1998, Mir lost his father, two uncles and his brother to militant violence. He was shot in the face multiple times and recovery took a year. In November 1999, he set up the Human Aid Society (HAS) to help other victims of violence in Kashmir.
The first donation for HAS came from Mir himself who sold his family's apple orchards to raise `7 lakh. Now HAS sponsors the education of needy children and helps provide skills and assistance to widows and the destitute — in an amazing act of forgiveness, they belong to the families of militants.
The saying goes that violence begets violence. But in Mir's case, violence has led to love and the will to serve. His compassion and generosity have made him an icon for those he has helped.
A family tragedy became a turning point in Bashir Mir's life. The story of this former truck-driver, now an ardent peace activist, dates to 28 September,1993. On that fateful day his father, Kabir Mir, a civil contractor and an active political worker of the National Conference, was gunned down by a militant outfit in his village Vizer-Wagoora in North Kashmir's Baramulla district.
His father's murder became a prelude to a spate of violent incidents. The militants shot and injured Bashir and killed his uncle and his brother. Bashir, now 46, could have resorted to hatred and revenge. Instead he chose to forgive. He now runs Human Aid Society (HAS), which he funded by selling his apple orchard.
Bashir's compassion and generosity has made him an icon for those who know him. His life is a saga of courage, dedication and a strong will to serve. It also provides a picture of the challenges ordinary folk experience in Kashmir.
Bashir says he is committed to faith-based reconciliation. In fact, he has sponsored the education of some of the children of the militants who died after they devastated his life. "I am at peace with myself because I have devoted my life for the poor, the sick and the destitute," he says.
Bashir dropped out of school after passing Class 11. He wanted to become an entrepreneur. His father gifted him a truck in 1982 to give him a start. Bashir drove the truck himself and began earning for his family. His father resigned from the National Conference when militants began threatening him. His only 'sin' was that he was a worker of the 'pro-India' National Conference.
Bashir sold his truck to finance a small grocery shop for his father and keep him away from active politics as militancy was then at its peak. Being a worker of the National Conference was perceived as being 'anti-movement' in the eyes of the 'mujahids.' Bashir got himself a job as a driver in a transport company. But little did he know that avoiding politics would not save his father's life.
"I was in complete shock. Here I was, young, earning a good livelihood and living a peaceful life and then suddenly tragedy struck," says Bashir. As news of his father's killing spread in the area, Bashir's younger brother Mushtaq, who was then studying for a B.Sc degree, could not control his anger. Overcome by strong feelings of revenge, Mushtaq left college and joined another militant outfit opposed to the one that had killed his father.
Bashir too was simmering with rage. But he realized he needed to take care of his mother, youngest brother, sisters, wife and children. One day when Bashir was away on work, the militant outfit which killed his father raided his home after receiving a tip-off that Mushtaq had arrived with a group of militants and was planning a retaliatory attack.
The militants cordoned Bashir's home and resorted to indiscriminate firing. Mushtaq was severely injured. The militants left Mushtaq in a pool of blood. Bashir was informed about the attack while he was on his way home.
He tried hard to reach his family but his relatives, fearing for his life, advised him not to visit his home. Finally, he was escorted by his cousins to a nearby village, four kilometres from his residence.
Braving all odds in the dead of the night he managed to reach his home escorted by his cousin and a few friends. When he opened the door to his house, he found Mushtaq bleeding profusely from his thigh. Bashir and his cousin appealed to his neighbours to provide a vehicle so that they could take his injured brother to hospital. But they refused. Running out of patience, Bashir and his cousin smashed the window panes of one of the vehicles and took the injured Mushtaq to a hospital in Srinagar.
After Mushtaq recovered, the family settled in his paternal aunt's home. But on 6 May, 1994, Mushtaq quietly returned to his home in Baramulla to take revenge on the militants responsible for attacking his family. He did not take Bashir's permission. "He knew I would not allow him to go back and resort to violence," says Bashir.
The next day, Mushtaq was killed in a fierce gun battle. Bashir returned to his village to bury his brother. "The locals told me that the militants had not allowed them to bury Mushtaq for he had fought against 'mujahids'," says Bashir.
At the funeral of his brother a shocked Bashir was forced to apologize to the militants. People now thronged to his home to offer condolences. In the evening his relatives urged him to spend the night in a safer place. "I could not grasp the situation. My relatives kept imploring me to join them but I did not relent," recollects Bashir.
That same evening, two gun-wielding masked men entered his home and asked for him. Bashir was sitting amongst his relatives including his maternal uncle, Abdul Ahad Pala. "Just to avoid harassment of my relatives and mourners, I introduced myself to them. They asked me to accompany them outside my home. I stood up and followed them. But I sensed that they were going to kill me. I bowed low and pleaded for forgiveness hoping against hope that I would be able to snatch their rifles and kill them. Meanwhile, my maternal uncle followed me. He pleaded for my life but the two gunmen started abusing him. I became furious and began shouting at them. They pointed their guns towards me. I chanted special verses of the Holy Quran loudly. My maternal uncle hugged me. He asked the militants to fire at him and leave me alone. But the militants fired a volley of bullets at my face. Then they fired heavily at both of us. My maternal uncle died on the spot," says Bashir with tears rolling down his face.
Bashir was left to bleed the whole night as relatives and friends could not muster the courage to take him to hospital. Next morning, some relatives assembled at Bashir's home and took him to a hospital in village Kreeri where the doctors referred him to SKIMS, the state's super specialty hospital.
The doctors at SKIMS found that bones on the left side of Bashir's face had been completely damaged. One eye, which had been hit by a bullet, was destroyed. "They immediately performed major surgeries on my face and head. I was not in a position to talk. The tragedy was that we had no money with us even though we owned apple orchards worth lakhs of rupees in our village. I came to know later that my younger sister had to beg in the hospital to collect Rs 265 which just about fetched us some tea and snacks," says Bashir.
When Bashir came to know his sister had been forced to beg and his family was in a sorry state, he contemplated suicide. He thought he was a burden on his family.
But in SKIMS he witnessed the courageous struggle of people who were suffering even more than him. "While I was being treated at SKIMS my family introduced me to a patient lying on a bed next to mine. That was when I truly began to grasp the magnitude of violence which the entire population of Kashmir was living through. The patient I was introduced to had faced a similar attack as I had from militants. He had lost six members of his family. Both his legs had been amputated. Yet he was eager to recover and go home. I asked him why. He said he wanted to return to see how God will punish the killers of his family. This was the turning point in my life," says Bashir.
While he was in hospital, his children were expelled from school since his family could not pay their school fees. Bashir underwent medical treatment for one and a half years. Nine major surgeries were performed on him. He lost vision in his left eye and has difficulty moving his right hand. These surgeries cost him `4 lakhs. The money was donated by his friends and relatives. His facial bones were replaced with artificial bones.
Bashir realized that there were many people in Kashmir who like him were living a life of pain. He wanted to help. He began the Human Aid Society (HAS) in November 1999. To raise money he sold his apple orchard for `7 lakhs. He donated this money to HAS and began to reach out to victims of violence in Kashmir – orphans, widows and the destitute. HAS sponsors the education of needy children and helps provide skills and assistance to widows and the destitute. It has undertaken rehabilitation work for those hit by the 2005 earthquake. Over the years, HAS has rendered tremendous services in conflict-torn Kashmir. The NGO has helped 1,107 victims of violence.

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I am part of the department of English and Comparative Literary Studies and work in collaboration with the Centre for the History of Medicine. My research includes a broad range of sources from scientists' and doctors' research diaries, personal narratives and colonial office correspondance, to travel writing, news reports and popular fiction. Exploring the cultural framing of disease in conjuction with notions of colonial geographies, I attempt to elucidate the public understanding of British Imperialism at the turn of the twentieth century.
I am particularly interested in the figure of the native as a source of social and somatic anxiety and ways of thinking about the 'tropical' colonial environment as one of parasites and vectors. Prominent figures in my research include Ronald Ross, Patrick Manson, and Mary Kingsley.


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package jsettlers.common.landscape;

import jsettlers.common.mapobject.EMapObjectType;

/**
 * These are the types of available resources.
 *
 * @author Andreas Eberle
 *
 */
public enum EResourceType {
	COAL(EMapObjectType.FOUND_COAL),
	GOLDORE(EMapObjectType.FOUND_GOLD),
	IRONORE(EMapObjectType.FOUND_IRON),
	FISH(null),
	GEMSTONE(EMapObjectType.FOUND_GEMSTONE),
	BRIMSTONE(EMapObjectType.FOUND_BRIMSTONE),
	NOTHING(EMapObjectType.FOUND_NOTHING);

	public static final EResourceType[] VALUES = EResourceType.values();

	public final byte ordinal;
	public final EMapObjectType mapObjectType;

	EResourceType(EMapObjectType mapObjectType) {
		this.mapObjectType = mapObjectType;
		this.ordinal = (byte) super.ordinal();
	}
}

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Cyprus' president condemns Turkey's 'unacceptable actions'
Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades was attending the Cairo Summit in Egypt, where Cyprus, Greece, and Egypt reaffirmed their ties. (File photo AP)
Turkey's has carried out "unacceptable actions" and Cyprus will pursue diplomatic action to put an end to Turkish attacks, said Cyprus' President Nicos Anastasiades on Tuesday.
Anastasiades was attending the Cairo Summit in Egypt, where Cyprus, Greece, and Egypt reaffirmed their ties.
The Cypriot President also stressed the importance of the territorial integrity of Libya and Syria and the need for the establishment of a Palestinian state, and discussed the issue of illegal immigration and their economic consequences.
Anastasiades called on the international community to exert more efforts to combat terrorism and enhance energy security, stressing that the investment mechanism between Egypt, Cyprus and Greece should be encouraged.
In the same press conference, Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi stressed the need for dialogue between all parties in Syria.
Lebanese PM Hariri says UAE promised Lebanon financial aid: Report Russia's sovereign fund opens first foreign office in Saudi ahead of Putin visit
Egypt Turkey Cyprus CAIRO SUMMIT


The personal style of different photographers is always intriguing. There are so many facets to photography that you can generalize or specialize for years and years without ever stagnating. It is a constantly changing artform (especially with regard to digital photography) that provides its artists with limitless ways in which to express themselves. The following list represents the work of some very talented and creative photographers.


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Video is one of the most powerful forms of visual content that you can leverage for your organization's digital marketing strategy and approach. As powerful as it is, if done incorrectly, it can yield weak results or even hurt your brand!
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How to Start A YouTube Ministry: A Comprehensive Guide
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Live-Steaming Models
Live-Streaming: The Complete Digital Guide
Live-Steam to YouTube with Just a Phone [7-Step Tutorial]
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That Christian Vlogger, Case Study of a Video Missionary Part 1 – Lessons Learned
That Christian Vlogger: Case Study of a Video Missionary Part 2 – How He Grew His Channel from 0 to 65,000 Followers
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How to Start A YouTube Ministry: A Comprehensive Guide
People come to YouTube for entertainment and education. It's not an exaggeration to say that video is king! Internet video traffic accounts for 80% of all consumer Internet traffic. YouTube is the second-largest search engine and the second most-visited website in the world. This is where young people spend most of their time online.
Creating a YouTube account is very cheap. All you need is a camera and a device to upload from. YouTube is great for communicating ideas quickly and provides a storage place where your content never dies. It can be revisited or reposted as many times as you want.
In this free guide, we'll take you through a step-by-step process for starting a YouTube channel from scratch. We strongly encourage you to take the time to go through this guide completely and review the resources before starting your YouTube channel. Or, if you already have a channel, use this guide to evaluate where changes need to be made.
Download the How to Start A YouTube Ministry Guide
Course: How to Start Your Own Video Ministry
If you're wondering how to merge spirituality with digital communications, this is the course for you! Tune in as Justin Khoe from That Christian Vlogger takes you through the 10 Commandments of Digital Missions. Learn from his journey, and get inspired to start or reboot your own video ministry.
That Christian Vlogger is a Christian YouTube channel with over 60,000 subscribers (as of August 2018) that is making a positive impact on those searching for spiritual answers online. His Youtube videos have been seen around the world by over two million people. With over ten years of preaching, literature evangelism, and teaching experience under his belt, Justin's current focus is to leverage social media to help reach unchurched young adults. Cohosting the show with him is his wife, Emily. Justin and Emily aim to equip young adults to have a stronger and deeper relationship with God and to help them discover who God has created them to be. They call this way of living, "experiencing faith in the first person."
Overview of format
Each of the 10 Commandments will include a few elements:
video teaching of each subject
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(Instrumental Solo). Dario Marianelli composed the music from this 2005 film starring Keira Knightley. This book features 9 selections from the movie arranged for violin: Another Dance * Arrival at Netherfield * Darcy's Letter * Dawn * Georgiana * Leaving Netherfield * Meryton Townhall * Mrs. Darcy * Stars and Butterflies.


• You might be surprised to learn that a flamingo cannot eat unless its head is upside-down.
• While in the Capitol rotunda attending the funeral for Congressman Warren B. Davis in January 1835, President Andrew Jackson was the victim of an assassination attempt. Richard Lawrence, a 35-year-old house painter, pointed two revolvers at the president and fired. In an incredible stroke of luck, both weapons misfired, at which point President Jackson began to beat the man with his cane.
• The Dead Sea isn't actually a sea; it's a lake.
• It's been reported that the Paul Simon found the inspiration for his hit song "Mother and Child Reunion" in a chicken-and-egg dish he was eating in a Chinese restaurant.
• More than 60 percent of the 50 most common words in the English language contain three or fewer letters.
• Natives of Finland drink more coffee per capita than citizens of any other country in the world.
• The Hula Hoop fad swept the globe in the 1950s, but the toy did not find a warm welcome everywhere. In Indonesia, Hula Hoops were banned because they "might stimulate passion." China's official news agency called it "a nauseating craze," and the Soviets declared the toy to be "a symbol of the emptiness of American culture" (despite the fact that the Hula Hoop originated in Australia).
• Adult tuna have been known to swim up to 100 miles in a single day.


The CIPR's Artificial Intelligence Panel (#AIinPR) has backed guidelines proposed by the European Commission that promote an ethics-driven approaches to AI.
The draft guidelines - published in December last year - set out a framework for establishing Trustworthy AI. In its response to the guidelines, the #AIinPR panel welcome efforts to avoid biases in AI algorithms that can prejudice the way machines and platforms learn and behave.
The response also calls on PR professionals adopt a leadership role to help businesses navigate the ethical challenges posed by AI. The final version of the EU Guidelines will be published in March 2019.
Our reliance on AI in society is set to deepen giving rise to ethical issues as we turn over to algorithms in our homes, businesses and elsewhere.
PR professionals have a role helping organisations lay the groundwork for local codes of ethics in AI. It's why the CIPR #AIinPR panel is supporting the guidance being proposed European Commission as a framework for promoting ethics driven approaches to AI.
The #AIinPR Panel recently announced its plans for 2019, which include a new website showcasing AI tools and a series of best practice guides on the use AI in PR.


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Trump Mocks Climate Change: US Could Use 'Good Old Global Warming' During Cold Snap
Trump Asks LSU Tigers: Can You Believe Dems Are 'Trying to Impeach This Son Of A Bitch?'
Trump Lashed Out At 'Loser' Generals, Called Them 'Dopes And Babies' In A Fit Of Rage: New Book
Guardians of Democracy Staff
President Trump said America would benefit from "a little bit of that good old global warming" as record-breaking cold weather slams much of the eastern United States.
Despite Trump's claim, 2017 is still on track to be the second- or third-hottest year ever recorded globally — and scientists say climate change is to blame.
"In the East, it could be the COLDEST New Year's Eve on record," the President said in a tweet.
"Perhaps we could use a little bit of that good old Global Warming that our Country, but not other countries, was going to pay TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS to protect against."
In the East, it could be the COLDEST New Year's Eve on record. Perhaps we could use a little bit of that good old Global Warming that our Country, but not other countries, was going to pay TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS to protect against. Bundle up!
Trump has previously claimed that global warming is "hoax" "created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive."
In June, Trump announced that the U.S. would withdraw from the Paris climate change agreement, a worldwide pact to reduce carbon emissions in order to curb global warming.
As noted by the Independent:
Experts generally prefer the term "climate change" to "global warming" because the effects of humans emitting heat-trapping greenhouse gases are more likely to manifest as extreme weather events rather than temperature increases alone. Mr Trump has rejected that distinction as a distraction by the "dollar sucking wiseguys".
Scientists who study the effects of climate change warn against conflating weather and climate. The former refers to short-term atmospheric conditions and discrete events like rain and blizzards, while climate refers to long-term weather patterns in a given area.
USA Today notes:
Even as the world gets hotter on average, winter isn't going away, and there will still be extremely cold spells, climate scientists say. And even now, most of the world outside North America is warmer than usual for this time of year. In the Arctic and Alaska, recent temperatures have averaged 10-25 degrees above normal, said Zack Labe, a doctoral candidate studying Earth systems science at the University of California, Irvine.
"Climate change will not occur evenly from place-to-place. While your backyard may be having an intense cold snap, others may be having unseasonably warm temperatures. Climate is all about long-term trends," Labe said in an email.
"We can still expect periods of very cold temperatures, snowstorms, and even days of record low temperatures. However, climate change continues to shift the odds towards more periods of warmer weather and less so for colder weather," Labe said.
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I read this article and found it very interesting, thought it might be something for you. The article is called Agriculture & Analytics: How would Google farm? and is located at http://analytics-magazine.org/agriculture-a-analytics-how-would-google-farm/.
Agriculture & Analytics: How would Google farm?
The race to feed 9 billion people through the Internet of Agriculture and analytics.
By (l-r) Alex Thomasson, Gabe Santos and Atanu Basu
A solution to world hunger might be found on the streets of Mountain View, Calif., and Austin, Texas. We're talking about Google's self-driving cars, now being test driven, and the technology behind them.
Although semi-autonomous farm equipment has existed for several years, the link between the tech giant and feeding the masses has more to do with sensors, data and analytics and less to do with just machines. In the decades to come, the intersection of these informational technologies will become increasingly crucial to feeding the world.
The need to rethink food production has never been more urgent. Anticipated population gains in developing countries and shifting demographics, particularly the expansion of the middle class, provide the biggest clues to what is coming. World population is predicted to grow from 7 billion today to 9.6 billion by 2050 and plateau at around 11 billion in 2100. That's a lot more hungry mouths.
Clearly, the demand side of the equation is daunting; the supply side also looks problematic. Urbanization, road construction and potential climate effects reduce the amount of arable land available for farming. Taken together, those issues will require that food production per acre of land be doubled to meet the burgeoning demand by the end of this century.
Current agricultural technologies offer little hope for a solution. Growth in agricultural productivity is declining worldwide, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Growth in productivity of grains and oilseeds, for example, averaged 2.4 percent per year from 1970 to 1990. But between 1990 and 2010, productivity growth fell to 1.6 percent annually, and the downhill slide is continuing. By 2021, it's expected to be down to 1.5 percent.
Farmers in recent years have used new technologies in an attempt to increase crop yields while using fewer resources. But those technologies have been adopted piecemeal, resulting in less-than-desired outcomes. That's where Google comes in.
What Does Google Have to do with Farming?
Google's big leap forward in the race to autonomous cars is its success at developing a fully integrated system. That system relies not only on sensors, but also on data – static and dynamic, and in many forms – along with algorithms from different scientific disciplines. If we are to meet the challenges of feeding an expanding global population, then adopting an integrated approach that takes into account advances in informational technologies and complementary scientific disciplines to improve crop productivity is essential.
Google's blueprint for transforming our mobility is predicated on sensors, data and software. Like a human driver, the computer-driven car is designed to detect the driver's location, understand what's happening around the driver, predict what might happen next, prescribe what to do, and then implement this prescription. At the same time, Google must design cars with the capability to navigate varied and complicated scenarios and obstacles, including pedestrians and cyclists.
Crop production operates under a similar system of varied field and plant conditions. Farmers must tailor their practices to address the vast differences that can exist on the same farm across topography, soil type, fertility, moisture content, plant health, weeds, insects and diseases. New precision agriculture technologies that take advantage of guidance systems and sensors potentially allow farmers to customize their practices by the square meter rather than by the acre. These tools have led to some advances, but those improvements have been only incremental as they often focus on one factor at a time. Such point solutions increase efficiency but won't solve world hunger.
Farmers have used new technologies in an attempt to increase
crop yields while using fewer resources.
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Nor can precision agriculture technologies alone be sufficient. A scientific understanding of the genetic structure of the plants growing in the field is also required. That scientific knowledge must be fully integrated with the precision agriculture technologies to predict how a plant will respond to certain inputs in its environment (soil, moisture, temperature) and its various stressors (nutrients, weeds, insects, diseases).
Making advancements in precision agriculture without accounting for plant genetics is akin to Google testing its self-driving cars on actual roads without paying attention to vehicle performance. For driverless cars to move from a science experiment to an accepted reality, they must not only function in actual traffic conditions on city streets and highways, but they must simultaneously provide optimal performance in terms of efficiency, speed and comfort. The same premise applies to farming.
Precision Agriculture Point Solutions
In agriculture today, the main avenues for increasing productivity are optimizing farming practices through precision agriculture and accelerating crop improvements through plant breeding and genetic selection. While both of these avenues approach different aspects of agriculture – farming methods vs. the capabilities of the plants themselves – they are not being used together. Even so, they have a great deal of overlap in that they both rely on sensor information, analytics and data-driven action. The solution to doubling farm productivity must fuse the two.
How do we get there? Let's stroll down the two avenues and see how they might intersect.
Optimization of Farming Practices
Precision agriculture uses a comprehensive set of information technologies that rely on site-specific field information to vary production and management practices across the entire farm. The agriculture industry has been developing site-specific optimization techniques since GPS and satellite imagery have been available. Robots have recently been introduced for tasks like cultivation and plant thinning in high-value crops. Unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) are now being used to gather images of crop fields. Some of these technologies enable the possibility of prescriptive solutions that can improve yields, build and maintain nutrients over time, and reduce costs.
Although some achievements have been made, further advances in precision agriculture have been limited because of the lack of adoption and clear-cut benefits. Farmers have avoided potential precision agriculture technologies because of the time it takes to learn how to use them, the difficulty in managing the changes, and most importantly, a lack of obvious return on investment.
Moreover, despite our tremendous data-collection capabilities, field and yield information is only valuable to farmers if it informs a management decision or agronomic practice. More sophisticated analytical tools that can synthesize all forms of data must be developed to enable the next step change in optimizing farming practices.
Accelerated Crop Improvements
Over the last century mechanization has increased farming efficiency, irrigation has provided precious water to crops, and more land has been brought into production. But perhaps the greatest productivity gains in agriculture over the last several decades have come about through breeding.
Plant breeders grow small plots of different types of plants within a crop type. While genetic technologies have advanced tremendously in recent decades, it has long been known that the different plants within a crop type (genotypes) were different because of their genetic makeup. When plant breeders grow these plots they look for particular traits of interest (phenotypes) such as high yield and tolerance to drought, insects and diseases.
Crop improvements through breeding continue, but the pace of adopting those changes has been slowing. Fortunately, crop breeders and geneticists now have new capabilities that can advance the field. They can more scientifically select critical genes to bring about crops with physically measurable traits that confirm the plant has been improved. Known as phenotypes, these newly developed traits can bring on higher and faster yields, greater resistance to the numerous sources of stress in nature, and even new unique properties such as high levels of specific nutrients to reduce malnourishment in at-risk populations.
Genetic measurement techniques have become fast and inexpensive. But genetic improvement has been slowed by the small number of plant varieties that can be included in a study because of the amount of manual labor involved in measuring phenotypic traits.
High-throughput phenotyping is a new field that capitalizes on recent technological advances. It uses sensors and automated delivery platforms, including robots and drones, to dramatically increase the number and the quality of phenotypic measurements that can be made. This allows many more varieties to be included in individual studies and provides a deeper pool for selecting appropriate genotypes.
Fusing Farming Practices with Crop Knowledge
Taken independently, precision agriculture and high-throughput phenotyping can provide sizable benefits. But how can these two technologies be merged to maximize agricultural production?
Precision agriculture technologies provide farmers with ways to exert some control over the environment at the individual plant level, such as through the regulation of soil moisture and nutrient content. But, historically, precision agriculture has lacked detailed knowledge of how plants will respond in a multitude of situations. Crop models are evolving, but they are imprecise. We now have the potential to understand plant and field conditions on a single-plant or square-meter basis and relate them to physiological responses that are based on detailed knowledge of plant genetics.
Together, precision agriculture and high-throughput phenotyping give us a fairly high level of control over the desired phenotypes of a particular crop, which means we potentially have a great deal of control over yield and plant stress responses in the field.
The genius of Google's driverless car lies in its comprehensive analysis of data, which is aimed at creating a safe and efficient environment for vehicle travel. Compared to other fields where analytics have begun to be applied, agriculture is ripe for this type of thinking. Like transportation, it tends to operate over large areas with a great deal of spatial and temporal variability. Agriculture faces tremendous variability in crop and field status from location to location, not to mention weather.
Beyond Point Solutions — The Internet of Agriculture
The technological backbone of Google's automation project is the Internet of Things, which involves equipping objects with sensors and software so they can collect and exchange data. According to a recent report from the McKinsey Global Institute, the Internet of Things offers a potential economic impact between $4 trillion to $11 trillion a year in 2025. Opportunities to tap into the Internet of Things abound in agriculture as a number of proximal sensors are already being implemented as components of original farm equipment or separate systems by other providers. Remote sensing is seeing a resurgence in agriculture with the advent of drones.
Some companies are providing solutions involving unmanned aerial vehicles, multispectral cameras and cloud-based analytics capabilities that can estimate a plant's health, among other things.
Increasingly, these sensors are connected through wireless communications to the Internet, making their data available for inclusion in farm databases and mapping systems, and, more importantly, for analysis. The real-time availability of the data and analytical capabilities to the farmer is steadily increasing and is ushering in a new era of The Internet of Agriculture.
Advanced analytics, using data from the Internet of Agriculture, will shed new light on our understanding of what affects what, why, when and how and in the process reinvent the agricultural sector. This understanding will evolve with improvements in analytics and as associated scientific disciplines advance.
The key to doubling agricultural productivity – the fusion of accelerated crop improvement with optimization of farm practices – involves analyzing numerous data streams together. Doing so will accelerate progress toward the holy grail of prescriptive farming based on plants with specific genotypes.
We believe the roadmap to rebalancing the world's food supply-and-demand equation will encompass several other near-term advances, including standardization of agricultural data types and metadata; vastly improved analytical tools that provide actionable decision support to farmers and their equipment; and early stage fusion of precision agriculture with data from high-throughput phenotyping.
If Google were to enter farming, it would likely start by finding and amassing all available data – without biases or preconceived notions – and let the data dictate how to proceed. A self-driving car can see, hear, read, understand, decide and act – just like human drivers do. As Google revolutionizes how we think about mobility, we have the same opportunity in agriculture. We are learning how to combine the latest advancements in precision agriculture with those in plant genetics. Their merger is imperative. A hungry world awaits.
Alex Thomasson (thomasson@tamu.edu) is a professor of biological and agricultural engineering at Texas A&M University. He teaches and conducts research in subject areas related to remote and proximal sensing, including precision agriculture and high-throughput phenotyping.
Gabe Santos is managing partner of Homestead Capital, a private equity fund investing in U.S. farmland.
Atanu Basu (atanu.basu@ayata.com) is the CEO of Ayata. Based in Austin, Texas, the company's customers include Fortune 500 operators in the oil & gas industry and in high tech. Ayata invented the technology behind prescriptive analytics with hybrid data over 10-plus years of research in artificial intelligence and related disciplines.


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Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode has alleged that President Muhammadu Buhari is adopting a "NEPA bill" as his secondary school certificate, hence the reason for the trouble in the our educational system.
He made this claim while reacting to Buhari's remark, stating that the state of Nigeria's educational system calls for serious concern.
Fani-Kayode corroborated President Buhari's opinion, saying that the Nigerian education system is indeed in trouble.


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Quilling é uma forma de desenhos feitos de papéis, fitas de cetim e outros materiais. O papel utilizado nos trabalhos em quilling podem ser de várias gramaturas, cores e formatos. É um trabalho minucioso, que exige tempo e paciência. Apesar de pouco conhecido no Brasil, é um trabalho que exige criatividade e com artistas mundialmente conhecidos, como a artista e ilustradora Yulia Brodscaya. Seus trabalhos vão desde pintura têxtil, origami e colagem até as mais tradicionais técnicas artísticas. Nos seus trabalhos gráficos usados no marketing de lojas e produtos ela usa tirinhas de papel dando uma nova roupagem ao quilling.

História
Sua origem é incerta, mas sabe-se que a técnica já era realizada na Europa (Itália, França e Inglaterra) durante a Idade Média. Durante o Renascimento, as religiosas decoravam relicários e gravuras sagradas, acrescentando toques dourados e muita ornamentação. A associação francesa Trésors de Ferveur preserva relicários feitos nos séculos XVII e XVIII, que fazem parte da coleção de "Objetos de Fé". Essa associação mantém uma exposição itinerante de algumas dessas obras. Os trabalhos com as tirinhas de papel parecem realmente  ouro e prata.<ref>Reliquaires domestiques Tresors de Ferveur </ref> A ligação religiosa com o quilling foi mantida quando a arte foi difundida na Inglaterra com o desenvolvimento do papel. As Igrejas mais pobres produziam relicários, aos quais eram acrescentados gravuras dos santos referentes à relíquia na obra, totalmente enfeitados com quilling.

No passado esse trabalho era feito como lazer com a intenção de fazer objetos decorativos tais como: painéis e brasões. Mais tarde o trabalho era feito em latas de chá, caixas de madeira, biombos, armários, molduras, etc. Caixas foram feitas nessa época apenas para receber os trabalhos em quilling. O quilling era divulgado e era um quesito a mais para internatos femininos que anunciavam:

" .... ele proporciona uma agradável diversão estimulando a criatividade da mente feminina e, ao mesmo tempo, proporciona o lazer de uma hora em inocente recreação ... " (The New Lady's Magazine - 1786).

Em 1875 foi feita uma tentativa de revitalizar o quilling por Wm. Bemrose. Um kit chamado Mosaicon foi produzido, juntamente com um manual. Outra referência foi descoberta em um livro intitulado Floral Mosaicon''. No artigo são mencionadas peças de quilling adquiridas pelas rainhas Mary e Alexandra. Muitos museus na Inglaterra e Estados Unidos mantêm expostos trabalhos de quilling feitos nos séculos passados. Na Capela Sistina, no Vaticano, existem alguns painéis da Capela totalmente feitos com quilling. Artistas da filigrana em papel expõem e tem seus trabalhos em galerias de arte nos Estados Unidos, Inglaterra, Coreia e Rússia.

Artistas internacionais
 Inna Dorman
 Claire Choi
 Neli
 Nizelprim

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  CHOI, CLAIRE SUN-OK.  The  Art of Paper Quilling

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Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 6:44 pm Post subject: Shoot the Core Down?
I search many times to get any information about whats going on with the great 'shoot the core' database. but I absolutly cant found anything about that. Someone here to me can say where the page is gone?
I was wondering about that Fact to. Did you find anything meanwhile?
Sad, one of the greatest Shmup Databases so far.
I was hosting it for a while, but I haven't heard anything from the guy that runs it, you'd have to talk to him. Maybe he's given up or moved it somewhere else?


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Hide in a thornbush - the ostrich won't be as senseless as to run into a thornbush; instead it'll sit there and laugh at the silly human.
Grab a long pole and hold it in front of you; they further go on to suggest that if you know ahead of time that you're going to be under ostrich attack, you should carry something with you, since you don't want to be trying to find something while the ostrich is bearing down on you ("Time out, Mr. Ostrich; I need to find a long, pointy, stout stick to keep you at bay"). They suggest a thorny acacia tree branch, just don't get something flimsy enough that the ostrich can break it.
Play dance floor (see the third article tip for elaboration on this point).
Ostriches, like young children, like shiny, man-made things. So don't wear jewelry, eyeglasses, or similar articles. Of course, if you're not wearing your glasses, I suppose your risk of ostrich encounter goes up since you can't see where you're going. If, like me, you have one of those heads that God has finally perfected and is removing all that hair that covers it up in order to show His handiwork to the world, you might want to wear a hat so it's not so shiny up there.
Anyway, just some tips to keep in mind in case you plan to encounter an ostrich. Have a great day!
Dude, I just want to thank you for directing me to that information!
I have been struggling for some time on just how to deal with this exact situation, and these excellent insights have already proven to be be invaluable.
No longer will I suffer at the hands... err... beaks of malicious ostrii!
I've always thought that "ostriches" sounded too much like "sandwiches," so I needed to come up with something better for the pural form in order to keep myself from getting the two confused.


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New Bill Aims to Prevent the Next Kaspersky, ZTE
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By Joseph Marks,
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By Joseph Marks
The bill would establish an interagency commission to help vet supply chain cybersecurity risks.
Federal agencies would be required to more thoroughly vet products' cybersecurity supply chains before buying them under bipartisan legislation introduced in the Senate Tuesday.
The bill from Sens. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., and James Lankford, R-Okla., comes six months after Congress ordered agencies to scrub the Russian anti-virus Kaspersky from their systems because of concerns it could be used by the Kremlin as a spying tool.
In most cases, government agencies and offices did not contract directly with Kaspersky but received it as part of a package of services from a separate vendor. In other cases, government data and systems were exposed to Kaspersky software that was running on contractor networks.
The federal procurement system, though extremely complex, is ill-equipped so far to respond to those second- and third-order cybersecurity concerns.
The House and Senate have both passed provisions that would ban the Chinese tech companies Huawei and ZTE from government systems over similar spying concerns.
McCaskill and Lankford's bill would establish an interagency Federal Acquisition Security Council that would develop cybersecurity supply chain criteria for government IT tools. The council would then mandate that agencies review new and existing IT tools for supply chain vulnerabilities.
The bill also mandates a governmentwide supply chain strategy.
"We can't simply respond to supply chain threats piecemeal, we've got to have a system in place to assess these risks across the government," McCaskill said in a statement.
McCaskill is the ranking Democrat on the Senate's Homeland Security Committee. Lankford chairs the committee's Regulatory Affairs and Federal Management panel.
The Homeland Security Department, which has authority to issue broad cybersecurity mandates to other agencies, has already launched a major review of supply chain cybersecurity. The department has not ordered any major public changes yet.
The acquisition security council envisioned in McCaskill and Lankford's bill would include members from the White House, Homeland Security Department and intelligence community. It would also act as a pipeline for intelligence agencies to share concerns about specific vendors with civilian agencies that are not focused on national security.
The council would be required to submit an annual report about its efforts to Congress.
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Great performances lead to a killer remake in 'The Invisible Man'
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In the modern age of horror cinema, there is a certain disdain for the characters that lifted the genre into the mainstream. Characters like Count Dracula, Dr. Frankenstein's Monster, the Invisible Man and the werewolf appear worn, and that's because, to a large degree, they are. Studios have produced dozens of movies starring these characters, and as a result, their stories appear less shocking and more predictable. Sure, they're classics, but they lack creativity and vision. Leigh Whannell, director of "The Invisible Man," aims to change this, and does so with striking taste. It's no small feat to modernize such a dated character and to do so with such success.
The movie centers around Cecelia Kass, played by Elisabeth Moss, an architect and girlfriend to an impossibly rich and megalomaniacal tech tycoon. When the relationship turns abusive, Cecelia, or "C," executes a daring departure from her boyfriend Adrien's estate. The movie continues through escape, fear and guilt, following C as she faces the trauma of being an abuse survivor while fearing for her own safety. The movie follows her through her gradual descent into a frenzied hysteria, and numerous twists and turns escalate the narrative.
As far as the performances go, Moss gives Cecilia her all and plays the character quite convincingly. Her fear is palpable throughout the film and is aided by the camera work. Moss' co-stars also deliver commendable performances, in the form of characters James and Sydney, played by Aldis Hodge and Storm Reid respectively. Harriet Dyer plays Cecelia's sister, but the character seems a bit off in relation to the rest of the cast and movie. However, this may be due to the script more than the performance itself. The cinematography has more potential than is realized, but Whannell does use several long shots to his advantage, as well as camera angles that give the impression that C is being watched, which only adds to the unnerving atmosphere. And just when the plot seems to be slowing down, an event takes place that reinvigorates the film, giving it a jittery quality. The ending also leaves the viewer with several questions, a ploy I personally enjoy.
"The Invisible Man" is a well-executed film that deserves every penny of its box office earnings. The modernization of the film material is clearly evident and works to make the film feel relevant without reliance on pop-culture, which so many movies falsely depend on. Like any good movie, it's a combination of the many little details that work to make the viewing experience enjoyable.
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import { Component, Input, ViewChild, ElementRef, Inject } from '@angular/core'
import { JQ_TOKEN } from './jQuery.service'

@Component({
  selector: 'simple-modal',
  template: `

          <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal">×</button>

{{title}}

          <ng-content></ng-content>

  `,
  styles: [`
    .modal-body { height: 250px; overflow-y: scroll; }
  `]
})
export class SimpleModalComponent {
  @Input() title: string;
  @Input() elementId: string;
  @Input() closeOnBodyClick: string;
  @ViewChild('modalcontainer') containerEl: ElementRef;

  constructor(@Inject(JQ_TOKEN) private $: any) {}

  closeModal() {
    if(this.closeOnBodyClick.toLocaleLowerCase() === "true") {
      this.$(this.containerEl.nativeElement).modal('hide');
    }
  }
}


If your order requires Thermofilm / Plastisol Transfer Logos, Screenprinting or Embroidery and we have not done artwork previously for you, we will require a copy of your logo or what it is you want printed.
Logos are to be supplied in High Resolution Vector format, these files may include eps, ai or cdr. In some instances (excluding Sublimation) a jpg at 300dpi or a pdf might be ok to use. Once supplied we will notify you if the logo is ok to use or not. We can have your logo redrawn into Vector format at a cost of $30 per logo, you will receive a copy of the logo once redrawn.
For all SMU orders, you will receive artwork for approval. Your order will not be released to the factory until Deposit is paid & Artwork approved. Excluding SMU Sublimated Clothing orders, no changes can be made to the artwork once this has been approved.
For SMU Sublimated Clothing orders, you will also be provided with Pre-production artwork to approve. No changes can be made to the artwork once this has been approved.
What payments are required & when?
What are the lead times for your order? Or do you require your order by a Specific Date?
What will delay my order?
What is the cost of freight if applicable?


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Q: Wrong asciification of name in profile address When signing up the system has created a profile address for my profile that ends in "bjorn-hohrmann". This rendering of my name is incorrect and offensive.
There are some languages that asciify "ö" as "o", several Scandinavian ones for instance, but I am German where the "proper" transliteration is "oe". There does not seem to be an option to correct this (I haven't tried changing the names in my profile, as I do not know if that would have any effect and I am not keen to put "oe" in there anyway).
How do I correct this error?

A: I don't think this is likely to be fixed, given that to do it there would have to be a 'what culture does your name come from' option. And then you'd need the same option for everything that might ever go in a URL, and most users wouldn't want to cope with that added complexity.
I think the 'best' solution—but one that would need quite a lot of work to support across everywhere URIs work—would be to do what eg. Wikipedia does, and use IRIs, so that non-ASCII characters can be included in the slug. So use:
http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/163578/bj%C3%B6rn-h%C3%B6hrmann

which would be displayed in the address bar of modern browsers as:
http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/163578/björn-höhrmann

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The future looks bright for a building that has been vacant in downtown Lafayette for quite some time. It's a story News 18 has been following since new owners purchased it.
LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WLFI)— The future looks bright for a building that has been vacant in downtown Lafayette for quite some time. It's a story News 18 has been following since new owners purchased it.
The old R&M Food Market building has been empty for quite some time, but a lot has been happening behind the scenes.
Back in December the owners were given approval to tear it down by the Lafayette Historic Preservation. You can learn more about that process by clicking here.
Now, the barricades are up and the building is ready to come down.
"It's nice to have the fact that we are going to tear it down but I think the big picture is what's going to go back," said owner Tim Balensiefer.
Balensiefer said the goal is to get more people to move to the east end of town. He believes that can be accomplished by creating what he likes to call an "East Village."
The new design still has to be approved by the historic preservation.
"We really don't want to design for 100 year old architecture so we would like to see that is what is current," said Balensiefer.
As we reported back in January, his hope is to build a retail space on the bottom with apartments on top. But first, it has to come down and Balensiefer said getting to that point took a little time.
"We had to put together some estimates for what we are going to put back, we are still in that development stage of what is going to go back so right now we are just kind of following through with what we said we were going to do which is tearing that building down," Balensiefer said.
He expects the entire building to be gone in about three weeks and added the space may sit empty for some time after that. We will continue to follow the progress of the project.


Any person in a hurry to deliver a motorcycle can look into expedited shipping and other high priority services offered. These services are offered by those who are seasoned in the auto transport industry and familiar with the process of shipping a motorcycle.
Expect to pay a slightly higher rate for expedited delivery services. However, they are the most successful form of delivery for anyone in Selma, Alabama who must have a bike delivered immediately.
When you go through a nearby transporter for shipping services, you have a better chance for a timely pickup and delivery. It will also allow you to see how the company operates and how others feel about the transporter's services. Ask around, check your online resources, and conduct research while hunting for an appropriate transporter for your motorcycle's future relocation.
Why There Are Several Shipping Methods Offered .
There are several methods that can be used to safely deliver a motorcycle. It is your choice which method is used to have the bike securely delivered. However, if you find it difficult to make a decision, you can ask customer service for help.
For valuable and antique motorcycles, crated and enclosed shipping methods are highly recommended. For dealerships and manufacturers with the desire to ship out several vehicles at once, open air transport is usually suggested. All transport services are reasonably priced and cost efficient despite their different rates.
The Shipping Options Many Customers Purchase.
Enclosed Shipping – The motorcycle is placed in an enclosed container with multiple other vehicles. It is usually fastened to a wooden pallet and packaged first.


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It looks like there's a Nathan Barley DVD coming out in late September. (It's only Region 2, btw; I have no idea whether this series has made it outside of Britain.) I wonder what extras it will have.
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Free raves have returned to the English countryside, driven by pill-poppers' disaffection with highly commercialised, expensive and increasingly London-centric superclubs. The "free parties" are secretively organised using disposable pre-paid mobile phones (as they are illegal under the Criminal Justice Act, which has not been repealed), are centred around hard house and trance, and are claimed to be more responsible than the raves of yesteryear; though locals and the authorities disagree, and are planning to step up prosecutions.
"You think it would be quite heavy but it's mellow and chilled. You don't see people passed out on the floor. You don't get stupid young girls who drink too much that you get in commercial clubs. They cause the trouble, they cause the fights. You get that in Lynn way too much."
"There were five or six police on duty in south Norfolk that night," he said. "They talked to people at the rave and decided they didn't want any confrontation and let it run its course. What I'd like to see is the organisers being arrested or their equipment confiscated so they can't do it again. If the police don't want confrontation, fair enough, but why not confiscate it at the end of the rave?"
Norfolk police are investigating a number of free party organisers with a view to prosecuting them. Supt Scully dismissed claims the organisers acted responsibly. "If you get 300 cars and 600 people gathering in a site of special scientific interest, how can you say you are being responsible?," he asked. "It's insulting to the local local communities to suggest that."
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Mark Davis, the Marxist academic best known for his pre-apocalyptic critiques of Los Angeles, now turns his attention to Dubai, the surrealistically larger-than-life high-tech pleasuredome, built on what is effectively slave labour:
The hotel driver is waiting for you in a Rolls Royce Silver Seraph. Friends have recommended the Armani Hotel in the 160-story tower or the seven-star hotel with an atrium so huge that the Statue of Liberty would fit inside, but instead you have opted to fulfill a childhood fantasy. You always have wanted to be Captain Nemo in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.
Under his leadership, the coastal desert has become a huge circuit board into which the elite of transnational engineering firms and retail developers are invited to plug in high-tech clusters, entertainment zones, artificial islands, "cities within cities" -- whatever is the latest fad in urban capitalism. The same phantasmagoric but generic Lego blocks, of course, can be found in dozens of aspiring cities these days, but Sheik Mo has a distinctive and inviolable criterion: Everything must be "world class," by which he means number one in The Guinness Book of Records. Thus Dubai is building the world's largest theme park, the biggest mall, the highest building, and the first sunken hotel among other firsts.
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How long will shipping of my product take?
Dependant on which country you are in and which country you choose it can vary drastically. I usually stick to 6 weeks for long hauls.
If you need a more accurate time your supplier should be able to help you out if they are organising transport.


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Q: streaming video from vitec ip camera using direct link i'm using vitec ip camera (model: ip 623 mir) and i want to stream the output video from web page (html5) or c++ script (opencv), the problem is that i can't find the correct link (url) to get direct acces to the video from the camera, i have tried to use those links,
"http://user:pwd@ipadress:port/videostream.asf"
"http://user:pwd@ipadress:port/video.cgi"
but the path to the video is incorrect, i undrestand that each camera hase his own path to the video and i can't find the true path to my camera.
also there is three 3 ports specified on the control page of the camera :
 8200: media port
 80  : web port
 554 : rtsp port

i don't know who is the port used to stream the output video.


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Q: how to parse a txt file to csv and modify formatting Is there a way I can use python to take my animals.txt file results and convert it to csv and format it differently?
Currently the animals.txt file looks like this:
ID:- 512
NAME:- GOOSE
PROJECT NAME:- Random
REPORT ID:- 30321
REPORT NAME:- ANIMAL
KEYWORDS:- ['"help,goose,Grease,GB"']

ID:- 566
NAME:- MOOSE
PROJECT NAME:- Random
REPORT ID:- 30213
REPORT NAME:- ANIMAL
KEYWORDS:- ['"Moose, boar, hansel"']

I would like the CSV file to present it as:
ID, NAME, PROJECT NAME, REPORT ID, REPORT NAME, KEYWORDS

Followed by the results underneath each header
Here is a script I have wrote:
import re
import csv
with open("animals.txt") as f: text = f.read()

data = {}
keys = ['ID', 'NAME', 'PROJECT NAME', 'REPORT ID', 'REPORT NAME', 'KEYWORDS']
for k in keys:
    data[k] = re.findall(r'%s:- (.*)' % k, text)

csv_file = 'out.csv'

with open(csv_file, 'w') as csvfile:
    writer = csv.DictWriter(csvfile, fieldnames=keys)
    writer.writeheader()
    for x in data:
        writer.writerow(x)

A: An easy way to do is parsing using regex and store them in a dict, just before you write the final csv:
import re

# `text` is your input text

data = {}
keys = ['ID', 'NAME', 'PROJECT NAME', 'REPORT ID', 'REPORT NAME', 'KEYWORDS']
for k in keys:
    data[k] = re.findall(r'%s:- (.*)' % k, text)

And to CSV:
import csv

csv_file = 'out.csv'

with open(csv_file, 'w') as csvfile:
    writer = csv.writer(csvfile, quoting=csv.QUOTE_NONE, escapechar='\\')
    writer.writerow(data.keys())
    for i in range(len(data[keys[0]])):
        writer.writerow([data[k][i] for k in keys])

Output in csv:
ID,NAME,PROJECT NAME,REPORT ID,REPORT NAME,KEYWORDS
512,GOOSE,Random,30321,ANIMAL,['\"help\,goose\,Grease\,GB\"']
566,MOOSE,Random,30213,ANIMAL,['\"Moose\, boar\, hansel\"']

Note that I used re.M multiline mode since there's a trick in your text, preventing matching ID twice! Also the default write rows needed to be twisted.
Also uses \ to escape the quote.

A: This should work:
fname = 'animals.txt'

with open(fname) as f:
    content = f.readlines()

content = [x.strip() for x in content]

output = 'ID, NAME, PROJECT NAME, REPORT ID, REPORT NAME, KEYWORDS\n'

line_output = ''
for i in range(0, len(content)):
    if content[i]:
        line_output += content[i].split(':-')[-1].strip() + ','
    elif not content[i] and not content[i - 1]:
        output += line_output.rstrip(',') + '\n'
        line_output = ''

output += line_output.rstrip(',') + '\n'

print(output)

A: That's the code in Autoit (www.autoitscript.com)
Global $values_A = StringRegExp(FileRead("json.txt"), '[ID|NAME|KEYWORDS]:-\s(.*)?', 3)
For $i = 0 To UBound($values_A) - 1 Step +6
    FileWrite('out.csv', $values_A[$i] & ',' & $values_A[$i + 1] & ',' & $values_A[$i + 2] & ',' & $values_A[$i + 3] & ',' & $values_A[$i + 4] & ',' & $values_A[$i + 5] & @CRLF)
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Not long after Dan and Diane Roberts first met, they quickly discovered a commonality beyond working at the same hospital in southern Oregon: both were raising teenagers. Eleven years ago, Dan, now a retired physician, and Diane, a retired registered nurse, relocated to Kalama.
As supporters of Northwest Innovation Works' methanol plant in Kalama, the Roberts see the project as a springboard to new jobs and increased tax revenue. A much-needed new middle school could also be funded with tax revenue generated by the clean-tech facility, they point out. And in turn, more spending on public education could make the city, and Cowlitz County as a whole, more attractive to the kinds of residents and services a growing community needs.
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Residents may drop off accepted items at the Humboldt Waste Management Authority Household Hazardous Waste Facility in Eureka. To contact the Humboldt Waste Management Authority, please call: (707) 441-2005 or (707) 268-8680.
When medications are disposed of in the trash or down the drain, they can find their way into our waterways and negatively impact frogs, fish and other aquatic life.
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nzoCALIFA-- de: R. Califa, Creative Director: Today, I'm Dancing in Spirit of the legacy of Saturday Congolese Dance Class held at the Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts. Saturday Classes represents an over 25 year legacy, pioneered by the legendary Malonga Casquelourd. From Brazza, to New York, it was after his East Palo, California foundation of building, he continued to carve Congolese Dance and Drum Cultural pathways, rooted in Oakland, Bay Area, California. And his Nzo then, was Everybody's Creative Arts Center founded by Dance luminary Halifu Osumare, and was one of my first Dance training studios. The Historic YWCA building on Webster Street and across the way at the Old Caribee Dance Center, became satellite hubs for Ta Malonga's Congolese Dance Class. And we continued to Dance right alongside him.
As the "state of the Arts" Alice Arts building saw its re-emergence in 1987 with "great promise" and did see a great deal of "claim to fame", Artistic stakes were set firm in the building by Anchor tenant Arts organizations, including Citicentre Dance Theatre. Citicentre's role maintained a stronghold to advance Multi-Cultural/Ethnic Arts excellence and Ambassadorship. After the expiration of the Citicentre Dance Theatre institution, key Artists from the Alice Arts Center "locked arms" to form a coalition, including Oakland Activists, Community Leaders and aligned agencies; all on mission, to keep the building out of the grasp of then Mayor Jerry Brown.
One victory would lead to an untimely tragedy with the death of Ta Malonga, in June 2003; yet the Saturday legacy class prospered on, until its cataclysmic expiration in the Fall of 2017. As swift changing tides of discord would disembowel the very core of this Community, an enforced yet necessary hiatus has since covered the cherished time and space -- still under review and guided resolution with transformation underway...ALL a process, and necessary -- Nevertheless.
I AM LEGACY of the Saturday Congolese Dance and Drum Classes at the Historic Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts. And as an Alumnus, this DANCER and DRUMMER can't stop, won't stop! Bay Area Congolese Dance and Drum traditions, shall be UPLIFTED...HAMBA!
"HIT IT HARD LIKE THE OLE SKOOL"
"Wa Dia Fua Yika Dio"
"It's a Commitment: Two Dance Scholars in Dialogue"
nzoCALIFA -- It started back in 2016, at a studio on the campus of University of California, Davis, where Dr Brenda Dixon Gottschild and Dr Halifu Osumare met to talk bout their careers as Dancers and Dance Scholars. In the wake of technological advancement and social media, the wisdom of these Pioneers continue to transcend -- the result is that a PODCAST evolved. Listen UP, as these Pioneering Agents, weigh in on the air waves, sharing their unique perspectives about the Black Arts Movement on the East and West Coasts. And the conversation lives on the Contemporary Black Canvas platform.
@nzoCALIFA Dance Works has been on the move, in the field, conducting sessions and cultivating Dance leadership building, bringing it back all around in FULL CIRCLE. We are ever so pleased to catch this on our live wire - powerFULL #Dance Transformation Agents we've worked with, learned from and have invoked #Dance in shared kinship.
nzoCALIFA -- The 2019 Season bursts through this year's global pre-lenten fête with creative fire, Artistic movement as pulse Carnaval cities usher their Greatest Show On Earth. As a Carnavalesca for 30 years + whether a participant or not, the Spirit of the season dwells within you. I remain still amazed by not only the crowing achievements of the Krewes, Mardi Gras Indians of New Orleans, the Mas Camps and Jouvert mornings of Trinidad and Tobago to the Escola de Sambas, Maracatus and Bloco Afros of Brasil. Yet, my amazement focuses upon the preparation and process that produces such a feat...WOW.
Building, creating and being a Creative in Carnaval is a phenomenal experience and speaks to the importance of legacy building as generations are "initiated" into these cultural traditions. This year, the Bay did it their way with lagniappe from New Orleans coin-phrased in its 4th year as Mardi Gras Oakland -- presented by New Orleans natives, The Oakland Secondline Project in partnership with MJ's Brass Boppers; Now residing as Bay, YOU ALREADY KNOW they keeps it BUCK, as Oakland comes thru Yea-Bay ALLLL ON A MARDI GRAS DAY!
No rain stopping this parade, cuz the BRASS played on!
ROLL throughout the year! 2019 sho' you right!
An impressive roster formed listing locations and bodies of Water, in their respective language.
Drawing from an earlier Teaching experience to BSM's Women of Color class a few years ago, I re-introduced works of a 5-bell pattern practice-play: agogo, cow, and bongo based on a Candomble rhythm known as IJEXA. Students learned that in Afro Brasilian Spirituality this rhythm is steeped in African traditions, named for its origins from IJESHA, Nigeria among the Yoruba/Nago peoples. It is also known to be the rhythm for the Yoruba Orisa, Oxum [Ọṣun, Oshun, Ochun] the sweet river water force bearing wisdom of self love, self worth and of wealth and prosperity; Oxum energy is indeed the embodiment of the creative flow.
Set with intention and inspiration, Students were also taught 4 separate complimenting patterns played for Ijesha, drawing from Afro Cuban Lucumi Spiritual traditions known as "Iyessa", and accented with select Rumba cow bell; Primary influence included "Agogo Orisha" of Osogbo, Ọṣun State Nigeria. Each pattern layered as an accompaniment to the composition, either serving as time keeper, a counter-accent or funky syncopation, all grounded by the double-bell agogo melodic pattern as played in Brasil.
And the Monday class yielded an impressive playback in only its 1st session.
Obrigada Monday Class, amazing Spirit & Drum force mediums of service.