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Frank Easton (19 February 1910 – 5 May 1989) was an Australian cricketer. He played eighteen first-class matches for New South Wales between 1933/34 and 1938/39.

See also
 List of New South Wales representative cricketers

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1989 deaths
Australian cricketers
New South Wales cricketers
Cricketers from Sydney

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Harpers Ferry and Bolivar commemorate Veteran's Day with annual parade, ceremony
Mayors Wayne Bishop and Helen Detmer lay a memorial wreath at the start of the Veteran's Day ceremony at Harpers Ferry Middle School on Monday morning. Photo by Toni Milbourne.
HARPERS FERRY — As part of the annual Veteran's Day commemoration in Harpers Ferry and Bolivar, the towns held the annual parade sponsored by the Bolivar-Harpers Ferry District Veterans on the morning of Nov. 12.
The event, though small, continues to draw the citizenry of both towns to share in honoring veterans for their service. Participants in the parade this year included Pete Dougherty, sheriff of Jefferson County, who led off the procession at the Harpers Ferry Post Office. Following came members of Jefferson High School's JROTC with the Color Guard, the Harpers Ferry Middle School Band, a variety of veteran's organization representatives and members of American Heritage Girls and Trail Life groups.
After the laying of the wreath by Harpers Ferry Mayor Wayne Bishop and Bolivar Mayor Helen Detmer, Bolivar-Harpers Ferry District Veteran President Perry Mentzer introduced guest speaker, Dr. Henry Christie.
Christie took the opportunity to point out that 2018 marks the 100thanniversary of the Armistice — the treaty ending World War I.
"I remember talking to my dad. He was 23 years-old when Pearl Harbor was attacked, and he went and enlisted to serve," Christie said, mentioning his family has continued the tradition of military service through the years. "I served, my son served, I have a grandson who served and another grandson who is anxiously waiting to serve after his graduation in 2020.
"As veterans we take pride in being a part of the legacy of service," Christie said. "We carry that into our civilian lives."
Christie touched upon the plight of veterans, especially those from the Vietnam War, who came home to ridicule and activism facing attacks for their service.
"During the last couple of decades, these veterans have finally starting getting the recognition they deserve," Christie said. "I encourage you, if you haven't gone, or if you haven't gone in a while, to visit that wall in Washington, D.C., where thousands of names are inscribed."
Christie ended his presentation by showing two medals, a Silver Star and a Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster (signifying being wounded in battle two different times). The medals belonged to a friend of Christie, a soldier who had no children with whom to bequeath the medals.
"His name was Fred W. Baker. He wanted me to share these after his passing, not for what he did to get them but for the sacrifice that all made," Christie said.
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CPI(M)'s Coimbatore Congress
West Bengal in Coimbatore
"Why, it's not double standards, comrades, it's dialectics!"
- Arindam Sen
How do we explain opposing Tata in Kalinganagar and welcoming him in Singur? How do we oppose globalisation and imperialist capital in other areas of the country while endorsing both in West Bengal? It was in response to many such doubts aired by some delegates to the 19th all India congress of CPI(M) that the above remark was made by one of the most visible and articulate leaders of the party. To what extent this ingenious application of Marxist philosophy enthralled his audience is anybody's guess. Very interestingly, in a post-congress exclusive interview, a pro-party magazine like Frontline questioned the re-elected general secretary about the opinion that the "policy framework being given to the party-led State governments would be at variance with the national policy perspectives of the CPI(M) congress with regard to liberalisation". This did indicate something, and Karat was further asked, "Would not this lead to a kind of confusion among the CPI(M) cadre?"
At the top of confusions and debates, however, it was West Bengal which really stole the show at the 19th congress. Bengal leaders dominated the cut-outs marking the Coimbatore skyline. The biggest attraction of the inaugural session was a video-recorded speech of the leader who had laid the foundation of today's much-hyped Bengal model of industrialisation. Who could forget the tenacity with which the then octogenarian Jyoti Basu used to trot the globe in the 90s in quest of capital, never minding the meagre success he would score? He has been the only communist in history whom a host of bourgeois parties wished to see as Prime Minister of India. Even to this day he most religiously maintains a fine equilibrium of what he famously termed "mutual interdependence" with the Congress, allowing his colleagues to safely engage in occasional outbursts of anti-Congress and anti-Centre rhetoric without any jolt to the time-tested friendship. No wonder, then, that though he was not in a position to physically attend the congress, his personality and his politics were very much present there. It was for him alone that the post of "permanent invitee" was created in the Politburo -- another first in the annals of the party.
Following the inaugural session, eulogisation of Brand Buddha dominated the proceedings. A congress document supported the economic policy of the West Bengal government in great detail, project by project. This was only to be expected, because development of that policy has always been a joint endeavour of Bengal leaders and the party centre. As far back as in the party's 12th Congress in 1985, BTR (yes, the same BT Ranadive who as the General Secretary of the undivided CPI in 1948 had sought to plunge the entire party into an adventurous insurrection to overthrow the rule of capital represented by the Nehru government) came down heavily against opponents of state-private joint ventures, helping Chief Minister Jyoti Basu take a big stride forward in his drive for industrialisation. From then onwards, top leaders including General Secretaries have offered all assistance and guidance to the process of continual rightward drift in the Left Front Government's economic policies. Joint ventures, or what we would call PPPs today, proved to be a transitional step towards privatisation and then the neoliberal industrial policy document of 1994. Through all such steps right up to the West Bengal SEZ Act of 2003 and the current craze of corporate industrialisation, the central leaders stood solidly behind the Bengal leadership, providing theoretical justification to whatsoever the latter did, or wished to do. In 2005, for instance, the 18th Congress opened up the gates to foreign investment. By and by it became clear to all that there was actually no such thing as Kolkata line versus Delhi line. The Bengal line was and is the central line. To be more accurate, the Bengal practice has always been the motive force in the evolution of the all India political perspective. (In this congress too, the party adopted a policy document that further liberalised the economic policies of state governments run by it.) Politburo member Sitaram Yechury made this amply clear in Coimbatore when he said, "What is happening in Bengal is not anti-liberalisation. We are open to foreign capital. Whatever we are doing in Bengal, we are asking Manmohan Singh to do for India".
Focusing the spotlight on Bengal and its Chief Minister was a carefully considered political decision. BB is obviously the brightest poster boy of the new-look CPI(M). It is he who best represents the aggressive version of social democracy which works directly and violently for big capital and against peasants and workers while still carrying the red flag. Highlighting him is the party's way to project its own brand of neoliberal developmentalism as the best selling point to improve the stakes in the corridors of power at the central as well as state levels.
And this was also necessary to send the proper signals to the lords of capital in India and abroad. To be sure, they do rely on the likes of Sonia Gandhi, Manmohan Singh, P Chidambaram -- and their counterparts in the BJP -- for managing their affairs in India. But when it comes to marketing the economic philosophy of liberalisation-globalisation, their best bait after the fall of the 'computer savvy' Chandrababu Naidu is the 'pragmatic communist' BB. Long ago GD Birla advised his class colleagues: rather than forming our own "capitalist party", let someone who has abdicated all property speak for us. The allusion was clearly to the "Mahatma" in loincloth. Today Buddhadeb and his party enjoy far greater credibility than Congress, BJP and others in speaking for Tatas and Salims, for World Bank and Wal-Mart. Certainly the latter would feel reassured when they see their brand ambassador being accorded the highest prominence in the all India meet.
But how about the bad name earned in Singur and Nandigram? Well, it was precisely for the purpose of covering up the stigma that a high level of praise was considered necessary. Of course, the customary one-line self-criticism was also there: a political and administrative mistake has been committed in Nandigram. The General Secretary conceded that Nandigram had supplied the anti-left forces throughout the country with a suitable handle for criticism. Singur was not forgotten either. A formal caveat was pronounced: it is better to spare agricultural land for industrialisation unless absolutely necessary. For the rest, it was declared that SEZs are fine -- though not so many and so big as contemplated by the centre -- and land acquisition by the state government on behalf of industrialists but "in the interests of peasants" will go on. Not all delegates were satisfied with this, though. A few from Maharashtra reportedly voted against a resolution that endorsed the concept and practice of SEZs.
For all the greatness thrust on him, however, the Chief Minister of West Bengal had a tough time facing a number of embarrassing questions too, from mediapersons as well as delegates. If there is so much of development, why does the state continue to be a laggard in areas like education and health services? The inevitable comparison with Kerala also came up. Buddhadeb apparently could not summon the courage to speak the truth and say that he had been too preoccupied with taking good care of his capitalist friends to look after these small matters. What he tried to say instead, not very convincingly, was something like this: yes we must do better... in Kerala, you see, the Christian missionaries set up many schools...
You say you are opposed to the centre's "mad" rush after unnecessarily big SEZs -- asked some journalists -- why did you not move any amendments to the SEZ bill when it was moved in parliament? BB was clearly on the defensive: in fact we could not measure up the full implications at the time. You say you won't allow foreign firms into the retail sector, but what do you do when Wal-Mart seeks entry in joint ventures with Bharthi? We are thinking over that, came the evasive answer.
But Buddhadeb is not given to wasting time in empty thoughts. He made it a point to go and meet the industrialists of Coimbatore. Come to our state, he said, you will get cheap and abundant land, electricity, labour -- you name it, we have it. But labour unrest? Don't worry, now it is all quiet on that front, replied the confident Chief Minister. Incidentally Coimbatore itself has lately witnessed mighty and continuing waves of workers' struggles led by the CPI (ML); naturally it did not occur to him or to other leaders to go and meet these workers.
But does it look good if the number one "Left" leader of Bengal comes to be known only as a friend of capitalists, a close confidant of Manmohan Singh and "Pranabda"? It does not. His predecessor in the CM's chair used to do all these things, but that did not prevent him from waxing eloquent on the need to restructure centre state relations, moving resolutions on this topic in party congresses, and taking the lead in the "conclave politics" of opposition unity. Now BB is being groomed for that role too. This time around it was he who moved the resolution on restructuring of centre-state relations. With elections approaching, the party seems to be all set to project him as a firebrand "national leader" from Bengal.
With West Bengal occupying the pride of place in the 19th congress, all eyes were fixed on the new members of Politburo from this state. The election of veteran CITU leader Mohammad Amin in a position left vacant after the death of CITU General Secretary Chittabrata Mazumdar may have been more of a routine affair. But the election of Nirupam Sen from among a group of likely names was politically quite significant. Even as it embraces neoliberal developmentalism as its political mantra, the CPI(M) still needs to explain all the drift in Marxist terms, to try and show that some sort of left alternative is being put in place by the state governments run by it. Leaders like Jyoti Basu and Buddhadeb Bhattacharya have never been great experts here; at the state level the job used to be done mainly by Anil Biswas. Erstwhile editor of the party's Bengali newspaper Ganashakti and then Secretary of West Bengal state committee, he worked out a theory of "development as a form of class struggle", later fine-tuned as "development and struggle", for the purpose. Prominent among those who assisted him in this work was Nirupam Sen. After the departure of Biswas, Sen took up the main responsibility. And that not only in theory but also in practice, he being the Minister in charge of industries, commerce and development. His election to the PB is therefore seen as a further endorsement of the political line he best articulates. And after the congress the first job the new PB member took upon himself was to fly off to Germany -- not to pay tributes to Karl Marx, but to invite German capital to the state. So far, so good.
But is everything going well in the party's Bengal bastion? Not exactly, according to reports placed in the party congress. The proportion of Muslim members in the party is decreasing in Bengal and elsewhere, says the organisational report. What it does not say is that the alienation is a very normal outcome of the Advani-like steps and statements (on madarsas, or the treatment meted out to Rizwanur, for example) on the part of BB and his government. In recent times the latter have taken many a measure like appeasing Muslim fundamentalism on the Taslima Nasreen issue and announcing sops for the Muslim masses just ahead of the panchayat polls. But results are yet to show up.
Then again, the proportion of women in the party membership on the national level remains at a poor 12 per cent, and a poorer 10.5 per cent in West Bengal. The party does not, of course, admit that this has anything to do with the absolute immobility of its women's wing and the callous attitude of the party and government in the face of growing violence on women, frequently with CPI(M) activists involved in such cases.
However, the number of party members is generally on the rise in this state too. That this growth represents more of an attraction for power and privileges and less of an urge to serve the people is well known and even recognized by the leaders. What the latter are particularly perturbed over is the fact that many comrades are refusing to renew their membership. The media uses the derogatory term "drop-outs" to describe them, but they are the ones who have still some ideological commitment left with them. They have tolerated the party's continuing degeneration all these years out of sheer loyalty to the cause, but cannot any longer. In them the party is thus losing whatever remained of its most precious resource. Moreover, in West Bengal the process had started much earlier than in other states. While the current rate of non-renewal is only 3.5 per cent, the cumulative absolute number in West Bengal is therefore quite large. With the growing shortage of sincere and efficient workers, the party is steadily losing its skill in "managing" various social and class conflicts and thereby retaining all sections of the vote bank. This naturally leads to growing reliance on muscle power and higher incidence of corruption and bureaucratic tendencies. It has been also reported that behind the electoral successes lurk some worrying changes in the vote bank. This again was only to be expected because changes in political policies were bound to be reflected in shifts in the party's social base sooner or later.
In view of all this the 19th Congress has issued the call of yet another campaign to rectify mistakes at lower levels throughout the country. Once again this is only a ritual, an exercise in self-deception. With fundamental ideological problems originating at the top and flowing downwards, such an endeavour is bound to prove as futile as on earlier occasions. When the Gangotri remains heavily contaminated, what is the use of trying to clean up the Ganga at the lower reaches?


Following on from my last, rather vocal post, here's something much more satisfying to talk about: another review! This one is by David Popovich of Bookworm Reviews, and it's a video!
I've never had a video review before so this was very exciting. And he was certainly fair, too. I've never considered Legacy to follow groundbreaking or vastly original ideas, but I'm really glad that he enjoyed it and considered the tropes used well (even if they are well-used). Best comment: "It's like reading an anime." That was the highlight for me, especially as I've been influenced a lot by anime for a good seventeen years or so now, that he thought it came across in my writing is a great compliment for me. That's the style that I see playing through my head when I write.
I haven't mentioned my cosplay at all yet because I was waiting for some photos to be taken that weren't of me looking confused or standing in THAT ONE POSITION I ALWAYS STAND IN FOR EVERY PHOTO so finally I have something to share.
Ain't no thing like me, 'cept me… and a few others.
Boom. Or, more like, whirrrrr….
And there's my Beowulf from Rooster Teeth's RWBY series.
No, it's not a bear, and I'm not doing that thing they supposedly do.
I do voice acting projects now. Once I have time after DragonCon I will audition for more, but to be honest it's been a very intense few months, so time management will be essential… especially when you have a habit of wanting to do everything at once.
Me vs. my head. I don't know which is which.
So that's an update from me! Stay tuned in another two months for more insecurities and self-assurances!
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Andy Warhol's Wedding Portraits of Princess Diana and Prince Charles up for Sale
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Andy Warhol's Wedding Portraits of Princess Diana and Prince Charles
LONDON (AP) – A London art gallery says it is putting on sale two portraits by artist Andy Warhol, created to celebrate the wedding of Prince Charles and Princess Diana.
The Opera Gallery in London says it acquired the original artworks from a private collection and will be selling them as a diptych for £2 million ($3.15 million). The central London gallery says Wednesday that the portraits, in silkscreen ink on canvas, were completed in 1982, shortly after the royal wedding.
They were initially sold to a private collector, and have not been up for sale again since. [Opera Gallery]
Andy Warhol's Wedding Portrait of Princess Diana
Andy Warhol's Wedding Portrait of Prince Charles
Opera Gallery opened its doors in Singapore in 1994 at the initiative of Gilles Dyan. Today, the team boasts more than 35 individuals from all walks of life, all sharing the same life-time passion: art in general and contemporary art, in particular. A passion that they strive to communicate to connoisseurs and novices alike. A passion that knows no boundaries: indeed, Opera Gallery is present in all of the world's major art capitals: Paris (1994), New York (2000), Miami (2003), Hong Kong (2004) and London (2005). And before 2009, five new Opera Gallery locations will be opening their doors.
While providing the perfect showcase for the works of the Great Masters such as Picasso, Buffet, Dali, Gauguin, Miro, Braque and Chagall, Opera Gallery also devotes itself, early on, to promoting new artistic talent. Opera Gallery has always supported young artists who have gone on to achieve international recognition. Moreover, Opera Gallery continues to scout out new European, Asian and American talent. Photography, painting, sketches, sculpture, video creations…all existing art forms are expressed by artists from every continent.
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The program is geared toward kindergartners through fifth-graders and includes art and crafts, games, group activities, sports and a weekly excursion.
Morning and afternoon snacks are provided daily, however campers must take a sack lunch.
The camp will run from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Dec. 20 to Jan. 7, Monday through Friday.
The camp fee is $79 per week, with early care and later care available for an additional fee.
Campers are required to wear a camp T-shirt daily which are available for purchase at $6 each.
Walk-in registrations will begin Dec. 6 at the Park and Recreations Office only. Registration is not available by mail.
For more information, call 562-801-4430.
The public is invited to a Dec. 13 meeting about the upcoming Telegraph Road joint improvement project between Pico Rivera and Downey.
The meeting will be from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Downey City Council Chambers, 11111 Brookshire Ave.
The project, which will be paid for by state and federal funds, covers Telegraph Road from Passons Boulevard to Rosemead/Lakewood Boulevard.
It includes constructing new landscape medians, rehabilitating the pavement and landscaping the boulevard.
City officials say the project will also improve safety, traffic circulation, drainage and access for the disabled.
Construction is set for fall 2011.
The Pico Rivera Golf Course will host a Junior Golf Christmas Tournament on Dec. 18.
Tee times for the tournament will begin at 11:30 a.m., with check-in at 10:30 a.m.
The event is open to golfers age 7 to 17. Golfers will be divided in three age groups: 7 to 10, 11 to 13, and 14 to 17. The fee is $20 per golfer. It covers a round of golf, small bucket of range balls, awards luncheon and participation prizes.
The deadline to register for the tournament is Dec. 15.
The Pico Rivera Golf Course is located at 3260 Fairway Drive. For more information, call the golf course at 562-692-9933.
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Q: Should I call a callback for an event triggered by a developer? I'm designing an API for a stream-processing library. The library will process a stream provided by the user and will transition between states based on the data in the stream. The state transitions are indicated via a callback.
But I want to be able to have the user force a state transition as well. In this case, should I call the callback? Here is a proposed API in C, where the state transition is simply "session started."
struct MyObj;

void add_callback(struct MyObj *obj, void (*session_started)(void));
void process_stream(struct MyObj *obj, uint8_t *stream_chunk, size_t chunk_size);

// Should the callback be called during this function?
void manually_start_session(struct MyObj *obj);

On the one hand if I call the callback then the user could place all of their handling code in the callback and not worry if it's called manually or not. But on the other hand, the user knows when they call manually_start_session so I don't see why I need to notify them that the session has started.
What is the best/most obvious/least surprising decision API here?

A: For me, the most straightforward approach would be to leave the callbacks out of the manual call.  Presumably you already have something to handle state transitions, so a state transition caused by a call from your manual method should be handled no differently.
Assuming you're passing all the relative information pertaining to the state change to the one handling the state change transitions, it makes no difference whether or not the state change was caused manually or otherwise.  However if this were somehow handled differently, then if anything, I'd simply add the information in addition to the state change that this particular transition was manually called, say, using a flag.
Don't forget that Strategy Pattern could be a very useful way of implementing changes in behavior at runtime in your case.  Just be sure that the assigning of a new strategy is performed in a critical block if you're using multiple threads which it seems you are.

A: Put the actions that the callback takes into their own function, and call that function from the callback.
Now your users can call the new function directly.
I would avoid calling a function that is intended to be a callback directly.  Such functions often follow specific naming and signature conventions; calling it directly could be confusing to the fellow programmer trying to read your code later.

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Blockchain is a widely used technology that gained popularity over the last few years. What makes it so revolutionary? Rutger van Zuidam will introduce us to the concepts of blockchain and tell us why it's all about Trust. He will share applications that are currently changing the world and elaborate on how blockchain will impact our lives, organizations and society in the future.
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Perspective is brought from both the technological and human point of view. Because the world doesn't need blockchain or AI perse. Rather it needs new ways of collaboration to address the challenges of the 21st century, whether they are societal or economical, on a global scale or within an industry. We are currently seeing public blockchain networks such as Bitcoin and Ethereum enable new ways of collaboration and Rutger will explain how this can be applied in many other areas, from supply chain to the global sustainability goals.
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BREAKING: Navy SEALs Issue Immediate Demand Of Biden Admin
(Todd Starnes) – A group of Navy SEALs and other special warfare personnel urge the Supreme Court to reject the Biden administration's attempt at punishing them for seeking religious exemptions.
Thirty-five elite service members, represented by First Liberty Institute and Hacker Stephens LLP, asked the court Monday to reject an emergency motion from the Biden administration seeking to stay a preliminary injunction that prevents the Department of Defense from punishing them for having religious objections to the Department's vaccine mandate.
"While judges should not presume to run the military, neither may courts turn a blind eye to violations of the Constitution or the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA)," the letter reads. "And the Navy cannot cloak its desire to punish plaintiffs for requesting religious accommodation in claimed 'operational' needs without judicial scrutiny. Allowing blind deference to military preferences, as the Navy urges, would rewrite RFRA. Only Congress may do that. And it would be inappropriate to create new legal doctrine in this procedural posture."
Mike Berry, Director of Military Affairs for First Liberty Institute, blasted the DoD mandate.
"Our clients are willing to make tremendous sacrifices to protect their fellow warriors and our freedoms," Berry said in a statement. "Our hope is that the Supreme Court will reject this punitive action by the Biden administration and respect the religious liberty of our clients. No member of the military should be forced to sacrifice the very rights they fight to protect to be able to serve."
U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor issued the preliminary injunction in January, which was upheld by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
"The Navy service members in this case seek to vindicate the very freedoms they have sacrificed so much to protect," O'Connor said. "The COVID-19 pandemic provides the government no license to abrogate those freedoms. There is no COVID-19 exception to the First Amendment. There is no military exclusion from our Constitution."
toddstarnes.com/politics/navy-seals-to-supreme-court-dont-let-biden-admin-punish-us-any-more/


Entry level hunting test programs will keep you and your dog in the field.
With hunting season at hand, you're probably not spending a lot of time thinking about next spring and summer and how you'll keep your dog in top mental and physical condition. Here's a suggestion, however, that will help you extend your time afield and leave you and your dog better prepared for hunting season the following year.
In NAVHDA's Natural Ability Test, young dogs are given the opportunity to show self-confidence and desire during a water segment of the test in which they're asked to swim after a training dummy.
I'm talking about the hunt test programs sponsored by various dog organizations. The best place to start is with one of the established testing organizations, where you'll find help at all levels and a bunch of folks with similar interests, whether it's the AKC, UKC or a NAVHDA chapter.
Let's take a look at their "Entry Level" options.
At first impression entry level tests with titles like Natural Ability, Junior, or Started seem so easy some folks question their value. But I think if we take the time to really find out what's going on we may discover they offer some real advantages.
Tests exist across most sporting dog segments, and they are designed to evaluate and score dogs against standards on an individual pass-fail basis, rather than having the dogs compete against each other as they do in field trials, where there can be only one winner.
All test systems have multiple levels with increasingly difficult requirements, but for this discussion we'll focus on those tests at the entry level, which are all basically designed to evaluate the genetic potential of younger dogs. They do this by looking at inherited characteristics like desire, cooperative nature, strong pointing instinct in pointing breeds and retrieving instinct in retrievers, plus overall mental stability. In some cases coat and conformation are also evaluated as functional attributes.
Training and obedience are increasingly evaluated as you move through the higher testing levels.
"Natural Ability" is the name chosen by the North American Versatile Hunting Dog Association (NAVHDA) to identify their test for pups up to 16 months.
"Junior" is used throughout the American Kennel Club (AKC) Hunt Test system for pointing breeds, spaniels and retrievers to identify their entry-level tests. There is no age limit.
"Started" is the term used by the Hunting Retriever Club (HRC), whose members conduct tests under the auspices of the United Kennel Club (UKC) Registry, to identify their beginning level.
Now that we're kind of bunched up here on the "same page," let me share some thoughts on the values of entry level tests along with a "heads-up" or two.
Most importantly, the tests are evaluations of individual dogs. Entry level tests are designed to present real field scenarios, giving judges the opportunity to observe and compare each dog's performance with test standards emphasizing inherited characteristics with less emphasis on training.
Don't infer, however, that preparation in the form of positive exposure to birds, cover, guns, etc., along with basic training, is not a key to success.
The deal is, you can't "teach" desire, or the drive needed to persist under adverse conditions to be successful at hunting. Yes, you can reward and nurture or reinforce, but if the dog is lazy, you're stuck with lazy.
In both AKC Junior and NAVHDA Natural Ability Tests, young pointing dogs are evaluated for their pointing instinct.
The same with prey drive, the intelligent and discriminating use of nose, pointing instinct in the pointing breeds or marking ability in the retrievers, and so on. These are the attributes primarily looked for at entry level tests.
Again, we can condition, enhance, hone and polish these attributes through proper exposure, but believe me, you'll never surpass genetic or "God given" potential'¦and that's what these tests evaluate.
When entry level tests are constructed well, using terrain, cover, and gamebirds properly to set up less challenging but realistic hunting situations, they provide judges a "looking glass" to observe, evaluate and compare each dog's performance with test standards and arrive at a score.
So, we can understand why entry level tests may appear "easy" or "simple." Test standards and supporting judges are not looking for polish and training; rather, they are attempting to interpret and evaluate the dog's basic inherited attributes, as just described.
That is both good news and bad news.
Besides the evaluation of your dog's potential provided by entry level testing, there are many other benefits.
For example, participating in entry level testing is a great way to introduce folks to dog sports, hunting and the outdoors in general. I can't tell you how many people from obedience and other dog sports have experienced hunting and the outdoors in a positive way through these tests.
The tests are a wonderful way for bird hunters itching to get into the dog sports to gain experience and build confidence rather than jumping headlong into highly competitive field trials or higher-level tests.
While around the hunt tests you'll meet folks with your same interests, have the opportunity to get involved in training groups, and in a very real way be able to extend your hunting season through the spring and summer months.
They're great experience for young dogs'¦and young folks too.
y view, if the only benefit entry level tests provided was the opportunity for sporting dogs to enjoy what they have evolved to be and help folks understand our sport from that perspective, then we have a winner.
Of course, you can also continue through the systems of NAVHDA, AKC, or the UKC's HRC program to the Utility, Master or Finished levels, and beyond. If you do, I'll guarantee you'll meet some outstanding people and make some lifelong friends'¦in addition to developing yourself as a trainer and owning a truly outstanding dog.
So, after hunting season ends, get off the couch, contact one of the groups listed here and have some fun during the "off season"!


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The costs of storing your bicycle at a bicycle storage facility depend on the type and location of the facility and how often you use the storage facility. The prices were determined in cooperation with Stichting Fiets & Openbaar Vervoer.
You will be charged a special rate to store bicycles that do not fit into the standard racks, such as bakfietsen or tandem bicycles. Mopeds and scooters are also charged a special rate for storage in the secure manned storage facilities. These can only be stored in the facility if there is enough space available. The price depends on the location, but the maximum rate for an annual season ticket is € 230. For more information, please ask the service attendants at the bicycle storage facility.
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Biden transition team mulled bringing back John Holdren as science advisor & Katharine Hayhoe to National Climate Assessment
By: Admin - Climate DepotDecember 11, 2020 9:00 AM
Biden transition team discussed bringing back John Holdren as science advisor and @KHayhoe to USGCRP to coordinate climate science across federal agencies. Also, one top NOAA/NASA candidate doesn't want job and another is married to Biden's chief of staff https://t.co/4qLjhckJLE
— Scott Waldman (@scottpwaldman) December 10, 2020
https://www.eenews.net/stories/1063720347
By Scott Waldman, E&E News reporter
One of the transition team's top candidates to lead either NOAA or NASA doesn't want the job, and another contender for NOAA chief is married to President-elect Joe Biden's chief of staff.
But there are more — a lot more — people out there competing for a range of climate science positions at NASA, NOAA and elsewhere, sources said. So much so that one observer warned that Biden could be dissuaded from picking a climate hawk for his top science adviser position because there might be "too many cooks in the kitchen."
J. Marshall Shepherd. University of Georgia
Transition discussions have centered around a few key candidates, some who would be new to Washington while others are Obama administration veterans, according to multiple sources who spoke on background because they were not authorized to talk on the record.
J. Marshall Shepherd, chair of NASA's Earth Science Advisory Committee, has been mentioned frequently as a possibility for NOAA administrator, which The Washington Post first reported. He is also being discussed as a possible head for NASA.
Shepherd leads the atmospheric sciences program at the University of Georgia and is a former president of the American Meteorological Society. He was also a research meteorologist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
Shepherd told E&E News that he would turn down an offer to lead the nation's premier science agencies because he wants to spend time with his family before his children go to college. He told E&E News that he is flattered to be considered, but believes NOAA and NASA have to do a lot of rebuilding after the Trump years.
"I feel like my role is more valuable external to the government," he said. "Where some people are sort of awestruck or starstruck by these potential opportunities, my first thought is about the realistic aspects of them, the challenges of them because I've seen the work ahead. It's going to require someone to get down and dirty in those positions. You're going to need to have someone who's willing to commit a good portion of their time."
Everette Joseph. NCAR
Shepherd said he would endorse Everette Joseph, director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, for the NOAA job. Joseph is under serious consideration for that position, according to multiple sources.
Joseph spent a significant part of his career heading the Atmospheric Sciences Research Center at the State University of New York at Albany and helped establish an advanced weather detection system in the state. If nominated, Joseph would also become NOAA's first Black administrator.
There has been some discussion about bringing in Katharine Hayhoe, a climate scientist at Texas Tech University and a lead author of the Fourth National Climate Assessment, into a public climate role.
However, it was unclear if that would be as science adviser at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy or as lead scientist at NOAA or NASA. Hayhoe also has been discussed as a possible head of the U.S. Global Change Research Program, which coordinates research across multiple federal agencies.
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Born in 1935, Prince Edward, The Duke of Kent is the son of the late Prince George, fourth son of King George V, and the late Princess Marina, daughter of Prince Nicholas of Greece. He is first cousin to both The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh. The present Duke of Kent inherited his title following the early death of his father in 1942.
The Duke was educated at Eton and later Le Rosey in Switzerland. After school he entered Sandhurst, and was commissioned in 1955 as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Scots Greys. He then served with his regiment at home and overseas in a military career that spanned 21 years. The Duke retired from the Army in 1976 with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He was subsequently promoted to Field Marshal in June 1993. He retains close links to the Army and holds a number of senior regimental appointments.
The Duke is a Personal Aide-de-Camp to The Queen. He has travelled widely and represented The Queen on important occasions such as the independence celebrations in Sierra Leone, Uganda, Guyana and The Gambia. He returned to Uganda last year for the country's celebration of fifty years of independence.
In 1961 The Duke of Kent married Miss Katharine Worsley. The couple have three children and ten grandchildren. The Duke and Duchess live at Wren House, Kensington Palace, and in Oxfordshire.


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I am a postgraduate student. Can I apply?
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Do I need to pay tuition fees to EdUHK when I go on exchange? Apart from that, are there other fees?
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The EdUHK Global Affairs Office also conducts pre-departure briefings and gives appropriate guidance to successful applicants.
Students normally submit their applications to EdUHK Global Affairs Office about a year ahead of their preferred exchange period. 1st application round opens from Nov to Jan next year. In some cases, an additional round of recruitment might be available at the beginning of the academic year for an exchange in the second semester. Please watch out for the latest updates from our office.
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There were few surprises in December's Russian parliamentary elections. Polls had already given the ruling party a lead before President Vladimir Putin's announcement that he would head its campaign; since that announcement United Russia's ratings soared. It seemed more likely than ever that Putin really intended to hand over the reins and leave his successor with a "constitutional majority" in the Duma (a two-thirds advantage that would empower the new president to change the constitution).
There are several western explanations for the support Russians have willingly given Putin over the past eight years. Many are clichés, including the idea of the inherent incapacity of the Russian people to embrace democracy and throw off authoritarian structures. There are also accusations about coercive strategies deployed by those in power, undermining the fragile and contradictory gains of the Yeltsin period and marginalising all opposition (we'll look later at the workings of what Russians delicately term their "managed democracy"). But more fundamental factors have affected Russia's recent history and help explain the president's current popularity.
Russia was a destabilised country when Putin became prime minister in 1999 and president in March 2000. Boris Yeltsin's chaotic reforms had weakened the state so much that it was no longer able to function. Indeed many of Russia's republics and other territories had adopted far-reaching legislation contradicting the federation's institutions. Many regional governors and presidents had named their own directors to administrations as important as internal affairs, customs and taxes, encouraging the development of corruption and nepotism.
(1) See Zbigniew Brzezinski, "A Geostrategy for Eurasia", Foreign Affairs, n° 5, 1997.
(2) Anatol Lieven, "Against Russophobia", World Policy Journal, New York, winter 2000/2001.
(3) See Jean-Marie Chauvier, "Tsar Putin's Russia", Le Monde diplomatique, English edition, February 2007.
(4) Le Monde, Paris, 30 July 2000.
(5) Putin at the Valdaï Club, 15 September 2007. See also Eric Hoesli, 24 heures, Lausanne, 16 September 2007.
(6) See "Les jeunes en rangs serrés derrière Poutine", Courrier international, Paris, 30 August 2007.
(7) See Carine Clément and Denis Paillard, "Snapshots from Russia now", Le Monde diplomatique, English edition, November 2005.
(8) See "The Law of In-Laws", Kommersant Vlast, Moscow, 24 September 2007.


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We analyze the implementation of One Laptop per Child's (OLPC's) XO-1 computer at two primary schools on the outskirts of Lima, Peru. Using a sociotechnological approach, we identify the institutional and human barriers to the success of this initiative in these two case studies. As a device incorporated into a sociotechnological system, the XO-1 computer was in direct conflict with the schools' institutional arrangements and, more generally, Peru's educational system. The role of specific agents, particularly principals and teachers, conflicted with the interest, or lack thereof, that students showed for the computer. Meanwhile, the device did not conform to expectations based on previous experience with computers at commercial public access centers. We consider the hands-off approach advocated by the promoters of OLPC deployment and recommend revisions.


Willaston and Rope Ward UKIP Councillor Brian Silvester has been campaigning for a long while to get action to stop dangerous parking at the junction of Meadow Close and Wistaston Road,Willaston Brian said, " The developers of Meadow View have now instructed contractors to erect bollards on the grassed area on the left hand side of the road as you drive in.(See below)This will physically stop the double parking at the junction,which makes it impossible for emergency vehicles and other vehicles from gaining access. Also I have had confirmation that Meadow View will be adopted by the Council in the matter of weeks.This will mean that it will come under the control of the Council so further improvements should be easier to achieve.
I am also pleased that, after a request from me, the overgrown grassed areas in the cul de sac have been cut by the Council."
I have received confirmation form Thomas Jones and sons that they are contacting their contractors and will let me know a date for installation of the bollards on Meadow View.
Formal adoption will be relatively quick on this site and should be concluded within 5 – 8 weeks of final approval following the installation.
It is bizarre and perverse that the Cheshire County flag is flown in our capital city but not in Cheshire itself. We should be doing everything we can to promote our historic, beautiful, rural County. Most people have a good impression of Cheshire as a place to live, work and visit. We should be proud of our County and take every opportunity to bring it to the attention to everybody far and wide."


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In the face of 'fake news' and disinformation, people's trust in media seems to be declining. But do we need to have more trust in media, or less?
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Education policy is increasingly being led by 'big data'. Yet how valuable and useful is this data? An argument for 'critical data literacy'.
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Q: Binding a value from a parent table into a DataGridView's text box using the foreign key I have a DataGridView which list all users found in a database. Now, every user has its type. So, when it comes to low level, a user table has a foreign key column called user_type_id which points to user_type table (where it represents the primary key).
Also, I have implemented two-way binding, and I have combobox on a form on the same window, that updates the type of a user. The actual problem is with grid view and in its settings (Edit Columns... option) among others, the important values looks like this :

Header Text - User Type
DataPropertyName - user_type_id
ColumnType - DataGridViewTextBoxColumn

So in my grid view, because I only have access to a foreign key colum (user_type_id), I only can show those ids, rather than a real name of a user type (which is stored in parent table - user_type).
How do you handle this ? Is there some setting that I am missing or I should fetch this manually rather than expecting for some automatic solution?

A: I would suggest using a combobox column for the User_Type_ID column.  There you can fill the combo with names of the user types.  This is the easiest way I know to display meaningful values from a foreign key table but only store the ID value in the main table you are displaying/editing.
A simple example below:
var comboCol = new DataGridViewComboBoxColumn();
comboCol.DataSource = GetUserTypeNames(); // Retrive these from your database somehow
comboCol.ValueMember = "user_type_id";
comboCol.DisplayMember = "user_type_name";
// This will display just the text
comboCol.DisplayStyle = DataGridViewComboBoxDisplayStyle.Nothing;


Liverpool kept the pressure up on their close title rivals Manchester United with a 4-0 win over Blackburn Rovers at Anfield. The result led a bullish Rafa Benitez to declare that defending champions Manchester United are now "under pressure" in the title run in.
The on fire Fernando Torres scored a first half brace before Daniel Agger and David Ngog added two late goals. Blackburn huffed and puffed, but Sam Allardyce's decision to play 6ft 5in centre-half Christopher Samba up front ahead of the out of favour Benni McCarthy backfired dramatically.
The result will have helped the Reds to bounce back from the midweek disappointment of defeat to Chelsea in the Champions League. With Europe's top prize now looking beyond their reach, Liverpool are at least still in the hunt for the league title.


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Q: Combination of two columns unique constraint I created the table t1t2 which connects tables t1 and t2 as follows:
CREATE TABLE t1t2(
id integer primary key,
t1_id integer,
t2_id integer,
foreign key(t1_id) references t1(id),
foreign key(t2_id) references t2(id));

Is it possible to define a constraint (restriction) that enables only unique values of tuple (t1_id, t2_id)? Or should I check this in the application?

A: You can add a unique constraint to your create table statement.
This does not have to be the primary key.
UNIQUE(t1_id, t2_id),

A:  CREATE UNIQUE INDEX idx_twocols ON t1t2(t1_id, t2_id)

You will probably need to add NOT NULL to the declarations for each of the two columns.
Alternatively, you could choose to forego the primary key column (if all you're using it for is uniqueness) and create the primary key on the combination of t1_id and t2_id:
CREATE TABLE t1t2(
t1_id integer NOT NULL,
t2_id integer NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (t1_id, t2_id),
foreign key(t1_id) references t1(id),
foreign key(t2_id) references t2(id));

The PRIMARY KEY is a special case of a UNIQUE index.  Using the composite PRIMARY KEY saves you one column and one index, but requires your application to know both t1_id and t2_id to retrieve a single row from the table.

A: You could create your UNIQUE primary index with those options to keep your primary key and a unique constraint SQL Lite New Index option


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Was Saturday's SAT test compromised?
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Reports are circulating that the August SAT test was compromised because it contained questions previously published in tests that were administered in China and South Korea. The College Board adhered to its policy of never commenting on such reports and simply stated that it would press criminal charges against anyone it suspected of cheating.
We would sincerely hope that College Board would retire all questions on tests that were compromised and invest the resources to continuously create new content. If the rumors are true that the August test contained recycled tests from last year's heavily compromised October test, we believe this will be a significant "black eye" to the College Board. And at a time when the ACT is seriously challenging its market dominance no less.
The test scores are expected to be released tomorrow. Despite the online petition you can find by clicking here, it doesn't appear the August SAT scores will be invalidated.
Perhaps the class action lawsuit will convince the test prep companies to create brand-new questions for each test and use the large population of test takers to center each exam around a particular median. It's also possible the exam could be administered in Asia at the same time it is in the US, i.e. US in the morning and Asia in the evening.
Clearly this is all our conjecture, but we're very interested to see what happens.


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