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67:30 Substitution!Capital substitution: Caroline Hester for Monique Hanayik.
67:30 Substitution!Hanover substitution: Taylor Davis for Jessica Comorosky.
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76:38 Substitution!Hanover substitution: Anna Cornacchione for Shelby Adams.
77:07 Substitution!Capital substitution: Becca Cartmill for Emily Krause.
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80:26 Shot by Capital Megan Tolnar, Save (by goalie) Morgan Cole.
81:23 Corner kick by Capital Claire Quinn [81:23].
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83:09 Substitution!Capital substitution: Monique Hanayik for Allison Mervau.
83:09 Substitution!Hanover substitution: Katie Koopman for Anne-Spicer Adams.
83:33 Corner kick by Capital Claire Quinn [83:33].
83:37 Header Shot by Capital Mariah Richards, Wide.
84:58 Shot by Hanover Anne-Spicer Adams, Save (by goalie) Kim Leitch.
85:04 Substitution!Hanover substitution: Rebecca Tumlin for Daria Volker.
85:04 Substitution!Hanover substitution: Leah Ellis for Katie Workman.
85:24 Corner kick by Hanover Jessica Comorosky [85:24].
86:40 Shot by Capital Becca Cartmill, Blocked.
86:59 Substitution!Capital substitution: Chloe Brown for Maura Fortino.
87:14 Shot by Capital Becca Cartmill, Wide.
89:51 Corner kick by Hanover Anna Cornacchione [89:51].
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package org.elasticsearch.spark.sql.streaming

import org.apache.spark.TaskContext
import org.apache.spark.sql.Row
import org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.InternalRow
import org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.encoders.ExpressionEncoder
import org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.encoders.RowEncoder
import org.apache.spark.sql.types.StructType
import org.elasticsearch.hadoop.EsHadoopIllegalArgumentException
import org.elasticsearch.hadoop.serialization.BytesConverter
import org.elasticsearch.hadoop.serialization.JdkBytesConverter
import org.elasticsearch.hadoop.serialization.builder.ValueWriter
import org.elasticsearch.hadoop.serialization.field.FieldExtractor
import org.elasticsearch.spark.rdd.EsRDDWriter
import org.elasticsearch.spark.sql.DataFrameFieldExtractor
import org.elasticsearch.spark.sql.DataFrameValueWriter

/**
 * Takes in iterator of InternalRow objects from a partition of data, writes it to Elasticsearch, and manages
 * the streaming commit protocol.
 */
private [sql] class EsStreamQueryWriter(serializedSettings: String,
                                        schema: StructType,
                                        commitProtocol: EsCommitProtocol)
  extends EsRDDWriter[InternalRow](serializedSettings) {

  override protected def valueWriter: Class[_ <: ValueWriter[_]] = classOf[DataFrameValueWriter]
  override protected def bytesConverter: Class[_ <: BytesConverter] = classOf[JdkBytesConverter]
  override protected def fieldExtractor: Class[_ <: FieldExtractor] = classOf[DataFrameFieldExtractor]

  private val encoder: ExpressionEncoder[Row] = RowEncoder(schema).resolveAndBind()

  override def write(taskContext: TaskContext, data: Iterator[InternalRow]): Unit = {
    // Keep clients from using this method, doesn't return task commit information.
    throw new EsHadoopIllegalArgumentException("Use run(taskContext, data) instead to retrieve the commit information")
  }

  def run(taskContext: TaskContext, data: Iterator[InternalRow]): TaskCommit = {
    val taskInfo = TaskState(taskContext.partitionId(), settings.getResourceWrite)
    commitProtocol.initTask(taskInfo)
    try {
      super.write(taskContext, data)
    } catch {
      case t: Throwable =>
        commitProtocol.abortTask(taskInfo)
        throw t
    }
    commitProtocol.commitTask(taskInfo)
  }

  override protected def processData(data: Iterator[InternalRow]): Any = {
    val row = encoder.fromRow(data.next())
    commitProtocol.recordSeen()
    (row, schema)
  }
}

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California's animal-cruelty law requires more space for breeding pigs
By Kate Seamons, Newser Staff
Posted Oct 12, 2022 9:49 AM CDT
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When it comes to pork production, California doesn't have much to speak of. It imports more than 99% of the pork it consumes, a figure NPR reports that translates into 13% of the pork produced in the US. On Tuesday, an animal-cruelty law surrounding that pork made its way in front of the Supreme Court. As the New York Times explains, the law requires that the pork sold in the state must have been born to a sow that lived in at least 24 square feet of space—enough to turn around in. California's Proposition 12, which NBC News reports overwhelmingly passed in 2018 with 63% of the vote but hasn't yet gone into effect, effectively bars "gestation crates," the metal enclosures that are used throughout the pork industry.
If California wants to demand that of pigs born within its borders, no problem. But the question in front of the court is whether the law's regulatory impact on other states violates the US Constitution's Dormant Commerce Clause, which Bloomberg reports "prohibits laws that discriminate against out-of-state commerce." The Iowa-based National Pork Producers Council and the American Farm Bureau Federation were the ones to sue, noting most sows aren't kept in conditions that sync with Proposition 12's requirements (this August 2021 article put the figure at 4%). They estimate it could cost the industry as much as $350 million, and they have the Biden administration on their side.
Written filings submitted by the administration argue the proposition has "thrown a giant wrench into the workings of the interstate market in pork," per the AP. Lower courts have thus far sided with California. NPR reports 70 minutes had been scheduled for oral arguments; things lasted nearly an hour longer than that. The AP shares some of the standout questions the justices had:
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson summed up the issue: "To what extent does California get to control what Iowa does with respect to the housing of its pork?" She asked why California couldn't do something less onerous, such as "segregating Iowa's pork when it comes in, putting a big label over it that says 'This is immorally produced.'"
Justice Brett Kavanaugh: "So what about a law that says you can't sell fruit in our state if it's produced—handled by people who are not in the country legally? Is that state law permissible?"
Justice Elena Kagan: "I understand New York has a law that says that if you want to import firewood into the state, you have to have used a certain kind of pesticide to make sure that various pests don't come in with the firewood. Would that be forbidden?"
Justice Amy Coney Barrett: Could California pass a law barring pork from companies that "don't require all their employees to be vaccinated or from companies that don't fund gender-affirming surgery?"
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Fed up with disreputable representatives, life insurance companies in Canada have launched a major campaign aimed at purging the industry of unsavoury business practices. The goal: to identify, hunt down and expel advisors that engage in reprehensible business practices.
With numerous companies behind them, three insurers – Empire Life, Industrial Alliance and Transamerica Life Canada – are leading the charge. All have resolved to tighten the screws by severing business relations with representatives whose business practices are dubious or worse.
This initiative got underway this spring in Quebec when regional executives from the three insurers decided to join forces to stamp out fraud. They say they are backed by their head offices that will oversee the spread of this campaign throughout Canada.
The insurers are following the lead of the Canadian regulatory authorities that for the past two years have been actively taking steps to increase the transparency of business practices in the life insurance industry, mainly in the hopes of restoring the industry's reputation in consumers' eyes.
The move to adopt more heavy-handed measures against fraud artists was the brainchild of Richard Charette, director, sales and distribution, Quebec, at Empire Life. Mr. Charette is also the president of the Sales Executive Committee of Quebec. This purely advisory committee is an informal round table where companies share common concerns. Nearly 85% of insurers active in Quebec belong to the committee, which engineered the new anti-fraud strategy.
Why the sudden interest in tackling this long-standing problem? "Financial scandals such as Norbourg, and the financial losses incurred by managing general agents were the last straw," Mr. Charette says. "At some point, you sit up and say: enough already."
Reprehensible practices
Insurers are cracking down in particular on six practices the committee considers reprehensible. "Reprehensible practices are serious offences. We're not talking about forgetting to analyze financial needs," Mr. Charette notes.
Misdeeds that will no longer be tolerated include acts of fraud committed against consumers, insurers and managing general agents, "serious and repeated complaints" lodged by consumers against a representative, serial bankruptcies, premium rebating and systematic replacement, Mr. Charette confirmed.
Many coercive measures will be applied without hesitation, the insurers involved revealed. For one, Transamerica is threatening to haul representatives that renege on certain commitments into court. The insurer will sue representatives that systematically contract debt on commissions paid to managing general agents, but whose clients cancel the policy within 24 months of its coming into force.
"We will sue these representatives to recover the amounts they owe us," says Pierre Vincent, vice-president, sales, Quebec region, at Transamerica. "These commissions were paid in good faith," he added. "It is up to the brokers to do their part and refund the commissions if the contract is cancelled."
Over the past few years, Transamerica had been letting some representatives that allegedly committed reprehensible practices off the hook. Legal action was reserved for major cases like the Bricault affair in the 1990s (see inset text on page 10), Mr. Vincent explains.
"In the past, we believed that lawsuits were not always worth it, especially when the representatives had no assets to seize," Mr. Vincent says.
That stance has changed in the face of mounting financial losses caused by crooked representatives. "Now, we're ready to invest the necessary amounts to ensure that dubious practices by some brokers are brought to light."
Even representatives without assets are not immune from lawsuits, Mr. Vincent warns. His objective: to prevent them from hopping between insurers and distributors.
Transamerica's parent corporation Aegon Canada wants to send the market a clear message, says Doug Paul, executive vice-president, sales and marketing. "We are going to take them to court even if we do not get our money back. This issue is not a simple matter of money. It's a matter of principle. Those who think that there will be no consequences are making an incorrect assumption," he stresses.
Mr. Paul adds that Transamerica is determined to step up its efforts to nab swindlers. "We will be more vigilant, especially in the cases where it is clear there has been fraud and misrepresentation," he warns.
He pointed out that the vast majority of financial advisors are honest folks that serve their clients impeccably. Only a minority indulge in reprehensible practices, he believes. These bad apples tarnish the reputation of the whole profession, Mr. Paul pointed out, adding that the situation is unfair for most representatives and that it is high time that the problem be eradicated.
At Empire Life, Les Herr, vice-president, distribution and strategy, individual insurance, confirms that this issue is prompting serious soul-searching. Even so, up to now, the only measure put in place to flush out wrongdoers is reporting them to the regulatory agencies.
Empire Life plans to brainstorm on measures to counter this problem during meetings over the next few months. In the meantime, Mr. Herr confirmed that Empire Life will continue to refuse to deal with representatives that the courts find guilty of fraud.
Beyond that, Mr. Herr believes that crooked representatives must be barred from reacquiring a permit even after their sanction is served. He is calling on the regulatory bodies to endorse this approach and urges them to put more teeth into their sanctions slapped on fraud artists.
Contract cancellations
One measure the insurers are taking to eradicate fraud is to cancel the contracts of any renegade representatives.
"At Empire Life it has already begun! I have already cut some business relations," Mr. Charette confirmed. He pointed out that the contracts between Empire and its representatives contain a cancellation clause, which he has no compunctions about using when necessary. "I am not obliged to do business with anyone. Our contracts have a clause that states that we can terminate our business relations upon 30 days' written notice."
Representatives that were dishonest with a competitor will also lose their contracts at Empire, Mr. Charette pointed out. "I deny contracts to representatives that have ethics cases pending, or those found guilty of fraud."
"If they have gotten into trouble somewhere else, there's a risk that they would do the same with us. And even if they didn't do anything wrong at Empire, I will not sit back and wait for it to happen," he continued.
Industrial Alliance is doing the same. "We have also begun to curtail contracts of some representatives. There are people that I personally have barred," explains Bruno Michaud, senior vice-president, sales, Quebec and Atlantic provinces at Industrial Alliance, and president of the mutual fund subsidiary Investia.
"Some brokers I've met, I've already said: no thanks we don't want to get involved in these practices. I've even refused to issue insurance policies," Mr. Michaud said.
He insists that the network should not view these measures as a ruthless witch hunt. When insurers are forced to end a contract, "they do not rub their hands in glee," he says.
Before annulling a contract, insurers meet with the representatives to hear their version of the story, Mr. Michaud explained. "We're not despots. We don't come into the office in the morning saying 'today we'll chop off X or Y's head.' We discuss with the representatives, the managing general agents and all our partners."
"When we end a contract, we have good reasons for doing so. We check first with our internal attorneys to make sure everything is on the straight and narrow," he continued.
Insurers also plan to scrutinize the source of new business generated by representatives, Mr. Vincent reveals. "We will be paying closer attention. If we receive complaints from an insurer or managing general agent, or even another broker, we will closely monitor the business of the broker accused," Mr. Vincent says.
"What we look for is sudden changes in their business. We then try to pinpoint the source of the business and the cause of the sudden changes," he explained.
Charges for transfers
Industrial Alliance is now levying administrative charges ranging from $200 to $300 on managing general agents that agree to transfer a book of business from a representative dealing with a competitor. This measure was taken to prevent representatives that are heavily in debt toward a managing general agent from shirking their obligations by transferring the business to a competitor.
"We have put in place protection for managing general agents: to stop representatives from flitting around. They will no longer be able to produce and put anyone in debt," Mr. Michaud says.
"It's a waste of time. I had a fulltime employee that did only transfers," Mr. Michaud explained. "We ask managing general agents to pay $250. The agent is then free to pass this cost along to the broker."
Mr. Charette confirmed that Empire Life will soon adopt a similar policy. "Many representatives bounce from firm to firm, not necessarily because they are in debt or have a bad reputation. There's a lot of wheeling and dealing, one MGA pays 120% in first-year commissions, the other 130%. Representatives wander around way too much," he says.
"It's the insurers that have to do all the digging," Mr. Charette adds. "Because MGAs sign everything that comes along: they're not very worried about losses and liability. Often, they don't even see it: the administrative assistant takes care of it. Then we get stuck doing all the work," he complained.
Aside from lawsuits, termination of contracts and charges, the sales executive committee also weighed other solutions. None, however, were officially adopted by insurers.
These avenues include a systematic re-evaluation of representatives' skills.
"I have a good selection system for new representatives," Mr. Charette explained. "But you also have to consider re-evaluating the skills of representatives that have done business with us for 7, 10 or 15 years. Some of them have gone bankrupt or have slid into dubious business practices."
He recounted how even representatives that have been in business for 20 years can backslide. "Old timers are sometimes tempted to head down the wrong path. They have visions of easy money, and, for whatever reason, they get off track."
Mr. Charette admits that the solutions are not easily put in place. "For example, I cancelled a contract with a representative here in Quebec City. This representative then contacted one of our offices in Ontario, which gave him a contract. I had to start over, to bring my own colleagues up to speed."
Industry consensus
The front-runners say they are confident that their fellow insurers will fall into step with their campaign to hunt down the miscreants. MGAs are also taking action to crack down on fraud (see text on page 10).
"I think there is a consensus around the table on this principle. We all agree that we sometimes do business with undesirable representatives, even though we shouldn't. There are several good reasons why not: it's expensive and it tarnishes our image. Everyone agrees that we have to put an end to this," Mr. Charette concluded.
Mr. Michaud, of Industrial Alliance is on the same page. "I think that we all agree that it is not in our best interest to keep rotten apples within our organizations. At least 85% of insurers active in Quebec sit on the committee. The large players are there. I think we're all taking this approach seriously."
"We want to grow profitably. That is why it's important to look at the quality of our business," says Mr. Vincent of Transamerica. "And when you see everything that goes on, we want to make sure our distributors are still there for the long haul. We don't want clients to be disgruntled because of brokers' reprehensible actions."
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Q: Fedex. How To Login and Download Billing Onlive CSV File Programmaly? Maybe my question is stupid!
I'm building a Fedex scraper with PHP. The Input are client Username and Password and i need download all billing online CSV in Manage -> View/Pay Bill -> Download Center
How i can login to Fedex and Download this programmaly ? I tried to use Curl but have no idea the form action and parameters. Please help me
Thanks

A: FedEx Billing Online (FBO) is not open for web services. Current Webservices at fedex are:
standard services(no certification required)
-rate services
-service availability
-tracking and visibility
-fedex locator
Advanced Services(require a certification process)
-shipping services
-pickup services
-fedex express tag
-close services
-open shipping
-address validation
source:http://www.fedex.com/us/developer/
You can use a program like visualwebripper in order to simulate customer login into fedex.com at FBO and scrap the information.
First you need to log into the system and when you reach the main page of FBO you must find the information of current bills.

You must select the bills and press download them. This will move you to the second page-> search-download.
you must select each bill, select output format (xml, csv, excel, etc) and then press download.
finally the system will move to the download center and you must wait until the invoice link displays that its available for download.
finally you must download each file.

Two main considerations: first, its a difficult process even when you perform it manually, you have to check the bills. you have to select each file and then you must wait (or refresh) until the file displays the link.
honestly the best way to work with it is perform this process manual weekly or bi weekly - typical fedex billing cycle and use that information (eg: xml) importing it to your system.
in the past fedex offered EDI files but currently is not part of their offer.
brgds.

A: You can do it, its not easy, the code will need constant maintenance because Fedex is altering their website ever so slightly every few months.  Is the purpose of this to do it for one account or hundreds of accounts?  The answer laid out by s_h is pretty much what you have to do.  I am not sure a PHP script is the right choice if you elect to do this on your own. FedEx's site can get very jammy from time to time pages don't load right away etc.
Keep in mind certain types of invoices will never have a csv download. If its an invoice with all smart post that invoice will only be visible as a pdf.  (even though fedex online will allow you start a download on a csv ---that notably will never actually download and become available. It may error out with the phrase "No Data")  You really also need a dbase to manage  what you have and have not downloaded etc.   You will have programming differences for customers who are credit card based versus invoice based, you have a multitude of permutations to contend with.  Sadly the API do not offer the ability to download invoices programatically.  This is definitely a web scraping type of deal.  If you google "small parcel auditors" you might be able to find a firm that will do the download for your company provided they are able to audit it for billing errors etc.  Thats one possible approach unless you're looking to get into this as a business or something.

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Fitness|August 8, 2017|
By Allee Manning
CrossFit Games 2017 Winner Tia-Clair Toomey Owns Her Strength
She's known as "the fittest woman on Earth"—and it's not hard to see why.
Photo courtesy of CrossFit Inc.
2017 CrossFit Games winner Tia-Clair Toomey participates in an event known as Strongman's Fear during the competition.
If you've ever watched the CrossFit Games, you know that the events are hard as hell—and that the athletes competing are truly some of the fittest all-around athletes out there. This year, women's champion Tia-Clair Toomey took the grand prize in the individual women's category at this year's especially high-profile CrossFit Games, proving that perseverance and hard work really are the keys to success.
The Australian athlete is a two-time runner up at the games and an Olympic weightlifter. As for what drives her during competitions: "To be honest, you have to think about everyone who's there to support you (and) remember all the work you put in," she said in a statement to CrossFit.
In an Instagram post following her win, Toomey said she was "overwhelmed with all the support I have received from all over the world."
Toomey just barely managed to attain the title of "fittest woman in the world" by a margin of only a couple of points, scoring a total of 994 to the runner up's 992. According to commentators, this is the most narrow victory in CrossFit Games history.
It had initially looked like two of her competitors had secured the first and second place slots earlier in the event, but she managed to catch up with a slow and steady approach. Toomey really shined during the "hay bale clean burpees," which require athletes to lift a 70-pound hay bale, toss it over a wall, and then do a burpee over the wall, repeating the series 10 times in a row. (And we thought regular burpees were intense.)
Toomey is certainly no stranger to competition, having made her Olympic debut in Rio de Janiero last summer. There, she came in fifth in weightlifting and became the only athlete to ever have competed in the CrossFit Games and the Olympics in the same year. That training has certainly been instrumental in her success. Before taking second place as a rookie in the 2015 CrossFit Games, Toomey had only been training in CrossFit for two years. (She now owns her own CrossFit gym.) A true Jill of all trades, her athletic background even before weightlifting was as a track and field star.
This is the eleventh year of CrossFit Games, which were broadcast on various CBS platforms.
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This week, we have hit the ground running and will be continuing our SATs preparations by taking practice tests in Reading, Maths and Spag.
We have been working really hard on fractions recently and have been learning how to add, divide, multiply and subtract fractions. We have also learned about mixed numbers and improper fractions and have used these new found skills to help us solve a range of reasoning problems. We are now looking at the relationship between Decimals, Fractions and Percentages.
In Reading, we are continuing to improve our comprehension skills by discussing texts, working in small groups to unpick texts, looking at vocabulary and improving our inference and deduction skills.
In Writing, we working on writing a mystery story! We are working on improving our vocabulary, punctuation and sentence structure. We have also employed all that we have learned during Spag lessons to help improve our writing even further!
Our new topic in RE is called 'Being a Sacramental People'. In this topic we will learn that, "Bidden or not bidden, God is present". We will learn how to recognise God in our day-to-day lives, as well as learn how the Sacrament of Reconciliation encourages us to forgive, as well as ask for forgiveness.


Release tensions caused by chronic pain with the principles of dance/movement therapy. Within a fun and creative environment, participants will be guided to rediscover their inner strengths and the joy of movement through mindful dance.
This class will be offered if a certain number of subscription is reached. Contact us at dansetherapie@grandsballets.com if you are interested.


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Letters: Why protests over beating, but not shooting?
Four police officers are out of their jobs - and rightly so ("Four Officers Fired In Police Beating," May 20). I wonder, though, if the three accused shooting suspects will ever face any penalty for their actions.
Lots of people turned out to protest the beating of these three "gentlemen," but somehow the shooting that prompted the whole thing didn't merit even the attendance in court of the witnesses to the shooting of the suspects' three alleged victims.
Perhaps the police should be kept out of some of these neighborhoods, so that outrages such as the taped beating won't happen anymore. I'm sure that would make many residents much happier and - since these residents won't lift a finger to help the police - no more unsafe than they are now.
John F. Wolfington
» READ MORE: JFWolfington@Yahoo.com
Gun laws won't help
I am a retired federal law enforcement officer and firearms instructor, and my son is an active police officer in the Philadelphia suburbs. Most of the active and retired law officers that I know do not favor the type of restrictions on gun possession and ownership that Mayor Nutter has proposed ("New gun laws put to test in court," May 20).
First of all, so-called assault weapons are used in roughly 2 percent of gun-related crimes. The weapons used in the two recent shootings of police officers in Philadelphia were SKS rifles.
They are less powerful than the average deer rifle and are used with other such semi-auto rifles in target shooting and hunting in some other states. Many were brought home as war souvenirs by Vietnam veterans. The weapons used in the two shootings were not legally purchased or possessed by the perpetrators. One was purchased out of state. Thus, none of the mayor's ordinances, had they been in place, would have prevented those tragedies.
The laws proposed by the mayor would strip these legally owned and possessed weapons - as well as pistols such as the Glock 17, a handgun carried by Philadelphia police officers - from law-abiding citizens without justification or compensation. The criminals are not going to register or turn in their weapons. Criminals who use straw purchasers would likewise not be deterred. They would simply use more straw purchasers or obtain them out of the city or in other states.
Richard A. Compton
Supervisory Special Agent (Retired)
Stand up for police
Everybody shakes his head and wonders aloud, "What's wrong with this city?" Take a look: Our police force has its hands tied when trying to do its job. It has been that way for a long time, but now the creeps that got kicked and pummeled by the police are crying foul. How about the three people they allegedly shot before the police caught up with them?
The law-abiding citizens of this city need to stand up for their cops. Not one of us can say how we would act or react unless we were in the situation. We don't have all the facts, so before we judge and condemn, why don't we consider the men and the women and the job?
Fran Kuhnle
Charters are a drain
In her May 20 letter, "The real story on public charter schools," Janine Yass defended charter high schools by saying there are fewer violent incidents, better daily attendance, and higher graduation rates than in comprehensive public high schools. She is absolutely correct.
She overlooked two important factors, however. Charter schools get to select (and remove) their own students, and families who opt for charters are, by definition, proactive in the educational fates of their children.
Charter schools are a drain on the public school system. They skim from the top of the pool and get to play by a different set of rules. It's no wonder that they compare so favorably.
Anthony Nannetti


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46th President of the United States: 2021 ‐ present
President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. Amends Florida Disaster Declaration
Today, President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. made additional disaster assistance available to the State of Florida by authorizing an increase in the level of Federal funding for debris removal and emergency protective measures undertaken in the State of Florida as a result of Hurricane Ian from September 23 to November 4, 2022.
Under the President's order today, the time period for 100 percent Federal funding for debris removal and emergency protective measures, including direct Federal assistance, has been extended for an additional 15-day period through December 7, 2022.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION MEDIA SHOULD CONTACT THE FEMA NEWS DESK AT (202) 646-3272 OR FEMA-NEWS-DESK@FEMA.DHS.GOV.
Joseph R. Biden, President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. Amends Florida Disaster Declaration Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/358924
Disaster/Emergency Declaration


This 18 Acre U-Pick farm has apples, asian pears, figs, cherries, nuts, raspberries, strawberries, tomatoes, basil, flowers and an annual pumpkin patch. Plants and nursery stock are available. There is picked produce available at the farm stand. It is wise to call ahead about availablity of a specific product. We use organic growing practices although we are not certified.
A small, family owned farm and country market. A producer of wonderful, award winning ciders, freezer jams, frozen homemade pies, and syrups. Carolyn Lattin and her daughters, Debbie and Sherrie, has been perfecting all natural products since 1976. The Lattins' products are all home-made and remind us of a simpler time when our moms and grandmothers had time to freeze and bake. They also have strawberry, raspberry, and blackberry ciders, as well as fresh fruits and pies. The farm is also open for wandering around and feeding the animals, and children are welcome. Lattin's fresh cider won the 1998 National Cider Championships, chosen from 28 entries from 14 states. Their cider is pressed weekly, and delivered to accounts throughout the northwest. None of the cider is pasteurized; no preservatives or sugars are added.
Description: The orchard store features a gift shop, apple household and kitchen items, our own freezer jam, apple syrup, marmalade, sauce, butter, juice, jellies and local apple orchard honey. We also offer tours of our orchard and operation (Please call for schedule and fees). Future plans include a demonstration U-Pick variety orchard and an organic orchard (stay tuned)and more pear varieties.
"Nestled along the shores of the Puget Sound and directly adjacent to the San Juan islands, the Merritt orchards take advantage of some unique growing conditions. No one knows for sure if it's the marine air of the Puget Sound or the soil conditions or the water or a combination of all three that create such a perfect growing environment for our apples. Our Gala and Jonagold are the reddest, juiciest and most flavorful that we have ever tasted. You really must try some".
Directions: from I-5 take exit 231 and go west to the Wilson Road. Drive 6 miles to Bayview-Edison Road. Follow the signs to Bayview State Park. We are two miles north of the park.


Here is a 2017 Ford Focus that is powered by a 2.0 Liter engine and coupled with an automatic transmission that gets a City MPG of 25 and a Highway MPG of 34. This SE is equipped with Backup Camera, Cruise Control, Microsoft SYNC and MORE! This GREAT deal is at Quirk Ford. Come see it TODAY!!!
Here is a 2017 Ford Focus that is powered by a 2.0 Liter engine and coupled with an automatic transmission that gets a City MPG of 30 and a Highway MPG of 40. This SE is equipped with Backup Camera, Cruise Control, Satellite Radio, Microsoft SYNC and MORE! This GREAT deal is at Quirk Ford. Come see it TODAY!!!
Here is a 2017 Ford Focus that is powered by a 2.0 Liter engine and coupled with an automatic transmission that gets a City MPG of 25 and a Highway MPG of 34. This SE is equipped with Cruise Control, Microsoft SYNC, Backup Camera, Satellite Radio and MORE! This GREAT deal is at Quirk Ford. Come see it TODAY!!!
Here is a 2010 Subaru Forester that is powered by a 2.5 Liter engine and coupled with an automatic transmission that gets a City MPG of 20 and a Highway MPG of 26. This SUV is equipped with AWD, Cruise Control, CD Player, Roof Racks and MORE! This GREAT deal is at Quirk Ford. Come see it TODAY!!!
Here is a 2018 Ford Focus that is powered by a 2.0 Liter engine and coupled with an automatic transmission that gets a City MPG of 30 and a Highway MPG of 40. This SE is equipped with Backup Camera, Cruise Control, Satellite Radio, Microsoft SYNC and MORE! This GREAT deal is at Quirk Ford. Come see it TODAY!!!
Here is a 2013 Nissan Rogue that is powered by a 2.5 Liter engine and coupled with an automatic transmission that gets a City MPG of 22 and a Highway MPG of 27. This S is equipped with Cruise Control, Power Windows, Power Locks, Comfy Cloth Interior and MORE! This GREAT deal is at Quirk Ford. Come see it TODAY!!!
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Writing a movie review is a common assignment that students have to do in high school and college. Even though it may seem simple, movie reviews require time and proper organization.
Even though it may seem simple, movie reviews require time and proper organization. A film review is a type of review that provides a short description of a film and includes the reviewers opinion about it.
A film review can be formal or informal. When talking about an academic writing assignment, a scholarly film review should definitely use formal language. A model paper is an example of a quality essay, term paper, research paper, case study, thesis, or other academic writing project. Learning from example is one of the most powerful ways to learn.
Purchasing a model paper is an excellent, legal way to learn how to write your own papers. Reviews give scholars the opportunity to respond to one anothers research, ideas, interpretations to one anothers scholarship. Reviews are a staple of academic Once you finish reading, think whether you demand an extra help with your homework. If you do, please find an expert academic writing company a smart and quick solution to your college writing assignments, including the question, how to write a film review?.
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Write an introductory paragraph that lists the name of the movie and the director.


At Knockloughrim there is a House Point System which is in line with the national Focus system.
Lessons – 10 per lesson with 5-10 points to be added or deducted for behaviour, attitude to learning, quality of work, etc.
One-off events – points to be determined depending on the nature of the event – eg. House Quiz, Collecting Coppers, Sport Relief, School Debate etc.


The idea for the Route Verte originated with Vélo Québec and was developed in conjunction with the Quebec government and a multitude of forward-thinking partners. Planning, building and promoting the Route Verte required the involvement of a large number of local, regional and provincial contributors from the active transportation, tourism, recreational, health and economic development spheres. Their support for this unique initiative has been the reason we have come as far as we have!
Transports Québec coordinates various efforts and liaises with other government ministries and agencies.
A network of this magnitude is only possible when countless partners at the local level work together as one. We are extremely grateful to all those who have had a hand in the planning, upkeep, supervision and constant improvement of every section of the Route Verte that runs through their territory.
PRO-PISTE Farnham / Granby Inc.
The Route Verte is an original idea of Vélo Québec, created with Transports Québec, the Québec government and regional partners.


Theatre director Tiit Ojasoo and interdisciplinary artist Ene-Liis Semper are the founders in 2005 and since then the two artistic directors of Theatre NO99. The two have formed an indispensable duo that together with the actors of Theatre NO99 has changed Estonian theatre and has received considerable aclaim for their work across Europe. Ojasoo and Semper work in various formats, from doing productions that are presented in offices and other non-stage situations, to work presented in television, to film, to big scale stage productions for thousands of spectators at a time. Their works often combine visually expressive staging with fearlessly addressing the most complex societal issues.
Tiit Ojasoo (1977) studied directing at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, graduating in 2000 and has since been considered by many to be the most renowned theatre director in Estonia. He often devises productions from scratch together with the troupe of Theatre NO99, but he also works with plays, having staged Shakespeare, Stoppard, Albee, Koltes and Jarry. His work at Theatre NO99 and at other theatres has repeatedly been awarded Estonian yearly theatre awards for Best Director.
Ojasoo's and Semper's work at Theatre NO99 has been invited by international festivals such as Festival d'Avignon (France), Wiener Festwochen (Austria), Theaterformen (Germany), NET (New European Theatre) and Golden Mask (Russia) and has been performed at venues throughout Europe such as Théâtre de l'Odéon in Paris, HAU in Berlin and Thalia Theater in Hamburg.
In addition to Theatre NO99 Tiit Ojasoo's and Ene-Liis Semper's international career has over the years included also working at Münchner Kammerspiele and Thalia Theater Hamburg (Germany) where one their latest work was Peter Handke's "The Hour When We Knew Nothing Of Each Other" that premiered in April 2015. That production was invited to Wiener Festwochen (Austria) and Ruhrfestspiele (Germany, both on 2015) and lately opened the Holland Festival (Netherlands, 2016). The latest piece was "Hänsel und Gretel" that premiered in April 2018.
It has been noted by many that a very central trait of Semper's and Ojasoo's work as a director is the high level of scenic energy of his actors and also that the actors work as a well tuned ensemble. One of the specific qualities of his work is also the ability to develop societal metaphors out of very personal experiences and emotions.


Palestinian medical officials say Israel has killed 1,000 Palestinians, over half of them civilians.
A maximum of 25 percent of the Palestinians killed in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of Operation Cast Lead are innocent civilians, the head of the IDF's Gaza Coordination and Liaison Administration (CLA), Col. Moshe Levi, said Wednesday. According to Palestinian medical officials, Israel has killed some 1,000 Palestinians since the fighting began in late December and more than half of them are civilians. The toll included 11 Palestinians killed Wednesday, medical officials said. Levi told reporters on Wednesday that the CLA had compiled a list with the names of 900 of the Palestinians killed during the fighting. He said that 150 names were of women, children and elderly and that the maximum number of civilians killed so far was 250. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) released a report on Wednesday citing Palestinian Ministry of Health figures according to which 311 of the dead are children and 76 are women. The number of wounded, the report claims is 4,418, of whom 1,549 are children and 652 are women. Levi also dismissed OCHA's claim that 43 Palestinians were killed in an IDF attack on a Hamas terror cell that was firing mortars at Israeli forces from within an UNRWA school in Jabalya. Levi said that the CLA knew of 21 Palestinians killed in the attack, including a number of Hamas operatives.


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Q: JQuery load event not working

<!DOCTYPE html>

<link href="https://code.jquery.com/ui/1.11.4/themes/smoothness/jquery-ui.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width">
  <title>Jquery load event not working</title>

JQuery load event not working. You can check above code, wanted change of class from big to blue with background-color changing to #00f along with width and height of div

A: It should be like:
$(document).ready(function(){

 // $("div") div is ready

});

When document ready means all elements within the DOM are ready to be used.
Check link for more info.

$(document).ready(function(){
  $( 'div' ).switchClass( "big", "blue", 1000, "easeInOutQuad" );
});
div {
    width: 100px;
    height: 100px;
    background-color: #ccc;
  }
  .big {
    width: 200px;
    height: 200px;
  }
  .blue {
    background-color: #00f;
  }

Working Fiddle

A: You need to use the method with the div element, no need to use .load()
$("div").switchClass( "big", "blue", 1000, "easeInOutQuad" );

Note: As you have specified the script after the element, no need of document-ready handler.

div {
  width: 100px;
  height: 100px;
  background-color: #ccc;
}
.big {
  width: 200px;
  height: 200px;
}
.blue {
  background-color: #00f;
}
<link href="https://code.jquery.com/ui/1.11.4/themes/smoothness/jquery-ui.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

A: Just use the jQuery code inside .ready() like below :

Also you used .load instead of .click on the 'div' you wanted to add animation.


When it comes to businesses, one of the most important things is the name. However, coming up with a name can be a tricky. For one thing, the name is what represents the business and what it is doing. The name of the company has to let people know what to expect when they are doing business with the company. However, there is a lot that can go into naming a company. However, many people just settle for naming the company after themselves. Then there are people that name their company after a product that they are selling.
Doe Deere herself has named her company Lime Crime after her favorite color and the dream of producing animal-friendly make up products that are so vivid that it would be a crime to wear them. Another thing about the crime aspect of the name is that often times, crime is given as a label to something that is just out of the norm or out of expectation. Doe Deere has not only created types of make up that are out of the norm, but she has also come up with looks that are outside of the norm as well. However, she has done in a way that is alluring to the customer who is tired of convention.
Doe Deere has shown that she has the creativity to come up with a name that is going to attract customers. The name itself is a draw on the curiosity of customers. However, it is the products that satisfy curiosity and expectations. Her fans look at the examples of the products and how they are used. Afterwards, they decide on whether or not they can use the products. Then they experiment until they are satisfied with the results.
Lime Crime is a company that has been created by an artist for artists. Doe Deere and her customers apply the make up in ways that show that beauty lies more outside of convention than inside. One of the worst things that people can do is try to limit beauty and put it inside a box. This often causes people to miss out on real beauty.


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As hearing industry seeks a new wireless standard for hearing aids, t-coil advocates say not so fast
May 19, 2014 May 20, 2014 David Kirkwood 6 Comments 1126 views ( words)
Since this post was originally published on April 30, it has drawn a number of thoughtful and provocative comments, which follow the main text. This revised post also contains a response from Jan Topholm, a prominent EHIMA member, to a query that I sent him in writing the original post.
By David H. Kirkwood
BRUSSELS/KIRKLAND, WA–The European Hearing Instrument Manufacturers Association (EHIMA) and the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) have announced a partnership to develop a new wireless standard for hearing devices.
By teaming up, EHIMA, which represents the six major hearing aid manufacturers, and the Seattle area-based Bluetooth SIG, which authorizes manufacturers to use Bluetooth® wireless technology, hope to develop a standard for new hearing aids that will improve existing wireless functionalities and create new ones, such as stereo audio streaming from mobile devices.
However, last month's announcement has raised concerns among some advocates for people with hearing loss. They worry that an industry commitment to a new wireless standard that won't be available for years may lead to neglect of telecoils and looping systems, which benefit hearing aid wearers now.
MANY BENEFITS SEEN FROM BLUETOOTH STANDARD
In their announcement, EHIMA and the Bluetooth SIG said that tens of millions of people with hearing loss have been largely left out ofthe recent revolution in smartphones, personal music players, TVs, and tablets, because few hearing aids offer direct connectivity to these devices. The organizations added that while the low-power, intelligent connectivity provided by Bluetooth Smart offers great potential to hearing aid users, that potential is largely untapped because there is no wireless standard for hearing aids.
Soren Hougaard, secretary general of EHIMA, said, "It is important that we connect to and serve all kinds of smartphones and multimedia sound signals. To achieve that, we must define a standard everyone can implement. We want to avoid the situation that occurred in the market for videotapes in the 1980s where customers had to choose among three to five tape formats and corresponding VCRs."
Hougaard anticipates that a new Bluetooth standard will be finalized within two years, at which time it could be rapidly adopted by consumer electronics manufacturers.
Jan Topholm
EHIMA LEADER SEES A SLOW PROCESS
In preparing this post, I sent a letter to Jan Topholm, who was listed in EHIMA's announcement as the press contact. Topholm, who is CEO and president of Widex AS, sent a reply on May 20. In it, he said:
"The industry is seeking a common solution in order for all manufacturers to be compatible with one system for communication between hearing instruments and surroundings. Bluetooth Low Energy was chosen because it is in widespread use already and thus the equipment for communicating with telephones, TV-sets and broadcasting is already developed and in mass production and thus relatively cheap.
"We need to develop a special protocol for hearing instruments and to integrate low energy bluetooth transmitters/receivers adapted for this purpose. This is already being done.
"I expect a slow transition from telecoils to BT transmitters over the next many years. BT hearing instruments will come in some models at first, but not in all, as battery requirements are higher for this type of transmission. Installation of BT transmission in homes and public rooms is much simpler and cheaper than installing telecoil systems, and this will drive the transition.
"A guess (mine) could be that in 10 years 75% of the transition to BT transmission will have taken place. For the hearing instruments the driver will be connectivity to all sound-generating devices.
"This is as I see the situation, but the future is always difficult to predict."
REPLACING THE TELECOIL
The joint EHIMA-Bluetooth SIG statement said, "Currently, the only standard for wireless reception of audio signals in hearing aids is the telecoil, which dates back to the 1950s. This technology is difficult to incorporate into smartphones. Furthermore, the number of installed loop systems that can transmit audio signals to hearing aids with telecoils varies greatly from country to country. As a result, hearing aid users have limited access to high-quality audio signals from external sources."
The statement continued, "Building on the existing Bluetooth standard that is widely supported in today's smartphones, tablets, and personal computers will give more hearing-impaired users the same choice of products and opportunities as everyone else."
TELECOILS FAR FROM OBSOLETE, SAY ADVOCATES
David Myers, who has worked with other hearing advocates on a nationwide campaign to have induction loops installed in auditoriums, churches, and theaters to make them accessible to hearing aid and cochlear implant wearers, has long predicted that some improved technology would eventually replace telecoils and hearing loops.
The Hope College social psychology professor (and www.hearingloop.org creator) is no Luddite. He enjoys using Bluetooth connectivity between his iPhone and his new hearing aids. However, said Myers in response to a query from Hearing News Watch, it will be a long time before Bluetooth or any other alternative wireless connectivity can match the virtues of looping, such as:
ease of use by people of all ages,
availability in nearly all hearing aids
affordability (no cost to users beyond the price of the hearing aid)
energy efficiency (little or no battery drain), and
universality,with the same signal serving everyone, no matter their location or brand of hearing aid.
Per Kokholm Sørensen
How long will it be before some better alternative renders looping obsolete? Per Kokholm Sørensen, director of R & D Electronics for Widex, addressed that question in his presentation at the 2013 International Hearing Loop Conference.
Sørensen, a member of EHIMA's Technical Committee, said, "Loop systems as we know them today will stay around for many years to come."
Conny Andersson, owner and technical director of the Swedish company Univox, which makes audio induction loop systems, shares Sørensen's view. Andersson, who was a member of the Bluetooth Interest Group when Bluetooth was first developed, said, "The question of incorporating Bluetooth in hearing aids pops up every now and then." But, he said, "No technology in the near future has the same practical possibilities as hearing loop systems, basically for two reasons: power consumption and that there is an international standard [for hearing loops], which is accepted globally."
Cynthia Compton-Conley
Cynthia Compton-Conley, one of America's leading authorities on assistive hearing technology, expressed doubt that any new technology would soon replace telecoils and loops, largely because the current technology is so inexpensive to use and requires negligible battery power. Compton-Conley, a former professor of audiology at Gallaudet and now an independent consultant, also pointed out "The hearing loop Initiative is making inroads in this country."
David Myers offered some advice to hearing aid companies from his perspective as a consumer: "The hearing industry would serve its own interests, as well as those of people with hearing loss, if it would not prematurely discourage the spread of hearing loops—and the increased hearing instrument functionality they provide. How much better to celebrate the modern spread of hearing loops in the UK, Scandinavia, and now the USA—with more delighted customers. When the industry can meet the criteria in the bulleted list above with an alternative technology, then do so."
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Siegfried Karg says:
At the 2002 Biennial General Meeting of IFHOH (International Federation of Hard of Hearing People) in Slovenia, Rob Rademaker from the Netherlands enthusiastically reported about the new project "Blue Ear." The European Union had made a big grant to researchers to integrate the new Bluetooth-technology into hearing aids.
The project was started and very soon was stopped again because, among other reasons, "Bluetooth" drains too much power in hearing aid batteries.
Bluetooth technology was primarily invented to connect a computer mouse wirelessly to a computer or connect a mobile computer wirelessly to a printer (I still have a seven-year-old HP laptop computer with a Bluetooth mouse hidden in an extension slot. It is very handy because I do not have to have an extra mouse when I am travelling. But it really drains the battery of my laptop).
The promising "Blue Ear" project has been stopped. Now, in 2014 (12 years later), EHIMA and the Bluetooth SIG agreed to form a committee to try to set up a new Bluetooth standard that will also work with the batteries of hearing aids.
Will we have to wait another 12 years for this new standard implemented in hearing aids? Will the technology this time really work and completely replace the telecoil and induction loops? To do so it will need to be like telecoils: similarly simple, inexpensive, available with all hearing aid brands and models, energy efficient, with no time delay, and able to provide listening assistance in places both small and private and vast and public.
So why not have "hybrid" hearing aids with virtually free telecoils (for public assistive listening) and Bluetooth (for private connectivity, such as to one's SmartPhone)? Consumers then use whichever they need (for example, using telecoils when listening at a ticket window, airport, theater, a lecture hall, or house of worship) or listening to stereo music from their personal SmartPhone or tablet.
There are hybrid cars on the market using gasoline and electric batteries. Why not have hybrid hearing aids?
Siegfried Karg
Winterthur, Switzerland
Convener of the First International Hearing Loop Conference in 2009
Dan Schwartz says:
This part of the joint statement is patently false:
"In their announcement, EHIMA and the Bluetooth SIG said that tens of millions of people with hearing loss have been largely left out ofthe recent revolution in smartphones, personal music players, TVs, and tablets, because few hearing aids offer direct connectivity to these devices."
…as for the latest HIA data reported for the first half of 2013, fully 70% of all hearing aids and 80% of BTE/RIC's sold in the US have digital wireless capability: This means every one of these users can use 10.6 mHz HF, or 900 or 2450 mHz VHF along with a streamer. Now granted, many of the 10.6 mHz streamers are awkward (with a dubious Honorable Mention to the Widex M-Dex); however the Starkey and GN ReSound UHF systems don't even use a bodyworn streamer when watching TV.
No, the real problem is that you have six different hearing aid manufacturers, and **no** standardization for digital audio reception, save for the Bluetooth 4.0 Low Energy ("BLE") as we see in the Made for iPhone (MFi) hearing aids.
When you look at the 10.6 mHz wireless offerings from Oticon, Siemens, Widex and Phonak/Unitron, you'll quickly notice that although they all use the same slice of the electromagnetic spectrum, each has their own proprietary data encoding.
About twenty years ago, the manufacturers got together to create HIMSA to stave off the then-burgeoning nightmare for hearing aid programming hardware & software: It's time for the manufacturers to either come up with an appropriate 10.6 mHz data standard, or discontinue it and move to the evolving BLE industry standard.
Juliette Sterkens says:
People who seek hearing aids want them to help in background noise and in all adverse listening environments with poor acoustics. Telecoil and Bluetooth technology are therefore NOT mutually exclusive: in fact they complement each other. Users who are given access to both options (http://ow.ly/wvb59) benefit from telecoils in public venues where large area hearing loops or FM or Infrared technology with neck loops are offered and are able to connect wirelessly to their cell phones or TV via Bluetooth in their made for iPhone hearing aids or streamers. For the end users it is all about hearing everywhere for which Sergei Kochkin so eloquently pleaded in his article "Increasing Hearing aid Adoption through Multiple Environmental Listening Utility" (http://ow.ly/wvbc9)
Readers of this blog and hearing device providers would do well to watch the Brain Series with Charlie Rose on PBS (bit.ly/BrainSeries). Towards the end of the program, Charlie Rose asks why people don't address their hearing loss and Ruth Bentler, PhD, of the University of Iowa, responded that she believes vanity and financial constraints are only secondary motives why this is so. In her opinion the OVERRIDING reason for not doing so is that hearing aids are unable to deliver in the challenging environments where they want and need to hear better.
I agree with the previous commenters: Users don't want small or "cool" hearing aids – they want to hear. Everywhere.
Janice Schacter Lintz says:
The hearing aid industry needs to develop new wireless devices but they must be effective and work. New and cool is irrelevant if the person cannot hear because their hearing aid cannot connect to the bluetooth or the bluetooth drains their hearing aid batteries. My cell phone regularly does not connect to my bluetooth device. I have the option of switching to a standard headset. A person with a hearing aid does not have that option. If the bluetooth doesn't connect then they cannot hear. Battery drain doesn't mean they need to recharge their hearing aid batteries but means they must quickly replace non-rechargeable and expensive hearing aid batteries.
The induction loop doesn't have connectivity issues nor battery drain. So, while I understand the need for hearing aid manufacturers to constantly introduce new devices, lets not do it at the expense of people not being able to hear.
Janice Schacter Lintz, Chair, Hearing Access Program
Cheri Perazzoli says:
Hearing technology has advanced remarkably in the, (yikes!) 40 years since I began using it. New and improved isn't always improved, more like new and that will be $800. Thank you. The telecoil is the universal standard; the international universal standard. If the companies would just spend a little bit of time developing and perfecting that platform, they could really make a difference for the millions who need hearing aids and access instead of making millions for their stockholders. R & D is important but not at the cost of providing access to millions today. Yes, I have a roger pen that connects to my phone +, but I can also hear very clearly with just my windows phone and any one of three telecoil programs on my Phonak bolero's. Consumer's need options and they need public access today.
Julie Olson says:
Right on Cheri! There are many hearing assistive technologies that go beyond hearing instruments that work very well for people who use them. They depend on strong telecoils built in to the hearing instruments they connect with. BT presents a different platform, but few realize how complex this is compared to telecoil connectivity. For those of us with serious hearing loss, telecoil equipped hearing aids are a must; and for the millions of others with less severe hearing loss, they are a positive eye-opener once experienced. Trying is believing. We all want to hear in ALL situations, close-up and far away; at home, for performing arts, and elsewhere. A grassroots effort has succeeded in getting a Loop America initiative rolling. Let's go out and get more people involved. Numbers matter.
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SSH is the main way to connect and interact with your SkySilk VPS. When the connection fails it can be for a number of reasons and be difficult to pinpoint the root cause.
If you are running into issues establishing an SSH connection there are a number of things you can investigate.
As with most network connectivity problems the first step should be to ping your server. This eliminates basic network connectivity issues as the root cause of the connection error.
If you do not know how to ping your server, you can refer to our Ping Guide for further information.
Ping is Successful Now What?
Note: If the error message refers to the Host it is likely an issue with DNS.
2. Use VNC to gain access if internet connection is established but SSH is not.
If you have password login enabled you can establish a connection through the VNC console on your user dahsboard or a console of your choice to reach your server to troubleshoot SSH issues.
Double check your IP address and port settings are pointing at the correct IP address and port. Typographical errors are very common!
Verify the local network firewall you are connecting through allows the port you are using to connect to SSH. The default port is 22.
Verify your VPS firewall rules to make sure SSH connections are allowed and aren't being dropped.
Verify the SSH service is running on your VPS.
Verify the SSH service is using the correct port.
You are looking for an input chain that allows SSH traffic, ensuring there are none which reject it. SSH uses port 22 as its default port.
This output displays a list of allowed services, if SSH is on here it is allowed.
This will display a list of the open ports, you are looking for your SSH port, default is 22.
You can check if the SSH service is running the same way you would verify any other service running on your VPS.
The output will display whether the service is running or stopped.
Note: systemctl is also available for Debian/Ubuntu distributions. Remember to use "ssh" instead of "sshd"
It will show the service as active or inactive in the output.
Note: Red Hat based distributions use "sshd" instead of "ssh"
The default SSH port is 22. For security purposes this is sometimes changed. To verify the port in use you can check the SSH configuration file, or the running process.
The output will be the configured port.
This indicates the SSH service is listening to all connections on port 22.
You can now diagnose the common causes of a failed SSH connection. Remember it is always a good practice to create a VPS snapshot for an easy rollback before making network configuration changes as well!
For further reading on iptables and firewall configuration please refer to the following documentation.