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Planes, the Gulf War and the Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Canada
By Craig A.B. Ferris, QC, FCIArb. on November 11, 2010
Posted in Civil Procedure, Commercial
The repercussions of the first Gulf War have now made their way to the courts of Canada. The Supreme Court of Canada has recently weighed in on whether Kuwait Airways Corp. ("KAC") could enforce in Canada a C$84 million judgment against the Republic of Iraq.
In 1990, Iraq invaded and occupied Kuwait. Iraq ordered its national airline to appropriate aircraft and equipment owned by KAC. After the war ended, KAC was able to recover some but not all of its aircraft and equipment. KAC brought an action for damages in the United Kingdom ("UK") and was eventually awarded a judgment of over C$1 billion against the Iraq national airline. In the course of the trial, it was determined the Republic of Iraq had controlled the defence of its national airline and, in doing so, has committed perjury, and had intentionly misled the court. The Republic of Iraq was added as a Defendant for the purposes of costs and an award was made against it for C$84 million.
In making this costs award, the UK court held that the Republic of Iraq did not have "sovereign immunity" from a judgment because it was engaged in a commercial enterprise as opposed to acting as a sovereign state. If the Republic of Iraq had been successful in this argument, the UK court would have been prohibited from issuing a judgment against it.
In Canada, the UK judgment against the Republic of Iraq is a foreign judgment which requires recognition by our courts before it can be enforced in Canada. KAC applied in Quebec for recognition so that it could enforce the judgement by seizing undelivered planes being manufactured by Bombardier. Both the Quebec Superior Court and the Quebec Court of Appeal held that the judgement could not be recognized in Canada.
The Supreme Court of Canada disagreed with the Quebec Courts and recognized the UK judgment. In Kuwait Airways Corp. v. Iraq 2010 SCC 40, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that it must be proven in Canada that sovereign immunity does not apply and that a Canadian court cannot rely upon a foreign court's determination of that issue. However, in this case, they found that Iraq's involvement in the UK commercial litigation was distinct from its sovereign act of seizing the aircraft during war. As a result, sovereign immunity did not apply and the Court remitted the matter back to the Quebec courts for enforcement proceedings.
In British Columbia, enforcement of foreign judgments from certain "reciprocating states" is governed by the Court Order Enforcement Act. In particular, Part IV of that Act governs the enforcement of judgments from the UK. It provides for a summary court process allowing the registration of the foreign judgment in certain instances. With respect to judgments against foreign governments, however, the Supreme Court of Canada has said that in addition to those registration requirements, an applicant must also show that the foreign government is not entitled to sovereign immunity in Canada regardless of whether the foreign court that issued the judgment had already ruled that sovereign immunity did not apply.
Tags: Conflicts of Law, Foreign Judgments, Supreme Court of Canada (SCC)
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Libertarian Party of Georgia Loses Ballot Access Lawsuit
It's perfectly constitutional for the state of Georgia to treat non-major party candidates far more harshly than Democrats or Republicans when it comes to ballot access, a three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals decided this week in the defeat of a First and 14th Amendment challenge from the Georgia Libertarian Party (L.P.).
In the case of Cowen v. Raffensperger, the Georgia L.P. was challenging a requirement that 5 percent of registered voters within a district had to sign a petition to get U.S. House candidates on the ballot if their party had not gotten 20 percent of the vote for governor or president in the last election. While that number of signatures will vary based on district, the Georgia L.P. and other ballot access watchers find it tends to float around 20,000-25,000 signatures.
Getting presidential, Senate, and other statewide candidates on the ballot in Georgia is easier. The Georgia L.P. met those criteria by winning the votes of just 1 percent of eligible registered voters in a previous statewide race. The party suit challenged the distinction between its own candidates for statewide vs. non-statewide office on equal protection grounds as well, which the 11th Circuit also found unconvincing since it already decided the distinction—the signature collection—was not a severe burden.
The case had been at the 11th Circuit before, earlier in 2021, and a panel then sent it back to a U.S. District Court which, on that reconsideration, "permanently enjoined the Secretary from enforcing the 5% signature requirement that applied to third-party and independent candidates for non-statewide office. In its place, the district court imposed a 1% requirement as an interim measure, which would persist until the state legislature enacted a permanent replacement."
A 1971 Supreme Court decision, Jenness v. Fortson, had, however, upheld Georgia's ballot access laws, but some newer ballot access jurisprudence and facts had arisen since then that might have mandated a different conclusion. As the 11th Circuit decision this week wrote, "some changes to Georgia's ballot-access laws have occurred in the 50 years since Jenness. And the evidentiary record detailing the practical difficulties of gathering petition signatures may be more robust here than it was in that case. But to satisfactorily distinguish the claims, not just any difference from Jenness will do—the difference must be material enough to transform Georgia's ballot-access system from one that 'in no way freezes the status quo' to one that does…..The Libertarian Party has not identified such a difference."
Thus, the panel this week, in a decision written by Judge Britt Grant, reversed the District Court's overturning of the 5 percent requirement and upheld the ballot access law. Though the Court admits the L.P. "offers evidence to show that collecting petition signatures is costly and difficult….the Libertarian Party has not shown that the endeavor is significantly more challenging than it was 50 years ago." It argues that the petition requirement is important to the state's interest in avoiding "confusion, deception, and even frustration of the democratic process."
Richard Winger, America's leading expert in ballot access laws and editor of Ballot Access News, says the "frustration" aspect arose from a Supreme Court justice in an earlier ballot access case who considered the very prevention of a major party candidate from winning to constitute the sort of "frustration" restrictive ballot access laws are meant to prevent.
Does the 5 percent requirement truly not "freeze…a status quo?" It has existed since 1943 and no party has ever met it in Georgia, although at least 20 attempts have been made; an independent candidate did once in 1964 at a time when, according to Winger, "the signatures weren't checked."
Ballot access is a continual problem for the Libertarian Party and other third party and independent candidates. Making any sweeping statement about the requirements for access is impossible given the dizzying array of state requirements for various offices, and that's part of the point and part of the problem: even understanding, much less complying with and successfully meeting, ballot access demands is a more than full-time job.
Tyler Harris, national director of the L.P, says in a phone interview that over $200,000 this year is likely to have to be expended by the national party alone toward ballot access efforts of various sorts, and in terms of morale and stress as well as cash, it's a "significant strain."
As Ryan Graham, chair of the Georgia L.P., says in a phone interview, it makes it especially hard to find competent, engaged candidates to even consider running for House when they know they face a petition requirement that has almost always proven impossible to meet.
The L.P. has three strategies to overcome these policies, as both Harris and Graham explained: one is just digging down and trying to meet them—gathering the signatures, making sure the right name from the right district goes on the right sheet, knocking on doors, lurking outside the Kroger's, or, in some cases the statutorily required 100 feet or so from actual polling places, to find voters or citizens who meet the various requirements to sign on the dotted line.
You also must make sure they get their addresses and districts right and that they are on record on the voter rolls with the same information they gave the petitioner. It's tricky stuff, costly in terms of money for pros and morale-drag on volunteers, and can often result in one signature being tossed for various bureaucratic errors for every one that counts.
A second approach is trying to get the laws changed via the legislature. While in Georgia in the past they've gotten bipartisan gangs of legislators to propose legislation loosening the requirements, such bills never get out of committee and according to Graham, they've been told via back channel it's unlikely they ever will.
The third option is the one they pursued in Georgia, and have so far failed at: suing. (Such suits don't always fail, and various ballot access restrictions in Maine were indeed successfully overturned earlier this year via an L.P. lawsuit in Baines v. Bellows.)
As Winger summed up his problems with the Georgia decision this week at Ballot Access News, "If Georgia's law is constitutional, then a similar law in all states would be constitutional. And if every state had a law like Georgia's, there would have been an absolute monopoly of Democratic and Republican candidates on the ballot for U.S. House in the entire nation for almost 60 years."
Winger notes one of the judges on the three-judge panel, William Pryor, has considered many ballot access cases and never voted to strike down any ballot access law. Winger similarly notes that while the Supreme Court will on occasion take on a ballot access case when it's a state appealing a loss, it has shown no interest in recent decades in hearing a case where someone harmed by ballot access laws is trying to overturn them.
That said, in Anderson v. Celebrezze, from 1983, an earlier Supreme Court cohort overturned an early filing requirement for a presidential candidate in Ohio, declaring that "the primary values protected by the First Amendment are served when election campaigns are not monopolized by the existing political parties," an attitude the Court ought to rediscover.
Graham, the Georgia L.P.'s chair, says in an email today that while no specific decision about a next step has been authoritatively pinned down between the party and its legal team, "there are multiple options on the table" and "the plan is to keep fighting with this case."

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Two Ancient Egyptian gods tell you that watching alone is not enough, you must also contemplate in order to learn and to be part of any situation. Djehuti, also called Thoth, is the scribe of the gods, credited with inventing not only writing, but also magic (the ability to manipulate energy). Mut, the great mother of Egypt and wife of Amun, is the guardian of all her children due to her keen eyesight. When you put vision together with contemplation, you have inspiration. Let the world of people and of nature teach you all that you need to know to live an honorable and complete life here on Earth.


Sebastien Buemi of E.dams-Renault leads the time sheets.
The new FIA Formula E Championship got off to a rousing start at the Donington Park with fans on hand to witness the first official full testing day, the first of five that the public can watch.
First challenge to overcome was grip on the Spark-Renault SRT_01E cars taking on the full Donington Park GP circuit that included an additional chicane at the exit to the Old Hairpin.
It was Audi Sport Abt with Daniel Abt behind the wheel that set the pace in the morning session but he finished eighth overall after missing the afternoon session set a low 1:37s on the sheets followed by Buemi and Andretti's Franck Montagny.
Buemi picked up his performance in the afternoon and set a 1:35.475s, which remained to best number at the end of Day 1.
Abt's Lucas di Grassi and Sam Bird of Virgin Racing finished second and third respectively.
Even the new signing's for the Formula E Championships saw action. They were the Amlin Aguri duo Katherine Legge and Antonio Felix da Costa, Venturi's Nick Heidfeld, Trulli's Michela Cerruti and Dragon Racing's Mike Conway.
"I'm more than happy to be honest. I didn't have any problems with the car at all and that meant we were able to learn quite a lot about it. It's always nice to be P1 so let's hope it continues tomorrow," said Sebastien Buemi.
"Today's first test has been a special occasion for everyone involved with the FIA Formula E Championship. This project has been a long time coming but to see all the cars and drivers taking part is a very proud moment and my thanks goes to all our investors, partners, teams and Formula E personnel for transforming the FIA's dream into a reality," said Alejandro Agag, CEO of Formula E.


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  def change
    rename_table :category_tags, :categories_tags
  end

end

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Q: Android Database EditText NumberSigned I made an android SQLDatabase with two edittext. One save the name and the other some number. This is my activity
 public class AccountActivity extends ActionBarActivity {

        int from_Where_I_Am_Coming = 0;
        private DBHelper mydb ;
        TextView name ;
        TextView amount;
        int id_To_Update = 0;

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_account);

    name = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.input_name);
    amount = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.input_amount);

    mydb = new DBHelper(this);

    Bundle extras = getIntent().getExtras();
    if(extras !=null) {
        int Value = extras.getInt("id");
        if (Value > 0) {
            //means this is the view part not the add contact part.
            Cursor rs = mydb.getData(Value);
            id_To_Update = Value;
            rs.moveToFirst();
            String nam = rs.getString(rs.getColumnIndex(DBHelper.ACCOUNT_COLUMN_NAME));
            String amo = rs.getString(rs.getColumnIndex(DBHelper.ACCOUNT_COLUMN_AMOUNT));
            if (!rs.isClosed()) {
                rs.close();
            }
            Button b = (Button) findViewById(R.id.btn_save);
            b.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);

            name.setText((CharSequence) nam);
            name.setFocusable(false);
            name.setClickable(false);

            amount.setText((CharSequence) amo);
            amount.setFocusable(false);
            amount.setClickable(false);
        }
    }
}

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    // Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
    Bundle extras = getIntent().getExtras();
    if(extras !=null)
    {
        int Value = extras.getInt("id");
        if(Value>0){
            getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.menu_account, menu);
        }
        else{
            getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.menu_main, menu);
        }
    }
    return true;
}
    @Override
    public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
        // Handle action bar item clicks here. The action bar will
        // automatically handle clicks on the Home/Up button, so long
        // as you specify a parent activity in AndroidManifest.xml.
        int id = item.getItemId();

        //noinspection SimplifiableIfStatement
        if (id == R.id.action_settings) {
            return true;
        }

        switch(item.getItemId())
        {
            case R.id.Edit_Contact:
                Button b = (Button)findViewById(R.id.btn_save);
                b.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
                name.setEnabled(true);
                name.setFocusableInTouchMode(true);
                name.setClickable(true);

                amount.setEnabled(true);
                amount.setFocusableInTouchMode(true);
                amount.setClickable(true);

                return true;
            case R.id.Delete_Contact:

                AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(this);
                builder.setMessage(R.string.deleteAccount)
                        .setPositiveButton(R.string.yes, new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
                            public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int id) {
                                mydb.deleteAccount(id_To_Update);
                                Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Deleted Successfully", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                                Intent intent = new Intent(getApplicationContext(),com.tubapps.accountdb.MainActivity.class);
                                startActivity(intent);
                            }
                        })
                        .setNegativeButton(R.string.no, new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
                            public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int id) {
                                // User cancelled the dialog
                            }
                        });
                AlertDialog d = builder.create();
                d.setTitle("Are you sure");
                d.show();

                return true;

            default:
        return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
    }
}
    public void run(View view)
    {
        Bundle extras = getIntent().getExtras();
        if(extras !=null)
        {
            int Value = extras.getInt("id");
            if(Value>0){
                if(mydb.updateAccount(id_To_Update, name.getText().toString(), amount.getText().length())){
                    Intent intent = new Intent(getApplicationContext(),com.tubapps.accountdb.MainActivity.class);
                    startActivity(intent);
                }
                else{
                    Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "not Updated", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                }
            }
            else{
                if(mydb.insertAccount(name.getText().toString(), amount.getText().length())){
                }
                else{
                }
                Intent intent = new Intent(getApplicationContext(),com.tubapps.accountdb.MainActivity.class);
                startActivity(intent);
            }
        }
    }
}

And this is my xml.
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:background="#E0EEEE"
    tools:context="com.tubapps.accountdb.AccountActivity">

            <EditText
                android:id="@+id/input_name"
                android:layout_width="fill_parent"
                android:inputType="text"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:hint="@string/account_name"
                android:layout_marginLeft="8dip"
                android:layout_marginRight="8dip" />

            <EditText
                android:id="@+id/input_amount"
                android:layout_width="fill_parent"
                android:inputType="numberSigned"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:hint="@string/initial_value"
                android:layout_below="@+id/input_name"
                android:layout_marginLeft="8dip"
                android:layout_marginRight="8dip" />

    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
        android:adjustViewBounds="true"
        android:orientation="horizontal"
        android:showDividers="middle">

        <Button
            android:id="@+id/btn_cnc"
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_weight="1"
            android:background="#FFFFFF"
            android:clickable="true"
            android:focusable="true"
            android:text="@string/cancel" />

        <Button
            android:id="@+id/btn_save"
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_weight="1"
            android:onClick="run"
            android:background="#FFFFFF"
            android:text="@string/save_income" />
    </LinearLayout>

</RelativeLayout>

And this is my DBHelper.
public class DBHelper extends SQLiteOpenHelper {

    public static final String DATABASE_NAME = "MyDBName.db";
    public static final String ACCOUNT_TABLE_NAME = "accounts";
    public static final String ACCOUNT_COLUMN_ID = "id";
    public static final String ACCOUNT_COLUMN_NAME = "name";
    public static final String ACCOUNT_COLUMN_AMOUNT = "amount";

    private HashMap hp;

    public DBHelper(Context context)
    {
        super(context, DATABASE_NAME , null, 1);
    }

    @Override
    public void onCreate(SQLiteDatabase db) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        db.execSQL(
                "create table accounts " +
                        "(id integer primary key, name text,amount integer)"
        );
    }

    @Override
    public void onUpgrade(SQLiteDatabase db, int oldVersion, int newVersion) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        db.execSQL("DROP TABLE IF EXISTS accounts");
        onCreate(db);
    }

    public boolean insertAccount  (String name, Integer amount)
    {
        SQLiteDatabase db = this.getWritableDatabase();
        ContentValues contentValues = new ContentValues();

        contentValues.put("name", name);
        contentValues.put("amount", amount);

        db.insert("accounts", null, contentValues);
        return true;
    }
    public Cursor getData(int id){
        SQLiteDatabase db = this.getReadableDatabase();
        Cursor res =  db.rawQuery( "select * from accounts where id="+id+"", null );
        return res;
    }
    public int numberOfRows(){
        SQLiteDatabase db = this.getReadableDatabase();
        int numRows = (int) DatabaseUtils.queryNumEntries(db, ACCOUNT_TABLE_NAME);
        return numRows;
    }
    public boolean updateAccount (Integer id, String name, Integer amount)
    {
        SQLiteDatabase db = this.getWritableDatabase();
        ContentValues contentValues = new ContentValues();
        contentValues.put("name", name);
        contentValues.put("amount", amount);
        db.update("accounts", contentValues, "id = ? ", new String[] { Integer.toString(id) } );
        return true;
    }

    public Integer deleteAccount (Integer id)
    {
        SQLiteDatabase db = this.getWritableDatabase();
        return db.delete("accounts",
                "id = ? ",
                new String[] { Integer.toString(id) });
    }
    public ArrayList getAllAccounts()
    {
        ArrayList array_list = new ArrayList();
        //hp = new HashMap();
        SQLiteDatabase db = this.getReadableDatabase();
        Cursor res =  db.rawQuery( "select * from accounts", null );
        res.moveToFirst();
        while(res.isAfterLast() == false){
            array_list.add(res.getString(res.getColumnIndex(ACCOUNT_COLUMN_NAME)));
            res.moveToNext();
        }
        return array_list;
    }
}

When I insert a number it saves just the number 3. I don't know where is the problem.

A: You are getting the "length" of the number, not the value on these lines:
amount.getText().length()
I suspect you should be doing something like:
Integer.valueOf(amount.getText())

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The tremendous Fort McMurray wildfire that ripped through the region in Alberta, Canada was the costliest in the country's history. No other disaster brought such great expense to insurance companies. The Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC) estimates a total cost of $3.58 billion. Canadian insurance companies have never faced an cost that large from any single disaster in history. The IBC issued a report based on information collected through a survey of insurance companies. With this information, the IBC calculated a likely total insured cost from the Fort McMurray wildfire. When all was said and done, the fire destroyed 2,400 homes and buildings.


Abstract: We made a comparative study on body form and fat content in yellowtail and red sea bream cultured in Korea and Japan. The boody form of yellowtail cultured in Korea was less uniform than those cultured in Japan. Yellowtail cultured in Korea showed high thickness coefficient. However, they had lower fat content in hepatopancreas and ordinary dorsal muscle than those cultured in Japan. Red sea bream cultured in Korea showed lower body fat content than those cultured in Japan. Both species of fish cultured in Korea were manually supplied with minced horse mackerel, common mackerel and sardine as diets. On the other hand, moistpellet for yellowtail and drypellet for red sea bream were supplied as diets by feeding machine in Japan. As a result, less uniformity of the body and lower level of the body fat content of cultured fishes in Korea were suggested to be caused by a smaller amount of food intake.


Enjoy this delicious raspberry chia seed energy packed smoothie for a mid morning pick me up or an energy boost anytime of day.
I don't know if it is the grey clouds and rainy weather that we have been experiencing for what seems like weeks and weeks or what, but when my four year old asked for a snack this morning, smoothies came to mind. I felt like we needed a pick me up. I raided the fridge, freezer, and pantry to see what I could come up with and made these delicious raspberry chia smoothies.
I had a couple of peaches in the fridge that needed to be used up, so I started with two peaches (frozen would work well too). Then added about a cup of frozen raspberries and about 1/3 of a 20 oz. can of pineapple tidbits and some juice from the can. I then remembered I had chia seeds in the pantry and added about a T. for the added nutrition benefits.
If you don't know much about chia seeds and the powerhouse of nutrition that they contain, you should read up on it. It is amazing how beneficial these tiny seeds are to our health.
Blend everything in a blender until smooth. I did not soak the chia seeds first, but you can to let them absorb more water if you like. There are ratios for soaking chia seeds in the link above.
These amounts will make one large or two small smoothies.
Enjoy this simple and delicious side dish of coconut oil roasted sweet potatoes.
This is one of the simplest potato dishes you can make (with just three ingredients) and healthiest with two of those ingredients being sweet potatoes and coconut oil. Of course you can use olive oil or another favorite oil, but I love the flavor of coconut oil with sweet potatoes. They are rich and salty sweet with fresh ground coarse salt. I'm kind of a salt addict, but try it with a specialty salt like fresh ground pink himalayan and you'll see what I mean. Pure salty sweet deliciousness.
I will admit my kids eat pretty much everything we eat so they aren't the world's pickiest diners, but they do love sweet potatoes and they always clean there plates when we have roasted sweet potatoes. So I would call this a kid friendly, healthy dish that can be prepared quickly.
Put all ingredients into a baking pan. I use a 9 X 13 pan.
Bake at 425 degrees F for about 30 minutes. You can stir about halfway through cooking to mix things up a bit.
I salt before cooking, and usually add a little more later. Salt as much or as little as you like.
Your family will love this simple slow cooker chicken and stuffing with sweet potatoes.
I know I have been posting a LOT of slow cooker recipes lately, but that's because I have been using my slow cooker a LOOOOOOT. I am taking a class which meets in the evening and came up with this recipe one day when I wanted to have dinner ready for the family while I was away at class.
So the verdict is...slow cooker chicken and stuffing with sweet potatoes is AMAZING!!!! The chicken stays moist with the homemade gravy, sweet potatoes, and stuffing. This is probably my absolute favorite slow cooker recipe. The flavors come together in a mouthwatering meld of deliciousness all from the simplicity of your slow cooker. And the aroma! Your family will beg for dinnertime once they catch a whiff of this.
Serve with green beans for some color and a balanced home cooked meal.
1. Place chicken in a large slow cooker.
4. Top with cubed sweet potatoes. Then mix stuffing mix with water, cooking sherry, and 1/4 cup melted butter. Spoon the stuffing over the sweet potatoes.
5. Cover and cook on low for 4 to 6 hours or until potatoes are tender and chicken is cooked through.
Will generously serve 6 or more. We always have some leftover for lunch the next day, which makes the best leftover lunch. I break up the chicken breasts when serving since they are usually so big anyway and none of us would finish a whole chicken breast on our own. If you need more for your family, just put more chicken breasts in.
The Cutest Little GACK Ever!
Since this Dr. Seuss birthday celebration costume post has been getting pinned on Pinterest like crazy for the past couple of weeks, I thought I would update it with a few more details. This post is from 4 years ago. Hard to believe my little GACK is now 8 years old and we still have this costume in the dress-up bin, although the antlers don't look like this anymore.
My son's preschool celebrated Dr. Seuss's birthday today by dressing up as their favorite characters. He was so excited. He decided he wanted to be a Gack from "One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish". We went to the store and he helped pick out the supplies. My very creative husband managed to create the headpiece out of sturdy floral wire and wrapped it with extra fabric. He used red duct tape on the ends to secure the fabric to the wire. The fabric is a short fur type of fabric that I found at Jo Ann's. The rings on the antler headpiece are cut from thin sheets of colored foam pages that kids use for crafting. The GACK shirt is really simple to make. I just stitched up the sides and cut out a neck hole. Then I cut red felt letters out and sewed them on by hand.


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namespace Forms;

use \Phalcon\Validation\Validator\Uniqueness    as UniquenessValidator;
use \Phalcon\Validation\Validator\Confirmation  as ConfirmationValidator;

/**
 * Class SignupForm
 * @package Forms
 */
class SignupForm extends FormBase
{
    public function initialize()
    {
        parent::initialize();

        $this->add($this->createUserNameElement());

        $email = $this->createUserEmailElement();
        $email->addValidator(
            new UniquenessValidator([
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When Bees Fly Over Mirrors Things Get Weird
by Bee Site April 18, 2022
Honeybees are known to be talented aviators, but according to an experiment that was carried out in 1963, they have difficulties when they must fly over a mirror-like surface, like a smooth lake.
That was the year when an experiment was carried out by German behavioral scientist Martin Lindauer and Austrian entomologist Herbert Heran.
Their experiment revealed that the bees were only able to fly across a lake if the water was turbulent or rippling. If the surface was glassy smooth like a mirror, the bees started to lose altitude and eventually crashed into the liquid-like glass surface. At that time, nearly 60 years ago, the findings reflected that bees needed visual cues while navigating in flight.
A new study adds fascinating insights. The 1963 experiment was closely replicated, and researchers note that watching as the ground speeds by below helps honeybees to regulate their in-flight altitude. Experiments were inside a 220-centimenter (87-inch) long outdoor tunnel, with a mirrored ceiling and floor that could be covered to look like walls.
The honeybees usually flew from one side of the tunnel to the other at quite a constant altitude when all the mirrors were covered, to collect a sweet treat. If the ceiling was pulled back and a mirror was revealed, it seemed the height of the tunnel doubled, and the bees made it across without incident.
When the floor became a mirror, the ground looked twice as far away. The bees began to crash. They started off by flying normally, but about 40 centimeters (15 inches) in, their altitude began to drop until the insects hit the glass floor.
When both ceiling and floor were mirrored, making a parallel pair of infinite walls, the bees started to lose altitude after flying only around eight centimeters (three inches), and hit the ground sooner.
This unrelated 1:46-minute video by Institut des sciences du movement shows the experiment mentioned in this post:
These findings are similar to the spatial disorientation that human aviators suffer from at times. When pilots cannot see their ground speed, they are challenged to maintain altitude. Airplane instruments help pilots to overcome spatial illusions to keep aircraft aloft even if there is no texture or shadow on the ground or water below.
Honeybees do not have such a backup system to help them. Even if a mirrored floor only existed in the second half of the tunnel, their steady flight from the first half suddenly experienced an abrupt plunge.
The double mirror condition allowed scientists to get closer to the flight conditions of an open sky flight over a calm water surface, according to the authors of this new research. New findings agree with the results of Lindauer and Heran in that, honeybees lose altitude in the absence of ventral optic flow.
It seems bees use visual cues they see on the ground to maintain altitude, as opposed to visual cues from the sky above. If the ground stops giving a proper baseline, researchers think the insects drop lower in altitude to see if they can regain that 'ventral optic flow'. They think it is farther away than it is, so they crash to the ground.
If the bees in the experiment were given a wider visual field, they may have used other cues to help maintain altitude. But flying across a large, glassy lake or a closed-in tunnel offers few alternatives the insects can use to gauge altitude.
A similar experiment found fruit flies do not use ventral optic flow to control their altitude. Different species appear to use different techniques to maintain flight.
The study was published in Biology Letters.


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POSITEK SENSOR STEELS ANOTHER SUCCESS FOR STRAND MONITOR
Monitoring the internal condition of a continuous steel casting plant is as awkward as it is essential  unless you have a Strand Condition Monitor from Sarclad International.
This device is peppered with sensors and when passed through the plant between batches it gathers and relays accurate information on a number of parameters which affect steel quality. Any necessary adjustments or maintenance can thus be instantly identified and rectified with the minimum of down-time.
In order to achieve consistently top-quality steel blooms or slabs it is necessary to maintain the position, rotation and straightness of the guide rollers which determine the dimensions of the steel slabs. Also the correct functioning of water cooling sprays and the shape of the arc formed as the steel moves from vertical to horizontal orientation must be controlled in order to maintain the desired crystalline structure. Many of these parameters are monitored by the array of highly sensitive and accurate position sensors fitted to the Condition Monitor and the data is subsequently analysed so that the process can be adjusted.
Because no two continuous casting plants are the same, the Sarclad Strand Condition Monitor is custom-built for each customer and its electronic components must therefore be particularly flexible in their application. The wet and greasy conditions within the casting plant provide a harsh environment for sensitive instrumentation and, with the original position sensor, failure was a common problem during the early development phase of the machine. The problem was serious enough for Sarclad to find a new supplier. Over the past two years Sarclad International's design engineers have been working closely with the team from Positek to obtain a robust and sufficiently accurate position sensor for the monitor.
Describing their quest for the ideal position sensor, Jerzy Slowikowski, Sarclad's Instrumentation Engineer, says, "We needed a sensor with good linearity, and good stroke to body length, robust enough to be able to function accurately and reliably under hostile conditions. Because the monitors are so specialised and are custom-designed to suit each customer we needed components which could themselves be customised, backed by a company with a flexible approach to product development. We were able to work alongside Positek's designers who devised a sensor specifically for our needs which has proved reliable and accurate in operation."
Although the sensor is made only for Sarclad, it incorporates PIPS® technology developed by Positek and used in its other displacement sensor products. This PIPS® technology is based on inductive coils and uses a unique custom integrated circuit to produce an accurate analogue output signal. The complete interface circuit is built in to the sensor which simplifies the installation for Sarclad.
Because the sensors are contaminated with hot dirty water in operation and space was restricted, a particular challenge was to ensure that each one was fully waterproof even when subjected to thermal shocks. Special design techniques had to be employed to seal the sensor particularly where the cable enters the body. In production each sensor must pass a rigorous 24hr immersion test before it is delivered to Sarclad.
The sensor has a range of 25mm and produces an output of 0 to 5V from a 12V supply. The linearity achieved is 0.2% and each sensor is calibrated so that it produces a consistent output with position. Each sensor is put through a number of quality assurance tests to ensure compliance with the tough specification.
With the success of the first sensor, Positek was asked by Sarclad to develop a range of sensors for the latest developments in monitors. The latest monitors need to be able to operate in the new casting processes which produce thinner steel and therefore need thinner monitors with much more compact sensors. Positek was in a good position to provide a solution to this additional problem because the PIPS® technology is more compact than an LVDT sensor. Sensors with travels of 8mm and 15mm have been designed to suit these new applications.
Another essential requirement for Sarclad's instrumentation suppliers was the ability for small batch production; with every Strand Condition Monitor being a 'one-off' and with 12-24 Positek sensors per machine, this adds up to a manufacturing nightmare with which only the more personal and flexible companies such as Positek could cope.
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Hostilities between Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon have taken a fresh twist after the former First Minister accused his successor of "rewriting history" by airbrushing his name from the SNP's website.
Mr Salmond was accused of throwing a "temper tantrum" by political opponents as the fallout of the Scottish Government's botched sexual harassment probe into him continues.
He led the party to its historic first Scottish election victory in 2007 when he became the SNP's first-ever First Minister. But a "history" section of the party website detailing this achievement makes no mention of Mr Salmond. An article on the 2014 independence referendum also fails to mention him.
An older "archived" page from the website, under a section entitled Our Party, does carry a picture of Mr Salmond and mentions him in relation to the referendum.
But Liberal Democrat MSP Alex Cole-Hamilton mocked the latest brickbats between the SNP luminaries.
"It's no surprise that a man who missed a parliamentary debate on Syria to attend the unveiling of a portrait of himself is now having a temper tantrum at being written out of SNP history," he said.
The relationship between Mr Salmond and his former deputy has nosedived following the collapse of the Government investigation into allegations of sexual harassment against the former party leader. He denies all claims of harassment.
It emerged the two SNP chiefs held a series of private meetings while the case was ongoing. A former Salmond aide, Geoff Aberdein, claimed this week that Ms Sturgeon's chief of staff Liz Lloyd had been aware of the misconduct probe in late March – before Ms Sturgeon claims to have been aware of it.
This was rejected by Ms Sturgeon's team, who have accused the Salmond camp of conducting a "vendetta" against Ms Lloyd and carrying out a smear campaign.
Mr Salmond complained that individuals were seeking to remove his as a "political threat".
The former First Minister used his chat show on Kremlin-backed RT last week to increase the pressure on his successor to press ahead with a second independence referendum. Ms Sturgeon has already banned her own team of Government ministers from appearing on the show.


September is the perfect month to take stock of your eating habits before we head into autumn and winter. A yearly check-up is needed to assess one's food habits that might add extra pounds, especially as cooler days arrive. I re-read Michael Pollan Many of us worry that enjoying food will somehow open Pandora's box, and lead to out-of-control eating. But it's OK — and important — to like eating. Eating foods we don't like very much leaves us feeling unsatisfied and wanting more. In fact April brings green grass, song birds and taxes. Paying those taxes can take a bite out of your monthly budget. So here are ways to stretch your food dollar. The most valuable tool you can take to the store is a grocery list. Then you have to stick to it. Avoid distractions, (such as TV, computer or multi-tasking) while you eat. Focus on chewing slowly and putting down your fork between bites. Before you sit down for a meal, rate your hunger on a scale of 1-10. Consider whether you are eating for emotional Buying yourself new and interesting cheeses, especially from a real cheesemonger instead of the supermarket, might be expensive, but you'll be more likely to save and savor out your grater and put a little elbow grease in or you pull out the food This is the fourth in a series of articles about connecting with people over food. Read others on setting up a dining co-op, celebrating Passover, and hosting an Earth Dinner. When I told a friend that I was writing an article about slow food, she said .
You could enjoy 20 more years to fill with hobbies, passions, opportunities to volunteer, trips to take, food to enjoy and moments to share with those you hold dear. Retirement should be your time to savor this freedom. I recently found myself searching She has been on the Parisian Diet for five weeks and she said this one's different from the others because "the main thrust of this diet is enjoying your food Cohen's Tip Number Two: Savor food and avoid mindless eating — something he said are March is National Nutrition Month, and we're marking the occasion by talking about how to "Savor consume foods with high nutrition content. As a culinary enthusiast, I want to share with you a few tips to help prepare meals that will leave your family Nay, just 10 minutes, by ordering your Thanksgiving feast and letting someone else do the work for you. "People really appreciate being able to order food and come by and pick it up," says Karl Zenk, executive chef of Marché in Eugene. "It's easy. .


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REVIEWS: WordJong
Spelling words is fun!
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/reviewArt.cfm?artid=14602
Due to the overwhelming success of the DS, many publishers have started porting casual web-based games to the platform. The success of this strategy depends heavily on what content has been added to the games to warrant purchasing something that could otherwise be obtained for free. Destineer is looking to use this strategy with the popular WordJong game that is available online at a variety of popular web sites, including WordJong.com.
The online version of the game, which you can easily try out for yourself, explains the base concept well. Each puzzle piece has a letter on it, and words must be spelled using those letters. As in Mahjong, pieces can only be used if there are no other pieces covering them. Letters have values associated with them, similar to those found in Scrabble, so using more difficult letters like "Z" and "X" will award higher word scores.
The big question with a game like this is, "What has been added?" The single player mode that is most like the online version of the game is called Temple Challenge. The goal of this mode is to simply spell as many words as possible through as many puzzles as possible, increasing your personal rating as you go. Wild cards can be earned with longer words, and unwanted moves can be undone in order to better set everything up to clear the board. Skilled play in this mode can lead to extremely long sessions. Luckily, a run can be saved at any moment. For quicker sessions, a daily mode is also included. Each calendar day, a new board and score goal is available. Unlike other games with similar modes, like Brain Age and Picross, previous days can be played, so you aren't required to turn on the system every day. You can go back up to two full years, giving you upwards of 730 different challenges to work through whenever you feel like it.
The biggest piece of added value players will receive for buying the DS version instead of playing online is the Battle Mode. In this mode, two players take turns spelling words. In some puzzle games, the multiplayer modes aren't that much different than playing alone. The fact that each player in WordJong is playing based off of the same stack of letters adds an interesting layer in WordJong. In any of the single player modes, players will want to look ahead, not only spelling great words but also revealing the best possible letters for the next word. In multiplayer, you want to leave terrible letters for your opponent. If you can force them to pass, you get a free bonus point and the ability to erase one of the letters, potentially opening up the board for more words. This feeling of competition in the battle mode really balances out the slowly paced standard mode.
This battle mode can be played against the computer, against a local player (in both single-card and multi-card play), or against someone online (both friends and strangers). While the online mode lacks any form of communication, the fact that it is included really adds to the longevity of the title. What better way to prove your spelling prowess than to make other human beings look silly? The game even keeps track of a lot of statistics to track your progress and intimidate your foes. Overall, these community features are what really make this game a winner.
Usually, it's a pretty safe bet that a DS version of a Flash game isn't a good deal. However, WordJong has some new features and comes in at a great budget price. Spelling fans should be happy to add this to their DS collection. Is there a such thing as a fan of spelling? I think so, and this game even stands a chance at creating a few more.
Variety of modes
Budget price
Part of the game is freely available online.
No online communication options
Graphics: 8.0
Interesting backgrounds that look like watercolor paintings add to the Chinese/Mahjong theme nicely. Sprites are well designed and pleasing to the eye.
Calming ambient music gets the job done in this relaxing puzzle game.
Control: 9.0
A game that was originally designed for a mouse works flawlessly with the stylus.
This casual game will be entertaining to most people who are looking for a relaxing and thought provoking experience.
Lastability: 9.0
Tons of puzzles, goals, and prizes, combined with a good online battle mode, will keep fans coming back for more.
Final: 8.0
WordJong is a strong puzzle game at a good price. It should find a market with fans of the Brain Age games and other similar puzzlers.
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Portugal's Mota-Engil enters Sao Tome and Principe with public works in sight
Lisbon, Portugal, 20 Jan – Mota-Engil, Portugal's largest construction company, is due to begin its first construction project in Sao Tome and Principe, entering the market with the aim of being involved in government infrastructure projects, particularly the country's airport and deepwater port, the company said.
The port and modernization of the international airport are each expected to cost around US$200 million and their respective viability studies are due to be finished in the first quarter of 2006, the Sao Tome government has said.
Arnaldo Figueiredo, Mota-Engil's director for international business told Portuguese financial daily Jornal de Negócios Thursday that, "there are interesting projects within the realm of basic infrastructures that are expected to go ahead in the country thanks to the oil drilling business."
In March Mota-Engil is due to begin work on a real estate development in the West African archipelago, after having set up a construction business on the islands, Figueiredo said.
The first stage of the development, which is expected to be finished within a year and includes the construction of a residential and commercial building on a plot bought by Mota-Engil located in the city of Sao Tome.
According to Figueiredo the project included parking and landscaping of the surrounding area and a second stage of the development was already being assessed. (macauhub)
BNU bank opens branch on Hengqin Island
"Triangular" relationship between Macau, China and Portuguese-speaking countries is "positive and virtuous"
Macau plans to build Services Complex for Trade Cooperation between China and Portuguese-speaking Countries
Trade between China and Portuguese-speaking countries exceeds US$134 billion from January to November 2018
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Q: Create one loading form and load different form I have created one loading form, but I want access the loading form and load the different form. I know there is a way to achieve this, but the way that I think is create another loading form and access that another loading form to load the different form, even though the loading form contents are same.
How can I achieve this?
Here is the code of Loading Form:
public Loading()
    {
        InitializeComponent();

        this.timer1.Interval = SystemManager.RandomNumberGenerator(1000, 2000);

        this.timer1.Tick += new EventHandler(this.CheckTimer);
    }

    private void Loading_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        this.timer1.Start();
    }

    private void CheckTimer(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        uint timeLeft = 1;

        timeLeft--;

        if (timeLeft == 0)
        {
            this.timer1.Stop();

            this.Hide();

            AgeConfirmation _ageConfirmation = new AgeConfirmation();

            _ageConfirmation.ShowDialog();

            this.Close();
        }
    }

Above code is one loading form and load another form by the time is reached 0.
I have tried like this:
public class SystemManager
{
public static void LoadForm(Form _form = null, Form _loadForm = null)
{
   _form.Hide();

   _loadForm = new Form();

   _loadForm.ShowDialog();

   _form.Close();
}
}

and access it like this:
SystemManager.LoadForm(this, AgeConfirmation);
But it is throws the following error:
'System.Windows.Forms.AgeConfirmation' is a 'type' but is used like a 'variable'
My Question is: Create only one form (Loading Form), and access that Loading Form and by the time, the time reached 0, it will access different form.
Your answer much appreciated!
Thank you very much!

A: You should be using _ageConfirmation, which is the form object, not AgeConfirmation which is the form type.
i.e. SystemManager.LoadForm(this, _ageConfirmation);

A: Solved by myself! I create a getter and setter int value and by using switch case and the code will be like this:
public class UserInformation
{
    public static int Value
    {
        get;
        set;
    }
}

public partial class Loading : Form
{
    public Loading()
    {
        InitializeComponent();

        this.timer1.Interval = SystemManager.RandomNumberGenerator(1000, 2000);

        this.timer1.Tick += new EventHandler(this.CheckTimer);
    }

    private void Loading_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        this.timer1.Start();
    }

    private void CheckTimer(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        uint timeLeft = 1;

        timeLeft--;

        if (timeLeft == 0)
        {
            this.timer1.Stop();

            this.Hide();

            switch (UserInformation.Value)
            {
                case 0:
                AgeConfirmation _ageConfirmation = new AgeConfirmation();

                _ageConfirmation.ShowDialog();
                break;

                case 1:
                MainForm _mainForm = new MainForm();

                _mainForm.ShowDialog();
                break;

                case 2:
                Event _event = new Event();

                _event.ShowDialog();
                break;
            }

            this.Close();
        }
    }
}

private void AgeConfirmation_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        UserInformation.Value = 1;
    }

private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        this.Hide();

        Loading _loading = new Loading();

        _loading.ShowDialog();

        this.Close();
    }

private void MainForm_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        UserInformation.Value = 2;
    }

private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        this.Hide();

        Loading _loading = new Loading();

        _loading.ShowDialog();

        this.Close();
    }

By the time the program runs, UserInformation.Value will be 0
Thank you very much for those who are replying to my question.

A: Change
_ageConfirmation.ShowDialog();

to
_ageConfirmation.Show();


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Wayne & Jean, best of luck at your open house tomorrow, and hope it is wildly successful!
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La Independencia är en ort i Mexiko.   Den ligger i kommunen Santiago Amoltepec och delstaten Oaxaca, i den sydöstra delen av landet,  km sydost om huvudstaden Mexico City. La Independencia ligger  meter över havet och antalet invånare är .

Terrängen runt La Independencia är bergig åt sydväst, men åt nordost är den kuperad. La Independencia ligger uppe på en höjd. Den högsta punkten i närheten är Cerro Las Flores,  meter över havet,  km nordväst om La Independencia. Runt La Independencia är det ganska tätbefolkat, med  invånare per kvadratkilometer. Närmaste större samhälle är Colonia de Jesús,  km norr om La Independencia. I omgivningarna runt La Independencia växer huvudsakligen savannskog.

Årsmedeltemperaturen i trakten är  °C. Den varmaste månaden är april, då medeltemperaturen är  °C, och den kallaste är juli, med  °C. Genomsnittlig årsnederbörd är  millimeter. Den regnigaste månaden är juni, med i genomsnitt  mm nederbörd, och den torraste är januari, med  mm nederbörd.

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It was taken by a Danish photographer last May in Russia.
JON AND ALEX are a young gay couple living in St Petersburg, Russia.
They were captured in this intimate moment by Danish photographer Mads Nissen on 18 May 2014. The evocative shot was taken in a bare room with just a brown curtain as a backdrop.
Today, the image, has been named the World Press Photo of the Year.
In 2013, President Vladimir Putin signed a law banning the so-called "propaganda" of gay relationships to minors, despite an outcry from rights groups and other governments.
Nissen's winning shot is part of his larger project called "Homophobia in Russia" and also won first prize in the Contemporary Issues category.
Speaking about the phot, jury chairwoman Michelle McNally said "it is a historic time for the image… the winning image needs to be aesthetic, to have impact and have the potential to become iconic".
"This photo is aesthetically powerful, and it has humanity," said McNally, who is The New York Times' director of photography and assistant managing editor.
Nissen, a staff photographer at Copenhagen's daily Politiken newspaper told AFP one of the reasons he thought he had won was that "gay rights have become an indicator" of how human rights are perceived in general.
These two, Jon and Alex, are open and they are activists, and when they allowed me to shoot them they knew what they were doing.
This year's contest was marred by the rejection of a high number of photographs because they were digitally enhanced, World Press Photo's managing director Lars Boering said.
"Our rules clearly state that the content of the image should not be altered. This year's jury was very disappointed to discover how careless some photographers had been in post-processing their files for the contest," Boering said in a statement.
Photographers digitally "cleaning up" images by removing small details or sometimes excessively toning pictures "compromised the integrity of the image".
"Consequently, the jury rejected 20% of those entries that reached the penultimate round of the contest and were therefore not considered for prizes," Boering said.
Controversy erupted over 2012 winner Paul Hansen's winning photograph from Gaza, where he used a certain post-production technique to edit his photograph.
This year's World Press Photo competition saw a jury of 17 professionals in the fields of photojournalism and documentary photography sift through 97,912 photographs submitted by 5,692 photographers of 131 nationalities.
The winning photo was taken on a Canon EOS 5D Mark III with shutter speed 1/200, ISO 1600, F-stop 2.2 and focal length of 35mm.
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$12M seed round funding will be used to spur digital transformation, unlock data and expand to new industries
TEL AVIV, Israel – March 16, 2021 – Noogata, the leader in radically simple, no-code artificial intelligence (AI) data analytics for enterprises, today announced that it has secured a $12 million seed funding led by Team8 with participation from Skylake Capital. Investment proceeds will power product development and organizational expansion to fast-track and scale Noogata's innovative enterprise AI offering; support the company's expansion into new industries; and serve existing customers, including Colgate and PepsiCo.
Noogata is an enterprise platform for collecting, enriching and modeling data insights, predictions and recommendations. It provides actionable data analytics across multiple departments, ranging from sales and operations to finance and marketing. This removes the need for internal development overheads or the use of limited out-of-the-box solutions. The platform easily and rapidly integrates with enterprise data systems.
Noogata democratizes the development of enterprise applications by empowering non-developers to build the tools they need. At the core of the Noogata solution are modular, pre-set "AI blocks," which are engineered to target mission-critical business needs such as managing eCommerce channels and supply chains and enhancing marketing ROI. Noogata utilizes no-code AI-powered frameworks to unlock valuable data insights that companies can integrate into their reports and dashboards to improve decision-making.
"We believe data teams are at the epicenter of digital transformation and that to drive impact, they need to be able to unlock the value of data. They need access to relevant, continuous and explainable insights and predictions that are reliable and up-to-date," said Noogata Co-Founder and CEO Assaf Egozi. "Noogata unlocks the value of data by providing contextual, business-focused blocks that integrate seamlessly into enterprise data environments to generate actionable insights, predictions and recommendations. This empowers users to go far beyond traditional business intelligence by leveraging AI in their self-serve analytics as well as in their data solutions."
Yuval Shachar, Managing Partner at Team8, said: "Noogata is perfectly positioned to address the significant market need for a best-in-class, no-code data analytics platform to drive decision-making. The innovative platform replaces the need for internal build, which is complex and costly, or the use of out-of-the-box vendor solutions which are limited. The company's ability to unlock the value of data through AI is a game-changer. Add to that a stellar founding team, and there is no doubt in my mind that Noogata will be enormously successful."
Endre Sagi, General Partner at Skylake Capital, added: "In most enterprises, data scientists, data engineers and software developers are among the scarcest resources. Noogata's no-code AI platform allows customers to unleash the power of AI and improve business decisions in a short period of time without committing significant internal technical resources. This makes Noogata's value proposition extremely compelling."
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As part of its investment in AI to revolutionize its digital commerce business, Colgate-Palmolive Company uses the Noogata platform to support key sales and marketing functions. According to Kitu Kumar, Ph.D., Associate Director of eCommerce Analytics at Colgate, "We always invest in understanding our consumers so that we can stay close to them. Noogata is giving us a large-scale solution that lets our business units leverage AI across digital commerce channels and touchpoints. As a result, we are improving our sales and marketing efforts dynamically to capitalize on shifting consumer interests. This creates a true competitive advantage for us."
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Regulatory Focus™ > News Articles > 'Two Out, One In': Trump Signs Executive Order to Repeal Regulations
'Two Out, One In': Trump Signs Executive Order to Repeal Regulations
Posted 30 January 2017 | By Zachary Brennan
President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order (EO) that would require all government agencies to eliminate two regulations for every new regulation instituted.
The order, which White House officials characterized as a "one in, two out" plan to benefit small businesses, will likely impact the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as it applies to every agency but those related to military or national security-related branches of the federal government or other agencies exempted by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
But how such a "one in, two out" plan would work for an agency with a public health mission like FDA remains to be understood, particularly as most regulations are not necessarily intertwined. So if the agency needed to put in place a new regulation, it would then have to presumably cut out two other, unrelated regulations linked to public health.
According to the text of the EO, this plan will likely apply to FDA guidance documents too, which will be a problem for pharmaceutical and medical device companies that rely on such guidance to understand how FDA interprets the law.
"The term 'regulation' or 'rule' means an agency statement of general or particular applicability and future effect designed to implement, interpret, or prescribe law or policy or to describe the procedure or practice requirements of an agency," the text of the order reads.
So for instance, if FDA wanted to finalize guidance on say, biosimilar interchangeability or how companies can use multiple endpoints in clinical trials, the agency would then presumably have to identify two other regulations unrelated to biosimilar interchangeability or clinical trials that it would need to eliminate. And those decisions on what to cut and what to add would also be reviewed by the White House, according to officials, who added that the new EO sets a budget of $0 for new regulations in 2017.
On whether the EO applies to FDA guidance documents, a White House spokesman told Focus via email: "A guidance from OMB is forthcoming."
Indeed, how this EO is implemented across the federal government is going to come largely from the OMB director, who will provide the heads of agencies with guidance addressing, among other things, "processes for standardizing the measurement and estimation of regulatory costs; standards for determining what qualifies as new and offsetting regulations; standards for determining the costs of existing regulations that are considered for elimination; processes for accounting for costs in different fiscal years; methods to oversee the issuance of rules with costs offset by savings at different times or different agencies; and emergencies and other circumstances that might justify individual waivers of the requirements."
Questions that remain to be answered: How will this new EO impact the re-authorization of the user fee programs (which need to be renewed by the end of September) and the implementation of the new 21st Century Cures law (at least 40 sections of which are linked to FDA)? And how will it impact the finalization of rulemakings or guidance that have been in the works for months or years and are needed by industry to understand FDA's current thinking on a topic?
Hiring Freeze and User Fee Hires
As these questions linger, debate is still brewing over whether the federal hiring freeze imposed last week impacts FDA officials hired from user fee funds.
A White House official told Focus via email on Monday: "The fact that FDA is funded by user fees does not in and of itself exempt the FDA from being subject to the Hiring Freeze Memorandum since the hiring freeze applies to all executive departments and agencies regardless of the sources of their operational and programmatic funding. That said, the FDA's user fee supported work could be subject to public safety and national security exemptions provided for by the memorandum."
When and how this memorandum will be interpreted for FDA is also beginning to draw questions from Congress.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on Monday sent a letter to FDA Acting Commissioner Stephen Ostroff, noting that Trump's executive order and a memorandum from OMB from 25 January "both lack clarity about how the freeze will impact the Food and Drug Administration," which she said is concerning as they "will have a negative impact on the development programs and application reviews of new drugs and medical devices.
"Patients and their families can't freeze the progress of a disease while the FDA waits to fill critical positions. Drug and device manufacturers can't freeze their research and development while the new administration imposes its political ideology," Warren wrote.
Among other questions, Warren is seeking more information from FDA on: whether the agency will exempt any positions from the hiring freeze because they are necessary "to meet national security or public safety responsibilities," and how a hiring freeze will affect FDA's ability to meet the commitments agreed to in the user fee agreements for generic and prescription drugs, medical devices and biosimilars?
In addition, several media outlets reported late last week that meetings between FDA and congressional staffers on the user fee agreements have had to be cancelled as the Trump Administration has called on agencies to halt all correspondence with Congress.
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Closing the Golden Door
Closing the Golden Door: Asian Migration and the Hidden History of Exclusion at Ellis Island
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Closing the Golden Door – The immigration station at New York's Ellis Island opened in 1892 and remained the largest U.S. port for immigrant entry until World War I. In popular memory, Ellis Island is typically seen as a gateway for Europeans seeking to join the "great American melting pot." But as this fresh examination of Ellis Island's history reveals, it was also a major site of immigrant detention and exclusion, especially for Chinese, Japanese, and other Asian travelers and maritime laborers who reached New York City from Europe, the Americas and the Caribbean, and even within the United States. And from 1924 to 1954, the station functioned as a detention camp and deportation center for a range of people deemed undesirable.
Anna Pegler-Gordon draws on immigrants' oral histories and memoirs, government archives, newspapers, and other sources to reorient the history of migration and exclusion in the United States. In chronicling the circumstances of those who passed through or were detained at Ellis Island, she shows that Asian exclusion was both larger in scope and more limited in force than has been previously recognized.
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Tricia Ward is a Los Angeles-based artist whose work has included public and environmental art, sculpture, and social practice art. She emerged in the 1980s, when collaborations with underserved youth and urban groups that bridged art and social change began to gain institutional attention. Her work combines collaborative, interdisciplinary approaches that include physical transformations of derelict urban environments into "pocket parks," environmental remediation, cultural and educational programming, public policy and civic engagement.

Ward has created public projects in New York, Houston, Detroit and Buenos Aires. However, the majority of her work has been undertaken in Los Angeles, through the nonprofit organization that she founded and led, ACLA (Art Community Land Activism), originally known as ARTScorpsLA. The organization's most well-known projects include the art parks La Tierra de la Culebra and Spiraling Orchard, and the public, multi-mural project, "Walls of Reclamation." Ward's work has been recognized by institutions including the National Endowment for the Arts, California Arts Council, California Community Foundation, and Getty Trust, among others. In 1999, ACLA was awarded a Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence Silver Medal.

Background
Ward was born in Berkeley, California in 1951. She attended the San Francisco Art Institute, earning a BFA in 1972. In the early 1970s, she moved to Galveston, Texas, where she met architect John Maroney, whom she married in 1981. She and Maroney split time between Galveston and New York City in the 1980s. During that time, Ward produced mixed-media sculpture and assemblage, while also developing a hybrid concept blending art and parks, an offshoot of her work then with New York's Green Guerillas. Between 1986 and 1989, she organized a community transformation of part of the turn-of-the-century Sara D. Roosevelt Park in New York's Lower East Side, which included an earthwork and community garden.

In 1990, Ward, Maroney, and their daughter Leila moved to Los Angeles. Shortly after the 1992 Los Angeles riots, Ward became involved in a youth art-workshop project called "Re-Wing LA," intended to respond to the unrest. Finding that project short-lived and unresponsive to constituents, however, she initiated her own community project: reclaiming an abandoned, neglected parcel of land in her multi-ethnic Highland Park neighborhood. Beginning without permission, she eventually obtained a use agreement from the owner and grants from the Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department and (later) Los Angeles Conservation Corps; out of this work, she formed a nonprofit arts and education organization: ARTScorpLA, that was active for more than three decades; it was later renamed ACLA (Art Community Land Activism).

In addition to her art practice and work leading ACLA, Ward served as arts commissioner to the City of Los Angeles Commission on Children, Youth and Their Families from 1995 to 2003, and taught for many years in the Department of Public Art Studies and Urban Cultural Planning at the University of Southern California Roski School of Art and Design.

Work
Ward's unique practice merges interests in the physicality of three-dimensional artworks and environments, neighborhood and community revitalization, and urban land use. Writers have noted her methodology's focus on gaining community acceptance—often taking up residency among them—its flexible mode of light, nonprofit management (as opposed to the rigidity of city agencies), and fairly "radical notion of public space as continually contested territory belonging to no single owner permanently." Her work generally involves collaboration among multiple constituencies with interests in community open space, arts, education, and youth development. Art writer Michael Brenson described Ward's approach as premised on equity, inclusiveness, conversation, non-judgment and a commitment that includes "her willingness to make this involvement part of everyday life for an indefinite period."<ref name="Brenson98">Brenson, Michael. "Introduction to Conversations on Culture,"  Conversations at the Castle: Changing Audiences and Contemporary Art, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998. Retrieved February 2, 2022.</ref>

Early studio art
Ward's early art included clay and bronze sculpture, reliquaries and mixed-media assemblage.Johnson, Patricia. "What Culture? Views!," Houston Post, January 16, 1983. This work often fused figurative elements, references to ancient civilizations and ritual, and social and political concerns.Crook, Teri. "Artists offer 'reflective' pieces in isle guild exhibit," Galveston Daily News, 1986. Her show "Body Works" (Houston, 1978) featured pink-hued figurative sculpture created from molds and embedded in mounds of white sand. Houston Chronicle critic Charlotte Moser wrote that this work "translated the subtleties of the human body into delicate ceramics," notable for their organic fluidity (without reference to body parts) and an eroticism recalling Edward Weston's photographs. In the later show, "Reflections of Kingship" (Galveston, 1986, with Marianne van Lent), Ward exhibited an altar-like work (Tableau of Incantations), masks, and textured sculpture using found objects that a review described as "three-dimensional cave paintings" offering modern interpretations of ancient themes and animal motifs.

ACLA (ARTScorpLA)
ACLA's activities included the development of art parks and community centers, mural painting, educational and internship programs, and cultural programming.Lin, Jan. Taking Back the Boulevard: Art, Activism, and Gentrification in Los Angeles, New York: New York University Press, 2019, p. 37–8.Miranda, Carolina A. "In its 25th year, the Getty's Multicultural Internship Program is changing the face of arts leadership in L.A.," Los Angeles Times, August 1, 2017. Retrieved February 2, 2022.

The organization emerged from Ward's efforts to clear a derelict parcel of land in her Highland Park neighborhood. She mobilized a group of youth volunteers and with them dug up the site, unearthing stone foundation remnants from several houses that they reused to, among other things, build an amphitheater.Garza, Joe. "This Art Park is LA's Outdoor Gem: La Tierra de la Culebra," LA Trend, July 10, 2020. Retrieved February 4, 2022. Through a series of discussions, the group also developed a motif for the site—the serpent (la Culebra), a Mayan and Asian symbol of wisdom and renewal—which would serve as the site's name, La Tierra de la Culebra, and inspire its most striking feature, a 450-foot, winding sculpture made of brick and stone. Over time the site was developed into a multi-level community park, with olive trees, herb, vegetable and flower gardens, quirky statues, furniture, and a pond. For nearly three decades, it has served as a place of recreation, education, ecological work and celebration.Goodheart, Jessica. "Drumbeats & Culture Clash," Los Angeles Times, February 11, 1993. Retrieved February 2, 2022.Enoch, Joe. "Youth development grows outdoors, at low cost," Youth Today, September 1, 2005. Retrieved February 2, 2022. In 2003, it was zoned as "open space" and registered as an official city park.

ACLA's next large project, undertaken in 1995, was Spiraling Orchard, which involved the reclamation of a half-acre, toxic and non-arable, former oil field in the transitional Temple-Beaudry neighborhood. For this project, ACLA and local volunteers eventually collaborated with USC's Sustainable Cities program on a process known as phytoremediation, planting a garden of fruit trees in addition to creating a pavilion, symbolic sculptural pieces (spiral, sundial and ziggurat structures), and community and educational programs. The park remained active for nearly two decades.Bermudez, Esmeralda. "L.A.'s shrines to the Virgen de Guadalupe,"  Los Angeles Times, July 5, 2011. Retrieved February 2, 2022.

Some of ACLA's other projects included Studio Chinatown, a community center and performance space offering classes, art studio space and cultural programming;Looseleaf, Victoria. "Four Art Upstarts Arrive," Los Angeles Downtown News, July 19, 1999, p. 12–3. the Francis Avenue Garden Park in Koreatown, developed between 1996 and 1999;ACLA/ARTScorpsLA. Retrieved February 8, 2022. and "Beat the Drum Fest," a multi-ethnic drumming festival organized by Ward in 2002 and presented at the Craft and Folk Art Museum and Ford Amphitheater in 2012 and 2013, respectively. "Walls of Reclamation" (1995–7) was a mural and beautification project involving roughly 30 murals, which mixed traditionally schooled artists (such as Eva Cockcroft, Margaret Garcia, Man One and Frank Romero), spray-can artists, volunteers and students. It included the 560-foot-long painting Earth Memories—then the city's largest single-concept mural—which depicts the history of the universe, from the Big Bang to modern life in Los Angeles.

Other work
Ward's work outside of ACLA includes studio and installation art, performance, public projects, and writing on public policy. Her site-responsive piece, Shared Foundations (Project Row Houses, Houston, 1999), engaged community members to create a series of linoleum painted tiles, which she assembled into a narrative floor in a row house she was given for the project.Ward, Tricia. Shared Foundation, Projects. Retrieved February 9, 2022. In 2001, she and Deborah Grotfeldt initiated Riches of Detroit: Faces of Detroit as part of the Detroit Institute of Art show "Artists' Take on Detroit: Projects for the Tricentennial." They worked with diverse Detroiters and organizations to transform unused buildings and vacant lots on a city block, including two rehabilitated houses that would serve as student residences, a community center and an art park. The project was documented in a multimedia presentation and installation at the institute that included hay bales and concrete structures replicating park's conversation area. In 2021, she created A Member of the Community of Spirits … for the Los Angeles County Arboretum exhibition, "The Nature of Sculpture II."

Ward's essays and ideas about public art, work with youth, and urban land use have been presented in the book, Conversations at the Castle: Changing Audiences and Contemporary Art (1998), the journal, Local Environment'', and in numerous lectures at graduate programs throughout the United States.

Recognition
Ward's work has been recognized by awards, grants and fellowships from the California Arts Council, California Community Foundation, City of Los Angeles, Getty Trust for Visual Arts, Headlands Center for the Arts, and National Endowment for the Arts, among others. In 1999, ACLA was recognized with a Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence Silver Medal for its "innovative approaches to urban revitalization" and work with youth and communities. Ward's artwork belongs to the public collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum.

References

External links
 Tricia Ward website
Tierra De La Culebra: Park and Sculpture, KCET-NPR interviews with Tricia Ward, 2011
Come In, We're Open–Tricia Ward, 2013 social practice video

American contemporary artists
Women sculptors
Environmental artists
Artists from Los Angeles
San Francisco Art Institute alumni
University of Southern California faculty
1951 births
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Il lagynos (pl. lagynoi) era una brocca in uso presso antichi greci e romani per servire il vino; era particolarmente diffusa nel periodo ellenistico, tra il III e il I secolo a.C., ed era una forma tipica della Grecia orientale. In epoca romana il termine continuò ad essere utilizzato e venne applicato ad esemplari di forma simile.

Le fonti antiche, dal IV secolo a.C. in avanti, descrivono il lagynos come una brocca da vino che presenta collo alto e stretto, corpo largo con ampia spalla e un'unica ansa verticale che si imposta tra la spalla e il limite inferiore dell'orlo; si distingueva per un tipico gorgoglio che si produceva nell'atto del versare. Veniva usato nel simposio, spesso portato dal simposiasta come contributo al banchetto. Viene descritto anche come unità di misura corrispondente a dodici kotylai; ne esistono infatti esemplari non decorati, utilizzati per il trasporto e il commercio, recanti stampi di fabbrica, come era in uso per le anfore.

Il profilo del corpo si presentava più frequentemente angolare piuttosto che arrotondato. Tra gli esemplari decorati, più piccoli rispetto a quelli utilizzati nel trasporto e commercio, sono particolarmente noti e diffusi quelli a fondo chiaro, di epoca ellenistica. La tipica decorazione si presenta concentrata sulla spalla e gli ornamenti più comuni sono ghirlande, festoni e raggi, ma possono trovarvisi anche piccoli oggetti, strumenti musicali e delfini. Alcune zone sono sottolineate da fasce colorate, come il piede, l'orlo, l'unione tra spalla e ventre e tra collo e spalla.

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