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22nd Quinte Business Achievement Awards Gala Celebration
It might be business up front, but it was a party in back. In a night of celebrations and congratulations, the 22nd annual Quinte Business Achievement Awards was a big success as a sold out crowd of 360 came out to honour and congratulate nominees and award winners at the National Air Force Museum of Canada.
This year, 111 companies were nominated across 15 different categories.
"The Business Achievement Awards committee work takes about nine months to pull together these awards every year," said committee chairperson, Suzanne Andrews. "This year we had 111 companies complete the nomination process, showcasing the great diversity and strength Quinte businesses have."
Past nominees and even non-nominated businesses were in attendance throughout the evening to show their support for the people and business in the area.
"It is always great to see our local businesses so proud to be located in the Quinte region," said Morgan Scott, event coordinator.Walking away with the Business Excellence Award this year was everybody's favourite guilty pleasure, Donini Chocolate. "We came here with being nominated for the Manufacturing Award which that in itself was a privilege," said Director of Operations at Donini Chocolate, Kimberly Bushell. "This is such a great honour…I'm completely blown away."
"It's great to get the positive feedback that we have," said Antonia Zambri, Senior Retail Store Manager. "It's a great business to be in. Who doesn't like chocolate? So we've got a bit of an edge over a lot of other businesses," laughed Zambri. "But it's still wonderful to feel that positivity around us."
For Bushell and Zambri, one of the biggest appeals to having a business in the area is the people. "You know that you are supported there," said Bushell. "If you have any issue or you have anything you need assistance with, they are there at a moment notice."
"It's surprising and refreshing to have a community who comes together for everything," said Zambri. "If there is an idea out there, somebody goes with it, everybody congregates together and works together to fulfil goals and it's amazing and refreshing to have that kind of community support."
Chandy Davis with Electro Cables Inc. was the recipient of this years' Business Person of the Year award.
"It's amazing. I really have to thank everyone else that works with me because our business wouldn't be as great without everybody that's there," said Davis. "The Quinte region is my favourite region in Canada and I am just so happy to see the growth that we have in this area and the support from all the different faculties."
Joining the award winners this year was Melanie Harrington, who took home the 2018 Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Harrington runs a small family farm, Dahlia May Flower Farm that grows cut flowers both organically and seasonally. "We offer floral design services in the Quinte area, we run a flower market every weekend at our farm and we provide flowers 11 months of the year," said Harrington. "[I am] Extremely grateful to the community of Quinte West for supporting our business for four years and extremely grateful to my staff because I would not be here without them and all of their hard work over the last four years."
Harrington said that the farm began as an experiment four years ago, and that they have been blown away by the support they have received. Having the desire to bring something new to the Quinte Area is one of the inspirations for building their business in the area. If she had to offer any advice to someone looking to begin their own entrepreneurial journey, Harrington said it would be to not be scared, and dedicate a lot of time.
"The best advice I could give is to go for it, not be scared and know that you will have to put in an incredible amount of time and hard work to get where you want to be." "It will be 100% worth it in the end."
For the past 22 years the Business Achievement Awards recognize individuals, companies and organizations who have taken the extra steps towards business excellence and who help to make the Bay of Quinte Region what it is.
The list of this year's award winners are listed below.
Agribusiness of the Year – Brambleberry Farms
Business Person of the Year – Chandy Davis
Hospitality/Tourism Business of the Year – The Vic Café
Manufacturing/Industrial Business of the Year – Quinte Boat Docks
Young Entrepreneur of the Year – Melanie Harrington
New Business of the Year – She Thrives
Not for Profit of the Year – Trenton Memorial Hospital Foundation
Retail Business of the Year – B&H Carpet
Regulated Professions Business of the Year – Rushnell Funeral Services
Trade/Construction Business of the Year – Quality Mechanical
Specialized Service Business of the Year – Nesda Technologies
Sustainability Award – Veenstra Plumbing
Trailblazer of the Year – NOD Apiary
Business Excellence – Donini Chocolate
Health and Wellness – The Right Fit
(l-f) Todd Smith MPP Bay of Quinte, Kim Bushell Donini Chocolate, Antonia Zambri Donini Chocolate, Neil Ellis MP Bay of Qunte, Ross Rae Chairman QEDC
Article Source Credit: InQuinte
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This new series comes out of an Artist Residency at the Paul Gauguin Cultural Center, where I spent three months on a remote South Pacific island in the Marquises. The island of Hiva Oa is where Artist Paul Gauguin painted and lived out the remainder of his life. On Hiva Oa, I became interested in the traditional roles both women and man had and how this was expressed through ornamentation. These roles are shifting, especially with the overlay of European culture present. The Marquises people are currently involved in an intense re-examination of their history. I did a switch of traditional gendered adornment and made ornaments for men with flowers and pieces for women utilizing the tattoo symbols of the warrior. I worked very big and free using simple materials.
Over the past two years, I have been studying the objects and photos and writing to understand how this investigation might shape understanding of gender expectation in ornamentation. There has been much writing about the loss of distinct style linked to a place, but I am curious about why with all of our global contact, our ideas of what can be considered jewelry haven't changed that much. The work in Jolie explores nontraditional adornment. It is big, bold, white, and mostly made for men.


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BrooklynVegan Staff Published: February 24, 2022
So many artists, so little time. Each week we review a handful of new albums (of all genres), round up even more new music that we'd call "indie," and talk about what metal is coming out. We post music news, track premieres, and more all day. We update a playlist weekly of some of our current favorite tracks. Here's a daily roundup with a bunch of interesting, newly released songs in one place.
ROSALÍA - "CHICKEN TERIYAKI"
Rosalía's anticipated new album MOTOMAMI arrives March 18 via Columbia, and here's the latest single, "Chicken Teriyaki." It was written with El Guincho, Sky Rompiendo, Rauw Alejandro, and Q-Tip, and it's a super fun song that embraces her pop/hip hop/reggaeton side.
LOOP - "FERMION"
Shoegaze/psych greats LOOP have dropped another hazy burner from Sonancy, their first album in decades, which is out in March. Dive into the motorik drone and the video is good too:
MAGIC GREHLIN (TEENAGE HALLOWEEN, ALGERNON CADWALLADER, etc) - SPOTTED LANTERN FLY EP
Magic Grehlin is the band of Tank Bergman (Algernon Cadwallader), Luk Henderiks (Teenage Halloween), Lynsey Vandenberg (Well Wisher), Guy Pollioni (Stag Party, Coward), and Justin Lombardo (Love Tapes), and they've just returned with a new four-song EP of fiery indie/emo/punk songs that fans of any of the members' other bands should definitely not sleep on.
DEB NEVER - "CRUTCHES"
Los Angeles singer-songwriter Deb Never has collaborated with slowthai and Brockhampton, among others, and now she's shared her first single of the year, "Crutches," a propulsive alt-pop track with grungy vibes.
KEHLANI - "LITTLE STORY"
Kehlani's third album, blue water road, is on the way, and they've shared a new single from it, a tuneful R&B track accompanied by a video they directed with Alexandra Thurmond.
TWAIN - "KING OF FOOLS"
Twain (the project of Matthew Davidson, a frequent Big Thief collaborator and a former member of The Low Anthem, Spirit Family Reunion, and Deslondes) has shared a new single via Keeled Scales, and it's a gorgeous, rustic folk song.
GLACIER VEINS - "EMBERS"
Glacier Veins have shared the third single off their anticipated sophomore album Lunar Reflection (due 3/11 via Equal Vision), and this one finds them toning down their usual dream punk sound in favor of jangly, acoustic guitar-infused, '90s-style alt-rock. They're great at this kind of thing too.
HODGY - "PEOPLE CHANGE" (prod. LEFT BRAIN)
After making a comeback with recent single "Hodgy," former Odd Future member reunites with his MellowHype partner Left Brain on new song "People Change." Hopefully more new music is on the way, 'cause these songs prove he's still got it.
TOTALLY SLOW - "THE LOST ART OF SHUTTING UP"
North Carolina punks Totally Slow have followed up last year's Casual Drag (Refresh Records) with this new single, and like that LP, it's a ripper.
DESTRUCTION - "NO FAITH IN HUMANITY"
As mentioned, German thrash legends Destruction (whose only original member is bassist/vocalist Schmier) are gearing up to release new album Diabolical on 4/8 via Napalm Records. It may be a different lineup, but Destruction still now how to churn out killer '80s-style thrash songs.
KEVIN DEVINE - "HOW CAN I HELP YOU?" (ACOUSTIC)
Kevin Devine went in a synthier direction on recent single "How Can I Help You?," but if you were wondering how it'd sound in the stripped-back acoustic style of his early days, you're in luck. This gorgeous rendition is exactly that.
TRAAMS - "SLEEPER"
UK group TRAAMS are back with new dreamy new single "Sleeper" which is a duet with Soffie Viemose of Danish band Lowly. "For a time we were quite set on this track staying as an instrumental," says singer/guitaristStu Hopkins. "It wasn't until the night before we were heading up to the studio that Padley sent through a new demo, quietly singing into his laptop in the dead of night. Originally serving as a mood piece that would bridge a few of the others together, once we started to add singing Sleeper fast became one of our favourite tracks. It touches on the themes of time, longing and belonging that we have throughout the album, but they are at their lightest and most human on this track."
HANNAH DIAMOND - "STARING AT THE CEILING"
PC music artist Hannah Diamond released her debut album, Reflections, in 2019, and she's returned with a glitchy new single, "Staring at the Ceiling."
SALOON DION - "HEY HEY"
Saloon Dion are a new group from Bristol, England who make danceable, post-punk influenced indie rock. New single "Hey Hey" should appeal to fans of Yard Act.
DIANE COFFEE - FORECAST (FEAT. DEEP SEA DIVER)
Diane Coffee, aka Shaun Fleming, will release new album With People on April 29 via Polyvinyl that was produced by Shaun's onetime Foxygen bandmate Jonathan Rado. "For almost 15 years I had this 'on again, off again' relationship," Shaun says of the album's poppy first single, "Forecast," which features Deep Sea Diver. "It was always very hot, very intense, and always ended very badly. But no matter how awful the ending, how bad we knew we were for each other, we somehow always found ourselves being pulled back into it. I think deep down we loved the chaos, the crazy. We were the definition of a 'fatal attraction.'"
CHRISTIAN LEE HUTSON - "AGE DIFFERENCE"
Christian Lee Hutson's new album Quitters is out in April and the latest single is "Age Difference," a dark character study soundtracked by mournful horns.
CY DUNE - "ANY MORE"
Cy Dune, the bluesy, garage punk solo project of Akron/Family's Seth Olinsky, will release a new album, Against Face, next week and here's a final preview before you can dig into the whole thing. "My favorite part of this song is how out of control the drums feel - the way that these fast, derailed drums cycle against the slower, almost crooner-like drag of the verse vocals," says Olinsky. "The guitar solo is just a sheer jump off a cliff, and I love how it cuts off so sharply into nothingness. There's an electricity in the song that evokes a wildness and spirit that has an ecstatic, visceral excitement to me."
MONTAIGNE & DAVID BYRNE - "ALWAYS BE YOU"
David Byrne duets with Australian pop artist Montaigne on her effervescent new single, "Always Be You." While he admits he hadn't heard of her when she contacted him, he quickly became a fan. "How many artists would reference funny monologist Daniel Kitson?," David notes. "But with Jess that quirkiness translates into complete heartfelt honesty and transparency about her feelings - feelings many of us might be ashamed or afraid to admit to - all set to incredibly infectious tunes. Brave, weird and catchy. Thrilled to be invited and love how the songs turned out."
HERCULES & LOVE AFFAIR - "GRACE" FT ELIN EY
Hercules & Love Affair have announced In Amber, their first album in five years, which will be out June 17. This one's a little different, with Andy Butler moving beyond the disco and house sounds associated with group, citing everything from Throbbing Gristle, Dead Can Dance and Diamanda Galas as influences this time, and much of the album was made with ANOHNI (who sang on "Blind" on their 2008 debut). This is the first single.
DENZEL CURRY - "ZATOICHI" (ft. SLOWTHAI)
Denzel Curry and slowthai's 2019 single "Psycho" is a total gem within both rappers' discographies, so it's exciting that they've teamed up once again on the Powers Pleasant-produced "Zatoichi." It's the second single from Denzel's upcoming album, and you can read more about it here.
LAVISHER - "REVERIE"
Chicago atmospheric alt-rockers Lavisher are back with a new single, and you can read about it here.
DRUNK UNCLE - "PUNCH"
Austin emo band Drunk Uncle's debut album arrives in March via Count Your Lucky Stars, and you can read more about new single "Punch" here.
SPRING SILVER - "I SAW VIOLENCE"
Silver Spring, MD musician Spring Silver (aka K Nkanza) is gearing up to release their new album I Could Get Used To This, and you can read more about new single "I Saw Violence" here.
CROWBAR - "BLEEDING FROM EVERY HOLE"
Here's another taste of veteran sludge metal band Crowbar's first album in six years, which you can read more about here. Pre-order the album on limited "blue and black ice" splatter vinyl.
THE VON TRAMPS - "LO MEIN"
The Von Tramps are gearing up to release their sophomore album GO in March via SBAM, and new single "Lo Mein" is a punky reggae song that should appeal to fans of '90s No Doubt. Read more about it here.
Looking for even more new songs? Browse the New Songs archive.
Filed Under: Cy Dune, DEB NEVER, Destruction, Diane Coffee, Glacier Veins, Hannah Diamond, Hodgy, Kehlani, Kevin Devine, Left Brain, Loop, Magic Grehlin, New Songs, New Tracks, Rosalia, saloon dion, Totally Slow, TRAAMS, Twain
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Video Premiere: Bugsy —"overwhelming"
Photo by Kathy Callahan
Bugsy is a band that should be on everyone's radar. Since the release of their EP "Teratoma" last February, the punk-influenced indie-pop quartet has only further refined their ability to create instantly catchy hooks backed by racing guitar riffs. Asking "Do you ever thinking it's overwhelming?" the group captures exactly what the feeling is like with soaring harmonies and instrumentals that build into a hard-hitting wall of sound.
"The video was shot in my house with a bunch of fun little toy props we bought at the dollar store! My roommate Evv Speers helped with some lighting stuff and behind the scenes stuff but like most of our videos, it was very DIY. I borrowed a camera, set up a tripod, and just filmed us doing random stuff with the bugs," singer/guitarist Emily Schoonover explains. "I wrote the song while I was in a really bad relationship. I felt stuck, and I was too scared to leave. I felt like because I was distant and because I knew I wanted to leave, that that made me a bad person. I just generally felt bad and overwhelmed all of the time and couldn't do anything about it. When we recorded the song, I was still dating that person and I feel like as a result, I left a lot of the lyrics vague as an attempt to protect him. I am no longer dating that person now but I still think that this song serves as a really good insight/snapshot into how I felt unsafe even in my own thoughts and how much of it I internalized."
The song will hit streaming on Friday, February 12th.
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This is a great idea and I hope it does become a regular spot.
One thing I have seen some new people fail to do when adjusting a frame with glass lenses is not loosen the eyewire screw. If you turn the screw a half turn before adjusting the frame you will be less likely to chip the lenses. Basic information but like I said, I've seen some people fail to do this and end up in mess.
If a tempered glass lens comes out of a heat treat or chem unit with a spot on it, often (not always) a pencil eraser will get it off.
Now my search for an answer. What is anyone's method for removing a lens from a grooved rimless mount whithout chipping it when it is in there good and extra snug.
This is an old favorite for clouded poly lenses. You can soak them in hot Ivory dish liquid for 15-20 minutes and in most cases it will remove the fog.
Also, when you run out of neutralizer the Ivory dish liquid will remove the tint.
If you ever cut a lens too small in a metal frame (not that that ever happens with today's patternless edgers ;) ), you can sometimes "resize" the frame by grinding down the end of the eyewire at the joint. This works especially well if the frame has a front that hides the joint or if the joint is especially thick to begin with.
Here's one I've wanted to try ever since we've posted, " Frame repairs will be performed at the customers risk ".
Customer comes in for an adjustment on his old ( really old ) heavy, black frames, kinda like what B&L has ( Wayfarers )...The axis was off in one lens...So I take the frame and have them under the hot-air ( don't like using glass beads on plastic frames ) just enough so I can feel the lens turn slightly!....Wham, the frame splits at the bridge and all of sudden I've got two pieces...I told the customer to let me have them for about an hour...cruise the mall, come back in about hour. I drilled two holes at equal distance at the bridge, straightened a paper clip, made a U-hook pattern out of it and threaded the two holes, snipped the excess brushed on a little Lock-Tight and covered the shine with black magic marker!...The mans vision was what it should be; he said the frame felt sturdier than before. He thanked me for a job well done and off he went...I'll never do this again ever, especially with a plastic frame that felt like two thicknesses of a potatoe chip to begin with.
Well it looks like we are getting some response here, so heres my tip of the day. if you have a high plus lens, stay away from long narrow frames as they will tend to pop out of those frames the easiest since they are long across the top. one must undersatnd that one of the reasons for having trouble keeping lenses in a metal frame is the eyewire when tightned down has a natural tendency to straighten. you can prove this by taking a piece of string,putting it into an arc and then pulling on both ends. thats what your eyewire does and why there is more problem with plus lenses.
This one is pretty basic but an amazing number of "opticians" don't know this. If the temple is too long. Remove the temple tip, cut the desired amount off and replace the tip.
Next if cables are required, Hilco's cable tips can be applied to any frame metal or plastic as long as it has a metal core. These usually work better than factory cables as they can be custom made to length.
As to removing and installing chord mounted rimless glasses. I have found it far easier to insert some 20# test line between the lens and the line in the groove (a opposed to ribbon and fine metalic objects) and use this to pull the line from the groove..
Also in an effort to make lenses thin, some individuals go too far and do not leave enough thickness on each side of the groove. If it doesn't chip in your hands, it will in patient use. Just ate some over a year old last week for same.
Chip: The 20lb test is a good idea.
HenryB: I usually hope it is the string that goes before the lens. Actually, that was my reason for posting the question. I know some folks that can pop a tight lens in and out with the flick of a finger. Not me though; I always manage to break the string. Just like I alway manage to flake off the front of 3-piece mounted lenses when tightening. Rimless frames are not my friends.
Excellant thread! Glad to see it.
For nylor frames, I like using a dentist's "explorer". That's the stainless steel torture device with a sharpened hook on one or both ends. It's great for stringing and un-stringing the nylor. BUT you do need to be careful not to scratch the lens or stab yourself. Get them at most hardware or hobby stores or from your dentist.
Another little trick I use a lot when I dispense progressives to new wearers is to put a LEAP pad with the hole lined up with the center of the reading area. This clearly shows the patient exactly where the center of the reading area is and it serves as a good way to verify the accuracy of the Rx and the placement of the lens.
Hope someone finds these helpful.
Todays tip is a very basic one, but also the one i see most often that is wrong. When determining if a frame is straight, the first thing you have to look at is to see if it is straight across the front. If it is not, or if one side is bent in more then the other, your 4 point stance means nothing. Quite often you will see frames come in with one temple up and one down and almost invariably the patient will tell you they have one ear higher then the other. For the most part this is a crock. Scientifically it is a fact. In reality the difference in most cases is miniscule. Check the front of the frame and you will probably find its out of alignment.
If you are unsure about whether a patient will tolerate a particular seg height, take a piece of Scotch tape and place it along the seg line. This can be used to show either how much of the lens will be occluded during distance viewing or near viewing.
Patient comes in with an older metal frame that your biggest screw will not stay tight. With the screw in side the barrel take your snipes and gently squeeze the threaded barrel, which will make it a little bit oval, and now the screw will self tap it self. Be careful not to squeeze to hard.
If you are in the habit of taking PD's when replacing a lens, then always compare your taken PD to what the person is wearing!
If you are ordering one lens only in a PAL.. check to see if prism thinning was used.. also you may want to supply the RX of the other eye just as a refrence for the lab.
Well did my "part" for the day .. anyone else want to add to the list?
Sounds silly but if you get into the habit of placing lenses upside-down in the tint pot, you'll never hafta fix an upside-down gradient tint!
For removing AR coatings, there is a product called Armor Etch (for etching glass). It can be purchased at most craft and hobby stores and removes the AR (all but glass) as well as the acid with less risk!
harry, great thread, where is the inventor of all these tricks, Jaw jah Bob!? Ever have to remove a broken off screw? recently learned from a real old-timer, that if you drip some hot candle wax on it, it makes it really easy to remove.
When ordering bifocals with exceptionally lowered segs (e.g., golfing glasses or just for patient preference), make sure to measure and order the O.C. distance above the seg. If you don't, the O.C. will be placed about 2mm above the seg (which will place it well below the patient's line of sight, and will cause problems- especially with anisometropes).
Pete, speaking of golf segs, sometimes we do them at the "top", but you have to remember to order the uncut lenses eye for eye backwards.
On golf segs. I have often put only one on the top outside corner on the side opposite to that which the ball is addressed.
Also had some golfers come back and say that they wanted progressives like tier non-golf glasses. Complaint: They could not see the ball properly with out progressives. Putting progressives in same seems to have solved the problem with no come-backs.
ok heres another tip to help save the enviorment and what your lab can smell like. Next time your ready to use antifreeze or some commercial coolant, forget it. Go down to Sams club and buy a 5 gallon can of peanut oil. It works with no odor and no chemicals and no corrosion and will last a long time.Probably dont even need an MSDS sheet.
Message to Harry A Saake on the 'peanut oil' and not needing an MSDS sheet. I'd be careful with that one – people that are allergic to peanuts get deathly ill with airborne peanut molecules, particulates, or whatever there called. Why do you think airlines have (with the exception of SW) quit serving them and switched to Almonds and/or Trail Mix? I'd make real sure about using that stuff freely in an area that potential visitors/clients could be near.
PS – what do you use antifreeze for?
Also to Harry A Saake regarding high plus lenses in narrow frames. The reason that frames (high curves) tend to straighten out is directly proportionate to the tracer, or pattern, used to edge. Some devices only measure radii and circumference in what is called 'flat state' – non-3D. This will make the 'A' measurement too long for the bent frame. Best bet is to bend the frame first, then trace (or cut a pattern whichever way you do it) and then the 'A' measurement will be in alignment with the physical dimensions of the frame. You can also correct for this manually, by edging slightly large, then sizing by only removing the excess along the long dimension – the 180 or 'A' length.
Message to Pete Hanlin regarding the OC heights on low segs. If the lab is using a good computer system, it should NOT arbitrarily place the OC that close to the seg. Common practice is to place the VOC vertically centered unless specified by the account. Labs that hold a predetermined VOC placement are not doing you or your clients a service – it just makes it easier for the lab. Ever get lenses manufactured that way and notice how either the top or bottom is thicker than the opposing side? By default (with the exception of Progressives and Exec's) the thickness should be equal (barring any prescribed prism).
Just a couple of comments – enjoyed the postings.


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Ao todo, serão disputadas 36 medalhas de ouro, duas a mais do que nos Jogos Olímpicos. Serão disputadas todas as provas olímpicas, com exceção dos 400 metros medley feminino, revezamento 4x200 livre feminino e das duas maratonas aquáticas. Em contrapartida, serão disputadas as provas de 50 metros estilos nado borboleta, nado costas e nado peito para ambos os sexos

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After your game drive take in the awe inspiring views with a hilltop sundowner.
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import sys

state = 0 # State indicates how the current data word should be. 0 means idle, 1 means SOP has been found and metadata is being output, 2 that extra and value are being read and 3 that only value is being read.
operation = 0 # Differentiates between sets and gets
pktCounter = 0
valueLength = 0
packetWord = 0
noOfSOPs = 0
noOfEOPs = 0
EOP = False

def errorCheck(gLine, iLine): # This function uses information recorded during parsing to determine the issue.
    # There are several cases to differentiate from:
    # i) set or get
    # ii)
    global state, pktCounter, operation, EOP
    if (state == 1 or EOP == True):
        if (pktCounter == 0): # This is the 1st header data word (Magic, OpCode, KeyLength, Extraslength, DataType, Status)
            if(iLine[43:45] != gLine[43:45]):
                print("Error. Magic field doesn't match")
            if (iLine[41:43] != gLine[41:43]):
                print("Error. OpCode field doesn't match")
            if(iLine[37:41] != gLine[37:41]):
                print("Error. Key length doesn't match")
            if (iLine[35:37] != gLine[35:37]):
                print("Error. Extras length doesn't match")
            if(iLine[33:35] != gLine[33:35]):
                print("Error. Data type field doesn't match")
            if (iLine[31:35] != gLine[31:35]):
                print("Error. Status field doens't match")
        elif (pktCounter == 1): # This is the 2nd header data word (Length and Opaque)
            temp = iLine[29:37]
            if(iLine[38:45] != gLine[38:45]):
                print("Error. Total length field doesn't match")
            if (iLine[29:37] != gLine[29:37]):
                print("Error. Opaque value doesn't match")
        elif (pktCounter == 2): # this is the data word containing the CAS
            print("Error. CAS doesn't match")
        elif (pktCounter == 3): # This is the data word which is half extras and half value
            if (operation == 1):
                print("Error. Extras and value detected in a set response")
            elif (operation == 0):
                if(iLine[38:45] != gLine[38:45]):
                    print("Error. Extras don't match")
                if (iLine[29:37] != gLine[29:37]):
                    print("Error. Value doesn't match")
        elif (pktCounter > 3): # This includes all other value words except the one which is common with the extras
            if (operation == 1):
                print("Error. Extras and value detectes in a set response")
            elif (operation == 0):
                print("Error. Value doesn't match")

def evalState(iLine): # evaluates the state of the packet
    global noOfSOPs, noOfEOPs, state, pktCounter, operation, EOP
    if (state != 0):
        pktCounter += 1
    if (int(iLine[27:28], 16) % 2 == 1): # SOP found
        noOfSOPs += 1
        state = 1
        operation = int(iLine[41:43], 16)
        # Store the key and  value lengths
        return
    if (int(iLine[28:29], 16) >= 8): # EOP found
        if (state != 0):
            EOP = True
            noOfEOPs += 1
            state = 0
            return
        else:
            # print("Error - Line " + str(counter) + ". EOP found without coresponding SOP")
            return
    if (pktCounter == 1 and operation == 0): # if this is the 2nd packet word and the operation is a get
        valueLength = int(iLine[45:46] + iLine[44:45] + iLine[40:41] + iLine[39:40], 16) - 4

def compareLines(gLine, iLine): # compares the two lines and determines if they match
    match = False
    if (gLine == iLine): # if the lines match
        match = True # set the proper bool to true
    return match # return the proper variable

if (len(sys.argv) !=3):
	print("Error! Incorrect number of arguments passed.")
	sys.exit(2)
else:
	gFileName = sys.argv[1] # All graphs are saved as images if activated
	iFileName = sys.argv[2] # Graph output is activatedd if true
counter = 0
goldenFile = open(gFileName, 'r')
inputFile = open(iFileName, 'r')
for iLine in inputFile:
	counter += 1
	line = iLine.split()
	if (line[3] == "2"):
		#evalState(iLine)
		gLine = goldenFile.readline()
        	if (compareLines(gLine, iLine) == False):
			errorCheck(gLine, iLine)
			print("Error! Output line " + str(counter) + " not identical.")
			sys.exit(1)
	else:
		continue
	if (EOP == True):
		EOP = False
		pktCounter = 0
gLine = goldenFile.readline()   # probe the golden file for additional lines
if (gLine != ""):
	if (counter == 0):
        	print("Error! Input file is empty.")
    	else:
        	print("Error! Output not complete/missing.")
    	sys.exit(1)

#if counter == 0:
	#print("Error! Input file is empty.")
	#sys.exit(1)

print("No. of SOPS: " + str(noOfSOPs) + " - No. of EOPs: " + str(noOfEOPs))
print ("Files match 100%")
inputFile.close()
goldenFile.close()

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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Wednesday 24 August 2022 6:15 am
We're ignoring a basic tool to help the poorest with their energy bills right now
By: Rosie Beacon
Rosie Beacon is a senior policy analyst at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change
Energy bills could hit £5,000 by next year. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)
In the throes of an inflation induced cost of living crisis, energy prices need urgent political and policy attention. The plans put forward tend to vary around traditional conceptions of more tax, less tax or price suppression – but there are also ways the government can do highly targeted interventions to people in need.
Targeted cash relief is often posited as a more equitable solution because it directs taxpayers' money to those most in need over those that would probably be fine without any help. And to be fair to the government, they have been giving people cash where possible, but the point is how best this can be executed and how we build an infrastructure that allows them to do this quickly in a crisis – like right now.
There are two fundamental questions in delivering targeted interventions like this. There is the philosophical question of who is most deserving of help, and the logistical question of how to actually deliver it. And answering these questions is a lot easier with more and better use of one crucial asset – data. It is true that 'data' as a term can be so overused, ("data is the new oil") that it's easy to dismiss it as hype rather than see it as a genuinely useful tool at the government's disposal.
But look to Portugal, who delivered their Social Energy Tariff to people proactively (i.e. without them having to sign up for it or even know it exists). Upon realising that people who should have benefitted from the tariff were not registering for it, they automated the process. Portugal managed to corral the data from both the public and private sector – the energy companies, the tax system and the social security system. And so the number of households receiving the tariff then increased from 154,648 to 726,795, seamlessly providing financial support to 7 per cent of the Portuguese population for the cost of their energy.
Soaring energy bills could plunge Britain into a 'humanitarian crisis,' NHS leaders warn
The proactive element of Portugal's policy – enabled by data – is important, because the fact that people have to actively know about policies to ensure they get it can hinder take-up, limiting financial support. The closest equivalent to this in the UK, the Warm Homes Discount Scheme, requires people to reach out to their supplier to find out if they're eligible, and then apply online.
In further contrast to Portugal, not only does a lack of useful data limit how much support people actually receive, but it can also create botched and unnecessarily complex policies. The council tax rebate announced in February to assist with energy bills relies on property values from 1991, and if your house was built after 1991, a 1991 valuation is created and used to determine the council tax bands. Even then, everyone within the eligible bands gets the same amount because council tax famously does not take into account the inhabitant's income.
With all of this said, it may be that targeted interventions are not always the way forward. They come with more questions than just how to deliver – who should receive the money, how much money, how it is paid for, how long this support will last. And it does not help solve the long term question of how we transition to renewable energy sources.
The notion that plausible policy ideas could be dismissed not because they might be the wrong choice, but because it would simply be impossible to calculate or deliver properly, when the government does have the data, is absurd.
Utilita Energy boss calls on the UK government to freeze the energy price cap
For many policies, the necessary data does exist, but it is spread all over government – one department might have your date of birth, another your income, and so on. So trying to bring together disparate databases for any sort of policy design or delivery can be a gruelling task. And where this can be overcome, there is then the obstacle of outdated code and data architecture that nobody understands because it was built in the 1970s.
Streamlining databases across public services is such an obvious win for any government to instantly improve the quality of policies they produce, especially in a crisis. And politically, being able to put cash into the right people's pockets delivers tangible public value quickly and easily.
But a chronic lack of prioritisation and under investment in data infrastructure makes Portugal's Social Energy Tariff seem like a distant dream. It's not that the government cannot deliver more targeted, more proactive services, it's that they don't.
Ignore the re-heated Thatcherism but listen to Truss: we need a growth plan
josh williams
Let's be honest, we are suffering from a national crisis of bad vibes
matthew lesh
A complicated funding model for apprenticeships means we miss the people we need
simon eaves
PMQs sketch: Volodymyr Zelenskyy is the benefactor Sunak's broken Britain headache
A Big Tech-style restructure in Whitehall might just make our science sector
Daniel korski
An outdated Culture Department prioritised Centre Parcs over innovative start ups
Dom hallas
Poor educational outcomes for today's children could create a future wave of crime
Paul ormerod
Analysis: HS2, the eternal political hot potato


As an example, Cameron Brate is listed below as a "start" for Week 5. And I'd feel comfortable going into Week 5 with him as my starting tight end.
In other words, if you owned both Travis Kelce and Brate, you should start Kelce -- and in turn, bench Brate.
With one-fourth of the season complete, Clay has scored the fourth-most fantasy points at the position behind only Rob Gronkowski, Travis Kelce and Zach Ertz. Even if the Bills are a run-dominant team, the tight end has a position-high 25.51-percent team target share. Given the injury to Jordan Matthews, the team's most productive wide receiver, Clay's target share has only become more secure.
The matchup against the Bengals isn't great and only the Jaguars are projected to score fewer points this week based on implied totals from Vegas odds. Given his volume, role and production within the passing offense, however, Clay is a top-five play this week once again.
Most (including me) expected Henry to take a step forward in his second season. In terms of fantasy production, at least, it's been a disappointment for his fantasy owners. In fact, Henry has gone untargeted in two of the team's four games even though he caught a touchdown in Week 4.
Based on the strength of New York's pass defense, it makes sense for opponents to funnel pass attempts to tight ends over the middle of the field. Let's hope that Henry is utilized in a way that allows him to exploit the matchup. The Giants have allowed the most fantasy points to the position this season. In addition, the Giants have allowed four top-five weekly TE performances and another TE9 performance in just four games.
Even if O.J. Howard has out-snapped Brate by a margin of 122 to 99 this season, Brate has run a pass route on 25 more snaps than Howard over the team's three games. Scoring a touchdown in each of his past two games, Brate has a total of 10 catches on 13 targets for 137 yards. In another plus matchup -- the Patriots have allowed the fifth-most fantasy points to the position, Brate has the potential to provide fantasy owners with another useful outing.
Through four games, the 49ers have allowed just 10 catches for 77 yards and the fewest fantasy points to opposing tight ends -- less than two fantasy points per game. Doyle has five-plus targets in each of the past three games, but he has a total of only 43 yards in the past two weeks. Given some of the positive matchups of others at the position, Doyle is outside my top-12 fantasy tight ends for the week.
Outside of his matchup againt the Giants in Week 2 (5/42/1), Ebron has had very disappointing outings -- two catches in each of the three other games with nine yards, nine yards and 27 yards, respectively. The matchup this week against the Panthers is not favorable. Only three teams have allowed fewer fantasy points to the position this season.
With six catches for 68 yards and two touchdowns on a 23.3-percent target share last week, Kroft was fantasy's top-scoring tight end in Week 4. Even if his volume of targets was encouraging, Kroft won't be ranked inside my top-12 fantasy tight ends even if Tyler Eifert misses another game. The Bills have allowed the sixth-fewest fantasy points to opposing tight ends this season.


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Brian Michael John Young (né le ), est un homme politique britannique, qui fut le  magistrat des Îles Pitcairn de 1984 à 1991.

En 2007, dans le cadre de l'Affaire des Îles Pitcairn, il fut déclaré coupable de viol et d'attentat à la pudeur (entre autres, sur des jeunes filles de 7 ans), et a été condamné à six ans et six mois de prison'.

Notes et références

Naissance en septembre 1954
Personnalité politique des îles Pitcairn
Personnalité politique condamnée pour agression sexuelle sur mineur
Personnalité britannique condamnée pour abus sexuel sur mineur
Personnalité politique emprisonnée
Prisonnier de droit commun britannique


The invention of the paint tube in the 19th century changed the pictorial landscape. This new way of packaging colour pigments had a major impact on the artistic world. And artists would subsequently change their painting methods in this new, technologically progressive world.
This new era of the 19th century was the dawn of much change. Studios began to fade away and art schools popped up. Colour pigment sellers gradually replaced students grinding pigments for their masters. The art industry thus invested in colour which was now being manufactured using standardised processes. Painting was becoming a profitable business. In addition to professional artists there were now Sunday painters or dabblers. The range of coloured paints was expanding.
The big problem with oil paints was how to package them. Pig bladders were simply not up to the job. In 1841 the American artist John Goffe Rand filed a tube patent so that paint could be contained in a tin tube with a lid. Paint packaged in tin tubes came from England, marketed by art suppliers Winsor & Newton. Over in France, Lefranc & Bourgeois were a big part of this change by making improvements to the substances added, making them less toxic on the one hand and on the other, ensuring that the shades of paint sold had more stability and fixity. The high point was the marketing of a flexible tube with a screw top in 1859. These new paints had better adhesion properties on a variety of canvases, were more indelible, dried better (and faster), kept their shades over time and shine and dullness were easier to obtain. Best of all, the paint inside the tubes was far more mobile, meaning artists could paint in situ – often outside.
Although the paint tube appeared three decades before the official date given for the start of Impressionism – the stirrings of which obviously had more ancient roots and filiations – it was given a decisive role in the evolution of pictorial art. The tube of paint, along with the flourishing of trains and photography, two concomitantly technological and technical evolutions that urged the art of painting to move with its time, breaking with old traditions.
Photography and portraiture exempted pictorial art from a mimetic representation of reality in some way.
So Impressionism is considerably indebted to the invention of the tube of paint. It might never have taken place without it.


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Artwork by Sandbox Studio, Chicago with Corinne Mucha
By Sarah Charley and Kathryn Jepsen
The discovery of the Higgs boson, considered the missing piece of the Standard Model of particle physics, was the result of a marathon of methodical work performed by hundreds of scientists, many of them graduate students and postdocs.
Six years later, Symmetry catches up with four scientists who followed their curiosity from Higgs research to brand new enterprises.
Joanna Weng
When Joanna Weng was a kid, there was never any question about whether she would pursue science.
"I had a chemistry experimental kit as a kid, and I wanted to understand how things work," she says. "Also, MacGyver was my favorite TV series, and he was a physicist as well."
In college, Weng's physics professor told stories about CERN. Her uncle, also a physics professor, told her about the streets there named after famous physicists.
"It seemed like such a magical place," she says.
As a master's student, she had the opportunity to see CERN for herself, and she was hooked. She stayed at the European research center, working on experiments at the Large Hadron Collider, through her PhD and then afterward as a postdoc. She was surprised by how well the gigantic collaborations worked and loved the international environment.
"Flat hierarchies and nationality don't really matter if everyone is pursuing the same goal," she says. "Working with these people was truly amazing. I'm still friends with many of them today."
By the time the LHC first started on September 10, 2008, Weng was in her first year as a postdoc and had already spent five years working to commission the CMS detector and creating simulations of what new discoveries such as the long-sought Higgs boson would look like in the CMS experiment. She was ready. But less than 10 days later, she and her colleagues were hit with a major setback: A faulty electrical bus connection led to extensive damages of several LHC magnets, and the accelerator was temporarily out of commission.
"It was a frustrating time for my generation of physicists," she says.
While engineers repaired the LHC, Weng and her colleagues continued to test and optimize their software and data transfers. ("Looking back," she says, "I should have taken more holidays.")
The accelerator restarted on November 20, 2009. In 2010, Weng finally got her hands on her first batch of LHC data. On July 4, 2012, the CMS and ATLAS collaborations declared the discovery of the Higgs boson.
"It was great," Weng says, "but I was also a bit disappointed we did not discover something completely unexpected, something new. It felt like we just confirmed something everybody was expecting anyway."
She considered her options. "I didn't want to keep moving from postdoc to postdoc, and trying to become a professor didn't seem like a good option either, due to the very limited number of fixed positions," she says. "After 10 years of fundamental research, I decided to do something more applied."
After taking some time off, Weng found a job as a risk analyst for a Swiss nuclear power plant. Her responsibilities drew heavily on her ability to simulate and evaluate data as a means of predicting the future.
"The Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan happened in part because the strength and risks of tsunamis were underestimated," she says. "To evaluate the safety of the nuclear power plant, we looked at everything from the likelihood of a plane crashing into the power plant to simulating and evaluating what would happen during a natural disaster, such as a flooding. It was very exciting, and I learned a lot in new areas like engineering and reliability predictions."
After the plant was scheduled to be shut down in 2019, Weng started teaching at a university in Zürich. "They were looking for someone with experience evaluating risks and also knowledge in particle accelerators," she says. "It was a very specific profile which matched my experience perfectly."
Today, Weng's career has come nearly full circle. She works on safety analysis for particle accelerators, and she collaborates with colleagues at CERN and the European Spallation Source in Sweden.
"Looking back, I made the right choice of both doing particle physics and then leaving particle physics," she says. "I enjoyed my life at CERN, and I'm enjoying my life after."
Andrew Hard
In 2012, Andrew Hard had just started his second year of graduate school when his adviser, University of Wisconsin Professor Sau Lan Wu, asked him to get a head start analyzing a fresh set of data collected by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC.
"I was young and eager, so I agreed," he says.
For the next several months, Hard worked around the clock in what turned out to be the final sprint in a decades-long marathon to find the Higgs boson.
"There was no work-life balance during the discovery," he says. "I was even questioned by the Swiss police one time as I left CERN because they didn't believe that anyone would work until 3 a.m."
Now Hard spends his hours analyzing data for Google—and usually gets home in time for dinner with his wife. "The days are still a bit long, but it beats the late nights and Sunday meetings in graduate school," he says.
Like most physicists, Hard was drawn to particle physics because of his fondness for problem solving. "I love a challenge," he says. "Understanding the nature of the universe is one of the hardest problems I can imagine."
The start-up of the LHC offered budding researchers like Hard the opportunity to tackle what had been one of the most enduring questions in physics: How do fundamental particles get their mass? According to Hard, this was both exciting and all-consuming.
He was working on a search for two photons coming from the decay of a single, massive particle—a rare (but clear and clean) predicted sign of the Higgs. On June 22, 2012, he and another colleague ran the data through their code, and a prominent bump immediately arose right around a mass range where the ATLAS scientists thought they might find it.
"We soon got confirmation that other ATLAS analysts were seeing the same thing," Hard says.
Not long after, the ATLAS and CMS experiments announced the discovery of the Higgs.
"I actually went through a miniature existential crisis following the public announcement of the results," Hard says. "Everything had been focused on this one thing: discovery. Once that was over, I didn't know what to do with myself."
After earning his PhD, Hard decided to pursue a new kind of search.
"During my first interview with Google, I mentioned that CERN and Google are both in the business of search, and the primary difference is the dataset," he says. "The interviewer seemed to like that."
Today, Hard is a software engineer using machine learning to improve GBoard, a virtual keyboard for mobile devices with features such as and hand-drawn emoji recognition and voice dictation. He says his training as a physicist prepared him to work across domains such as computing, statistics, mathematics and electronics, and his regular research presentations made him more confident as a public speaker.
He says he's proud of his time working at CERN and his contributions to the discovery of the Higgs.
"I think that CERN plays an invaluable role in growing the collective knowledge of our species, and I was glad to contribute to that endeavor. My personal focus has just switched to increasing access to that knowledge."
Géraldine Conti
Géraldine Conti may have found her career path wishing on a star.
"During high school I started taking astronomy classes," she says. Her fascination with astronomy led to a fascination with particle physics, which eventually led to her current job at the Walt Disney Company.
"When I discovered that you could do machine learning at Disney, which for me is the most magical industry, I was so excited," she says.
Conti earned her PhD in 2010 working on the LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. The hunt for the Higgs boson was heating up, so for her postdoc she decided to switch experiments and join in on the excitement. "The LHC and its experiments were designed to look for the Higgs," she says. "I thought that if the Higgs would be discovered at the LHC, I should definitely be part of its discovery."
She started a postdoctoral research position at Harvard University, where she developed models that forecasted background events that mimic the signals predicted for the Higgs for the ATLAS experiment. She honed her ability to sift through the large and complicated data sets and find clandestine patterns.
In 2012, the ATLAS and CMS experiments announced the discovery of the Higgs boson. In 2016, Conti used her experience with large data sets to land a job at Disney. "I'm working with our Disney parks partners, applying the latest developments in machine learning to help them find ways to offer even better, more personalized guest experiences," she says.
She says she finds surprisingly little difference between her current work at Disney and previous career as a physicist. "In both, we have research projects, develop code to do the analyses, and work in an international environment," she says. "Only the nature of the data is fundamentally different."
In addition to teaching her to draw meaning and insight from large and complex data sets, Conti found that her work as a physicist made her more dynamic and adaptable.
"As a physicist, you work on hardware, software and physics analyses, often simultaneously," she says. "You get a broad field of competences, but most importantly, you get the confidence that you can adapt to new topics quickly and with success."
Manuel Olmedo remembers looking through used books as a 15-year-old at a cafe in Tijuana on in 2004 and finding a copy of A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking in Spanish.
"It had nice pictures of the fission process," he says. "I showed it to my dad, and he got it for me as a gift."
Nine years later, he found himself in a setting straight out of Hawking's book: working at CERN European research center, studying the recently discovered Higgs boson.
Olmedo was born in Mexico and moved with his family to the US when he was 13. His school placed him in the second lowest level of their English-as-a-second-language courses due to his reading comprehension skills.
"So I went to the library, grabbed a book that looked hard and started reading," he says. "As I got better, I started reading Harry Potter."
He remembers reading a science textbook around that time and seeing a short segment that stuck with him: It was about the CDF and DZero experiments at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, where scientists had discovered the top quark in 1995. "I didn't really know English," he says, "but I remember seeing this sidebar about a woman who studied quarks on the DZero experiment and thinking, 'What's a quark?'"
By the 9th grade, Olmedo had transitioned out of the ESL program. After high school, he went to the University of California, Santa Barbara to study physics.
"I had this amazing professor," Olmedo says. "I would go to his office hours and we would ponder the world together. He taught me that understanding reality meant looking beyond what our eyes could see."
In spring 2013, Olmedo moved to CERN to analyze a rare decay of the Higgs boson—into a pair of particles of light—as a part of the CMS experiment.
"The CMS data sets were too big to do this analysis efficiently," he says. "My main project was to identify and isolate the pertinent information so that the entire collaboration could move much faster."
Olmedo's work helped finalize the so-called CMS Higgs legacy paper, which showed the collaboration's first detailed measurements of the particle it had co-discovered.
After completing his PhD, Olmedo wanted to see what else particle physics had to offer. "I felt like particle physics is this huge tree, and I was just hanging onto a little twig. There's so many branches and so many ways to look for new physics."
Oldmedo is still looking beyond what his eyes can see, studying invisible particles called neutrinos as a postdoc for the University of Hawaii and a member of the Antarctic Impulse Transient Antenna collaboration. The ANITA experiment floats huge balloons carrying radio antennas above Antarctica to look for signs of high-energy cosmic neutrinos skimming the ice and emitting radio waves.
"It's a much smaller experiment and collaboration than CMS, but I find myself using a lot of the same skills," Olmedo says. "It's also a lot of fun, which I think is a very important quality in scientific research."
Particle people
Meet some of the people who make up the world of particle physics and astrophysics.
Taking a risk on theoretical physics
Even world-famous theorist Juan Maldacena wasn't sure at first whether he should pursue a PhD in physics.
Drag racing and black hole physics
The first undergraduate on the Event Horizon Telescope to receive junior collaborator status thrives in the unknown.
The persevering physicist
To both understand the universe and improve equity, inclusion and diversity in physics, Brian Beckford looks to one word: respect.


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Q: the filter function is not correct? the filter function should return the complete list of members as long as the search input is empty, only the complete list is shown when the page is loaded but once I type letters or a name the name remains and when deleting letters or the complete name the complete list is not returned, but the first search remains.
import React, { useState, useEffect } from 'react'
import { useDispatch } from "react-redux";
import { getCollegiate } from '../../api/drupalAPI'
import {Collegiate} from '@icofcv/common';
import { useNavigate } from "react-router-dom";
import Button from 'react-bootstrap/Button';
import Form from 'react-bootstrap/Form';
import './CollegiateList.css';

export const CollegiateList = () => {

    const [collegiateList, setCollegiateList] = useState<Collegiate[]>([]);
    const [searchCollegiate, setSearchCollegiate] = useState("");
    console.log(searchCollegiate);

    const fetchCollegiateList = async () => {
        getCollegiate().then((response)=>{
            console.log(response)
            setCollegiateList(response);
        }).catch ( (error)  => {
            console.error(error);
            throw error;
        });
    }

    const handleChange=e=>{
        setSearchCollegiate(e.target.value);
        filter(e.target.value);
      }

      const filter=(termSearch)=>{
        var resultSearch= collegiateList.filter((element)=>{
          if(element.firstname.toString().toLowerCase().includes(termSearch.toLowerCase())
          || element.lastname.toString().toLowerCase().includes(termSearch.toLowerCase())
          ){
            return element;
          }
        });
        setCollegiateList(resultSearch);
      }

    useEffect (() => {
        fetchCollegiateList();
    }, []);

    return(
            <>

                    <Form className="d-flex">
                        <Form.Control
                        type="search"
                        value={searchCollegiate}
                        placeholder="Search"
                        className="me-2"
                        aria-label="Search"
                        onChange={handleChange}
                        />
                        {/* <Button variant="outline-success">Search</Button> */}
                    </Form>

                              Tipo
                              Colegiado
                              Nombre
                              Apellido
                              Provincia

                      {
                          collegiateList.map((collegiate) => (

                                    {collegiate.color}
                                    {collegiate.collegiate}
                                    {collegiate.firstname}
                                    {collegiate.lastname}
                                    {collegiate.provincia}

                      ))
                  }

            </>
    )
}

A: Yes that is not the way you should use it, the filter function keep the element depending if the function returns a boolean or not, see below how you should do it
const searchFilter = (termSearch) => {
  setCollegiateList(prev => prev.filter(element => element.firstname.toString().toLowerCase().includes(termSearch.toLowerCase()) || element.lastname.toString().toLowerCase().includes(termSearch.toLowerCase())))
}

A: Because you have already overwritten the list array while searching so you won't get that, You need 2 state for this one with filter and other without filter applied
import React, { useState, useEffect } from 'react'
import { useDispatch } from "react-redux";
import { getCollegiate } from '../../api/drupalAPI'
import {Collegiate} from '@icofcv/common';
import { useNavigate } from "react-router-dom";
import Button from 'react-bootstrap/Button';
import Form from 'react-bootstrap/Form';
import './CollegiateList.css';

export const CollegiateList = () => {

    const [collegiateList, setCollegiateList] = useState<Collegiate[]>([]);
    const [collegiateListFiltered, setCollegiateListFiltered] = useState<Collegiate[]>([]);
    const [searchCollegiate, setSearchCollegiate] = useState("");
    console.log(searchCollegiate);

    const fetchCollegiateList = async () => {
        getCollegiate().then((response)=>{
            console.log(response)
            setCollegiateList(response);
            setCollegiateListFiltered(response)
        }).catch ( (error)  => {
            console.error(error);
            throw error;
        });
    }

    const handleChange=e=>{
        setSearchCollegiate(e.target.value);
        filter(e.target.value);
      }

      const filter=(termSearch)=>{
        var resultSearch= collegiateList.filter((element)=>{
          if(element.firstname.toString().toLowerCase().includes(termSearch.toLowerCase())
          || element.lastname.toString().toLowerCase().includes(termSearch.toLowerCase())
          ){
            return element;
          }
        });
        setCollegiateListFiltered(resultSearch);
      }

    useEffect (() => {
        fetchCollegiateList();
    }, []);

    return(
            <>

                    <Form className="d-flex">
                        <Form.Control
                        type="search"
                        value={searchCollegiate}
                        placeholder="Search"
                        className="me-2"
                        aria-label="Search"
                        onChange={handleChange}
                        />
                        {/* <Button variant="outline-success">Search</Button> */}
                    </Form>

                              Tipo
                              Colegiado
                              Nombre
                              Apellido
                              Provincia

                      {
                          collegiateListFiltered.map((collegiate) => (

                                    {collegiate.color}
                                    {collegiate.collegiate}
                                    {collegiate.firstname}
                                    {collegiate.lastname}

A: Where do you store your full list? Looks like you override your list collegiateList with every call of filter function? And where you check empty string for filtering?
Also you can call useEffect depends on [searchCollegiate] and do filter inside callback function

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SCHULER Consulting in mourning: Gerhard Schuler passed away aged 92
The founder of the SCHULER Consulting GmbH, Mr. Gerhard Schuler, passed away peacefully at home on February 23, 2020, accompanied by his family.
Firmengründer Gerhard Schuler
Following an apprenticeship as a carpenter, in 1952 Gerhard Schuler passed his master's examination with distinction. Next, he completed his studies to become a wood technology engineer in Rosenheim, Bavaria. After this thorough vocational training, Gerhard Schuler successfully worked as a foreman of a furniture company in the Black Forest. At the age of 29, he became self-employed as a company consultant in the wood industry and founded his office for business organization and planning, today's SCHULER Consulting GmbH.
In 1960, Gerhard Schuler and Eugen Hornberger jointly established the company Hornberger Maschinenbaugesellschaft oHG, the precursor of today's HOMAG Group. Since the company's inception, as a Managing Director and member of the Board of Management Gerhard Schuler continued to shape the HOMAG Group until the year 2015, most recently as Honorary Chairman of the Supervisory Board of HOMAG Group AG.
In all the years of his service, Gerhard Schuler always paid special attention to the interests of his employees and customers. Even in difficult times, he always stood by his employees. Structures in line with mutual trust and partnership and allowing the employees to participate in the company's success were always extremely important to him and close to his heart. In doing so, he pursued the values and visions which still today and over generations will shape SCHULER Consulting GmbH.
This resulted in a specific corporate culture. It was important to Gerhard Schuler to develop employees into co-entrepreneurs, such as the implementation of partnership-based leadership guidelines as well as his commitment to in-house and external vocational and advanced staff training. To him, these attributes were the recipe to corporate success and a key contribution to the company's competitiveness.
Gerhard Schuler received numerous distinctions and awards for his huge dedication and commitment:
Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1st class
Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, with ribbon
Appointment as Professor of the Nanjing Forestry University China
Honorary Senator of the Technical College of Rosenheim, Bavaria
Hugo Laue Medal from Rosenheim University
Business medal awarded by the federal state of Baden-Württemberg
Medal of merit of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Northern Black Forest
CCI medal for future-oriented dealing with the environment
Eumacop prize award for outstanding entrepreneural life achievement for the benefit of the entire industry segment
Civic medal "Christophtaler in Gold" awarded by the city of Freudenstadt
In Mr. Schuler, Germany and HOMAG have lost an outstanding and important entrepreneurial personality who had a vision for the company and the entire industry.
On behalf of all employees of SCHULER Consulting GmbH and in deep gratitude the Management Board Mr. Elias Wagner and Mr. Uwe Jonas expresses everyone's heartfelt condolences to the Schuler family.
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Following a 107-day-long wave of violence, repression, threats, and harassment inflicted upon the Nicaraguan people at the hands of Sandinista mobs, parapolice groups, and paramilitaries, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) granted precautionary measures on August 2, 2018 in favor of members of the Alianza Cívica por la Justicia y la Democracia [Civic Alliance for Justice and Democracy] representing the private sector who participate in the Diálogo Nacional por Nicaragua [National Dialogue for Nicaragua] and are victims of persecution, harassment, threats, smears, and accusations by groups allied with the current government.
The claimants – Michael Edwing Healy Lacayo, José Adán Aguerri Chamorro, Felipe Argüero, Álvaro Javier Vargas Duarte, Claudia Neira Bermúdez, Juan Sebastián Chamorro, and Juan Carlos Gutiérrez Soto – together with their relatives who were identified in the proceedings, declared in the denunciation they submitted to the IACHR that since the outset of the National Dialogue they have been the object of threats issued by journalists from media outlets allied with the government, as well as by other anonymous actors seeking to intimidate them.
Likewise, they declared they had received explicit threats in the form of WhatsApp messages that singled them out as being 'mafiosos,' 'criminals,' and 'Sandinista supporters.' The denunciations made by the beneficiaries also include the receipt of death threats [and] the burning of and trespassing onto their properties, as was the case with Michael Edwing Healy Lacayo, President of the Unión de Productores Agropecuaríos de Nicaragua [Union of Agricultural Producers of Nicaragua] (UPANIC), whose farm was violently expropriated by assailants. As of the date this resolution was filed, the trespassers were taking advantage of the farm's plantain harvest.
Similarly, those requesting protective measures were the victims of threats to their good reputations [and] public calumny and slander by being called 'terrorists' and 'assassins.' In addition, evidence was made known to the public of threats sent to the beneficiaries' personal telephones and email addresses, as well as harassment, persecution, and intimidation by government sympathizers.
As stated in Resolution 58/2018 issued by the IACHR, "the information submitted demonstrates that the rights to life and personal integrity of the claimants, as well as those of their relatives, are at serious and urgent risk." For that reason, under Article 25 of IACHR Regulations, the government of Nicaragua was asked to safeguard and adopt the necessary measures to guarantee the rights to life and personal integrity of the claimants, as well as to ensure that State agents respect the rights of the beneficiaries and those related to risky acts attributable to third parties. Lastly, the Commission requested a report on the actions adopted in order to investigate the present incidents that led to the adoption of said precautionary measures and prevent their repetition.
The International Institute on Race, Equality, and Human Rights condemns the perpetration of today's acts of violence, repression, harassment, arbitrary detention, disappearance, and criminalization of the human rights defenders and activists in the country by the current government. Consistent with its work of protecting and promoting human rights, Race & Equality will continue supporting the work of denouncing [rights violations] as well as promoting and protecting Nicaraguans' human rights. We call on the Nicaraguan government to attend to the IACHR's recommendations, so as to safeguard the comprehensive protection of the lives of the populace.


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Memorable Manitobans: Arthur Lewis Sifton (1858-?)
Lawyer, judge.
Born at Middlesex, Ontario on 26 October 1858, son of John W. Sifton and Kate Watkins (c1834-1909), brother of Clifford Sifton, he was educated at public schools, Wesley College, and Victoria University. He was called to the bar in 1883 and moved to Alberta in 1889. He was elected a member of the Northwest Council in 1898 and was appointed Commissioner of Public Works for the North West Territories (1901), Chief Justice of the North West Territories (1903), and Chief Justice of Alberta (1907). He stepped down from the bench in May 1910 to become Premier of Alberta. He married Mary H. Deering of Cobourg, Ontario and they had one son and one daughter. He was a member of the Ranchman's Club (Calgary) and Edmonton Club (Edmonton).
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Oliver Stone Fails History ... Again
Updated Apr. 21, 2017 12:25PM ET / Published Jan. 24, 2013 3:55PM ET
Conrad Black takes another whack at Oliver Stone.
On its face, it is fantastic that even Stone, who as a cinematic presenter of American history has not had both oars in the water for many decades, could po-facedly claim that it would have been a benign development if Wallace had been renominated for the vice presidency in 1944 and succeeded to the presidency on the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt on April 12, 1945, instead of Harry S. Truman. …
The facts are that Roosevelt, once he got a good look at Wallace, thought him an impressionable kook, with commendably altruistic goals, but too naïve and gullible for the highest offices, and he agreed and ordered his removal in favor of Truman, but felt sufficient sympathy for Wallace to retain him in the completely inappropriate position of commerce secretary (though Wallace proved a very able businessman after his political career). It is little wonder that, as Stone and Kuznick pointed out in the Times on January 16, Roosevelt thought there was "no one more of the American soil" than Wallace, since Wallace and his family owned one of the country's leading agricultural publications, Wallace was a serious agronomist, and he and his father had served three presidents a total of twelve years as secretary of agriculture. But this has nothing to do with the Cold War.


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package org.apache.maven.repository.legacy;

import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;
import javax.inject.Named;
import javax.inject.Singleton;
import org.apache.maven.wagon.ConnectionException;
import org.apache.maven.wagon.InputData;
import org.apache.maven.wagon.OutputData;
import org.apache.maven.wagon.ResourceDoesNotExistException;
import org.apache.maven.wagon.StreamWagon;
import org.apache.maven.wagon.TransferFailedException;
import org.apache.maven.wagon.authentication.AuthenticationException;
import org.apache.maven.wagon.authorization.AuthorizationException;
import org.apache.maven.wagon.resource.Resource;

@Named("string")
@Singleton
public class StringWagon extends StreamWagon {
    private Map<String, String> expectedContent = new HashMap<>();

    public void addExpectedContent(String resourceName, String expectedContent) {
        this.expectedContent.put(resourceName, expectedContent);
    }

    public String[] getSupportedProtocols() {
        return new String[] {"string"};
    }

    @Override
    public void closeConnection() throws ConnectionException {}

    @Override
    public void fillInputData(InputData inputData)
            throws TransferFailedException, ResourceDoesNotExistException, AuthorizationException {
        Resource resource = inputData.getResource();

        String content = expectedContent.get(resource.getName());

        if (content != null) {
            resource.setContentLength(content.length());
            resource.setLastModified(System.currentTimeMillis());

            inputData.setInputStream(new ByteArrayInputStream(content.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8)));
        } else {
            throw new ResourceDoesNotExistException("No content provided for " + resource.getName());
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void fillOutputData(OutputData outputData) throws TransferFailedException {
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    @Override
    protected void openConnectionInternal() throws ConnectionException, AuthenticationException {}

    public void clearExpectedContent() {
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}


Schoolfilms is a film production company specialising in films for schools and educational organisations.
Schoolfilms is unique as it is founded and run by a dedicated team of EMMY and International award winning filmmakers who are passionate about education.
We work very closely with schools and educational organisations to work out the the best strategy to communicate the most important messages.


A commission compensation agreement is a payment contract in which the employee earns a percentage of the sales that he or she makes. Establishing fair compensation for your sales team can help you attract the best people for this challenging job, which requires determination, the ability to persuade others while building trust, an appealing personality, and expansive product knowledge.
Many employers opt to use a commission-only compensation agreement because of the low risk; they only need to pay the salesperson if he or she generates profit.
Companies may use various formulas and guidelines to calculate commissions. For example, service-based businesses may offer a flat fee for every customer appointment completed. Other businesses pay a profit percentage. Variable commissions include incentives for high sales volumes; for example, a flat rate of $30 for the first 10 products sold, $40 for the next ten, and so on. Residual commissions are provided for active accounts; for example, an insurance agent who signs a new customer may receive a payment each month they retain the service.
While salespeople can make substantial profits on commission, the industry by nature provides an irregular income. This means that commission compensation agreements can lead to risk for the employee. Before accepting a sales position, carefully review the compensation agreement so that you understand what to expect.
You want to establish a new employee's rights and obligations and he or she will be fully or partially paid on commission.
You have accepted a new sales job and want to make sure the terms of the position, including commission, are documented.
This agreement includes a description of employee roles and responsibilities, commission percentage and terms, salary amount where applicable, and in some cases, non-compete and confidentiality clauses. Establishing formal terms with this type of agreement can help prevent future misunderstandings.
A flat-fee salary arrangement is not recommended for sales employees since they may not be motivated to produce without an incentive. Consider offering a salary plus bonus arrangement if you want to supply your employees with steady income while providing a financial incentive to perform.
Some employees and employers prefer a draw arrangement in which the salesperson is assigned a threshold, such as $1,000 per week. If he or she does not meet that threshold in commission, the draw payment is made. If the draw payment is exceeded, the salesperson keeps the commission. However, the incentive is invalid if the employee rarely makes the draw.
In most states, employers have flexibility in setting sales commission terms and agreements, provided they pay out commissions as agreed. Vague terms can lead to confusion and disagreements. For example, how are commissions handled if a sale is refunded? What if a salesperson is giving discounts to create higher sales figures? In many cases, courts find in favor of the employee in cases like these.
If this is not documented in the commission agreement, courts usually use the order date as the default date for sales to be credited. Be specific on the methods and systems that employees may use to document sales. You should also create a recovery policy indicating that the commission is not received if the order is not paid for, canceled, or returned.
If your company uses a tiered commission plan in which different sales amounts are subject to different rates, make sure this is carefully explained and documented. If an employee files a wage complaint, the labor department will check the level of transparency you provided.
Update and review your plan each year so it reflects changes such as evolving employee roles and new laws. Compensation experts, including attorneys who specialize in employment and related areas of law, can review your plan to make sure it covers your bases.
If you need help with developing a commission compensation agreement, you can post your legal need on UpCounsel's marketplace. UpCounsel accepts only the top 5 percent of lawyers to its site. Lawyers on UpCounsel come from law schools such as Harvard Law and Yale Law and average 14 years of legal experience, including work with or on behalf of companies like Google, Menlo Ventures, and Airbnb.


Time was, he says, looking out over a mass of graphics cards that used to be fields when he was a kid, you didn't need a power connector for your GPU. Not a lifetime ago, either. I'm talking fifteen years. No fans, no moving parts, no power connectors. Just a plain old PCB with '3DFX' printed somewhere and 16MB of memory. For those who remember such days, it's comforting to hear that Asus have managed to get NVIDIA's GTX 950 operational at just 75W – enough to rely on power from the PCI-e connection alone.
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The Asus GTX950-2G is powered by the same GM206 processing unit found in 960 and other 950 cards, albeit a stripped-down version designed to bring down the power draw from 90W, as with NVIDIA's reference GTX 950, down to the required 75W.
However, it's still kitted out with OC and gaming modes, which give the GTX950-2G higher clock speeds higher than NVIDIA's reference of 1024MHz base, 1188MHz boost. At its default 'Gaming' mode it's clocked at 1026MHz base and 1190MHz boost, and in the more powerful OC mode it extends to 1051MHz base and 1228MHz boost.
What will that yield in performance terms? Well, you won't be playing Elite Dangerous at 4K and 60 fps, but a 950 at those speeds should at least generate 30 fps in The Witcher 3 at 1080p, so it's a very viable budget card.
The exact nature of that budget is TBC – Asus has yet to release pricing details of the card, but current GTX 950 models retail at around the $180/£150 price point today.
– Dimensions: 8.3″ x 4.5″ x 1.6″ Inch, 21 x 11.3 x 4 cm. This is a 2-slot graphics card design.


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Topics: Inclusion & Equity, Diversity Dynamics, Leadership, Professionalism
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