The inclusion of reclamation work at Dundas St as part of the Mercury Bay Destination Boat Ramp Project in our Long Term Plan (LTP) means we're changing our Development Contributions levy, which will directly affect the Mercury Bay catchment.
"The changes that we're looking at in Development Contributions levy will only affect anyone doing residential development in the Mercury Bay," says Council's Chief Financial Officer Steve Baker.
During the 2015-25 Long Term Plan consultation hearings it was decided that the Dundas Street Reclamation Project, which will provide approximately 120 trailer-boat parks and facilities, would be reprioritised back into the 10-year infrastructure program.
The Dundas St Project is growth related Initial planning work on the Dundas St Reclamation Project has been scheduled to start in Y9 (2023-2024) of the LTP.
Meanwhile existing boat ramps around the Mercury Bay area are adequate to service the existing population while Kuaotunu, Matarangi, Purangi Road and Robinson Road boat ramps are being upgraded to cater for existing users.
How the Dundas St Reclamation Project will affect Reserve and Development Contributions for Mercury Bay.
In our draft 2015-25 (LTP) the policy in relation to Reserve Contributions was changed, moving away from a levy-based calculation methodology (based on the value of a property), to an equal contribution toward planned expenditure.
This gives developers a high level of certainty as to what their contribution liability will be, on application for consent and also aligned Reserve Contributions with the remaining Development Contributions, giving greater certainty as to what the contribution was being levied for.
Following this change in policy, our draft Development Contributions Policy was published for public consultation as part of the LTP. In this we proposed no reserves would be shown in the Development Contributions schedule of assets to be funded over the next 10 years, meaning that Development Reserve Contribution was proposed to be $0 per unit of demand.
During submissions to the LTP Hearings, submitters raised concerns that the development and constructions works on the proposed Dundas Street Reclamation Project and associated Mercury Bay Destination Boat Ramp development wouldn't start within the next 10 years as the existing boat ramps are likely to reach full capacity before the end of the 2025, due to anticipated growth in this area.
So through the LTP deliberations, it was proposed bringing the Destination Boat Ramp Project forward in the infrastructure programme, which was approved by Council in June 2015.
Currently, we're proposing that this project is funded by Community Area Reserve Contributions in the Mercury Bay catchment.
OPTION ONE - Fund the project through Community Area Reserve Contributions in the Mercury Bay Catchment.
Ensures that the project is funded by those that derive the most benefit from it.
Increases the total development contribution levy in the Mercury Bay catchment which may be seen as a deterrent to developers. .
OPTION TWO - Fund the project through loans and thereby depreciation and interest paid by the Mercury Bay ratepayer.
There is no real benefit to the existing ratepayer in developing the new boat ramp as existing facilities have not reached full capacity.
Those that obtain most benefit from the ramp may not be those that pay for its creation.
OPTION 3 - Fund the project through lump sum contributions.
Depending on timing, may enable some growth related recovery due to new residents being caught up in contribution.
Does not recognise the fact that the key driver for the project is increased development in the area.
hose that obtain most benefit from the ramp may not be those that pay for its creation.
There are two Schedules of development Contributions payable showing the Development Contributions as it currently stands with the second showing the impact of the increase in the Development Reserve Contribution for year 1 of the LTP.
You can find these to download on the right-hand side of this page.
Should you require additional years, please contact the writer and these will be made available to you.


We All Know A Saul. Are You Willing To See Them Like God Sees Them?
Paul said a lot of great things in Scripture about the nature of our identity in Christ. This verse, however, is one of the best.
He has removed your sins "as far as the east is from the west" (Psalm 103:12). He's cast every bit of it "into the depths of the sea" (Micah 7:19). Even better, since nothing can ever truly be out of God's reach, He's made us this promise: "I will remember their sins no more" (Hebrews 8:12).
Consider it a once-for-all completed action—with ongoing results. The "old" is behind you now; the "new has come." And keeps coming.
Think back to Ananias in Acts 9, when the Lord told him to go minister to a man from Tarsus named Saul, whose "old" reputation included being a persecutor and killer of Christians. Ananias responded to God's directive with reasonable skepticism. Based on what he'd "heard from many about this man, how much evil he has done to your saints at Jerusalem" (Acts 9:13), he already had Saul locked and labeled. "And here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call on your name" (Acts 9:14).
How different, how new, could this guy really be?
How often have you thought something similar in regard to someone in your own life?
You've been around them. You know who they are. You know what they've done. You know how they've acted. And as far as you're concerned, that's your final and lasting impression of them. It's who they'll always be.
So while you may dare to apply the "new creation" label to yourself, knowing it's what you hope and expect to see continually developing in your life by faith, perhaps you fail to stay reminded that the people you struggle to love the most have equal access to the new economy of 2 Corinthians 5:17.
Pastor James MacDonald is an esteemed Bible teacher whose "Walk in the Word" radio and television programs are followed by millions throughout the United States and around the world. He's the Founding and Senior Pastor of Harvest Bible Chapel whose seven campuses are spread throughout the greater Chicagoland area. To learn more from Pastor James' fearless Bible-preaching, visit jamesmacdonald.com.


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Knits & Denims. The latest Nudie Jeans Fall-Winter lookbook, which is entitled "Twist Of Black" features knitwear garments and accessories, like scarves, socks and of course jeans. Male model sports different kinds of jeans: washed, bleaching, different shade ones. Love this look: rigid, washed and bleached denim shirt, knitted vest, everyday jacket, knitted scarf and urban jeans.


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Chavisa Woods
Attack of the (killer) Lesbian Gangs- Chavisa Woods
Excerpts from the GLBT Center Lecture on Street Sexual Harassment and the Dyke experience. by Chavisa Woods
In conversations on the subject of gender, sex, sexuality and public interactions, when speaking with some seemingly liberal minded, artistically inclined, gay friendly heterosexual men, I have on more than one occasion come upon these general ideas and specific statements regarding the relationships of gender identity and gender relation.
1. Men's sexual urges and desires are much stronger than women's.
2. Testosterone is a sort of drug that affects sexual desire and ego in men in a way that women can never understand.
3. It takes a much larger amount of will power for a man to control his urges than it does for a woman to control hers.
4. Men's urges are barbaric and primal. (implicitly excluding the primal from the feminine)
5. Most rapes occur because a woman is dressed provocatively. Most women who are raped were dressed provocatively when they were raped.
6. When upset, women cry, men kill.
7. I feel a sort of allegiance to other men and would not try to fuck their girlfriend, would not hit on her in front of her boyfriend. If a woman is with another woman, I see no real reason not to pursue that woman, or both women openly.
8. But you don't look like a lesbian.
9. "Yeah, sure. My girlfriend likes women too. But it's not the same thing. My desire for women is stronger than hers."
10. Men are biologically more sexual than women. It is a scientific fact.
11. I think a lot of women don't think they like being cat called, but when they get older, and it stops, they miss it.
12. And again. It is a scientific fact that male sexual desire is stronger than female sexual desire, which is a notion that runs through all of the statements.
The notion that it is a scientific fact that a woman's sexual urges are not as strong as a man's I find laughable, when taking into a consideration that for hundreds of years it was a scientific fact that women did not have orgasms. It seemed logical; the female orgasm was not needed for reproduction and women on the whole did not openly display strong sexuality, again for socio-psychological reasons. On the subject of scientific facts of biological sexuality I would also like to point out that the discovery of and research into the effects of estrogen began in the 1930's, while the discovery and research of testosterone began in 1803.
When we approach something as interpersonal, psychological, sociological, and also biological, something as complex as sexual desire, it is inherently ruinous to approach the concept beginning with the question of strength. The question whose sexuality is stronger immediately mars and marks the deconstruction by implying that one side must ultimately take legitimacy over the other.
When using the question of strength, another problem arises. On what do you base the definition of strength when speaking of sexual desire? For too long it has been based on a simple fact of a physical urge, disregarding any notions of strong emotional or intellectual sexuality. A woman's sexuality is therefore delegitimized as the emotional on the basis that the emotional is not linked to the instinctual, the primal, the physical.
This concept has no logical basis. Emotionality does stem from the instinctual and primal urges as much as the physical, although human emotions, over time have grown much more complex than animal emotion as we have become conscious of our emotions and are able to ask ourselves why we feel what we feel. Animals display a range of emotions too, albeit in a simplistic form; anger, guilt, sadness, playfulness, loyalty attraction, dislike, the need to nurture their young, fight, some species war and of coarse, the urge to reproduce. These all, at their base, are instinctual, simplistic emotional urges. Animals simply do not ask themselves why they feel these "emotions" and their emotions have remained basic, instinctual, less complex.
As the emotional sexual indicators have grown more complex in humans, so have physical sexual indicators. Thinness as a physically attractive concept is a very complex sexual indicator, as primaley, animalisticly, thinness would indicate sickness and weakness and make a female appear not to be a healthy mate or offspring bearer. In humans, typically, the woman is considered more attractive if she dresses colorfully, flamboyantly, showing off her body, wearing bright colors, flowers, make up etc. In most animals we find it is the males who display the flamboyant dress, and coloring, large feathers, bright reds and greens in lizards, birds and fish. Although among mammals the sexes are more homogenous. So even this idea of basic physical attraction in humans as purely primal and simple, does not take into consideration that human physical attraction, however immediate it may seem, is a very complex physiological process influenced by a societal evolution, that is now actually as far divided from animal territory as the emotional sexual response.
Also, I would like not to exclude the possibility that women's physical sexual desire and enjoyment is as physically strong as a man's, but that we process it, communicate it and act upon it differently, for biological, and socio- psychological reasons. This possibility cannot be overlooked. But it has been for generations. And that possibility many men still find laughable, and most likely threatening.
I can't think of any other such marginalizing and outdated concept that is so widely accepted about a group of people in mainstream sociality as the conceit that a man's sexual urges are overall, inherently, biologically STRONGER than a woman's.
Again, this simple concept and the use of the idea of stronger is what inherently infects our idea of sexual desires. Exactly how the biology affects an individuals sexual desire is complex, may never be fully determined and shifts depending upon the psychology of the individual. I will say that a man's biological make up is obviously different from a woman's. And many studies have shown, or lead to show that a man's sexuality and ability to enjoy sex is based more on basic physicality than a woman's. But this idea that that basic physicality is more primal, more animalistic, again excluding or even neutralizing the role of female animal sexuality in nature, gives legitimacy to men over women as sexual creatures and takes a very naive and narrow view of nature, animal female sexuality and sexuality in general.
This concept seems to me to be not so different from the concept that blacks are biologically inclined to have better rhythm, be more sexual, violent or less intellectual due to the effects of melatonin.
Why does all of this matter?
This pervasive idea that a man's sexuality is stronger, uncontrollable, is what allows men a sort of out, an excuse if you will to sexually harass and assault women on a daily basis with no danger of retribution. If this idea were not accepted, at least subconsciously by most of the population, would it be common place for an onlooker to take no action, to walk by as if nothing were happening, as a woman is being cat called, harassed and harangued? I don't think so.
I live in Bedstuy Brooklyn. Although I encounter sexual harassment, cat calling etc, in every neighborhood, in this neighborhood, the level of aggression and frequency of cat calling is noticeably higher in my neighborhood. I am not just called out as a dyke and as a woman; I am called out as a white woman. Men have yelled terms like snow bunny, snowflake, white bitch, white trash whore tap that white ass, as I walk by, and when I pass without acknowledging them, I am a white trash bitch, just a white bitch, and all sorts of other things.
On the surface this appears to be a racial and class issue. On some level it is. The subconscious need to subvert one's own subjugation by subjugating another minority. But at it core it is definitively a sexist issue. These men see a white person as a representation of the former master and/or present oppressor; I have no doubt, and this feeling is not unfounded. But I have walked down these same streets with my white male friends in complete peace, while when I walk down the street with my female friends and my partner, it never fails to occur. Ultimately, I have concluded that these men view white women as white man's property. Though they dare not "fuck with the master" in a public setting, they have no problem fucking with what is viewed as his property. The problem comes from viewing women, all women as someone's property.
I do not eman to imply that these men do not also harangue and harass women of color. Of coarse they do. I've seen it. This is simply my experience.
The breaker came for me two weeks ago, when the cat calling, which I have always understood not as a sexual act, but a violent act, an act of aggression took on the form of full-blown assault. My girlfriend and I were walking down the street on a Sunday morning, heading to the deli on our block to get a bagel, and a man walked by, without saying a word and punched my partner in her stomach.
He then went into the liquor store, bought a bottle of gin got into his car and sped away. I had my phone out to call the police, bit we were shocked and didn't get his license number. There were other people on the street who had seen it. They did nothing except continue walking. One homeless man showed some sympathy, saying he had seen what had happened and was sorry. As we were speaking to this man and visibly upset, two other men dressed in their Sunday best walked by us and said flirtatiously, "good morning lovely ladies." When we didn't respond they scoffed and glared at us. I felt like was in a war zone, like I was possibly even a initiating the war, just by walking down the sidewalk without a man.
In one of her earlier poems, Adrian rich wrote that walking down the street visibly pregnant, was the first time in her life that she did not feel guilty walking alone as a woman.
That describes the feeling well. What are we guilty of? Of being a woman, alone or without a man. We are still guilty of being women un-owned by a man.
So dykes must be doubly guilty. We are not owned by men, some of us, to play with the term, are owned by and owned other women.
Now comes the issue of the dyke experience of harassment. I have been told by straight women, not to get so upset about cat calling. Some have even looked at me as though I was bragging when I complained about sexual harassment. And again I have heard from str8 men that they believe, while it annoys women, they miss it when they get older and cat calling ceases- That they worry that men no longer find them attractive.
I am not concerned with men finding me attractive. When I am walking down the street holding hands with my girlfriend and a man calls to us and implies that he would like to join us, I feel, not complimented. I feel "emasculated;' for lack of a better term, humiliated, homicidal.
You know the term can't live with them, can't live without them? I can live without them.
It is not only in the street that men invade my relationship, but in everyday conversation, at social functions, gallery openings concerts, etc. Men see no problem flirting with a woman who is in a relationship with another woman in front of the partner, when, If one of those women were male, they would never dare to do so. After being harassed on a beach, I spoke to a man and his wife who had witnessed the harassment and was concerned, but ultimately his concern veered into this mind boggling statement. "Well, you have to be careful, you are three women alone." I was on the beach with two other female friends. Now I have to ask you, how is it possible for us to have been alone when we were three people together? This implies that all women are alone without men. And it was not the first time I have heard such statements.
Group discussion began
Women were asked
How many have been sexually harassed? All
How many view cat-calling as sexual harassment? All
How many of you have been physically assaulted: over 80%
Sexually assaulted: Over 80%
Raped: Many woman shared stories, one I have heard too often from lesbians, being raped by a casual acquaintance who claimed he was going to "fuck her straight.
One woman spoke of cat calling, '" I feel powerless. I shouldn't have to deal with this kind of aggression every day of my life. I feel like I have my anger under control, and then, I don't know, I feel like someday I might just freak out, explode and hurt someone, and that one guy is going to pay for every day, of all these years, of all these other men…"
Some statistics:
( I looked for statistics outlining the percentage of women raped who identify as lesbian, or percentages of lesbians who have been sexually assaulted. As of yet, i have found no statistics on that. If anyone knows where I might let me know)
· One in 4 girls are sexually assaulted by the age 18
· Of adult American women who are raped, 31.5 percent are physically injured, but only 35.6% of those who are injured received medical care.
· According to a study conducted by the National Victim Center, 1.3 women (age 18 and over) in the United States are forcibly raped each minute. That translates to 78 an hour, 1,871 per day, or 683,000 per year.
· According to the U.S. Department of Justice, an estimated 91% of the victims of rape and sexual assault are female and 9% are male.
· Rape or sexual assault was the violent crime least often reported/ Only 16% of rapes are ever reported to the police.
· 7.7% of college men reported perpetrating aggressive behavior which met the legal definition of rape.
· The rate of rapes and sexual assaults against lesbian and gays rose 13% nationally in 1995-1996, approximately twice the 6% rate for all violent crimes.
· 16% of male students surveyed by the Ms. Foundation who had committed rape, and 10% of those who attempted a rape, took part in episodes involving multiple perpetrators.
-1 in 15 rape victims contracts a sexually transmitted disease as a result of being raped. 1 in 15 rape victims becomes pregnant as a result of being raped. (Koss, Woodruff & Koss, 1990, A Criminological Study.)
Discussed means of activism. This recent Trail was brought up. The case of the new Jersey four. (below)
Discussion lead to why this case has not had any real attention. Conclusion, because these were four black women, who were lesbians.
Many women in the room voiced their disappointment with the gay male community for not acting in solidarity with lesbian problems, when many lesbians have devoted much of their time as activists to issues directly affecting gay males. Women are harassed in the street as well, beaten and killed, but more often raped or threatened. They discussed the role of feminism in the lesbian community and the need for a greater understanding of feminist ideas.
Trial case details below:
ATTACK OF THE KILLER LESBIAN GANGS ( as Bill Oreily put it)
"Or they defended themselves so you put them in jail."
On August 18th, 2006 seven young African American lesbians (ranging from 19-30 years old) from New Jersey were verbally threatened, sexually harassed, and physically attacked by a twenty-nine year old man as they walked down the street in the West Village of New York City (the West Village is "the" gay spot in NYC. It actually pre-dates San Francisco as the 'gay meca' & is where queer youth from all over the country come to when they are ostracized from their communities. It is the site of the famous "Stonewall Riots" which sparked the gay rights movement in the late 60's. And currently, 40% of the homeless people in the West Village are queer youth of color).
The man, Dwayne Buckle, approached the girls/ women saying he wanted to "get some of that" pointing Patreese Johnson's vagina (Patreese was 19, but she looks 12). She said she was gay & not interested in men, in fact was arm & arm with another girl. He proceeded to tell them he would "fuck them all straight," he said they were "nasty" and many other sexually assaulting and homophobic slurs.
They responded to him verbally . He flicked his cigarette at them & then spit in Renata Hill's face. She spit back. He then punched Venice Brown in the face. From there a fight broke out. The girls would try to get him off one person & he would grab another. He pulled dreadlocks straight out of a girl's scalp, extensions out of two others & chocked two of them until they changed color in the face.
Two men standing by jumped in to defend the girls. One took off his belt & whipped him repeatedly in the head with his belt buckle. The second guy is thought, by some to have stabbed him in the stomach. The attacker was allegedly stabbed in the stomach, and spent five days in the hospital with no long-term wounds. When these two men joined the fight, the women were able to get away. At one point on the surveillance (there were two cameras that caught different parts of the fight on tape) camera you see the girls walking away & the man Buckle waving hair he pulled out of their head at them & following after them for a moment.
The police came to the scene. The women had entered a Mcdonald's a couple of blocks away. The police arrested the women.
The 7 women were initially charged with attempted murder. Those charges were dropped, but they were all charged and convicted with Gang Assault in the Second Degree and then various degrees of Assault (which are all felony convictions). Three accepted a guilty plea bargain and received six-months & five years probation. The other four, who became known as the NJ4, plead not-guilty and received sentences ranging from 3.5, 5, 8, and 11 years (Terrain Dandridge, Venice Brown, Renata Hill, Patreese Johnson). The two men who jumped into the fight were never looked for nor questioned.
The man who initially harassed them is charging that the girls took part in hate crime against straight men, and has a website and organization which now collects donations to prevent hate crime against straight men.
The media coverage was outrageous. Everyone from the NY Times, Bill O'Reilly, The Daily Post, the Washington Post, etc, had headlines ranging from, "Attack of the Killer lesbians," "Petit But Ornery Lesbians Stab Admirer," "Lesbian Gangs are taking over the U.S." "Growling Lesbians," "Wolf Pack of Lesbians," etc. The media was blatantly homophobic, racist, sexist and classist. They used criminalizing language and likened them to animals, using only the picture of one of the butch lesbians in all of the papers. They also questioned "if they could even afford to be in NYC".
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This is a lesson about writing leads (the beginning of a story or vignette). It includes a definition of lead and some great sample leads from famous authors to read and discuss in class.
Poster from "The Craft of Revision" unit by Lucy Calkins. Lesson: Writing a Strong Lead. This is a cute poster to hang in your classroom or put in your students folders to remind them how to write a strong lead.
Here is a PPT presentation I made on teaching 4 types of leads in writing: Question, Action, Thinking and Description. I mainly use it with my second graders but it can be used with grades 1-3.
This is a simple template for having students practice writing introductions and leads. Allows them to write about the same topic three ways and can even be cut up to let them choose their favorite.
Various ways for students to start their writing assignments.
To use with a Writing Workshop lesson on using strong leads. Very authentic, engaging small group work! Students will explore picture books and discuss/decide if the lead used in the book is 1 star or 4 stars!!
As creative writers, we want to hook the reader! We teach our students all the various ways to begin a story. Here is a graphic organizer that will help facilitate that process. Your students will read multiple beginnings from rich texts and with a partner identify the authors craft.


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Q: c++ iterating through vector returns objects that aren't even in it I'm putting together a pinball table, and here I have a PinballTable class. I want to hold all of the game objects (pinball, bumpers, flippers, etc) in a vector, which I call _gameObjs.
When I iterate through the vector, its returning the last GameObj declared in the constructor, whether that GameObj is in the vector or not. If I add multiple GameObjs to the vector, it will return that last declared GameObj that many times. I'm transitioning from C# and collections seem to be getting the best of me, I'm totally stumped here though
Here, I'm added three objects: two bumpers and one pinball. In the update function, I'm trying to get it to output output the x size of each object just so I know it's iterating correctly. Here, for example, I haven't even added the pinball to the vector, but it's outputting the pinball's x size twice per update call.
#include "PinballTable.h"

GameObj* _pinball;
int TABLE_WIDTH;
int TABLE_HEIGHT;

float _tableTiltedAngle     = 6.5f;
float _radiansPerDegree     = PI / 180;
float _gravityForce         = cos( _tableTiltedAngle * _radiansPerDegree ) * GRAVITY;

vector<GameObj> _gameObjs;

PinballTable::PinballTable( const int width, const int height )
{
    TABLE_WIDTH     = width;
    TABLE_HEIGHT    = height;

    GameObj bumper1(
        GameObj::shapeCircle,
        GameObj::typeStatic,
        color4f( 1.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f),
        point2f( 300.0f, 600.0f ),
        vec2f( 40.0f, 0.0f )
        );
    _gameObjs.push_back( bumper1 );

    GameObj bumper2(
        GameObj::shapeCircle,
        GameObj::typeStatic,
        color4f( 1.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f),
        point2f( 50.0f, 200.0f ),
        vec2f( 50.0f, 0.0f )
        );
    _gameObjs.push_back( bumper2 );

    GameObj pinball(
        GameObj::shapeCircle,
        GameObj::typeDynamic,
        color4f( 1.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f),
        point2f( 100.0f, 100.0f),
        vec2f( 20.0f, 20.0f)
        );

    _pinball = &pinball;
}

PinballTable::~PinballTable(void)
{
}

// ------------------------------ Update Functions ------------------------------
void PinballTable::update( GameTime& gameTimer )
{
    for( vector<GameObj>::iterator i = _gameObjs.begin(); i != _gameObjs.end(); ++i )
    {
        cout << i->getSize()->x << endl;
    }
}

thanks for the help
get size function just returns a vector2 (x, y components) from a GameObj. The output size matches up with the last declared GameObj size in the PinballTable constructor every time
vec2f* GameObj::getSize( void )
{
    return &_size;
}

Solved:
One of the problems, as pointed out by a few, was that the GameObjs are created inside the constructor.
In the GameObj class I was not declaring the different members in the header file. Switching these members to the header file seemed to fix this, for what reason I do not know.

A: Is your GameObj an interface or abstract class? If so, you should not put it directly into a vector, but a pointer to it. Think of a vector as a byte-array containing of serialized copies of what you put into it (since you are coming from C# this should help). C++ does not have a uniform object representation, so it is crucial to keep in mind what space your objects require.

A: You created 3 GameObj inside the constructor which are going to be destructed after the constructor returns and when you add them to the vector, they are garbage.

A: Is this you want,
for( vector<GameObj>::iterator i = _gameObjs.begin(); i != _gameObjs.end(); ++i )
{
    cout << (*i).getSize()->x << endl;
}

You need to get the object stored in the vector by the dereference(*) operator.

A: If at all possible, I'd use a range-based for loop:
for (auto const &g : _gameObjs)
    cout << g.getSize()->x << "\n";

This was added in C++11, so you may have to give your compiler a switch to tell it to recognize/allow C++11 constructs (e.g., you normally have to with g++).

A: The way that you describe your problem, it sounds as if _size is a global variable, and not a member of GameObj

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Jefferson Hills is a borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States. It includes the community of Large. In the 2020 census the population was 12,424. Jefferson Hills was created as Jefferson Township, incorporating on January 22, 1828, and named  after Thomas Jefferson. The borough is a part of West Jefferson Hills School District. Before 1998, the borough was known as Jefferson.

Government

Structure
Jefferson Hills is a borough, run by an elected seven-member council and mayor. The administrative staff run by the borough manager runs the borough to the objectives set by the council.

Local officials
Council President
·         Melissa Steffey
Council Vice President
·         Hilary Budd
Council Members
·         Karen Bucy
·         Joseph Lynch
·         David Montgomery
·         Keith Reynolds
·         Nicole Ruscitto
Mayor
.          Carrie McCaffrey

State and federal officials
Jefferson Hills is represented by John Fetterman and Bob Casey, Jr. in the United States Senate and Mike Doyle of the 18th District of Pennsylvania in the House of Representatives. The borough's representative in the Pennsylvania State Senate is Devlin Robinson of the 37th District and Mike Puskaric of the 39th Legislative District in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. The District Court judge for Jefferson Hills is Michael Thatcher.

Safety
Jefferson Hills police department is in the Municipal Center. It has 18 officers and several community service staff. The police take part in programs such as Drug Abuse Resistance Education in the West Jefferson Hills School District. The force belongs to TUPPER, in which police from nine nearby communities collaborate, sharing regional criminal information. It also takes part in the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Regional Narcotic Task Force and the South Hills DUI task force.

The borough has emergency management and volunteer firefighters. There are three volunteer fire companies - Floreffe Volunteer Fire Company, Gill Hall Volunteer Fire Company and Jefferson 885 Fire Company.

Crime
Crime in Jefferson Hills is well below state and national averages. The rates for 2005, based per 100,000 people:

Politics

Geography
Jefferson Hills is at  (40.285502, −79.933160).

The United States Census Bureau says the borough is , of which , or 0.24%, is water.

The borough includes rolling hills and woods. The southeastern border is the Monongahela River. Three streams flow through the borough: Peters Creek, Beam Run, and Lewis Run.

The borough consists primarily of single family homes of newer construction.

Surrounding municipalities
Jefferson Hills has six land borders with Pleasant Hills and West Mifflin to the north, Clairton to the east, West Elizabeth to the southeast, Union Township in Washington County to the south, and South Park Township to the west. Across the Monongahela River, Jefferson Hills runs adjacent with Elizabeth Township, Elizabeth Borough and Forward Township.

Climate

Demographics

As of the census of 2000, there were 9,666 people, 3,781 households, and 2,688 families residing in the borough. The population density was 583.5 people per square mile (225.2/km2). There were 3,954 housing units at an average density of 238.7 per square mile (92.1/km2). The racial makeup of the borough was 96.76% White, 1.31% African American, 0.17% Native American, 1.09% Asian, 0.14% from other races, and 0.53% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.69% of the population.

There were 3,781 households, out of which 31.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 60.0% were married couples living together, 8.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 28.9% were non-families. 24.7% of all households were made up of individuals, and 10.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.51 and the average family size was 3.04.

In the borough the population was spread out, with 24.0% under the age of 18, 5.8% from 18 to 24, 28.9% from 25 to 44, 24.6% from 45 to 64, and 16.8% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 41 years. For every 100 females, there were 91.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 90.1 males.

The borough is overwhelmingly Middle Class. The median income for a household in the borough was $50,615, and the median income for a family was $60,767. Males had a median income of $43,972 versus $36,052 for females. The per capita income for the borough was $23,006. About 2.7% of families and 4.1% of the population were below the poverty line, including 4.6% of those under age 18 and 5.1% of those age 65 or over.

History

The area was the geographic base of the Peters Creek Rangers during the Revolutionary War.

Recreation

Municipal parks
The municipality operates five parks including Gill Hall Park, Andrew Reilly Memorial Park, Lobb's Park, Beedle Park, and Tepe Park spread throughout the community. These parks offer a variety of amenities from various sports fields, tennis and basketball courts, and playground equipment. Additionally, the borough has several pavilions and the Gill Hall Community Center available to rent to borough residents.

Great Allegheny Passage

The Great Allegheny Passage is a system of biking and hiking trails spanning . These trails run from Cumberland, Maryland to Pittsburgh. In 2006, the Great Allegheny Passage connected with the C & O Canal Trail to create a  journey from Pittsburgh to Washington, D.C. This effort was coordinated by the Allegheny Trail Alliance, an organization of the seven-member trails stretching from Pennsylvania to Maryland.

Jefferson Hills is uniquely positioned with two members of that Alliance, the Montour Trail and Steel Valley Trail system, intersecting in nearby Clairton. Local trailheads include Triphammer Road, Jefferson Hills (Gill Hall Road), Route 51 - Large, and Clairton trailheads.

Montour Trail
The Montour Trail is a multipurpose trail extending  from Coraopolis to Clairton. The trail is made of crushed limestone, making it ideal for biking, walking, and cross-country skiing in the winter. The Montour Trail also connects with the Panhandle Trail, a trail of  trail between Carnegie, Pennsylvania and Weirton, West Virginia.

Steel Valley Trail
The Steel Valley Trail runs  from Clairton through McKeesport to West Homestead. The Mckessport-West Homestead section is part of the GAP trail which connects Washington, D.C. to Pittsburgh solely on bike trails. At the Clairton Trailhead  it connects to the Montour Trail which is a   loop south of Pittsburgh.

Infrastructure

Transportation

Major roads
Two major roads run through Jefferson Hills, PA Route 51 and PA Route 43. Route 51 runs from Uniontown to the Pennsylvania/Ohio border. In Jefferson Hills Route 51 serves as the terminus for Route 43, otherwise known as the Mon–Fayette Expressway. Route 43 is a toll road and part of the Pennsylvania Turnpike system.

Public transportation
The Port Authority of Allegheny County offers bus services in and around Jefferson Hills. There are several buses that directly pass through the borough, including:

Airports
Jefferson Hills is located 45 minutes to the southeast of Pittsburgh International Airport, which handles most air travel in the Pittsburgh metro area. Additionally, the borough is a short drive away from the Allegheny County Airport, located in the neighboring South Hills community of West Mifflin. The Allegheny County Airport serves as the primary FAA-designated reliever airport for Pittsburgh International Airport. In this role the airport supports a high volume of business and corporate-related activity.

Utilities
Electricity generation in Jefferson Hills is supplied by both Allegheny Power and Duquesne Light. Natural gas service for the borough is supplied by Equitable Gas Company. Republic Services handles the trash removal and recycling for Jefferson Hills.

Healthcare

Jefferson Hills is home to AHN Jefferson Hospital, formerly Jefferson Regional Medical Center, a 373-bed hospital $30 million hospital that opened in the spring of 1977.  It serves the South Hills region of Pittsburgh.

Media

Newspaper
As with all communities in the Pittsburgh area, Jefferson Hills receives the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, . The borough has two local papers, the South Hills Record and the Union-Finley Messenger.

Television
Jefferson Hills as a member of the Pittsburgh metro area is served by a variety of local television and radio stations. The major network television affiliates are KDKA-TV 2 (CBS), WTAE-TV 4 (ABC), WPXI 11 (NBC), WQED 13 (PBS), WPGH-TV 53 (Fox), WPCW 19 (CW), WINP-TV 16 (Ion), WPNT 22 (MyNetworkTV), and WPCB 40 (Cornerstone). WEPA-CD 16 is an independent station owned and operated by the Bruno-Goodworth Network.

Radio
There are a wide variety of radio stations serving the Pittsburgh market. The first was KDKA 1020 AM, which is also the first commercially licensed radio station in the United States, receiving its license on October 27, 1920. Other popular stations include KQV 1410 AM (news), WPGP 1250 AM (conservative talk), WKST-FM 96.1 FM (pop and hip-hop), WBZZ 100.7 FM (adult contemporary), WDVE 102.5 FM (album rock), WPGB 104.7 FM (talk), WXDX 105.9 FM (modern rock), and WAMO 106.7 (hip-hop, rap). There are also three public radio stations in the area; including WESA 90.5 FM (National Public Radio affiliate operated by Duquesne University), WQED 89.3 FM (classical), and WYEP 91.3 FM (adult alternative). Three non-commercial stations are run by Carnegie Mellon University (WRCT 88.3 FM), the University of Pittsburgh (WPTS 92.1 FM), and Point Park University (WPPJ 670 AM).

References

External links

 Borough of Jefferson Hills official website
 Map to Jefferson Hills Municipal Center
 Jefferson Hills Public Library
 Jefferson Hills Emergency Management
 Peters Creek Historical Society
 West Jefferson Hills Historical Society
 West Jefferson Hills School District
 West Jefferson Hills Chamber of Commerce
 Pleasant Hills Community Presbyterian Church

Populated places established in 1784
Pittsburgh metropolitan area
Boroughs in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
1828 establishments in Pennsylvania

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About Aanika Biosciences
Aanika Biosciences was co-founded in 2018 by Vishaal Bhuyan after he personally experienced the consequences of ordering fresh, ethically sourced seeds and receiving stale, contaminated products instead. He made it is his mission to create a safer food supply by finding a way to track, trace and authenticate products. Aanika's customized microbial-based tags help companies gain valuable insights about their supply chains, help their customers make better consumption choices, and create a more sustainable world.
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Changes in anthropogenic biomes found in rangelands globally between 1700 and 2000
Anthropogenic biomes, also known as "anthromes" or "human biomes", describe the terrestrial biosphere in its contemporary, human-altered form using global ecosystem units defined by patterns of sustained direct human interaction. Ellis and Ramankutty (2008) delineate 21 anthropogenic biomes based on population density, land use and vegetation cover. The anthropogenic biomes are grouped into six major categories -- dense settlements, villages, croplands, rangeland, forested and wildlands. Between 1700 and 2000, the terrestrial biosphere made the critical transition from mostly wild to mostly anthropogenic, passing the 50% mark early in the 20th century.
For rangelands, three biomes were mapped – residential rangelands, populated rangelands and remote rangelands. Data sets are available for c. 1700, c. 1800, c. 1900, c. 2000. In the map opposite we compare the c. 1700 maps and the c. 2000 maps revealing dramatic changes in the biomes with increased concentration and population growth.
1. Between 1700 and 2000, pastoral villages globally grew from 1,566 km2 to 365,064 km2, populated croplands grew from 287,308 km2 to 4,010,017 km2, populated rangelands grew from 1,101,217 km2 to 11,209,691 km2 and populated woodlands reduced from 7,217,694 km2 to 1,899,952 km2 highlighting increasing population growth and consolidation in rangelands.
2. Between 1700 and 2000 populated woodlands reduced from 7,217,694 km2 to 1,899,952 km2, remote woodlands from 4,874,260 km2 to 586,791 km2 and residential woodlands remained approximately the same. This highlights the infiltration and conversion of woodlands to other land uses.
3. Between 1700 and 2000 wild lands in rangelands reduced by more than half, with wild treeless and barren lands reducing from 30,586,608 km2 to 14,458,293 km2 and wild woodlands from 9,523,934 to 3,036,857 km2 highlighting the loss of wild lands.
4. Between 1700 and 2000, irrigated villages increased from 10,054 km2 to 695,705 km2 and residential irrigated villages increased from 12,633 km2 to 675,168 km2 highlighting the increase in use of irrigation.
5. Between 1700 and 2000, remote croplands increased from 8,311 to 1,991,376 km2, residential irrigated croplands increased from 12,633 km2 to 675,168 km2, residential rainfed croplands from 873,040 to 4,274,271 km2 and rice villages from 16,365 to 146,736 km2 highlighting the infiltration of crops into rangelands and pastoral areas – a total of 7,087,551 km2.
Anthropogenic biomes found in rangelands globally (Year 1700)
Anthropogenic biomes
Inhabited treeless and barren lands
Irrigated villages
Mixed settlements
Pastoral villages
Populated croplands
Populated rangelands
Populated woodlands
Rainfed villages
Remote croplands
Remote rangelands
Remote woodlands
Residential irrigated croplands
Residential rainfed croplands
Residential rangelands
Residential woodlands
Rice villages
Wild treeless and barren lands
Wild woodlands
Source1: Terrestrial ecoregions of the world. Downloaded in 2021 from: https://globil-panda.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/wwf-priority-35-ecoregions?geometry=-172.266%2C-86.819%2C172.266%2C89.233. Original source: Olson, D. M., Dinerstein, E., Wikramanayake, E. D., Burgess, N. D., Powell, G. V. N., Underwood, E. C., D'Amico, J. A., Itoua, I., Strand, H. E., Morrison, J. C., Loucks, C. J., Allnutt, T. F., Ricketts, T. H., Kura, Y., Lamoreux, J. F., Wettengel, W. W., Hedao, P., Kassem, K. R. 2001. Terrestrial ecoregions of the world: a new map of life on Earth. Bioscience 51(11):933-938
Source 2: Anthropogenic Biomes of the World, Version 2: 2000. Downloaded in 2021 from: https://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data/set/anthromes-anthropogenic-biomes-world-v2-2000/data-download Ellis, E.C., K.K. Goldewijk, S. Siebert, D. Lightman, and N. Ramankutty. 2014. Palisades, NY: NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC).https://doi.org/10.7927/H4D798B9
Anthropogenic biomes found in rangeland globally (Year 2000)
Resolving conflicts over land use in rangelands through joint village land use planning
Marco Buemi (ILRI)
Tanzania has a total land area of about 885,800 million km2, of which over 74% are rangelands, mainly semi-arid with highly variable rainfall falling in one or two seasons separated by a long dry season. Pastoralism and agro-pastoralism are the predominate livelihood activities and produce the majority of Tanzania's approximately 21 million cattle, 15 million goats and 6 million sheep.
Throughout the centuries, Tanzania has seen significant change across its rangelands including in terms of population distribution. The government villagisation scheme, which started in the 1970s, served as a mechanism for forced consolidation of settlements and the establishment of a structured administrative government-dominated system from national to village levels. Today, there are more than 12,000 villages in Tanzania, the majority of which are found in rangelands.
Under land policy and legislation, each of these villages are expected to produce and implement a village land use plan defining key land use categories. However, strengthening administrative boundaries and categorising land use can limit mobility by creating visible and invisible boundaries along village borders, and can reduce available land for grazing particularly if the planning processes are not inclusive. In order to overcome these challenges, a process of "joint" village land use planning has been supported by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), IFAD, International Land Coalition (ILC) the government and other partners in four clusters of villages in Kiteto District, Manyara region. This process brought different village groups together, for discussion and negotiation on land use, and eventually agreement. As a result, around 2,000 km2 of grazing land has been protected and written into the villages' land use plans.
In addition, livestock keepers' associations have been established for those owning livestock from the villages with the shared grazing lands. Certificates of Customary Rights of Occupancy (CCROs) have been issued to these associations by the relevant Village Council, overseen by the district government. The livestock keepers are now developing participatory rangeland management (PRM) plans to guide local investments in rangelands restoration and improve rangeland productivity. Water access in these drylands still remains a major challenge.
For more information, please see: Improving the Implementation of Land Policy Legislation in Pastoral Areas https://cgspace.cgiar.org/handle/10568/79796
For more information on the map see: https://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data/collection/anthromes


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Got there early enough to do a dive before the basic classes arrived.
Water temp 74F, mid 60s below thermocline @ ~20′.
Visibility 5′ at best, max depth a mere 23′. After classes started vis dropped to 2-3′.
Heavy rains last week killed the vis, give it a couple of weeks and it should be better.
Water Temp: 70 Degrees air, 52.7 F in the water. Maybe a bit warmer on the surface but it sure didn't feel like it.
Max Depth: 31.6 ffw Probably deeper in some areas.
The water, at least from the surface, is the clearest I have personally seen. Viz down below was good as well, though there seemed to be a lot of green algae floating around. The water level is pretty high. I was at Main Beach #4 and the water was just a few feet from the base of the platform / shelter.
Phil & Co. have done a lot of work during the off season and the place really looks good. Nitrox fills are now available. I believe they are converting the old check-in building at the front to a bunk house for divers wanting to spend the night but not in tents. There is a new office on the property next to Air Phils / the fill station.
I didn't dive in Lagoon #2, but it looked like there were a couple groups of dive-campers having a good time. Water conditions looked to be the same as Lagoon #1.
Dove Blue Lagoon on 3/19/2011. Very nice. The water actually does have a turquoise color (I assumed the photos had been touched up). Vis was around 25 ft., but with all the ambient light (due to the water color), it seemed even better. Both lagoons were equally enjoyable, and were small enough to see everything on one tank per lagoon (I'm 53 and not into long surface swims anymore). I do appreciate the management giving me an accurate estimate of the vis before I drove all the way from Arkansas (many places inflate the vis). Good underwater platforms and rustic camping (is there any other way?).


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Star Cast: Aftab Shivdasani, Tia Bajpai, Vidya Malvade, Sharad Kelkar.
What's Good: Some of the scares; some songs.
What's Bad: The brazenly lifted horror scenes; performances; the jarring sounds.
Loo Break: Anytime in the first half.
Watch or Not?: Watch it only if you're desperate for some uninspiring horror. Give it a rest otherwise.
It's surprising that almost four decades after it was made, The Exorcist continues not only "inspires" horror filmmakers, but has scenes lifted exactly from it. The very poster of 1920 – Evil Returns reminds you of the classic, and the scenes in the movie attest it further.
The movie begins with Smruti (Tia Bajpai) trapped in her house because of an evil spirit. A servant brings her a blessed mirror that will help her escape the house and reach her lover Jaidev (Aftab Shivdasani) whom she had never seen or met, and who also thinks she is dead. As fate would have it, the evil spirit sabotages her journey and leaves her for dead.
Elsewhere, the loner poet/shayar Jaidev has taken to drinking believing Smruti will never return to his life. While searching for inspiration for his poetry, Jaidev finds Smruti unconscious on a riverbank and brings her home. Smruti has lost her memory and neither does Jaidev recognize her. Jaidev's sister Karuna (Vidya Malvade) is sceptical of Smruti's presence in the house and gets even more so when the keeper of the cemetery warns them of an evil spirit in Smruti.
But Jaidev is insistent on keeping Smruti at home since he feels a connection to her. Strange things start happening with Smruti vomiting iron nails and seeing ghosts in her room. On their way to see a doctor, Smruti gets completely possessed by the poltergeist. The only person Jaidev can turn to now, is the cemetery keeper.
Who is the evil spirit after? Do they save Smruti? Will Smruti and Jaidev recognize each other? And is someone else in the house keeping a secret?
Vikram Bhatt and Amin Hajee's story is intriguing and it leaves a lot of space for you to connect the dots in the first half of the film. The mysterious bangle, love letters etc. are nice but it leaves a lot to be desired in the scare department. By the interval you're already tired of shadows in the dark and white eyeballs. It doesn't help that they have the 'vomit' and 'crawling' scenes blatantly lifted from The Exorcist.
Jaidev's shayari is a nice touch, but when they do it in nail-biting scenes it gets annoying. Dialogues are alright.
If the idea was to show Jaidev as a puffy alcoholic who forgot facial expressions as well, then Aftab Shivdasani fits the bill. But then, he looks the same in the flashback scenes. Aftab looks too blank at many places and he seems as eager as the viewer to get the movie over with. Tia Bajpai goes a little too saccharine with the good-girl bit but she does very well as the possessed Smruti. Vidya Malvade disappoints as Karuna and she looks she's performing in a school play. Sharad Kelkar is aptly malevolent.
Bhushan Patel could have done a lot more with the script but he relies on the done-to-death scare tactics. The blank eyes, red eyes etc. are such old props that it's unbelievable that it keeps getting recycled in almost every Bollywood horror film. The film does manage to pick up in the second half and even gives you goosebumps at times. Chirantan Bhatt's songs are a bit of a saving grace for the film with some nice lyrics by Shakeel Azmi, Junaid Wasi and Manoj Yadav. Naren Kedia's cinematography is ordinary. Kuleep Mehan's editing is just okay. Amar Mohile's background score gives you a splitting headache at times. The special effects are good in some places but terrible in others.
1920 Evil Returns has nothing new to offer, but if you do want to watch a scary movie for the heck of it, then go ahead.
1920 – Evil Returns released on 2nd November, 2012.
Share with us your experience of watching 1920 – Evil Returns.
I live in delhi and i am very big big fan of ur Movies and your direction.
Sir, I want to be a part of ur movies, but just to be in your movie, because i have a self believe that i too can work in scary movies. Atleast give me a chance.
awesome scary movie.. better than raaz3. vikram bhatt rocks.. don't miss it guyz.
tia bajpai's action is marvellous .no actress can replace her .
1920 evil returns…why every sequel dosen't have any connection from its prequel?….why every expected movie gives dissatisfaction after release.??…(specially in the case of bhatt camp)…yes,1920 returns…doesn't have ny thng…..a weak plot,poor storyline…..
The horror scenes are typical and not scary at all…overall..1920 Evil Returns is yet another needless horror film….
its an average movie with above average hype.
raaz is better because characters are good, songs are good, dialogues are good.
in this film all are overacting including audiences.
Average but eager to watch it again.
1920 evil returns is awesum……….
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public class pauseFreeCamera : MonoBehaviour {

    float turnSpeed = 2.0f;     // Speed of camera turning when mouse moves in along an axis
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    float zoomSpeed = 1.0f;     // Speed of the camera going back and forth

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    private bool isPanning;     // Is the camera being panned?
    private bool isRotating;    // Is the camera being rotated?
    private bool isZooming;     // Is the camera zooming?

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    float originalTimeScale;

    Vector3 originalCameraPos;
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    public KeyCode toggleScreenshotModeKey = KeyCode.F10;
    public KeyCode nextFrameKey = KeyCode.F11;
    public KeyCode toggleSlowMotionModeKey = KeyCode.F12;

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        if (!Input.GetMouseButton(0)) isRotating=false;
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        if (!Input.GetMouseButton(2)) isZooming=false;

        if (isRotating)
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                transform.RotateAround(transform.localPosition, Vector3.up, pos.x * turnSpeed);
        }

        if (isPanning)
        {
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        }

        if (isZooming)
        {
                Vector3 pos = Camera.main.ScreenToViewportPoint(Input.mousePosition - mouseOrigin);

                Vector3 move = pos.y * zoomSpeed * transform.forward;
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        }
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}

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The new volunteer will take over from the work of the Communications and Fundraising Specialist who worked with Trias until the end of June 2018. Focus of the new placement is on strengthening Trias partners in terms of the implementation of their communication plans, and developing and implementing their fundraising plans.
The Communications and Fundraising Specialist will provide support and capacity building to all partner organizations of Trias in Metro Manila and in Bicol region. Trias works with 8 membership-based organizations (MBOs) like cooperatives and business and trade associations who are composed of family farmers (FF) and small-scale entrepreneurs (SSE). These small-scale entrepreneurs are into different industries like food processing, handicrafts, services and others. The farmers work in the value chains of dairy, pineapple, abaca (Manila hemp), organic rice, pilinut etc. Membership of these MBOs include women, men and youth from poor, marginalized rural and urban communities. The volunteer will support all MBOs in developing / strengthening their communications and fundraising plans, and accompany them in the implementation of the plans towards a strong external communication and financial resource base of the organizations.
To a lesser extent, for not more than 30% of the task, the Specialist will further build capacity of the Trias Philippines - Southeast Asia office to promote and sell its work externally, to stakeholders, partners and donors, and raise funds to expand its operations in the Philippines and other countries in Southeast Asia. Viewing Trias new regionalization strategy, the volunteer will revise Trias fundraising and communications strategies and strengthen these to reflect the changed priorities.
- Understanding of participatory approaches to development.
Trias is an international development organization headquartered in Brussels working to help realize the aspirations of enterprising people all over the world. Trias brings together like-minded farmers and entrepreneurs who support each other to make their dreams come true. The organization works in 15 countries with over 100 partner organizations to strengthen them as relevant, inclusive and sustainable organization that promote inclusive growth in favor of the small-scale entrepreneurs and family farmers.
The Trias – Philippine team is seeking to build urban-rural bridges by connecting entrepreneurs to each other and to other cities. In addition, the Trias – Philippines team seeks to raise awareness about the barriers to economic development that farmers face.


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Geometers Sketchpad is an amazing desktop application for Math teachers to help visualize math and make it tangible for their students.
Now, it looks like they have an iPad version with included activities and workbooks for elementary math, early algebra and geometry – and it's free!
Today, we'll take a look at the benchmark exams available in UTIPS for the math teachers in Iron county. We'll show you an alternate way to access these tests – other than copying the tests to a teachers UTIPS account – which has some vast benefits.
Access the Iron Math Benchmark Exams here: http://ironmath.utips.sedck12.org – this is the same address that your students will use to access the tests.
Taking a test this way requires that teachers have their students set up in their own UTIPS account ahead of the time that the benchmark exams are taken. The instructions on how to do this are included in this post as the Managing Students.doc – view and download below.
Accessing the tests this way not only gives the teacher identified with the detailed login a copy of the test results, but the Iron Math master account gets a copy of the results as well for every student that access the test DISTRICT WIDE. This will allow for more broad data analysis – more data = good!
Hopefully you can see the advantage of students taking these exams. They can provide valuable data and insight as to how students are doing and progressing in their learning. We hope that you will urge your teachers to use these tests and have their students take them, and then using the results to their best advantage.
Feel free to share this article, the handouts and video with your teachers so that they can get the ball rolling on these benchmark exams. As always, PLEASE let me know how I can help with this process, UTIPS, or any other technology and data in your schools.


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AI Zone
DZone > AI Zone > The Data That's Driving China's Hidden Champions
The Data That's Driving China's Hidden Champions
Explore the data that is driving China's hidden champions in the AI industry.
Adi Gaskell
Aug. 21, 19 · AI Zone ·
The thousands of individual firms that make up Germany's Mittelstand may, in themselves, be largely hidden champions, but there is no real doubting the tremendous role these small and medium-sized firms have played in the incredible economic performance Germany has witnessed in recent years.
The firms have traditionally operated in decidedly unglamorous fields whose markets have seemed unduly narrow, but by ascending to global dominance of those fields, the companies have been tremendously successful. Indeed, so successful have they been that countries from France to the United Kingdom have strove to build a Mittelstand of their own.
One country that has been successful in developing hidden champions of its own is China, at least according to the latest book from IMD Business School's Mark Greeven and Imperial College London's George Yip.
Pioneers, Hidden Champions, Changemakers, and Underdogs aim to look beyond the well-known Chinese firms, such as Tencent, Alibaba, and Huawei — that are making waves around the world — and explore the thousands of firms that are generally operating under the radar, yet are leading industries ranging from renewable energy to industrial machinery.
They suggest that while many of the Chinese champions are hidden from the world, they have a number of characteristics in common, from strong investment in R&D to a strong desire to branch out from an admittedly strong domestic market.
Data Economy
One factor that is largely absent from the book is the power of data, certainly in driving the digital vanguards such as Alibaba, Tencent, and Baidu, whose digital empires are such that around 60% of all time spent on mobile devices in China is spent on an app associated in some way with the three behemoths. The digital economy stretches beyond the BAT group, however, and includes an armada of digital innovators who are thriving off the back of robust and invaluable user data.
The power of this data was emphasized by the China Artificial Intelligence Index, which aims to measure the development of AI-based technologies in China over the past couple of decades. It does this by comparing the kind of data available to train AI algorithms in both the United States and China. This includes not just the data itself but also factors such as human capital, open source software development in AI, research capacities, and even the public perception of AI technology.
The findings showed that China has been rapidly expanding its research capacity, with research output now on a par with America, at least in terms of quantity if not necessarily quality. There has also been a narrowing of the gap in AI scholars, although, across the industry as a whole, there remains a significant gap in talent, with LinkedIn's talent database listing just 50,000 AI experts in China versus over 830,000 for the US. This gap is even more pronounced when assessing people with over ten years of experience in the industry.
AI Entrepreneurship
This talent landscape does not appear to be stifling entrepreneurial activity in the country however, with over 400 AI firms registered in China in 2016. One of the more interesting of these was recently analyzed by French business school INSEAD.
ByteDance, the company behind the video platform TikTok, is incredibly popular with teenagers and millennials and allows users to create short videos to share among their social network. Each clip is limited to lasting under 15 seconds, with users often using the split-screen functionality to interact with peers.
The app has already been downloaded over 1 billion times and was rated the third-most-downloaded app in the world in the first quarter of 2019. The app heavily utilizes AI that is trained on the vast quantity of video footage to understand the preferences of users, while also using machine learning to make creating, editing, and promoting the videos as easy as possible.
The company was valued at around $75 billion just a year after launching, making it the most valuable start-up in the world, and while this rapid growth has certainly not been without problems, it underlines the potential for Chinese entrepreneurs to make a sizeable dent in the world.
According to Greeven and Yip, they are far from alone, and they identify over eighty unicorns (start-ups valued at over $1bn). Their success is founded on five core principles:
They are headed by young entrepreneurs who want to change the traditional ways of doing business
They utilize digital technology to disrupt traditional business models
Their growth is fuelled by a ready supply of venture capital investment
They are highly visible and expert at promoting themselves
They focus on growing their user base at speed rather than profitability
"With the increasing importance of digital innovation to companies all around the world, China may be well-positioned to lead the global digital innovation arena," they say. "China's innovation pioneers are transforming their organizations to embrace digital technology and platform business models."
ByteDance is a good example of a company that is doing just that, and they've made astonishing progress in the two years they've been in operation. There was long a suspicion that no tech startup could withstand the tractor beam of the BAT trio, who has a rapacious appetite for any startup operating even vaguely in their ballpark, but ByteDance has shown that it is possible to thrive as an independent entity and that Chinese innovation may well be something to sit up and take note of.
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Church Commissioners announce Hilary Wild as new chair of Audit and Risk Committee
The Church Commissioners for England today announced the appointment of Hilary Wild as Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee.
Hilary joined the Church Commissioners in February 2019 as a non-Commissioner member of their Audit and Risk Committee and takes up her new role as Committee Chair today. Hilary replaces Jeremy Clack, who stepped down from the role at the end of 2020, having served the full length of his term.
Hilary begins her role as Chair following a career which spans roles in financial services as a director at Kleinwort Benson and with the UN, where she was Comptroller and Director of Business Change at the World Health Organisation. Her numerous current and past non-executive roles include Board or Audit Committee roles within the CGIAR System, the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN, and WaterAid UK.
Chief Executive Gareth Mostyn said, "I am delighted that the Board has made this appointment. We strive for robust governance in all that we do and the Audit and Risk Committee is a vital 'critical friend'. Hilary has gained enormous experience in her executive and non-executive, local and international career, covering the development of governance systems, business strategy, and change management as well as audit and risk. I am very grateful to her for putting all this skill and knowledge at the Church's disposal and I look forward to working with her in her new role."
Commenting on the appointment, Hilary said: "It is a great privilege to be appointed as Chair of the Church Commissioners Audit and Risk Committee to succeed Jeremy Clack, who gave such great service in the role. I am excited about the opportunity to support the Church and work with my committee colleagues as we contribute our skills and expertise as part of the overall governance framework of the Church Commissioners."
This appointment underscores the Church Commissioners' ongoing commitment to improving diversity at every level of the organisation, and while there is further to go, Hilary's appointment means that for the first time, each of the Commissioners' four committees will be chaired by women.
Eternal Lord,
our beginning and our end:
bring us with the whole creation
to your glory, hidden through past ages
and made known
in Jesus Christ our Lord.
The Second Sunday of Epiphany


IN THEORY, a seed row can be placed at any distance desired from the previous crop row with the right equipment. Conventional practice is to aim for sowing in the inter-row which is the maximum distance from the previous crop row in order to optimise the seeding operation for residue handling, herbicide incorporation and to reduce disease risk associated with stubble from previous crops.
Experiments in Western Australia have shown that the use of on-row sowing, or edge-row sowing as close as practical to the previous crop row without disturbing that row, can provide a pathway for water infiltration using the intact root system of the previous crop, with the effect of increasing crop establishment and biomass (Roper et al. 2015. Management options for waterrepellent soils in Australian dryland agriculture, Soil Research 53, 786-806).


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Why Dementia Sufferers Need an Estate Plan | Graham Legal, P.A.
Hearing that a loved one has Alzheimer's or dementia is never easy, and it often comes with many questions and concerns. Understandably, legal matters are bound to be the last thing on your mind after receiving this diagnosis. However, planning your loved one's estate with help from an empathetic Miami probate attorney is a priority.
Dementia is a broad diagnosis for a severe decline in one's mental ability, that eventually disrupts his or her daily life. Alzheimer's is one of its most common forms, and the disease affects the brain causing memory loss and other serious symptoms. One of the most concerning aspects of these diseases is that there is no way to know how quickly they will progress. The sufferer could take years to reach an incapacitated state, or serious symptoms could arise quickly. For this reason, time is of the essence when it comes to estate planning.
The most important function an estate plan serves is making one's instructions for healthcare, end of life care, and asset management and distribution clear. By planning early, the sufferer can avoid not having a say in his or her own life and afterlife decisions. It also takes weight off your shoulders, as decisions will be clearly outlined.
If your loved one has recently been given a dementia diagnosis, the time to begin planning his or her estate is now. At Graham Legal, we understand that you are under a great deal of stress, and promise to offer guidance and compassion every step of the way. Together, we can ensure that your family member's wishes are properly documented and honored. Most importantly, you can leave the paperwork to us, so that you can enjoy more time with your loved one.
Ready to get started? Schedule a free consultation today to learn more about how a Miami probate attorney at Graham Legal can help you through this trying time.