Order of the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan "About approval of the instruction about procedure for calculation and payment in the budget of the income tax..."
Approve the enclosed Instruction "About procedure for calculation and payment in the budget of the income tax of legal entities".
1. This instruction is published based on the Tax code of the Republic of Tajikistan.
2. Income tax payers of legal entities (further tax) are resident and overseas enterprises (article 126 of the Tax Code of the Republic of Tajikistan, further in brackets only numbers of articles of this Code are specified). The Ministry of Communications of the Republic of Tajikistan, the Tajik railroad, the State-owned joint-stock holding company of "Barka Tochik" and Government savings bank of the Republic of Tajikistan carry out settlement with the State budget on the income tax on the main activities on a centralized basis and according to the procedure, determined by the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan.
3. The resident company is the company, the place of organization or management of which is the Republic of Tajikistan (14-1, 15. 16). The place of organization of the company is the place of state registration or, in the absence of that, the legal address of the company specified in formation documents of the company (the charter, the contract, provision) (15).
The place of enterprise management is the valid place of management in which its executive, governing body performs daily managerial functions (16).
4. Overseas enterprise is the company which is not considered resident according to Item 3 of this instruction.
5. Any foreign subject which is not physical person is considered for the purposes of the taxation as the company if it does not prove that it shall be considered as joint tenancy (126-2).
In case of the arrangement on joint tenancy by property or joint conducting the economic activity or other arrangement providing at least two owners, but without organization of the legal entity, the income and deductions by agreement concern to each owner and are assessed with tax according to their shares (161).
6. The taxation object of the resident company is its profit. The profit represents positive difference between the gross income of the taxpayer and deductions provided in the Section IV of this Instruction. For the purposes of Items 5-8 of this Instruction the income is determined according to provisions of the Section III of this Instruction (including all receipts leading to increase in net value of assets of the taxpayer except exempted from the income tax) (127-1).
7. The taxation object of the overseas enterprise performing activities in the Republic of Tajikistan through permanent organization is its profit on these activities, i.e. its gross income from sources in the Republic of Tajikistan connected with permanent organization, reduced by the amount of the deductions provided by the Section IV this Instruction concerning such income for this period (127-2).
8. The types of gross income of overseas enterprise provided in Item 43 of this Instruction, not connected with its permanent organization are subject to the taxation at payment source without implementation of deductions (127-3).
9. In cases of receipt by overseas enterprise of the income from sale or cession of property which is not connected with its permanent organization in the Republic of Tajikistan, the taxation object is its profit on these activities, that is its gross income of this type from sources in the Republic of Tajikistan for the calendar year reduced by the amount of the deductions provided by this Instruction and relating to such income for this period (127-4).
10. Taking into account Items 11 and 12 of this Instruction the profit of the companies is subject to taxation at the rate of 30 percent (128-1).
11. Types of gross income of overseas enterprise, stipulated in Item the 8th this Instruction, are assessed with tax at the rates specified by the Section VI of this Instruction (128-2).
12. The profit of overseas enterprise in cases, stipulated in Item the 9th this Instruction, is assessed with tax at the rate of 30 percent (128-3).


Powerball Winners The FEMA Team, fifteen workers from FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) in Berryville, West Virginia won the lottery prize of $10 million on 29th June 2005.
The winning Powerball results numbers, which made fifteen people very happy, were 3, 8, 22, 42, 49, and a Powerball of 39. West Virginia Governor, Joe Manchin, came to lottery headquarters in Charleston, VA. to present the Powerball prize to the lucky winners. Fourteen members of The FEMA Team were present and Debbie Bucher from Winchester collected the giant cheque on behalf of the group.
The winners opted to take the cash payout of $5.8 million. Choosing the winning Powerball numbers enabled each member of the team to take home $388,048.12 before taxes and $265,812.96 after taxes for their Powerball jackpot.
Jimmy Freeman won $25.6 million in 2011 and also chose the cash option for his Powerball prize.
The FEMA Team have been buying Powerball lottery tickets for over five years and have had a few wins but nothing as big as this one. The only winner who wasn't at the cheque presentation was Paul Whittemore. Paul was the guy who started the pool to play Powerball and he was the one who always bought the tickets for the group. He was too busy organising disaster relief for the victims of Hurricane Dennis to attend the Powerball jackpot cheque presentation.
When contacted, Whittemore said he enjoyed putting the pool together and organising the tickets but "Getting fourteen other people together to talk about the details of the Powerball lottery win, has been something else, sort of like herding cats and mice at the same time. One woman in a wheelchair got real emotional saying she would be buying a car she would never have had. Whittemore said his first priority with his Powerball jackpot was to pay off his mortgage and give to a couple of charities. He then wants to continue celebrating his 70th birthday. He explains, "I was on Cape Cod for my 70th birthday, July 4th, but because of all this, it wasn't exactly peaceful. Maybe now things will calm down.
Whittemore said that he was so excited when he checked the Powerball lottery results against their first ticket that he hasn't even checked the other fourteen tickets for winning Powerball numbers.
Remember you can chek your own Powerball numbers using our Powerball results checker.
Sheetz Store, Washington Street, Charles Town, West Virginia sold the winning Powerball lottery ticket and will receive $100,000. Sheetz executive vice president for marketing, Louie Sheetz said, "We couldn't be happier to see our Sheetz customers win big. This is what makes the lottery so exciting." Sheetz, who employ over 10,000 people, have sold over $3.35 million worth of lottery products in their 23 stores over the last year. This has resulted in nearly $1 million of revenue for West Virginia.
The shop which sold 2014 winner of $124.9 million Mary Ann Thompson her winning ticket also received a $100,000 reward.


Use this guide to replace the front bezel. Only applicable to Matte Displays.
Starting with the freed corner, pull the rubber gasket off the right side of the display assembly.
Continue pulling the display gasket off the display assembly down the left side.
Carefully insert a guitar pick between the top right corner of the bezel and the display assembly.
Use the guitar pick to gently pry up the adhesive along the top edge securing the bezel to the display assembly.
The bezel is very thin metal, so be very careful not to crease it as you pry it up.
If necessary, use a heat gun to reapply heat along the top right edge to loosen the adhesive securing the bezel to the display assembly.
Work along the top right edge of the display assembly, carefully prying the adhesive up with the guitar pick. Stop when you get to the iSight camera.
Do not pry near the iSight camera—there is no adhesive immediately surrounding it, and you could damage the camera with the guitar pick.
Use a heat gun to soften the adhesive under the bezel along the left and top left edges of the display.
Carefully insert a guitar pick between the top left corner of the bezel and the display assembly.
Use the guitar pick to gently pry up the adhesive along the left edge securing the bezel to the display assembly.
Repeat the procedures in the two previous steps for the right edge of the display.
Work along the top left edge of the display assembly, carefully prying the adhesive up with the guitar pick. Stop when you get to the iSight camera.
Wedge a guitar pick in between the bezel and display assembly near the inner bottom left corner.
Work along the inner bottom left edge of the display assembly, carefully prying the adhesive up with the guitar pick.
Continue prying along the inner bottom edge to release the adhesive securing the bezel to the display assembly.
Use a guitar pick to gently lift the bottom right corner of the bezel.
Slowly lift the bottom edge of the bezel and gently rotate it out of the display.


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A 7-step blueprint for how the Seahawks can beat the Eagles in the playoffs
By Sheil Kapadia Jan 2, 2020 21
Earlier this week, I went over the blueprint for how the Eagles can beat the Seahawks Sunday afternoon in the wild-card round.
But what about the other side? The Seahawks enter this game having lost three of their last four. Then again, they've played the Eagles three times since the start of the 2016 season (two in Seattle) and won all three meetings. They're also 1.5-point favorites. How can Seattle get back on track and advance to the divisional round?
Below is a seven-step blueprint. Numbers are courtesy of Sportradar unless otherwise noted.
1. Relentlessly attack their corners downfield
Here's a rundown of where the Eagles defense ranked against outside receivers during the regular season:
Yards allowed per game: 144.9 (32nd)
Explosive receptions: 31 (T-29th)
TDs: 17 (32nd)
Yards per target: 9.09 (27th)
Defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz prefers to play with a single high safety in...

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The Purple Vigilantes
The Purple Vigilantes is a 1938 American Western film directed by George Sherman and starring Robert Livingston, Ray Corrigan, and Max Terhune. Written by Betty Burbridge and Oliver Drake, the film is about a rancher who organizes other ranchers to form a vigilante group in order to rid their town of outlaws. After the outlaws are defeated, some of the men, posing as the vigilant group, go on a crime spree. The Purple Vigilantes is the 12th entry in the Three Mesquiteers series of B-movies produced by Republic Pictures.[1] The film was released in the United Kingdom as Purple Riders because at that time the word "vigilante" was unknown in Britain.[2]
George Sherman
Sol C. Siegel
William Colt MacDonald
Betty Burbridge
Oliver Drake
Robert Livingston
Ray Corrigan
Max Terhune
Alberto Colombo
Ernest Miller
Lester Orlebeck
Republic Pictures
January 24, 1938 (1938-01-24)
John Denvir, in his book, Legal Reelism: Movies as Legal Texts, compared the hooded-and-robed vigilantes in the film to the Ku Klux Klan. He cited The Purple Vigilantes as being "the series western most clearly inspired by the Klan", noting that the film was "treating its hooded terrorist organization as originally serving a legitimate purpose but corrupted over time."[3]
Robert Livingston as Stony Brooke
Ray Corrigan as Tucson Smith
Max Terhune as Lullaby Joslin
Joan Barclay as Jean McAllister
Earl Dwire as David Ross
Earle Hodgins as J. T. McAllister
Francis Sayles as Wiliam Jones
George Chesebro as Eggers
Robert Fiske as George Drake
Jack Perrin as Duncan
Ernie Adams as Blake
William Gould as Jenkins, Saloon Owner
Harry Strang as Murphy
Ed Cassidy as Sheriff Jim (as Edward Cassidy)
"The Three Mesquiteers Republic Pictures". b-westerns.com. Retrieved August 29, 2011.
Hardy, Phil (1997). The BFI Companion to Crime. A&C Black. p. 340. ISBN 9780304332151. Retrieved October 10, 2017.
Denvir, John (1996). Legal Reelism: Movies as Legal Texts. University of Illinois Press. p. 68. ISBN 9780252065354. Retrieved October 10, 2017.
The Purple Vigilantes on IMDb
The Purple Vigilantes on YouTube
Films directed by George Sherman
Wild Horse Rodeo (1937)
The Purple Vigilantes (1938)
Outlaws of Sonora (1938)
Riders of the Black Hills (1938)
Heroes of the Hills (1938)
Pals of the Saddle (1938)
Overland Stage Raiders (1938)
Rhythm of the Saddle (1938)
Santa Fe Stampede (1938)
Red River Range (1938)
Mexicali Rose (1939)
The Night Riders (1939)
Three Texas Steers (1939)
Wyoming Outlaw (1939)
Colorado Sunset (1939)
New Frontier (1939)
The Kansas Terrors (1939)
Rovin' Tumbleweeds (1939)
Cowboys from Texas (1939)
Ghost Valley Raiders (1940)
Covered Wagon Days (1940)
Rocky Mountain Rangers (1940)
One Man's Law (1940)
The Tulsa Kid (1940)
Under Texas Skies (1940)
Frontier Vengeance (1940)
The Trail Blazers (1940)
Texas Terrors (1940)
Lone Star Raiders (1940)
Wyoming Wildcat (1941)
The Phantom Cowboy (1941)
Two Gun Sheriff (1941)
Desert Bandit (1941)
Kansas Cyclone (1941)
Citadel of Crime (1941)
The Apache Kid (1941)
Death Valley Outlaws (1941)
A Missouri Outlaw (1941)
Arizona Terrors (1942)
Stagecoach Express (1942)
Jesse James, Jr. (1942)
The Cyclone Kid (1942)
The Sombrero Kid (1942)
X Marks the Spot (1942)
London Blackout Murders (1943)
The Mantrap (1943)
False Faces (1943)
The West Side Kid (1943)
A Scream in the Dark (1943)
Mystery Broadcast (1943)
The Lady and the Monster (1944)
Storm Over Lisbon (1944)
The Crime Doctor's Courage (1945)
Renegades (1946)
The Gentleman Misbehaves (1946)
Talk About a Lady (1946)
The Bandit of Sherwood Forest (1946)
The Secret of the Whistler (1946)
Personality Kid (1946)
Last of the Redskins (1947)
Relentless (1948)
Black Bart (1948)
River Lady (1948)
Feudin', Fussin' and A-Fightin' (1948)
Larceny (1948)
Red Canyon (1949)
Yes Sir, That's My Baby (1949)
Sword in the Desert (1949)
Calamity Jane and Sam Bass (1949)
Comanche Territory (1950)
The Sleeping City (1950)
Tomahawk (1951)
The Golden Horde (1951)
The Raging Tide (1951)
Steel Town (1952)
The Battle at Apache Pass (1952)
Back at the Front (1952)
Against All Flags (1952)
The Lone Hand (1953)
The Veils of Bagdad (1953)
War Arrow (1953)
Border River (1954)
Johnny Dark (1954)
Dawn at Socorro (1954)
Count Three and Pray (1955)
The Treasure of Pancho Villa (1955)
Comanche (1956)
The Last of the Fast Guns (1958)
Ten Days to Tulara (1958)
The Son of Robin Hood (1959)
Hell Bent for Leather (1960)
The Enemy General (1960)
None But the Brave (1960)
The Wizard of Baghdad (1960)
The Fiercest Heart (1961)
Panic Button (1964)
Smoky (1966)
Big Jake (1971)
The Three Mesquiteers films
The Three Mesquiteers
Ghost-Town Gold
Roarin' Lead
Riders of the Whistling Skull
Hit the Saddle
Gunsmoke Ranch
Come on, Cowboys
Range Defenders
Heart of the Rockies
The Trigger Trio
Wild Horse Rodeo
Call the Mesquiteers
Outlaws of Sonora
Riders of the Black Hills
Heroes of the Hills
Pals of the Saddle
Overland Stage Raiders
Santa Fe Stampede
Red River Range
The Night Riders
Three Texas Steers
Wyoming Outlaw
The Kansas Terrors
Cowboys from Texas
Heroes of the Saddle
Pioneers of the West
Covered Wagon Days
Rocky Mountain Rangers
Oklahoma Renegades
Under Texas Skies
The Trail Blazers
Lone Star Raiders
Prairie Pioneers
Pals of the Pecos
Saddlemates
Gangs of Sonora
Outlaws of Cherokee Trail
Gauchos of El Dorado
West of Cimarron
Code of the Outlaw
Raiders of the Range
Westward Ho
The Phantom Plainsmen
Shadows on the Sage
Valley of Hunted Men
Thundering Trails
The Blocked Trail
Santa Fe Scouts
Riders of the Rio Grande


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HISTORY OF THE WADE INSTITUTE
Wade Institute for Science Education Inquiry-based, hands-on, minds-on, science, technology and engineering professional development for K-12 teachers and informal educators.
SCIENCE BY CONNECTIONS
MITS Welcomes New Staff
Museum Institute for Teaching Science
The Museum Institute for Teaching Science (MITS, Inc.) is pleased to welcome Brianna Wilkinson and Karen Chretien to its staff. Brianna joins MITS as Assistant Education Director and Karen as Development Director.
Brianna Wilkinson comes to MITS from her time in Rochester, New York as a life sciences teacher. She holds a BA in Biology and an MS in Teaching and Curriculum. She has experienced science in a wide range of settings, including museum stages, after-school programs, New England ponds, and tropical rain-forests. During these experiences, she built an understanding of inquiry learning and its value. She joins MITS as the Assistant Education Director, and looks forward to working closely with Director of Education Linda McIntosh to coordinate and develop MITS' program offerings.
Karen has over 20 years of experience in nonprofit organizations, primarily in fundraising roles focused on corporate and foundation relations. She has raised funds for small and mid-sized organizations in fields such as education, healthcare and social services. Her goals at MITS include diversifying the sources of funds and raising resources for new programs. She enjoys discussing an organization's mission and programs with donors. Karen has a Master's degree in management and social policy and a Bachelor's degree in psychology. She is a life-long science buff who enjoys reading science fiction and spending time with her family.
MITS looks forward to working with Brianna and Karen!
The Museum Institute for Teaching Science specializes in providing hands-on, minds-on, inquiry-based STEM professional development for formal and informal educators. For more information, visit www.mits.org or call 617-328-1515.
By admin|2019-02-16T08:13:53+00:00June 24th, 2015|News|
What Teachers Are Saying
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I really enjoyed the investigations we conducted at the beach. This gave us a great opportunity to put ourselves in our students' shoes and see how this activity would work in our classroom.
Thank you for a terrific week. The hands on experiences and the visits to the different sites were all very helpful and interesting.
The workshop today was incredibly engaging, covering a broad range of information.
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Part of: Proenza Schouler S/S 16 Womenswear
Proenza Schouler S/S 16 Womenswear
Runway Show: Proenza Schouler S/S 16 Womenswear
Show Report: Proenza Schouler S/S 16 Womenswear
Catwalk Imagery: Proenza Schouler S/S 16 Womenswear
Social Feed: Proenza Schouler S/S 16 Womenswear
Watch the Proenza Schouler S/S 16 womenswear runway show video footage.
Round-Up Discussion: New York A/W 15 Womenswear
Runway Show: Proenza Schouler A/W 16 Womenswear
New York Collections
Kiki Georgiou reports on the Proenza Schouler S/S 16 womenswear show.
Runway Show: Givenchy S/S 16 Womenswear
Watch the Givenchy S/S 16 womenswear runway show video footage.
By Kiki Georgiou on 18 September 2015


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New Business Ethiopia
By BEHAK Multimedia - Business & Investment Stories Since 2009
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Global Reporting Initiative gets new board of directors
newbusinessethiopia November 13, 2018
The Amsterdam based Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) has appointed Bekeme Olowola, Founder and Chief Executive of CSR-in-Action, headquartered in Nigeria, as a member of its Board of Directors.
She will be joining a leading caste of global sustainability professionals. GRI is the world's leading sustainability impact measurement and reporting standards body.
Olowola, who is the first West African member on the Board of Directors, will be commencing her 3-year appointment on 1 January, 2019. She was appointed alongside Mr. Jack Ehnes, Chief Executive Officer, The California State Teachers Employees' Retirement System (CalSTRS), USA and Dr. Jianzhong Lu, China President of Weir Group, China.
The GRI board appointment process is rigorous and meritorious and other current board members include Tim Mohin, Chief Executive, GRI; Prof. Alexandra Watson, Vice-Chairman, GRI Board; Girish Ramachandran, President, Tata Consultancy Services Asia Pacific, Singapore; Mr. Peter H. Y. Wong, Chairman of General Fiduciary Company Limited, Hong Kong SAR; Dr. Roberto F. de Ocampo, OBE, Founding Partner of Centennial Group International, Philippines and Sandra Guerra, Managing Director, Better Governance, Brazil.
"They are joining at an exciting time, as GRI navigates towards the consolidation of its strategy and uncovers new opportunities for growth," says Eric Hespenheide, Chairman, GRI Board, a former Partner at Deloitte, who led their global sustainability reporting and assurance practice. Also, according to GRI, the latest "appointments reflect GRI's multi-stakeholder nature and commitment gender, regional and background diversity."
Commenting on the appointment, Olowola expressed her delight, saying, "I am humbled by this appointment. It tells me that the GRI is committed to engaging its most crucial stakeholders honourably and to pursuing an African agenda. I remain convinced that Africa is ripe for advancing and embedding sustainability practices and that the GRI is a valid partner to work with to drive the sustainability agenda even more than ever."
A social entrepreneur, Bekeme Olowola is the Chief Executive of CSR-in-Action, a group made of a consulting firm, a think tank and a training institute dedicated to corporate social responsibility, policy development, advocacy, empowerment and sustainable development in the region.
Under Olowola, CSR-in-Action has promoted sustainable measurement and reporting using the GRI framework, specifically, since 2011, and has catalysed the growth of sustainability adoption and transparency through corporations' production of annual report.
CSR-in-Action produces the pioneer sustainability investment report in Nigeria The Collective Social Report: Nigeria (now The Corporate Sustainable Investor Report), endorsed by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and supported by United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) in 2012; a first of its kind compendium which includes a rating of business sustainability performance.
Bekeme Olowola helped establish the Business Coalition for Sustainable Development Nigeria (BCSDN) in May 2014, an initiative affiliated with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), made up of a coalition of leading businesses across all sectors to drive collective development.
She has engaged stakeholders throughout the economic value chain – government, business, civil society organisations and communities – and recently spearheaded the design and development of a Community Engagement Standards to facilitate the Federal Government agenda for promoting peace through equity in oil and gas communities in Nigeria.
She is on the board of several non-profit and for-profit organisations and is convener of the annual Sustainability in the Extractive Industries Conference, the largest development focused gathering for extractives now in its eighth year, and producer of The Good Citizen Radio Show.
GRI is an independent international organisation that pioneered sustainability reporting globally. It currently serves a global audience through regional hubs in Brazil, China, Colombia, India, South Africa and the United States. GRI reports are produced in more than 100 countries.
Gabon secures 30 million euros for special economic zone
Ecobank partners with International Federation of Red Cross, Red Crescent Societies
East Africa's Besh Gebeya to open 25 stores in Ethiopia
newbusinessethiopianews January 15, 2021
Ethiopian, Indonesian Boeing crashes victims' families to get additional $500 million
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Wingu.africa to build hyperscale data center in Ethiopia
Ethiopian Army kills three top TPLF leaders
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Boortmalt to benefit 50,000 barley farmers in Ethiopia
Ethiopia attracts $1.1 billion FDI in five months
Ethiopia secures $1.4 billion remittance from diaspora
Ethiopia repatriates 405 immigrants from Oman, Saudi
newbusinessethiopianews	January 9, 2021
Ethiopia captures TPLF godfather Sibhat Nega
Ethio Lease supplies medical equipment Alatyon Hospital
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1,131 COVID-19 patients in Ethiopia recover in 24 hours
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Ethiopia approves new media proclamation
Some 2,000 Africa girls conclude continental coding training
Cape Town set for first Hyatt Hotel
NBE October 23, 2020
Addis Airport unveils its new aviation infrastructure
NBE August 27, 2020
Ethiopia introduces zero profit tax incentive to boost tourism
Ethiopia inaugurates new tourist attraction in Addis Ababa
CR2 set to accelerate digital banking in Ethiopia
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Family Milk of Ethiopia to commence export
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Ethiopia announces 10 million Birr reward to capture TPLF fugitives
Does United Nations know who heads WHO?


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package org.apache.felix.upnp.basedriver.importer.core.upnp;

import java.util.Date;
import java.util.Hashtable;

import org.cybergarage.upnp.AllowedValueList;
import org.cybergarage.upnp.AllowedValueRange;
import org.cybergarage.upnp.StateVariable;

import org.osgi.service.upnp.UPnPStateVariable;

import org.apache.felix.upnp.basedriver.Activator;
import org.apache.felix.upnp.basedriver.util.Converter;

/*
* @author Felix Project Team
*/
public class UPnPStateVariableImpl implements UPnPStateVariable {

	private StateVariable variable;

    private Number max = null;
    private Number min = null;
    private Number step = null;

    private String[] values = null;

    private Boolean hasMaxMinStep = null;
    private Boolean hasRangeValues = null;

	private static Hashtable upnp2javaTable = null;

	static{
		upnp2javaTable = new Hashtable(30);
		String[] upnpType = null;
		upnpType = new String[]{"ui1","ui2","i1","i2","i4","int"};
		for (int i = 0; i < upnpType.length; i++) {
			upnp2javaTable.put(upnpType[i],Integer.class);
		}

		upnpType = new String[]{"ui4","time","time.tz"};
		for (int i = 0; i < upnpType.length; i++) {
			upnp2javaTable.put(upnpType[i],Long.class);
		}

		upnpType = new String[]{"r4","float"};
		for (int i = 0; i < upnpType.length; i++) {
			upnp2javaTable.put(upnpType[i],Float.class);
		}

		upnpType = new String[]{"r8","number","fixed.14.4"};
		for (int i = 0; i < upnpType.length; i++) {
			upnp2javaTable.put(upnpType[i],Double.class);
		}

		upnpType = new String[]{"char"};
		for (int i = 0; i < upnpType.length; i++) {
			upnp2javaTable.put(upnpType[i],Character.class);
		}

		upnpType = new String[]{"string","uri","uuid"};
		for (int i = 0; i < upnpType.length; i++) {
			upnp2javaTable.put(upnpType[i],String.class);
		}

		upnpType = new String[]{"date","dateTime","dateTime.tz"};
		for (int i = 0; i < upnpType.length; i++) {
			upnp2javaTable.put(upnpType[i],Date.class);
		}

		upnpType = new String[]{"boolean"};
		for (int i = 0; i < upnpType.length; i++) {
			upnp2javaTable.put(upnpType[i],Boolean.class);
		}

		upnpType = new String[]{"bin.base64","bin.hex"};
		for (int i = 0; i < upnpType.length; i++) {
			upnp2javaTable.put(upnpType[i],byte[].class);
		}

	}

	/**
	 * @param variable
	 */
	public UPnPStateVariableImpl(StateVariable variable) {

		this.variable = variable;
	}

    /**
     * @see org.osgi.service.upnp.UPnPStateVariable#getName()
	 */
	public String getName() {
		return variable.getName();
	}

	/**
	 * @see org.osgi.service.upnp.UPnPStateVariable#getJavaDataType()
	 */
	public Class getJavaDataType() {
		return (Class) upnp2javaTable.get(variable.getDataType());
	}

	/**
	 * @see org.osgi.service.upnp.UPnPStateVariable#getUPnPDataType()
	 */
	public String getUPnPDataType() {
		return variable.getDataType();
	}

	/**
	 * @see org.osgi.service.upnp.UPnPStateVariable#getDefaultValue()
	 */
	public Object getDefaultValue() {
		//TODO must be implemented from scretch, it's just raccommend
		return null;
	}

	/**
	 * @see org.osgi.service.upnp.UPnPStateVariable#getAllowedValues()
	 */
	public String[] getAllowedValues() {
        if(hasRangeValues == null)
            initValueConstraint();

        return values;
	}

	/**
	 * @see org.osgi.service.upnp.UPnPStateVariable#getMinimum()
	 */
	public Number getMinimum() {
        if(hasMaxMinStep == null)
            initValueConstraint();

        return min;
	}

	/**
	 * @see org.osgi.service.upnp.UPnPStateVariable#getMaximum()
	 */
	public Number getMaximum() {
        if(hasMaxMinStep == null)
            initValueConstraint();

        return max;
	}

    /**
     * NOTE:  This type of control caches the value recieved by the Device so if XML changes it doesn't affect the OSGi service
     *
     * @since 0.3
     */
    private void initValueConstraint(){
        if(hasRangeValues != null || hasMaxMinStep != null)
            return;

        hasRangeValues = Boolean.FALSE;
        hasMaxMinStep = Boolean.FALSE;

        final AllowedValueRange allowedValueRange = variable.getAllowedValueRange();
        final AllowedValueList allowedValueList = variable.getAllowedValueList();

        if(allowedValueRange != null && allowedValueList != null){
            Activator.logger.WARNING("Imported device with StateVariable "
                                     +variable.getName()+" contains either AllowedValueRange and AllowedValueList UPnP doesn't allow it because it. Neither of the restriction will be applied");

        }else if( allowedValueRange != null ){

            initMaxMinStep(allowedValueRange);

        }else if( allowedValueList != null ){

            initAllowedValues(allowedValueList);

        }
    }

    /**
     * @param allowedValueList
     * @since 0.3
     */
    private void initAllowedValues(AllowedValueList allowedValueList){
        //PRE:invoked only by initValueConstraint() thus allowedValueList must not null
        if (String.class != getJavaDataType()) {
            Activator.logger.WARNING("Imported device with StateVariable "
                                     +variable.getName()+" contains AllowedValueList but its UPnP type doesn't allow it because it is +"+getUPnPDataType());
            return;
        }

        if(allowedValueList.size() == 0){
            return ;
        }

        values = new String[allowedValueList.size()];
        for (int i = 0; i < allowedValueList.size(); i++) {
            values[i] = allowedValueList.getAllowedValue(i).getValue();
        }
    }

    /**
     * @param allowedValueRange
     * @since 0.3
     */
    private void initMaxMinStep(AllowedValueRange allowedValueRange){
        //PRE:invoked only by initValueConstraint() thus allowedValueRange must not  be null
        if(allowedValueRange==null){
            return;
        }

        if(!Number.class.isAssignableFrom(getJavaDataType())){
            Activator.logger.WARNING("Imported device with StateVariable "
                                     +variable.getName()+" contains AllowedValueRange but its UPnP type doesn't allow it because it is +"+getUPnPDataType());
            return;
        }

        final String maxStr = allowedValueRange.getMaximum();
        final String minStr = allowedValueRange.getMinimum();
        final String stepStr = allowedValueRange.getStep();

        try{
            final String type = getUPnPDataType();
            max = (Number)Converter.parseString(maxStr,type);
            min = (Number)Converter.parseString(minStr,type);
            step = (Number)Converter.parseString(stepStr,type);
        }catch(Exception ex){
            Activator.logger.WARNING("Imported device with StateVariable "
                +variable.getName()+" contains an invalid definition for AllowedValueRange");
        }
        hasMaxMinStep = Boolean.TRUE;
    }

	/**
	 * @see org.osgi.service.upnp.UPnPStateVariable#getStep()
	 */
	public Number getStep() {
        if(hasMaxMinStep == null)
            initValueConstraint();

        return step;

	}

	/**
	 * @see org.osgi.service.upnp.UPnPStateVariable#sendsEvents()
	 */
	public boolean sendsEvents() {
		return variable.isSendEvents();
	}

}

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/**
 * @file
 * @brief Defines the templated extended Kalman filter class.
 */

#pragma once

#include <functional>
#include <utility>

#include "Eigen/Dense"
#include "cyber/common/log.h"
#include "modules/common/math/matrix_operations.h"

/**
 * @namespace apollo::common::math
 * @brief apollo::common::math
 */
namespace apollo {
namespace common {
namespace math {

/**
 * @class ExtendedKalmanFilter
 *
 * @brief Implements a discrete-time extended Kalman filter.
 *
 * @param XN dimension of state
 * @param ZN dimension of observations
 * @param UN dimension of controls
 */
template <typename T, unsigned int XN, unsigned int ZN, unsigned int UN>
class ExtendedKalmanFilter {
 public:
  /**
   * @brief Constructor which defers initialization until the initial state
   * distribution parameters are set (with SetStateEstimate),
   * typically on the first observation
   */
  ExtendedKalmanFilter() {
    F_.setIdentity();
    Q_.setZero();
    H_.setIdentity();
    R_.setZero();

    x_.setZero();
    P_.setZero();
    y_.setZero();
    S_.setZero();
    K_.setZero();
  }

  /**
   * @brief Constructor which fully initializes the extended Kalman filter
   * @param x Mean of the state belief distribution
   * @param P Covariance of the state belief distribution
   */
  ExtendedKalmanFilter(const Eigen::Matrix<T, XN, 1> &x,
                       const Eigen::Matrix<T, XN, XN> &P)
      : ExtendedKalmanFilter() {
    SetStateEstimate(x, P);
  }

  /**
   * @brief Sets the initial state belief distribution.
   *
   * @param x Mean of the state belief distribution
   * @param P Covariance of the state belief distribution
   */
  void SetStateEstimate(const Eigen::Matrix<T, XN, 1> &x,
                        const Eigen::Matrix<T, XN, XN> &P) {
    x_ = x;
    P_ = P;
  }

  /**
   * @brief Destructor
   */
  virtual ~ExtendedKalmanFilter() {}

  /**
   * @brief Changes the system transition function under zero control.
   *
   * @param F New transition matrix
   */
  void SetTransitionModel(
      std::function<Eigen::Matrix<T, XN, 1>(const Eigen::Matrix<T, XN, 1> &,
                                            const Eigen::Matrix<T, UN, 1> &)>
          f,
      const Eigen::Matrix<T, XN, XN> &F) {
    f_ = std::move(f);
    F_ = F;
  }

  /**
   * @brief Changes the covariance matrix of the transition noise.
   *
   * @param Q New covariance matrix
   */
  void SetTransitionNoise(const Eigen::Matrix<T, XN, XN> &Q) { Q_ = Q; }

  /**
   * @brief Changes the observation matrix, which maps states to observations.
   *
   * @param H New observation matrix
   */
  void SetObservationModel(
      std::function<Eigen::Matrix<T, ZN, 1>(const Eigen::Matrix<T, XN, 1> &)> h,
      const Eigen::Matrix<T, ZN, XN> &H) {
    h_ = std::move(h);
    H_ = H;
  }

  /**
   * @brief Changes the covariance matrix of the observation noise.
   *
   * @param R New covariance matrix
   */
  void SetObservationNoise(const Eigen::Matrix<T, ZN, ZN> &R) { R_ = R; }

  /**
   * @brief Changes the covariance matrix of current state belief distribution.
   *
   * @param P New state covariance matrix
   */
  void SetStateCovariance(const Eigen::Matrix<T, XN, XN> &P) { P_ = P; }

  /**
   * @brief Get the covariance matrix of the transition noise.
   *
   * @return Covariance matrix
   */
  const Eigen::Matrix<T, XN, XN> &GetTransitionNoise() const { return Q_; }

  /**
   * @brief Updates the state belief distribution given the control input u.
   *
   * @param u Control input (by default, zero)
   */
  void Predict(
      const Eigen::Matrix<T, UN, 1> &u = Eigen::Matrix<T, UN, 1>::Zero());

  /**
   * @brief Updates the state belief distribution given an observation z.
   *
   * @param z Observation
   */
  void Correct(const Eigen::Matrix<T, ZN, 1> &z);

  /**
   * @brief Gets mean of our current state belief distribution
   *
   * @return State vector
   */
  Eigen::Matrix<T, XN, 1> GetStateMean() const { return x_; }

  /**
   * @brief Gets covariance of our current state belief distribution
   *
   * @return Covariance matrix
   */
  Eigen::Matrix<T, XN, XN> GetStateCovariance() const { return P_; }

 private:
  // Mean of current state belief distribution
  Eigen::Matrix<T, XN, 1> x_;

  // Covariance of current state belief dist
  Eigen::Matrix<T, XN, XN> P_;

  // Transition function
  std::function<Eigen::Matrix<T, XN, 1>(const Eigen::Matrix<T, XN, 1> &,
                                        const Eigen::Matrix<T, UN, 1> &)>
      f_;

  // State transition matrix under zero control
  Eigen::Matrix<T, XN, XN> F_;

  // Covariance of the state transition noise
  Eigen::Matrix<T, XN, XN> Q_;

  // Observation function
  std::function<Eigen::Matrix<T, ZN, 1>(const Eigen::Matrix<T, XN, 1> &)> h_;

  // Observation matrix
  Eigen::Matrix<T, ZN, XN> H_;

  // Covariance of observation noise
  Eigen::Matrix<T, ZN, ZN> R_;

  // Innovation; marked as member to prevent memory re-allocation.
  Eigen::Matrix<T, ZN, 1> y_;

  // Innovation covariance; marked as member to prevent memory re-allocation.
  Eigen::Matrix<T, ZN, ZN> S_;

  // Kalman gain; marked as member to prevent memory re-allocation.
  Eigen::Matrix<T, XN, ZN> K_;
};

template <typename T, unsigned int XN, unsigned int ZN, unsigned int UN>
inline void ExtendedKalmanFilter<T, XN, ZN, UN>::Predict(
    const Eigen::Matrix<T, UN, 1> &u) {
  x_ = f_(x_, u);

  P_ = F_ * P_ * F_.transpose() + Q_;
}

template <typename T, unsigned int XN, unsigned int ZN, unsigned int UN>
inline void ExtendedKalmanFilter<T, XN, ZN, UN>::Correct(
    const Eigen::Matrix<T, ZN, 1> &z) {
  y_ = z - h_(x_);

  S_ = H_ * P_ * H_.transpose() + R_;

  K_ = P_ * H_.transpose() * PseudoInverse<T, ZN>(S_);

  x_ = x_ + K_ * y_;

  P_ = (Eigen::Matrix<T, XN, XN>::Identity() - K_ * H_) * P_;
}

}  // namespace math
}  // namespace common
}  // namespace apollo


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Darfur Radio Show Launched
Programme will overcome Sudanese censorship to deliver news on war crimes justice developments.
By IWPR
First On the Scale radio programme, as broadcast on Radio Dabanga, in Arabic.
Also see Darfuris Subject to Arbitrary Detentions.
Darfuris will this week tune into the first episode of an IWPR co-produced programme on local and international justice issues, aired by a diaspora radio station, which is estimated to regularly attract over a million listeners in the Darfur region.
Called On the Scale [Fi al Mizan], the show is to broadcast directly into the region from the studios of Radio Dabanga in Hilversum, the Netherlands. The majority of the anticipated listeners live in internal displacement camps in Darfur, and across the border in refugee camps in eastern Chad. People living in south Sudan are also expected to tune in.
Radio Dabanga is run by Dutch-based Darfuris who work with a network of correspondents on the ground in Sudan to broadcast news- and magazine-style programming three hours per day into Darfur.
The station estimates that over one million people tune in to listen to the station when it is on air, based on listener feedback and field research by reporters.
Government censorship is routine in Sudan with newspapers and radios forbidden to write or broadcast news reports critical of the government, making it virtually impossible for a free press to operate within the country.
"This is why IWPR is so excited to work with Radio Dabanga which is managing, thanks to being located outside Sudan and a range of technical measures, to get uncensored news into Darfur," said Katy Glassborow, producer of On the Scale.
"In the countries where IWPR works, we have seen the negative impact of misinformation, government propaganda and censorship in countries which are going through conflict or emerging from war. We think unbiased information is a tool for ordinary people, and has been in short supply in Darfur."
The Sudanese government tries to jam Radio Dabanga's signal, but because of technical measures and the addition of a second shortwave frequency, the signal can still be received clearly throughout the region.
Tajeldin Abdalla Adam is one of the Darfuri journalists working on the programme.
"The issue of justice is highly important for the listeners in Darfur given the scale of the atrocities that have occurred since 2003. This programme will offer the audience a voice they never had before and give them the opportunity to be involved in the process of justice and the quest for it," he said.
Assadig Musa, a Darfur lawyer working with the On the Scale team, added, "Justice is … a very important factor of stability across societies. I am very pleased to be involved in this programme and hope to contribute to the raised awareness of my people vis-a-vis justice and the rule of law in their lives."
Last year, IWPR trained many members of the Dabanga team about reporting on justice issues, particularly the International Criminal Court, ICC, which has launched cases against four Sudanese including the president Omar al-Bashir.
Hildebrand Bijleveld from Press Now, the NGO that runs Radio Dabanga, emphasises the need for professional capacity building for journalists covering issues concerning justice.
"Often media outlets just air accusations based on the agenda of interest groups. This programme tries to break these cycles of non-constructive shouting by providing well-researched journalistic features."
On the Scale is broadcast in basic Darfur Arabic, Fur, Zaghawa and Masalit – the four major languages of the region.
The first programme is about a Darfur chief who has been arrested and detained under Sudan's emergency laws. Family members and his lawyer are interviewed and explain the circumstances of his arrest and conditions of his detention.
Also interviewed is the information minister and spokesman for the government in North Darfur, who maintains that the security situation in Darfur justifies individuals being detained in this way.
Future shows feature the African Union on justice solutions for Darfur; the rights of internally displaced people returning to their villages; and sexual violence in Darfur and how women can seek justice.
For more information, please contact Katy Glassborow, katy@iwpr.net or ring +31 (0) 70 322 5177.
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IWPR undertakes capacity-building programmes in more than two dozen areas of crisis and conflict around the world. Established in 1993, its work focuses on training, reporting and institution-building. This includes establishing independent local media; training local reporters, editors and producers in basic and specialist skills; supporting extensive in-depth reporting on human rights, good governance and related issues; disseminating fact-based reporting in developing countries and internationally; and strengthening communications capacity of local human rights, women's and grassroots organisations.
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Q: Logging out returns Can't verify CSRF token authenticity I am able to login and logout most of the time, but sometimes during logging out I am returned with this error as stated below and I am not logged out.
Can't verify CSRF token authenticity.
User excluded error: #<ActionController::InvalidAuthenticityToken: ActionController::InvalidAuthenticityToken>

It doesn't happen always that I am not able to logout but when I am not able to logout above is the error which I get. I read about it this is what I have done so far. I am using vuejs on my front end and rails on the backend. I am using rails version 5.1.
application_controller.rb
protect_from_forgery with: :exception

application.html.erb
<%= csrf_meta_tags %>

this is the axios request I am making to logout the user
index.vue
logout() {
 this.$axios.delete('/users/sign_out').then(function(response) {
  console.log("Logged out")
 });
}

Please help me resolve this issue

A: You may need to add the csrf_meta_tags to the request
In your case, the csrf_meta_tags in application.html.erb is not re-rendered.

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However, it is easy to jump online and review more popular coworking websites to see a diverse office of young and up-and-comers working, some socialising, during the peak business hours. This creative, and sometimes independent, group of professionals do make a perfect picture, but not all coworking spaces are the same. To find your perfect space, there are a few factors prospective coworking professionals should make.
Continue reading to learn some of the factors you should consider when looking for a coworking space in the UK.
Every coworking space is different from each other, even though similar in their mission. Because the space is made up diverse professionals, the mix contributes to defining the character of the space. For example, in spaces occupied by people in creative industries, the vibe might be a little more relaxed with a very different approach to supporting businesses, and spaces that are occupied by entrepreneurs might have a more business-like approach to business. Take a look at Servcorp Coworking London at http://www.servcorp.co.uk/en/coworking/ to see how this corporate profile affects the space.
When visiting the space, hang out in the area for a minute before meeting the space managers. If possible, spend time talking to other people in the space to get a sense of the atmosphere. Before leaving the space, see if you can get a trial run for an afternoon to see if the space is appropriate for your business. This will give you plenty of opportunity to not only see how the space is managed but to see also how professionals engage each other in the space. Atmosphere is important when choosing a space because the atmosphere in the office can make networking more accessible when it aligns with the missions and goals of your business.
While seemingly a small thing, the comfort factor and functionality of the space are important in determining whether or not to join a space. At the minimum, your space should contain a place for you to work, with a few options in the workspace, and place to collaborate since they are the two tasks that really define coworking. Add-ons can include a kitchenette or café that provides you with a place to eat during the work day and excellent Wi-Fi. While many offer a range of amenities, these are a few that can really colour the experience of coworking.
If your goal is to provide a foundation for building business relationships, then you want to choose space whose platform focuses on community development within the space. Coworking spaces that hold events throughout the month are trying to get professionals to engage with the community, and by doing so, network with others in the space. Furthermore, community focus can contribute to the type of camaraderie that naturally builds collaborative relationships.
Finally, there is little point in belonging to a cool workspace that is some distance from the people and tools you need. When choosing space, make sure the space is accessible to clients and businesses you might use in the course of a day. While there are resources in the space itself, the tools you use for business should be in proximity.
The perfect space among many coworking spaces is based on your business's needs. Coworking presents all businesses with an opportunity to maximise its flexible platform for building growth. Ultimately, the choice is yours.


Download or pick up an application form from your child's school.
Parents of children in other year groups and in secondary schools must still apply for a free meal and your eligibility will be checked.
How do I apply for free school meals for my child?
If I receive Working Tax credit, does my child qualify?
Nursery aged children who attend full days in a nursery attached to a Brent school. It is a requirement that the child attends both before and after the lunch time period i.e. the child must be attending two sessions AND also meet the benefits criteria. The same benefits criteria apply to nursery school children as apply to children in school.
Young people who receive income support or income-based jobseekers allowance in their own right are also entitled to free school meals.
You must tell us immediately if you stop receiving your benefit.
Contacting the school admissions team on 020 8937 3110 for a paper copy of the application form which they will post to you.
The application form is only for a child or young person who attend a full time school or nursery in the London borough of Brent.
We will ask for proof of child benefit to be provided if this is your first application for free school meals. Eligibility for free school meals will not be backdated, so ensure you apply as soon as possible.
Please note that providing us with an email address or mobile number (or both) will help to ensure we can regularly inform and update you on the progress of your application.
Your free school meals provider will contact you to confirm entitlement has started. Your child will continue to receive free school meals for as long as your eligibility can be confirmed.
Please be aware that we are unable to backdate claims for free school meals to cover unpaid dinner money, or to refund dinner money paid prior to the date of a successful application.
For no longer than four weeks from the date you became unemployed (or reduced your working hours to less than 16 per week) and started receiving Working Tax Credit.
In this case you will need to provide evidence of your benefit. You need to make sure this information shows the date you became unemployed, or the date you reduced your hours, because free school meals are only available to parents on Working Tax Credit run-on-paid for four weeks after you stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit.
If you have been unemployed and receiving Working Tax Credit for longer than four weeks, then your children are not entitled to free school meals.
If your Working Tax Credit stops and you begin receiving a different benefit that is one of the qualifying criteria listed above, you will continue to be eligible after the four-week period.
If you increase your hours or begin working and continue to receive Working Tax Credit your free school meal entitlement will stop.
Please contact us immediately if your benefit changes or ends, as it may mean that you no longer qualify to claim free school meals. If it is found that you did not notify us that you were no longer entitled to claim free school meals, you will be invoiced for the cost of all school meals taken free to which your child(ren) were not entitled.


Professor C.-C. Jay Kuo attended 2015 APSIPA Annual Summit Conference (ASC) in Siem Reap, Cambodia, December 9-12. APSIPA represents "Asia Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association", which was founded in 2009. Professor Sadaoki Furui was the first President (2009-2012) while Prof. Jay Kuo was the second (2012-2014). During his tenure, Professor Kuo launched a major membership campaign through recruiting APSIPA Friend Labs. Right now, APSIPA has around 3200 e-members in the LinkedIn Social Network and 260 APSIPA Friend Labs.
Professor Kosin Chamnongthai of King Mongkut's University of Technology (Thailand), Professor Hitoshi Kiya of Tokyo Metropolitan University (Japan) and Professor Kuo were General Co-Chairs of APSIPA ASC 2014. The conference location, Siem Reap, is the home to the incredible Angkor ruins, a sprawling World Heritage-listed complex of ancient temples, including Angkor Wat, Angkor Thom, etc. Professor Kuo met a couple of MCL alumni from Korea and Taiwan.
Professor Kuo completed his two-year term of APSIPA President immediately after this conference, and Dr. Haizhou Li of Singapore has succeed Professor Kuo to become the new President of APSIPA. Dr. Li is a world renowned expert and technical leader in speech processing and recognition.


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Semester 1 Final Practice Quiz 2
Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
What does the chemical symbol "S" stand for?
Do not now
Elements are made of tiny particle called ____________.
neutrons
The nucleus of an atom is made up of which components?
neutrons and electrons
protons neutrons and electrons
protons and electrons
protons and neutrons
Who is credited with the discovery of the nucleus?
Do no know
Atoms that the same number of protons but different numbers of neutrons are referred to as _____.
cations
atomic massess
What is the name of the group of elements that make up the first column?
Alkali
Alaline
What is the name of a postivity charged particle?
When writing a chemical formula of a binary ionic compound, what is written first?
What is the formula of lead II nitrate/
PbN
Pb(NO3)2
PbNO3
Pb2NO3
What is the name of the following compound: N2O5
nitrogen II oxide
dinitrogen pentaoxide
nitrogen oxide


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We introduce our new Lead Consultant Melanie Buchanan
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We are excited to welcome Melanie to the team who brings with her a wealth of experience from the FMCG, Financial Services, Public Sector, Manufacturing, Telecommunications, Oil, Retail and Service Sectors. Melanie has held varied roles in-house at international and UK-focused companies for over 11 years. Before this, she enjoyed a 12-year permanent career after specialising in Reward early on, including working as an Expatriate Manager.
Melanie will partner with new and existing customers, providing her long-standing expertise as a specialist advisor. By understanding their Reward and HR needs, she can then develop and implement solutions that meet their current and future people needs.
Melanie's biggest passion is skiing – spending as much time as she can in the mountains with her husband who shares a love of skiing in the winter and walking in the summer. Describing herself as "a keen but slow runner", after completing her first half marathon in 2018, she plans to make this a biannual goal. Originally from South Yorkshire, Melanie says "my accent gets stronger when I visit extended family!" Melanie and her husband have become Great Auntie and Uncle five times over in the last four years, so they can often be found doing fun things with the children like dressing up as superheroes or getting on the trampoline.
"I am very excited to be joining the Paydata family, delivering unique solutions to our customers based on their needs and our expertise, rather than a one size fits all. I am inspired by the ethos, vision and values at Paydata. I know this may sound a little corny, but I am genuinely looking forward to playing my part in making lives better at work."


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Bob (Robert, Ziggy) Ziegler, 84
Bob (Robert, Ziggy) Ziegler died peacefully at home, surrounded by family on Friday November 25, 2022. He was 84 years old.
Bob called St. Paul and New Prague, Minnesota his home. He was born in St. Paul to Francis and Helen Ziegler. He attended Sacred Heart Catholic Grade School and Cretin High School where he served in the Reserved Officer's Training Corp (ROTC) and played football and hockey. He later attended St. Thomas College where he diligently pursued his passion for hockey. A declared chemistry major was soon replaced with an accounting business degree as chemistry labs got in the way of hockey practice. He played competitively with hopes of joining a professional team. This dream took him to the northeast United States and Canada. Eventually, marriage and a family brought him home.
He worked in regional sales and was a business owner later in life. He followed his father into the dairy industry by selling container products. He spent half his career with International Paper Company and later LiquiBox. His knowledge of logistics within the beverage industry, his drive to manage all aspects of business, and their familiarity with the New Prague dairy community led him and his parents to purchase Tri County Beverage, Inc.. At Tri County Beverage, together with his wife and daughters, they served restaurants, bars and retail stores in Scott, Rice and Le Seuer counties. He was active within the Minnesota Beer Wholesalers Association where he focused on legislative matters and the legalities of the industry. His commitment to his customers often got him out of bed at midnight to deliver beer kegs or fix a tap line. His happiest moments were spent sitting on the back of the beer truck while tending the tap wagons at local community festivals.
Ziggy was an avid golfer and sportsman. He was a founding member of Indian Hills Country Club in Stillwater, Minnesota. He played tournament golf throughout his life and in retirement he played on the Minnesota Senior Tour. In St. Paul, he coached several men's softball teams and played broomball. New Prague offered similar community opportunities. He was a long standing member of the New Prague Golf Club where he worked part-time and played in Thursday league and with his Saturday morning group. While he no longer coached, he sponsored many men's and women's softball teams. He was active in the Minnesota Waterfowl Association and other outdoor organizations. He loved hunting, fishing, and scouring the woods for morel mushrooms. He was blessed to share these experiences with countless friends.
Bob was a strong personality with a brilliant mind. He was adept at numbers, legal matters, and winning strategies in sports and business. He valued his friends, adored his daughters, cherished his grandchildren and deeply loved his wife Sue. At times, he was playful. A cherished family memory is his portrayal of Ronald McDonald during a game of charades while on a summer family trip.
He is survived by his wife of 59 years Sue; his three daughters Shelly (Glen) Steinhoff, Stephanie Kivi, and Jenny (Eddie) Shimota; and eight grandchildren Cale and Corey Steinhoff; Luke, Marissa, and Evan Kivi; and Cody (Jenna), Bailey, and Ethan Shimota; his brothers Frank Ziegler and Pete (Melanie) Ziegler; and many nieces and nephews.
At his request, there will not be a public service. Memorials can be sent to: 5727 Frontenac Circle, Lonsdale, MN 55046.
The family is grateful to Dr. Marty Herrmann, his primary care physician and Mayo Clinic Hospice for their support.


I'm not trying to be morbid here, but what do the following words have in common?: pesticide, homicide, suicide, genocide? They all end in "cide." In Latin, the word means kill, killer, murderer, to cause death. One of my clients who was a Latin student said there was even an indication of public execution—to put to death publicly.
So, if we go back to our word decide, it doesn't mean to figure out what to do, it means to figure out what to kill.
If leaders and teams would actually start killing off the options or directions they've decided not to pursue, a great amount of resources could be saved and redirected toward the chosen path.
When you must decide, figure out what you're going to kill and publicly execute it.
All too often, we decide what we're going to do and we muster the resources to pursue that option. But no one tells the many people down through the organization what to stop doing. And in fact, there's lots of momentum in the life of the organization for people to continue doing what they've been doing over the last several months or years. If you don't publicly execute that work, they'll naturally continue to do it.
As I was working through this concept with one of my clients, one team member said, "But we're really good at prioritizing our work." And she was right. The organization was really good at knowing which issues should receive top priority and the most resources. But as we continued to pursue the concept, it became painfully obvious how many resources were being applied to extremely low priority items. In fact, by deciding to kill off those low priority items it was astounding how many resources would be freed up to concentrate on the things that really need to be accomplished.
When faced with a team or leadership decision, decide what to kill and then publicly execute it and you'll be amazed at how many more resources you have available to pursue the path of success.
Why do we have such a hard time killing off projects, initiative, lines of work or almost anything that people have been dedicating their time to? I can think of several reasons but what's your experience? Share with us.


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Q: getting the "include path" to a file in PHP I can get the currently executing file with the __FILE__ magic PHP constant, but this gives me /var/www/vhosts/.../httpdocs/stacktrace.php. I am trying to get the name of the file so I can pass it into a hidden form field, and then run that script again after the form is submitted.
The script whose file name I am trying to get could be named anything, it's designed to be copied and renamed to any part of a site.
The script will always be included, it'll never be 'the' executed script.
I need to be able to find the path to the file, as it would be used in an include directive (i.e. relative to the include path).
I had hoped using ini_get('include_path') would help me (if it was /var/www/vhosts/.../httpdocs/ then I could just cut that part out of the script's file path and it would work), but that just gave me .:.:.:. I don't even know what that means.
Any push in the right direction would help tonnes.

A: You can use one of the following values to do what you want:
$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']
$_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']

The first returns the docroot, and the second returns the path to 'the' executed script. You can then use this information to get the relative path to the current file.

A: Not sure if I understood exactly what you want, but how about:
 $root = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'];
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 // or
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A: Perhaps you are looking for basename() ?


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Europe's moon mission ends with a bang
Craft successfully crash-lands on lunar surface
By DAVID MCHUGH, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Sep 3, 2006 |Updated Mar 19, 2011 6:40 p.m.
Europe's first spacecraft to the moon, Smart-1, successfully crash-landed, shown in the bright spot in the upper right, in a volcanic plain called the Lake of Excellence. Sunday's impact was captured by observers on Earth, and scientists were hopeful the resulting cloud of dust and debris would provide clues to the geologic composition of the site. The black line on both sides of the impact is because of the brightness of the event's causing a processing error on those scan lines./ Associated Press
DARMSTADT, Germany -- Europe's first spacecraft to the moon smashed into a volcanic plain as planned Sunday, signaling in a bright flash the end of a successful mission to test a new propulsion system and navigation technology for flights to other planets.
Staff at the European Space Agency's control center clapped when the SMART-1 orbiter hit a lunar hillside at 4,475 mph, coming down in the target zone a day after a hurried course correction.
The deliberate crash capped a three-year mission that tested new technologies such as a low-thrust ion engine that ESA hopes will inexpensively take other probes to Mercury and other planets. It also tested new ways of automating a spacecraft's guidance.
Ground controllers predicted the probe would hit the lunar plain called the Lake of Excellence at 20 seconds past 1:42 a.m. EDT. At 21 seconds past, spacecraft data suddenly stopped streaming onto a big screen above their consoles.
Controllers burst into applause as operations chief Octavio Camino announced, "We have landed."
Minutes later, the Canada France Hawaii Telescope on Mount Kea, Hawaii, relayed an infrared image of a white flash against the gray lunar landscape -- SMART-1 as it struck what appeared to be a raised area.
ESA had asked astronomers to watch for the crash, hoping to collect data that will tell more about the geology of the area around the site.
They might have missed the chance to observe the crash if not for a hasty adjustment of the probe's descent early Saturday. Firing the craft's thrusters, controllers kept the probe from hitting a mile-high crater rim, an impact that might have gone unseen.
"We did it very quickly," Camino said. "We were under some stress."
During months in orbit around the moon, the spacecraft scanned the surface with X-ray and infrared spectrometers and took high-resolution pictures to collect information about geology that scientists hope will advance knowledge about how the lunar surface evolved.
India's Chandrayaan-1 moon mission, slated for 2007- 08, will use some of the instruments developed for the ESA mission in another token of the growing globalization of space exploration.
But the SMART-1's primary mission was testing the ion engine that officials hope to use on the BepiColombo mission to Mercury slated for 2013.
The engine uses electricity from the craft's solar panels to produce a stream of charged particles called ions. It generates only small amounts of thrust but needed only 176 pounds of xenon fuel to power the craft, a cube measuring roughly 3 feet on each side.
SMART-1 -- Small Mission for Advanced Research and Technology -- was launched into Earth orbit by an Ariane-5 booster rocket from Kourou, French Guiana, in September 2003. The ion engine slowly raised the orbit over 14 months until the moon's gravity grabbed the probe.
Because of that, the spacecraft took the long way -- traveling more than 62 million miles instead of the direct route of 217,000 to 250,000 miles flown by U.S. astronauts on Apollo missions to reach the moon in three days. But ESA did it for a relatively cheap $140 million.
By DAVID MCHUGH


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News of Friends September 2013
Arthur M. Larrabee
After seven and a half years of serving as general secretary of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, Arthur M. Larrabee will retire from the position on September 1, 2014. Larrabee announced his retirement in a letter to the community on March 1, 2013. "I've felt as though the job were made for me," Larrabee wrote. "It has invited me to function at the intersection of the spiritual and the temporal dimensions of my life, creating an opportunity for me to use what gifts I may have in these areas. I have thrived in this place."
He remains devoted to serving the organization "with undiminished commitment and energy" for the remainder of his term. In choosing his retirement date, Larrabee has been mindful to allow time for a smooth and graceful transition as the thoughtful search for his successor proceeds. Borrowing Harry Truman's words, Larrabee stated he's "looking forward to the promotion" of again being one of the people after serving them for many years; and he's excited to discover what is in store for him in the next chapter of his life.
Friends Council on Education (FCE) has announced the appointment of a new executive director, Drew Smith, to begin service on July 1, 2014.
A practicing Friend since childhood and a member of Haddonfield (N.J.) Meeting, Smith has much to offer in taking on the director role at FCE. His personal experience with Quaker education includes both the student and the teacher perspectives. He attended Westtown School as a boarding student, and then went on to Earlham College, where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in history. Additionally, his graduate studies in educational leadership were completed at the University of Pennsylvania.
Smith comes to FCE from Russell Byers Charter School in Philadelphia where he currently serves as the CEO and principal. Before this appointment in 2010, he worked at Friends School Mullica Hill for nearly 25 years in a variety of roles including middle school teacher, director of admissions, middle school principal, associate head of school, and head of school.
"It is truly an honor to have been chosen to be the next executive director of the Friends Council on Education," Smith said after being informed of his appointment. "I believe that the Council and its member schools have much to teach about how best to educate our children. I am thrilled to be returning to the world of Friends education!"
Smith will work with a transition team over the next year, learning from the current executive director, Irene McHenry, and meeting with FCE constituents and colleagues, before formally starting in the position on July 1, 2014.
Friends World Committee for Consultation World Office shared on their website in early July that the Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) has been named one of the 100 most influential global actors in armed violence reduction.
The accolade was given by Action On Armed Violence, one of the leading organizations in the area, and comes as recognition of the work done by Quakers to put this issue on the UN agenda.
QUNO joins international figures such a Kofi Anna, Angelina Jolie, and the Dalai Lama on the list. "Like Quakers in general, we tend not to publicize our work but instead just get on and do it," said Diane Hendrick, associate representative for peace and disarmament at QUNO's Geneva office. "However, we are glad to be recognized by others, and we hope this will help us further increase our effectiveness as we continue."
For more see Fwccworld.org/fwccworld/qunorecognition.html and Aoav.org.uk.
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9/10/2014 · Archeage how to get/buy land plots negotiate skills Negotiation, wheel and deal, tips of the trade. A little about archeage below, this is taken from their website... 14/09/2014 · Archeage Guide – How to Become A Pirate Posted on September 14, 2014 by queenarcheage In the Archeage, one of the key features of this game is the open world PvP which allows us to not only fight other factions, but PK our own faction.
14/09/2014 · Archeage Guide – How to Become A Pirate Posted on September 14, 2014 by queenarcheage In the Archeage, one of the key features of this game is the open world PvP which allows us to not only fight other factions, but PK our own faction.
Aired 7 месяцев назад. Honestly, there are ton. My choice of where to farm on Fresh Start is based mostly on 1, if it is in war. 2 if the mobs are over level 40 (41+), and 3 if the mobs are not too annoying, (like melee only mobs).
30/12/2015 · The Archeage KR 2.9 update notes! Archeage KR 2.9 Notes This update will primarily focus on castles, as well as the tier 7 Obsidian armor and some other little things.


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import android.content.Intent;
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import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.TextView;

import com.congwiny.materialdesign.MainActivity;
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    private Button mClickBtn;

    @Override
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When is a good time for your motor home, your one and only place of residence and vehicle, to decide to pack a sad and dump all it's coolant out of the radiator?
A) On a freezing cold winters evening.
B) The night before your husband needs to get to Tauranga to take an exam at 9:00 the next morning.
C) A few days before you are due back in Hamilton to house sit for a friend.
Yep that's correct D) All of the above.


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7th PCYAA competitions unfold; Pace Academy leads way
Boys Juniors Basketball – Pace Academy (2-0), Saint Jude Catholic School (2-0), Jubilee Christian Academy (1-0), Grace Christian College (1-1), Uno High School (0-1), St. Stephen's High School (0-2), MGC New Life Christian Academy (0-2) and Philippine Cultural College (X-X)
Girls Juniors Volleyball – Pace Academy (2-0), MGC New Life Christian Academy (1-0), Jubilee Christian Academy (1-0), St. Stephen's High School (1-0), Uno High School (0-1), Saint Jude Catholic School (0-2), Grace Christian College (0-2) and Philippine Cultural College (X-X)
Wesley Lao, PCYAA Season 7 chairman, center, makes the ceremonial toss as Pace Academy's Darrel Ethan Ong, left, and MGCNLCA's Joshua Vincent Cheng get ready for the opening jump.
Host Pace Academy claimed twin triumphs in boys basketball and girls volleyball in the 7th Philippine Ching Yuen Athletic Association (PCYAA) competitions over the weekend.
The PCYAA is a multi-sports league featuring eight Chinese-Filipino high schools in the Metro Manila area. It kicked off the second half of its sports calendar with games in the 18-under boys and girls basketball divisions and women's volleyball.
Pace Academy opened hostilities Saturday with a 75-59 rout of MGC New Life Christian Academy behind the combined 34-point effort of Airick Jaden Sy (20) and Kleivz Fong (14).
The Pacers then defeated Uno High School 78-67 on Sunday as Sy netted 17 points and Anton Evangelista had a double-double with 15 points and 10 rebounds.
Perennial title contender Saint Jude Catholic School also triumphed in its first two outings, crushing St. Stephen's High School 90-51 and MGC NLCA 115-48 as the Green Knights' Mallechi Colby Lim posted 23 and 27 points, respectively.
Pace and Saint Jude will battle each other for the leadership Thursday in the main game of a doubleheader at the Uno HS gym.
Meanwhile, defending Juniors champion Philippine Cultural College was to have debuted Tuesday against Uno High School (0-1).
In girls volleyball, Pace Academy grabbed No. 1 spot with victories over Grace Christian College 3-1 and Uno High School 3-0 at the Philadelphia High School gym. The Lady Pacers will look to score their third win in a row when they face St. Stephen's High School (1-0) in the second game of a twin bill.
Reigning champion MGC New Life Christian Academy opened its four-peat title quest with a 3-0 sweep of Saint Jude Catholic School last Sunday.
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