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Washington could have traded Trent Williams for a first-round pick last year, but 'deal was never done'
29 April 2020, 2:58 pm ·3-min read
There are countless stories that explain why the Washington Redskins are a perennial losing franchise, and we can add the botched trade of Trent Williams last year.
The Redskins did move Williams to the San Francisco 49ers for a third-round pick in 2021 and fifth-round pick in this year's draft. But they could have gotten a first-round pick last year for the disgruntled tackle and the trade wasn't made. New coach Ron Rivera told that story.
To sum up: The Redskins were offered a first-round pick last year for a player who said he would never play for the team again, and Washington — which was 1-7 at the trade deadline — didn't get a deal done. Williams never did play for Washington again, and the Redskins didn't get that first-round pick.
Amazing. Though, if you have been paying attention to the Redskins this century, it fits.
Ron Rivera: Redskins were offered first for Trent Williams last year
Appearing with host Kevin Sheehan on The Team 980, Rivera said Washington had a chance to get a first-round pick for Williams last year.
"I know this much, there was an opportunity from what I was told last year just before the trade deadline, he was worth a first-round pick but for whatever reason the deal was never done," Rivera said. "Because he didn't play for the entire year, that number changed."
A one-win rebuilding team couldn't finish a deal to get a first-round pick for a 31-year-old tackle who, due to a medical misdiagnosis, promised he wouldn't play for them again. That's astounding.
Now you get an idea of the mess Rivera has to clean up as he takes over the Redskins.
New Redskins coach Ron Rivera is inheriting a mess in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
Rivera has a lot of work to do
Rivera had a conundrum. Williams wanted a trade and there was pressure to do so. Washington didn't have much leverage after Williams was out all last season, first as a holdout and then on injured reserve.
"You don't give away good players, that's just the way it is," Rivera told Sheehan.
They tried to get fair value, and the best they could do was a third next year and a fifth. That's a far, far cry from a first, but at least they got something.
"We weren't going to give him away in a yard sale," Rivera said. "We held out for the right deal."
That's a happy face on a bargain trade for a seven-time Pro Bowler, but you can't blame Rivera. It's not his fault. He didn't get the job until January. He did the best he could in the Williams situation.
Presumably, Rivera found a lot of messes he didn't create when he took the Redskins job. He has a long challenge ahead.
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British Shaving Pioneer Cornerstone secures further £3.5 million investment
British men's shaving supplier Cornerstone has completed a new £3.5m round of investment led by private equity firm Calculus Capital, with e-commerce veteran William Reeve (previously on the boards of Graze, Lovefilm, Zoopla & Paddy Power) joining the Cornerstone top team.
Cornerstone – which provides quality British skin care products and German engineered razors to 140,000 customers around the UK via an online subscription service – confirms today that it has closed a £3.5 million investment round, taking its total raised since launch in 2014 to £8m. The round, led by UK growth investor Calculus Capital, sees Cornerstone add to its impressive list of experienced angel investors that already includes: Quidco CEO Andy Oldham, ex-Jack Wills Chairman Will Hobhouse, Charles Tyrwhitt Chairman Nick Wheeler and ex-President of Levi Jeans Joe Middleton.
Cornerstone was born out of young entrepreneur Oliver Bridge's personal frustrations with the discomfort and expensive nature of wet shaving – "I'd always hated shaving – it was painful, cost a fortune, and I hated shopping for toiletries. Finally, one day I just thought – there has to be a better way to do this, and I set about finding a way to make it combine great products with the convenience of a subscription service".
Oliver launched Cornerstone in June 2014 with £10,000 of his own savings and a £5,000 Startup loan. Since then Cornerstone has gone on to raise £1 million from a crowdfunding campaign in July 2015, its customer base has grown from 0 to 140,000 subscribers and the team has expanded to 27 members of staff at Cornerstone's London HQ. To top it all off, Cornerstone won 'Best Razor' in both 2015 and 2016 from Shortlist and AskMen and has twice won the publicly voted 'People's Champion' award at the annual Startups Awards. Oliver was also selected as a Forbes 30 Under 30 in late 2016.
The male grooming industry is worth $6.7 billion in Europe and globally is predicted to expand at a CAGR of 8.4% up until 2024[1]. E-commerce is also growing rapidly with 15.5% of all UK retail sales recorded to be online in March 2017 showing a year-on-year increase of 19.5%[2] – both are trends working strongly in Cornerstone's favour. With 140,000 subscribers around the UK, Cornerstone has grown 11% month-on-month since the beginning of 2016. The firm will be broadening its range of products across the remainder of 2017, moving into new toiletries categories such as shampoo and dental care, in a move described by Oliver Bridge as 'an all-out assault on the men's aisle at Boots – we don't think men should have to shop for, or even think about shopping for toiletries – we're here to fix that'.
Private equity firm Calculus Capital, which is leading the latest investment round in Cornerstone, has a strong track record of backing growing British businesses. Calculus has 18 years' experience in SME investing, supporting dynamic companies across a diverse range of sectors, from sports and leisure to clean-tech, hosted software and healthcare.
Roshan Puri, of Calculus Capital, commented: "As a consumer brand that offers customers quality, value and convenience, Cornerstone is disrupting the men's shaving and toiletries market in the UK. We have been extremely impressed with the company's almost obsessive focus on 'the customer' and industry leading capabilities in customer acquisition and management. A high quality management team is a key part of our investment criteria. Oliver and the senior team at Cornerstone have shown their ability to deliver significant business growth and build a well-run organisation, capable of using third party investment to deliver strong returns."
[1] Global Market Study on Men's Grooming Products, Persistence Market Research http://www.persistencemarketresearch.com/market-research/mens-grooming-products-market.asp
[2] Retail Sales in Great Britain: Office for National Statistics https://www.ons.gov.uk/businessindustryandtrade/retailindustry/bulletins/retailsales/mar2017
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After a grand jury decided not to indict a police officer in the death of Michael Brown, President Barack Obama stepped up to perform his unofficial yet widely presumed role: racial explainer-in-chief.
It is not a new role, but as he shared a split-screen on TV news channels with live scenes of burning cars, riot police and angry protesters, seldom have the stakes seemed so high.
Minutes earlier, a St. Louis prosecutor announced there would be no indictment of Darren Wilson, the white police officer who shot and killed unarmed black 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson in August.
As protesters gathered in streets across the nation, Obama urged them to hear the Brown family's stance that hurting other people and destroying property is not the answer.
Obama often has been criticized as the Ferguson crisis has unfolded. He's been accused of not saying enough about Ferguson or of saying too much.
But as the grand jury's decision approached, Obama began to speak out this past weekend in an interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos.
In that interview, as in his Monday statement, he expressed a familiar theme, the need for each side of the nation's racial divide to show some empathy for the other side's very different point of view, shaped by their very different life experiences.
"First and foremost, keep the protests peaceful," Obama told ABC.
Second, the president said, walk in the other side's moccasins for a while. He called on his fellow nonwhites to acknowledge that minorities are sometimes profiled by police because their communities are plagued by a higher proportion of lawbreakers.
Obama repeated his earlier calls for a national conversation between the law enforcement communities and minorities who feel unfairly treated.
Empathy for the other side's perspective has been a defining Obama theme ever since his landmark "more perfect union" speech in 2008 defused a backlash over remarks by his former minister, Jeremiah Wright.
Last year he set a theme for his second term by calling the "empathy deficit" a more pressing political problem than the federal budget deficit. At the time he was seeking to build bridges with Republicans and pass new gun safety legislation. Alas, that political deficit has only grown.
Obama's empathy emphasis often has been mocked, especially by conservatives. Yet his critics have been even more critical when he is not empathetic enough to their point of view.
When he lashed out at the Cambridge, Mass., police who arrested Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, for example, the backlash forced him to stage a so-called "Beer Summit" to smooth ruffled feathers.
With tribal sensitivities running so tense, it is small wonder that Obama has been reluctant to insert himself too soon or too deeply into the Ferguson divide. Maybe he is finding a new voice as an advocate for empathy as his presidency winds down.
The dueling TV images from Ferguson symbolized our racially divided self as a nation. They also put a spotlight on this president's uncommon ability to bridge those two worlds. If he can't succeed, many of us wonder, who can?
Would that simple concession make a difference? I'm sure Obama would appreciate hearing it from the other side. Empathy needs to go both ways.
Email Clarence Page at cpage@tribune.com.


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You've met Nigel Farage and Ukip... now meet Mick Mirage and the Fear Party
18 Feb 2015 - 06:25AM | By Tommy Wilson
A video satirising Ukip's stance against immigration within the European Union has been created by a production channel based in Manchester.
Stewart Tempeste-Drain and Jordi Fiesto are the two main forces behind the newly-released Euro Disco Zone video – which features the satirical 'Fear Party' led by 'Mick Mirage'.
The duo work within the creative industry in their day jobs, but by night they operate under the project name Lumumba Monologues, who describe themselves as huge advocates of 'original expression'.
The 32-year-old Stewart said that the video was made in response to the prolonged media coverage being given to Ukip, which he doesn't agree with.
"A large portion of the mainstream media reinforce the myth that immigrants are bad," Stewart told MM.
"Apart from the fact we think this view is misguided, they aren't to blame for the problems of society.
"You end up having an argument that's framed by Nigel Farage and gets discussed in the world I think most of us don't live in.
"This world that's being pumped out by the media for this debate is not something we recognise."
A series of 'front pages' that the duo mocked up using their creative skills lampoon similar coverage Nigel Farage has enjoyed in the national and local press.
One of their mock newspapers the 'Daily Fail' features the text: 'Hate filled drivel and fear based propaganda. Repeat repeat repeat the same misinformation and divise message everyday' repeated throughout its front-page article to represent their views of the coverage.
Another mock newspaper the 'Daily Distress' features the headline: 'We must stop the migrant invasion', along with an amusing sub headline: 'Over 90% of hungarians are living in Chorley' to emphasise Ukip's scare-tactics against staying in the satirical 'Euro Disco Zone' - their take on the Euro Zone / European Union.
The front pages includes other headlines like 'rhetoric over reason' and 'why patriotism and nationalism creates prejudiced berks'.
The pair believed that with an election approaching, the time was right to create a parody video that examines why there is so much anti-European sentiment in the UK and how this would be interpreted on the continent.
"We live in Manchester and know, work with, and socialise with people from all over the world. It just doesn't sit right with us," he said.
"We made the 'Fear Party', because it's what ultimately we feel underpins this type of politics - people in power playing with our fear."
Other media corporations are also satirised throughout the video, with television coverage included from 'Shite News' and 'Skewednight'.
Although he doesn't support Ukip's political stance, Stewart said that he doesn't aim for the video to come off as offensive to supporters of the party.
"There's not any specific political angle that we attack or comment on – and we never aim to offend. It's social commentary that's a bit of fun or at worst just bit stupid," he said.
"We're not trying to undermine or say other views are stupid, we're just saying there's an alternative world out there where people actually get on and do things together constructively.
"We wouldn't call ourselves politically motivated and we don't have a political agenda, we're just essentially commentating on what we see as we see it.
"Even a hardened Ukip supporter would watch the video and not think it's offensive because of the way it's done."
ALL IN THE NAME: Mick Mirage features on a range of satirical television outputs
Stewart explained that he created Lumumba Monologues along with Jordi as a fun way to respond to cultural events that affect the world, but they were not looking to make a 'big name' for themselves or be 'controversial'.
"We use this as an outlet to do all the things we want to do for fun. Obviously when in a professional environment, you can't do this stuff," he said.
"An idea doesn't necessarily have to take a particular route, but we try to link it with some form of social commentary because it has a grounding in something worth saying.
"We go through stuff meticulously to distinguish what is fun and satire and what is offensive - we just want people to share the video in the way that it was intended to bring some positivity to the conversation."
For more on this story and many others, follow Mancunian Matters on Twitter and Facebook.
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Washington could be named candidate for 2024 Summer Olympics on Thursday
The United States Olympic Committee is likely to announce Thursday which city will be the U.S. candidate to host the 2024 Summer Olympics. The finalists are Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington. An announcement would follow a USOC board-of-directors meeting Thursday at Denver International Airport. The board decided at a Dec. 16 meeting that there would be a U.S. candidate city but wanted to further evaluate the four bids. Formal application papers do not need to be filed with the International Olympic Committee until Sept. 15. The executive board will, if necessary, trim the field to about four finalists in spring 2016, and IOC members will choose the winner at their September 2017 annual meeting in Lima, Peru. The U.S. city will face formidable opposition, some spurred by changes the IOC approved eight days ago to help lower the costs of both bidding for and staging the now-gargantuan Summer Games.
—Philip Hersh, Tribune Newspapers
Ravens-Steelers telecast nears record TV ratings
The Ravens' 30-17 victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers drew the second-largest TV audience on a Saturday night in the past 20 years of AFC wild-card playoff football, according to Nielsen data provided by NBC Sports. The game was seen by 28 million viewers, second only in the past two decades to the 33.3 million who saw the New York Jets beat the Indianapolis Colts, 17-16, on Jan. 8, 2011. The audience for the Ravens-Steelers game hit its high point of 29.5 million viewers from 9 to 9:30 p.m. Saturday. Baltimore had the second-largest audience with a 46.0 rating and 67 share. The 67 share means that two of every three TVs in use in Baltimore on Saturday night were tuned to the game; the 46 rating means that 46 percent of all TV homes in the Baltimore were tuned to the game.
—David Zurawik
MLB: The Colorado Rockies officially announced a two-year deal with former Orioles catcher Nick Hundley, the team announced Monday. Hundley, 31, batted .233 with five home runs and 19 RBIs in 50 games for the Orioles after he was acquired from the San Diego Padres in a May 24 trade for left-handed pitcher Troy Patton.
Men's college basketball: Coppin State senior guard Taariq Cephas was named Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Player of the Week. Cephas totaled 29 points, 15 assists, 10 rebounds and eight steals over two games last week.
Women's college basketball: Maryland sophomore guard Shatori Walker-Kimbrough was named to the Big Ten Conference Player of the Week Honor Roll after she guided the No. 12 Terps to a win at No. 19 Nebraska with 24 points, nine rebounds, two blocks and two steals. … McDaniel junior Lindsey Nichols was honored as Centennial Conference Player of the Week.
Major League Lacrosse: The Boston Cannons and New York Lizards completed a trade that sends two-time MLL Most Valuable Player midfielder Paul Rabil and midfielder Mike Stone to New York in exchange for veteran midfielder Max Seibald, veteran defenseman Brian Karalunas and draft picks. Drafted as the first overall pick by the Cannons in 2008, the former Johns Hopkins star has appeared in 81 games and recorded 185 goals and 137 assists.
Men's college lacrosse: Bucknell senior defenseman Ben Kellar (Boys' Latin) was named a team captain for the 2015 season.
Women's college lacrosse: Defending national champion Maryland was voted No. 1 in the Nike/Lacrosse Magazine Preseason Top 20. The Terps return 11 starters from last year, when they tied a program record with 23 wins and won a sixth straight Atlantic Coast Conference championship. North Carolina, Syracuse, Florida and Northwestern round out the top five, while Loyola Maryland and Johns Hopkins were ranked No. 9 and No. 14, respectively.
Men's college swimming: Navy freshman Young Tae Seo was named Patriot League Swimmer of the Week.
Memorial: A memorial service is scheduled in Alexandria, Va., on Saturday for Mack Alston, who died Dec. 24. He was 67. A standout two-way football player at what was then Maryland State College (now UMES), Alston played 11 years in the NFL, from 1970 to 1980.
—From Sun staff and news services
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Locked Up Without End: Indefinite Detention of Immigrants Will Not Make America Safer
Michael Tan, Esq.
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One of the ugliest myths in the immigration debate is that immigrants are more likely to commit crime or pose a danger to society. Although studies repeatedly have shown that immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than native-born Americans, politicians continue to exploit the public's fear of crime to justify ever more punitive immigration measures, including the mass incarceration of immigrants for reasons that would never be permitted for U.S. citizens. A prime example of this political double standard is the "Keep Our Communities Safe Act of 2011" (H.R. 1932), introduced this past spring by Representative Lamar Smith (R-TX), Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. H.R. 1932 proposes a massive expansion of our immigration lock-up system that would waste millions of taxpayer dollars and violate our constitutional commitments to individual liberty and due process of law, while doing little to make America safer.
The vast scope of H.R. 1932 became clear during its committee mark-up, where members of the House Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement challenged the language and intent of the legislation and sought to amend its reach. During that meeting, Rep. Smith was forced to acknowledge that the bill's detention mandates extend to immigrants who have no criminal record whatsoever, much less focus narrowly on hard-core offenders. Since that time, however, Rep. Smith has continued to misrepresent that "the bill only specifies that a small segment of criminal immigrants may be detained for extended periods."
This paper explores some of the major concerns with expanding our immigration detention system generally, as well as the specific problems that would result from passage of H.R. 1932 or bills like it that seek to use detention as a stand-in for immigration reform. While this paper focuses on some of the particulars of Congressman Smith's bill, the policy choices reflected in H.R. 1932 echo arguments that have been made before. What is troubling from a broader policy perspective is how easily the bill slips away from indefinite detention for convicted individuals who can't be removed from the country and encompasses virtually everyone whom the government seeks to deport—including those with a legal right to remain in the country—as a candidate for possible long-term detention. I argue that people in both of these categories should not be subject to long-term detention. However, even if the bill never passes, its repercussions are significant because it reinforces the myth that immigrants, especially those who enter the country illegally, are dangerous and should be detained.
Although advertised as keeping dangerous "criminal aliens" off our streets, H.R. 1932 in fact sweeps scores of harmless immigrants into our already burgeoning immigration prisons. The bill does this by creating a detention scheme that authorizes not only the indefinite detention of some immigrants, but the detention of asylum seekers and certain lawful permanent residents, with cases in immigration court for months or years, while denying them the basic due process of a bond hearing. Other provisions in the bill could result in the elimination of bond hearings for the countless individuals who enter the country without inspection, regardless of the length of their detention. The bill also requires the detention of individuals who were convicted of crimes years or even decades ago, and who have served their sentences and have been living responsible lives since that time.
This kind of detention scheme seeks to strip away the constitutional protections accorded to immigrants, goes against best practices of incarceration, and represents an investment in detention that is contrary to the national interest and national priorities. The sheer cost of such a proposal is daunting. The administration's Fiscal Year (FY) 2012 budget request for immigration detention already totals more than $2 billion, a record-high request representing a 6.3 percent increase over FY 2011. At a time of budget crises and a bipartisan commitment to fiscal austerity, H.R. 1932 would saddle taxpayers with massive new costs—at a rate of at least $122 per detainee per day, or $44,500 per detainee per year—while doing little to improve public safety.
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Economics in Brief: Santa Clara County Rolls Out Foster Youth UBI Program
Also: A report calls out community funds for not directing money directly to Black communities, and New York City needs to protect the progress its minority-owned businesses had made before the pandemic.
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Santa Clara County has begun its universal basic income pilot program for youth transitioning out of foster care. It's the first such program in the country, KTVU reports.
The program will provide $1,000 monthly stipends to former foster youth, ages 24 and up, who are too old to receive other foster assistance. There are 190 foster youth and transitioning youth, who are between ages 21 and 25, the county chose to focus on the oldest 72, which is what it can afford.
"Providing UBI to Santa Clara County's transitioning foster kids is literally a lifeline … at this devastating time," philanthropist Gisele Huff told KTVU. Huff, who is also president of the Gerald Huff Fund for Humanity, promotes universal basic income "as a form of investment in society," KTVU said.
Report Finds Community Foundations Don't Invest Directly in Black Communities
A report from the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy finds that community foundations' grantmaking is overwhelmingly not designated for Black communities.
In 25 community foundations across the country analyzed by NCRP, only 1 percent of grantmaking was designated to benefit Black communities, even though the 25 cities where the foundations are based have, on average, a population that is 15 percent Black.
Put another way, NCRP says, these foundations gave $78 in funding per capita in their communities, but only $6 per Black person.
Many community foundations argue that if they are in a majority-Black city then their work by default is serving Black people. NCRP argues that this is the wrong approach. "Our research has shown that funders who named specific marginalized communities in their giving strategy were more likely to make progress against their equity goals and to hold themselves accountable," they write. "Especially in this moment, is not enough to give to, for example, the local YWCA or United Way in a Black-majority city and assume that the immediate and systematic issues around equity for Black communities are being addressed, tackled, or handled."
New York's Black-Owned Businesses Were Doing OK (In 2017)
An analysis of recently released U.S. Census data from 2017 shows that the number of Black-owned businesses grew at four times the rate of white-owned businesses in the city from 2012 to 2017, according to the Center for an Urban Future. The number of minority-owned businesses across the five boroughs grew by 7.4 percent, and the share of businesses citywide owned by a person of color is now 31.4 percent, the report said.
This somewhat encouraging data is tempered by other facts from the report: Black-owned businesses still make up a disproportionately small share of all businesses in the city — just 3.5 percent of all businesses — and the number of Hispanic-owned businesses dropped by almost 9 percent, representing more than a thousand businesses, during the study period. And outside of Manhattan, minority-owned businesses have lower average revenues than in other cities.
All this data, of course, is based off of census data from three years ago and released only recently. And the world of three years ago was a very different world. One-third of the city's small businesses may never reopen, according to a report from the Partnership for New York City. And a NYC comptroller survey conducted in July, obtained by the New York Times, found that 85 percent of minority or women-owned businesses in the city predicted they would have to close in six months.
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Eno Raud, né le  à Tartu et mort le  à Haapsalu, est un écrivain estonien de littérature jeunesse.

Biographie
Fils du poète Mart Raud, Eno Raud dans les années 1930, publie les petits récits dans la revue pour enfants Laste Rõõm sous le pseudonyme d'Eno Sammalhabe. Il est diplômé en lettres de l'Université de Tartu en 1952. De 1952 à 1956, il travaille à la maison d'édition estonienne Eesti Riiklik Kirjastus.

Il se fait connaitre grâce à son cycle Naksitrallid, Jälle need naksitrallid qui raconte les aventures de trois petits trolls (1972, 1975, 1979, 1982) et Sipsik (1962), l'histoire d'une poupée de chiffon qui prend vie - ce live est illustré par Edgar Valter.

Il est également auteur de quelques scénarios de dessins animés.

Œuvres

Prose

Poésie

Autres

Compilations

Prix et distinctions
 1974 : (international) « Honor List », de l' IBBY, pour Naksitrallid

Références

Annexes

Articles connexes
 Liste d'écrivains estoniens

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Écrivain estonien du XXe siècle
Auteur estonien de littérature d'enfance et de jeunesse
Étudiant de l'université de Tartu
Naissance en février 1928
Naissance à Tartu
Décès en juillet 1996
Décès à 68 ans
Décès à Haapsalu

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Speaking from recent experience, RSA's Art Coviello says the question now is not whether your defenses will be breached -- it's whether you are equipped to respond when it happens.
How do you get ahead of advanced security threats? According to a new report, the key is "intelligence-driven information security."
The new report from the RSA-sponsored Security for Business Innovation Council (SBIC) is now out, providing enterprises with guidance on the latest information security best practices. RSA, the security division of EMC, is no stranger to advanced threats and in fact was the victim of one such attack in 2011.
According to the 35-page report, traditional security defense mechanisms such as firewalls and IPS systems are still necessary -- but no longer adequate. The report encourages today's enterprises to focus on building out a new set of information and intelligence capabilities around data collection and analysis, security posture insight, adversary research, and more.
"You can assume that you're going to get breached, if someone wants to breach you," Art Coviello, Executive Chairman of RSA, told InternetNews.com. "The question should be, do you have the intelligence to shrink the window of vulnerability that you're going to inevitably find yourself in."
Coviello noted that enterprises need to have and use actionable intelligence in order to defend themselves and not just sit back and wait to be attacked. In Coviello's view, traditional security tools such as antivirus and firewalls are constantly being evaded by attackers, and are no longer sufficient to keep up with modern threats. That said, he stressed that enterprises should not throw out their traditional IT defenses.
"[Traditional security tools] keep out the riff-raff and it's good hygiene, but you need more sophisticated capabilities," Coviello said. "Security should always be done in the context of defense in depth. They will breach the outer walls and you have to have more layers and those layers have to be based on data that gives you real actionable intelligence."
That actionable intelligence doesn't have to be open and publicly available. Coviello noted that a lot of security information sharing is done in a more proprietary way among the good guys and is not available to hackers or criminal nation states. He also suggested that internal data is essential in defending against advanced threats. Internal data that looks for anomalies in network traffic as well as log files are two potential sources of security intelligence that can help mitigate the risks of attack.
For example, internal intelligence can come from behavioral analysis. He noted that while a company might have many diligent employees, chances are that if there are a lot of employees logging onto a resource at three in the morning, it's likely not legitimate traffic.
"The capabilities that we're driving our customers toward are not going to stop an individual attack, but they will give the capability to respond timely enough to reduce the risk of loss," Coviello said. "There will always be a new type of attack; it's really about having a system that is agile, dynamic, and responsive."
While the notion that IT users need to have multiple sources of security intelligence -- both external and internal -- might seem obvious to some people, Coviello argued that's not always the case.
"If you're living this day in and day out, you tend to think that reports like this are rudimentary and just basic blocking and tackling," Coviello said. "Yet the vast majority of companies are still really immature."
In March of 2011, RSA itself was the victim of an advanced threat that led to a data breach. Coviello noted that he isn't just pitching security intelligence best practices for other companies to implement; he's using them at his own company as well.
"One of the ironies of our own breach is that the technology that helped us see the attack in progress was our NetWitness technology," Coviello said. (RSA's parent company EMC acquired NetWitness in April 2011, a month after disclosing the breach). "What most people don't realize is that most of these attacks go undetected."
Coviello admitted that RSA lost information in the data breach. However, he stressed that RSA was able to determine what was lost in a timely manner in order to mitigate the risk to customers. He added that RSA also took some of the lessons learned from the experience to make their technology and processes even better for creating a real-time response capability.
"We learned a lot in terms of our own internal security and we did think that we had a strong security program," Coviello said. "Let's just say we have a stronger one now."


GRAINS. According to some data of the Russian state statistics agency, grain stocks at farming, procurement and processing entities totaled 33.66 MMT as of August 1, 2018, or 5.7% more than on the same date a year ago.
Russian growers hold 16.3 MMT of wheat, or 9.1% more than last year, reports UkrAgroConsult.
Farmer stocks of corn decreased by 36.3%, to 548 KMT.
OILSEEDS. Farmer oilseed inventories in Russia totaled 469.4 KMT as of August 1, 2018, i.e. 28.6 KMT (6.5%) more than at the same time last year (440.8 KMT). In July, oilseed stocks decreased by 66.8 KMT.
Farmer inventories of sunseed totaled 142.3 KMT, i.e. 33.8 KMT (19.2%) less than in the same period last year (176.1 KMT). In July, sunseed stocks fell by 76.3 KMT, reports UkrAgroConsult.
Delegates from 20 countries have already registered for participation in the International Conference «Black Sea Oil Trade». Conference participants are usually represented by producers and crushers of oilseeds, traders, enterprises for deep processing of vegetable oils, investment companies, banks, law, shipping, brokerage, insurance and surveyor companies.


The wheels fell off the wagon after this as poor Anjali got an awful diaper rash, due I think to the introduction of solid food. She was inconsolable and wouldn't let me put her down until finally she fell asleep at six. And today, Darin had to work late as well. Needless to say, our toddler was pleasantly surprised with the additional screen time (TV) she got today!


Field of Ponies start tonight's Forbidden Planet. Luke, Andy & Josh are on guitars playing light hearted tunes, all instrumental and short, with Tim accompanying them on drums. While it comes across as a jam session, there has clearly been lots of thought and preparation going into the performance, Josh & Andy are watching each other intently for changes; its all very melodic, and they're just playing around with ideas as they call it, a sketchbook of partial songs before they're fully formed. For other 80's music freaks think The Cure meets New Order just after Joy Division. I'm enjoying the mood, right up to where Josh needs to restring his guitar. If they find the right female vocalist they're looking for, this could well be something….
Ali Bangay is our last performer up for the night, with Ben accompanying on drums. She has a small high voice when speaking, more than made up for when singing. She's very active on the keyboard, making the most of the proper piano-like capabilities with full on chords and tune from either hand. She loses the words for a song, yet it doesn't matter as the music is so good, its only her body language, face and apology afterwards that gives it away. Britney Spears' Toxic is given a good treatment, not perhaps as twisted as Sarah Griffin's cover, staying within the sweet voice theme, however the chords during the verse really give a strong undercurrent fitting with the lyrics. This 5-song set is a real delight to witness and listen to, so much so I was still raving about her performance the next day, which is very rare. At risk of annoying a lot of good keyboard players, I think this is the best ever pure piano work I've encountered on the local scene in memory. Amazing.
Tim Smart has made a surprise appearance tonight so he's on stage when I arrive – see the youtube video of his take on I Know An Old Lady for interest. As ever one of the best entertainers around, even when says he doesn't know beforehand what he's going to do!
The Emerald Guard are on next. Two guitars and bass, accompanying some clever key/synth work. The phrase "wall of sound" is used a lot in radio talk – these guys deliver that in droves. There are some good riffs and hooks here, almost danceable rhythms, and the lyrics are neat enough for the music style.
Mutant Vinyl are playing their last gig for a while, Ed starts with a jazz sax solo (Brecker Bros – Funky Sea Funky Dew) "as he's never had the bottle before". Note the music stand – stand-in of Tim Smart in the photo. Despite being their last gig for a while, this is very cut back at the outset, just Ed with dad Jim on drums. I don't know what it is, I'm not normally a fan of a wailing vocal, however with Mutant Vinyl it just fits and works. Pinks Dagga is on youtube.
Antonia Edgeley-Long starts up, her initial choice of song allows her to use a wide range of her voice – deep verses and high choruses.
This set is all new material, yet this fact isn't really noticeable, save for the guitar work being under-developed; strummed chords for the most part. The chord progressions are fun, some switches from minor to major, and some modal work as well by the sound of it.
In her last song there is evidence of the future development, as gently picked arpeggios form an underlay for Antonia's voice to soar over.
Next up Jules Pitcher. Straight off into gentle chord picking; she has a mellow rounded voice, this is music with gaps in.
Jules is also kicking in with the new material, her second number having been written the week before. It's dedicated to her sister, who is pointed out to the crowd.
Tim Smart is taking the graveyard shift. He's decided to play an accordian for the first part of hist set. As I walked in he commented he was "off to rehearse" – turns out he's never played an accordian before so needs to learn the basics! Tim Smart all over.
By the time he gets up, he's more or less got the chords covered, any way up he's amusing and looks to be enjoying it as hopefully captured in the shot.
Halfway through the set he picks up the guiar and invites sister Claire to join him. Sandboy is dedicated to an anonymous person in he bar who lives near Tim, and who the song was written about. We don't know who it is, and Tim's not letting on, all adding to the mystique.
Fed up with the guitar, he chooses to sing I know an old lady who swallowed a fly a capella, with Claire harmonising at certain points, before finishing with favourite Bearded Lady. As an encore he gets us all to join in with harmonies on a short round song, all uber-creative, totally enjoyable, and uniquely Tim Smart.
Lucy Davies opening up – good to hear her on at the start of a night rather than a nightwatchman, which has been her normal slot on these sort of evenings, more's the pity. Lucy has some amazingly positive songs, even about not necessarily positive situations.
Quirky songs also feature in the set – creating an overall wholesome sound filling the Cellar Bar with her vocals.
When I hook up with her to chat later, I find out I've missed some good nights and parties, simply through feeling being a little run down and hence taking things a little easier on the gig front these past couple of weeks.
Lucy is followed on to the now seemingly oversmall stage by the 8 piece choir that are the Smart Family Band.
Tim Smart is one of life's experimental creative types, endlessly trying new things at gigs. His sense of adventure sometimes writes cheques the performance cannot deliver, much to the amusing entertainment of those witnessing the wonderful chaos.
Not so tonight. The band are well rehearsed and in good voice, having spent the weekend recording a 6 track EP. Indeed, this EP is the focus of the gig, with the usual Smart twist.
The EP is blank, the sleeve decorated in a bare and sparse manner. It includes 6 inch-square boxes ready for us to draw an impression of each track as they are called out from the platform – colouring pencils provided!
This creates a buzz and laughs almost overshadowing the performance itself, especially as the first song (track 1-my representative picture is of the twitter bird & 8 heads with open mouths) is purely choral. Short on the CD, this is especially lengthened for this debut performance. Then comes the command – "Change Pencils!" We are expected to switch colours with others in the crowd to draw the next song title on our cover.
The next song is wrong for me – I have a peach coloured lemon, replacing my correctly coloured plums (Lemons Not Plums is the title). Here's my finished work, for you to laugh at!
As I'm showing here, this active audience participation almost outweighs the engaging and spirited performance, not a distraction but an engaging and lively difference, meaning this gig will no doubt remain in my mind as much as when Quinn's Quinney had us playing musical chairs!


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Hundreds of people have signed a petition against plans to build 20,000 homes in Leicestershire.
Campaigners said the planned eco-town south of Leicester near Great Glen would ruin the mostly rural area.
The idea is part of a government programme to create 10 carbon neutral settlements across the country.
The petition, on the 10 Downing Street website, has seen a surge of support as the date for a decision gets closer, campaigners have said.
One of the campaigners, Councillor Kevin Feltham, said they would be holding a public meeting next month.
He said: "It's important really that members of the public who perhaps haven't been as up to date as some people... need to be brought up to date with what we know as of now and what there is they can do about it.
"They need to know how they can contact the relevant ministers, obviously write to their MPs and write to the Co-op themselves."
The Co-op, which owns much of the land concerned, said the plans would be submitted to the government and, if short-listed, there would be a full public consultation.
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Starr County coronavirus update
Starr County health authorities reported Saturday the greatest number of new cases positive for the coronavirus since the start of the pandemic.
Dr. Jose Vazquez, county health authority, reported a total of 12 people who tested positive for COVID-19 and an additional person who contracted the virus for the second time.
The county reported cases throughout the day. In the morning, they announced their first COVID-19 related death, a woman in her 80s who tested positive Thursday. She was a resident of Rio Grande City.
Four cases were reported Saturday afternoon. Three men ages, 18, 42 and 30. The fourth person was a woman age 60.
Later in the evening, Vazquez reported nine more cases. The ages of the women are 60, 45, 20 and 52. And the men are ages 28, 41, 26, 49. One of the cases is a woman who was tested twice in Starr County. On Monday, her result was negative. She kept feeling unwell and got a second test in Starr County on Wednesday. The following day she was admitted at an Hidalgo County hospital and placed in the intensive care unit. Her results from Wednesday came back positive on Saturday.
The remaining ninth case is a 26 year-old man who had previously been sick. He is part of a Roma family who contracted the virus from each other. This case is not being counted in the official total which is now at 59.
Vazquez says he believes they're seeing an increase in cases due to more testing, but he also pointed out that about half of their total is due to family clusters who contract the contagious virus from each other.
He also cleared up their protocol for releasing sick people from quarantine.
The doctor said guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggest issuing a letter of clearance after a patient is free of symptoms three days after their 14-day quarantine. Vazquez said they are more "conservative" and issue a letter of release seven days after the person is asymptomatic.
Vazquez said it's possible a person can test positive multiple times, because it's believed particles of the virus can live in the throat for months. That doesn't mean the person is positive, Vazquez said. Due to civil rights concerns, they cannot keep a person in quarantine for months at a time.
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Mejor vida/better life and day-to-day exchanges: Networks of social exchange in contemporary arts practice
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the function of the work. In his book What We Want is Free: Generosity and Exchange in Recent Art, Ted Purves makes a distinction between art objects that are gifts by which generosity is enacted, and non-monetary exchange as a strategy of art within the social and public sphere.
Purves catalogues artistic productions that use generosity and exchange as strategies of social engagement in which audiences become co-creators. Purves contextualizes these practices within an art historical framework and, while acknowledging gift giving and exchange as artistic strategies, asserts that they can construct relationships, and as a practice of resistance, operate as tools. In particular, tools that experiment with radical art practices expand "the possibility of greater social and aesthetic freedoms."48
Concepts of non-monetary exchange have been recognized and practiced by societies of the past and present. In 1967 Marcel Mauss published The Gift: Forms and Functions of Exchange in Archaic Societies. Considering non-Western pre-capitalist economies he writes, "In the systems of the past we do not find simple exchange of goods, wealth and produce through markets established among individuals. For it is groups, and not individuals, which carry on exchange, make contracts, and are bound by obligations…"
48 Ted Purves, "Blows against the Empire," in What We Want Is Free: Generosity and Exchange in Recent Art (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2005), 28.
49 Marcel Mauss, "Prestation, Gifts and Potlatch," in The Gift: Forms and Functions of Exchange in Archaic Societies (New York: Norton, 1967), 3.
Title Mejor vida/better life and day-to-day exchanges: Networks of social exchange in contemporary arts practice
Author Anderson, Joy Angela
Author email joy.anderson@usc.edu; majikalnature@gmail.com
Degree Master of Public Art Studies
Degree program Public Art Studies
School School of Fine Arts
Advisor (committee chair) Decter, Joshua
Advisor (committee member) Owen Driggs, Janet
Gonzalez, Rita
Abstract The current economic crisis has brought attention and criticism to a dominant global economic system that is characterized by the goal of exponential expansion in pursuit of private monetary profit. In this thesis I explore the possibility for social and participatory art to invoke, inspire and mobilize action towards alternative sustainable systems of economic exchange. Generosity and non-monetary exchange as a social practice and artistic strategy provide a space for artists and audiences to perform models of alternative economies in the social/public sphere. While they also cultivate a network of social and cultural capital that values shared time and resources for mutual benefit. Using tactics evocative of feminist artists of the 1970s, the art projects considered in this text experiment with ways to live independent of, and in resistance to, the corporate market. My discussion focuses on the socially engaged art projects of artists Minerva Cuevas and Carolina Caycedo, and the Time/Bank initiated by artists Anton Vidokle and Julieta Aranda of e-flux. I reveal how their art projects perform creative models towards an economic paradigm shift, while positioning social and participatory public art practice as models towards sustainable lifestyles.
Keyword social practice; generosity and non-monetary exchange in contemporary art; non-object art; Latin American artists; Mexican artists; Interventionist art; public art; public practice; feminist art; participatory art; alternative economies; barter; time bank; time currency; environmental sustainable lifestyles; economic sustainability; global corporate capitalism; global economic paradigm; art activism; paradigm shift; environmental and social justice; temporary autonomous zone; relational aesthetics; social capital; conceptualism; DIY; globalization; gift economies
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Full text 22 the function of the work. In his book What We Want is Free: Generosity and Exchange in Recent Art, Ted Purves makes a distinction between art objects that are gifts by which generosity is enacted, and non-monetary exchange as a strategy of art within the social and public sphere. Purves catalogues artistic productions that use generosity and exchange as strategies of social engagement in which audiences become co-creators. Purves contextualizes these practices within an art historical framework and, while acknowledging gift giving and exchange as artistic strategies, asserts that they can construct relationships, and as a practice of resistance, operate as tools. In particular, tools that experiment with radical art practices expand "the possibility of greater social and aesthetic freedoms."48 Concepts of non-monetary exchange have been recognized and practiced by societies of the past and present. In 1967 Marcel Mauss published The Gift: Forms and Functions of Exchange in Archaic Societies. Considering non-Western pre-capitalist economies he writes, "In the systems of the past we do not find simple exchange of goods, wealth and produce through markets established among individuals. For it is groups, and not individuals, which carry on exchange, make contracts, and are bound by obligations…" 49 48 Ted Purves, "Blows against the Empire," in What We Want Is Free: Generosity and Exchange in Recent Art (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2005), 28. 49 Marcel Mauss, "Prestation, Gifts and Potlatch," in The Gift: Forms and Functions of Exchange in Archaic Societies (New York: Norton, 1967), 3.
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Q: Multiple conditions need to be met using if statements in jQuery Can I have multiple conditions in an if statement using jQuery? The following code is not catching the errors at all.
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        var ischecked = false;
        var isOKtoSubmit = true;
        var alertMessage = 'No tools have been selected';
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        var action = $('#uTransaction option:selected').html();

        $('.chkaction').each(function() { //loop through each checkbox
            statusvar = $(this).closest('tr').children('.recordStatus').html();
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A: When you're using && (AND) and || (OR) in the same if argument, you need to group them.
So instead of this:
if(action == 'Transfer' && statusvar !== 'ACTIVE' || (transferstatusvar !== 'OK'))

You should do:
if((action == 'Transfer' && statusvar != 'ACTIVE') || (transferstatusvar != 'OK'))

(Also, you don't need !== when you want to check if not equals, you do != instead)

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Een slakkenrace is een kruipwedstrijd tussen landslakken.

Hoewel het een humoristische ondertoon heeft, wordt er sinds de jaren 1960 zowel  in het Franse Lagardere en in het Engelse Congham, Norfolk concurrerende wereldkampioenschappen slakkenracen gehouden. De populariteit van dit spel heeft zich sindsdien verspreid naar elders in de wereld en met name Engelse pubs.

Parcours
Er bestaan diverse parcourstypen. Het oudste parcours bij slakkenracen bestond uit rechte banen. Omdat de richting waarin de slak zich voortbeweegt op dit parcours niet gecontroleerd kan worden, zijn er alternatieve parcours ontwikkeld.

Arena
Het bekendste model is mogelijk het parcours in de vorm van een cirkelvormige arena, waar de slakken in het midden hun startpositie innemen. Van daaruit kruipen ze naar de buitenste rand van de arena, ongeacht hun centrale vertrekpositie. Ter stimulatie van de slakken wordt aantrekkelijk voedsel aan de buitenkant van de arena verspreid. De arena kan ter verdere stimulatie ook licht kegelvormig zijn, met het middelpunt het laagst, waardoor de slakken omhoog - hun natuurlijke instinct is omhoog te gaan - richting de buitenste rand kruipen.

Cagouillodrome
In de 'cagouillodrome', gebruikt tijdens het CittaSlow-festival van het Franse Loix, moeten de slakken op hoogte over smalle balken van een meter lang naar de finish racen.  In het eveneens Franse Saint-Germain-De-Marencennes en Saint-Claud wordt ook de cagouillodrome gebruikt.

Paalparcours
In het Belgische Rocourt, nabij Luik, en in het Franse Cohons, Haute-Marne, worden alternatieve wereldkampioenschappen op een 'paaltjesparcours' gehouden: in dit type race moeten de slakken paalracen, ofwel een vertikaal traject van 42,192 cm naar boven afleggen. Deze methode zou het best tegenmoet komen aan de natuurlijke neiging van slakken naar boven te bewegen, waarbij de paaltjes impliciet voorkomen dat de slakken van hun baan afwijken. Het snelheidsrecord op een paalparcours, in Cohons, dateert uit 2014 en staat op 2 minuten en 47 seconden.

Wereldkampioenschappen
Sinds de jaren 1960 worden zowel in het Engelse Congham, Norfolk, en in het Franse Lagardere concurrerende wereldkampioenschappen slakkenracen gehouden.

Lagardere
De oudste is die van Lagardere, waar de officieuze wereldkampioenschappen sinds 1965 gehouden worden. Het parcours voor deze kampioenschap is een cirkelvormige arena met een afstand van 52 centimeter tussen de startcirkel in het midden en de finishlijn ofwel buitenrand van de arena.

Congham
De initiator van het wereldkampioenschap slakkenracen in Congham was geïnspireerd door slakkenwedstrijden die hij in Frankrijk gezien had. Hij zette de eerste officieuze wereldkampioenschap slakkenracen laat in de jaren 1960 op als een ludieke inzamelactie voor de lokale kerk. Schijnbaar sloeg het aan, want sinds 1970 is het wereldkampioenschap een jaarlijks terugkerend evenement in Congham.

Het parcours voor deze kampioenschap is eveneens een cirkelvormige arena maar met een afstand van drieëndertig centimeter (13 inch) tussen de startcirkel en de finishlijn.

Sinds 1999 is daar Ready, Steady, Slow het traditionele startschot geworden.

Het wereldrecord staat op naam van Archie, een segrijnslak die tijdens het wereldkampioenschap van 1995 het parcours in precies twee minuten doorkruiste. Dat was met een snelheid van 9,9 meter per uur, een wedstrijdrecord dat anno 2022 nog steeds ongebroken is. Ter vergelijking, de slak Eddie Irvine won het wereldkampioenschap van 2000, maar deed dat in vier minuten en vier seconden.

Varia
In Brighton werd in 1969 een slakkenrace gehouden om geld te werven voor Shelter, een Engelse liefdadigheidsorganisatie voor daklozen. Aan deze race nam de toen veertienjarige Christopher Hudson deel.

Externe links

 Een slakkenwedstrijd in Brussel bij Dick "de Slakkenman" Jacobs.
 Website Wereldkampioenschap slakkenracen in Congham, inclusief video's van de races.

Bronnen, referenties en noten
Bronnen en referenties

Noten

Slakken


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Q: React Native - Move to next input after maxlength I'm pretty much new to react native currently i'm building a small app to get a better idea on this i'm using react-native-paper as the ui library. Currently i'm stuck in an issue ie, i had two input fields with is maxlength as 3. I need to move to first input to next one automatically when first input acheived its maxlength ie, 3. I tried by adding returnKeyType="next" to the input field but its not working.
        <View style={styles.textinputViewleft}>
            <NumberInput
            style={styles.textinput}
            label="Digit"
            returnKeyType="next"
            value={digit.value}
            onChangeText={(text) => setDigit({ value: text, error: '' })}
            error={!!digit.error}
            errorText={digit.error}
            keyboardType="numeric"
            maxLength={3} />
        </View>
        <View style={styles.textinputView}>
            <NumberInput
            style={styles.textinput}
            label="Count"
            value={count.value}
            onChangeText={(text) => setCount({ value: text, error: '' })}
            error={!!count.error}
            errorText={count.error}
            keyboardType="numeric"
            maxLength={3}  />
        </View>

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A: First of all, create ref to get access to the inputs.
const ref = React.useRef();

Then pass it to the second TextInput.
<NumberInput
  ref={ref}
  style={styles.textinput}
  ...
/>

When the length of your first input reaches 3, call focus to insert the cursor in the second Input.
onChangeText={(text) => {
  if (text.length === 3) {
    ref.current.focus();
  }
  setDigit({ value: text, error: '' });
}}

A:
Working Example based on @Leri Gogsadze's existing answer :
export default function App() {
  const [numOne, setNumOne] = useState('');
  const [numTwo, setNumTwo] = useState('');
  const ref = useRef();
  return (
    <View style={styles.container}>
      <TextInput
        style={styles.input}
        placeholder="enter number"
        maxLength={3}
        value={numOne}
        onChangeText={(value) => {
          setNumOne(value);
          if (value.length === 3) {
            ref.current.focus();
          }
        }}
        returnKeyType="next"
      />
      <TextInput
        style={styles.input}
        ref={ref}
        placeholder="enter name"
        maxLength={3}
        value={numTwo}
        onChangeText={(value) => setNumTwo(value)}
      />
    </View>
  );
}

Working sample app: Expo Snack


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Dialogical: An Interview on Our Communal Life, the Occupation, and Me
Us in Brooklyn April, 2014. Credit: A Robot w/ Tal Beery
The six members of "Kvutzat Orev" – a communal group that shared living space, time, resources, and mission for five years in Israel and New York City – have come together on a number of occasions since leaving our Brooklyn Commune in the spring of 2011. In April, 2014 we met in New York City for a two day seminar to talk about our past, present, and future.
This is an edited transcript of the part of the conversation that focused on me.
Jane: What is your greatest regret about Kvutza [living in our communal group] or from the period of Orev… Or about Orev in general?
Daniel: Great question.
Tal: I really love your show. (Laughing)
Daniel: Thanks for having me. (Laughing)
…Sometimes I wish that I hadn't been so pulled toward Israel and that that wasn't a compulsion that pulled me away from New York.
Orev Seminar. Brooklyn, April 2014 Credit: Tal Beery
Had there been a next step for us, together, I think… I made a choice to go to Israel and that that closed the door on New York for the time being. It closed the door on New York and on us, for now. To answer your question honestly, that's the biggest thing. A door closed because I desperately needed to go and do what I'm doing now… I felt it very deeply.
I also sometimes wish that we had organized ourselves to live New York much more in the years that we were here.
Jane: What does that mean?
Daniel: You know, I wish we had lot's more money and do lot's more things (Laughter)… It's the truth of any city, but New York is New York and I always think about the million things that I wish I would have done in New York, like go to shows and visit museums…
Jane: Like cultural stuff?
Daniel: Ya, Like cultural stuff and… Checking out more music, trying new bars just to try them…
Jane: Do you have any regrets that pertain to any of the five of us?
Daniel: No… Not individually at all. Like I said, I feel that there may have been a hundred, or five, other potential possibilities out there had the compulsion to go do what I'm doing not been so present in me. There were plenty of ways we could have built and moved forward as us in another time line.
Jane: How do you think the Kvutza would've responded to Occupy Wall Street? Because we broke up right before that started…
Daniel: It's a great question. I think we were exhausted. In a lot of political ways, and the Tikkun Adam-Tikkun Olam [Working to better ourselves and simultaneously working to better the world] had been weighed down heavily for us. My guess is that we would have found our way into Occupy as individuals, or in smaller units. To some degree Occupy really changed things in the world around us, and I think we all would have found our way into some facet of that world, though not as a Kvutza. Not at that point in our history.
It's also important to remember that in the months before we took different paths we agreed that if we were going to remain together as Orev, we would have to build some new model for that, so by then (Fall 2011) we may have had some new way of organizing ourselves had we decided we were staying together, which could have changed the way we would have addressed something like Occupy.
Michal: What did you learn from our time together; from the Kvutza or that time in your life - either or both - that you use in your life now?
Daniel: First is that I am very mission oriented. I want my life to be about the mission that I am engaged in, you know, all the reasons that I moved there were things like a desire to learn Hebrew and to end the occupation. I have a very clear "mission" orientation in my life right now. I think I said it this morning: When I ask myself why I don't move to Toronto the answer is always that I don't know what I would be doing there, I don't know what the content of my life would be there right now. I don't know what the day to day mission would be, and that's something that is clear in Tel Aviv.
And I cultivated that in our life together. I was really able to take that to a higher level with you. I think most people walk into an adulthood where you don't get to live your vision, where changing the world around you takes a backseat to dealing with the day to day. And I think I learned from our lives together that there is no need to not build your vision. The only reason to not do that is if you no longer want to or you are busy gathering the resources necessary, but not because it is impossible.
(Silent Pause)
Michal: What else did you learn that transcended that time?
Daniel: That's the major thing. Our five years together is a clear indication to me that all it takes is the will and ability to make something happen [okay, that's not nothing]. Most people's visions are possible, and it just takes the energy to do it. We did a really crazy thing for a long time, and living that type of life is totally normal for us and a lot of the people we've surrounded ourselves with in our "post-Orev" era ["post" may not be the right word]. But for the wider world the notion that you can just do a thing that you think you can do is actually strange and foreign.
Tal: That's true.
Daniel: … And the way Karen and I live together in Tel Aviv is communal. It's similar in most respects to how we lived together as a Kvutza. The way we deal with finances, cleaning, hanging out, and making decisions about our lives all carried over from the culture that we built together.
Tal: What is the relationship… commit to the question… between your desire to raise your children within a communal structure – which you've put lately almost in negative terms, as in "I don't want to raise my kids outside of a communal structure", which is odd for such a positive action… I wonder: What's the relationship between raising your children within a communal structure and ending the occupation? As in, your more pointed, immediate, political, activist ambitions.
On a winter walk. Upstate NY, Winter 2011. Credit: Yaniv Sagee
Daniel: The reason I put it in negative terms, as you said, is that for me Kvutza, communal life has become the default. That's my starting position. So when I'm thinking about it, I'm thinking about going back to it. That I've stepped outside of it and there is an idea to go back to and carry forward from there. It's not impossible to build a communal life with partners over there, but right now we are, well I will speak for myself; I am very focused on the projects that we're doing: The educational, the journalistic, and the activist processes that we are involved with toward ending the occupation and our goals there. The collectives that we are building there are collectives that are built on the projects themselves: Hebrew learning, activism, building an educational program. We are involved in ending the occupation via various projects that are collective in nature, but we [the various groups we are working and learning with] are coming at them as individuals, not as a communal group like a Kvutza.
Tal: You've been deep in the Israeli political and cultural Left for a bunch of years now and now you live in Israel and you are further acquainted with it, and I am wondering how is it possible that this political cultural movement of communalism, of communal living, doesn't somehow have a clear set of tactics for ending the occupation, or an analysis on how those actions would have a direct political impact on the state or on its military aspirations.
Daniel: How is it possible that the Israeli Left doesn't have an analysis?
Karen: More like: What's going on in Israel with all the communalist movements in relation to the occupation? How do those two things fit together?
Tal: Right, and how does that speak to you?
Daniel: Most of Israel doesn't see the occupation.
Karen: You were saying this yesterday; that it is like the "White Walkers" in Game of Thrones.
Daniel: Yeah, most of Israel is like most of the world. Israel's view of the occupation is like the world's view, or lack of any view, of climate change. In Israel they have no idea that this thing is ripping the fabric of society apart and there will be nothing left very soon. Even on the "Left" there is very little conception of the reality of the ongoing militarism and racism and occupation and what its doing. There is a lot of great stuff that they are doing including the communal structures and the economic battles, but all of it will just be torn apart by the continuation of the occupation. In very much the same way that it is important to fight for economic justice here for example, but if you can't breathe the air, then it is worthless. It's an idea that the civil rights leader, James Farmer, Jr. articulated years ago… There is an overarching issue at hand, whether climate change globally or the occupation over there.
And how is it possible that people aren't paying attention or addressing it? Ellie said it yesterday at lunch, it's terribly frightening. We talked about it at lunch and we've been talking about it all day. It's incredibly frightening to face the reality of fundamental change; that there's a real need for a fundamental shift.
To get back to your original question: The disconnect is incredibly disappointing for me, and up until now we have been making the choice to build new structures for the things we are doing there to address the disconnect. And I think Achvat Amim is an answer to that in a lot of ways, bringing the anti-occupation work, the educational work, and Hashomer [Hatzair] together. Hashomer is fairly small and therefore also fairly shift-able, dynamic. For example, right now they are studying and becoming a Feminist movement, explicitly, and it has actually shifted the way they talk, and perhaps, how they act. Adva, thinks that this shift in the way they are talking about the world and politics is a step on the way to shifting the way they think and act surrounding other issues like the occupation. I think she is right, and having our movement and other movements involved more directly in anti-occupation work would make a world of difference.
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Yearly Food-Borne Illness Estimates in Canada
Overall estimates of Canadians affected by food-borne illness
The most recent average yearly estimates for food-borne illness due to known and unknown causes are:
30 food-borne bacteria, parasites and viruses:
1.6 million illnesses (40% of food-borne illnesses)
4,000 hospitalizations (34% of food-borne hospitalizations)
105 deaths (44% of food-borne deaths)
unknown causes:
2.4 million illnesses (60%)
7,600 hospitalizations (66%)
133 deaths (56%)
This means that every year, a total of about 4 million (1 in 8) Canadians are affected by a food-borne illness. Of these, there are about:
11,600 hospitalizations
Estimates of illness caused by food-borne bacteria, parasites and viruses
Some bacteria, parasites and viruses are responsible for the most illnesses, hospitalizations and deaths in Canada. Yearly estimates for the most common causes are broken down below.
Number of illnesses
norovirus (1,048,000 or 65% of known causes of food-borne illnesses)
Clostridium perfringens (177,000 or 11%)
Campylobacter spp. (145,000 or 8%)
Salmonella spp., non-typhoidal (87,500 or 5%)
Number of hospitalizations
norovirus (1,180 or 30% of known causes of food-borne hospitalizations)
Salmonella spp., non-typhoidal (925 or 24%)
Campylobacter spp. (565 or 14%)
Escherichia coli 0157 (245 or 6%)
Number of deaths
Listeria monocytogenes (35 or 33% of known causes of food-borne deaths)
norovirus (21 or 20%)
Salmonella spp., non-typhoidal (17 or 16%)
Escherichia coli 0157 (8 or 8%)
Infographic: Food-related illnesses, hospitalizations and deaths in Canada
"Estimates of the Burden of Foodborne Illness in Canada for 30 Specified Pathogens and Unspecified Agents, Circa 2006"
"Estimates of Foodborne Illness Related Hospitalizations and Deaths in Canada for 30 Specified Pathogens and Unspecified Agents"
content from: https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/food-borne-illness-canada/yearly-food-borne-illness-estimates-canada.html#ov


As part of Frequently Asked Java Programs In Interviews For Freshers And Experienced, in this post we will see a Java program to Print a Floyd Triangle of given number of rows.
Problem: Write a java program to print a Floyd's triangle for a given number of rows.
In JAVA, such patterns are known as pyramid. We can easily draw using matrix.
First, we think about row count which will be user input. If user enters 5, there will be 5 rows in triangle. For N, there will be N rows in triangle. So we need to have a for loop which will keep track of number of rows. It must start with 1 and iterate till N.
Now consider number of columns. For first row, there is only column. For second row, there are only two columns. For nth row, there should be only N columns. So we need to use another for loop, which will start from 1 and keep counter till it reaches number of row.
Since, we need to print natural numbers in a order, we will initialize a variable and increment it after printing once.
I hope this programming section would be very useful for you all. If you have any doubt, please comment or write to me.


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Paula Vogel (właśc. Paula Anne Vogel. ur. 1951) – amerykańska dramatopisarka, laureatka Nagrody Pulitzera. Wyróżnienie otrzymała w 1998 r. za sztukę How I Learned to Drive.
Urodziła się 16 listopada 1951 r. w Waszyngtonie. Bakalaureat zrobiła na Catholic University of America w 1974 r. Bakalaureat z dramaturgii otrzymała na Cornell University w 1977 r. W tym samym roku debiutowała sztuką Meg. Wydała też sztukę The Baltimore Waltz, poświęconą bratu, który zmarł na AIDS w 1988 r.

Przypisy

Absolwenci Uniwersytetu Cornella
Amerykańscy dramaturdzy XX wieku
Amerykańscy dramaturdzy XXI wieku
Zdobywcy Nagrody Pulitzera
Urodzeni w 1951


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Грама Ніладхарі Калмунай-1D (№ KP/61/5) — Грама Ніладхарі підрозділу ОС Калмунай-Таміл, округ Ампара, Східна провінція, Шрі-Ланка.

Демографія

Примітки

Грама Ніладхарі підрозділу ОС Калмунай-Таміл


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redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


The attached example Custom Format illustrates how to eliminate an unused attribute from a source schema. An unused attribute is one that is empty in all records in that table.
The Custom Format uses a Schema reader to provide the base schema and a data reader to provide the records to check for unused attributes. The data records attributes are exploded into separate features and any empty feature attributes are eliminated. A DuplicateRemover is used to keep only one copy of each non-empty attribute.
The schema featureas are also exploded into individual attribute features. These are merged with the data attribute feature to filter out the unused attributes. The filtered attributes are then aggregated into a list to create the output filtered schema feature.
This Custom Format can be used as a Workspace Resource to supply a filtered schema to your destination features.


Coca-Cola European Partners , the world's largest independent Coke bottler, has joined the European war on sugar.
The London-based company, formed in 2016 from the merger of Coca-Cola Enterprises and Coke's bottling operations in Germany and Spain, has emphasized soft drinks such as Coca Cola Zero Sugar, fruit-flavored ViO Bio, and tea. And it also has reformulated its Fanta and Sprite brands in the United Kingdom to reduce their sugar content. It has also introduced mini cans of signature Coca-Cola products. Beverages with no or few calories account for 35% of sales volume, and have helped the bottler ring up sweet results in the past two years.
Yet Coca-Cola European Partners' success in the low-growth beverage business isn't reflected in its stock (ticker: CCE). The shares trade for about $41, or 14 times projected 2018 earnings of $2.80 a share. They yield 3.1%. The stock has one of the lowest price/earnings ratios in the consumer-staples sector, where the average P/E is in the high teens. "The company is underfollowed and underappreciated," says Brett Cooper, an analyst at Consumer Edge Research, who rates the shares Overweight, with a $47 price target.
Like many Coca-Cola (KO) bottlers outside the U.S., Coca-Cola European Partners benefits from Coke's dominant market share in soda. Coke accounts for an estimated 80% of the European cola market, almost double its share in the U.S., where rival PepsiCo (PEP) is stronger.
Coca-Cola European Partners posted revenue of 11 billion euros ($13.5 billion) last year, and earned €2.12 ($2.60) a share. The company, 18% owned by Coke, aims to generate low-single-digit revenue growth this year and a 6% to 7% gain in per share earnings. It recently boosted the dividend by 24%, to an annualized €1.04, and is targeting a 45% dividend payout ratio for 2018. Company executives weren't available for comment.
BERNSTEIN ANALYST Ali Dibadj calls CEO Damian Gammell and Chief Financial Officer Nik Jhangiani "stars of the system" with long experience in the Coke global network. "They're good operators and stewards of shareholder capital," he says.
Gammell is close to Coke's new CEO, James Quincey, who led Coke's European business from 2013 to 2015.
Lauren Lieberman, beverage analyst at Barclays, views Coca-Cola European Partners as a "focused and attractively valued way to play the changes in the Coke system." Among them is Coke's shift in recent years to better align its interests with bottlers by emphasizing revenue over volume. Coke, which sells soda concentrate, historically sought volume gains, but has recognized that such a strategy hurt bottlers by leading to discounting and larger, less profitable package sizes. Coca-Cola European Partners is Lieberman's top pick in the staples group; she has a $46 price target.
Coca-Cola European Partners could have an opportunity later this year to expand its reach by buying Coke's controlling stake in Coca-Cola Beverage Africa. But analysts think that Coca-Cola HBC (CCH.UK), the Swiss-based Coke bottler, is the more likely purchaser. If so, Coca-Cola HBC might sell much of its developed-market European bottling businesses to Coca-Cola European Partners to help fund the transaction. Coca-Cola HBC operates in Italy, Ireland, and Switzerland.
In a recent note, Cooper wrote that "territory expansion opportunity" isn't priced into Coca-Cola European Partners' stock. He estimated buying Coca-Cola HBC's businesses could boost profit by €0.20 a share annually.
Shareholders also could be rewarded by stock buybacks. Coca-Cola European Partners hasn't repurchased shares since the 2016 merger because it has pledged to reduce acquisition-related debt. With annual cash flow equal to 2.8 times net debt at the end of 2017, within the targeted range of 2.5 to three, buybacks could commence later in 2018, assuming no deal is struck.
The company has said it's on track to realize €315 million to €340 million of annual cost savings by the first half of 2019.
INVESTING IN Coca-Cola European Partners carries risks. The bottler isn't a brand owner and could be hurt if Coke cuts advertising spending or takes steps that might benefit itself at the expense of bottlers. But that is less of a danger since Coke began aligning its interests with bottlers'.
Another worry is higher taxes. To discourage consumption, the U.K. will levy a tax on high-sugar beverages starting in April that will total about 33 cents per liter for Coke Classic, which has eight teaspoons of sugar (35 grams) per 330 milliliter can (11 ounces). The levy will affect about 40% of the European bottler's U.K. volume.
Coca-Cola European Partners is reliant on carbonated beverages and energy drinks, which account for 85% of sales volume, at a time when investors worry soda is becoming like cigarettes—taxed and socially unacceptable. "There's skepticism that the company can grow revenue at 2% to 3% this year with a U.K. sugar tax," Cooper says.
Those doubts are reflected in the company's relatively low valuation. But Coca-Cola European Partners has pursued an effective strategy that combines innovation with maximizing profits on popular beverages such as Coke Classic. If that formula can produce targeted mid- to high-single-digit annual profit growth in 2018, the stock could return 20% in the next year.
Coca-Cola European Partners has hit a formula that could yield bubbly investment returns.
Coca-Cola European Partners, the world's largest independent Coke bottler, has joined the European war on sugar.


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Полевой — посёлок в Новооскольском районе Белгородской области. Входит в состав Богородского сельского поселения.

География
Находится в северо-восточной части региона, в лесостепной зоне, в пределах юго-западных отрогов Орловско-Курского плато Среднерусской возвышенности, в 4 км от федеральной автотрассы ..

Климат
Климат характеризуется как умеренно континентальный, с относительно мягкой зимой и тёплым продолжительным летом. Среднегодовая температура воздуха — 6,1 °C. Средняя температура воздуха самого холодного месяца (января) — −8,3 °C (абсолютный минимум — −36 °C); самого тёплого месяца (июля) — 20,4 °C (абсолютный максимум — 38 °C). Годовое количество атмосферных осадков составляет 504 мм, из которых 350 мм выпадает в период с апреля по октябрь.

История
В 1968 г. Указом президиума ВС РСФСР посёлок Великомихайловского отделения Новооскольского племптицезавода переименован в Полевой.

Население

Инфраструктура
Основа экономики — Великомихайловское отделение Новооскольского племптицезавода.

Транспорт
Полевой доступен автотранспортом по региональной автодороге 14Н-510. Остановка общественного транспорта «Полевой».

Примечания

Населённые пункты Новооскольского района
переименованные населённые пункты Белгородской области


Maya McLaughlin Canine Behaviourist & Trainer - Why Choose Me?
My name is Maya McLaughlin, Canine Behaviourist & Trainer and I work on a one-to-one basis with all breeds of dog, most often in the dog's own home space, to help manage and ultimately replace all kinds of unwanted behavioural issues.
In terms of dog behaviour one size does not fit all so each dog should be assessed individually for an accurate assessment to take place.
Some of these names have been changed to protect the guilty!
Dog behaviour is a progressive science and my practice uses only positive reinforcement techniques which address the whole of the dog; mind, body and emotions. The aim is not to instill old-school blind obedience but to understand, manage and ultimately help the dog to replace unwanted behaviours with more positive traits with a rock solid foundation which will stay with him for the whole of his life.
REMEMBER that K9 remedial work cannot always be a quick fix but sometimes it can - and sometimes good work can be spoiled by trying to move on too quickly. The key to success is always to go at the dog's own pace.
One of my clients recently described my practice in a nutshell as 'working with dogs too naughty to go to classes' and whilst not strictly accurate (on the naughty aspect anyway) I will take it! Thanks Annie!