This quick project is great for those family vacation photos or any other group of shots that look good together. I used MDF because I wanted to create a painted Cape Cod look. You'll also find this inexpensive material easy to work with.
You should adjust the dimensions to suit the finished frame that makes sense for your photo collection. I used with 3"-wide MDF, with 5/16"-deep x 3/8"-wide rabbets milled on the inside edges. Complete these rabbets with several passes over a dado blade on your tablesaw, or with a table-mounted router and fence. Once you have the rabbets cut, saw the long and short frame sides to length.
Join the mitres with two 3/8"-diameter dowels. You could use biscuits too. Once the frame is glued and dry, you can determine the exact dimensions for the picture dividers. For these, I used 13/8"-wide MDF cut on the tablesaw to a thickness of 7/16"-the same as that part of the frame that's ahead of the rabbet. Use a dado blade to create half-lap joints where the vertical and horizontal dividers overlap each other.
Once all the pieces have been cut to size, apply a finish. If you are using MDF, use an alkyd primer before painting. Sand the primer, then the top coat. To create a worn look, simply sand right through the paint lightly on the edges. Add a clear coat over the paint for added protection. Visit a glass shop and have a piece of 3-mm glass cut to fit in the rabbets.
To assemble, put a dab of glue on the lap joint, then push together the vertical and horizontal dividers. When this piece is dry, apply clear silicone to the back face of the dividers and fit the assembly into the frame, sticking it to the glass from the front. Cut the small divider and silicone it in place too.
Finish the project with a piece of backing material. I used 1/8"-thick plywood, but heavy cardboard also does the trick. Use frame turns to hold everything in place.
This collage frame makes a lovely gift or a fun project over a weekend.


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Austin Police Department Orders Deeper Investigation After Audit Finds It Misclassified Cleared Rape Cases
The APD will ask a third party to examine how it handles rape investigations. The police chief also announced he had ordered other changes, including the addition of another supervisor to the sex crimes unit and new policies for clearing crimes.
by Mark Greenblatt and Mark Fahey, Newsy, Bernice Yeung, ProPublica, and Emily Harris, Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting
Jan. 18, 2019, 12 p.m. EST
This story was co-published with Newsy and Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting.
WASHINGTON — The Austin Police Department will ask a third party to examine how it handles rape investigations from start to finish, following a state audit that found some cases were misclassified in a way that made it appear the department had solved more cases than it had.
Austin Police Chief Brian Manley at a press conference in March 2018. (Eric Gay/AP Photo)
The announcement comes as the APD released the full findings of a review by the Texas Department of Public Safety, which audited the department following an investigation by Newsy, Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting and ProPublica. The news report showed how Austin and dozens of other police departments across the country frequently use "exceptional" clearances to close rape cases, increasing clearance rates while leaving suspects on the streets.
The initial findings from the DPS audit, which looked at three months of Austin rape reports from 2017, concluded that nearly one-third of the cases the APD had exceptionally cleared were misclassified.
The full report reveals Austin police often failed on multiple fronts. To clear a case exceptionally, the FBI requires police to have enough evidence to make an arrest, to know who and where the suspect is, and for there to be a reason outside their control that prevents an arrest. Cases that fail to meet all four requirements cannot be cleared exceptionally. The DPS report shows that out of 95 exceptionally cleared rapes auditors reviewed, Austin police had failed to meet the FBI requirements 30 times. In 17 of those cases, police failed to meet at least two of the FBI's tests. In five cases, police did not meet any of the four criteria.
"While we're glad this audit has been completed, it confirms that we have serious issues and we need to take quick action that corrects the patterns that allowed these cases to be handled improperly," Austin Mayor Steve Adler said in a joint statement with Mayor Pro Tem Delia Garza.
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At a press conference Wednesday, Austin Police Chief Brian Manley said the department does not yet know who the third-party investigator will be, but he intends for the entity to look into how his department investigates rape from the earliest stages when a 911 call is received until a case is closed by investigators.
"We will welcome this outside review," he said. "If there are things we can be doing differently or better to implement best practices, we will do so and we will look forward to doing so."
Manley also announced he had ordered other changes, including the addition of another supervisor to the sex crimes unit and new policies for clearing crimes.
He said the APD has already completed the retraining of its detectives, a task the department said this month it would do after receiving preliminary findings from the state's audit. Manley said one of the most significant reforms will be the introduction of a new computer system that requires detectives to answer four questions to show a case meets the FBI requirements before they can clear a case exceptionally.
The announcement of a new, more comprehensive review of the entire rape investigation process comes in the wake of pressure from rape survivors, advocates and City Council members following the investigation by Newsy, Reveal and ProPublica.
Some advocates were skeptical about Austin police choosing who investigates the department's handling of rape cases.
"APD should not get to decide who grades them," said Kristen Lenau, co-founder of the Survivor Justice Project. "In order for this to be a truly independent evaluation that builds much needed trust in this community, survivors and advocates need to be a part of the selection process."
The department's decision pre-empts an anticipated resolution from City Council member Alison Alter, who has said she is working with advocates to determine the most effective, credible way to dig into why so many rape investigations end with no arrest in Austin. The police department reported a 2016 rape clearance rate of 51 percent, well over the national average of 37 percent. But only 17 percent of rape investigations led to an arrest, according to internal records reviewed by Newsy.
A spokeswoman for Alter said she expects her resolution to be posted for public review by late Friday and to be voted on at the council's next meeting on Jan. 31.
Audit Finds Austin, Texas, Improperly Cleared Rapes
A review prompted by an investigation by Newsy, Reveal and ProPublica shows that the Police Department misclassified cases in a way that made its rate of solving them appear higher.
When It Comes to Rape, Just Because a Case Is Cleared Doesn't Mean It's Solved
Some police departments, turning to a designation that's supposed to be used sparingly, make it seem as though they've solved a significant number of rape cases when they have simply closed them.
The spokeswoman said the resolution will direct the city manager to conduct a retrospective, comprehensive evaluation of the last seven years of documented sexual assault cases in Austin, to be carried out by a nongovernmental entity, one that doesn't have a relationship with the APD.
Alter's spokeswoman says the resolution "will not solely gather data, but also will direct the city manager to evaluate the health of our public safety system" and report back to the council with recommendations for how to better align with national best practices.
Many communities facing similar problems with rape investigations have adopted the "Philadelphia Model," a process initiated by former Philadelphia Police Commissioner John Timoney, who approached the Women's Law Project and other community advocates to ask for help in reviewing cases and restoring community faith in the police.
When Newsy, Reveal and ProPublica showed Manley the results of our data analysis last fall, he maintained that APD was correctly using exceptional clearance, pointing to an internal review.
However, the review — obtained by KXAN-TV in Austin — shows that police found about one-quarter of cases were improperly classified. Still, police maintained to us that they had discovered no problems until this week. Manley pointed to confusion among those on his staff who did the audit.
"I don't believe they recognized the significance of the findings," Manley said. "Most of us are police officers and not a lot have a background in statistics."
Update, Jan. 29: On Friday, Austin posted Council Member Alison Alter's resolution, which would require the city to conduct a comprehensive investigation into how nearly 2,000 rape investigations were handled by Austin police over the past seven years. It directs the city manager to find a "nationally recognized, non-governmental entity" that would examine at least 50 percent of all sexual assaults reported to Austin police in each year.
The evaluator would conduct interviews with sexual assault survivors from cases selected for review, along with speaking to both current and former police officers and others involved in the investigations. Survivors would be asked to talk about "their experiences with the investigative process." The examination would also look to see if police are adhering to state and federal law as well as national best practices for investigating rapes.
"As policymakers we need to know the deeper root causes," Alter said. "Behind the data is a victim and potentially future victims when the cases aren't resolved."
She estimates the cost for the probe could be $200,000 to $1 million.
The resolution also directs the city to post "in a prominent place on the City's website" a final, unredacted copy of the evaluator's report.
This month, Austin Police Chief Brian Manley announced at a press conference he wanted Austin Police Department to hire a third-party investigator to do a similar review. But by late Friday, Alter appeared to have gained Manley's support for the resolution, which would have the city choose the evaluator in consultation with victim advocates. A spokesperson for APD said the department did not see a need for two separate third-party reviews.
Mayor Steve Adler texted to say the resolution "reflects a community united at all levels, in all ways" to improve rape investigations in Austin. "We will identify what we do well and where we must do better. And then we'll act."
Scripps Howard Foundation Journalism Fellows Kenny Jacoby and Sophie Chou contributed to this story.
The reporters can be reached at mark.greenblatt@scripps.com, mark.fahey@scripps.com, bernice.yeung@propublica.org and eharris@revealnews.org. Follow them on Twitter: @greenblattmark,@marktfahey,@bmyeung and @emilygharris.
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Q: Sharing a JavaVM* across threads in Android NDK I want to call Java class methods from a cpp file that receives call backs from another executable.
To achieve this, I have retrieved a JavaVM pointer using the android::AndroidRuntime::getJavaVM() method in the .cpp file that directly receives JNI method calls. I am sharing this JavaVM pointer via the constructor to the eventual .cpp file where I call required Java methods as follows:
/* All the required objects(JNIEnv*,jclass,jmethodID,etc) are appropriately declared. */
**JNIEnv* env;
jvm->AttachCurrentThread(&env, NULL);
clazz = env->FindClass("com/skype/ref/NativeCodeCaller");
readFromAudioRecord = env->GetStaticMethodID(clazz, "readFromAudioRecord", "([B)I");
writeToAudioTrack = env->GetStaticMethodID(clazz, "writeToAudioTrack", "([B)I");**

However, I get a  SIGSEGV fault running this code.
According to the JNI documentation this seems to be the appropriate way to obtain JNIEnv in arbitary contexts: http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jni/html/other.html#26206
Any help in this regard will be appreciated.
Regards,
Neeraj

A: Global references will NOT prevent a segmentation fault in a new thread if you try to use a JNIEnv or JavaVM reference without attaching the thread to the VM. You were doing it properly the first time around, Mārtiņš Možeiko is mistaken in implying that there was something wrong with what you were doing.
Don't remove it, just learn how to use it. That guy doesn't know what he's talking about, if it's in jni.h you can be pretty sure it's not going anywhere. The reason it's not documented is probably because it's ridiculously self explanatory. You don't need to create GlobalReference objects or anything either, just do something like this:
#include <jni.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <android/log.h>
#include <linux/threads.h>
#include <pthread.h>

#define  LOG_TAG    "[NDK]"
#define  LOGI(...)  __android_log_print(ANDROID_LOG_INFO,LOG_TAG,__VA_ARGS__)
#define  LOGW(...)  __android_log_print(ANDROID_LOG_WARN,LOG_TAG,__VA_ARGS__)
#define  LOGE(...)  __android_log_print(ANDROID_LOG_ERROR,LOG_TAG,__VA_ARGS__)

static pthread_mutex_t thread_mutex;
static pthread_t thread;
static JNIEnv* jniENV;

void *threadLoop()
{
    int exiting;
    JavaVM* jvm;
    int gotVM = (*jniENV)->GetJavaVM(jniENV,&jvm);
    LOGI("Got JVM: %s", (gotVM ? "false" : "true") );
    jclass javaClass;
    jmethodID javaMethodId;
    int attached = (*jvm)->AttachCurrentThread(jvm, &jniENV,NULL);
    if(attached>0)
    {
        LOGE("Failed to attach thread to JavaVM");
        exiting = 1;
    }
    else{
        javaClass= (*jniENV)->FindClass(jniENV, "com/justinbuser/nativecore/NativeThread");
        javaMethodId= (*jniENV)->GetStaticMethodID(jniENV, javaClass, "javaMethodName", "()V");
    }
    while(!exiting)
    {
        pthread_mutex_lock(&thread_mutex);
        (*jniENV)->CallStaticVoidMethod(jniENV, javaClass, javaMethodId);
        pthread_mutex_unlock(&thread_mutex);
    }
    LOGE("Thread Loop Exiting");
    void* retval;
    pthread_exit(retval);
    return retval;
}

void start_thread(){
    if(thread < 1)
        {
            if(pthread_mutex_init(&thread_mutex, NULL) != 0)
            {
                LOGE( "Error initing mutex" );
            }
            if(pthread_create(&thread, NULL, threadLoop, NULL) == 0)
            {
                LOGI( "Started thread#: %d", thread);
                if(pthread_detach(thread)!=0)
                {
                    LOGE( "Error detaching thread" );
                }
            }
            else
            {
                LOGE( "Error starting thread" );
            }
        }
}

JNIEXPORT void JNICALL
Java_com_justinbuser_nativecore_NativeMethods_startThread(JNIEnv * env, jobject this){
    jniENV = env;
    start_thread();
}

A: Solved the problem. The segmentation fault was because I could not retrieve a jclass object from the JNIEnv object retrieved from the shared jvm pointer.
I propogated a Global reference jclass object alongwith the jvm and the problem was solved.
Thanks for your help Mārtiņš Možeiko!..
Regards,
Neeraj

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Adrian Peterson's Charity Paid for Orgy
Updated Apr. 14, 2017 2:47PM ET / Published Oct. 06, 2014 12:42PM ET
An investigation into Adrian Peterson suggest his indictment for child abuse is only one of many troubling aspects of the football star's past. The Minneapolis Star Tribune found that Peterson's All Day Foundation, which shut down after his September arrest, did not appear to donate money to the few charities it claimed to support on its financial report. In 2009, All Day Foundation said it gave $70,000 to Straight From the Heart Ministries in Laurel, Maryland. "Adrian Peterson — definitely not," said Straight From the Heart Ministries' president Donna Farley when asked about money from the charity. The investigation also uncovered a 2011 police report detailing a night of sex that involved Peterson, his underage brother, and a relative with four women. It all reportedly occurred in an Eden Prairie hotel room, paid for by a company credit card designated for All Day. One of the women filed a police complaint, but Hennepin County prosecutors declined to file charges. The probe also uncovered that Peterson has six children born out of wedlock, two of them a month apart to different mothers.
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105 The Nymph of House Black » by CelesteMagnolia Nymphadora Tonks is at the Time-Turner Room of the Department of Mysteries in June of 1996 when she trips and hurtles back in time to the day of her birth. Not knowing how or when she'll be able to get back to her original timeline, Dumbledore arranges for Tonks to be adopted by her maternal family, the Blacks. Will she be able to change the future? Part 1 (COMPLETE).
Harry Potter, T, English, Adventure & Drama, chapters: 75, words: 406k+, favs: 228, follows: 184, updated: 1/16/2022 published: 11/18/2021, Sirius B., Remus L., N. Tonks, Regulus B.
4k+Arx Domus Nigrae » by MaryRoyale There are legends among the pureblood families about Keepers-special witches who have the power to restore a fallen House. If any House needed a Keeper, it's the Ancient and Noble House of Black. Hermione/Multi (Cygnus, Orion, Sirius AND Regulus). Polyandry.
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44 Secrets & Keepers – Supernova » by Maud Greyluck Hermione learns the hard way that there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around. It's a story of multiple crises starting from identity, trust in one's loved ones, the trust which one's friend put in one. It's a story of friendships that are forged in crisis. It's also a love story as much as a story about love. A pre-PoA AU. Part 2 of Secrets & Keepers that stands alone.
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160 Secrets & Keepers – Collision Course » by Maud Greyluck When Harry ran away from the Dursleys after blowing up Aunt Marge he never got on the Knight Bus or to Diagon Alley. Instead, he found himself in 12 Grimmauld Place with Sirius and Regulus Black and boy do they have something to say about how his life looked up until now. Contains manipulative!Dumbledore.
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UK Returnees
22 people are still returning from the UK every day
#UKReturnees, #UKPassengers, #HomeQuarantine, #Bangladesh, #NovelCoronavirus, #Covid19
Dhaka, January 9: In order to prevent the spread of coronavirus through UK travelers, the government has made a mandatory 14-day institutional quarantine for all passengers returning to the UK from January 1 (in government-run or government-designated residential hotels).
Knowing about the 14-day institutional quarantine, he did not stop returning from the UK.
A total of 164 passengers have returned from the UK in the last eight days, from 8am on January 2 to 8am on January 9, an average of about 22 passengers a day.
In the last 24 hours (from 6 am on January 6 to 8 am on January 9), 3,993 passengers arrived at Shahjalal International Airport on a total of 26 flights. Of these, 31 passengers returning to the UK on five flights were sent to the institutional quarantine.
It is learned that almost all the passengers returning to the UK are staying in the quarantine of the residential hotel. From January 2 to January 9, 21 people, 16 people, 13 people, 20 people, 22 people, 30 people, 19 people and 31 people were sent to the institutional quarantine.
14 passengers arrived in Bangladesh on five flights from the United Kingdom Sat, Jan 16 2021
Visitors satisfied with hawker-free, clean zoo Fri, Jan 15 2021
Quarantine of passengers returning from the UK is now four days Thu, Jan 14 2021
Cruise ship Bay-One will go to St. Martin from Chittagong, not Cox's Bazar Tue, Jan 12 2021
Pakistan lifts visa ban; Not from Bangladesh Sat, Jan 09 2021
22 people are still returning from the UK every day Sat, Jan 09 2021
Number of passengers sent to the mandatory quarantine crosses 50 Mon, Jan 04 2021
Biman flights to Saudi Arabia to resume on January 6 Mon, Jan 04 2021
Many countries do not have good tourist destinations like Bangladesh Sun, Jan 03 2021
Recommendation to stop all flights from London Thu, Dec 31 2020


Getting executive support to boost the information security budget is no easy task. Expert Joe Granneman offers tips for getting the funds you need.
What is the best way to request an increase in the information security budget within my organization? Our executives see information security primarily as a cost center. I don't want to use scare tactics (breach figures), but capitalizing on FUD seems like the most effective strategy. Is there a better approach?
Requesting additional funds for information security initiatives can be a daunting task. The technical systems and tools that are required to defend the organization's network are often difficult to explain to executives, who often view security funding as a missed opportunity to invest in revenue-producing activities. Security professionals must learn to understand business as well as information security to bridge this communication gap.
Management often characterizes the information security team as limiting what the business can do with technology. We can all come across as overly paranoid and negative because we live in our own little cybersecurity bubble, separate from core business operations. We can sometimes leverage this paranoia and use fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) to convey message to the executive team. However, this tactic has limited usefulness; executives become callused and no longer take future threats seriously. FUD needs to be used sparingly to achieve the security culture that is necessary to survive future cybersecurity threats.
One method I use to integrate an information security budget more closely with business operations is to get involved in process engineering. Companies are always looking for more efficient methods to streamline operations. There are many times that information security can assist in streamlining these processes. I used this technique to justify implementing RFID-based dual-factor authentication, for example. Users can quickly authenticate to multiple systems, which streamlines their processes, and I have dual-factor authentication and inactivity timeouts. Projects like this demonstrate to the executive team that increased security spending can lead to increased efficiencies. The security team gains financial credibility and will likely see further investment in similar projects. Everyone wins.


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IMF board approves Ksh.255B loan, initial Ksh.33.5B to be issued in a few days
By Kepha Muiruri For Citizen Digital Published on: April 03, 2021 08:44 (EAT)
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved a 38-month program which will see Kenya receive a total of Ksh.255.1 billion ($2.34 billion) in loan support.
The approval, rubber-stamped in Washington DC on Friday is expected to anchor the country's next phase of combating the COVID-19 pandemic.
The country is expected to see its initial disbursements totaling to Ksh.33.5 billion ($307.5 million) in the next few days.
The loan program has been achieved under the Extended Credit Facility (ECF) and the Extended Fund Facility which serve to cover countries with short and medium term balance of payments problems arising from structural weaknesses.
"Kenya was hit hard at the onset by the COVID-19 pandemic. With a forceful policy response, the economy has been picking up heading into 2021 after likely posting a slight contraction of 0.1 per cent in 2020. Even with this recovery, challenges remain in the return to durable and inclusive growth, and past gains in poverty reduction have been reversed," said the IMF Executive Board.
The IMF says the program, which reached a staff level agreement earlier in February this year, charts a clear path to reduce Kenya's debt-related risks.
The new IMF program has nevertheless been achieved on strict terms which for instance saw Kenya reinstate effective tax rates on income and VAT in January, ending cushioning for its citizens amidst a stay of the COVID-19 crisis.
IMF countinues to push reforms to cut Kenya's fiscal vulnerabilities which it sees as largely centered on struggling State Corporations.
"The near-term reform agenda should also focus on urgent structural policy challenges. As financial weaknesses in some state-owned enterprises (SOEs) have emerged as a key source of fiscal risks, the ability to manage these risks should be strengthened while ensuring that any support provided to SOEs is consistent with Kenya's limited fiscal space. Fiscal structural reforms should prioritize revenue administration, spending efficiency, and fiscal transparency," the Board added.
This is Kenya's second loan program from the IMF in under one year having received Ksh.80.6 billion ($739 million) in May last year on the premise of vulnerabilities exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
While addressing a news conference on Tuesday, CBK Governor Patrick Njoroge says he expected the new facility to anchor the government's ongoing fiscal consolidation plan following interruptions from the pandemic.
"The bottom line is that the program will support our COVID-19 response and budget support. It anchors fiscal consolidation through revenue driven policies which minimize debt vulnerabilities. This is the key element of the program," he said.
By the close of June this year, Kenya is expected to leverage more external funding including a scheduled Ksh.82.5 billion loan from the World Bank's Development Policy Operations (DPO) and Ksh.123.8 billion from a Eurobond issuance.
New borrowing is nevertheless expected to raise the country's stock of debt in the near term with total public debt at June 30 tabulated at Ksh.7.7 trillion from a lower Ksh.6.7 trillion at the end of June last year.
The IMF nevertheless says Kenya's debt remains sustainable but at a high risk of debt distress with the COVID-19 shock exacerbating the country's pre-existing fiscal vulnerabilities.
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Chancellor George Osborne has said that the sluggish economy must be fixed so that people can afford to pay higher energy bills.
Speaking to ITV News' Political Editor Tom Bradby, he dismissed Labour's pledge to freeze energy prices as a "con trick" and a "gimmick".
British Gas customers have expressed their anger over the company's latest price rise.
The energy giant announced today that electricity and gas prices will rise by 10.4 per cent and 8.4 per cent respectively from November 23.
British Gas said the price rise was a "difficult decision" but necessary in the current climate.
The Prime Minister David Cameron described the rises as "disappointing" and urged people to try to save money by switching suppliers, while Labour has repeated its promise to freeze energy prices if it wins the next general election.
British Gas are "brave" for hosting an online question and answer forum on the day of their latest price hike, consumer group Which? said.
Twitter users have already been sending messages to the company, before the session has even begun.
Our Customer Services Director Bert Pijls will be taking part in a Q&A about our price rise at 1-2pm. Tweet your questions using #AskBG!
One user posted a picture of an old woman wrapped in blankets and huddled next to a heater, writing: "Do images like this help you sleep at night Bertie?".
Another said: "Hey @BritishGas how many vulnerable people do you think you will push into fuel poverty whilst continuing to make billions in profit?".
Tweeter Alan Gibbs added: "My parents 89 & 82 want to know more about the early signs of hypothermia, especially with the winter coming on."
Prime Minister David Cameron has described British Gas price rises as "disappointing" and urged people to try to save money by switching suppliers.
The latest British Gas price shows why a price freeze is needed more than ever, Labour said.
British Gas earlier announced that electricity and gas prices will rise by an average of 9.2 per cent from November 23.
Caroline Flint, Labour's Shadow Energy and Climate Change Secretary, said: "These latest price rises show clearer than ever why Labour's price freeze is needed.
"People are sick and tired of being left out of pocket because of David Cameron's failure to stand up to the energy companies."
Labour promised to freeze energy prices until 2017 if it won the next general election, at their annual conference in September.
Energy Secretary Edward Davey said British Gas' numbers "just don't add up" after the firm raised its electricity and gas prices.
Mr Davey said the increases are "extremely disappointing news for British Gas' customers, and the company will need to justify this decision openly and transparently."
He continued: "I recently wrote to energy companies asking them to publish their costs of delivering the Energy Company Obligation.
British Gas have said raising energy prices was a "difficult decision" but necessary due to the increasing cost of buying energy in global markets.
The energy giant said they recognised energy bill were a "real worry for hard-pressed households".
Today's announcement, which will add about £2 a week to the average dual fuel bill, reflects the increasing cost of: buying energy in global markets, delivering gas and electricity to the home, and the Government's social and environmental programmes, which are paid for through customers' bills.


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Of Granny and Marriage Mantra
Deepika December 3, 2021
My grandmother died at the age of 94 or 95. Nobody can really say what was her exact age when she passed away in 2004 because her birth was never officially recorded. And I have no solid information regarding her education qualification too. But she ruled everybody's heart till she breathed her last. She was the star attraction of all our summer holidays as we always looked forward to visiting my mom's ancestral place.
Her pickles were something to die for. The more one ate, the more one longed for it. Like most Indian grannies, she always carried a basket of stories with her. On hot summer nights, we all slept under the starlit sky and she mesmerized us with her stories. In between stories, she would break into a song and her magical voice would be like manna from heaven. She lived in a joint family with her sons, daughters-in-law and grandchildren. My summer holidays with her were one of the exciting points of my growing up years.
She mesmerized us with her stories
But then as the years passed by, my frequent visits to my granny's house became infrequent. And then followed hostel life, limited days of holidays and pressures of studies, jobs and all that. My childhood years stayed with me like a beautiful memory. From Delhi, granny's house really looked quite far.
It was not possible for her to attend my marriage as she couldn't travel much at that time. But I wanted my husband to meet her (my husband right from the beginning was over-enthusiastic to meet my clan, extended clan and further extended clan. I am very different on this front) and he jumped at the idea.
So on a slightly cold November morning of 1998, we went to meet my grandmother. She was a little shy as my husband touched her feet as a mark of respect. Then with a cup of tea in my hand, I sat down to have a chat with granny. The first question she asked me "Where's he from?" I told her "Kerala." Then she asked me how many days it would take me if I take a train from Odisha (then Orissa) to Kerala. When she heard that it would be almost two days, she gave me one of those 'where have you landed, my kid' look and told, "Couldn't you find somebody from Calcutta (Well, for Granny it was always Calcutta never Kolkata)?" I broke into laughter and was happy that granny had not lost her sense of humour.
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But she just could not believe when she came to know that my husband is a vegan. Forget about fish or chicken, he doesn't touch any milk products. That was too much for granny to digest. So as expected, she came up with a googly, "First you marry somebody from a far land. Then he doesn't even eat fish or chicken What kind of a son-in-law is he?" But I just couldn't control my laughter when she took me to one corner of the room and came up with this sixer in Chris Gayle style, "But tell me is he a kanjoos (miser) who wants to save money by not spending on chicken/fish/milk?"
First you marry somebody from a far land
Notwithstanding my husband's aversion for animal products, she took an instant liking for him and every time he went to the backyard of the house to have a view of the river, she sent somebody to keep an eye on his safety. Even as she supervised my husband's special vegan lunches and dinners, she told me, "Don't force him to change his eating habits. That's his way of life. And you also don't change your eating habits and continue to enjoy all the fish and mutton curry you have grown up eating." And then she added, "Problems in a marriage starts when you expect the partner to change for you and when you change your own self for your partner without wanting to do so. Have your own sense of pleasure and enjoy life's pleasures as you want. Let him do so also."
That was my important lesson in giving space in relationships and retaining your individuality. I have always followed her golden words of wisdom so far as my husband's vegan diets are concerned. After 18 years of my married life with a vegan, I still love my share of gosht biryani and at the same time, I enjoy cooking rajma chawal for my hubby on Sundays. And now 12 years after her death, sometimes I think, granny could have been a good marriage counsellor and probably earned a lot of money too.
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Marriage Mantras
Love and a cup of tea laced with love define Deepika\'s world. Like love, a cup of tea slows her down. And also makes her look forward with hope and joy. She always says yes to love and tea.


Home » German Biedermeier costumes 1850s.
Source: Les nations. Album des Costumes De Tous les Pays. Par Alexandre Lacauchie.
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Q: If all of the world's population stood 6 feet apart, what's the smallest country they would fit in to? My colleague asked the following question as part of our daily brain teaser but we have differing answers. So any help would be great for finding the "correct" answer.
If all of the world's population of 7.78bn people followed social distancing rules and stood 6 feet apart, what's the smallest country in the world they would fit in to?

A: While the problem itself is very simple, one can be easily trapped in an argument between equilateral triangles and regular hexagons; but that is an illusion:

Both of these tessellate the 2D plane, with the same density of people (red dots).
The key is to calculate the area needed per person correctly.
On one hand, we can say that each person stands at a grid point of a regular equilateral triangle grid, with grid spacing (and equilateral triangle edge length) the same as the interperson distance $d = 6\text{ ft} = 1.8288\text{m }$.
Each person is at the vertex shared by six triangles, but there are just three vertices per triangle; so, the density of people is three times one sixth of a person per triangle, or half a person per triangle.  In other words, each person uses up the area of two triangles:
$$A_\Delta = 2 \frac{\sqrt{3}}{4} d^2 = \frac{\sqrt{3}}{2} d^2 \approx 2.8964\text{ m}^2$$
or about $31.177\text{ sq ft}$.
On the other hand, we can say that each person stands inside a regular hexagon with edge length $a$.  Consider the yellow right angle part in the above diagram: the horizontal part is $d/2$, vertical part is $a/2$, and the angle at the person (red dot) is $30°$; with $d = 6\text{ ft} = 1.8288\text{m }$ the interperson distance.  In other words,
$$\frac{a / 2}{d / 2} = \tan 30° \quad \iff \quad a = \frac{d}{\sqrt{3}}$$
and the area each person occupies is
$$A_⬡ = \frac{3\sqrt{3}}{2} a^2 = \frac{3\sqrt{3}}{2}\left(\frac{d}{\sqrt{3}}\right)^2 = \frac{\sqrt{3}}{2} d^2 \approx 2.8964\text{ m}^2$$
or about $31.177\text{ sq ft}$.
So, saying that people stand at grid points of a regular equilateral triangular grid, or that people occupy hexagonal cells or tiles, is essentially just two different ways to say the same thing; either way, each person will occupy an area of
$$A_{1} \approx 2.8964\text{ m}^2 \approx 31.177\text{ sq ft}$$
when tessellating the 2D plane (packing them on a flat plane).
This means that the area needed for roughly $7\,780\,000\,000$ people is approximately
$$A_\text{total} \approx 22\,534\text{ km}^2 \approx 8\,701\text{ sq mi}$$
As to which country is the smallest but has at least $22\,534\text{ km}^2$ surface people could stand on – including actual area along hillsides, whether to consider only land area or include inland lakes that freeze hard enough during winters to stand on – is not really a geometry question, but a geographical or perhaps political question; we humans tend to disagree even which areas are their own countries, or just parts of other countries.. so I won't be making any statements or claims on that, I'm here just for the math and geometry part, and to show how to estimate the surface area needed.
If one of your friends calculates the area needed based on circles with radius $r = d/2$, i.e. half the interpersonal distance, they'll arrive an answer of $20\,436\text{ km}^2$ or $7\,890\text{ sq mi}$.  The problem with that is that a circle does not tessellate a plane; there is always a small area left uncovered between three circles touching each other, that is not included in that area but is needed for the circles to not overlap.  If you were to calculate or estimate the area of those uncovered parts, you'd arrive at the difference, or about $2\,098\text{ km}^2$ or $811\text{ sq mi}$.


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Q: I finished the game and after the credits it took me back to before I finished the game. I just got done beating the elite four and fight the guardian in pokemon sun and after the credits scene. It took me back to the elite four before I beat them. So, I guess what I'm trying to say is why did it do that? and how do I prevent that from happening again?

A: I just went ahead and finish the game again and this time it did not take me back to the elite four. I don't know why it did that the first time but it's good now.


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Buildings Get Bike Friendly
The New York Times // May 06, 2016
One recent morning Erik Harrison, a vice president of the Patrinely Group, stopped by 535W43, a rental complex nearing completion that his company is developing with the USAA Real Estate Company between 10th and 11th Avenues in Manhattan. But it wasn't the 280 units in the two 14-story brick towers designed by CetraRuddy that were on his mind.
It was the bike rooms, one in each of the towers, located not in a shadowy basement but right on the ground level, with big windows letting in abundant light.
"We're going to have a table where people can fix their bikes, and maybe we'll hold workshops," Mr. Harrison said, surveying the south tower's 850-square-foot bike space as cyclists seen through the windows zipped by toward the Hudson River Greenway. "We'll fit as many bike racks as we can."
Driven by demand as well as a city mandate, developers and building owners are carving out bike rooms for residents to store what for some has become their transportation mode of choice.
The state-of-the-art spaces often have their own entrances, saving wear-and-tear on the lobby and passenger elevators. They also offer their own gear by way of pumps and repair stands, and, sometimes, homey touches like hooks for hanging helmets. In the fancier buildings, porters and door attendants act as bike valets.
"People come to an open house and ask, 'Do you have a gym, a roof deck, a doorman?,' " said David Maundrell III, the executive vice president for Brooklyn and Queens new development of Citi Habitats. "Now they also ask, 'Do you have a bike room?' "
Ridership has been growing steadily, according to the New York City Department of Transportation. A 2014 survey by the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene indicated that in vast swaths of Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens, up to 20 percent of the population cycled several times a month. While the Citi Bike program can lay claim to some of the increase in cycling, people who own their own wheels still make up the majority of riders, according to Paul Steely White, the executive director of Transportation Alternatives, an advocacy group.
Of course, riders can store their bikes in their apartments, if there's room. But "now when you're spending a million dollars for a one-bedroom," said Roberta Axelrod, the director of residential sales and marketing at Time Equities, "no one wants a bike in there" propped against the wall.
Residents of older buildings have been clamoring for the conversion of formerly empty or underutilized "back-of-house" space into storage for bikes.
"If you have a building with two- and three-bedroom apartments, 100 units doesn't mean 100 bikes," said Matthew Baron, the president of Simon Baron Development. "It could be 300 or 400." Consequently, there are waiting lists for many of the city's bike rooms.
As for new buildings, a zoning amendment passed in 2009 requires the provision of one bike space for every two units in structures of 10 apartments or more. The law also applies to substantially enlarged buildings and to those being converted to residential use.
"It used to be you'd build a building and then say, where should we put the bikes?" Ms. Axelrod said. "Now it's included in the program from the beginning."
In Downtown Brooklyn, 388 Bridge, a new 378-unit rental/condo building, created 190 bike spaces in three separate rooms in the basement, one space above its mandated quota.
Many buildings near parks or bike lanes, or ones geared to a demographic group that favors cycling, exceed the minimum number of spots. Forty2East, a new 53-unit condo building in East Williamsburg, has 36 bike spots, nine more than its quota.
In some cases, bike rooms are muscling out other types of storage. The Richard Meier-designed condominium One Grand Army Plaza, in Brooklyn's Prospect Heights neighborhood, originally was going to have 75 bike slots, but even before the building opened in 2008, that number was deemed inadequate — especially considering the location, opposite Prospect Park, and the number of family-size apartments it contained. After space from the garage was folded into the bike room, it accommodated 90 bikes, and, more recently, with the addition of double-decker racks and wall hooks, it now has 117 spots.
These days, however, it seems the mere provision of space isn't enough.
Bike rooms in buildings coming to market now are being tricked out with compression air pumps, of the sort found in bike shops and gas stations, and work stands to which one can clamp a bike while oiling a chain or fixing a flat. Tools are often on hand, and sometimes there's a hose for washing bikes down after a muddy ride.
At 252 East 57th Street, a condominium under construction near Second Avenue, one of the door attendants stationed at the porte-cochere will be able to whisk away a bike after a ride and have it readied for the next outing.
At the Residences at Prince, a condominium project in an 1826 landmark-designated building in NoLIta that previously housed a Catholic school, the bike room will have hooks where residents can hang their helmets between rides.
Many buildings are providing the bicycles themselves, acquiring their own fleets — emblazoned with the buildings' names — for residents' use.
Circa Central Park, a condominium taking shape at West 110th Street and Central Park West, will have four branded single-speed recreational bikes by Priority Bicycles, according to Shlomi Reuveni, a managing director of Town New Development, which is handling sales and marketing.
At 50 West, a condominium under development in Lower Manhattan, residents will be able to take the building's four Porsche bikes, which cost $3,700 each, out for a spin.
At least one building is even giving bicycles away. Nine52, a luxury condo soon to open on West 52nd Street in Hell's Kitchen, will have 20 black single-speed Joulvert bikes, according to Maria Theresa Ienna of Park River Properties, the director of sales. It is also offering a bike, valued at around $450, as a closing gift to the first 25 buyers.
"Customers come in and listen to the sales presentation and say, 'That's a beautiful bike,'" Ms. Ienna said. "We say, 'If you buy an apartment, the bike is yours.' " The least expensive unit in the building (already in contract) is a studio for $597,000.
There is usually a price for parking in a bike room, according to owners and developers. The charges, which can come in the form of a monthly or annual fee, vary widely, from a token $10 per year to $10 to $100 per month.
"It's a decent revenue stream," said Marc Kotler, a senior vice president for the new development group of FirstService Residential. "It can be $10,000 or $20,000 a year in income" for a building.
For some New Yorkers, even a bike room won't do. The finicky can stow their top-of-the-line bikes in the private storage lockers that some buildings have, safe from jostling and scratching.
Or come up with other solutions. Susi Wunsch, the founder of Velojoy, a cycling lifestyle website, keeps her everyday bike, an all-black aluminum Kona Dew with disc brakes, in the bike room of her Greenwich Village building, though she isn't a fan of wrestling it on and off overhead hooks.
She balances her Serotta Ottrott road bike — which she called her "pride and joy" — atop a bookcase in her home office. With a frame that's clear carbon and titanium, it weighs only 16 pounds.
Meanwhile, her midnight blue Pashley Britannia, with its big wicker basket strapped to the handlebars, is parked in the dining room, where "its beauty merits 'sculpture' status," she said.
It helps, she added, that she has "a very understanding husband."
Original Article: The New York Times


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Wedbush cuts Carter's to Hold on valuation concerns
Wedbush Downgrades Carter's to Neutral, Announces $78 Price Target
Benzinga · 3d ago
Wedbush Downgrades Carter's to Neutral From Outperform, Sees Near-Term Risks to Fundamentals; Keeps $78 Price Target
MT Newswires · 3d ago
Carter's Still Offers Upside, But A Watchful Eye Is Advised
Carter's, Inc.'s (NYSE:CRI) Intrinsic Value Is Potentially 99% Above Its Share Price
Today we'll do a simple run through of a valuation method used to estimate the attractiveness of Carter's, Inc...
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Carter's: Dividend Insights
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About CRI
Carter's, Inc. is a marketer of apparel exclusively for babies and young children. The Company offers its products across various brand, including Carter's, OshKosh B'gosh (OshKosh), Child of Mine, Just One You, Simple Joys and little planet. Its business segments include U.S. Retail, U.S. Wholesale, and International. The Company's brands are available in department stores, national chains, and specialty retailers domestically and internationally. The Company offers its products through over 970 Company-operated stores in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, and via its online sites www.carters.com, www.oshkosh.com, www.cartersoshkosh.ca and www.carters.com.mx. The Company's Child of Mine brand is available at Walmart, its Just One You brand is available at Target, and its Simple Joys brand is available on Amazon. The Company also owns Skip Hop, a global lifestyle brand for families with young children. It offers baby apparel, sleepwear and gift bundles under little planet brand.
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import android.database.DatabaseUtils;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

/**
 * Created by Gusterwoei on 8/11/16.
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public class Criteria {
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        items.add(column + " = " + getValue(value));
        return this;
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        items.add(column + " NOT BETWEEN " + getValue(lowerValue) + " AND " + getValue(upperValue));
        return this;
    }

    String build() {
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            String criteria = items.get(i);
            sb.append("(").append(criteria).append(")");

            if(i < (items.size() - 1)) {
                sb.append(" AND ");
            }
        }

        return sb.toString();
    }

    private String getValue(Object value) {
        if(value != null) {
            return DatabaseUtils.sqlEscapeString(String.valueOf(value));
        }
        return null;
    }
}

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