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Gaza's Entrepreneurs Can Have a Global Impact with a Little Push
By gazaskygeeksAugust 10, 2014November 9th, 2020Uncategorized
This piece was written by contributing writer Glen Dalakian II during the seven-week conflict last summer. Glen had just returned from his first trip to Gaza for our fourth Startup Weekend.
I've spent the past two years writing and editing for Wamda, an ecosystem accelerator and the top online tech publication covering startups in the Arab world. During that time, I've had the privilege to travel across the Middle East to interview startups, attend entrepreneurship events and report on regional market trends. While each local ecosystem has its own opportunities and unique set of challenges, nothing prepared me for my first trip to Gaza.
This past June, just prior to the current conflict, I visited the Strip for the first time to participate as a mentor at Startup Weekend Gaza.
Gazans are hungry to join the global startup movement
The trip opened my eyes to the striking realities that Gazans wrestle with daily. Nearly no Gazan entrepreneur has a stable source of electricity. During times of intense regional conflict, like the one this summer, none of them have access to a safe place. Despite closed borders and restricted movement the Gazan spirit remains indomitable.
Glen and other international mentors visiting Gaza after Startup Weekend, June 2014. Photo by Asim Janjua.
But what truly left an unforgettable impression on me was the vibrant, young population hungry to create and scale startup ideas. Prior to this trip, I had read a few short articles about small projects popping up in the Strip, but I was not expecting the wave of enthusiasm and entrepreneurial spirit so evident in Gaza. Entrepreneurs in Gaza are some of the most positive, welcoming and energetic innovators I have ever met.
There is also an incredible amount of developer talent in Gaza despite obvious barriers and challenges. At each event I attended, people approached me with laptops and tablets to demonstrate their animations and marketing videos. All were rightfully proud of the products they had created, ones that easily rival the creations of the greater ecosystem.
Greater access is needed
Young creatives like these are eager to reach new markets and scale their companies. For many of the entrepreneurs I met, the first question for mentors was, "How do we reach other markets?" They have great ideas and technical know-how, but they lack experience validating or testing their products in other, larger markets.
International mentors posing with a local mentor at Startup Weekend Gaza, June 2014. Photo by Magic Lens.
It's a challenge that is yet unresolved. As mentors, we sometimes had trouble identifying the best ways for them to build a trusted network in other countries; most Gazans cannot get permission to travel to meet with possible partners, investors or staff to expand operations. Even with great internet connectivity, strong business relationships in this world rarely develop fully without face-to-face meetings.
Gaza's local market (about 2 million people with a 50% unemployment rate) can consume some products and services, but it cannot offer the scalability needed to grow a larger business.
Mercy Corps's Gaza Sky Geeks, the only startup accelerator in Gaza, has previously received permission to take Gazan entrepreneurs out of Gaza for startup events. Supporting such efforts should be a top priority for anyone working in this space. Ecosystem organizations and other supporters can have the most impact by creating ways for Gazan entrepreneurs to interact with and access larger markets.
Building skills for a global impact
One of the most memorable moments from my time in Gaza was when one young, shy entrepreneur asked a group of mentors, "Do you want to see my animations?" Egging her on, we gathered around her computer as she began to play a video recording of her crafting a cartoon version of herself using several programs on her computer.
It was a simple design exercise, but the room remained silent for a full 5 minutes, transfixed by her design skills and the illustration of how she views herself. The work was beautifully done, but more striking was the pride in her eyes after showing the video. It was visible evidence of the power of design, software development, and startup creation as not just a way to make money, but much more importantly, as a tool of positive empowerment. There are few accessible routes for Gazans to take if they want to contribute meaningfully to the world in a large way. Tech entrepreneurship gives them the chance to do that in the midst of overwhelming challenges and limitations.
It also gives women in particular a chance to create their own employment and play a leadership role in the business sector, contributing their skills while growing their own self-confidence. Through such work, a veritable startup sisterhood has been born in Gaza.
Glen and other international mentors at Gaza Sky Geeks with women startup founders, June 2014.
Get involved in Gaza's startup future: entrepreneurs there need you
During the current conflict, several Gazan entrepreneurs have turned their skills towards establishing non-profit projects to benefit those in need around them. Due to this incredible positive energy and talent in Gaza, it has the potential to become a small but vibrant tech hub despite the very challenging environment.
When the current conflict winds down, outside resources and access will be needed more than ever before. It will be critical for local entrepreneurs to be able to find the resources they need. This will include finding good mentors, securing resources and building relationships with other ecosystems, from the West Bank to Jordan, Egypt, the greater Middle East and North Africa region, and across the globe. If you're an entrepreneur, investor, or software engineer, or if you have other skills you'd like to share, let them know.
The tipping point for Gaza's entrepreneurs will occur once many local entrepreneurs have had the chance to experience the tech sectors in other countries and build the deep relationships needed to do their work well. I am hopeful that will be possible soon.
For a full recap of my trip to Gaza, see this piece.
by contributing writer
Glen Dalakian II
Director of HIVE accelerator, former features editor at Wamda
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EVERYTHING BUT MUSIC CATHERINE BRENNAN, Angers, Fantasies and Ghostly Fears: Nineteenth-Century Women from Wales and English Language Poetry (University of Wales Press) £14.99
This is a study of seven nineteenth-century poets, all female and connected with Wales. The connection varies. Three, Jane Cave, Maria James and Emily Pfeiffer, were born there, though Cave and Pfeiffer became emigrées to England on marriage and James emigrated to the USA as a child. Felicia Hemans, born in Liverpool, was brought up in Wales. Sarah Williams was a Londoner who was sentimentally attached to her father's birthplace and sometimes visited it, while Ann Julia Hatton and Anna Walter Thomas adopted Wales as their home. Hatton was exiled there by her embarrassed relatives, but Thomas married a Welsh divine and assimilated even to learning Welsh.
Socially they ranged from Maria James, domestic servant, through Hatton, a racy scion of the Kemble theatrical dynasty, to Anna Thomas, brought up amongst Oxbridge scholars and respected as one herself. Their experiences were very different, encompassing happy and unhappy marriage, privilege and poverty and, in the case of Williams, chronic illness and early death. Most were devout, but Pfeiffer is more secular in her concerns and Hatton refreshingly frivolous.
Only two things unite them all. First, they were interesting women with ideas and plenty to say. Second, they were unfortunately singularly ill-equipped to say it in verse. Brennan takes issue with Roland Mathias's `sweepingly negative' view of Jane Cave's work, and then proceeds to justify him by quoting it. How can anyone be positive about a poet who, mourning the loss of a friend, can find no ...

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Q: how to display default value in the vf page using apex;inputfield? Is it possible to display the default value of the pick list in object in visual Force page using apex:inputfield ?

A: In order to do that you need to make describe call and populate the selected value with it.
Lets assume you are holding value of selected country in selectedCountry varible then you need to call below method from constructor in order to show default picklist value for country picklist.
Code snippet:
public void selectDeafultCountry()
{
  List<SelectOption> options = new List<SelectOption>();

   Schema.DescribeFieldResult fieldResult =
        OfficeLocation__c.Country__c.getDescribe();
   List<Schema.PicklistEntry> ple = fieldResult.getPicklistValues();

   for( Schema.PicklistEntry f : ple)
   {
      if(f.isDefaultValue()){
        selectedCountry = f.getValue();break;
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   }
   return options;
}

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https://developer.salesforce.com/blogs/developer-relations/2008/12/using-the-metadata-api-to-retrieve-picklist-values.html
https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.apexcode.meta/apexcode/apex_class_Schema_PicklistEntry.htm

A: To display default value, assign the default value from controller method.
Picklist__c = "default value";

A: You need to get the default value from the constructor of controller:
In Controller:
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m_objOrderObj = [Select Shipping_Method__c from Order__c where Shipping_Method__c = :m_objShipMethod.Id limit 1];

In the VF page:
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Want to Incorporate the New Music Standards in Your Classroom?
The new Music Standards provide educators with a framework for delivering the long-established benefits of music education in both new and traditional ways. They are by design open to a variety of approaches, in a way that is distinct from the potent mix of Common Core State Standards and standardized testing, which has been widely criticized for narrowing student-learning opportunities.
However, music educators wrote the new National 2014 Music Standards for music educators as part of a broad effort with our colleagues in the other arts and they have a student-centered focus that focuses on each educator's teaching style and unique contributions.
Whether or not you were one of the hundreds of music teachers who reviewed the new National Standards for Music Education over the past two years, you can use the Standards in your classroom.
The goal of the new Standards is not to impose restrictive rules governing what to do or how to teach, but to provide voluntary, flexible processes and strategies that can be welcomed, implemented, and assessed in every American school district.
Mike Blakeslee, NAfME Deputy Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer, says that the new 2014 Music Standards:
Seek to instill music literacy, emphasizing conceptual understanding, which is a departure from the previous emphasis on knowledge and skills.
Reflect the actual processes in which musicians engage. The Standards cultivate a student's ability to carry out the Three Artistic Processes of Creating, Performing and Responding, along with connecting their musical learning to their lives and their communities. Each process is broken down into steps, or "components," in a way that is true to music education today. The new standards provide teachers with frameworks that closely match the unique goals of their specialized classes. The standards are presented in a grade-by-grade sequence from pre-K through grade 8, and discrete strands address high-school music classes, such as Ensembles, and Music Composition/Theory, Technology, and the growing field of Harmonizing Instruments.
Mike also notes, "Some teaching methods will not change, If you want teach your students how to play a chord on the guitar, you will do it the same way," adding,
"The Standards give a new way to focus on the big ideas of music."
– Mike Blakeslee
The following NAfME resources aim to demonstrate how to implement those big ideas.
Standards, Assessment, & Evaluation PreConference
On October 25th and 26th, NAfME will present the "Standards, Assessment, & Evaluation" Preconference at its 2014 National In-Service Conference at the Gaylord Opryland and Resort in Nashville Tennessee.
The Preconference will explore the ways the new standards differ from the 1994 standards, the ways that they serve music education in the era of Common Core State Standards, and the implications of the standards for student assessment and teacher evaluation. Further, the Preconference will help teachers and administrators come to grips with the complexities of linking current curricular focus on Knowledge and Skills to the
Sessions will look at the development of the Standards as well as the practical roll-out of Standards tools and the political context of the tools.
2014 National In-Service Conference
Gaylord, Opryland, Nashville TN – October 26-29, 2014
Attend the most outstanding professional development event of the year! This conference will provide you with numerous professional development opportunities through workshops and discussion with other music educators from around the country. Many of the sessions will help you expand your teaching techniques, offer new ideas and knowledge to better educate the students at your school, and provide information on how to incorporate the new National Standards for Music Education into the lessons you teach. You may be eligible to earn up to 14 hours of continuing education. Graduate credit is also available!
Standards Session Topics Include:
"Applying the National Core Music Standards in Your…."
PreK-5 General Music Classroom
Harmonizing Instruments Classroom
Ensemble Classroom
Composition, Technology or Theory Classroom
6-8 General Music Classroom
National Music Standards Writers will be available to answer questions about the new Standards on Tuesday, October 28 during the conference at the National Music Standards Gateway to Success Learning Lounge sponsored by Solutions Music Group. Visit "NAfME Central" between 11 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. to interact with the largest number of experts!
Read more about the structure of the National Music Standards at nafme.org/my-classroom/standards/. Other resources include:
"Opportunity to Learn" Standards that can help you understand the structures that need to be in place to support student success in the standards
Lesson plan database ("My Music Class")
Additional support materials/processes for purchase, including: The Solutions Music Group, powered by NAfME, with consultants ready to help school districts calibrate the standards to their situations. [add link]
The NAfME Workbooks for teacher evaluation, which draw on the Model Cornerstone Assessments to help inform the student achievement part of the teacher evaluation equation
An overview of the broader National Core Arts Standards, prepared by the National Coalition for Core Arts Standards, is online at nationalartsstandards.org/
Kristen Rencher, Social Media and Online Community Engagement Coordinator. © National Association for Music Education (NAfME.org)


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El Palacio de los Leones es la sede del gobierno del estado brasileño de Maranhão. Se encuentra ubicado en la histórica ciudad de São Luís (San Luis) en el área designada Patrimonio de la Humanidad por la Unesco. Con una historia que comienza en el siglo XVII, el Palacio es uno de los mayores símbolos de la cultura del estado de Maranhão.

Su privilegiada ubicación, en la parte superior del promontorio donde nació la ciudad de San Luis, combinado a con su trayectoria histórica, su arquitectura y su patrimonio artístico, hacen del Palacio un conjunto de fundamental importancia para comprender la formación de la identidad cultural del pueblo de Maranhão.

Historia

Su origen se remonta al 8 de septiembre de 1612, cuando los franceses, dirigidos por Daniel de La Touche, Señor de La Ravardière, bajo la protección de la Reina regente de Francia, María de Médicis, que se establece entre los estuarios de los ríos Bacanga y Anil, en la isla de Upaon-Acu, la colonia que bautizan Francia Equinoccial. Inician la construcción de una fortaleza, al que dieron el nombre de San Luis, en honor del rey Luis IX de Francia.

Después de la expulsión de los franceses en 1615, el fuerte de San Luis es rebautizado de San Felipe por los portugueses. Dentro del recinto de la fortaleza, el capitán general Jerónimo de Albuquerque inicia la construcción de la residencia de los Gobernadores, construido con la técnica de tierra apisonada de la mano de obra indígena. El nuevo edificio, así como el pueblo portugués, fue diseñado por el ingeniero militar Francisco Frías de Mesquita.

En 1624, el nuevo Gobernador General de Maranhao, Francisco de Albuquerque Coelho de Carvalho, ordenó la reconstrucción del Fuerte de San Felipe, en piedra y cal. Al mismo tiempo, también exigió la reconstrucción de la residencia de los Gobernadores. El edificio original fue para la vivienda como para despacho administrativo para el año 1762.

En 1766, el gobernador Joaquín de Mello y Póvoas ordenó la demolición del antiguo Palacio de Gobierno, mandó construir un nuevo edificio de piedra y cal, para adaptarse mejor a la familia de los capitanes generales en sucederle.  El palacio construido por orden de Mello y Póvoas era sobrio, con una proyección aleros y el techo hacia abajo. La entrada fue realizada por el lado del edificio, solo en la reforma emprendida de 1857 es que este se ha desplazado al centro de la fachada principal.

Durante todo el período del imperio el Palacio de Gobierno ha sufrido varias reformas. Entre estas mejoras, la más significativas fueron: alumbrado a gas y alargamiento del pasillo probado en el edificio en piedra tallada de Portugal en 1863 y la adquisición de muebles y otros objetos en el año 1872.

En la época republicana, el antiguo edificio de la Casa de Gobierno sufrió su primera gran actualización en 1896, durante el gobierno de Manuel Ignacio Belfort Vieira. La segunda reforma se llevaría a cabo en 1906 por Benedito Leite, responsable de construir el ala amplia en la parte posterior del palacio, la residencia del gobernador y la compra de algunos muebles y objetos decorativos que habían venido de Europa.

En 1911, cuando Luis Domínguez asume el gobierno de Maranhao, se encuentra pocos muebles en el palacio, muchos cuartos tienen necesidad de reparación, la fachada de estilo colonial, todavía está, a pesar de estar alterada. En la fachada tenía un escudo heráldico con los leones pintado en azulejos, que más tarde sirvió como tema para el periódico "La Lucha" en su campaña de la oposición al gobierno de Magalhaes de Almeida (1926 - 1929), lo que hizo, de manera irónica, la comparación entre el gobernador y su gabinete con la los leones. A pesar de la clara intención de crítica feroz, el nombre se quedó, y el pueblo y los gobiernos sucesivos con el tiempo adoptaron el nombre para siempre de Palacio de los Leones para el Palacio de Gobierno.

En las década de 1990 al 2000 el palacio sufrió una completa restauración de las fachadas del interior y el exterior.

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Véase también
 Centro histórico de São Luís

Enlaces externos

Bienes individuales inscritos Patrimonio de la Humanidad en Brasil
Palacios de Gobierno de Brasil
São Luís (Maranhão)
Arquitectura de Brasil del siglo XVIII

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Growing up in the underbelly of Seattle,Ruiner has never truly known peace in his life, his father had left his mother not long before he was born. His mother died of disease when he was only 17, leaving him to fend for himself in the slums, scrounging and scaveging for food whenever possible. This lifestyle would be short lived, as at the age of 19, Ruiner would find himself drawn to the underground fighting rings of Seattle. There he very quickly made a name and small fortune for himself fighting in several tournaments and rings, being able to take on and overcome opponents older and more experienced than him with relative ease. This was the closest thing Ruiner had to making an honest living for himself with his talents. However, Ruiners career would abruptly be cut short at the age of 22, where he awakened the full extent of his adept powers after being angered by his opponent in the ring - killing him instantly. Manslaughter in underground fighting pits was not unheard of but the man he killed was on the payroll of some very influential gangers, word very quickly got out about his unique powers, forcing him to retire from boxing as a profession.
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Recent events put Ruiner at odds with a ganger mind mage, after a brutal struggle leaving both parties wounded, Ruiner suffered extreme mental trauma, resulting in him suffering from Amnesia. He currently calls himself "Rune", with a different personality and outlook on life.
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Latest > Margot Robbie to play Jan Stephenson in major golf movie
Margot Robbie to play Jan Stephenson in major golf movie
About time!!!
It's been quite a week for original Swingin Siren Jan Stephenson. First, it was announced that she is finally going to be inducted into Golf's Hall Of Fame, And now it emerges she is to be immortalised in a movie about her life. Played by none other than fellow Australian Margo Robbie.
Stephenson told Golf Australia that she has discussed the possibility of a movie with Robbie, who received an Oscar nomination for her role as figure skater Tonya Harding.
"We've talked about doing a movie," said Stephenson. "Margot Robbie wants to play me."
It's no wonder Robbie wants a piece of the action. Stephenson won 16 LPGA titles and three majors in the 1970s and 80s. What's more, she almost single-handedly put women's golf on the world sports map with the defiant and proud projection of her sexuality.
Her Sports Magazine cover shoot in 1977 caused the kind of contrversy that puts Michelle Wie and Lexi Thompson's current battles with the LPGA over the length of their shorts into the shade.
Oh yes, that shoot. Titled the 'Sex In Sports' edition, this opportunity came at a perfect time for Stephenson and the LPGA. The Tour Commissioner at the time Ray Volpe had engaged Stephenson to be the face of a new-look tour, a role Stephenson was more than willing to play, and the Sport Magazine cover was going to be the first step towards realizing that plan.
Infamously, halfway through the day, Stephenson was due to make a wardrobe change so she took off her shirt and unclipped her bra, and as she looked for a new outfit, put a thin, pink linen shirt over her and tied it at the waist.
The photographer suggested he take some pics of the impromptu outfit and – slightly caught off guard – Stephenson – complied. If the internet had been invented back then, this would have broken it. Even Stephenson herself had misgivings: "When they told me they'd be using the picture of me in a pink shirt, I was confused. I was like, 'What picture of me in the pink shirt?'" Stephenson said. "Then I remembered and thought, 'Oh, no.' "
She even wrote a letter asking editor Berry Sainback to use a different picture. It didn't work. The magazine was at the printers.
As Stephenson bit her fingernails and pondered the shit storm heading her way, the magazine was being distributed around the globe. The LPGA would never be the same again. Within weeks of the magazine's publication, Jan Stephenson had become one of the most famous female athletes in the world. Suddenly women's golf had a superstar and queues formed around the block at their events.
Up to this point, the LPGA (formed in 1950) had been nothing more than a glorified money match. Prize money was poor — in 1976, the year before the Sport magazine cover, the winner of the U.S. Women's Open took home just $9,054 compared to $42,000 for the male winner.
Journalists and spectators alike ignored the game as the cash the players competed for was primarily each others.
Stephenson fought the notion that she had become more sex symbol than elite athlete – and provided the results on the course to back it up. After turning down offers to pose for Playboy and Hustler, Stephenson captured three wins, including her first major, in 1981.
The prize money soon followed. LPGA Tour players went from competing in 21 events for a combined $435,040 in 1970 to 38 events for more than $5 million 1980. By 1989, that number had risen to more than $14 million.
"It was such a crazy time in my life," says Jan. "Everywhere I went people recognized me. I was flying all over the world every week. I'm sure I would have won more had I only focused on myself. But I was trying to do what was best for the tour, and I probably made more money doing it the way I did."
Another major at the 1983 U.S. Women's Open, six other regular tour wins and yet another risque photo shoot — this time of her nude in a bathtub filled with golf balls — secured her status as an infamous sex symbol who doubled as one of the best golfers of her era. Perhaps more significant, though, is the example she set for future generations.
"These are beautiful, powerful, personable women who are living the dream," Stephenson says of today's players. "You should be proud of the way you look. It's fantastic. They should do it more."
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It's The Brain Stupid
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A Kingdom Without A King
A 250 YEAR OLD CALL TO REASON
More Brilliant Insights from Little Liberal Darling Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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The Star of America's political leftist sit-com, Ocasio-Cortez has made new headlines today with another proclamation seemingly plucked from a well-spring of truth that only she can access. Otherwise known as outright lunacy. Here's the twenty-nine year old representative's comments on her "Profound" millennial generation:
"I think this new generation is very profound, and very strong, and very brave, because they're actually willing to go to the streets," she said. "Previous generations have just assumed that government's got it."
Apparently the politically -turbulent 1960's in which students were gunned down by police on campuses, in which young protesters were hosed down and tear gassed, in which the baby-boomers flung chants at Lyndon Johnson "Hey Hey LBJ how many kids did you kill today?" or the cigarettes thrown at soldiers returning from Vietnam, or the Kent State massacre, the burning of draft cards, the race riots of Chicago, the sheer decade worth of brave young men and women who marched in the streets, who railed against the walls of Washington–and who, are the heirs to Hunter S. Thompson's beautiful passage:
"Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Five years later? Six? It seems like a lifetime, or at least a Main Era—the kind of peak that never comes again. San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to be a part of. Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run . . . but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant. . . .
History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of "history" it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time—and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened.
My central memory of that time seems to hang on one or five or maybe forty nights—or very early mornings—when I left the Fillmore half-crazy and, instead of going home, aimed the big 650 Lightning across the Bay Bridge at a hundred miles an hour wearing L. L. Bean shorts and a Butte sheepherder's jacket . . . booming through the Treasure Island tunnel at the lights of Oakland and Berkeley and Richmond, not quite sure which turn-off to take when I got to the other end (always stalling at the toll-gate, too twisted to find neutral while I fumbled for change) . . . but being absolutely certain that no matter which way I went I would come to a place where people were just as high and wild as I was: No doubt at all about that. . . .
There was madness in any direction, at any hour. If not across the Bay, then up the Golden Gate or down 101 to Los Altos or La Honda. . . . You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning. . . .
And that, I think, was the handle—that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn't need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting—on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. . . .
So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back."
Apparently none of that means anything to Ms. Ocasio-Cortez.
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We've got some great new apps in this week's must-have roundup, including Path, which finally makes its debut on the iPad; a nifty utility for monitoring the data consumed by your iPhone apps; plus a great new cooking magazine that every foodie should have installed on their iPad.
Path, the popular "personal network" exclusive to smartphones and tablets, has this week made its debut on the iPad. With a new interface designed to take full advantage of the iPad's larger display, Path for iPad "allows for larger moments" and lets you see more of your family and friends on one screen.
Path for iPad isn't just a bigger version of the iPhone app; it's been rebuilt from the ground up and purposely designed for a tablet. The extra space provides room for different viewing options in both portrait and landscape mode, allowing you to display a beautiful collage of the day's moments all on one screen.
The iPad app also boasts improved navigation: There's a navigation pane down the side of your home feed, which also shows recent activity and new notifications. And like its iPhone counterpart, Path for iPad is completely free.
Onavo Count is a nifty new utility for the iPhone that allows you to keep track of how much data each of your apps is consuming. It's perfect for those who are trying to work out which apps are eating all of their data allowance.
It provides weekly and monthly reports on your data usage within each app, and ranks your apps by their data consumption. And because Onavo works in the cloud, it has little impact on your iPhone's battery life.
iStat 2 promises to be the "fastest, easiest, and most convenient way to remotely monitor a Mac or PC from anywhere in the world." Using only your iOS device, you can check up on a huge range of detailed stats from your computer, including its CPU states, memory usage, disk space, network usage, temperatures, its fan speeds, and more.
You can use iStat's graphs to compare stats over one-hour, 24-hour, and 7-day periods, and if you're using a Mac, you can get additional 30-, 90-, 180-, and 365-day ranges. How awesome is that? iStat 2 is super secure: it connects to your computer over the Internet via Bonjour (you need to install the iStat Server app on your Mac or PC, but it's completely free), and you can set a five digit passcode to ensure no one else can gain access.
Another great feature with iStat 2 is the ability to monitor local stats for your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, including disk space, network usage, uptime, CPU states, memory usage, battery life, and more.
As a food lover, Panna is my favorite app in this week's roundup. It claims to be the "first-ever video cooking magazine for iPad and iPad mini," merging gorgeous high-definition videos with the expertise of established master chefs, including Rick Bayless, Melissa Hamilton and Christopher Hirscheimer, Anita Lo, and more.
The chefs demonstrate step-by-step cooking techniques for 12-13 seasonal dishes per issue, with more than 2.5 hours of video in each issue. Panna's automatically generated shopping lists make it easy for you to pick up everything you need for your dish when you're next at the store. You can navigate around the app by recipe, chef, issue, meal, or keyword, and share your favorite recipes with your friends.
Not only is Panna my favorite app this week, it's probably the best cooking app I've downloaded to date.


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Strawberry Recipes & Videos
Strawberry Chiffon Shortcake Cream Filled Strawberries Strawberry Shortcake
Two layers of light and airy chiffon cake sandwiched together with a delicious Strawberry Compote and lots of whipped cream. more Fresh strawberries are cut and filled with a delicious mixture of heavy cream and mascarpone cheese. more Strawberry Shortcake is composed of a scone or biscuit that is cut in half and filled with whipped cream and lightly sweetened strawberries. more
Strawberry Rhubarb Pie Strawberry Bread Strawberry Cake
This homemade Strawberry Rhubarb Pie, encased in a delicious buttery pastry, is full of sweet strawberries and tangy rhubarb. more Strawberry Bread is moist and flavorful and keeps very well. It is full of chopped strawberries and toasted walnuts and the flavor of cinnamon is a welcome addition. more Two delicious layers of Vanilla Genoise, soaked with a lemon syrup, sandwiched together with whipped cream and fresh strawberries, and frosted with a Strawberry Whipped Cream. more
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Strawberry Creams
Strawberry Soup
Strawberry & Lemon Curd Trifle
This beautiful parfait combines a ruby red raspberry jelly with a soft pink strawberry Bavarian cream. more Strawberry Soup is wonderfully sweet and creamy and full of the flavor of strawberries. Lovely with a dollop of softly whipped cream. more Strawberry and Lemon Curd Trifle consists of a layer of buttery pound cake, followed by a layer of strawberry sauce and fresh strawberries, then a layer of tangy and smooth lemon curd, that is tempered by a layer of softly whipped cream. more
Strawberry Banana Muffins
Strawberry Banana Muffins are full of mashed bananas and bite sized pieces of fresh strawberries. Absolutely Delicious. more This cake is a delightful combination of a tender yellow butter cake and a crisp meringue. Although it is an impressive looking cake it is not hard to put together. more This meringue cake, with its unusual soft sweet marshmallow center and crisp crust is produced by folding a little vinegar and cornstarch into the stiffly beaten egg whites and sugar. more
Berry Parfaits
Berry Parfaits have layers of berries with a velvety cream in between. The delicious cream is made with mascarpone cream and whipped cream, mixed with a little vanilla and sugar. more Everyone loves the elegance of a fruit tart with its topping of beautiful fresh fruit. Whether you use a single fruit (like strawberries) or a medley of berries, sliced kiwi, plums, bananas, pineapple, and/or melon no one can resist its beauty. more Fruit Salad (Fruit Cocktail) consists of a variety of fresh or dried fruits in a flavored sugar syrup. more
Eton Mess is the name given to this delicious English dessert made with strawberries, whipped cream, and broken meringue cookies. more This moist, tender, spongy, open-grained cake is delicious, whether eaten plain or cut in half and filled with cream and berries. more Strawberry Ice Cream is made with strawberry puree which gives it a lovely strawberry flavor. more
Meringue Hearts
Fruit Fools
Since meringues pair so well with fruits and creams, for this dessert I have made individual heart-shaped meringues and topped them with strawberry cream and fresh strawberries. more Dating as far back as the sixteenth century, this classic British dessert has seen its popularity ebb and flow. A fruit fool is made with cooked or raw fruit that is pureed or mashed, then sweetened, chilled, and finally folded into stiffly beaten whipped cream. more Strawberry Sorbet is a delicious frozen blend of pureed strawberries and sugar. more
Strawberry Rhubarb Tarts
This delicious New York style cheesecake has a graham cracker crust with a top layer of strawberry sauce set with gelatin. more
The flavors of sweet strawberries and tart rhubarb complement each other and are beautifully showcased when wrapped in the buttery and crumbly Pate Brisee more
This recipe takes the Strawberry Ice Cream recipe and enhances it with the tangy flavor of cream cheese. more
Strawberry Puree (Sauce)
A Chocolate Fondue is a perfect way to end a meal. Fresh fruit, cookies, cake, even marshmallows are dipped in a rich and chocolately, still warm sauce, more When fresh strawberries are expensive or not at their best, frozen strawberries can be used to make this delicious sauce. more This rose colored Strawberry Sherbet takes roasted strawberries and mixes them with sugar, a little lemon juice, yogurt and heavy cream. more
Strawberry Breton Tart Jellied Fruit Terrine Strawberry Pie (Tart)
A beautiful dessert combining a soft and tender cake-like base with pistachio pastry cream and glistening strawberries. more A Jellied Fruit Terrine consists of layers of raspberries, blueberries and blackberries that are encased in a white grape juice jelly. more This Strawberry Pie has a buttery shortbread crust and is filled with fresh strawberries all coated in a delicious gelatinized raspberry sauce. more
Strawberry Compote Strawberry Charlotte Strawberry Streusel Cake
Strawberry Cheesecake Macarons
Two almond meringue cookies flavored with dried strawberries, sandwiched together with a delicious strawberry flavored cream cheese filling. more
Just three ingredients (fresh strawberries, sugar, and lemon juice) are needed to make this delicious Strawberry Compote (stewed fruit). more There is no better accompaniment to strawberries than cream and this recipe presents them in a unique way. more Also known as a Strawberry Buckle. This cake has a layer of fluffy white butter cake, followed by a layer of fresh strawberries, topped with a crunchy Graham Cracker Crumb streusel. more
The cultivated strawberries we enjoy today began in France with the chance meeting of two American species; one from North America, the other from South America. The first strawberry to arrive in France in the early 1600s was the F. Virginiana, the wild scarlet woodland strawberry that was found growing along the Eastern United States. A century would pass before the second American species, F. Chiloensis, would arrive from South America.
This all began when a French engineer, who was sent to the west coast of South America for a totally different reason, found and brought back to France a large walnut sized strawberry that tasted like a pineapple. At first, although the Chilean strawberry plant thrived, it would not bear any fruit. Then, by chance, the North American strawberry was planted near the South American plant. The two strawberry plants met and crossed naturally to produce a strawberry with the best characteristics of the two species. This new hybrid was the ancestor of the cultivated strawberries that have become one of the most popular fruits in the world today.
Cultivation may allow us to buy beautiful looking strawberries year round but it is no guarantee to great taste. But then again we have been hearing this complaint for centuries. Waverley Root in his book "Food" tells how as far back as 1560 Bruyerin-Champier, physician to Henry II of France, complained that "improvements" in strawberries have to be paid for in decreased flavor. Of course, the only way to ensure sweet tasting strawberries is to grow them yourself or to pick them at a local U-Pick strawberry farm. But as spring approaches and we yearn for signs of warmer days, the delicious Florida strawberries do give us that first tease of summer (and strawberries are the symbol of summer). Some of the Florida strawberries are so good that you may want to just serve them sliced with a little sugar and cream or creme fraiche. But if you are more ambitious try some of these delicious recipes.


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Q: Integrate Solr & Mahout Solr/Lucene provides the relevancy score for a fulltext search, and Mahout provides recommendations of items for a user along with the preference score.
Right now I have both Solr and Mahout working seperately: When a user searches for a query string, Solr handles the searching and returns the 10 results according to its score. How can I integrate both Mahout and Solr together to provide the top 10 results or next 10 results according to another scoring system (like 0.5*Solr's score + 0.5*Mahout's score).
Problem: Right now it seems to be suboptimal doing the initial search for say the 11th to 20th item sorted by the new scoring, Solr will have to fetch the scores for all items in its database, and Mahout fetch the score for all items in its data base, calculate the resultant score and resort.
Is there a better way?

A: I would suggest adding your score from mahout as an additional field in Solr, and then perhaps using sort query, "boost_field desc", this will then allow you to use mahouts score, ... to combine, you may be able to use a field boost such as ^ ... -
its not really a full answer but may lead you to something better.


Seriously, this is a big issue that needs a loud verbal beatdown. A group of Muslims, acting as victims, have come together to form a pact of sorts to promote the ever illuding, Marxist themed "social justice" on behalf of Islamists.
Now, if you want the full background, then let me suggest you take a look at Robert Spencer's new book here .
Second, there is not "racially diversity." There is but one race, the human one. Read the Book of Genesis! While there are a multitude of ethnicities, there is only the race.
It doesn't seem that America will be. She is already embracing or being forced to submit to the Sharia with regards to free speech.


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The physical arrangement of the lamps was developed over several iterations using simulations, before a full-scale prototype was constructed, which allowed final optimisation of the light homogeneity through multi-axis adjustment. Analysis of the light spectrum was made possible following investment in a state-of-the-art spectroradiometer, enabling simultaneous measurement of the light spectrum over the whole range.
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2011 Audi A8 - "The sportiest sedan in the luxury class" (w/ video)
Posted by quattroholic at 6:01 PM . Monday, February 1, 2010
Labels: A8, Videos
If you just can't get enough of the 2011 Audi A8, we've got your fix. Audi has issued a new press release on the 2011 A8 today. In Rupert Stadler's words "The new Audi A8 is the sportiest sedan in the segment." Also, be sure check out the video after the jump for nearly 9 minutes of footage ranging from driving scenes to an in-depth look at the new A8's interior.
The new Audi A8 - The sportiest sedan in the luxury class
- Brand flagship with highly efficient engines and aluminium body
- Intuitive MMI operating system, design, interior and build quality set the standards
- Fuel consumption of each available engine improved by up to 22 percent
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AUDI AG RELEASE: SOME INFO DOES NOT APPLY TO THE U.S. MARKET.
Fascinating sportiness, innovative technology and superior comfort: Audi is bringing the next generation of the A8 to the starting line. The new flagship demonstrates the brand's clear Vorsprung durch Technik with its light aluminum body, its powerful and highly efficient engines, the improved MMI control system featuring a number of innovations and an elegant interior with a craftsman's level of fit and finish.
The A8 also sets new standards of efficiency. The fuel consumption of each of the engines available has been substantially reduced by as much as 22 percent. The 3.0 TDI with front-wheel drive to follow later emits only 159 grams of CO2 per kilometer (255.89 g/mile), and with 6.0 liters of fuel per 100 km (39.20 US mpg), it boasts the best fuel economy in the luxury segment.
"The new Audi A8 is the sportiest sedan in the segment," says Rupert Stadler, Chairman of the Board of Management of AUDI AG. "It combines numerous functions in a new and intelligent way. And it is unmatched in the stylistic elements and impression of the interior."
The new luxury sedan, to arrive at dealerships in early 2010, is a technical work of art combining sportiness and progressiveness. Its elegant and powerful body is an aluminum Audi Space Frame (ASF), weighing about 40 percent less than a comparable steel structure.
The new full LED headlights, which use light emitting diodes for all light functions, are a completely exclusive high-end solution on board the new A8.
They give the luxury sedan an unmistakable appearance even in daylight and even more so after the fall of darkness. The revolutionary optics used in these headlights mean a departure from the tubular light modules commonly used today. The full LED headlights herald a new chapter in the history of lighting technology.
The interior enchants with new, even lighter lines, uncompromising quality of fit and finish and extraordinary attention to the smallest of details. The comfort on board is first class – from new, emotionally charged ambient lighting to the luxurious adjustable rear seats.
The Audi A8 combines a new level of technical intelligence with exemplary and easy operation. When combined with the optional navigation system, its Multi Media Interface MMI includes a pioneering innovation: the MMI touch. This MMI touch system enables the driver to control many functions intuitively; for example, the navigation destination can be entered by tracing the letters on the pad with a finger.
MMI navigation plus is networked in a novel fashion with the advanced driver assistance and safety systems. It reads the road ahead in the navigation data and provides this information to the control units for the automatic transmission, the headlights and the intensely refined Audi adaptive cruise control with stop & go function.
The improved intelligence of these systems allows them to recognize complex scenarios and make anticipatory decisions to support the driver. In many situations, the new Audi pre sense safety system can mitigate accidents and their consequences. Other novel additions are a night vision assistant that highlights detected pedestrians and, coming in the course of 2010, a speed limit indicator.
Up to 22 percent less fuel consumption: engines
The new A8 will initially be offered with either of two engines, a 4.2 FSI with 273 kW (372 hp) and a 4.2 TDI, packing 258 kW (350 hp). These will be followed a short time later by a 3.0 TDI with 184 kW (250 hp), which is a completely new design.
The output and torque of all engines have increased, while fuel consumption has decreased considerably – by as much as 22 percent thanks to intelligent efficiency technologies such as the recuperation system and the innovative thermal management.
A second variant of the 3.0 TDI will follow at a later date. It provides 150 kW (204 hp) of power, drives the front wheels and consumes only 6.0 liters per 100 km (39.87 US mpg) in the EU driving cycle. That corresponds to a CO2 emission rate of 159 grams per km (255.89 g/mile) – a value hitherto unattained in the luxury segment.
The standard new transmissions also play a large role in increasing efficiency – the extremely convenient 8-speed tiptronic finely graduates its eight gears while achieving a large overall spread. Its control system is purely electronic, operated with an elegant selector level and rocker switches at the steering wheel. The quattro permanent all-wheel drive has a distinct sporty and rear-end character. On request, the sport differential dynamically distributes the forces between the rear wheels; on the A8 4.2 TDI this feature is standard.
The new A8 also documents its standing as the sportiest luxury sedan on the market in the chassis sector. The wheel control arms are made of aluminum. The adaptive air suspension with controlled damping is standard equipment and is integrated into the Audi drive select dynamics system. The optional dynamic steering is a supplementary component. Audi also offers a number of attractive multimedia modules, from rear seat entertainment to advanced multimedia services.
A grand tradition: luxury sedans from Audi
Audi can look back on a rich history in the luxury segment. Audi and Horch, which was later to become its sister brand and at the time was based in Zwickau, Saxony, were already building large cars with eight-cylinder engines in the late 1920s. One of these was the Audi Type R, also known as the Imperator. Its 4.9 liter inline eight-cylinder engine generated 74 kW (100 hp) and 275 Nm (202.83 lb-ft) of torque.
In 1988, Audi undertook a new and successful attempt to establish itself in the luxury class. The large sedan with the name V8 was equipped with an eight-cylinder engine initially produced 184 kW (250 hp), which was increased to 206 kW (280 hp) in the second version. quattro permanent all-wheel drive – a first in the premium segment – was already standard.
The first-generation A8 (1994) marked the first use of the aluminum ASF body – a technological breakthrough – in a series-produced vehicle.
Audi further extended its lead with the second-generation A8 (2002) with the adaptive air suspension and the innovative MMI control system. The single-frame radiator grille – the new face of the brand – followed in 2003. The 2.8 FSI with the Audi Valvelift System for the variable control of valve lift improved efficiency even further. This version of the A8 set new standards, with its CO2 emissions of 199 grams/km (320.26 g/mile) being best-in-class. Audi has been aggressively driving progress in the luxury class for many years now.
The new Audi A8
- Lightweight and yet ultra-strong aluminum body with ASF design
- Flowing design, optional full LED headlights
Interior and controls
- Luxurious interior with newly developed, spacious styling
- Craftsman-level fit and finish, emotionally charged interior lighting
- Advanced MMI control system, MMI touch navigation system with pioneering operating concept
- Seats with optional ventilation and massage functions, luxurious individual rear seats optional
- New Audi pre sense safety system for mitigating accidents and their consequences
Infotainment and driver assistance systems
- Next-generation navigation system closely networked with the assistance systems, high-end audio systems and online services
- Night vision assistant with pedestrian marking, adaptive cruise control with stop & go function and advanced driver assistance systems available
- Two TDI engines and one gasoline engine, all with direct fuel injection, with power ranging from 184 kW (250 hp) to 273 kW (372 hp
- Consumption reduced by as much as 22 percent with enhanced performance
- New 3.0 TDI with 150 kW (204 hp), best-in-class CO2 value of 156 g/km (251.06 g/mile)
- All engines with recuperation system, 3.0 TDI also with start-stop system
- New 8-speed tiptronic as standard, shift-by-wire control
- Standard quattro all-wheel drive, sport differential optional (standard with A8 4.2 TDI)
- Lightweight aluminum wheel suspension
- Audi drive select dynamic driving system including adaptive air suspension and adaptive damping standard, optional dynamic steering
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Christie issues guidelines to streamline gun permits
by Maddie Hanna, TRENTON BUREAU, Posted: April 8, 2016
Gov. Christie's administration announced measures Friday to ease some New Jersey state gun restrictions, including an expansion of the standard for getting a permit to carry a gun.
The Republican governor, who previously endorsed loosening the state's gun laws, said in a statement Friday that the changes would "deliver relief and assurance to New Jerseyans exercising their Second Amendment rights."
The changes, which follow recommendations issued by a study commission Christie formed last year, include a regulatory amendment that adds "serious threats" to the circumstances considered a special danger to a person's life. This expands the standard of "justifiable need" that applicants have to meet to get a permit to carry a gun in New Jersey.
The amendment also says that a permit to carry can be issued based on danger to the applicant's life that cannot be avoided by other "reasonable" means rather than by "any" means.
Scott L. Bach, executive director of the Association of New Jersey Rifle and Pistol Clubs, described the change to the carry permit standard as a "modest incremental improvement" to an "abomination."
He called the changes "historic executive actions to make progress on basic issues that have plagued New Jersey's one million law-abiding gun owners for decades."
The Attorney General's Office also issued guidance to law enforcement and prosecutors on permissible transportation of guns. Currently, people can transport a gun without a license to carry while traveling to and from their home and business, hunting, shooting ranges, and while moving between residences.
They are permitted "reasonably necessary" deviations - but those have not been clearly defined, according to the Attorney General's Office.
The office listed a number of permissible stops, including "collecting and discharging passengers; purchasing fuel, food and beverages, medication, or other needed supplies; using a restroom; contending with an emergency situation; or driving around a traffic jam."
The office also issued a directive to licensing authorities, requiring them to submit annual data on the number of ID cards and handgun purchase permit applications filed and processed per month, and how long it took to process the applications. Gun-permit applicants had complained about delays and discrepancies in the permit process.
Arguing that the state's permitting system had "failed," Christie cited the death last year of Carol Bowne, 39, of Berlin Township, who was stabbed in her driveway by an ex-boyfriend less than two months after filing an application for a gun permit that was delayed, according to Christie's office.
The governor, who faced skepticism from gun owners on the presidential campaign trail, signed an executive order the day before declaring his campaign last June that called for expedited processing of gun applications in cases of domestic violence.
The order also created the study commission that recommended changes to gun regulations.
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Posted: April 8, 2016 - 6:12 PM
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Six new services provide more community support for members in crisis
Richmond – Virginia Medicaid members have access, starting December 1, 2021, to six new behavioral health services that strengthen crisis response, address a national emergency in children's mental health care and provide new supports for individuals with developmental disabilities.
"These critical services will transform the way Virginians get care when they're in crisis," Governor Ralph Northam said. "When people can get the treatment they need, especially in their own communities, they are less likely to reach a crisis point, and less likely to need hospital care. Behavioral health, and how we can best provide treatment, has long been a challenge, in Virginia and around the nation– and the COVID-19 pandemic has intensified the struggle for everyday Virginians and for our hardworking behavioral health workforce. As a pediatrician, I've been particularly concerned that we address the rise in behavioral health needs among children. I'm proud of these steps that provide more options for our fellow Virginians and their families when they need help the most."
The new services include two in-home therapy options for children in crisis. The services represent key steps in Virginia's response to a national call to action following rising rates of mental health concerns and suicide among young people. The American Academy of Pediatrics last month declared a national emergency in children's mental health.
"The need for enhanced crisis services has never been more prevalent than now, and Virginia is taking proactive measures that serve as a lasting legacy for Governor Northam and this administration," said Secretary of Health and Human Resources Vanessa Walker Harris, MD. "These new behavioral health programs, along with the launch of new Marcus Alert teams, demonstrate our commitment to offering cost-effective innovations with proven measures of success."
The Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (DBHDS) and the Department of Medical Assistance Services (DMAS) are collaborating on a continuum of behavioral health enhancements through a multi-phase initiative known as Project BRAVO (Behavioral Health Redesign for Access, Value and Outcomes). The initiative has included support from hundreds of providers, advocates and other stakeholders. Medicaid began covering an initial set of three new services for its members on July 1, 2021. The six additional services qualify for Medicaid funding effective December 1, 2021.
"Research shows that 96% of individuals who receive a direct referral to crisis services do not require an emergency room visit," said Karen Kimsey, DMAS Director. "We are committed to providing our Medicaid members with high quality, evidence-based care in their communities and in their homes, giving them the choices they deserve for stabilization and healing."
December 1 will also see the establishment of Marcus Alert programs in five regions across Virginia: Orange, Madison, Culpeper, Fauquier, and Rappahannock counties; Prince William County; City of Bristol and Washington County; City of Richmond; and the City of Virginia Beach. Named for Marcus-Davis Peters, the Marcus Alert aims to provide evidence-based responses to behavioral health emergencies and reduce negative outcomes involving the use of force in law enforcement interactions when an individual is experiencing a crisis related to mental health, substance use, or developmental disability challenges.
The initiative focuses on effective diversions from 911 and law enforcement into community crisis care. DBHDS worked together with the Department of Criminal Justice Services to create a statewide implementation plan to provide the framework that each locality must use to write a more specific local plan. By July 1, 2026, all community services boards (CSBs) in Virginia will have established Marcus Alert systems. Additionally, in July 2022, the new hotline for mental health emergencies, 9-8-8, will be available nationwide, allowing individuals in crisis to connect with suicide prevention and mental health crisis counselors.
"The Marcus Alert program helps us put into practice something we know to be true: A behavioral health emergency requires a behavioral health response," said Alison Land, DBHDS Commissioner. "It is so important for people in crisis to get help as close to home as possible, and with as little intervention as possible, and through much hard work, we are building a system that offers that."
The new services covered by Medicaid are:
Multisystemic Therapy: Intensive family and community-based treatment for youth ages 11-18 with significant disruptive behaviors and substance use disorders.
Functional Family Therapy: Short-term treatment for youth ages 11-18 with significant disruptive behaviors who have received referrals from juvenile justice, behavioral health, school or child welfare systems.
Mobile Crisis Response: 24/7 rapid response, assessment and early intervention for individuals experiencing a behavioral health crisis.
Community Stabilization: Short-term support for individuals who recently required crisis services or who need assistance to avoid escalation to more intensive treatment models.
23-Hour Crisis Stabilization: Up to 23 hours of crisis stabilization services in a community-based setting for individuals experiencing an acute behavioral health emergency.
Residential Crisis Stabilization Unit: Short-term, 24/7 residential evaluation and intervention for psychiatric and substance use crises. This new service enables some individuals to avoid inpatient admission and offers stepdown support for others who require hospitalization.
"The Virginia Association of Community-Based Providers (VACBP) and our members are grateful for the opportunity to participate in the development of Project BRAVO services," said Mindy Carlin, VACBP Executive Director. "Our members provide more than 80% of all community-based Medicaid behavioral health services, and we appreciate the ability to share our expertise and insights. Implementation of these services represents an important step toward ensuring that Virginia's behavioral health system can better meet the increasing needs of Medicaid members throughout Virginia."
Virginia Medicaid members interested in learning more about these services should contact their managed care organization, behavioral health specialist or primary care provider.
The Virginia Department of Medical Assistance Services (DMAS) strives to improve the health and well-being of Virginians through access to high-quality health care coverage. With more than 1.9 million members, DMAS plays an essential role in the Commonwealth's health care system by providing lifesaving medical coverage to one in five Virginians, including more than 500,000 newly eligible adults who gained access to care through Medicaid expansion. For more information, visit www.dmas.virginia.gov.
The Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (DBHDS) seeks to promote dignity, choice, recovery, and the highest possible level of participation in work, relationships, and all aspects of community life for individuals with mental illness, developmental disabilities or substance-use disorders. DBHDS operates 12 state facilities and partners with 40 locally-run community services boards and hundreds of private providers statewide. For more information, please visit www.dbhds.virginia.gov, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn.
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Q: Execute a model in codeigniter with cronjob I have a codeigniter web app, and I already did a model that will do a request on a cam API to make a print screen, the script works good, here is it:
<?php

 class CronjobImagePrintScreenAPI extends CI_Model{
 function __construct()
 {
      // Call the Model constructor
      parent::__construct();
      $this->load->library('curl');
      $this->load->helper('file');
 }

public function show_jobs(){
    $flag = FALSE;
    $query = $this->db->get('cron_jobs');
    $query_result = $query->result();
    if (empty($query_result)) {
    $flag = FALSE;
    }else{
    $flag = TRUE;
    }
   if($flag === TRUE){
   $datasidget = $this->curl->simple_get('myloginapi');
   $datasid = json_decode($datasidget,true);
   $data_sid =  $datasid['data']['sid'];

   $reqUrl = "myprintscreenapi";
   $imageencode = $this->curl->simple_get($reqUrl);
   $insert_id = $query_result[0]->name;
   $path = "./images/$insert_id";
   write_file($path, $imageencode, $mode = 'wb');
   $this->db->where('name', $insert_id);
   $this->db->delete('cron_jobs');

    }
}
}

And I want to make a cron that will execute that model above once at each 1 min, I know how to do that, what I don't know is what php script I have to write in order to run that model with cron, I made a controller like this:
<?php
class Cronpicture extends CI_Controller {
public function __construct() {
    parent:: __construct();
    $this->load->helper('url','form');
    $this->load->library('pagination');
    $this->load->model('CronjobImagePrintScreenAPI');
}
public function getcronjob() {
$result=$this->CronjobImagePrintScreenAPI->show_jobs();
return $result;
}
}
?>

But this obviously this won't work, cause something has to call call that function. Any ideas how to make a executable php file to run with cron in order to call that model function? Thanks!

A: You can do:
 php /path_to_index/index.php Cronpicture getcronjob

Or just do wget and use a url
wget -O http://yoururltoload


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While in theory speaking a foreign language seems to help people to assess situations more objectively, in real life it is complicated. Ellis's research shows it seems to protect people from false ― and probably ill-meaning ― reproach. But she also found that pride can also serve to undo this effect. She warns that this might appear in "a workplace with a lot of intergroup conflicts", meaning that people are likely to be blind to valid criticism when it comes from someone they perceive as 'a foe'.


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Q: run ftp (command shell in javascript) server side I have a doubt (classic-asp server).
This script:
<SCRIPT type="text/javascript" LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
  function executeCommands()
   {
          var WshShell = new ActiveXObject("WScript.Shell");
          var sFTP = 'ftp.exe -s:\\\\aServerNas.intranet.blalba\\scossa$\\\\ftp\\<%=CODEID%>.ftp';
          var oExec = WshShell.run(sFTP , 2);
  };
</SCRIPT>

allow me to run the ftp script in a side-client (my pc) command shell when I click on id=reload tag:
$('#reload').click(function(){
        executeCommands();
    }
});

But if I change the script adding attribute "runat":
<SCRIPT type="text/javascript" LANGUAGE="JavaScript" runat="server">
  function executeCommands()
   {
          var WshShell = new ActiveXObject("WScript.Shell");
          var sFTP = 'ftp.exe -s:\\\\aServerNas.intranet.blalba\\scossa$\\\\ftp\\<%=CODEID%>.ftp';
          var oExec = WshShell.run(sFTP , 2);
  };
</SCRIPT>

the command-shell, when I click on id=reload tag, will be executed on the server (\\aServerNas), which is what I need?
Thank you a lot and I apologize for my bad english.
Edit: the question is: How I can run FTp if client-side havn't access to \aServerNas (that is the server where the .ftp script is)?

A: Try something like this, I've used vbs rather than js because that's what I'm familiar with
<%
If request.form("CODEID") <> "" then
  dim WshShell, sFTP, CODEID
  CODEID = request.form("CODEID")
  set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
  sFTP = "ftp.exe -s:\\aServerNas.intranet.blalba\scossa$\\ftp\" & CODEID & ".ftp"
  WshShell.Exec(sFTP , 2)
End If
%>

I'm assuming here that you're posting the value of CODEID in a form.  Note that you can't use <%=CODEID%> within server side code.  The <% %> delimiters denote that what they contain is for the server, so using them twice is nonsense.
You might find this question helpful - Running VBS script on server from IIS (ASP)


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By Scott Burchill | On 26 August 2020
Only in a small number of countries is the idea of an independent foreign policy considered to be a radical approach to international relations. Australia is one of them.
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There are influential voices within the country, such as the United States lobby, which strive to maintain an alliance-based approach and prevent the development of independent external relations. Their presupposition is that Australia is incapable of self-defence, unable to thwart almost any military threats – always unspecified – whether they be real or imaginary.
If alliance boosters were less influential, what would a more independent Australian foreign policy look like? The primary challenge is how to deal with the United States.
Australia should manage the relationship with the US in a way that avoids involvement in Washington's never-ending wars around the world, and consequent complicity in its crimes: Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq to name only three. The alliance is not an insurance policy requiring premiums to be paid in wars which are of no relevance to Australia. Most of Washington's friends both in Europe (eg Germany) and in its own hemisphere (eg Canada), maintain good relations without offering regular blood sacrifices. However in Washington, Australia's support is largely taken for granted and doesn't need to be earned or bought. In return we get to share over-hyped and often mistaken intelligence (Five Eyes) and access to baroque military technologies (F-35).
The personification of 'anomalous' US behaviour by Bush the Second or Trump obscures the continuities of US foreign policy and tries to insulate the alliance from White House incumbents that are unpopular in Australia: they are, nevertheless, inseparable. Trump is extreme in many ways but, if anything, is more restrained than his promiscuously interventionist predecessors such as Obama, who killed tens of thousands of people by drone attacks in at least eight different countries. Meanwhile, most of the Deep State's foreign priorities (maintaining control of NATO, interfering in Afghanistan and Syria, confronting Russia and China, etc,) continue without interruption.
The focus on Trump's repellent personality and administrative incompetence should blind no-one to the fact that he is a product of the same political system that may elect Joe Biden in November. Blaming the 45th president for America's misbehaviour is ahistorical and only absolves his predecessors of the damage the United States has inflicted around the world. In foreign policy, Biden is cut from a familiar mould.
What is called the liberal rules-based world order is little more than US national interests masquerading as altruism. Canberra often forgets that the most powerful member of ANZUS will always put its national interests first and Trump is just more honest about doing so.
His attacks on the International Criminal Court (ICC), recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and relocation of the US embassy there, his withdrawal from the JCPOA with Iran, the World Health Organisation (WHO), the Paris environmental agreement and the INF Treaty with Russia illustrate his contempt for anything approaching a rules-based order. But Trump is not unique. The US has long ignored International Court of Justice (ICJ) rulings against its state terrorism in Nicaragua under Reagan and the illegal separation of the Chagos Islands from Mauritius – including the depopulation of Diego Garcia – as well as Washington's support for Israel's illegal colonisation of Palestine since 1967.
Why Australia seeks to be "joined at the hip" (Malcolm Turnbull) to this is difficult to understand, though it betrays a deep sense of insecurity to become dependent on such a reckless ally. It only tarnishes Australia's image around the world, especially in the Middle East, East Asia and Southeast Asia.
Australia's folly has been either to support America's violations of international law – proposing to move the Australian Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, denying that Palestinians have the right to self-determination, opposing the return of displaced Diego Garcians – or remain silent in support of the US and its other allies as they breech international law. Canberra's inability to criticise Washington's catastrophic climate change policies and unilateral abandonment of arms control and disarmament agreements are the most concerning examples of its 'diplomatic discretion'. This is despite the fact that as a middle power, Australia has a disproportionate dependence on the norms and conventions of international society which Washington is currently trashing.
A more independent foreign policy would allow Australia to support the UN system more fulsomely, especially the ICC and ICJ, and take a more principled stand towards the high crimes and misdemeanours of the West. Canberra could publicly oppose US and UK military support for Saudi Arabia's appalling crimes in Yemen, take a less obsequious approach to Israel by defending the rights of Palestinians, and for consistency argue that if economic sanctions are to be maintained against Russia for its annexation of Crimea, the same should also apply to Turkey for its illegal occupation of northern Cyprus, to Morocco for its incorporation of Western Sahara and, of course, Israel for its settler colonialism in the West Bank and illegal blockade of Gaza.
It might also ask Indonesia to terminate six decades of state terrorism in West Papua, oppose Washington's efforts to overthrow the government of Venezuela, and warn New Delhi that attacks on Muslims in Kashmir and the state sponsored crimes of Hindu nationalists across India have not gone unnoticed. The rules either apply to all or no-one.
If Australia was less closely aligned to the United States it might persuade Iran to release academic Kylie Moore Gilbert from gaol, although Canberra seems uninterested in the repatriation of Julian Assange to Australia, who is currently imprisoned for journalism awaiting extradition to our great and powerful friend.
China's behaviour is typical of a rising great power which no longer accepts the regional hegemony of the US. Australia should ditch the Cold War nostalgia of jejune ideologues in Parliament and the media who have only just noticed the Chinese Communist Party, and revert to exploring the mutual benefits of co-existence. This doesn't require silence about Beijing's repression of the Uighur in Xinjiang, political crackdowns in Hong Kong or remaining mute about new naval constructions in the South China Sea: there is nothing new about Chinese repression. But it does mean avoiding self-inflicted trade wounds with our most important export market, when no political or commercial gains are achieved: in fact, quite the opposite.
Australia must distance itself from Trump's re-election strategy of shifting blame for his inept response to the COVID-19 pandemic to China, as he corrupts world trade markets with protectionist measures against steel and aluminium imports. Being a willing trojan horse for Trump's 'blame China' strategy, including attacks on the WHO and unilateral calls for an investigation of COVID-19 origins in Wuhan, achieves nothing apart from the loss of barley, meat and wine exports to China, as well as tertiary students to our under-funded universities: nor will any of this help relations with Washington if Biden is elected in November. It's an own goal for Australia and a high price to pay for misplaced fidelity to Washington.
Scott Burchill
Dr Scott Burchill is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Deakin University. He is the author of The National Interest in International Relations Theory (Palgrave Macmillan 2005), Misunderstanding International Relations (Palgrave Macmillan 2020) and co-author and editor of Theories of International Relations (5th ed Palgrave Macmillan 2013). He has also taught at Monash University, the University of Melbourne and the University of Tasmania.
He is a regular commentator on ABC Radio and TV.
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