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More mumps and chickenpox cases hit Aurora's…
More mumps and chickenpox cases hit Aurora's ICE facility
Two instances of mumps and one case of chickenpox force detainees into isolation
Joe Amon, The Denver Post
Jasmine Lima-Marin leaving the Aurora ICE Processing Center after picking up 5 boxes of her husbands belongings and speaking at a Together Colorado vigil for Rene Lima-Marin where he is held. Lima-Marin appeared to be on the cusp of freedom after a judge ruled on Tuesday that his re-incarceration Òwould perpetrate a manifest injustice.Ó But while his family eagerly awaited his release from prison on Wednesday, immigration authorities put the reunion on hold. May 17, 2017 in Aurora.
By Justin Wingerter | jwingerter@denverpost.com | The Denver Post
PUBLISHED: June 14, 2019 at 4:25 pm | UPDATED: June 15, 2019 at 1:09 am
Two cases of mumps and a case of chickenpox at Aurora's immigration detention facility — the latest in a string of outbreaks at the center — have forced 142 detainees into isolation.
As of noon Friday, two pods at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility were affected, according to a local ICE spokesperson. The mumps cases were both in one pod, and the chickenpox in a second. All detainees have been given a measles and mumps vaccine, ICE says.
"We have one confirmed case of mumps, one probable case of mumps — pending more testing results — and then one confirmed case of chickenpox," said Ashley Richter, a communicable disease manager at the Tri-County Health Department, which coordinates with the ICE site.
"We are working with the facility to ensure, number one, that the correct testing and treatment is provided to the patient, as well as correct measures are taken to ensure safety and security of the other inmates and staff there," Richter explained.
Detainees are removed from the general population — "cohorted" in ICE's lingo — when they're exposed to people who have mumps or may have mumps, ICE says. As a result, their movements are restricted for several weeks. Immigration attorneys say legal meetings are then canceled.
"If there are people who have a bond hearing or an other hearing, those hearings will get delayed until the quarantine is lifted, so that they're able to present themselves in court," said Esperanza Cuautle at Pangea Legal Services, an immigration law firm. "That prolongs the detention of people who may have a chance to get released."
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Aurora's facility, which is operated by the private company GEO Group, recorded chickenpox outbreaks in October, January and February, along with mumps cases in March. That last outbreak prompted a hunger strike among detainees.
Outbreaks have also been a catalyst for congressional oversight, bringing U.S. Rep. Jason Crow to the facility unannounced in February. Crow, an Aurora Democrat, continues to seek documents from the federal government relating to the outbreaks and subsequent quarantines.
Rep. Diana DeGette, a Denver Democrat, said last weekend that private companies like GEO Group should no longer be allowed to operate ICE facilities. Her call for an end to privatization followed an inspector general's report on the Aurora detention site.
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Q: overwrite information in data.table in R i have a data.table :
  data.table(id = c(rep(1,5)),
               year = c(rep(2015,3), rep(2016,2)),
               class = c(rep("A", 3), rep("B", 2)),
               origin = c("Europe", "Asia", "Africa", "Europe", "Asia"),
               count = c(30299, 3, 34, 2, 800))

   id year class origin count
1:  1 2015     A Europe 30299
2:  1 2015     A   Asia     3
3:  1 2015     A Africa    34
4:  1 2016     B Europe     2
5:  1 2016     B   Asia   800

but some of the information is not correct. I want to overwrite the region using another data.table:
  data.table(id = c(1),
             year = c(2015,2016),
             class = c("A", "B"),
             origin = c("Europe", "Asia"))

   id year class origin
1:  1 2015     A Europe
2:  1 2016     B   Asia

so that the original table becomes :
  id year class origin count
1:  1 2015     A Europe 30299
2:  1 2015     A Europe     3
3:  1 2015     A Europe    34
4:  1 2016     B   Asia     2
5:  1 2016     B   Asia   800

i ried doing this with merge and also within, but i am getting errors.

A: I named your first data.table dt_A, the second one dt_B and assume, you identify the entries in dt_B by id, year and class.
dt_A[dt_B, on = c("id", "year", "class"), origin := i.origin]

returns
   id year class origin count
1:  1 2015     A Europe 30299
2:  1 2015     A Europe     3
3:  1 2015     A Europe    34
4:  1 2016     B   Asia     2
5:  1 2016     B   Asia   800

Basically we did a left join to get the needed data and updated the origin column.

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Q: How do I grep and output certain words from a file until it detects a certain pattern? In this file:
ServerName sdadas.sdsd.sdsa     sdsd.dfdf

fdfd.f.fdfd.d      df.d-f

fgf.gf.fffff
fg.gk
Databases

I want to grep the "ServerName" line and all other lines (after "ServerName") including "Databases" (Note: think of this word - Databases - as some random word, it's important that it does not have a dot. And I do not want to output lines after this one)
then after that grep I want to output only words that have a dot inside them ".".

A: This awk will print all word with . within them from ServerName and stops with first word without .
awk '/ServerName/ {f=1} f {for(i=1;i<=NF;i++) if ($i~/\./) print $i; else if($i!="ServerName") exit}' file
sdadas.sdsd.sdsa
sdsd.dfdf
fdfd.f.fdfd.d
df.d-f
fgf.gf.fffff
fg.gk

A: There is also a simple one liner with sed.
sed -n '/ServerName/,/^[^.]\+$/ p' file

It takes two regexes ServerName and ^[^.]\+$ that describe the first and the last line that should be printed.
ServerName matches any line that contains this string. You can also use ^ServerName to match only lines that starts with it.
^[^.]\+$ matches any non-empty line that has no dot in it.


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Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute Renews Giant Panda Breeding Agreement
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The terms of the agreement are exactly the same as the current one, stipulating that the National Zoo and CWCA will conduct cooperative research projects, the Zoo will pay $500,000 per year to support conservation efforts in China and any cubs born at the National Zoo may stay until the age of 4. Both parents and any offspring remain under the ownership of China. In addition to adults Mei Xiang (may-SHONG) and Tian Tian (tee-YEN tee-YEN), the Zoo is home to 2-year-old Bao Bao (BOW-BOW) and 3-month-old Bei Bei (BAY-BAY).
We know the community is fond of Mei Xiang and Tian Tian—I certainly am—so it's great to know they will stay at the National Zoo, said Kelly. Every giant panda is part of a larger conservation effort. The best part of this agreement is that we will continue our research and collaboration with our Chinese colleagues on reproduction, habitat and wildlife disease issues, with the ultimate goal of maintaining and growing the wild population of giant pandas.
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Indyref2 cannot go ahead without UK parliament permission, court rules
The Scottish Parliament does not have the power to call a second independence referendum in the country, the Supreme Court has said.
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First Minister Nicola Sturgeon had proposed a second referendum – dubbed Indyref2 – for 19 October 2023.
Politics live: 'Disappointed' Sturgeon responds to Supreme Court ruling
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Tweeting after the ruling was made, the first minister said while she was "disappointed", she respected the ruling, adding the Supreme Court "doesn't make law, only interprets it".
Ms Sturgeon added: "A law that doesn't allow Scotland to choose our own future without Westminster consent exposes as myth any notion of the UK as a voluntary partnership and makes [the] case for independence.
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"Scottish democracy will not be denied. Today's ruling blocks one route to Scotland's voice being heard on independence – but in a democracy our voice cannot and will not be silenced."
But Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar said now the ruling is done, "we must focus on the problems facing our country, from rising bills to the crisis in our NHS".
"There is not a majority in Scotland for a referendum or independence, neither is there a majority for the status quo.
"One thing is clear – there is a majority in Scotland and across the UK for change. A Labour government will deliver that change."
And the leader of the Scottish Conservatives, Douglas Ross, said: "The SNP must now get back to work, drop their referendum obsession and focus on what really matters to the people of Scotland."
Scotland held an independence referendum in 2014 and just over 55% voted to remain part of the UK.
But the pro-independence SNP, which has led the country since 2007, believes it has a mandate to hold a fresh vote because of its continued success in elections – the majority of members in the Scottish Parliament back independence – and because of the change in circumstances since Brexit.
Ms Sturgeon began her attempts to get approval for a new referendum in 2017 by asking then-prime minister Theresa May for a Section 30 order, which is used to increase or restrict, permanently or temporarily, the Scottish Parliament's legislative authority – and was used to temporarily legislate for the first referendum.
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'Political consequences'
Announcing the ruling, the court's president, Lord Reed, said legislation for a second vote would relate to "reserved matters", making it outside the powers of Holyrood.
"A lawfully-held referendum would have important political consequences in relation to the Union and the United Kingdom Parliament," he said.
"It would either strengthen or weaken the democratic legitimacy of the Union and of the United Kingdom Parliament's sovereignty over Scotland, depending on which view prevailed, and would either support or undermine the democratic credentials of the independence movement.
"It is therefore clear that the proposed bill has more than a loose or consequential connection with the reserved matters of the Union of Scotland and England, and the sovereignty of the United Kingdom Parliament."
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Indy campaigners will not be deflated at this ruling.
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Lord Reed also said the panel of judges did not accept the SNP's argument about the "right to self-determination" in international law.
The party had cited rulings in the Canadian Supreme Court and the International Court of Justice – namely over Quebec's own independence referendums in 1980 and 1995.
But the leading justice said such an international law only exists in situations "of former colonies, or where a people is oppressed… or where a definable group is denied meaningful access to government".
"The court found that Quebec did not meet the threshold of a colonial people or an oppressed people, nor could it be suggested that Quebecers were denied meaningful access to government to pursue their political, economic, cultural and social development," he said.
"The same is true of Scotland and the people of Scotland."
'Scotland will be independent'
SNP MPs took to social media to express the upset at the decision, with Dave Doogan tweeting: "In the eyes of the people of Scotland, there is NOTHING settled about the current constitutional arrangement.
"The people will decide, and Scotland will become independent."
But former Scottish Tory leader Baroness Davidson welcomed the "unanimity and clarity" of the court.
"No doubt the SNP will try to leverage this ruling for further grievance," she wrote. "If only the huge effort, capacity and resource spent bidding to rerun the original vote had been put into health, education and the economy."
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Q: How to get IAM/service account used by juicefs to access GCS in GKE? I'm using a juicefs-csi in GKE. I use postgre as meta-store and GCS as storage. The corresponding setting is as follow:
node:
  # ...
  storageClasses:
    - name: juicefs-sc
      enabled: true
      reclaimPolicy: Retain
      backend:
        name: juicefs
        metaurl: postgres://user:password@my-ec2-where-postgre-installed.ap-southeast-1.compute.amazonaws.com:5432/the-database?sslmode=disable
        storage: gs
        bucket: gs://my-bucket
   # ...

According to this documentation, I don't have to specify access key/secret (like in S3).
But unfortunately, whenever I try to write anything to the mounted volume (with juicefs-sc storage class), I always get this error:
AccessDeniedException: 403 Caller does not have storage.objects.create access to the Google Cloud Storage object.

I believe it should be related to IAM role.
My question is, how could I know which IAM user/service account is used by juicefs to access GCS, so that I can assign a sufficient role to it?
Thanks in advance.
EDIT
Step by step:

*

*Download juicefs-csi helm chart

*Add values as described in the question, apply

*Create a pod that mount from PV with juicefs-sc storage class

*Try to read/write file to the mount point

A: Ok I misunderstood you at the beginning.
When you are creating GKE cluster you can specify which GCP Service Account will be used by this cluster, like below:

By Default it's Compute Engine default service account (71025XXXXXX-compute@developer.gserviceaccount.com) which is lack of a few Cloud Product permissions (like Cloud Storage, it has Read Only). It's even described in this message.

If you want to check which Service Account was set by default to VM, you could do this via
Compute Engine > VM Instances > Choose one of the VMs from this cluster > In details find API and identity management

So You have like 3 options to solve this issue:
1. During Cluster creation
In Node Pools > Security, you have Access scopes where you can add some additional permissions.

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*Allow full access to all Cloud APIs to allow access for all listed Cloud APIs

*Set access for each API

In your case you could just use Set access for each API and change Storage to Full.
2. Set permissions with a Service Account
You would need to create a new Service Account and provide proper permissions for Compute Engine and Storage. More details about how to create SA you can find in Creating and managing service accounts.
3. Use Workload Identity

Workload Identity on your Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters. Workload Identity allows workloads in your GKE clusters to impersonate Identity and Access Management (IAM) service accounts to access Google Cloud services.

For more details you should check Using Workload Identity.
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*Configuring Velero - Velero is software for backup and restore, however steps 2 and 3 are mentioned there. You would just need to adjust commands/permissions to your scenario.

*Authenticating to Google Cloud with service accounts


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Post by Columbia Regional Sports Council.
Columbia, SC has had the honor of hosting the 2014 SEC Softball Tournament over the past few days. Tonight's final game determines whether Kentucky or Georgia go home the winners of this year's championships. So swing by Beckham Field to see which of these talented teams comes out on top! Tickets are available for purchase at Beckham Field.
The South Carolina Gamecocks continue the series against the Missouri Tigers at 3:15pm, so don your garnet and black, head out to Carolina Stadium and cheer the home team to victory!
Stay tuned tomorrow as we paint you a picture of all the things that make Columbia, SC The New Artistic Hot Spot!


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John S.January 15, 2021
Source: theverge.com
Writer of Haunted Science Fiction and Horror Richard Matheson passed away at age 87 years old. He is survived by his wife Ruth Ann Woodson and his three children. The writer was born in Allendale New Jersey by Norwegian Immigrant parents. He was raised in Brooklyn and served in World War II.
His writings have become timeless classics spanning fans in various generations. His written work I Am Legend was adapted onto screen three times, most recently starring Will Smith in 2007. He also wrote for several television series including Twilight Zone, the Alfred Hitchock Hour, Night Gallery and Star Trek. Matheson also wrote several Edgar Allan Poe adaptations, including "House of Usher," "The Pit and the Pendulum" and "The Raven," for filmmaker Roger Corman.
Matheson had been scheduled to receive the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films' Visionary Award during the Saturn Awards on Wednesday. The award will be presented posthumously, and the event will now be dedicated to him.
Matheson's three children followed in his footsteps and became screenplay writers and fiction novels.
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Yesterday I went for lunch for my mothers birthday at the Lambert Arms. This venue was picked because a) it is about half way between Peterborough & Chippenham and b) came up on a quick Google search when I was looking for a possible venue.
It seemed to fit the bill, looked nice and was in the Michelin guide in 2010. So we went, had lunch and it was good. I would however, suggest to the proprietors a few ways top make it even better….
1) Make sure staff know what is going on. There was a wedding going on, and when . When we arrived it was quite hectic. The Lambert offers accommodation, and people were checking in at reception. We walked up to what appeared to be the entrance to the restaurant area. 'Can I help you?' said a stressed looking woman. 'We have a reservation.' I said.' Oh you need to go to reception and see them there.' Needless to say one man's reservation in the restaurant for lunch is a stressed waitresses people without luggage checking in.
2) Put the heating on. We were in the restaurant. It was cold. Simple one really.
3) Make sure staff know the food. Our waitress was a young girl, maybe just with a Saturday job, but it got grating that she had to go and ask in the kitchen a lot.
4) Do better pastry. My game pie, filling wise, was lovely, if not a bit peppery. The pastry was like cardboard. And I like a pie top have pastry all the way round – this was a stew with a lid.
Like I say, little things. Could make it a wonderful place.
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It sounds pricey and there's still a lot of kinks to work out... are those of you who are upgrading to BES12 doing so because your environment is mostly blackberrys? Wondering why people are not choosing a cheaper solution like Airwatch, is it because you will need to upgrade support anyway?
Was there a reason you chose BES v. another provider? Was pricing a consideration?
We have been on BES10 from the start and are currently upgrading to BES12. Partly, this is because we still have a fleet of "legacy" BBOS devices that will stay in use until they need replacement.
Is there a reason to upgrade as opposed to just sticking to BES10?
Built-in support for legacy BBOS is a big draw, but also more stability and better performance for the newer platforms as well.
They were all in the same ballpark as pricing from what I remember and we've used BES since bes express then mobile fusion then bes10 and now bes12 all without many issues so we stuck with what we know worked for us. We dont need any major restrictions on our devices which are corporate owned personal enabled iOS and a few android devices. Blackberry has been at this MDM game for a while so I knew I would get experience, security and quality with the product.
I'm having to install BES 12 due to licensing for BES 10 having ceased on the 28th Feb 2015, and at this moment in time the business I represent will not fund the move to iOS so that AirWatch can be used (which is a little narrow minded of them).
If I was in the market for an MDM to manage iOS 8 it would be AirWatch all the way with their perpetual licensing, I'd want a robust iOS centric MDM and BES 12 is not this (yet ?).
If you buy annual BES12 CALs they are backwards compatible with BES 10, (v10.1 or v10.2) at least for a year after you buy them.
Please tell us what features of AirWatch are available for iOS that are not provided by BES12? I am running BES12 and have iOS devices so I would like to know.
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Let's say a small business with 12-15 users is interested in having secure email communications, the ability to remove company email from a device if it is lost or if an employee quits or is fired, and maybe a shared resource where files such as technical manuals or sales literature could be easily accessible to the users. The users are BYOD using mostly Android and BB10 smartphones. Eventually an iPhone user will come onboard.
How much benefit would BES offer over what Exchange Active Sync, which we currently run, offers?
We would really like to use BES but it needs to offer legit benefits to the business and at this point the potential benefits aren't clear to us.
What else of the things it offers might matter to us? Is BBM Protected really better than regular BBM?
I'm using an android right now but when i had a z10 on our BES, the work drives app was amazing. I could access all my shared and network drives from my phone. Need to send an attachment that's on the network and you're at home? No problem.
A lot of the reason why I like bes is more because I can see who has what phone, the Sim, imei, model, etc. Location is supposedly coming soon too. I had trouble with people breaking phones and swapping them out and not knowing who had which phone etc. Its also nice to be able to recommend or make an app install be mandatory on the phones like our crm app and such.
Thank you. I'm going to research the work drives app that you mentioned.
Thank you. Is the Work Drive also available for users with Android or IOS devices?
Another thing BES does that EAS doesn't: granular security policy. For instance, you can set the work environment so that emails can't be forwarded outside the company. You can remotely wipe either the entire device, or just the workspace.
There are hundreds of policies that can be enabled.
Not having Work Drives for other platforms is a bummer. Unfortunately I am not able to see BES as worth the hassle for us. In the end it boils down to making sure we trust our team as we have in the past. Having a secure workspace for email is cool but we need more benefits than just that to justify cost and effort.
BES is worth it if security and device/application management are important to your company. For many companies Exchange Active Sync is perfectly fine. That said, here is my response to your question. If I make a misstatement, someone please correct me.
Exchange Active Sync only provides the bare minimum of services, email, calendar, to-do, remote wipe, etc. If you want advanced services, you'll need to go for something like BES, AirWatch, Good, etc.
BES12 uses Exchange Active Sync, and adds advanced encryption, device management, application management and overall security. This is offered through the Secure Work Space (for iOS/Android) and for BB10 devices, BlackBerry Balance.
In a BYOD scenario, the Secure Work Space (SWS) and Balance keep company data secure and private data private. The company cannot see nor restrict what happens on the users' private side, but the company can control everything that happens on the secured partition. Policy settings can even be set to prevent copy/paste from the company side to the private side, or even to warn or prevent accidental forwarding of company email to people who are not part of the company. The BES admin can push or make available company specific apps that are allowed to be used on the secured partition. If an employee quits or is fired, the company can delete the secured partition and the company side is gone, without affecting the private side. In EAS, if you issue the device wipe command, the entire device is wiped, including the private side. Also with EAS, the employee can set multiple devices to receive their company emails. This can be a security risk. Under BES, it's a one-to-one relationship, one device gets one company email address.
What BES also enables is behind-the-firewall access from the secured side of the phone. The Work Drives app is one app that takes advantage of this by allowing users to remotely access files on company servers in a secured manner.
Is BBM Protected better than BBM? Like the general "is BES worth it?" question, it depends on whether you treat any of your company communications as private or not (i.e., does encryption matter to you?). By default, standard BBM is encrypted, but all phones use the same encryption keys. If you want better security, you get BBM Protected. BBM Protected adds another layer of encryption and the encryption key is set at the device level and user level. The chat initiating user has to determine the passphrase and give it to the other BBM chat participant out of channel (some way other than BBM). Once the phrase is set, all future exchanges, including file transfers, are also encrypted with the added encryption layer. BBM Protected also works with BBM Groups (which adds calendar, multiple group chats, to-do lists, picture gallery). Check out https://www.blackberrycentral.com/ne...bbm-protected/ for a timely update on BBM Protected.
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We've evolved dramatically in less than 4 years from being 100% Blackberry devices to 98% Apple devices. As long as the BES and the CALs for iOS devices allowed us to wipe devices if lost or stolen, it was worth the effort. That's no longer the case moving forward, without us buying new "premium" CALs. Our users dislike the Secure work space and some of its restrictions. The cost is starting to outweigh the solution for us. Contemplating doing away with the BES solution completely.
Even for me, who loves my BB Passport is finding less and less benefit for the BES for the way I work. But now that the majority of our devices are iOS, we'll take a look at other solutions.
You can wipe devices that are lost or stolen with plain Exchange Active Sync. The users can actually initiate that themselves. You wouldn't need an MDM/EMM solution for that. Given that on the iOS and Android platforms, all MDM/EMM vendors have access to the same set of APIs, so I can't imagine alternative solutions are too different from BES. If you move off of BES, let us know what you did. Would be interesting to know, especially if you moved to a competitor's solution.
"Even for me, who loves my BB Passport is finding less and less benefit for the BES for the way I work. But now that the majority of our devices are iOS, we'll take a look at other solutions."
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THE Grain Marketing Board (GMB) has sought to absolve itself and government of any wrongdoing after Auditor-General Mildred Chiri revealed in her 2019 report that the State entity lost US$1,4 million in a botched maize import deal when it contracted a local company to import 10 000 metric tonnes of maize.
Chiri said sometime in 2019, GMB contracted an unnamed company to import maize on its behalf, but the company delivered part of the consignment but failed to honour the rest.
"The (GMB) board contracted a local company to import 10 000 metric tonnes (mt) of maize on its behalf. An advance payment of US$3 900 000 was made for 10 000mt to facilitate the imports.
"The company delivered 3 800mt of grain worth US$1 482 000, leaving a balance of 6 200mt.
"However, the contract was amended for the supplier to deliver soyabeans instead of maize. The company subsequently delivered soyabeans worth US$1 418 000. A reconciliation of the value of maize and soyabeans received to what the supplier had been paid revealed that soyabeans worth US$1 000 000 had not been delivered," the audit report said.
In a statement , GMB chief executive Rockie Mutenha sought to clarify issues raised in the audit.
"The facts of the matter are that in 2016, a local company entered into an agreement with the government of Zimbabwe represented by the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) and RBZ, for the supply 10 000mt of maize. The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) as the paying agent and GMB being the receiving agent," Mutenha said. "Upon signing of the contract, an amount of US$3 900 000 was deposited into a local Escrow Account for the purchase of the said maize. Being an Escrow Account, no party is able to draw money unless everyone in satisfied with the performance of the contract and particularly so, the buyer."
He added that GMB upon receipt of maize, would acknowledge receipt and on the basis of that, RBZ would release the money.
"GMB received 3 800mt of the 10 000mt and upon confirmation, RBZ paid US$1 482 000 from the Escrow Account," Mutenha said.
"Following a ban on exporting of maize from the country of origin, the same contract was converted for the supply of soyabeans in lieu of the balance of 6 200mt of maize."
He said the supplier failed to perform and only supplied 297mt of soya beans at a cost of US$181 268 and was paid accordingly.
"A balance of US$2 236 732 was left in the Escrow Account which was subsequently recalled by RBZ because there was no performance on the part of the supplier," Mutenha pointed out. "At the time of the audit in 2019, the balance was still in the Escrow Account until it was recalled on 28 February 2020. That means there was no financial loss on the part of the GMB or the government of Zimbabwe as the supplier was only paid for what was delivered."
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Lake Flagstaff, sometimes referred to as Flagstaff Lake  is an ephemeral salt lake located in the Great Southern region of Western Australia, approximately  north west of Woodanilling and  south west of Wagin.

Description
The oval shaped lake has a surface area of  and is one of a line of three lakes; Lake Charling to the west then Queerearrup Lake and Lake Flagstaff in the east. When they overflow waters discharge into the poorly described eastern branch of the Beaufort River. The same channel that usually provides inflow also flows away from the lakes at the same time when the lake is full (as occurs at Lake Ewlyamartup).

The lake is part of a series of swamps' lakes and large floodplain in the middle of the Beaufort river catchment and Blackwood River basin. The features of the landscape include alluvial plains,
small lunettes, dunes and swales on alluvial and aeolian deposits. The lake is situated along a major ancient drainage line. The catchment has an average annual rainfall of  and an annual evaporation of . The northern shore of the lake is part of a crown reserve with an area of  designated for the protection of native fauna and flora.

History
The traditional owners of the area are the Noongar peoples who have inhabited the region for tens of thousands of years.

The lakes area was pioneered by the Douglas family. Joe Douglas and his five sons all selected land there in the 1890s, building homesteads and farming.

See also

References

Lakes of the Great Southern (Western Australia)
Saline lakes of Western Australia

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How 'Thor: Ragnarok' Changes The Character's Movie And Comics History
By Joshua Meyer/Nov. 8, 2017 12:00 pm EST
Thor: Ragnarok has been a rousing success for Marvel Studios. Commercially, the film cleaned up at the box office on its opening weekend. Critically, it stands as one of the best-reviewed movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with only the original Iron Man rating one percent higher on Rotten Tomatoes.
I grew up reading Thor and other Marvel Comics — I even had a fan letter printed in the back of Thor, Vol. 2 #36 (2001). And while I enjoyed the new movie immensely, I initially had a few qualms about its treatment of the Thor mythos. And not just the comic book mythos, but also the movie mythos. Director Taiki Waititi casually discards much of the God of Thunder's previous history, jettisoning old supporting characters in favor of new ones...but maybe that was a necessary step to liberate the character.
At the very least, it can be said that Thor: Ragnarok offers a fun, deeply heretical take on what came before it. Let's address some of the sweeping changes the film has made to the Thor series, and why those changes might have been made. Spoilers follow, of course.
Thor and Hulk: New Best Friends
People called Captain America: Civil War "Avengers 2.5" for how it looped in so many Avengers characters and was as much a continuation of Tony Stark's story as it was a Steve Rogers adventure. In the same way, Thor: Ragnarok offers the only continuation of Hulk's story that we are likely to get outside the Avengers franchise. Just last month, our own Hoai-Tran Bui detailed why Marvel won't make a solo Hulk movie (it has to do with rights between Marvel Studios and Universal).
Before its release, Mark Ruffalo had teased that Thor: Ragnarok would be an "intergalactic buddy road movie." The film certainly delivers on that, with Chris Hemsworth's attempted Hulk-whispering a la Black Widow in Age of Ultron ("Sun's going down, sun's going down") being an amusing callback that serves as one of the film's funniest moments.
Yet when did Thor and Hulk become such bosom buddies? In the comics, they are known more for their adversarial history, which is marked by some epic fights — my personal favorite being the one in Incredible Hulk #440, discussed by Collider here in its rundown of best Thor vs. Hulk comic fights. This adversarial tradition carries over into Thor: Ragnarok's arena fight, of course, just as it carried over into The Avengers when Thor and Hulk had their first fracas aboard the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier. Even at the end of that movie, Hulk is still more likely to send Thor flying off-screen with a deadpan punch than to warmly embrace him as a comrade-in-arms. The only time we really see Thor and Bruce Banner bonding is during the party scene in Age of Ultron, where everybody takes turns trying to lift Thor's hammer (though it is easy enough to imagine them hanging out more off-screen in Avengers Tower.)
The truth is, with no solo Hulk movie adventures on the way, pairing these two heavy-hitters off — merging them in a super-sequel, just as Civil War did with Iron Man and Captain America — simply makes the most sense, business-wise and storytelling-wise. It's a classic Marvel team-up: two for the price of one. The "Planet Hulk" storyline from Marvel Comics had already laid the precedent for the Green Goliath in outer space.
Prior to Thor: Ragnarok, the general consensus seemed to be that the first Thor was a second-tier Marvel movie, while its sequel, Thor: The Dark World, was a bottom-tier Marvel movie. In the absence of any foolproof metric, Rotten Tomatoes recently ranked the films of the MCU from worst to best by Tomatometer, and while all of them are Fresh, if not Certified Fresh, guess which one has the lowest Tomatometer rating?
Some people will tell you Thor: The Dark World is outright bad, but personally, the only Marvel movie I have actively disliked is The Incredible Hulk (the second worst Marvel movie by Tomatometer). That movie is deserving of its reputation as the red-headed stepchild of the MCU, mainly because of what a poorly rendered eyesore the Abomination is. "Third-act problems" are a common criticism of comic book movies, but when the Abomination shows up in The Incredible Hulk, the film dissolves into a sub-moronic CGI mess.
That is part of what made it such a joy to witness the Hulk stealing scenes in The Avengers, because there was a sense of the character coming home to himself on the big screen for the first time. By bringing the Hulk into the fold in Thor: Ragnarok, Marvel is also able to give the live-action treatment to one memorable element from Peter David and Gary Frank's three-part "Myth Conceptions" story arc in Incredible Hulk #421-423. In that story arc, Hulk and the Warriors Three faced off against a creature called Hoarfen, the demented progeny of a Frost Giant/Fenris Wolf coupling. Over two decades later, fans now have the chance to see Hulk face off against the Fenris Wolf itself in a larger-than-life screen tussle.
But let's bring this back to Thor. Until Thor: Ragnarok, the god of thunder never had a moment to truly shine, not to his full potential. Ragnarok remedies that. It does for Thor what The Avengers did for the Hulk. Instead of coming home, however, the character leaves home, and in fact, his home of Asgard is completely destroyed by the end of the movie. That is not to say that Asgard could not be rebuilt in the future; in writer J. Michael Straczynski's and artist Olivier Coipel's run on the Thor comic, the city of Asgard does rise again on Earth, in the state of Oklahoma.
For now, though, it is gone. Taika Waititi may have filmed the movie as an action comedy, but in a way, it still lives up to the notion of Ragnarok, the day of doom, insofar as it represents a wholesale destruction of the Thor mythos as we knew it.
Thor's Expendable Supporting Cast
Imagine a Spider-Man story where some super-villain proceeded to round up the staff of the Daily Bugle and kill off most of the recognizable faces like J. Jonah Jameson, while Aunt May and Mary Jane Watson suddenly vanished from the story altogether with no explanation for their disappearance except perhaps a throwaway line from Peter Parker joking about how he and Mary Jane had decided to dump each other.
That is how Thor: Ragnarok chooses to approach the son of Odin's previous supporting cast. Simply put: the movie is not interested in those characters anymore. It tosses aside Jane Foster and Lady Sif, played by Natalie Portman and Jamie Alexander, respectively, with little or no mention of the characters. In true Marvel movie fashion, supporting females seem to be utterly disposable. Another example of this would be Gwyneth Paltrow's Pepper Potts, who thankfully returned in Spider-Man: Homecoming, but who looked very much in danger of being written out of the MCU as another off-screen break-up when Captain America: Civil War came out.
Granted, real-life scheduling issues with actresses (or them simply not caring to return) have played a part in some of these character disappearances. But perhaps if Marvel's female characters were written as more interesting and given meatier parts to play in the story, actresses would be more inclined to find time in their busy schedules to reprise these roles.
Until recently, my significant other had never watched any of the Thor movies. In preparation for Thor: Ragnarok, she rented Thor and Thor: The Dark World and it was amazing to me to hear how invested she was in the relationship between Thor and Jane Foster after she watched those movies. I was worried this might detract from her enjoyment of Thor: Ragnarok since I knew Natalie Portman would not be returning. But after we saw the film on opening weekend, I asked her if she missed the presence of Jane Foster, and she promptly said no. She had taken an instant liking to Tessa Thompson's hard-drinking Valkyrie and Cate Blanchett's nigh-invincible Hela. In the year of Wonder Woman, with the introduction of these two new warrior women as peers to Thor, Jane Foster had been quickly forgotten.
Also gone: Dr. Erik Selvig, played by Stellan Skarsgard, and Jane's assistant, Darcy, played by Kat Dennings. Their exclusion is more understandable since most of the movie takes place off-Earth and obviously, neither of them were in a romantic relationship with Thor (that we know of). But if you missed those characters, if you wondered where they were, then you have a better memory for them than I did. It was not until I came home from the movie that I realized they were not in the movie, either. I had not thought of them once during the whole film.
Should we talk about the Warriors Three? As Ben Pearson reported on Thor: Ragnarok's opening day, this is something that Marvel Studios president and producer Kevin Feige has been pressed to comment on already. When asked to explain what happened to the Warriors Three, specifically, the manner of their untimely deaths, Feige began with a slightly stammering response of, "Well, it was a – they, they had noble ends ..."
Did they? Volstagg, Fandral, and Hogun are characters with a long comics history dating back over fifty years, and the first two Thor movies had taken great pains to show camaraderie between them and Thor. So to see two of them killed off unceremoniously the minute they show up on-screen in the Bifrost chamber in Thor: Ragnarok is somewhat jarring. That is not to say that characters should be regarded as sacred icons whose lives are untouchable for storytelling purposes, but there are ways to do death in a more meaningful context (an example would be when the first season of Netflix's Daredevil killed off a character with a similarly long comics history). Alas, of the three warriors, only Hogun, played by Tadanobu Asano (Ichi the Killer, Silence) receives anything close to a proper send-off, as he comes back from his home of Vanaheim to lead the forces of Asgard against Hela.
Besides the fact that the last movie left him mysteriously side-lined in another realm, why is it that Hogun receives such special consideration here? Well, it may have something to do with marketing. In Japan, Thor was marketed with Hogun-heavy trailers and Hogun-centric character posters. Banners in theater lobbies switched out Heimdall for Hogun, prominently displaying the Japanese actor's face next to that of star Chris Hemsworth and Oscar winners Anthony Hopkins and Natalie Portman.
To kill off such a character with zero fanfare, the way Volstagg and Fandral are killed off, would have potentially alienated some historically underrepresented Asian fans and at the very least been a slap in the face to Japanese audiences who were rooting for Asano as sort of a local celebrity. Ergo, concordantly, vis-a-vis, Hogun gets to make his last stand against Hela before she cartoonishly impales him.
But let's face it: the Warriors Three were never the best movie characters. When juxtaposed with colorful new characters like Jeff Goldblum's Grandmaster, the aforementioned Valkyrie, and Taiki Waititi's Korg (whose mellifluous Kiwi voice sounds like that of Rhys Darby from Flight of the Conchords), the Warriors Three just come off as bland and uninteresting. For Fandral the Dashing, they had already switched out the actors who played him, having Zachary Levi take over for Josh Dallas after the first movie. Be honest, did anyone really notice?
At least Levi can take solace in knowing that he will soon play the lead in his own superhero movie, Shazam!, for Marvel's "Distinguished Competition," DC. As for Volstagg the Voluminous (or Not-So-Voluminous, as the movies depicted him), well, the actor who played him, Ray Wise, already had his chance at playing the lead in another comic book movie: Punisher: War Zone.
Hey, at least Anthony Hopkins' Odin gets to go out with some grace and dignity. No thanks to Loki, ever the trickster, whose machinations have now inadvertently brought about the deaths of his own adoptive mother and father.
Speaking of Loki...
Loki Reformed, Surtur as Comic Relief
For a long time, Tom Hiddleston's Loki was held up as the one exception to the rule where "Marvel's villain problem" was concerned. Though something of a tragic figure in Thor, Loki's arc in that movie, through The Avengers and Thor: The Dark World, is indeed that of a villain. Not an anti-hero, but a deceptive, gleeful, unapologetic villain.
This is the guy who spear-headed an alien invasion of Earth. According to the MCU Wiki, the Battle of New York, otherwise known as "The Incident," led to 74 total deaths, including civilians and NYPD officers, and $88 billion in property damage. This is why, at the end of The Avengers, Loki is referred to as a "war criminal," with the understanding that Thor is taking him away to face Asgardian justice.
Apparently Asgardian justice involves sitting around in a cell for a while, just long enough to cause your loving mom's death, before you are free to run around again and have other intergalactic adventures with your brother (the newly dumb blonde whose intelligence faces the law of diminishing returns even as his film franchise attempts to reverse that law). But hey, Marvel clearly realized the value of Loki a long time ago, beefing up his part in Thor: The Dark World, with director Alan Taylor confessing to /Film back in 2013 that "we sort of 'Loki-ed it up' a little bit" as they were going back to do additional photography for that film.
Knowing the studio and fandom's love for Loki, it might seem as though the popularity of the character has willfully superseded on-screen continuity in Thor: Ragnarok, with Thor posing for selfies on the streets of New York while his brother the war criminal (who again, attacked the same city) stands next to him nonchalantly. But in all fairness, Doctor Strange is immediately alerted to Loki's presence, and as Earth's magical protector, he does conjure a portal to swallow Loki and keep the god of mischief neutralized as a threat, at least while Loki is in freefall for 30 minutes inside that portal.
Besides, in the hyper-reality of a shared universe based on Marvel Comics, it is not any stranger to think of Loki being redeemed than it would be for a character like Magneto in the X-Men comics to switch sides (which happens quite often). There are also hints that Loki's days as a pure villain may not be over, since the end of Thor: Ragnarok insinuates that he may have palmed the Tesseract again. In Avengers: Infinity War, it would be very much in-character for Loki to take on the role of an ingratiating advisor to Thanos, similar to how Mephisto, the Silver Surfer villain, acted in the 1991 Infinity Gauntlet comic book mini-series.
Finally, we must spare a word for Surtur, the fire demon. For many comic book geeks, Walt Simonson's "Surtur Saga" from Thor #340-353 has a reputation as one of the greatest Thor stories of all time. In countdowns on both CBR and ComicBook.com, the story ranked as #1, with the latter site noting back in 2014 that "its epic structure and scope" had all the makings of a classic film.
Thor: Ragnarok is maybe not what they had in mind. It is clear right from the beginning, from the way Surtur is goofily voiced by Clancy Brown, that the movie does not take the character seriously (any more than Iron Man 3 took the Mandarin seriously). This is a shame, really. If done the right way, Surtur could have been truly frightening, similar to Balrog in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. It almost makes a person want to grab Taiki Waititi by the lapel and say, "Hey, c'mon! You're a New Zealander! Show some pride in your fire demons!"
A scary Surtur would not necessarily have had to conflict with the film's comedic tone, either. The original Ghostbusters, for instance, was able to effortlessly blend comedic elements with potential end-of-the-world horror. Yet, maybe juggling horror with action and comedy in this film would have been too much. As it is, what the film lacks in reverence for Surtur, it makes up for by staging thrilling action sequences to the tune of Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song."
Whatever else it is, Thor: Ragnarok is — like Captain America: The Winter Soldier — a movie with real consequences for its hero and the MCU. Whereas Thor: The Dark World merely feinted at Thor losing a hand, Ragnarok actually strips him of his hammer and an eye. It will be interesting to see if Avengers: Infinity War reunites Thor with Lady Sif or at least has him take a moment to mourn the loss of his friends the Warriors Three with a line of dialogue.
Ultimately, Thor: Ragnarok – ahem – brings the thunder in such a delightful way that it can perhaps be forgiven for hastily dispensing with less effective elements of previous Thor movies. Like its title hero, the Thor franchise now stands newly reenergized, crackling with blue lightning. While parts of the character's movie and comics history may be underserved by this wild ride of a sequel, it has successfully raised the character up from low on the totem pole of Marvel movies to a place where, now, suddenly, everybody's talking about Thor.


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Q: How to locate specific string in word document and replace with automatic table of contents with Excel VBA script? I am writing a VBA script in Excel which needs to add a table of contents to a pre-existing word document in a specific location.
I have a word document with the following text somewhere in it: [contents_table_placeholder]
I want to find the text [contents_table_placeholder] and replace it with a word document automatic contents table.
However, I am struggling to get the table of contents to appear anywhere other than at the start of the document. My initial approach was to do a find and replace (replacing [contents_table_placeholder] with an empty string). I thought this would place the cursor in the correct place to then add the contents table but unfortunately this method doesn't work.
Sub createContentsPage()

Dim objWord As Word.Application
Dim inputDoc As Word.Document
Dim rngWord As Word.Range

Set objWord = New Word.Application

With objWord
    .Visible = True
    Set inputDoc = .Documents.Open( _
                Filename:="C:\test.docx", _
                ReadOnly:=False)
End With

With inputDoc.Content.Find
    .Text = "[contents_table_placeholder]"
    .Replacement.Text = ""
    .Forward = True
    .Wrap = wdFindStop
    .Format = False
    .MatchCase = False
    .MatchWholeWord = False
    .MatchWildcards = False
    .MatchSoundsLike = False
    .MatchAllWordForms = False
    .ExecuteReplace:=wdReplaceOne
End With

With inputDoc
    Set rngWord = .Range(Start:=0, End:=0)

    .TablesOfContents.Add _
        Range:=rngWord, _
        UseFields:=True, _
        UseHeadingStyles:=True, _
        LowerHeadingLevel:=2, _
        UpperHeadingLevel:=1
End With

Set objWord = Nothing
Set inputDoc = Nothing
Set rngWord = Nothing

End Sub

A: After other attempts failed, I came up with the following work-around solution which involves creating the table of contents at the top of the document first and then cutting and pasting into the desired location.
Sub createContentsPage()

Dim objWord As Word.Application
Dim inputDoc As Word.Document
Dim rngWord As Word.Range

Set objWord = New Word.Application

With objWord
    .Visible = True
    Set inputDoc = .Documents.Open( _
            Filename:="C:\test.docx", _
            ReadOnly:=False)
End With

'Create table of contents at top of document
With inputDoc
    Set rngWord = .Range(Start:=0, End:=0)
    .TablesOfContents.Add _
    Range:=rngWord, _
    UseFields:=True, _
    UseHeadingStyles:=True, _
    LowerHeadingLevel:=2, _
    UpperHeadingLevel:=1
End With

'Scroll to top of document
objWord.Selection.HomeKey Unit:=wdStory

'Select contents table
objWord.Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1, Extend:=wdExtend

'Cut contents table
objWord.Selection.Cut

'Find placeholder and delete (cursor will remain at place holder)
With inputDoc.Content.Find
    .Text = "[contents_table_placeholder]"
    .Replacement.Text = ""
    .Forward = True
    .Wrap = wdFindStop
    .Format = False
    .MatchCase = False
    .MatchWholeWord = False
    .MatchWildcards = False
    .MatchSoundsLike = False
    .MatchAllWordForms = False
    .ExecuteReplace:=wdReplaceOne
End With

'Insert new line
objWord.Selection.TypeParagraph

'Paste contents table
objWord.Selection.PasteAndFormat (wdFormatOriginalFormatting)

inputDoc.Save
inputDoc.Close

Set objWord = Nothing
Set inputDoc = Nothing
Set rngWord = Nothing

End Sub


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Q: Laravel not able to route to controller Here is my controller class:
class CallrequestController extends BaseController {

    public function getIndex()
    {
        return View::make('results');
    }

}

which is saved in:
--app
  --controllers
    --CallrequestController.php

then I autoloaded via composer:
composer dump-autoload
then i add the route to route file:
Route::controller('getrequest','CallrequestController');

here is the registered route via php artisan routes:
+--------+-------------------------------------------------------------------+------+-------------------------------------+----------------+---------------+
| Domain | URI                                                               | Name | Action                              | Before Filters | After Filters |
+--------+-------------------------------------------------------------------+------+-------------------------------------+----------------+---------------+
|        | GET|HEAD /                                                        |      | Closure                             |                |               |
|        | GET|HEAD callrequest/index/{one?}/{two?}/{three?}/{four?}/{five?} |      | CallrequestController@getIndex      |                |               |
|        | GET|HEAD callrequest                                              |      | CallrequestController@getIndex      |                |               |
|        | GET|HEAD|POST|PUT|PATCH|DELETE callrequest/{_missing}             |      | CallrequestController@missingMethod |                |               |
+--------+-------------------------------------------------------------------+------+-------------------------------------+----------------+---------------+

yet its not routing to the controller, i get the default "Whoops, looks like something went wrong." error message.
what am i doing wrong?
edit also here is a sample url:
mydomainname.com/getrequest


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Tim McGraw and Faith Hill's Daughter Maggie Is Feeding Frontline Workers During Coronavirus Pandemic
Tim McGraw's daughter Maggie is helping feed frontline workers during the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, and her parents couldn't be prouder. The 21-year-old, who is the middle daughter of McGraw and his wife, fellow country star Faith Hill, is volunteering with a Nashville-area nonprofit called Feed the Front Line.
According to the organization's website, Feed the Front Line aims to feed frontline workers and others directly affected by the pandemic, and support local restaurants and their employees at the same time. Donations help Feed the Front Line pay the staff at partner restaurants to cook meals, which are then delivered, free of charge, to area workers and others in need. The group's mission is similar to that of Feeding Nashville, established by Hayley Hubbard and her friend Taylin Lewan.
"It's a really great project. I'm really proud of her," McGraw gushes to TV host Ellen Degeneres of his daughter's work, calling the group's work "a double win." On Feed the Front Line's website, Maggie McGraw is listed as working on corporate and individual partnerships.
The "I Called Mama" singer recently told the Boot that Maggie and her boyfriend had been staying with him and Hill for a few weeks during the pandemic. Their oldest daughter, Gracie, opted to stay in California during virus-related shutdowns, but the couple also enjoyed getting to spend more time with their youngest daughter, Audrey, who is headed to college in the fall.
"We're doing well, thank you," McGraw told Degeneres of his family. "I mean, we are homebodies, so it pretty much suits us to be home."
McGraw appeared on Wednesday's (May 13) episode of Ellen DeGeneres to chat and sing his new single, "I Called Mama," which is reminiscent of his raising. He admits he cried the first time he played the song for wife Faith.
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Source: Tim McGraw and Faith Hill's Daughter Maggie Is Feeding Frontline Workers During Coronavirus Pandemic
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