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Ferlito re-elected Linux Australia president
Sydneysider John Ferlito will continue to be the president of Linux Australia after he was elected unopposed in the organisation's elections which were held recently.
Ferlito came to the presidency in a rather unusual way in 2010 when the elected president, James Turnbull, chose to take up a job in the US.
Though he was not next in the line of succession, Ferlito put up his hand up to take over after the vice-president at the time, Lindsay Holmswood, opted out due to the impending arrival of a child.
The list of office-bearers for 2011 was made public at the Linux Australia annual general meeting which was held in Brisbane on Australia Day, the venue being the same as that of the ongoing 12th Australian national Linux conference.
The other office-bearers are: Alice Boxhall (vice-president), Peter Lieverdink (secretary), Joshua Hesketh (treasurer), and Mary Gardiner, Kelly Yeoh and Michael Carden (committee members).
There was one nomination for every post apart from that of the committee members.
In his president's report, Ferlito (left) said that the results of the membership survey, which had been conducted by Turnbull, were ready and would be announced by the end of the ongoing LCA.
He also pointed out that this year, Linux Australia had expanded its support of conferences to Wordcamp 2011, PyConAU 2010 and Drupal Down Under 2011. Until now, the organisation has only financially supported LCA.
The organisation used its grants scheme in 2010, roughly totalling $20,000, to support the Sydney Education Expo, Software Freedom Day in Canberra and Melbourne, the first stage of Sydney lawyer Brendan Scott's research into open source licence compliance and also sponsored the Libre Graphics Meeting 2010.
During the past year, Ferlito also worked as a consultant to accounting company, Muli, in trying to develop an open source equivalent for the API that is used to interface with financial management software under the standard business reporting programme (SBR).
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Renovatie of renoveren (uit het Latijn: renovare = vernieuwen) is herstellen of wanneer nodig gedeeltelijk vernieuwen van een bestaand pand, waardoor het weer bruikbaar wordt naar de dan geldende maatstaven en normen. Wanneer een gebouw geheel wordt gesloopt en opnieuw wordt opgebouwd, wordt gesproken van herbouw of vervangende nieuwbouw.

Renovatie is het uitvoeren van activiteiten om een gebouw te laten voldoen aan moderne eisen vanuit wet- en regelgeving of aan een moderne vraagstelling inzake het gebruik (de functionaliteit) van een gebouw.

Bij renovatie kunnen karakteristieke eigenschappen gecombineerd worden met moderne vernieuwingen. Een renovatie wordt veelal uitgevoerd door een aannemer of bouwbedrijf.

Renovatie in Nederland
Voor renovatie heeft een beheerder/eigenaar de uitdrukkelijke toestemming nodig van de gebruikers van het gebouw/de gebouwen) en wel ten minste 70
% van de gebruikers). Daarnaast is het voor de beheerder/eigenaar mogelijk om na de renovatie de huur aan te passen. Dit om de investering terug te kunnen verdienen. Tijdens de renovatie kan een gebruiker/bewoner vaak niet in het pand blijven dat hij/zij huurt. Vanwege de overlast is de beheerder/eigenaar verplicht om de gebruikers/bewoners tegemoet te komen middels een "renovatievergoeding".

Renovatie en restauratie
Met restauratie wordt bedoeld het terugbrengen van een beschadigd of gedeeltelijk verloren gegaan voorwerp naar een van tevoren afgesproken toestand. Een extreme vorm van renovatie of restauratie is het optrekken van nieuwbouw achter een bestaande gevel. Voor deze werkwijze bestaat de term façadisme.

Er zijn vele voorbeelden van renovatie gecombineerd met restauratie, zoals bij panden die onder monumentenzorg vallen. Ze worden zoveel als mogelijk in de oude toestand herstelt, waarbij wel aan de geldende veiligheidseisen en gebruiksstandaard wordt tegemoetgekomen. Bijvoorbeeld oude grachtenpanden en boerderijen kunnen zo voor het nageslacht behouden blijven.

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The Nelson Family Smorgasbord: Quirks!
1. Eating to me is for enjoyment purposes only. If I cannot enjoy my food, I refuse to eat it, or I will save it for later. (i.e.-Our play group Easter egg hunt party...some of you may have noticed I stowed away my plate of "preschool delights" and hid it in the stroller to eat for later. If the atmosphere is not conducive to eating, I feel it's a total waste of consumption! Who wants to wolf down a meal when you can't even enjoy it!
2. When I wake up, I have to make my bed immediately or I feel completely out of order! When the bed's made, I feel refreshed and ready to tackle my morning errands!
3. I never put a sandwich or a cookie up to my mouth. I break off bite sizes and pop them in one by one...it drives Jordan crazy.
4. I still love putting both of my legs behind my head. When I was little, my mom would come into my room to find me on the bed reading with my legs perfectly pretzled behind my head.
5. Ever since I was a little girl, I've been terrified of getting a double chin (I know!!...this is probably the quirkiest of all!), so you will often see me doing my "neck stretch and veiny ostrich exercise" (honestly, I don't know what else to call it!) It's pretty gross and my veins will pop out of my neck and you can touch them..ewww!
Yikes...Fortunately, I think most of you already know about all of Kristin's Quirks, and you still love me in spite!
Ha ha ha ha!! I laughed at this post because they are all so true. As a former roommate of Kristin Dahlquist...I can attest to the double chin one...and the breaking off pieces of a cookie one. (I remember sharing a cookie with you once and you did that and I thought it was because you didn't want my germs. Was it really just because of this quirky habit of yours? or was it my germs?) Can I add another quirk?? You also have a the odd behavior of sticking things under the door while people are in the bathroom!! Yes. Don't try to deny it. I laughed so hard because Andrew does that to me occasionally. The first time he did it..I was laughing so hard thinking that I am destined to live with such a quirk forever. Thanks for sharing.
Kristin, you are hilarious! I can honestly picture those neck-exercises . . . maybe from a distant EFY memory . . . or maybe because I have the same fear and haven't known how to combat it.
I think you would be a great double-chin-reducing personal trainer....ya know, as if you didn't have enough to do anyway!
Kristin thanks for making me laugh! You are too cute. I love that you saved your food from the Easter party, didn't even notice. But it was definitely too chaotic to enjoy your food!
LEGS BEHIND YOUR HEAD?? This I have to see!
Kristin you are soooooo cute! I loved this post! I love all your quirks and find them completely charming and adorable! It was fun to think back to some of them from when we were roommates. Fun times!
I have to agree with Rachelle, the sticking things under the bathroom door is definately such a quirk for you! I also loved the double chin because it is very true! When Elder Bednar was my stake president in Arkansas he'd always say, "Let your wierdness work for you"..he was referring to missionary work, but I think we can apply it to quirks too!
Kristin I love the quirks. The double chin thing is definetely something I have never even heard of, you'll have to show me sometime.
I love quirks...it makes life fun because no two people are exactly the same! And I love your quirks! How cute! Tell your sister she is very talented, that book is adorable!


SAN JOSE — Designers from Europe, including experts behind dramatic upgrades of rail hubs in The Netherlands, have been hired to undertake a far-reaching reinvention of downtown San Jose's Diridon train station, a key focal point of Google's proposed transit village nearby.
Bay Area government officials have hired Benthem Crouwel, an architect that re-designed Western Europe transit hubs in Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Utrecht and The Hague; and Arcadis, a design and engineering consultant, to "reinvent" the Diridon Station, all part of a dramatic upgrade planned for the western edges of downtown San Jose that includes the Google transit-oriented development.
"Diridon Station is set to become one of the busiest transit hubs in the nation," said Steve Truman, a contract manager with Arcadis.
"Reinvent Diridon Station" is the goal of the efforts by Benthem Crouwel and Arcadis, according to an announcement by the designers, which were hired by the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, the city of San Jose, Caltrain and the California High Speed Rail Authority.
Proposed public and private development efforts next to and near the Diridon transit hub are among the activities that are expected to create an increase in travel connections at the train station.
Mountain View-based Google anticipates that 15,000 to 20,000 of its employees would work in a transit-oriented community of office buildings, stores, restaurants and open spaces in downtown San Jose.
San Jose-based Adobe Systems plans a dramatic expansion of its three-building downtown headquarters campus by adding fourth office tower at an adjacent site, potentially doubling Adobe's current workforce in the area from the current 3,500 workers.
"In the past decade, an incredible redevelopment of the largest train stations of the Netherlands has been accomplished," said Daniel Jongtien, partner at Benthem Crouwel.
Diridon Station is a transportation hub that connects light rail, Caltrain, Amtrak, the Capitol Corridor, ACE Train and bus lines. Within the next several years, a BART line is scheduled to stop at the Diridon transit site. It's even possible that someday, a high-speed rail line will provide connections to the fast-growing boom towns of the Central Valley as well as Southern California.
Plenty is at stake in creating a new Diridon Station that both connects to rail lines with far-flung destinations, as well as creates a gateway to a downtown San Jose poised to undergo dramatic changes.
"It is critically important that we have the right concept and right design for an exceptional experience for travelers and visitors and one that works well for all the transit operators at Diridon Station," Walesh said.
Some observers believe Diridon Station can be transformed into the Grand Central Terminal of the West Coast. Walesh said the revamped transit complex can make San Jose a travel gateway.


Large-scale economic crises are associated not only with economic downturns, but also with political turnover. In this paper, we study the impact of different types of crises such as sovereign and domestic defaults, banking crises, economic recessions on political turnover of the top politicians: heads of the state and central bank governors. According to our findings, only default on domestic debt increases the probability of politician's turnover but not the default on external debt. Which, as we argue, is due to the fact that the later is not directly felt by the voters. In addition we find that although currency crises increase chances of head of central bank turnover it does not affect tenure of head of the state. Presumably, this is the case since currency crises is in the area of responsibility of the CB governor in public eyes.


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"Males are not really researched, simply because it's hard to get subjects to observe," he says. "There is a very real stigma with eating disorders. Men think it's 'for girls' or that it's gay."
When men do not enter treatment programs, they do not give researchers the chance to understand their stories, their risks, and their successes. So leaning on published statistics does not always tell the whole story of men with eating disorders. "The data can be weak or just old," Dr. Carson says.
Since eating disorders are not typically associated with being male, and since there are not many published articles about how these disorders impact men, those males who do have eating disorders could be struggling in silence.
Their behaviors may be explained away or hidden altogether, and they may not even recognize that their thoughts and behaviors are indicative of an eating disorder.
It is a difficult issue, but thankfully, there is a growing awareness that men can deal with eating disorder issues. That means there are many new and innovative programs that could help men to recover from the issues impacting their health and happiness.
Any man could develop an eating disorder. These issues do not discriminate based on factors like age, race, or sexual preference. However, prior research suggests that eating disorders are more common among men who identify as gay. According to the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders (ANAD), about 14 percent of men who identify as gay have bulimia, and over 20 percent have symptoms consistent with anorexia.
That high prevalence could be due, in part, to cultural pressures within this community of men. NEDA reports that men who identify as gay tend to weigh significantly less than men who identify as heterosexual, and they tend to idealize an underweight body type. These are men with a drive for thinness, and they might be willing to do almost anything to achieve that body shape, even if it involves an eating disorder.
This has been, for years, a standard explanation for eating disorders in men. But Dr. Carson says that research is shifting that belief.
"It's clear that LGBTQ people are overrepresented in eating disorder literature in males, and that might be because that's who comes to seek treatment. They ask for help, so it appears that there are more of them with eating disorders," he says. "And they have a lot to discuss. Some have a conflict with their sexuality, and they use weight loss as a treatment. Losing weight reduces the sex drive, making the issue less prominent.""But there is a movement to call this the 'male myth of eating disorders,'" he says. "Eating disorders are not only a gay man's issue. The same doesn't apply for lesbian women, so why should it be true in men? And if it's a stigma that keeps men out of treatment, it is something that should be discussed."Dr. Carson stresses that men who do not identify as gay can still develop eating disorders. After all, the cultural expectation of beauty for heterosexual men involves a body that is both thin and muscular. A V-shape, packed with muscles in the shoulders and tapering down to slim legs, may not be achievable for all men, unless they resort to unhealthy habits in order to push their bodies into this particular shape.There is a link between victimization with sexual harassment and male eating disorders, Dr. Carson says. People who are targeted due to the way they look can become interested in changing that outer appearance, so they will not become victims another time. Bullying due to appearance has also been linked to the development of eating disorders in some men.Men who participate in sports like wrestling, swimming, and gymnastics can also be vulnerable to the development of an eating disorder, Dr. Carson says, because these athletes might use diet and relentless exercise in order to change their bodies in ways that are consistent with the sport. Those changes could be disastrous for the health of the body as a whole.The way a man feels about his body will help to influence what sort of eating disorder is in play. These are a few eating disorders that clinicians recognize, and any of them could be a problem for men:
Anorexia, in which the man reduces food intake in order to make the body smaller
Bulimia, characterized by food binges that are followed by purges with vomiting, laxatives, or exercise
Binge eating disorder (BED), which involves food binges but no food purges
Eating disorder not otherwise specified (EDNOS), in which men have an unhealthy relationship with food, weight, or both, but the behaviors don't fit neatly into the other clinical guidelines for eating disorders
Of those eating disorders, BED is the most common among men. About 2 percent of men have BED, according to NEDA, and about 40 percent of all people who have BED are men. There are some eating disorders that seem to impact men more often than women.
"Body dysmorphia, which isn't really recognized as an eating disorder, impacts a high amount of males," Dr. Carson says. "It is, in some ways, the antithesis of anorexia. A male with this disorder wants to gain weight, not lose it. And it can morph into an Adonis complex or bigorexia."
A man with body dysmorphia is still, at his core, concerned with the way his body looks, and he is likely to use diet and exercise, along with surgical corrections and medications, to change his body in order to meet that cultural expectation of shape. That's what makes body dysmorphia fall into a continuum of eating disorders.
While eating disorders are a fact of life for many men, there is a great deal of cultural stigma attached to a man who struggles with his body image and/or his nutritional status.
"For so long, eating disorders have been considered a female condition, so males shy away from it," Dr. Carson says. "They aren't females, so they think it can't happen to them, or they don't want to be given a female label or a female disease."
That stigma could be devastating to a man, and it could impact his recovery. According to ANAD, men are less likely to search for treatment options for eating disorders, simply because they think only women develop these diseases. If they recognize their symptoms at all, they may attribute them to some other illness or issue, so they may not ask for specific eating disorder therapy. Should these men know that they do have eating disorders, they may assume that there are no treatment programs that could help, as they may assume that men are not welcome in eating disorder programs since most are made for women.
Just as men may not seek out treatment for themselves, their family members and friends may not offer the sort of guidance that could lead to an eating disorder treatment program. These family members and friends may not intervene, simply because they may not recognize the signs of eating disorders in men. Dr. Carson uses anorexia in males as an example of this phenomenon.
"Anorexia in males can be very different. They just don't look as thin as women with anorexia do. Women look really thin because they use starvation. Men use excessive exercise, and when people see them, they just think these men are slim," he says. "In reality, they are much too slender, but it can be easier to hide."
Even clinicians may overlook signs of eating disorders in men. "In the past, the clinical reference books didn't even mention men. Up until recently, the DSM defined anorexia with a lack of menstrual periods. Men were just invisible. A lot of that is changing now," Dr. Carson says.
Some men add to the issue by engaging in disordered eating habits that are considered culturally acceptable for men. For example, research from Oregon State University suggests that men tend to exercise much more frequently than their female counterparts. Men tend to get at least 30 minutes of exercise each day, while women get much less.
A man with anorexia could mask that issue by spending a great deal of time at the gym. He could run on the treadmill, hoping to burn calories, or he could spend hours doing fast weightlifting moves in order to burn away fat cells. His behavior is driven by his eating disorder and his relentless need to get smaller, thinner, and leaner. But his behavior might seem, to an outsider, like a behavior that is acceptable or even desirable for a man. If most men go to the gym, this man might fit right in. His behavior may not raise any red flags for the people who love him.
Similarly, men with BED might take in a huge amount of calories each and every day during a binge, but those episodes might be culturally acceptable behaviors for men. Some people believe that men, if given the opportunity, will sit down and eat everything they can find. This is a cultural expectation, and it makes binging at least familiar, if not accepted, behavior for all men.
Men with anorexia or bulimia might be influenced in the opposite direction, too. If it is assumed that lazy, unappealing men eat anything they can eat in great amounts, men with anorexia or bulimia who have very strict rules about what they can and cannot eat might be praised for that behavior. It might seem as though they are pushing back against a negative stereotype, and they might get recognition, not concern, for the food choices they make.
Men with body dysmorphic disorder may hide their behavior by suggesting that they are simply trying to change the way they look in one very small, very specific way. They may suggest that they will stop making changes once they have achieved that one tiny change, but for someone with body dysmorphic disorder, there are always new things to change.
There are red flags to watch for, Dr. Carson says, including pec or calf implants, and steroid abuse. These are strong body changes, and they could indicate that something new and unusual is happening; however, they could be issues men try to hide.
When behaviors are hidden or explained away, they can keep families from stepping in and providing appropriate help. That means families that do not recognize signs of an eating disorder might not hold an important conversation about eating disorders known as an intervention.
In an intervention, the family talks openly about the signs and symptoms of eating disorders seen in the man they love. The family discusses how these issues come about, and how they can be treated. The family then asks the man with the eating disorder to enroll in a treatment program and get the appropriate help for that disorder, as soon as possible. Sometimes, the family even escorts the man to care at the end of the conversation.
An intervention like this is easier to hold when the man agrees that there is an eating disorder present. Eating disorders in men can come with a great deal of denial. Men just may not realize that this is an issue, and they may not agree to get care at the end of an eating disorder intervention.
"Men don't get treatment because they are scared to admit it, or because they are not aware that it exists," Dr. Carson says. These men are not being stubborn or difficult. They simply do not understand what is happening right now or what should happen in the future.
Men like this may need to have interventions multiple times before they understand why they are driven to eat, exercise, or diet in a specific way. Only then may they become aware of the true nature of the eating disorder, and only then may they agree to get help. That help involves more than weight loss, weight gain, or a change in body shape.
"Men often want to think of an eating disorder as an issue of weight. They don't see that this disorder deals with deeper problems," Dr. Carson says. "The feeding can be corrected, but underlying issues also need to be addressed. How these men perceive themselves and how others treat them (bullying, teasing, etc.)." That is the sort of help a treatment program can provide.
Holding an intervention even one time can be a draining process for families. Holding the same talk multiple times can seem downright exhausting. But it is vital for families to persist and continue the discussion, as untreated eating disorders in men can come with some devastating consequences.
NEDA lists health issues per eating disorder.
Anorexia: Heart damage, brittle bones, muscle loss, kidney failure, and hair loss
Bulimia: Tooth decay, peptic ulcers, gastric rupture, and electrolyte imbalances
Binge eating disorder: High blood pressure, high cholesterol, type 2 diabetes, and gallbladder disease
EDNOS: Some of all of the above, depending on the behavior involved
The health issues associated with an eating disorder can, in time, prove fatal. The body needs the right amount of nourishment at the right time in order to perform at an elite level. People who eat too little or too much can put their very lives at risk.
But the consequences of an eating disorder do not stop with the physical realm. There are mental health consequences, too. Mental Health America reports that people with eating disorders can face co-occurring mental health conditions, including depression and anxiety. Those mental health concerns can make people feel even worse about their bodies, and that can lead to even more disordered eating behavior. Sometimes, men with eating disorders can develop drug and/or alcohol addictions as they attempt to medicate the distress the disordered eating can cause. Those addictions can make people feel yet worse, and that could make the urge to engage in disordered eating even stronger.
Relationships can also suffer, when a man has an eating disorder. It is hard to connect in an open and honest way with other people when a man is hiding the one thing that is most important to him. If he cannot talk about the way he feels about his body, or if he does not feel as though he can discuss the foods he either craves or ignores, even though these are thoughts that consume him, he may not feel as though he can have an authentic relationship. He may withdraw from his relationships altogether, or he may lash out at the few people who are trying to help him. As his isolation grows, his need to medicate with food may grow yet stronger.
"I'm in the field and there's not that many places to get treatment. I've heard that the number of facilities is increasing, but the facilities are not specific. Most take women and men. It's hard to even find a place to refer men with eating disorders," Dr. Carson says. "And finding the right place is so important. Men can feel shame in asking for help, and sometimes, they can even feel shame while in treatment. In some facilities there are 35 women and two men, so those men can feel really disconnected."
Dr. Carson recommends looking for facilities that both accept male patients and that have a large number of male patients. A man should not be the only male in the program at that time.
He will need peers, and he will need a treatment team that is accustomed to assisting men with eating disorders.
"I will know that men are seeking help when treatment centers for men start opening up," Dr. Carson says. Families may need to be selective, but there is help available.
Recovery for men with eating disorders is possible. It could start now. If you, or someone you love, are dealing with this issue, ask for help. It could change your life.
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Thats strange should have shown a code whats he reading the codes with?
Was it via the OBDII diagnostics port using a computer.
Im surprised the laptop didnt show any errors, Shame ur so far away or id have a proper look for you.
no probs fella,the car is running fine tho,should i leave it for a while or what ?


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I made this for my wife's 50th birthday. She's always been very supportive of my woodworking hobby so it only made sense to give her a homemade gift. I had some walnut scraps leftover from the spice box I built last winter to use as a thin piece of contrast with the oak and maple. The back of the frame is beveled at approx 22 degrees and I cut a slot to accept a 3" piece to act as a stand. I got carried away and went ahead and made my own fasteners for the back panel…. just for fun.
You did a beautiful job on this frame and that artwork looks very nice in it.
Lots of nice features here!
The maple works perfectly as a matting substitute and the stand is quite simple, functional, and clever.
Wow. Really eye catching. That piece of walnut is a very nice feature and draws attention.


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"The stars say that all of death's speech is a lie, that everything is possible with and within them, that they owe to us, ask to be ours and are bound to be reached by the most passionate, loyal and faithful of us, that they have been created to be our guides, to give us the thirst of absolute, to learn us to fly, that they want to see and feel us flying, and that soon, as the world of men will be collapsing of the great Lie that rules its sinister march to death, the universe will have to carry testimony and to celebrate the marriage of the highest earthly aspirations and celestial beauties.
My presence here may appear incongruous since, formerly, I am a musician and absolutely not a graphist. I created this page years ago for a reason I don't remember and never used it. Few weeks ago, I have had a great wandering among deviant galleries and found many works I really liked. I thought to myself that the best way to keep them in sight would be to create a personal page and to put those artists into watch. While creating it, I discovered the existence of this ghost page I had never fed (this explains the "artist since 2002" which has no real meaning).
Consequently, my first aim is to be able to keep an eye on the evolution of the work of the people I've discovered and that I really like. On the other hand, I am learning myself to make photos and to manipulate them in PS. I do this in all humility, in all simplicity and in all awareness of the great lacks of my skills in this domain. I may use this account to submit sometimes things I'm working on, maybe to have enlightened advices, critics and tips. If you pass by my page and have the will to do it, don't hesitate, I take all of them.
Skin of choice: pale one, for the beauty of marbled complexions and the taste of velvtet and milky carnal embraces.
Favorite visual artist GOD. Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, Vivaldi, Preisner (I could not mention them before). Favorite movies Breaking the Waves (the most passionate one ever seen and maybe ever). The Fountain Favorite bands / musical artists The Cure, Dead Can Dance, Samael, Rosa+Crvx, Das Ich, Elend, Paradise Lost, Tiamat, Mylene Farmer. Favorite writers J. Lorrain, Ch. Baudelaire, F. Nietzsche, E.Hillesum, J.K. Huysmans, H.Hesse, J.R.R.Tolkien, O.Wilde Favorite games The Enigma of the Absolute - Conversing with the stars, but is it really just a game or a mania ? Favorite gaming platform the sacred in all its form in general, the martyr and the tragic of our existence in particular. Tools of the Trade Passion. All that give a meaning to our existence and to the fact that we don\'t lay six feet u Other Interests Arts and Culture (Music, Graphics, Litterature, Philosophy). Beauty. The restoration of the Sacred.
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that was a belated thank you for all the es my friend! Really glad you liked my work!
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Utah lawmakers' plan to reduce the number of people covered by a voter-passed Medicaid expansion could cost nearly $72 million.
"We are trying hard to figure out how to get the coverage that the voters said that they wanted" while meeting constitutional obligations to balance the budget, Republican Sen. Jake Anderegg said.
"It wasn't a suggestion to the Legislature, it was legislation passed through citizenship," said Andrew Roberts, a spokesman for Utah Decides Healthcare.
The uncertainty is scary for Alecia Bales. The Utah woman has five children, and the family lives on her husband's salary of about $40,000 a year, putting them just above the poverty line.
While her children have Medicaid coverage, she and her husband pay $600 a month for insurance through his work. The family is about to move into a home they helped build themselves, but she said their insurance is so expensive they'll have to drop their coverage to make the payments.
"It scares me because there are so many things that can go wrong," said Bales, 41, who has thyroid problems, chronic migraines and other health issues.
The couple would be eligible for Medicaid coverage under the voter-approved law, but in lawmakers' version people whose incomes are above the poverty line would buy insurance on the federal exchange.
Bales said she's that coverage would still be out of reach.
"I feel really frustrated," she said. "Why vote at all if they're just going to repeal what you voted for?"
State leaders argue that some of that surplus is one-time money that couldn't be used to plug potential Medicaid shortfalls in the future. A state budget analysis found a sales tax increase approved by voters could fall $10.4 million short of funding the program by the year 2021.
The voter-approved law would fully expand Medicaid under President Barack Obama's signature health care law to people making up to 138 percent of the poverty line, or about 150,000 low-income people.
Lawmakers' version scales that back to 100 percent of the line, so the state would need a special waiver to get the extra federal money promised to help fund the expansion.
Utah lawmakers said they've gotten assurances that the Trump administration would sign off. Still, it would be the first state in the country to get such a waiver.
If the waiver isn't approved, the state Senate proposal would repeal the expansion altogether, though lawmakers say that provision could change in the future.


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The Long Song | PBS MASTERPIECE
This is not just another slave story, but one of "slavery, revolution, freedom, and love" in 19th century Jamaica. ~ Vida
This three-part miniseries based on Andrea Levy's award-winning novel about the end of slavery in Jamaica follows July (Tamara Lawrance, King Charles III), an indomitable, young slave who works on a sugarcane plantation with her detestable mistress, Caroline Mortimer (Hayley Atwell, The Avengers).
Their lives change with the arrival of the charming new overseer, Robert Goodwin (Jack Lowden, Dunkirk) who sets out to improve the plantation for both the slaves and the mistress. "A beautiful, moving, horrifying adaptation of Levy's unsimple tale." —The Guardian (London)
Episode 1 – Airing 1/31/2021 @ 10:00 PM
In early 1800s Jamaica, Caroline adopts the child slave July as her maid. July grows up to witness the Christmas Rebellion and the radical transformation of her world.
The Long Song follows July and Caroline's story, and the way their lives change with the arrival of a charming new overseer, who has big plans to change the plantation — and the lives of those working there.
Episode 2 – Airing 2/7/2021 @ 10:00 PM
The handsome overseer Robert arrives, sparking a bitter rivalry between July and her mistress. Meanwhile, the field hands rebel against Robert's work demands.
Facing labor unrest and financial ruin for the plantation, Robert's sanity starts to unravel, with devastating effects on July. Years later, she makes a remarkable discovery.
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The Long Song: A Novel by Andrea Levy
THE AUTHOR OF SMALL ISLAND TELLS THE STORY OF THE LAST TURBULENT YEARS OF SLAVERY AND THE EARLY YEARS OF FREEDOM IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY JAMAICA
Small Island introduced Andrea Levy to America and was acclaimed as "a triumph" (San Francisco Chronicle). It won both the Orange Prize and the Whitbread Book of the Year Award, and has sold over a million copies worldwide. With The Long Song, Levy once again reinvents the historical novel.
Told in the irresistibly willful and intimate voice of Miss July, with some editorial assistance from her son, Thomas, The Long Song is at once defiant, funny, and shocking. The child of a field slave on the Amity sugar plantation, July lives with her mother until Mrs. Caroline Mortimer, a recently transplanted English widow, decides to move her into the great house and rename her "Marguerite."
Resourceful and mischievous, July soon becomes indispensable to her mistress. Together they live through the bloody Baptist war, followed by the violent and chaotic end of slavery. Taught to read and write so that she can help her mistress run the business, July remains bound to the plantation despite her "freedom."
It is the arrival of a young English overseer, Robert Goodwin, that will dramatically change life in the great house for both July and her mistress. Prompted and provoked by her son's persistent questioning, July's resilience and heartbreak are gradually revealed in this extraordinarily powerful story of slavery, revolution, freedom, and love.
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Barrie, ON- The Barrie Colts are proud to announce today that they have completed a trade with the Saginaw Spirit.
The Colts have sent overage goaltender Mavric Parks to the Spirit in exchange for forward Mark Scheifele and a second round pick in the 2013 OHL Priority Selection.
The Kitchener resident was originally selected in the 7th round, 134th overall in the 2009 draft and has yet to play a game in the OHL.
Last season playing for the Kitchener Dutchmen in Junior B, Scheifele led the team in both assists and points with 18 goals and 37 assists for 55 points in 51 games played.
Heading to Saginaw is goalie Mavirc Parks, who led the Ontario Hockey League last season in both goals against average and save percentage.
Parks was acquired by the Colts at last year's trade deadline and played in 14 games, going 11-2-0-1.


The Endangered Species Coalition is again holding its annual youth art contest. Artwork must be submitted electronically by March 1. The Saving Endangered Species Youth Art Contest is an integral part of the annual Endangered Species Day, celebrated the third Friday of May each year.
Entries should depict a land or ocean-dwelling species that either lives in or migrates through the United States and its waters and has been placed on the threatened–endangered species list.
A prestigious panel of artists, photographers, and conservationists will judge the artwork. Winners will be chosen in four categories: K-Grade 2, Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8, and Grades 9-12, and will receive plaques and art supply gift packs. One grand prize winner will be honored at a reception in Washington, D.C., in May and also receive a special art lesson.
Visit endangeredspeciesday.org for more information. If you have any questions, contact David Robinson (Endangered Species Day Director) at drobinson@endangered.org.


Given the many developments and medical advances related to BOTOX® in recent years, it may seem like its uses—from smoothing wrinkles to preventing migraines—are boundless. But before the treatment became the global phenomenon it is today, it was once seen as a limited therapy mainly focusing on ocular dystonia, the technical term for spasms of the eye muscles.
In 1949, researchers first discovered that botulinum toxin was capable of blocking neuromuscular transmissions. The toxin is a multifaceted protein made from the bacteria "Clostridium botulinum." Because of its powerful effects, it had to be purified multiple times before it could regularly and reliably be used for any of its numerous benefits. When it comes to BOTOX®, Portland's dermatologist-led team at The Waldorf Center For Plastic Surgery is happy to explain how it works, where it comes from, and more.
Patients do frequently have questions, because BOTOX® has become the most commonly administered nonsurgical facial cosmetic treatment in North America. Its name recognition alone is often enough to spark curiosity in people who want to know more about this injectable they have heard of, but do not fully understand.
The origins of BOTOX® date back to almost 200 years ago. Belgian scientist Emile Pierre van Ermengem first identified Clostridium botulinum following a botulism epidemic in Belgium, when numerous people displayed similar symptoms after eating bad sausages. In 1822, Justinus Kerner, a German physician, studied the effects of the bacteria, noting that it inhibited numerous functions throughout the body and could combat hyperhidrosis or excessive sweating.
During the 1920s, scientists at the University of California, San Francisco, first tried to separate the botulinum toxin, but it took approximately 20 years before anyone was ultimately able to isolate it in crystalline form—a task achieved by Dr. Edward Schantz.
In 1985, botulinum toxin began to be used to treat strabismus, a condition that causes the eyes to fail to properly align. This led to the discovery of its ability to also treat such conditions as uncontrolled blinking and lazy eye during the late 1980s. Manufacturer Allergan ultimately licensed the treatment and branded it BOTOX®.
This means BOTOX® has its roots in eye care, as ophthalmologists with an oculoplastic surgery background have treated spastic disorders of the eyelid with botulinum toxin for years, paving the way for more applications in roughly the same area of the body.
Between 1980 and 1990, Dr. Jean Carruthers from Vancouver accidentally discovered a cosmetic use for botulinum toxin while he was using BOTOX® to treat patients with symptoms of blepharospasm (the involuntary tight closure of the eyelids). He observed that these patients were left with virtually no expression lines between their eyebrows, an area also known as the glabella.
From that discovery forward, doctors began to take advantage of the neuromodulator as a solution for wrinkles and facial creases. The FDA eventually began approving BOTOX® for a variety of cosmetic uses (such as frown lines and other common facial lines) in addition to medical applications.
Currently, BOTOX® is approved by the FDA for three cosmetic uses and more than half a dozen medical uses.
Why has BOTOX® enjoyed so much success for so long? Part of its popularity is surely due to its versatility. It also requires little to no recovery time, and it's a relatively low-cost solution compared to surgical procedures. The growing popularity of BOTOX® for both women and men and the associated familiarity with its name have somewhat obscured the history of the toxin and its original uses. However, researchers in the medical field haven't forgotten and are continuously pushing the boundaries of new uses for BOTOX®.
To learn more about The Waldorf Center for Plastic Surgery and its BOTOX® treatments, get answers from Dr. Kathleen Waldorf and her team in Portland. Call 520-618-1630 or visit waldorfcetner.com.


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Q: Error showing when downloading ubuntu gnome 16.04lts.iso issuing about authorization and yet the file is downloding I am using Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. So I was thinking of switching to ubuntu gnome. I tried to download file from here
Now, I have downloaded the Ubuntu gnome iso file via the transmission bit torrent client.
The file starts downloading itself saying downloading error: requested download is not authorized for use with this tracker like this image is showing

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*What is causing this problem

*Should i burn this iso file in usb stick to reboot/for further installation?

A: If you download the version 16.04.1 instead of 16.04 won't have that issue.You may find that here.
if you do not find the iso go directly here.
"With a new version out Canonical obviously don't want the old version (without the latest bug fixes) propagated any more. The only way to stop a torrent in the wild is to stop the tracker. So that is what they did."
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Memento mori in art: Skulls, skeletons, and rotting fruit to remind us of the vanity of life
Philippe de Champaigne | Public Domain
Lucien de Guise - published on 02/14/20
Mortality was on everyone's mind in bygone centuries, but these useful reminders of the inevitability of death remain a popular artistic theme today.
As Lent draws closer, Catholic thoughts will be turning to the prospect of death – and resurrection. In the past, there were constant reminders. The most common expression of this was the memento mori. As the Latin so precisely puts it: "remember that you will die." Mortality was on everyone's mind in bygone centuries. Although medieval life was shorter and filled with more unexpected endings, memento mori really took off during the Renaissance. This was when ideas of personal salvation became more prominent. Before then, there was a more collective approach, with lots of Day of Judgment imagery.
The range of memento mori is astonishing. The most popular inspiration is a skull or a complete skeleton. They take the form of paintings, sculptures, larger-than-lifesize replicas, or real human remains put on display.
Part of the power of relics is that they are more than a reminder of a holy person's life, they are also the physical essence. Most of the faithful have over the centuries settled for more convenient memento mori. It was better to have objects that could be carried around without the covetability of saintly relics.
Christianity is not the only faith to embrace memento mori
Memento mori became very much a Christian device, although other faiths have shared the concept. Some forms of Buddhism embrace the subject matter, especially in Tibet. It also became popular in Japan, where the most darkly humorous images emerged. The fun that carvers could have representing skulls, in particular, suggests a lighthearted approach to death that was less common in Christendom.
Perhaps the jolliest and now the most commercialized Christian memento mori are products of the Mexican Day of the Dead. Masked people and colorful skeletons have spread around the world. They can now be found in outlets such as British Museum gift shops, where I last saw them being marketed as Christmas decorations.
The ghastliest memento mori were found during the Renaissance
Memento mori were a more serious business during their Renaissance heyday. Painters included them in "Vanitas" paintings. They were to show the vanity of human lives and were not for fun. These were solemn reminders. Many a meal would have had a less digestible dimension. The wall of affluent dining rooms would be adorned with images of rotten fruit and insects, or artfully placed skulls next to flowers in full bloom. For those who chose not to see the more subtle message, there was everything from full-size sculptures of decomposing people to rosary beads with a happy human face on one side and a skull on the other.
The skull was always the key motif. As well as being a reminder in itself, there was always the link between it and the crucifixion of Christ. Calvary, being the "Place of the Skull," was filled with human detritus. The skull of Adam was the most frequently depicted.
Even those Christian memento mori that might seem a bit frivolous, such as Mary Queen of Scots' supposed watch concealed within a silver skull, were all about the passing of time and our ultimate demise. Hers came earlier than expected, with a botched beheading. Most of Mary's court were Protestants, and memento mori were one of the few meeting points for Christians of differing views. Even the Puritans who sailed to America were not averse to depicting the inevitability of death, despite their disapproval of imagery in general.
Memento mori today
Admiration for memento mori has continued right up to the modern era. The skull remains a favorite motif. The devout closet Catholic Andy Warhol treasured an antique skull after a near-death experience. He used it as a model for numerous prints and paintings, along with exhortations such as "Heaven and hell are only a breath away." In more recent times, his heir Damien Hirst created a diamond-encrusted skull that was for a while the world's most expensive work of art. Hirst has a home in Mexico, which is unusual for a British artist, and was raised a Catholic. He acknowledges the visual influences of his upbringing but that is as far as his faith goes these days.
Now that Korean cinema is all the rage at the Oscars, it might be worth pointing out that there is a 20-year-old movie from Korea titled Memento Mori. It wasn't as successful as Parasite, and it's not actually about memento mori, but at least the expression lives on.
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An explosion of violence is unleashed on the audience in Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) when a violent gang attacks a police station. The story combines Rio Bravo with Night of the Living Dead.
Ethan Bishop, a black policeman, takes command of a dilapidated police station on its last operational night before being decommissioned. The station is in a rough, gang-ridden neighbourhood — to defend it, Ethan Bishop must work with two dangerous prisoners, earning their mutual trust.
The story presents an interesting vision of a broken America torn apart by poverty and lack of opportunity. In this urban dystopia, the police are at war with the gangs, who are presented as 'lost' to society. They are somewhat akin to a supernatural affliction, a relentless marauding presence who appear at night like demons from a horror story. The gang members are 'cartoon' baddies, reminiscent of 'classic' era 'Cowboy and Indians' stories, where the heroic characters fight a dangerous 'other'. The gang members are presented as a dangerous monster, their humanity downplayed, coming across as almost mechanical. They never speak, or show human traits, and are often depicted in silhouette or with their faces obscured.
To give the story a contemporary twist the conventional hero, Ethan Bishop, a black policeman, is forced to work with a white criminal, Napoleon Wilson. The gang members come from a racially diverse background. Although the story's violent plot feels very machismo, it doesn't have the unpleasant misogyny of many 1970s action films, like The Wild Bunch (1971). The female character Leigh works as an office administrator, but she's able to handle herself in the ensuing chaos, and use a gun when necessary. She is both feminine and strong, instead of the frequently common 1970s characterisations of women in dramatic action plots as hysterical and prone to becoming a liability. It's a positive representation.
The story lingers at the beginning, typical of many 1970s crime films, presenting the audience with a realistic scenario and building the suspense — describing the elements that make this 'perfect storm'. The audience knows that something bad is going to happen sooner or later; it's a question of 'when' not 'if'. In this sense, it's akin to a tragedy in the making, or a disaster movie. The attention to the build-up creates realism and provides a voyeuristic space for the audience to watch the action as it happens. The audience are real-time observers. The dramatic action sequences hark back to the scenarios of 'old fashioned' 'Cowboys and Indians' stories — but relocated to a contemporary, urban blighted America. The good guys are 'holed up' in a place they can't escape from (a farmstead, a canyon, or a defensive circle of wagons), outnumbered by the monstrous 'other', who dishes out horrific violence without showing any guilt or mercy.
Inside the building, Ethan Bishop is the strong, level-headed leader everyone depends on for their survival. He must put his faith in two prisoners to help him fight off the gang members, and a couple of female office workers. They are a typical 'ragtag band' fighting against the odds, battling the merciless 'other'. The action sequences are like a game of Whac-A-Mole (1976) with danger popping up here and there, requiring quick reactions to stay alive. The repetitive, almost task-based nature of the fight scenes has a computer game simplicity to it — akin to a tower defence game. The gang members keep appearing at the same windows and doorways, and the interior of the building appears as a sort of computer game maze of interconnected corridors.
Assault of Precinct 13 shares similarities with John Carpenter's later film The Thing, which sees a group of scientists fending off a violent body-morphing alien. The corridors inside the police station could almost be the corridors inside the Antarctic research station, the heroes in both stories are fighting off a relentless monster. There's also the trust element: can Ethan Bishop trust the prisoners who are fighting with him; can the hero in The Thing trust the people around him (they could be aliens in human form). Both stories share the same, simple but effective, 'shoot 'em up' style action format that later became the go to scenario of so many first-person computer games.
Unlike many 1970s action films, Assault of Precinct 13 manages to be both shockingly violent and yet retain a moral core. It celebrates the teamwork and trust required to defeat a ruthless enemy, and warns about a dystopian world overtaken by a dehumanising gang culture.


(Nanowerk News) A simple new technique to form interlocking beads of water in ambient conditions could prove valuable for applications in biological sensing, membrane research and harvesting water from fog.
Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a method to create air-stable water droplet networks known as droplet interface bilayers. These interconnected water droplets have many roles in biological research because their interfaces simulate cell membranes. Cumbersome fabrication methods, however, have limited their use.
Instead of injecting water droplets into an oil bath, the ORNL research team experimented with placing the droplets on a superhydrophobic surface infused with a coating of oil. The droplets aligned side by side without merging.
To the researchers' surprise, they were also able to form non-coalescing water droplet networks without including lipids in the water solution. Scientists typically incorporate phospholipids into the water mixture, which leads to the formation of an interlocking lipid bilayer between the water droplets.
The team's research revealed how the unexpected effect is caused by a thin oil film that is squeezed between the pure water droplets as they come together, preventing the droplets from merging into one. Watch a video of the process on ORNL's YouTube channel.
With or without the addition of lipids, the team's technique offers new insight for a host of applications. Controlling the behavior of pure water droplets on oil-infused surfaces is key to developing dew- or fog-harvesting technology as well as more efficient condensers, for instance.
"Our finding of this non-coalescence phenomenon will shed light on these droplet-droplet interactions that can occur on oil-infused systems," Boreyko said.
The ability to create membrane-like water droplet networks by adding lipids leads to a different set of functional applications, Collier noted.
The team's study also demonstrated ways to control the performance and lifetime of the water droplets by manipulating oil viscosity and temperature and humidity levels.
Coauthors include ORNL's Georgios Polizos and Panos Datskos, and the University of Tennessee's Stephen Sarles. The researchers have filed an invention disclosure on their technique.
This research was conducted at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, which is sponsored at ORNL by the Scientific User Facilities Division in DOE's Office of Basic Energy Sciences. Funding was also provided by an Air Force Office of Scientific Research Basic Research Initiative grant and the SunShot Initiative within DOE's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.


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Byers, Colorado Population and Demographics
Evan Comen, Samuel Stebbins
Population, Race and Ethnicity
Byers is a Census-designated place in Arapahoe County, Colorado, with a population of 1,307. According to the most recent estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau, 80.10% of residents identify as white, 0.00% as Black or African American, 3.30% as American Indian or Alaska Native, 0.00% as Asian, 0.00% as Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander, 15.10% as Hispanic or Latino, and 1.50% as some other race or combination of races.
Nationally, some 61.1% of Americans identify as white, 12.3% as Black or African American, 0.7% as American Indian or Alaska Native, 5.4% as Asian, 0.2% as Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander, 17.8% as Hispanic or Latino, and 2.6% as some other race or combination of races.
Census respondents are also asked to report ancestry. Some of the most commonly reported ancestries in Byers include American, German, English, Irish, and French. Measured by location quotient — comparing the Census-designated place share to the national share — some of the most highly concentrated ancestries in Census-designated place are Russian, American, and Croatian.
Native and foreign-born population
An estimated 92.20% of Byers residents are native-born, meaning they were born in the United States, Puerto Rico, a U.S. Island Area, or abroad to a U.S. citizen. Of the 7.80% of the population that is foreign-born, 14.70% have become naturalized U.S. citizens. Nationwide, 86.5% of Americans are native-born. And of the 13.5% of Americans who are foreign-born, 48.5% have become naturalized U.S. citizens.
The population of Byers is older than the United States as a whole. The median age is 46.6 years, 8.7 years more than the national median age of 37.9 years. An estimated 16.70% of the population is 65 years and over, compared to 15.2% of the U.S. population.
Family and household composition
Family and household composition also varies heavily across the United States. In Byers, 68.60% of households are occupied by married-couple families, compared to the 48.3% national figure. Some 0.00% of households are occupied by single male householders, 4.30% by single female householders, and 27.10% by non-family occupants. Nationwide, 4.9% of households are occupied by single male householders, 12.6% by single female householders, and 34.3% by non-family occupants. An estimated 81.00% of heads of household own their homes, compared to the national homeownership rate of 63.8%.
English is by far the most commonly spoken language in Colorado and across the U.S. as a whole. Similarly, in Byers, 92.7% of local residents aged 5 and up speak English exclusively, or, if they are multilingual, speak English very well. For context, 94.1% of the 5 and older population across Colorado only speaks English, or speak it very well, and 91.5% of the same age group nationwide do.
Residents of Byers are more likely than the typical American to be married. Of all local residents aged 15 and older, 62.3% are currently married, compared to 48.1% of Americans nationwide in the same age group. Across Colorado as a whole, 50.4% of residents 15 and older are married.
Divorce is less common in Byers than it is across the U.S. as a whole. According to Census estimates, 7.9% of residents 15 and older are divorced — compared to 10.8% of the U.S. population in the same age group. In Colorado, 11.9% of the 15 and older population is divorced.
An estimated 22.3% of Byers residents 15 and older have never married, compared to one-third of all Americans in the same age group.
In Byers, 12.5% of the 18 and older civilian population are veterans — compared to 7.5% of adult civilians nationwide and 8.9% of the civilian population in all of Colorado.
In Byers, adults are more likely to have a high school education than the typical American adult, but are less likely to have a four-year college education. Among Byers residents 25 and older, 92.40% have a high school diploma or equivalent, and 16.80% have a bachelor's degree or higher, compared to 87.7% and 31.5% of adults nationwide, respectively. Across Colorado, 91.4% of adults have graduated high school, and 40.1 have a bachelor's degree.
The typical household in Byers earns $65,000 a year, about $4,700 more than the national median of $60,293 and $3,800 less than the median household income across the state of $68,811.
Serious financial hardship is less common in Byers than it is nationwide. The local poverty rate stands at 6.40%, while the national poverty rate is 14.1%. Across the state as a whole, 10.9% of the population lives below the poverty line.
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Today is National Anti-Burglary Day being rolled out by An Garda Síochána and we are supporting it throughout the Bluebird Care network.
Bluebird Care will share details of the Anti-Burglary Day of Action and the Garda Síochána's Burglary Prevention tips with our 1,000 staff who work in communities across Ireland every day.
Over 50 per cent of burglars enter homes either through the front or back door, according to the latest figures from An Garda Síochána. Work done by the Garda Síochána Analysis Service shows that the main entry points by burglars to houses are through a rear window (28%), front door (27%), and rear door (25%).
An Garda Síochána will tomorrow (March 12, 2014) publish further such analysis on burglaries as part of its National Crime Prevention Day of Action, which is promoting the range of measures that householders can take to secure their homes against the threat of burglary.
While the latest CSO figures show a 8.9% fall in the level of burglary and related offences between June 2012 and June 2013 compared to the previous 12 months, An Garda Síochána is advising people to remain vigilant and security conscious in order to thwart burglars.
Bluebird Care Kerry/West Cork is under new ownership with management confirming today that all jobs are secure with part-time hours being increased.
Bluebird Care intends to expand its operations in the South West with 50 new jobs coming on stream in Kerry and West Cork in the next 12 months.
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Q: create list of dictionary in a pythonic way I wanted to create a list of dictionary with the random variables
I know how to create this dictionary with basic python code but I'm more interested to know if there is
a faster and more pythonic way to achieve this since I've to create this for more than 10,000 random variables
Note: The size of list is same as # random variables
my random variables:
lat_lon = [(42.35,-121.73),(35.67,-71.19),(38.17,-74.83)]
id = [1,2,3]

Dictionary Structure:
{ origin_lat : 42.67
  origin_lon : -122.67
  id: 2
}

Expected Output using above random variables:
[
{ origin_lat : 42.35,
  origin_lon : -121.73
  id: 1
},
{ origin_lat : 35.67
  origin_lon : -71.19
  id: 2
},
{ origin_lat : 38.17
  origin_lon : -74.83
  id: 3
}

My code:
lst = []
for lat_lon, id in zip(lat_lon,id):
   lst.append(
      { origin_lat : lat_lon[0]
        origin_lon : lat_lon[1]
        id: id
      }
             )

A: Slightly nicer (and slightly faster) code would unpack completely to useful names (unpacking can unpack nested sequences as long as they're all of known length), e.g.:
for (lat, lon), id in zip(lat_lon, id):
   lst.append({'origin_lat': lat, 'origin_lon': lon, 'id': id})

Note: I'd recommend changing the name of the id sequence to ids or the like; using the same name for the iteration variable is going to bite you at some point, even if it happens to work in this case. Similarly, lat_lon sounds like a single value; for the collection, pluralize the name (even though unpacking means we aren't reusing it).
Of course, even better would be to dispense with dict emulating objects, and just make a useful class for your data; if you don't need mutability, using collections.namedtuple/typing.NamedTuple will generate most of the code for you, while for mutable data, you can use a dataclass. For an example of the former:
from collections import namedtuple

MapPoint = namedtuple('MapPoint', ['origin_lat', 'origin_lon', 'id'])

lst = [MapPoint(lat, lon, id) for (lat, lon), id in zip(lat_lon, id)]

This will save a non-trivial amount of memory too; on my CPython 3.8 x64 install, a three key dict incurs 232 bytes of overhead (ignoring cost of actual key/value objects), while the equivalent namedtuple only eats 64 bytes. Access is different (you use obj.origin_lat instead of obj['origin_lat']), but namedtuples can be converted back to dict easily on an as-needed basis with the _asdict method.

A: If memory is a concern you can use generators,
lat_lon = [(42.35,-121.73),(35.67,-71.19),(38.17,-74.83)]
id = [1,2,3]
def get_dict():
    for i in range(len(lat_lon)):
        yield {'origin_lat': lat_lon[i][0], 'origin_lon': lat_lon[i][1], 'id': id[i]}
print(*get_dict(), sep='\n')

Alternative methods
result [{'origin_lat': lat_lon[i][0], 'origin_lon': lat_lon[i][1], 'id': id[i]} for i in range(len(lat_lon))]

OR
Using zip with list comprehension,
result = [{'origin_lat': i[0][0], 'origin_lon': i[0][1], 'id': i[1]} for i in zip(lat_lon, id)]
result

output
[{'origin_lat': 42.35, 'origin_lon': -121.73, 'id': 1},
 {'origin_lat': 35.67, 'origin_lon': -71.19, 'id': 2},
 {'origin_lat': 38.17, 'origin_lon': -74.83, 'id': 3}]

A: Here is an example without zip as requested in the comments.
lat_lon = [(42.35,-121.73),(35.67,-71.19),(38.17,-74.83)]
id_ = [1,2,3]

output = []
for i in range(len(id_)):
    output.append(dict(id=id_[i], origin_lat=lat_lon[i][0], origin_lon=lat_lon[i][1]))
print(output)

You can try it on glot.io here.
It should be O(n). This assume id_ and lat_lon are the same length.
len is O(1) and range shouldn't make a structure in Python 3.0+
@Shibiraj's answer has a similar code but with generators - which is even better!


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'More of an impact on the 2012 election than any other journalist'
By Art Moore
Undercover sleuth James O'Keefe and his Project Veritas have elicited mostly scorn from the political left for their investigation of political corruption, but a number of liberal commentators, along with the Democratic National Committee chairwoman, begrudgingly admitted the unorthodox reporter got it right when he exposed an apparent conspiracy by a Democratic campaign operative to commit voter fraud.
Indeed, Dave Weigel of Slate, in a post titled "The Power of James O'Keefe," stated that while it may anger liberals to say it, "James O'Keefe has had more of an impact on the 2012 election than any other journalist."
As WND reported, Patrick Moran, the son of Rep. Jim Moran, D-Va, resigned Wednesday after an undercover video showed him advising a Project Veritas investigator how to fraudulently cast ballots in the name of registered voters by forging utility bills and relying on the assistance of Democrat lawyers.
The Arlington Police Department in Virginia told WND today it has launched a criminal investigation into a possible "election offense" by the younger Moran.
In a statement to Politico, Patrick Moran contended he thought the whole interchange caught on video was a joke, claiming he stepped down only because he didn't want to be "a distraction during this year's critical election."
"At no point did I take this person seriously. He struck me as being unstable and joking, and for only that reason did I humor him," Moran said.
But Alex Seitz-Wald of Salon.com, in a piece titled "James O'Keefe does something right," said he watched the full raw video and concluded Patrick Moran's comments were "detailed, extensive and clear."
He saw "no misleading editing tricks."
"There is no doubt that Moran is advising O'Keefe's man how to do something illegal," Seitz-Wald said. "It was right for him to resign and right for the campaign to accept his resignation."
See O'Keefe's latest video:
On MSNBC host Rachel Maddow's blog, in a piece titled "A Broken Clock is Right Twice," Steven Benen allowed that O'Keefe "actually caught a Democrat doing something wrong."
Debbie Wasserman Schultz, chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, was asked about the Moran video in an interview with CNN's Soledad O'Brien.
The DNC chief called Moran's actions "indefensible," though she quickly took the opportunity to level an attack against Republicans, pointing to allegations of voter fraud by GOP members.
She argued that Moran was just "one person," and he was "quickly taken out of the campaign."
Wasserman Schultz said the party has "stressed our commitment to making sure that there is no tolerance for voter fraud."
Though many on the left have belittled O'Keefe and dismissed his accomplishments, including Salon.com's Seitz-Wald and MSNBC's Benen, Slate's Weigel acknowledged his previous impact.
Benen noted that in 2009, O'Keefe and Hannah Giles exposed workers with the controversial community organizing group ACORN, which is closely tied to President Obama, assisting undercover Project Veritas operatives who posed as international sex traffickers.
The videos led to a bill in Congress, supported by Democrats, that banned federal funding to ACORN. The group disbanded within six months.
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This year, O'Keefe's reporters were offered the ballots of other voters in places with no ID laws, including New Hampshire and D.C., Benen pointed out.
In April, a Project Veritas investigator was offered the ballot of Attorney General Eric Holder at a polling place.
Their success bolstered voter ID campaigns in states such as Minnesota, Benen said.
Benen said that "because there's video evidence, it's more powerful and more widely reported than the sorts of voter problems (like purges in Indiana and Florida) that excite Democrats."
Project Veritas says it has been conducting an ongoing series of investigations in more than a dozen states "demonstrating the ease with which election fraud can be committed and legitimate voters can be disenfranchised."
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Sermon Preached by the Rev'd Daphne B. Noyes at the Church of the Advent, Sunday, October 21, 2018, the Solemnity of the Feast of St Luke
21 October 2018 October 21, 2018 Julianne Ture
https://www.theadventboston.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/St-Luke-Sermon-2018.mp3
The church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints. This saying has been attributed to Augustine of Hippo, John Chrysostom, Abigail Van Buren, the African Methodist Episcopal minister L. L. Nash, and Ignatius of Antioch, among others. No one can identify the origin with certainty. But thanks to St. Luke, who we commemorate today, we have the words of Jesus himself to reinforce the idea: "Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick; I have come to call not the righteous but sinners to repentance."
I daresay both sayings cut right to the heart of the matter. Is there anyone among us who does not carry the burden of some weight which might be called sin? Perhaps the burden has no name, is simply a gnawing feeling that something is not right. Or perhaps it does have a name, one that is too difficult to say out loud, yet echoes in the deepest chambers of the heart. And so we come to this hospital for sinners, in search of relief, healing, wholeness.
The quest begins with identifying and confronting the problem. The physician asks, What ails you? In this hospital for sinners, the ailments include the illnesses of body, mind, and spirit that beset us as individuals, as well as those that beset the world we live in: injustice, poverty, violence, apathy, greed, arrogance. All must be confronted, challenged, and — with God's help — ultimately conquered.
I was recently introduced to St Anna's Episcopal Church in New Orleans and was struck by the similarities between Church of the Advent (established 1844) and St. Anna's (established 1846):
Like the Advent, St. Anna's is an Anglo-Catholic parish, and was the first "free church" in New Orleans (not charging pew fees) with open seating for all, just as Advent was in Boston.
Both have weathered controversies over liturgical practice and survived conflicts with bishops. In the mid-1800s the Bishop of Massachusetts was outraged at the presence of a cross and "golden candlesticks" on the altar. In the late 1800s, the presence of lighted candles on the altar at St. Anna's sparked an indignant letter from an evangelical parish in the diocese.
But perhaps most dramatically, a later Bishop brought an ax into St. Anna's and destroyed the confessionals them in place.
St Anna's and the Advent share a commitment to social justice — healing the ills that plague our society — as an essential expression of spirituality. This commitment demands both courage and humility. Courage to go against the prevailing norms, and humility to accept that our efforts, even when successful, will always fall short of the mark in this life. (Jesus said, "The poor you will always have with you.") The Jesuit activist Daniel Berrigan taught that it is not so much the outcome that is the charism of social justice but rather the act of doing social justice that is trans-formative.
So here at the Advent our work to bring about healing of social ills includes, every Tuesday, offering a hot meal, a clean bathroom, and a gracious welcome to anyone who is hungry. And we regularly prepare a Sunday meal for the Common Cathedral community and join them in worship. The resulting trans-formations are both individual and collective. Just ask anyone who helps serve one of these meals. Just ask anyone who partakes of one of the meals.
At St. Anna's, a highly visible social justice effort centers on violence — specifically, the number of people in New Orleans who die violent deaths. In 2007, while the city was still reeling from the affects of hurricane Katrina, more than 200 people were murdered. St Anna's deacon, Elaine Clemments, said, "I feel that we have to do something. But it is so overwhelming I am not sure that anything will help."
Thus, through courage and humility, was born the Victims of Violence ministry, a way to honor and remember the victims of violence, to pray for all affected by urban violence: perpetrators, victims, families, officials, and police officers. The outward and visible sign of remembering was to create a public tableau on the fence of the churchyard. This tableau, which has became known as The Murder Board, lists each victim by name (when known), age, and the method by which they were killed. For the past 11 years, the board has been — and continues to be — updated, month by month by month by month. So we remember seven-month-old Carter and 76-year-old Louie. We remember Jane Doe and John Doe. We remember those who died as a result of hit-and-run, of beating, of stabbing, and — most predominantly — by gunfire.
Like the Tuesday supper and Common Cathedral, the Murder Board is part of a quest for healing. Both are concrete, visceral examples of beleaguered human sinners calling out to our righteous and merciful God. With the psalmist we address the God who "heals those that are broken in heart: and gives medicine to heal their sickness."
The physician Herbert Benson is credited with identifying the concept of "remembered wellness." Would you be surprised to hear that this is what was previously known as the placebo effect? Benson lists three components that identify remembered wellness: (a) positive beliefs and expectations on the part of the patient; (b) positive beliefs and expectations on the part of the physician; and (c) a good relationship between the two parties.
This list of components — positive beliefs and expectations on the part of the patient; on the part of the physician or healer; and a good relationship between the two — calls to mind our relationship with God, doesn't it? Perhaps you immediately think of your belief in God's power to heal. Or perhaps you trust that God wants good things — health and wholeness — for you, and for the world. Perhaps you are here to nurture your relationship with God, or to repair it in some way.
The Murder Board made a huge impression on me. But for some reason I can't escape a vivid image of those splintered confessionals. Why? Because I believe that in those fine and private places, a whole lot of healing happened. I suspect that many burdens were lifted, that many wounds were soothed, that many conflicts were confronted and led toward reconciliation. Because the people who entered into those confessionals, who entered into the act of confession, were patients in the hospital for sinners, drawn to there by wispy dreams of remembered wellness. They were asked, "What ails you?" and they opened their hearts to speak of relationships broken, mistakes made; of unhealed wounds and inescapable regrets. So healing could begin. So wellness remembered could be wellness restored.
On hearing that we are commemorating St. Luke today, more than one person asked me, "So, are you doing any special healing prayers in the service?" My answer: In this hospital for sinners, every service is a healing service.
The Great Physician asks, "What ails you?" Together, we answer in prayer: "We have sinned against you in thought, word, and deed…" One by one, we answer from the depths of our desire for healing. We open our hearts and we open our hands to receive God's bountiful love, to be led closer to the health and wholeness God desires for us, and for all creation, from the very beginning of time, now, and unto ages of ages. Amen.
For more on the ministries and history of St. Anna's, see https://www.stannanola.org/
For more on the Murder Board, see https://www.stannanola.org/archived-content/missions/victims-of-violence/
For more on remembered wellness, see https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev.med.47.1.193
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How Much is Ethereum Worth Investing In – and Its Definition
Rules are what create a co-functioning road together with the human maintenance when it comes to all acts that are included in our economy ecosystem.
But everything is not good and bright as humans are not perfect and everybody has flaws so all transactions, exchanges, complex contracts and so on have their "bad apple" effect that are tying to be eliminated by bitcoin so-called "predecessor" that in application and adaptation could be miles ahead.
On a surface level, Ether (the digital currency of the Ethereum project) bears some similarities to bitcoin. Both are digital payment tokens that exist in a decentralized, public and tamperproof ledger called a blockchain. As a result, both are outside the control of any government or financial institution.
Rather than being issued by a central bank, these tokens have value that is backed by the blockchain itself, which contains records of every transaction. Since these records are stored redundantly on thousands of computers around the world, it's impossible to manipulate them through accounting shenanigans
In comparison to Bitcoin which kind of is just a store of value, Ethereum in the other side is a one of its kind programming language that makes it possible for users to create automatically self-paying programs that are known as "smart contracts".
These smart contracts are a plan to totally evade the need of the human maintenance factor like lets say lawyers, financial intermediaries or accountants. For example the tenant and the landlord could write code together that automatically transfers the monthly rent (in Ether) from the tenant to the landlord.
With that factor being eliminated you can imagine the transaction savings that could be done by taking down the costs of the expensive lawyers and underwriters.
Ethereum Based application are already on the development process like in Luxembourg as this way of financial functions to be done is less expensive and more private in many ways.
Ethereum Investing – How worth is It
As an early adopter and trader it is highly recommended if you are a risky investor and have "play money" around, the kind of money that you can afford to lose in any case – but in the other way around it could not still be the right time to put your money into it. YET!
To explain this, here you have what Alexander Green (Chief investment Strategist) stated once and hope it makes sense:
"I still don't recommend it, just as I wouldn't have recommended that you take a ride in the Wright Brothers' first plane.
But even Wall Street bankers and Federal Reserve officials concede that this new technology will ultimately make the financial system more private, more secure and more efficient."
The Cybersecurity on top of it is still quite a problem as there are many ways around it and the smart contracts have still loopholes that makes it appealing for attackers to join in.
But in contrary with its timeline – Ethereum is getting everyday more sophisticated as it may be not so long into the future when we see banks use it and it being used all around us so keeping a sharp eye on Ether is what we would suggest.
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