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524 F. 2d 1244 - United States v. C Slepicoff
524 F2d 1244 United States v. C Slepicoff
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee,
Hyman C. SLEPICOFF, d/b/a Graduate Enterprises, Defendant-Appellant.
Fifth Circuit.
Dec. 19, 1975.
Robert Sarno, Los Angeles, Cal., Samuel Rosenwein, Studio City, Cal., for defendant-appellant.
John L. Briggs, U.S. Atty., Jacksonville, Fla., John L. Murphy, Chief, Govt. Regulations Section, Robert Trout, B. Franklin Taylor, Jr., Harold Damelin, Crim. Div., Washington, D.C., for plaintiff-appellee.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida.
Before TUTTLE, THORNBERRY and COLEMAN, Circuit Judges.
THORNBERRY, Circuit Judge:
It has long been established that obscenity is not within the ambit of the constitutional guarantees of freedom of speech and of the press. Roth v. United States, 354 U.S. 476, 77 S.Ct. 1304, 1 L.Ed.2d 1498 (1957); Jacobellis v. State of Ohio, 378 U.S. 184, 84 S.Ct. 1676, 12 L.Ed.2d 793 (1964).
After a jury trial, appellant was convicted on three counts of a nine count indictment charging violations of the federal statute prohibiting mailing of obscene material, 18 U.S.C. § 1461.1 Appellant is charged with mailing obscene advertising brochures into the Middle District of Florida.
Five points of error are raised in this appeal, none of which warrants reversal of the district court's decision.
Appellant's allegedly criminal conduct occurred during April and May of 1973. At this time, the constitutional standards for the regulation of obscenity were those set forth by the Supreme Court in Roth v. United States, supra, and Memoirs v. Massachusetts, 383 U.S. 413, 86 S.Ct. 975, 16 L.Ed.2d 1 (1966). The standards which are currently applicable were established by the Supreme Court in Miller v. California, 413 U.S. 15, 93 S.Ct. 2607, 37 L.Ed.2d 419 (1973). The decision in Miller was not handed down until June 21, 1973, subsequent to the conduct which is involved in this case.
Appellant contends that since the acts in question occurred before the Supreme Court's decision in Miller, it was improper for the prosecutor to instruct the grand jury to measure the obscenity of the material in question by the standards enunciated in Miller, and that the indictment was void under the rationale of United States v. Wasserman, 504 F.2d 1012 (5 Cir. 1974). In Wasserman, the conviction by the district court under 18 U.S.C. § 1461 was reversed because the jury was instructed according to Miller, while the acts forming the basis of the suit took place when the older Roth-Memoirs definition of obscenity prevailed. The court in Wasserman held that the ex post facto effect of applying Miller to actions occurring before the decision was handed down justified reversal of the district court's decision. Appellant believes that the case at hand presents an analogous situation. We disagree.
The rules governing the operation of a grand jury are much less formal than the rules governing the operation of a trial court. A grand jury need not be convinced beyond a reasonable doubt that a defendant is guilty; if an indictment is valid on its face, it is enough to call for a trial of the charge on the merits. Costello v. United States, 350 U.S. 359, 76 S.Ct. 406, 100 L.Ed. 397 (1956). In Hamling v. United States, 418 U.S. 87, 94 S.Ct. 2887, 41 L.Ed.2d 590 (1974), the Supreme Court stated that "(i)t is generally sufficient that an indictment set forth the offense in the words of the statute itself, as long as 'those words of themselves fully, directly, and expressly, without any uncertainty or ambiguity, set forth all the elements necessary to constitute the offense intended to be punished.' " Supra, 94 S.Ct. at 2907. The Supreme Court in Hamling went on to conclude that the various component parts of the constitutional definition of obscenity need not be alleged in the indictment in order to establish its sufficiency. Supra, at 2908. Therefore, the mere tracing of the words of 18 U.S.C. § 1461 in the indictment was sufficient to apprise appellant of the charges against him.
Appellant's second contention is that the prosecution failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the brochures in question were utterly without redeeming social value. It is true that the majority of the expert testimony presented was favorable to appellant, and that the testimony of government witness Michael Gutman was somewhat inconsistent; however, "(e)xpert testimony is not necessary to enable the jury to judge the obscenity of material which, as here, has been placed into evidence." Hamling v. United States, 94 S.Ct. at 2899. Since the allegedly obscene material was offered in evidence, the jury was entitled to reject all of the expert testimony offered by appellant and to conclude that the brochure in question was obscene.
In essence, appellant's third argument is that the instruction by the trial judge to the jury that the brochures could be measured solely by their appeal to the prurient interest of sexually deviant groups, where neither the indictment nor the proof established any plan or dissemination of the brochures to such deviant groups, deprived appellant of due process of law because it did not sufficiently apprise him of the nature of the charges against him.
After reviewing the district court's instructions, we are of the opinion that appellant was adequately apprised of the nature of the offense with which he was charged. "Undoubtedly, the language of the statute may be used in the general description of an offense, but it must be accompanied with such a statement of the facts and circumstances as will inform the accused of the specific offense, coming under the general description, with which he is charged." Hamling v. United States, supra, 94 S.Ct. at 2907, citing United States v. Hess, 124 U.S. 483, 487, 8 S.Ct. 571, 573, 31 L.Ed. 516 (1888). The indictment in question traced the language of 18 U.S.C. § 1461, and also set forth the specific acts which allegedly constituted violations of this statute.
Appellant's fourth contention is that the rulings and instructions of the district court arbitrarily deprived him of the right to present exculpatory evidence.
First, appellant introduced evidence that the brochures were only distributed to consenting adults and that a good faith effort was made to comply with 39 U.S.C. §§ 3010 and 3011.2 Such evidence was not relevant to a charge under § 1461. Appellant was charged with mailing " obscene" material, not "sexually oriented" material. In fact, § 3011 expressly states that § 3010 does not amend, preempt, limit, or modify § 1461 in any way. 39 U.S.C. § 3011. Therefore, the district court's exclusion of this evidence was proper.
Nor is appellant's contention that such evidence is relevant to intent plausible.3 According to the Supreme Court's opinion in Hamling, "(i)t is constitutionally sufficient that the prosecution show that a defendant had knowledge of the contents of the materials he distributes, and that he knew the character and nature of the materials. To require proof of a defendant's knowledge of the legal status of the materials would permit the defendant to avoid prosecution by simply claiming that he had not brushed up on the law." Supra, 94 S.Ct. at 2910.
The evidence submitted by the prosecution which tended to show that appellant knew the contents and character of the materials in question was sufficient to satisfy the scienter requirement of § 1461.
Appellant also argues that the district court erred when it declined to instruct the jury that during the period of time in which the appellant was charged with mailing the brochures into the Middle District of Florida, a federal court declared the Florida obscenity statute unconstitutional. Appellant feels that it was relevant to a determination of whether the material in question was patently offensive according to contemporary community standards. A similar question was raised in United States v. Hill, 500 F.2d 733, 739 (5 Cir. 1974), where we held that "(t)he community standard is not necessarily gauged by the state law, and the fact that a three-judge federal court in Meyer v. Austin, 319 F.Supp. 457 (M.D.Fla.1970), app. dismissed, 413 U.S. 902, 93 S.Ct. 3029, 37 L.Ed.2d 1018 (1973), declared Florida Statutes § 847.011 (1967) unconstitutional was not relevant to this federal obscenity prosecution." We feel that the argument made by appellant in the case at hand is essentially the same, and that it was proper for the district court to refuse to instruct the jury that the Florida obscenity statute had been declared unconstitutional.
Likewise, the district court's instruction to the jury that they could disregard the testimony of the expert witnesses was proper.4 Hamling v. United States, supra, 94 S.Ct. at 2899.
Appellant's final contention is that 18 U.S.C. § 1461 is unconstitutional on its face and as applied to appellant.
The constitutionality of § 1461 has been upheld by the Supreme Court on several occasions. Roth v. United States, 354 U.S. 476, 77 S.Ct. 1304, 1 L.Ed.2d 1498 (1957); United States v. Reidel, 402 U.S. 351, 91 S.Ct. 1410, 28 L.Ed.2d 813 (1971).
Appellant also feels that § 1461 is unconstitutional as applied because the multivenue provisions contained in 18 U.S.C. § 3237 allow forum shopping and selective enforcement by federal prosecutors. According to Hamling v. United States, supra, Miller standards, including the " contemporary community standards" formulation, apply to federal legislation. Supra, 94 S.Ct. at 2902, citing United States v. 12 200-Ft. Reels of Film,413 U.S. 123, 93 S.Ct. 2665, 37 L.Ed.2d 500 (1973). In view of the contemporary community standards requirement of Miller it is logical to try a defendant who is charged with a violation of § 1461 in the district to which he allegedly mailed obscene materials. Appellant's choice to do business throughout the nation limited his right to be tried in the locality where he lives and bases his operations.
The judgment of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida is affirmed.
"Mailing obscene or crime-inciting matter."
"Every obscene, lewd, lascivious, indecent, filthy or vile article, matter, thing, device, or substance;"
"Is declared to be nonmailable matter and shall not be conveyed in the mails or delivered from any post office or by any letter carrier.
Whoever knowingly uses the mails for the mailing, carriage in the mails, or delivery of anything declared by this section to be nonmailable, or knowingly causes to be delivered by mail according to the direction thereon, or at the place at which it is directed to be delivered by the person to whom it is addressed, or knowingly takes any such thing from the mails for the purpose of circulating or disposing thereof, or of aiding in the circulation or disposition thereof, shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both, for the first such offense, and shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both, for each such offense thereafter."
These sections of Title 39 deal with the distribution of "sexually oriented" advertisements to children and nonconsenting adults
In essence, appellant argues that since he made a good faith effort to comply with the provisions of 39 U.S.C. § 3010, the prosecution failed to make a sufficient showing of criminal intent. In Hamling v. United States, supra, 94 S.Ct. at 2910, 2911, the Supreme Court held that a showing by the prosecution that the defendant had knowledge of the contents and character of the allegedly obscene materials was sufficient to satisfy the scienter requirement of 18 U.S.C. § 1461
"Expert testimony is not necessary to enable the jury to judge the obscenity of material which, as here, has been placed into evidence." Hamling v. United States, supra, 94 S.Ct. at 2899


Germany's Ministry for Families is making up to €200 million available to fight sexual abuse of women and children in refugee homes.
The scheme is slated to start on April 1st and will provide funds to remodel refugee camps with protected spaces for women and children, the Ministry for Families, Seniors, Women and Youth (BMFSFJ) said in a statement on Thursday.
Municipal authorities will be able to access the cash in zero-interest loans from the government-owned KfW development bank.
"Unfortunately we know that children and women in the camps are not safe from abuse and sexual assault. That's why we have to make sure that they're protected," junior minister Ralf Kleindiek said.
"Not only measures regarding staff, but also structural measures have to be implemented such as lockable accommodation units and separate sanitary facilities."
"For the children and adolescents we also need designated rooms to enable play and learning," he said.
On top of the loans, the ministry plans to co-operate with UNICEF to train staff and provide information to people in over 100 refugee facilities.
And €4 million will be spent on specialist centres to provide counselling and other services to survivors of trauma and torture.
In 2015 alone, Germany registered 1.1 million newly-arrived asylum seekers as Chancellor Angela Merkel kept borders open while many of the country's EU neighbours were closing theirs.
But living conditions and protection for refugees in the Federal Republic have not always lived up to the rhetoric about welcoming those fleeing war and persecution.
Germany faces two investigations by the European Commission for failing to implement EU guidelines by last summer, reports online news agency euractiv.de.
Though neither BMFSFJ nor the Federal Criminal Agency (BKA) provide figures on the incidence of sexual abuse in German refugee camps, there is anecdotal evidence of large numbers of incidents.
In a camp in the Hessian town of Gießen, 15 cases of sexual assault against women had been reported by September 2015, according to Die Welt.
"So far, we only know about individual cases. But we assume that there is a number of unreported cases," BMFSFJ spokesperson Verena Herb told The Local.
"Many of the women in the camps are scared to speak out about what is happening - many of them are for example scared to be sent back home because of it."


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It's raining tears
Psychologist and Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman of Princeton University used to ask his interview subjects, "You are smiling on the outside, but personally, aren't you miserable?"
Eventually he was forced to abandon this question because many people would suddenly burst into tears. Despite trying other methods, Kahneman ultimately failed at designing a standard to measure subjective well-being.
However, the lingering question of his experiment remained for a long time: How many people have lived their lives swallowing back their tears?
Of all the primates, humans are the only species that can cry. From our first breath, we begin life by crying. Although tears don't flow because the tear glands are not functioning yet, tears begin to trickle four days after birth. After six months, they flow properly. After that, they flow profusely. A one-year-old baby cries 65 times a month on average.
Once we become adults, we don't cry as much. We tend to think first think about our social status and saving face. However, when we experience extreme emotion, tears flow naturally as a physical response. This is beneficial for our health as tears carry the stress hormone called catecholamine. If this hormone accumulates in the body, we can have problems with digestion, the heart, hardening of the arteries and high cholesterol.
This is what happened when Princess Diana passed away in 1997. British citizens struggled to maintain a stiff upper lip and held back their tears. It was said that for a while afterwards, the number of people seeking psychological help was halved. After crying to one's content, the nerves become stable and the heart is cleansed by a cathartic effect. Psychologists referred to this as the "Diana Effect."
On the first day of the Beijing Olympic Games last Saturday, as judoka Choi Min-ho won a gold medal in the 60-kilogram class, he could not stop his tears, even after stepping off the winner's podium. All the stress he experienced to get to this point and the joy of winning must have been mixed up in an emotional cocktail.
Another judoka, Wang Ki-chun, who lost the final of the 73-kilogram class, on Monday cried as he left the mat. It must have been out of regret for not having met the people's expectations.
Whether they win or lose, the athletes who do their best move us, their tears more so. Until these Games, how many tears they must have swallowed as they walked a lonely path. No longer do they have to endure the pain, so let the tears flow and our hearts be cleansed.
The writer is an editorial writer of the JoongAng Ilbo.
By Cho Hyun-wook [poemlove@joongang.co.kr]


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Astrology Primer
Realm of Spirits
Dashas
The Man who ate a Human Brain
Veenu Sandal | May 1, 2000
Maldevta is a popular picnic spot near Dehra Dun. Thirst overtook us while trekking to Maldevta and we decided to ask for some water at a small thatched hut about a eight hundred scrubby hundred yards from the canal we were following. A dusky, well built man wearing a skimpy loin cloth emerged from the dark interior of the hut. Why, of course, we could have water, he answered. He didn't have that much left, just a couple of glasses, as he'd just finished cooking, but we were most welcome to it. Was this his permanent residence, we asked him conversationally? Oh no, he had no fixed place of stay. There was a cremation ground just a stone's thrown away, and he'd built this hut as he had been waiting for a lawaris body (homeless person's body which is generally cremated by a philanthropic organization or trust). As luck would have it, after waiting for some three months, such a body had arrived just yesterday, and he'd been able, in exchange for a good luck charm, to obtain the head of the dead man. In fact, he'd almost run out of water as he had used most of it for cooking the dead man's brain with some rice. He brought out a blackened pot and showed us the contents. He'd already had one portion of it, and would have to space out eating the cooked brain and rice over the next three days. Repelled, chilled, yet curious, we asked him who he was.
He was an aghori, he said, and Calcutta was his birthplace. After early initiation when he was just nine years old into Tantric Kali worship, he'd moved into other deeper sadhnas (disciplines), but always, it was with the forces of the dark. The rules and demands of the search for power in which he was now engaged ordained that he had to eat at least one human brain annually.
Already, he had acquired the ability of divining the future. He could actually show us our future, in case we were interested. Why didn't we come in ? Fascinated yet afraid that at this isolated spot we might end up becoming his annual meal, we left somewhat hastily, forgetting all our lessons in politeness.
Over the next few days, I couldn't get the aghori out of my mind. When a brigadier and his wife came to seek a reading from the cards as they were in deep trouble with a court martial looming on the horizon, it gave me the opportunity to go back to the aghori, with the anxious brigadier and his wife in tow. After all, he had said he could show one the future. What better way of testing the claim ?
He was still there, at the peak of his powers, he informed us, as he'd recently consumed the human brain. This time, we entered his hut and our eyes soon became accustomed to the dimness. The aghori requested us to sit, and as we sat cross-legged on the earthern floor, placed a lota (container) of water before us. "Look into the water" he commanded. And in the water, we saw the brigadier, older, dressed in civilian clothes. After several sequences, we saw the brigadier with the Supreme Court clearly visible in the background, and he was wearing a dark blue suit and distributing sweets to a group of people who were with him.
Some months after this amazing incident, the brigadier wanted to take a friend to meet the aghori, but when we reached there we found the hut in a sad state : it was just a bundle of grass and straw and twigs strewn on the ground. Enquiries at the cremation ground revealed that the aghori had been driven away by irate residents of Raipur, a nearby suburb.
Seven years passed with only occasional meetings with the brigadier, who was no longer in active service and was fighting his case in the civil courts. One day I received a message from him. The Supreme Court was to give the verdict on his case. And when I went on the appointed day, apart from other settings, there, outside the imposing Supreme Court building, was the Brigadier, dressed in a dark blue suit, distributing sweets just as he had been seven years ago in the lota of water the cannibal aghori had placed before us.
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Veenu Sandal is a well-known Tarot card reader and an occultist. Gifted with unusual perception, she has had numerous first hand experiences of the unnatural kind. Her stories indicate, rather emphasise, the existence of a subtler finer, perhaps more potent, level of existence within our physical ambience and in our close proximity. The readers would find her stories interesting.
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· Yesterday the Varsity girls soccer team travelled to Abbey Park to take on the Eagles. The Devils started a bit slow and gradually picked up their game but could not over- come an early deficit and ended up losing 2-1 to the Eagles. Scoring for the Devils was Maddie Marler and Chloe Barltrop played a strong game in goal.


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Q: "Internar error 500" ¿Fallo del servidor o de la programación? Tengo código funcionando en un servidor Linux v50-49. El caso es que al usar algunos botones con acceso a la base de datos aparece este error:

La empresa que lo desarrolló dice que es el servidor que no funciona pero yo creo que es un fallo de programación.
¿Hay base suficiente como para desmentir que sea el servidor que está fallando?

A:
500 - Internal Server Error
Es un código comúnmente emitido por aplicaciones empotradas en
servidores web, mismas que generan contenido dinámicamente, por
ejemplo aplicaciones montadas en IIS o Tomcat, cuando se encuentran
con situaciones de error ajenas a la naturaleza del servidor web.

Al indicar que solo ocurre cuando las funcionalidades relacionadas a los botones trata de acceder a la base de datos, se podría deducir que hay un error en la aplicación y podría deberse quizás a que no logra conectarse a la base de datos o que hay un error de programación dentro de dichas funcionalidades.

Referencia:

*

*Anexo:Códigos de estado HTTP

*RFC 2616

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Radical Wisconsin Judge Attacks Special Counsel Investigating Elections – Rules Election Investigators Misspelled a Word in an Email and "Deserving of Punitive Damages"
Published March 5, 2022 at 8:30am
Last year the Wisconsin State Assembly sanctioned an investigation into 2020 election fraud. The Special Counsel (OSC) team of investigators has been attacked with lawfare since that time. They currently face 9 different lawsuits from the left intended to derail or impede the election investigation. Some involve records requests and others, including efforts by the radical Democrat WI State Attorney General Josh Kaul, are to block election investigation subpoenas. Here's one example.
To regular Americans, the below OSC response on Dec. 4th, 2021 to a records request is perfectly fine and professional. It even includes PDF files fulfilling some of the requested records. But according to Judge Remington, the OSC email was too short, only 3 sentences. The more egregious offense was the misspelling of ONE word. On February 2nd, Dane County Circuit Judge Frank Remington found the Wisconsin OSC team to be "unconsidered" and having "irrational conduct" over this email response.
This email was just too egregious for Judge Frank Remington. He ruled: "This is the sort of Unconsidered and Irrational Conduct deserving of punitive damages" as shown below. Throughout his 52-page ruling, Frank condescendingly calls this communication the "misspelled email". It's hard to refer to him as a judge at this point.
This two-tier example of justice was fast-tracked for the left. It was 5 months from the original request for records to the damages ruling. This timeline is really unheard of, especially when involving records about an active investigation. The list of Frank's punishment against OSC start on page 50, and includes $$ fines too.
The WI OSC told the court that disclosing information related to an open investigation can obviously jeopardize the entire case. They also point to laws that specifically prevent doing this. In the Dec. 4th OSC email they clearly explain this and that some information must remain secret until the investigation is over. It's well known the investigation is short-staffed. They have evidence yet to be followed up with. Frank Remington doesn't care, demands OSC cough up anything the lefties want. The WI OSC is appealing this crazy ruling.
The same tactics that were used in Arizona are being used against the Wisconsin State Assembly, The Assembly Office of Special Counsel (OSC), Mr. Michael Gableman, Speaker Robert Vos, and so on. Lawsuits in Arizona over records requests were used to relentlessly pound the Cyber Ninjas, the AZ Senate, conservative politicians, and others associated with investigating election fraud. The goal is twofold. Any records collected are meticulously scrutinized, especially communications, to spin a negative narrative. Secondly, the well-funded lefty lawsuits over records requests are used to slow, impede, or discredit the investigation and its team members.
The hard-left group American Oversight has filed three lawsuits against the WI State election investigation. Another case is in front of Dane County Circuit Judge Valerie Bailey-Rihn. Attorney Christa Westerberg represents AO in this case. Local Wisconsin news outlets including Fox, along with the national media like the USAToday network, relentlessly run stories about the legal battles over records requests. This is done to confuse citizens. A loss over one stage of the records request is spun as a loss in the election investigation and its credibility.
Frank has a history of radical rulings. A couple of years ago he rescinded Marsay's Law which was passed by nearly 75% of WI voters. It protects the rights of crime victims with timely notice of the offenders' release, notification of key proceedings, and much more. Frank didn't like the wording on the ballot. Frank Remington has been a judge in the Dane County Circuit Court since 2012 and is up for election in 2024.
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Early Decision vs. Early Action: Everything You Need to Know
Posted on: October 10, 2017 by: dee
Now that October is well underway, the most important thing for college applicants to consider is whether or not to submit an early application. And, equally important, whether to apply early decision or early action.
In this article, I will review both the early decision and early action application options, weighing the pros and cons to help you determine which is the best choice for you.
What is early decision?
Early decision allows candidates to apply to a college and be notified of their acceptance or rejection within about 6 weeks. The deadline is normally sometime in November (often the 1st of the month, but not always) and can be a great option if you already know you really want to go to a particular school. But there's a catch: if you apply early decision to a school and are accepted, you are obligated to attend that school. You will have to withdraw your other applications, thereby essentially eliminating your choice to go somewhere else.
Early decision is therefore a great idea if you really love a particular school or are applying to your top college. It's likely not a good idea, however, if you are on the fence about where you want to go most and want to decide once you know where you've been accepted.
What is early action?
Early action is similar to early decision in that you can apply early and receive an early decision from a school (also within about 6 weeks of applying), with one major exception: your commitment is not binding. If you apply early action to a school and are accepted, you are not obligated to attend – meaning that you can apply to other schools during the regular application cycle and make a decision about where to attend as usual.
Can an applicant apply both early decision and early action?
Maybe, but probably not. Colleges typically have one program or the other, but rarely do they offer applicants the opportunity to apply both early decision and early action.
However, I highly recommend that you carefully investigate the requirements of both systems if you plan to apply early. This is particularly true for early decision applications, because in some cases a school that has an early decision program will also allow applicants to apply to public (state) universities that have early action programs. Note that in these cases, the early decision application would still be binding if its accepted, requiring you to withdraw your application from everywhere else.
What are the pros and cons?
Both options have the obvious benefit of reducing the time it takes to hear about the status of your application. Arguably more important is that early applications almost always work to the advantage of the applicants. Applying early generally means there's a smaller applicant pool to be considered against, compared to the regular decision cycle, so applicants have a better chance of getting in early than they do regularly for many (though not all) schools.
The biggest cons, in my opinion, are the early deadline and the potentially binding result of an early decision application. Some people in the field say that applying early may also increase the likelihood of rejection because you are considered against the strongest candidates and evaluated based on stronger selection criteria. But in my experience as a Dean of Admissions, I didn't find this to be the case. If I encountered applications that were strong but not strong enough to be accepted in the early cycle, I would defer them to the regular cycle for consideration.
How should you make the choice?
When thinking about the schools on your college wish list, I strongly recommend that you seriously consider applying early to at least one institution. An early decision application is almost always the best option when you have a preferred school in mind, and there's no real downside to early action applications if you can submit a quality application before the deadline. Plus, there's a good chance that you're increasing your likelihood of being accepted. You just need to think carefully about the decision to make sure you're not limiting your choices before you're ready to do so.
Fear of rejection in the early application cycle should not be a deterrent: if your application is not as strong as some of the others in the early application pool, a school can defer you to the regular application pool. Deferrals allow schools the chance to weigh your application against a wider selection of candidates, leaving you no better or worse off than you would have been had you applied regularly. And it's worth the chance of knowing what the results of your applications are ahead of time, so that you can focus on enjoying the final semester of your senior year instead of worrying about where you're going to college.
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Stumble into Grace es el vigésimo primer álbum de estudio de la cantante estadounidense Emmylou Harris, publicado por la compañía discográfica Nonesuch Records en septiembre de 2003. Al igual que su predecesor, Red Dirt Girl, incluyó en su mayoría canciones compuestas por Harris, en lugar de versiones de otros artistas. Alcanzó la sexta posición en la lista de álbumes country de Billboard y el puesto 58 en la lista general Billboard 200.

Lista de canciones
Todas las canciones escritas y compuestas por Emmylou Harris excepto donde se anota.

"Here I Am" – 3:47
"I Will Dream" (Harris, Kate McGarrigle, Anna McGarrigle) – 5:00
"Little Bird" (Harris, Kate McGarrigle, Anna McGarrigle) – 3:14
"Time in Babylon" (Harris, Jill Cunniff) – 4:37
"Can You Hear Me Now" (Harris, Malcolm Burn) – 5:37
"Strong Hand" – 3:16
"Jupiter Rising" (Harris, Paul Kennerley) – 3:03
"O Evangeline" – 5:41
"Plaisir d'Amour" (Tradicional) – 2:22
"Lost Unto This World" (Harris, Daniel Lanois) – 4:34
"Cup of Kindness" – 3:55

Personal
Emmylou Harris - voz, guitarra acústica y bajo.
Tony Hall - bajo, guitarra y coros.
Brady Blade - batería y coros.
Ethan Johns - batería y guitarra eléctrica.
Julie Miller - coros.
Jane Siberry - coros.
Malcolm Burn - bajo, guitarra eléctrica, piano, percusión, Fender Rhodes, armónica, órgano y coros.
Buddy Miller - guitarras.
Kate McGarrigle - acordeón, guitarra acústica y coros.
Anna McGarrigle - acordeón y coros.
Daryl Johnson - percusión, bajo y coros.
Daniel Lanois - pedal steel guitar y coros.
Bernie Leadon - guitarra eléctrica.
Linda Ronstadt - coros.
Kevin Salem - coros.
Colin Linden - guitarra eléctrica.
Gillian Welch - coros.
Jill Cunniff - coros.

Posición en listas

Referencias

Enlaces externos
Página oficial de Emmylou Harris

Álbumes de Emmylou Harris
Álbumes de 2003
Álbumes de Nonesuch Records
Álbumes en inglés

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It would not be possible to have a center focused on operator performance that does not consider the operators themselves. While every organization recognizes the need to have well trained operators, the emphasis has often been on training the process, not necessarily the job and/or skills required for success.
This is not uncommon, nor entirely unwarranted, as the human operator is extremely flexible and adaptable. However, without a strong focus on skills and knowledge, training, and operator workload, the best Culture, Interface, and System can still produce substandard performance.


Mike Brinker, principal at Deloitte Consulting and global lead at Deloitte Digital, says the firm will take a federated approach to iOS by training and hiring experts embedded in each of its practices across all the countries, industries and business functions the company serves. "We believe this is an area for us that touches everything," he says. "It will touch all of our practices, from strategy through implementation."


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Q: How to add set -e to all default bashes? To make a bash script exit after any failed command, you can add
set -e

Imagine, you have a CI agent which allow people to embed bash scripts as tasks in build jobs.
How to make the exit behaviour given by set -e default for all new bash instances? Is there some sort of bashrc hack for that?

A: You can make the present running bash shell activate the -e option with:
$ set -e

Just to confirm:
$ echo "$-"
himBHs
$ set -e
ehimBHs

As the bashrc file is sourced to interactive shells you can make all new bash shells use the -e option by adding this:
set -e

As one line at any place (that is executed) of the .bashrc script.
This is a very bad idea however, as there are many conditions under which the detection of a failed command fails and there are several cases where a failed command is desirable. Please read


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The GEIP is looking for 10 – 12 newcomers/immigrants who may be interested in being featured in the campaign. Nominate yourself or someone you know, and help us celebrate our diversity.
For decades, Grand Erie has been welcoming immigrants from around the world. Titled "Welcome to Brantford" and "Welcome to Norfolk", these videos celebrates newcomers from all corners of the City, sharing their thoughts about why this is a great place to live.
We've created a fact sheet to help you better understand what a Refugee is and what supports are available to help them settle in Grand Erie. Download and share it today.
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We have found a good lightweight minimalist runner to be good for kayaking, and there are a variety of water shoes on the market - choose something sturdy! Of the many paddling booties we have seen two that combine these features: NRS Remix Kicker booties or for a higher cut wetshoe - NRS Freestyle Wetshoe. We have also just introduced the Adrenalin Top Sider Sneaker.
With fleecy / Polytherm socks, obviously the thicker the material is the warmer the socks - Lavacore socks are the winners here.


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package eu.boortz.ssltest.httpclient.clients;

import java.security.KeyStore;

import javax.net.ssl.SSLContext;

import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpHead;
import org.apache.http.conn.ssl.SSLConnectionSocketFactory;
import org.apache.http.conn.ssl.TrustStrategy;
import org.apache.http.conn.ssl.X509HostnameVerifier;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient;

import eu.boortz.ssltest.httpclient.clients.settings.DefaultSettings;
import eu.boortz.ssltest.httpclient.exception.ClientConnectException;
import eu.boortz.ssltest.httpclient.exception.PrepareConnectException;
import eu.boortz.ssltest.httpclient.factory.HttpClientFactory;
import eu.boortz.ssltest.httpclient.factory.SSLContextFactory;

/**
 * @author benni
 *
 */
public class CustomSSLClient extends AbstractClient implements ICustomSSLClient {

	private KeyStore 		trustStore 		= DefaultSettings.TRUST_STORE;
	private TrustStrategy 	trustStrategy 	= DefaultSettings.TRUST_STRATEGY;

	/* (non-Javadoc)
	 * @see eu.boortz.ssltest.httpclient.IClient#getUri(java.lang.String)
	 */
	public HttpResponse headUri(String uri, String[] sslProtocols, String[] sslCiphers) throws ClientConnectException, PrepareConnectException {
		HttpResponse result = null;

        // prepare ssl connection
		SSLContext sslContext = null;
		if (
			this.trustStore == DefaultSettings.TRUST_STORE &&
			this.trustStrategy == DefaultSettings.TRUST_STRATEGY
			) {
			sslContext = SSLContextFactory.newInstance();
		} else {
			sslContext = SSLContextFactory.newInstance(this.trustStore, this.trustStrategy);
		}

		SSLConnectionSocketFactory sslsf = new SSLConnectionSocketFactory(
                sslContext,
                sslProtocols,
                sslCiphers,
                this.hostnameVerifier);

		// prepare apache http client
		CloseableHttpClient httpClient = HttpClientFactory.newInstance(sslsf);
//		HttpGet httpRequest = new HttpGet(uri);
		HttpHead httpRequest = new HttpHead(uri);

		// execute request
		result = this.executeQuery(httpRequest, httpClient);

		return result;
	}

	public void setHostnameVerifier(X509HostnameVerifier verifier) {
		this.hostnameVerifier = verifier;

	}

	public void setTrustStore(KeyStore trustStore) {
		this.trustStore = trustStore;

	}

	public void setSSLProtocols(String[] protocols) {
		this.sslProtocols = protocols;

	}

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Ranking the Credit Card Portfolios of Each Canadian Financial Institutions (updated December 1, 2020)
It has been 8 months since our last update. Can you believe it, 8 months ago we were already dealing with lockdowns. Suffice to say, there has been some major changes to the industry since then, namely,...
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Ranking the Credit Card Portfolios of Each Canadian Financial Institutions (updated April 1, 2020)
It has been almost a year since we last updated this post, so no question this was due for an update. The reason why I waited so long is because there are very few changes to the rankings since then. However,...
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Ranking the Credit Card Portfolios of Each Canadian Financial Institutions (updated May 1, 2019)
I have been debating how often I should update this post. I decided on 6 months, and it has been the latest trend anyway. There has been several changes (though mostly in the bottom half of the rankings)...
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Credit Cards which offer Free Airport Lounge Access (updated March 9, 2019)
Due to the popularity of this post, I think it was due for an update. Along with several changes to the industry since the last time. The most significant addition is the CIBC Aventura cards. The most...
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Ranking the Credit Card Portfolios of Each Canadian Financial Institutions (updated November 1, 2018)
It has been 6 months since my last update, so I think it was due. Since last time, I started a new ranking system where I just flat our ranked the credit card companies, rather than grouping them. Note...
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Priority Pass in Canada (updated September 10, 2018)
In light of the one-time fee increase (from $27 to $32 for American Express cardholders), I thought it was an appropriate time to update this post. Priority Pass continues to increase their inventory,...
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Credit Cards which offer Free Airport Lounge Access (updated May 28, 2018)
A few changes to the industry means that this post was due for an update from last time, namely, Now unlimited access on National Bank World MasterCard (now the same as the World Elite version) Addition...
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Top United States Credit Cards Offered in Canada (updated November 28, 2017)
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Beyond Art
Dominic McIver Lopes
A radical original treatment of art and aesthetics
Shows how to resolve perennial problems about the nature of art
Ambitious work by a leading figure in the field
Written not just for philosophers but for theorists of art, music, or literature
Discusses a wide range of works from contemporary arts and culture
Dominic McIver Lopes articulates and defends a 'buck passing theory of art', namely that a work of art is nothing but a work in one of the arts. Having traced philosophical interest in theories of art to a reaction to certain puzzle cases of avant-garde art, he argues that none of the theories that have dominated philosophy since the 1960s adequately copes with these works. Whereas these theories have reached a dialectical impasse wherein they reiterate, and cannot resolve, disagreement over the puzzle cases, the buck passing theory illuminates the radical provocations of avant-garde art. In addition, when supplemented by a systematic framework for crafting theories of the individual arts, the buck passing theory grounds our empirical inquiries into the arts as well as our practices of appreciation and art criticism. Lopes seeks to model the diverse strategies employed by humanists and social and behavioural scientists who study the different arts. He gives the specificity of each art form a central role in our appreciative endeavours, and yet he stresses the continuity of the arts with similar, non-art activities such as fashion design, sports and games, cuisine, nature appreciation, and non-literary writing.
1:Beyond Theories of Art
2:After the Beginning of Art
3:Passing the Buck on Art
4:Art in Culture
5:The Myth of Artistic Value
6:Beyond Bricolage
7:Appreciative Kinds and Media
8:Appreciative Practices
9:Aesthetic Appreciation
10:Much Ado about Art
Dominic McIver Lopes, University of British Columbia
Dominic McIver Lopes is Distinguished University Scholar and Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia, and President of the American Society for Aesthetics. He is co-editor of the Routledge Companion to Aesthetics and author of Understanding Pictures, Sight and Sensibility: Evaluating Pictures, and A Philosophy of Computer Art, as well as articles in Critical Inquiry, the Journal of Philosophy, Mind, the Philosophical Quarterly, and numerous other journals. His current project is a book entitled Four Arts of Photography.
"[This book] makes many important contributions to the philosophy of art. Maybe the most important contribution is this: it wisely argues that, if you really want to understand art, turn to the arts." - Robert Stecker, British Journal of Aesthetics
Deeper than Reason
Jenefer Robinson
Sight and Sensibility
The Lewd, the Rude and the Nasty
Pekka Vayrynen
Images of History
Richard Eldridge
Being for Beauty
The Aesthetics of Design
Jane Forsey
Aesthetics on the Edge
David Konstan
Knowledge and Coordination
Daniel B. Klein
The Philosophy of Creativity
Elliot Samuel Paul, Scott Barry Kaufman
Susan Wolf, Christopher Grau
Artistic Creation and Ethical Criticism
Ted Nannicelli
The Philosophical Imagination
Richard Moran
Apt Imaginings
Jonathan Gilmore
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Drastic measures to cope with rains, floods
Thursday, 08/08/2019, 12:18
VOV.VN - The standing office of the Central Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control has issued an urgent telegram to relevant ministries and media agencies regarding the need to take drastic measures in order to cope with heavy rain and flash floods in the central highlands provinces.
According to the telegram, the steering committees for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control and Search and Rescue in localities across the central highlands, relevant ministries and media agencies have been requested to closely monitor developments of heavy rain and potential flooding.
Furthermore, they are being asked to inform local authorities and residents in a timely manner about preventive measures that need to be taken to deal with the effects of adverse weather conditions.
Localities have been urged to lead the implementation of measures in a bid to ensure the safety of residents in flood hit or isolated areas. This includes evacuating residents in high-risk areas to safe shelters, preparing plans to ensure the running of transport, electricity, and communications networks, in addition to tackling possible scenarios of flash floods and landslides.
Local rescue teams operating in flooded and isolated areas should be ready to respond to emergencies while the water discharge plans of hydropower reservoirs at border areas should be informed as early as possible.
Vietnam Television (VTV), the Voice of Vietnam (VOV), central, and local media agencies have been asked to increasingly spread information regarding the development of rain and floods, as well as the discharge of floodwater so that residents and local authorities at a grassroots levels are able to take preventive measures.
With regard to recovery efforts, on August 7, the Ministry of National Defence continued its deployment of 1,599 officials and soldiers, as well as 48 vehicles to aid residents in the districts of Quan Son and Muong Lat in Thanh Hoa province.
This was done in a bid to help areas deal with the consequences of flashfloods and landslides caused by typhoon Wipha.
Most notably, floating bridges were installed across Luong river in order to facilitate flood-relief work and aid residents in the hamlets of Sa Na and Na Meo in Quan Son district.
Rescue force in Gia Lai province also mobilized a total of 293 officials, soldiers, and two vehicles in order to help residents overcome the consequences of severe flooding.
A number of households, along with their belongings, in Chu Prong district of Gia Lai province and Buon Bon district of Dak Lak province have been evacuated.
According to National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting, heavy rains are predicted to resume in provinces throughout the central highlands with rainfall expected to reach between 40-88m in 24 hours.
Sa Na village in Thanh Hoa hit by devastating flash floods
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For a long time, a very long time, I have wanted to convey an impression about the development of Brazil.
"Development" is a term I use here in a sense only remotely related to what is usually understood by that word. I am not referring to economic-financial development. This is the supreme meaning — and not rarely the only one — that is attributed to this word, which in our days is steeped in bourgeois hedonism and communist materialism.
From my perspective, economic development does have its place. However, it does not hold the supreme place for the simple reason that man is more than just a stomach.
Supreme development does not only consist of promoting the corporal welfare of &kdquo;brother body," as the Franciscans would say. Rather, it must consist in the development of the whole man, with all the elements of this whole arranged in due hierarchy. Thus, the soul holds first place. Among the faculties of the soul, I want to emphasize one of its most noble abilities which is its capacity to relate material things to spiritual things, and then relate them both to God.
The whole universe was created to the image and likeness of God. For this reason, similarities exist among all things since two beings similar to a third are necessarily all similar. Thus, material things have the ability to mirror spiritual realities. To know how to express the spiritual aspects of material things, both individually or as a whole, is to know how to perceive the most noble uses of those things. By doing this, the intelligence has a better grasp of the spiritual. This is the highest use of matter, even for the blessed who, after the Resurrection, will see God face to face.
One who is imbued with these great truths can develop the habit of making the matter-soul-God relationship a ruling activity of his mind and thus reach the apex of his personality. In other words, he attains the full and orderly development of his own being — his supreme development.
Precisely because these truths are most abstract, they have a relationship with what is most profound and decisive in concrete reality.
Thus, one element of the grandeur, the well-being and the force de frappe of a country is the intimate relationship that exists between its natural resources and its landscape on one hand and the characteristics of its national spirit on the other.
This is so true that an observer is able to note all sorts of physical aspects of a country such as the formation of the mountains, the meanders of the rivers, the thousand colors and types of vegetation, the fragrances of the flowers, the flavors of its regional cuisine, the harmonies of native music and dances or the styles and colors of typical garb. The acute observer will then take these characteristics and note their affinities with the spirit of the population. This can be seen, for example, even in the nature of the games and quarrels of its children, the deeds of its mature men, and the proven wisdom of its aged. All this produces a complex fabric intertwined by a thousand inseparable affinities. The differences among these elements distinguish nations from one another even more than territorial boundaries.
For example, what a difference there is between France and Germany! Obviously each nation with its respective "fabric," forms one single whole. It is impossible to imagine a France inhabited solely by Germans, or a Germany inhabited solely by Frenchmen.
Classical tradition, and later the profound influence of the Church, taught these men to be much more soul than body, and to seek in material things analogies and supreme lessons about the soul and God. From this comes the admirable consonance between the body and the soul of great peoples. These peoples were led, in an immense unified action, to interpret their respective material surroundings and find in them a multitude of affinities with their own souls, affinities that culture accentuated and made salient.
I have the impression that amid the contemporary storm, most men, depersonalized and reduced to a mass by today's modern, mechanical and cosmopolitan civilization, no longer know how to grasp the spiritual and "divine" significance of things.
A man of wit and initiative opened a café there in a glass pavilion. This was not just any café. In his selection of coffee, he offered no less than 25 varieties. I am entertaining myself by running my eyes down the list of the many methods of preparation. Among the hot coffees was, of course, "Café Chantilly," followed by, among others, a somewhat perplexing "Scotch Coffee," in that Scotland does not even produce coffee. After them, come a pompous "Royal Coffee" and a dashing "Society Coffee." The iced coffees are quite naturally headed by "Viennese Coffee." But their ranks are smaller, with only six varieties compared to the 12 hot coffees. The hot and iced coffees are followed by seven more labeled "others." What might "Coffee Crème Liqueur" be like? How is it different from the simple "Coffee Liqueur?" And the "Coffee candies?" The fact of the matter is that this variety has enchanted the public, and the establishment is always full.
Couldn't this diversification that a man with a lively imagination achieved with coffee also be attained with so many of Brazil's fruits and, mutatis mutandis, with the country's countless flowers? And with this, how many more of our soul's riches could be revealed! In light of the analogies of a truly Catholic symbolism and the glorious, accompanying labor of our people's soul, how much magnificence would unfold before us!
If someone were to tell me that all this is only daydreaming because it does not solve the oil crisis, I would respond with a hearty laugh. Because a Christian-developed Brazil is not primarily defined as an immense fleet of motor cars, but as an immense family of souls.
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Different types of heating pads available for pain relief There are different types of heating pads that can used to get quick relief from pain and stiffness. The heating pad is classified based on the type of material used for making heat pad and also based on the method employed to heat the pad. The following section provides details on the different types of heat pads available.
This type of heat pad is made up of flannels and is filled with grains like buckwheat and rice. The heat pad has to be heated in a microwave to generate the required heat. One can add scented oils and spices to get that soothing smell, while providing the heat massage using the heat pad. The main advantage of using this type of heat pad is that it can be customized to fit the area where the heat needs to be applied. One of the main disadvantages of using this type of head heating pad is that one has to have a microwave oven in their place. Another issue with this type of heat pad is the formation of molds, when they are exposed to wet conditions.
This heat pad contains charcoal, salt and iron powder in it. Once the heat pad is opened, the air from the atmosphere reacts with the Iron powder and the heating starts to happen. Within 30 minutes the pad gets heated to the required temperature. Charcoal and salt act as catalysts to quicken the heating process. The advantage of using this type is that it doesn't require any external heating device. The heat produced is distributed evenly across the pad. Disadvantage is the cost associated with regularly using Charcoal, salt and Iron powder to heat the pad. If already used charcoal and Iron power are used, the heating efficiency gets reduced and it would take double the time for the heating pad to reach the required temperature.
This type uses electric current to heat up the pad. The main advantage of using this type of pad is that it ensures uniform heat distribution to the different sections of the heat pad. Disadvantage lies with the danger of being exposed to electric shocks. Also this type of pad cannot be used while sleeping and also with wet covers.
In moist heat pad, the heat transfer to the required body part happens through the moisture present in these pads. In other types, the heat transfer happens through the dry heat generated. This type of pad is usually used by physiotherapists on a larger area of the body such as the neck and the spine. The advantage of using this type of pad is increased blood circulation caused by the moist heat. Deep moist heat is much more effective than the electric heat or the dry heat. But the main disadvantage is that it has to be done in a monitored environment under the supervision of a therapist. One may not be able to use this in their homes.
In addition to these heating pads, there are other types such as the sodium acetate pads that are available in the market place. Based on your therapist advice, one can get a heat pad and start applying it to get immediate relief.


The 5.3 Azimap release includes significant enhancements focused on usability, user experience and most importantly workflow. This has been achieved by listening to customers feedback and by extending the search capabilities and introducing routing, drive time analysis, snapping, buffer proximity reports and GPX, Geodatabases, GeoJSON / JSON support.
The launch of 5.3 offers enterprise customers with an opportunity to configure their preferred search provider such as Google, Photon (OSM), HERE, GeoDirectory (IE), AddressBase (GB) and OS Places (GB) for example. Customers can configure their search preferences within the admin centre.
The introduction of routing is a significant enhancement which is available to all customers. Using the routing feature customers can optimise single or multiple stop journeys based on approximate drive time. This is significant as it provides logistic handlers the ability to plan journeys based on the most optimum route and stop locations.
Using the routing tool map administrators can either manually enter the start point and stop locations. Alternatively, they can use the lasso select feature to select multiple points on the map. Upon using the lasso select the destinations will automatically populate the destination fields, before selecting their selecting starting point. The administrator can also generate an optimised route for their destinations based on their preferred journey.
The logistic handler can also sort their journey based on the order in which the driver should take. In addition, they can add their optimised route to an existing line layer for future reference in a few simple clicks.
Administrators can create and print Pdfs. of their drive time analysis.
To accompany routing, we have introduced drive time analysis which again is available for all customers. The main benefit of drive time analysis is that it enables administrators to determine how far you can drive in minutes from a specific location. Drive time analysis can be based on a single journey, a journey with many intervals or a group of multiple stops from selected features.
The introduction of snapping provides editors to draw new features that snap to existing features to allow for more accurate capture of data for planning and reporting.
Snapping is available on both line and polygon features when the editor draws an adjoining polygon or line.
The introduction of the buffer reporting tool, enables users with an opportunity to search the proximity of a feature in meters, feet, kilometres or miles. The results are displayed in a table with separate tabs for each layer within the buffer feature zone with features within the defined buffer area, enabling the map administrator to quickly select and zoom to the feature by selecting it from the list view. The data can then be exported to a tabbed excel report.
Azimap now imports data using a separate thread. As such there is no need to wait on your upload to complete, as we will send an email when your data has been imported successfully. As such you can continue to use the application fully while the import is processing.
Also included in the 5.3 release is GPX, GeoJSON / JSON and Geodatabase import support.
The next release will primarily focus on extending the active directory integration. However, with qGIS integration and the impending remote data capture app currently in development, this clearly cements our vision to become a leader in cloud based GIS.
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