The Act will make it easier for consumers to know their rights and to shop with confidence, by streamlining 8 pieces of legislation (including Sales of Goods Act, the Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations and the Supply of Goods and Services Act) into 1.
When a problem does occur, it will be easier for disputes to be settled. From 1 October 2015, certified Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) providers will be available to help when a dispute cannot be settled between the business and the consumer. The system offers a quicker and cheaper way of resolving disputes than going through the courts.
Businesses need to maksure their staff understand the new rules to avoid problems!
Businesses have a real opportunity to show they value their customers by upholding their new rights and signing up to an alternative dispute resolution scheme. This means people have an independent body they can raise a complaint with if they haven't managed to resolve their issue with the trader.
Its really important to get your contracts right as fees and pricing, as well as other important terms in a contract, must now be both prominent and transparent. If a charge was hidden away and not brought to your attention, then a company won't be able to enforce it.
How do you get SEIS/EIS Advanced Approval?


We need to make sure that engineers that hold RPEng status are of the highest standard of contemporary practice.
To meet the CPD requirements, you must provide a record of 150 hours of completed CPD over the last three years or if you work part-time or have had a career break including parental leave then your CPD record of 150 hours can be completed over the last five years.
150 hours sounds like a lot, but CPD can be completed in a range of different ways.
Use the handy guide below to learn about your CPD expectations, and the types of eligible activities for each category.
Formal postgraduate education aligned to your work which can attract an award on completion from a higher education institution. This may include individual units of postgraduate study, which may be on or off campus and can include lectures, tutorials, lab work, research, and must involve some form of assessment.
You can claim the time that is the definite hours for all lectures, tutorials and laboratory works. If you haven't completed the whole course at the time of application, you are permitted to include the completed units on the provision that these were taken within the three-year period. Private study, planning and preparation related to the completion of formal postgraduate education can be claimed as CPD.
There is no limit to the maximum number of hours that you can claim for a three-year period, bearing in mind a spread of activities from other categories is required. The courses and or units must be aligned to your current role and responsibilities, or explicitly related to the discipline in which you seek registration in.
Education provided by your employer or by a provider that is not a higher education provider but that aligns with your work or profession.
Formal training programs offered by an employer or by a non-higher education provider or RTO is acceptable as an activity under this category.
Online courses are acceptable. Private study, planning and preparation related to the completion of formal postgraduate education can be claimed as CPD. There is no limit to the number of hours you can claim for this category.
Attendance at a conference or technical society meeting. Activities associated with the applicant's contribution to the profession such as acting as a mentor, as an assessor for an engineer registration scheme, serving on aboard or committee related to the profession of engineering can be considered.
Assessors can also consider participation in activities or groups which demonstrate your commitment to the profession, such as acting as an Assessor for an engineer registration scheme, as well as serving on boards or committees related to the Registered Professional Engineer of Professionals Australia (RPEng) program.
Only participation in meetings or undertaking responsibilities associated with involvement in the group or activity can be claimed.
The logbook must only detail the hours the applicant spent in attendance at the event.
Presenting at a conference or meeting outside of normal employment aligned to your work and profession and can include presentation and preparation of material.
The assessor will exercise judgement as to whether the presentation detailed in the CPD log constitutes inclusion under Category D, or whether it would be more suitable for inclusion under Category C. When reviewing Category D entries, assessors are looking for information regarding the topic of the presentation, the processes of preparing for the presentation, and the audience of the presentation.
You can claim up to 45 hours over a three-years for papers that have been published in journals or at conferences, as well as for the preparation of the material for courses that are not part of your standard employment role.
You can also claim up to 75 hours over a three-year period for papers that are peer reviewed prior to publishing.
Workplace learning involving theories, concepts, practices, that extent your knowledge. Normal work activities using current knowledge cannot be claimed.
Professionals Australia believes that on the job learning plays a vital contribution to the development of professionals and is a category which is often overlooked. The types of activities applicants should consider for this category which enhances their knowledge and understanding of engineering in theories, concepts and practices.
Importantly, activities claimed for this category must be for the extension of existing knowledge, or the development of new knowledge and skills. You can claim up to 75 hours over a three- year period.
Producing a published paper for a university, conference, engineering organisation relevant to the profession, can include research and preparation.
This category refers to any written material published in a technical journal, university publication, in conference papers or any other publication deemed acceptable to the assessor.
Where the paper was co-authored, the applicant can claim a pro- rata split of the total time.
Extension of your knowledge of legislation, regulations, codes, standards and specifications through work or private study.
Specific sources of this knowledge may include technical or industry magazines and journals, as well as research through internet searches and digital information sources, online technical communities and discussion forums.
You are expected to include sufficient information to identify the source claimed, including where possible, the title of the publication/material, author/source, date-published and link. Applicants are advised to use a conservative estimate when claiming activities in this category, as the assessor may choose to investigate the activity to confirm.
Ultimately, the assessor has the discretion to determine if the activities provided in an applicant's CPD log are adequate, and meet the expectations of a Registered Professional Engineer of Professionals Australia (RPEng).
Applicants are expected to exercise their best judgement and give reasonable consideration regarding which activities they choose to include as CPD, and under which category.
Importantly, assessors only accept activities undertaken within the three-years immediately prior to submitting an application.
Assessors may also choose to seek additional information regarding particular activities entered in the CPD log to confirm the applicant's participation and to ensure that the skills and knowledge detailed in the CPD log were truly developed.
There is an easy-to-use online log which applicants can use with their application. Once it's complete, it's very easy to keep up-to-date.
Our team can assist on 1300 273 762 or at RPEng@professionalsaustralia.org.au.


Are Lenders Holding Back REOs?
In normal market situations, a bank will repossess a home and usually get it to a Realtor for listing in the local Multiple Listing Service in as short as 30 days. Therefore, in a relatively short period of time, virtually every marketable lender owned property (a REO) finds itself listed for sale on the local MLS.
Today, that doesn't appear to be the case. As was mentioned in an earlier blog, it has been reported that lenders are not putting all the homes they acquire on the market at the earliest opportunity. It is thought that between 450,000 and 500,000 properties repossessed over the past year are still not on the market. For example, earlier this year Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac stated they were only listing about 35 to 50% of the homes they own.
Why would they do that with hungry buyers searching for housing bargains, and agents and brokers chomping at the bit ready to list and sell the properties?
Many of the properties have title issues that need to be resolved.
Many of the properties are in states of utter disrepair.
A number of states have strict redemption-rights periods, which prevents the lender from reselling.
A few states have extended the length of eviction proceedings, and federal law has also provided that legitimate renters can stay in the property for a limited time after foreclosure.
There are too many to process – there will be roughly 10 times the number of REOs this year as in the last "normal" year (2005).
But there may be another factor that the banks don't want to talk about. Lenders may be holding properties off the market in order to defer losses. For accounting and federal regulatory reasons, in most cases banks aren't required to adjust asset prices until the actual resale of the property. If they resell at the expected low prices, suddenly their assets will be worth much less than the loans were valued at, which could force the feds to seize the bank.
In Maricopa County, Arizona, approximately 40% of homes sold in November were REOs, 40% were normal sellers, with the remaining 20% short sales. If the experts are right, the percentage of lender owned real estate may rise next year from its already high amount.
Want to take one of those foreclosed homes off a lender's hands? Visit our foreclosure page at www.simplysoldaz.com. SimplySOLD Realty prepares a list of Scottsdale properties that have been foreclosed on by Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. We also have access to lender owned homes all over the valley, so give a call or search for yourself on our website.


As we welcome in 2019, we are pleased to announce that Gareth Davies has been put forward by the Prime Minister and the Chair of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) as the preferred candidate selected for the role of Comptroller & Auditor General (C&AG). Subject to the House of Commons agreeing to recommend the candidate to HM The Queen, Gareth will take up post from 1 June 2019 after Sir Amyas Morse leaves at the end of his ten-year term, on 31 May. As detailed in our press notice here, Gareth brings a wide range of private and public sector executive and leadership expertise.
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Exiting the EU: The financial settlement – follow-up report aims to provide further clarity on the financial settlement, taking account of new information that has become available since our report in April 2018. We set out the series of events the government expects to take place if the UK and EU ratify the Withdrawal Agreement. We also set out the components of the agreement, highlighting which EU exit payments and costs are inside and outside the scope of the financial settlement. This report does not cover the implications of the UK leaving the EU without an agreement, nor of there being modifications to the existing agreement.
Improving government's planning and spending framework reviews government's progress in improving the planning and spending framework since we last reported in July 2016, and makes recommendations ahead of the forthcoming spending review. We found that HM Treasury is controlling public spending effectively and the Cabinet Office, with support from cross-government functions such as finance, is helping to improve business planning in government departments. However, we conclude that unless government makes use of a more integrated planning and spending framework to ensure its plans are deliverable and affordable, the cycle of over-optimism, short-termism and silo decision-making will continue – risking value for money for UK taxpayers in the long term.
Local auditor reporting in England 2018: Since 2015, the Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG) has been responsible for setting the standards for local public audit, through maintaining a Code of Audit Practice and issuing associated guidance to local auditors. This report describes the local audit landscape; summarises the issues being reported by local auditors, and how these have changed over time; and examines how local bodies, central government departments and arm's-length bodies use the information to address the weaknesses reported.
The Equipment Plan 2018 to 2028 assesses the robustness of the assumptions underpinning the Ministry of Defence's (MOD's) Equipment Plan 2018-2028. The MOD recognises that continued unaffordability of the Plan is not sustainable, with forecast costs exceeding budgets by a most likely figure of £7 billion over the next 10 years. In January 2018, it established the Modernising Defence Programme to make the decisions needed to close the affordability gap, but this work has not yet concluded. During this uncertainty, the MOD has resorted to short-term decision-making, increasing the longer term risks to value for money now. Given that 84% of the identified affordability challenge falls in the next four years, the MOD must make decisions now.
Commercial and Contracting Overview: This report summarises the government's commercial management activity. It includes ten case studies from our work over the last 18 months and covers what government does, how much it spends, recent and planned changes, and what to look out for. It includes sections on: getting it right at the start; managing contracts better by improving use of intelligence and performance measures; and improving government's market management through better risk management, effective regulation and enhanced understanding of market supply chains. It also summarises our methodology for auditing commercial relationships.
On the NAO blog: The power of information for contracts is the latest in our 'Contract insights' series of posts. It identifies further insights from our recent reports on Capita and Carillion contracts.
E20: renewing the EastEnders set: The external filming set for EastEnders was built in 1984 and is no longer fit for purpose, partly because of increasing filming delays owing to stoppages in production due to health and safety concerns. The E20 programme to replace the set and core infrastructure was originally expected to be completed by 2018, but the BBC substantially revised the scope of E20 in 2015, moving its target completion date to 2020. With further delays and cost increases compared with the 2015 plan, E20 is now expected to cost £27 million more and take an additional 31 months to complete, and we conclude that the BBC will not be able to deliver value for money in the way that it envisaged in 2015. Reasons for this include: underestimation of aspects of the complexity; cost and risks of its revised approach; insufficient construction project management expertise; and inadequate integration between the end users and the programme team. The benefits of the programme still appear to be broadly achievable, albeit at a substantially higher cost and later than originally planned. However, sustained scrutiny, including by the BBC Board, is required to prevent E20 going off-track again.
Investigation into the British Army's Recruiting Partnering Project: The Army entered into this project with Capita Business Services Ltd (Capita) in 2012 with the aim of reducing recruitment costs and recruiting more soldiers and officers. Although the Army committed £1.36 billion over ten years, recruitment targets have fallen short every year by between 21% and 45%. The project has been beset with problems, particularly in developing and using the complex online recruitment system and a high applicant drop-out rate due to the complexity and length of the Army's recruitment process. The online system is owned by Capita, and not the Army, which may create issues if the contract with Capita is not renewed after 2022.
Rolling out smart meters examines the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy's (BEIS's) progress in rolling out smart meters for electricity and gas supply. A number of issues with the programme mean it will not meet its original timing and budget, with energy suppliers expecting to reach just 70%-75% of homes by the end of 2020 compared with the 100% originally planned. BEIS's push to introduce the smart meters quickly, coupled with delays in implementing the infrastructure needed for the second generation of smart meters, had the unintended consequence of leading the industry to install more first generation meters than planned, and nearly a million of the smart meters that have been installed in consumers' homes have lost their smart functionality (i.e. gone 'dumb'). We conclude that although the issues are not fatal to the viability and value for money of the programme, they are serious issues that need to be addressed if smart meters are going to succeed. Our web-page includes a video that summarises the programme and its progress.
A review of the role and costs of clinical commissioning groups (CCGs): With the NHS currently outlining its vision for commissioning as part of its long-term plan, our review sets out the role, running costs and performance of CCGs; and the past and potential future commissioning landscape. Our previous work on the NHS reforms brought in under the Health and Social Care Act 2012 highlighted the significant upheaval caused by major organisational restructuring. We therefore conclude that it is important that the current restructuring of CCGs creates stable and effective organisations that can focus on transforming and integrating health and care services, rather than on reorganising themselves.
Managing the Bank of England's Central Services examines whether the Bank has a sufficiently ambitious strategy for developing efficient and cost-effective Central Services (including Human Resources, technology, property, procurement, security and financial management) to support the Bank to deliver the change and cost control that it is seeking. The Bank is moving in the right direction, but challenges remains. Our recommendations focus on: the vision and demonstrating to staff the case for change; ensuring support across the Bank's leadership; having a clear plan for managing within its budget cap – taking account of optimism bias in planning; establishing a robust framework for monitoring the delivery of the expected benefits; and strengthening its ability to monitor and manage performance and costs.
The Motability scheme, administered by Motability Operations with oversight by the Motability charity, enables eligible disabled people to exchange certain mobility allowances for the lease of a new car, powered wheelchair or scooter. Our review into the scheme found that it delivers an excellent service to its customers and that Motability Operations' management deserves credit for having turned the business around and investing in features that have enhanced benefits for customers. However, the scheme has long operated in a protected environment, supported by government, and we do not consider that these advantages have been adequately reflected in: Motability Operations' consideration of risk when compared to other companies; how it assesses its performance; and how its executives are rewarded. We have made recommendations to both entities that provide the scheme, as well as to the Department for Work and Pensions, to improve governance and review key aspects of the scheme's operating model.
Handling of the Windrush situation examines how the Home Office handled the impact of the implementation of its immigration policies on the Windrush generation and other factors that may have contributed to the situation. Although the Home Office did not deliberately deny the Windrush generation their legal rights to be in the UK, it failed to protect their needs when it designed and implemented its immigration policies aimed at creating a 'hostile environment' for illegal migrants. The Home Office is now taking steps to put things right, but it has shown a surprising lack of urgency to identify other affected groups who are not of Caribbean heritage. The belated and costly exercise of seeking information about those affected, and then paying compensation, was not value for money and has caused reputational damage. We make recommendations to reduce the risk of a similar situation happening again. Our web-page includes a video that summarises the issues and our recommendations.
Investigation into the BBC's engagement with personal service companies: The BBC hires a lot of freelancers, often through a personal service company (PSC) structure. Many of these individuals raised concerns that they may now be at risk of having retrospective HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) investigations into the amount of tax they have paid, following HMRC reforms in 2017 that made the BBC responsible for assessing the employment status for tax purposes of freelancers it hired through their PSCs. Our investigation sets out the facts, focusing on: the BBC's use of PSCs; the context to this; why issues have arisen and their scale; and relevant interactions between the BBC and HMRC.
Departmental overviews: Each year we publish a suite of departmental overviews, designed to provide a quick and accessible view of the major government departments, how they spend their money and their major areas of work. Several new overviews have been published since our last e:newsletter, including on Commercial and Contracting, as noted above.
We have published a number of C&AG Reports on Financial Statements.
Administration of Scottish Income Tax 2017-18 provides our opinion on the correctness of the income tax revenues attributable to Scotland, key controls operated by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC), HMRC's risk management approach, and the cost of administering Scottish income tax.


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Virginia Firm With $150 Million in AUM Joins LPL Financial
The three advisors that make up JCG cited LPL's new "ClientGoals" addition to the ClientWorks platform as an enticing benefit of the new partnership.
Patrick Donachie | Sep 09, 2019
A firm consisting of three Chesapeake, Va.-based advisors with more than $150 in client brokerage, advisory and retirement plan assets will join LPL Financial, the independent broker/dealer announced today. JCG, which includes advisors Carter Johns, Michael Chu and John Gillis, will join LPL from Ameriprise Financial.
"With LPL's deep well of resources, we feel positioned well for success," Chu said. "I hope to create a business that my children will hopefully want to be part of one day."
The three advisors, which collectively have almost 60 years of experience in the industry, formed JCG in 2012, and subsequently expanded their client list primarily through referrals. According to Chu, they wanted to find an option that would have the tech resources to help them maintain their efficiency while retaining a personalized touch to their interactions with clients. He specifically noted LPL's ClientGoals, the firm's recent goals-based addition to their ClientWorks platform, as a powerful resource to enhance discussions with clients.
"We can use the reporting during those conversations, providing them with a roadmap to their goals," Chu said.
LPL Financial held its annual Focus conference in San Diego several weeks ago and announced a number of new initiatives, including an "end-to-end" solution to help advisors navigate the entirety of a mergers and acquisitions process, as well CFO Solutions, a subscription-based services that helps advisors partner with LPL employees who can help gauge the financial health of an advisors' business and help them create short-and-long-term goals for greater success. The M&A assistance tool is currently in a pilot program with 15 advisors, with a launch (and name) expected before the end of the year. LPL also announced the creation of a team dedicated to collecting feedback from advisors to better the firm's own practices.
The JCG team isn't the only recent advisor team to partner with LPL; in August, two retirement counselors from Benefit Funding Retirement Services joined LPL's corporate registered investment advisor and broker/dealer platforms (the two advisors had a combined total of $150 million in assets under management). In July, a Los Angeles-based retail advisory firm joined LPL Financial from FMS Financial Partners, an affiliate of Kestra Financial Partners. The firm managed approximately $500 million in client assets.
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Year-end commentary series: IBM on quantum benchmarking
By Dan O'Shea posted 13 Jan 2022
In recent weeks, IQT News has been asking several companies from across the quantum sector to weigh in on the state of the industry, key challenges that remain and visions and hopes of the future.
The latest and one of the last entries in this series comes from IBM, a companies whose innovations and milestones in the quantum space over the last year are too numerous to list in full, though here are a few:
IBM unveils Eagle processor, ushers in System Two era
IBM-Bluefors partnership promises really cool quantum future
IBM just created a new way to measure the speed of quantum processors
IBM CEO: Quantum computing will take off 'like a rocket ship' this decade
IBM partners with U.K. on $300M quantum computing research initiative
IQT News communicated with IBM via email at the very end of 2021, and the company supplied us with this look ahead to 2022:
Quantum computers have entered an era where we can begin to focus not just on their development, but on improving their capabilities. As we move into 2022, we'll be benchmarking our systems on three fronts: scale, which we measure with qubit count; quality, which we measure with Quantum Volume; and speed, which we measure with our recently-introduced Circuit Layer Operations Per Second, or CLOPS metric. It's not enough to just focus on quality without improving on scale or speed. Quantum hardware must drive all three of these areas of performance in order to achieve Quantum Advantage.
However, improving quantum capabilities will require more than just hardware advances. In 2022, we will continue to employ classical computing tightly integrated with quantum resources in order to achieve even more than a quantum processor can alone. This integration will allow us to explore larger problems using techniques such as circuit knitting, which uses classical computing to find useful cuts in the problem to produce smaller quantum circuits to run on near-term quantum devices, and to combine the pieces back together to simulate a larger problem. Meanwhile, dynamic circuits, those where we perform a measurement in a quantum circuit and then feed the resulting classical information to a later quantum calculation, will begin to take us into the realm of error correction.
Start-up innovation drives UK's emerging quantum economy
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Jeremy Irons at his suite in the Lowell Hotel in New York. The actor is on tour to promote his latest movie, "The Man Who Knew Infinity." Credit An Rong Xu for The New York Times
By Ruth LaFerla December 7, 2016
Jeremy Irons owns a pied-à-terre in London, a house in Oxfordshire and a 15th-century castle in Cork, Ireland, painted a color that complaining neighbors have called pink.
"They got their knickers in a twist about it, but it's not pink," Mr. Irons said during a recent stay in New York. "It's the color of fresh seaweed, and it blends with the sea that surrounds it."
To judge by his woebegone look, Mr. Irons hasn't spent much time on that property in the last year. A hectic schedule of movie work and promotion has taken him all over the world, and he was to decamp the next morning for Washington, to preside over a screening at the White House of his latest film, "The Man Who Knew Infinity."
Considering all the travel on behalf of the movie, in which he plays the Cambridge math professor G. H. Hardy, Mr. Irons ought to have felt uprooted. Not a chance, he said. The actor, 68, makes it his business, his passion, really, to trick out the hotel suite or rented house assigned to him with all the comforts of a caravan. Home, he will tell you, is wherever he happens to be.
"I used to travel with a lot of scarves, which I bought in Hong Kong, Chinese scarves," he said. "They were wonderfully embroidered. And I'd just drape them over everything."
His cyclone publicity tour, undertaken in part with Oscar gold in mind, has forced him to pack lightly. At the Lowell Hotel on the Upper East Side, where he talked over bourbon (Eagle Rare) and licorice-flavored cigarettes, he easily made do with the imitation heritage furnishings: damask-covered chairs, cushy divans and a cherry wood desk. Mr. Irons, who seemed to be roughing it in a weathered coat and Spanish boots, looked stately enough, if a little out of place.
So did the guitar propped at the foot of a chair. And Smudge, Mr. Irons's affable Jack Russell/bichon frisé, who goes wherever Mr. Irons goes. No coy mistress, Smudge sprang from her bed when called into the room to pose for a photograph.
"Sorry, Smudge, sorry for this indignity," Mr. Irons said. "Chin up; that's good. Try and look at the gallery. Keep your head up — like that!"
A director manqué, and something of an aesthete, he traded antiques as a youth to put himself through drama school. He still has a mystical attachment to inanimate objects, among them an aged barrel chair he once picked up in Bristol — a commode, in fact, that he covered with a fancy cushion. There is also a prize BMW motorcycle he rides at home, even to rehearsals.
"I talk to it," he said. "I have to apologize to it when I've been away or riding someone else's bike."
His spiritual proclivities date from his boyhood on the Isle of Wight, where his father was an accountant. Mr. Irons, a Catholic, believed — still does, in fact — in the power of good works. He once helped run a parish in South London, visiting sick and elderly parishioners, playing the church organ and running the youth club.
There were heady distractions. On evenings off, Mr. Irons cycled to the West End, guitar strapped to his back. "Every now and again, some little bird perched near the street would start talking to you," he said. His troubadour look was, he discovered, "a wonderful way to attract girls." Up until then, he recalled, "Girls lived in a dream world in my head."
At his all-male public school, Mr. Irons played in a rock group called the Four Pillars of Wisdom. The bass player had some success with the female fans, Mr. Irons recalled, gazing fixedly at the carpet. "I, on the other hand, hadn't even talked to a girl," he said. "I had no skills at all in that area."
It's hard to fathom, given that Mr. Irons has seemingly never let his near-40-year marriage to the Irish actress Sinead Cusack undercut his reputation as a rake, one who has been linked in the tabloids with more than a few leading ladies. But it was an apparently chastened Mr. Irons who told a reporter this year that straying is not good for one's mental health.
Sure, he enjoys a few vices: "I don't like rules, and break as many as I can," he said. "To me, it's an exciting way to run one's life."
As a boy, he once thought of joining the circus. "I wandered round one night to the back of the tents and discovered that most of the circus workers appeared to sleep in booths, sort of four berths to a booth," he said. "I thought, 'I'm too middle class for this.'"
The theater seemed a luxury by contrast. "I loved the fact that we could get up at 10 o'clock and we went to bed at 2, so we were out of sync with everybody else," he said. "I loved the smells, I loved the attitude, I loved the fact that some of my colleagues were quite insecure as people, which made them quite open."
The bohemian life suits him. He clearly relates to the long-ago time when actors "didn't have the vote and we could be imprisoned easily. We were disreputable," he went on, seeming to relish the notion. "We were vagabonds and rogues."
The rogue in him waxed skeptical about the state of American politics. "I watched all of the debates, and I was enormously depressed," he said. After criticizing the president-elect, he intercepted a look from his longtime publicist, Sally Fisher, who sat vigilant on a sofa nearby. "She doesn't want me to talk politics," he said.
He may like talking issues, but not his inner workings. "I remember going for some therapy a long time ago," he said. "The therapist, she'd keep asking these questions. I thought: 'That's none of your business. I don't want you tell you that.' And after about two seconds, she said, 'I don't think you're ready for this.'"
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Do you have a favorite type of beer? It doesn't necessarily have to be the kind you usually drink, either. I'm talking about when you're really CRAVING a BEER.
Study: MA Is One Of The Most Expensive States For This Stupid Act
Get a ride or get a DUI? The obvious choice is to get a ride. And there are several reasons why you should make that choice. Now you can add another reason.
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Holiday Travelers! These Are The Most Popular Hotel Chains In MA
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Massachusetts Is On Top 10 List When It Comes To This Obsession
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Think You're A Smart Cookie? Guess Massachusetts' Favorite Cookie
Hey, Berkshire County, here's a question: Are you a cookie connoisseur?
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Who's The Most Popular Disney Princess & Prince In Massachusetts?
Everyone of course has their opinion(and is entitled to it!) of who they think is the best Disney princess of all time, but do you think the rest of the Bay State shares your opinion?
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The Best Touchdown Runs of All Time
By Bryce Whitley
Football is a violent game, and a touchdown pass is a moment when precision and style emerge from a pile of brute force to create something pretty. To go through our list of the 10 best touchdown passes ever is to be exposed to the most beautiful part of football, at least in conventional terms. But let's not forget the ground game: Although not quite as graceful as a deep pass, there is something picturesque about a big touchdown run. Good touchdown runs are an embrace of football in its original form, before the Mike Leaches and Don Coryells and Bill Walshes of the sport came around and transformed it into a passing-focused game.
Football has indeed shifted toward the pass in recent years. In the NFL, rushing attempts have been declining since the 1980s. But the rush will always be a pivotal part of the sport, and a bulldozing or explosive rushing TD will always be a great symphony of force and skill. To celebrate this essential aspect of the game, here's our list of the 10 best touchdown runs in football history (including college football and the NFL), in no particular order.
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I make stuff with computers.
A week with a client looking into some of their software has had me thinking about complexity. Some older code uses Spring Boot, which was a simplified approach to the complexity of Spring Framework, which itself was a response to the complexity of J2EE. And yet it's still a giant hulking piece of software to use, and while there may be 100 great features it provides, if we only need 2 of those I think it's worth remembering that they don't come free.
Someone once told me that all code is baggage and I wish we remembered this more often. Spring Boot lets you do tasks that may have been complicated otherwise very easily, but it comes with a lot of code AKA baggage, and it will weigh you down. One obvious but painful side effect of using a complex framework is large and inscrutable stacktraces. Developers spend a lot of time looking at stacktraces, and making this task harder is not to be taken lightly!
In a more abstract sense I think as developers we should at all times try to limit complexity. But not just complexity of the code we write - libraries, frameworks, etc all increase complexity of the application as a whole. Writing a hundred more lines (or even a thousand) could easily be worth it if you can avoid tying your application to some larger monster framework.
In my case I've been working on an application that uses Spring Integration, which seems to be a message bus on top of Spring. Methods have inbound and outbound channels, and this dictates the program flow instead of methods just calling other methods. I'm trying to guess at why it was used and my only guess is: it seems cool. But it adds nothing else but complexity!
Third lesson of kitesurfing and it's hard to stay patient. I just want to fly the kite around in a good wind, to feel the power of it! Next one will be a private lesson so at least I don't have to trade off so much.
I enjoyed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc&fbclid=IwAR3vMzXWVVNQJRYW4YejiSw3OQJYEPDYymiTWxa0tyZCPLUezqkDeaki6W8. Reminds me of Snow Crash. One of the ideas I've been coming to terms with over the last year is that allowing people to communicate faster and easier than before can not only have negative effects but is perhaps a net negative overall? I hope Mark Zuckerberg stays up at night thinking about this.


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Sidebar: Everyday Evil and the Visions of 616 Hickory Branch Lane
From our friend Rev. Samuel Blair over at The Chaplain's Report: "The fatal flaw of the Vision in creating his family and trying to live a normal life is that that he did not see how much evil there was in normal life. The Vision, he recounts to himself, has saved the world 37 times….
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Listening to 80s Music with Karl Barth
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Wonder Woman: Facing the Darkness, Embracing Her Gifts
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By Stephanie Pacheco Wonder Woman is a thematic knock out as Diana encounters the reality of evil and chooses to keep loving and place her gifts in the service of humanity. The Amazonian goddess is genuinely moved and affected by the suffering of war, experienced by both soldiers and civilians. From the paradise-like island of…
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The Trust is delighted to announce a new member of the Trust Board.Paul Mee is a retired civil servant, who has been supporting Palace since the late 50s. He served on Croydon Council from 1986 to 2002; chaired the Leisure Services Committee and moved the 1999 motion of support for the new Trust. A member of both the Palace Independent Supporters' Association and the Trust since their formation, he was a PISA committee member from 2002 to 2014 before co-option to the Trust.
We also say goodbye to Board member Martin Howell who has stepped down. Martin joined in February 2012 as the Training Ground project was gathering momentum, offering his skills as a Civil Engineer working on a range of projects from single house builds to supermarkets. With the mothballing of the project Martin took the decision to stand down. The Board would like to place on record its thanks to Martin for his help over the past two years and to wish him well in his future career.


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The acceleration of life is launching us from the Information Age into the Intuition Age, where reality will function by new rules and we'll know ourselves as a new kind of human being with new human abilities. So what is the perception of the future and how do we get there now? We're discovering that attention has never been more important It's a powerful force for accomplishing many things that will carry us forward into a new world functioning entirely in the present moment.


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If you had your ear cupped just right and were listening closely Sunday afternoon, you might have heard my head explode.
The pressure inside the old noggin has been building for months, thanks to what can be called politics as usual in Washington, D.C., and Des Moines. So, my friends and relatives were not surprised by what occurred about 2 o'clock Sunday.
My cranium could not contain the buildup any longer when I read that U.S. Rep. Devin Nunes of California was fuming about his visit to a restaurant in that state.
The waitress asked the congressman if he wanted a straw with his beverage. She explained that she now has to ask that question to remain on good terms with "the straw police."
It was Nunes' next comment that lit my fuse: "Welcome to socialism in California."
Nunes wasn't the first politician – and he will not be the last – to drag our nation into the quagmire known as the Socialism vs. Capitalism debate.
During his State of the Union speech in January, President Donald Trump said, "Tonight, we renew our resolve that America will never be a socialist country."
Afterward, Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas contributed this to the discussion: "Socialism may begin with the best of intentions, but it always ends with the Gestapo."
It's not just Trump and the Republicans who are stoking this debate.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, the self-proclaimed democratic socialist from Vermont, has pitched gallons of fuel onto this fire with his proposals for taxpayer-paid college educations for everyone and for businesses to be required to provide every employee with 10 days of paid vacation each year, plus 12 weeks of paid family leave annually to care for a new baby, a sick relative or themselves.
Before Americans ever heard of the Gestapo, Congress created Social Security in 1935 as part of President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. The monthly government checks were a way to provide modest assistance to the elderly, many of whom lived in extreme poverty.
Thirty years later, during Lyndon Johnson's presidency, Congress created Medicare to address the nagging issue of people over age 65 often finding it virtually impossible to buy health insurance.
Those two programs sound a lot like socialism, with the federal government collectively providing for the health and welfare of the American people.
But even our current president, who was sounding the alarm about socialism when he spoke to the joint session of Congress in January, has promised to protect Social Security and Medicare. He knows Americans have grown to love the two programs, even though critics at the time they were created warned that the programs amounted to the dreaded "S" word.
Let's get back to Devin Nunes and his drinking straws.
The California legislature passed a bill in 2018 that requires restaurants in that state to ask if diners want straws with their drinks, rather than automatically providing straws without being asked. The purpose of the law is to combat the growing problem of plastic waste polluting the Pacific Ocean, endangering whales and fish.
While Nunes was on Twitter complaining about the law, he was silent on other examples of what some might view as government programs having a decided socialistic flavor:
Such as the U.S. Department of Agriculture's protections for dairy farmers (such as Nunes' parents and his brother, who moved their dairy operation from California to Sibley, Iowa, in 2006).
Or, such as the federal government's taxpayer subsidized insurance that protects farmers from losses resulting from natural disasters that reduce their crop yields or from falling commodity prices that reduce their income.
As my head recovers from the silliness about Devin Nunes and the drinking straws, can we set aside this nonsensical Socialism vs. Capitalism debate and, instead, have a serious discussion about real issues facing our nation and planet Earth and the various ways the government of the United States might deal with these problems?
Let's not waste our time trying to pin the "racist" label on Donald Trump or the "hates America" label on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Do you hear me, political candidates and media pundits? Let's talk about issues and stop with the labeling.
Randy Evans is executive director of the Iowa Freedom of Information Council and retired opinion editor at the Des Moines Register. He is a native of Bloomfield, Iowa, and now lives in Des Moines. He can be reached at DMRevans2810@gmail.com.
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As ag groups, Iowa Republicans tout Nutrient Reduction Strategy as roadmap to cut farm pollution, Iowa Environmental Council analysis shows it's really a very, very slow road to nowhere
Source: Iowa Environmental Council
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20 days, 10 pumps and 448 million gallons of sewage-contaminated water flushed into Mississippi
For 20 days beginning May 27, Bettendorf continuously ran 10 pumps along its riverfront to flush 448 million gallons of sewage-contaminated water into the Mississippi River.
The latest Sanitary Sewer Overflow (SSO) "Event" was again the result of rain and flood water clogging the main... more
Iowa's greenhouse gas emissions back on the rise, 3.5 percent increase in 2017 to 131 million tons
Increased use of coal- and natural gas-power plants for production of electricity and two new fertilizer plants helped pushed up Iowa's greenhouse gas emissions by 3.5 percent in 2017.
The hike in emissions came after two years of statewide declines. Even with the increase, total... more
Bettendorf, Riverdale, Panorama Park sewage pumped into Mississippi River for 14 days
Bettendorf, Riverdale and Panorama Park sewage was flushed into the Mississippi River between April 29 and May 9.
The City of Bettendorf pumped 179 million gallons of untreated sewage mixed with stormwater runoff into the river, according to reports filed with the Iowa Department of... more
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L'Amargosa est une rivière d'environ  du sud du Nevada et de l'est de la Californie, aux États-Unis.

Elle s'écoule dans la Vallée de la Mort et dans les régions au nord-ouest de Las Vegas, où elle disparait dans le sol.

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Le nom Amargosa River vient de l'espagnol, qui veut dire l'eau amère. L'Amargosa River commence à Pahute Mesa, au Nevada, et continue son chemin jusqu'en Californie, en passant via Beatty, la Vallée de la Mort et le désert de Mojave.

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Dans les roches sédimentaires de cette vallée ont été trouvés des perchlorates d'origine naturelle, comme dans quelques autres zones « hyperarides » du monde.

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Researchers from a number of renowned institutions including Virginia Tech, the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China and Microsoft Research have concluded that it is possible to spoof GPS signals and send people in the wrong direction.
The ironic part is that such an advanced technology can be spoofed using equipment worth no more than $250. The equipment can deceive GPS signals and switch original maps with ghost maps, which appear exactly like the original ones but are merely a delusion.
Researchers tested their findings in a range of attacks launched at nighttime in Chengdu, China. They tested the research's authenticity in a Ford Escape, and two different mobile phones models (one from Xiaomi having Android v 8.0 and the other a Huawei phone having Android v 6.0) running navigation software by Google were used.
The hack was carried out using an algorithm that scanned for map layouts replicating the real maps; once this was achieved, it became possible to insert a "ghost location" in place of the real map, which the vehicle driver will use unsuspectingly. The entire feat was pulled-off without alerting the driver or raising any alarms; researchers further identified that their algorithm lets the attacker lure victims to any selected location.
"The algorithm crafts the GPS inputs to the target device such that the triggered navigation instruction and displayed routes on the map remain consistent with the physical road network. In the physical world, the victim who follows the instruction would be led to a wrong route (or a wrong destination)," researchers wrote in their paper titled "All Your GPS Are Belong To Us: Towards Stealthy Manipulation of Road Navigation Systems" available for downloading here.
The algorithm has been tested with traffic simulators across China and the US and can work in real-time using a portable GPS-spoofing tool that cost only $223. It can be attached to any vehicle or put on a car that tracks another one from a distance of up to 50m. Around 1547 attacking routes have been identified by the algorithm for every single target trip and the attack was found to be successful on 95 percent of all human testers.
"38 out of 40 participants (95%) follow the navigation to all the wrong destinations….If the attacker aims to endanger the victim, the algorithm can successfully craft special attack route that contains wrong-ways for 99.8% of the trips," researchers claim.
The research is truly significant because all the GPS spoofing techniques or attacks identified so far have remained unsuccessful in deceiving humans as the fake instructions were never in-sync with the original maps. But this one definitely does fool humans by successfully replicating the road layout immaculately. The method is compatible with all GPS-enabled road navigation systems including those deployed on vehicles (both self-driving and normal), mobile phones, couriers and car-sharing services.


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Q: How can you print multiple variables inside a string using printf? I want to find the maximum value of two numbers, and print it. I want to print all three numbers. I am using the following code.
#include<stdio.h>
#include<conio.h>
main()
{
     //clrscr();
     int a,b,c;
     printf("insert two numbers:");
     scanf("%d%d", &a, &b);
     c = (a>b) ? a : b;
     printf("\nmaximum of %d",a," and %d",b,"  is = %d" c);
     getch();

}

However, I receive two syntax errors (Please find the attached figure).
Could anybody help me out with it?

A: printf("\nmaximum of %d and %d is = %d",a,b,c);

A: Change the line where you print the output to:
printf("\nmaximum of %d and %d is = %d",a,b,c);

See the docs here

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Find Out What New Rules The Metro-Manila Filmfest Executive Committee Has Come Up With For This Coming December Film Festival
THE METRO MANILA FILMFEST 2016 was launched at SMX MOA last Tuesday night, with Chuck Gomez as the new PR. Called Reelvolution, it was hosted by Iza Calzado and Epy Quizon. The Execom is led by MMDA Chairman Emerson Carlos and the members are Boots Anson Roa, Wilson Tieng of Solar Films, Sen. Sonny Angara, Rep. Alfred Vargas, MTRCB Chairman Toto Villareal, writer Moira Lang, UP Film Institute's Nonoy Lauzon and academician Ed Cabagnot.
The criteria for possible entries: 40% % story value, audience appeal and overall impact, 40% cinematic attributes and technical excellence, 10% global appeal and 10% Filipino sensibility. Both mainstream and indie films are welcome to join.
The members of the selection committee who'll choose the 8 film entries that will be shown in December include actors Sid Lucero and Mae Paner, director Lawrence Fajardo, DZBB station manager Alan Allanigue, lawyer Trixie Angeles, entertainment columnist Crispina Belen and writer Krip Yuson.
There will be a different set of jurors who'll choose the winners for the various categories in the filmfest awards night that will now be held on January 8, after the festival's official run from December 25 to January 7. Those who hope that winning awards will help them attract more viewers at the box office can no longer bank on them, but the MMFF will help promote all the final entries. There will only one best picture award, no more 2nd and 3rd best pictures. There also will be no more award for best child performer but there will be a People's Choice Award.
There will be a contest for new MMFF logo or emblem and theme song. Entries for logo and theme song will be accepted starting July 15, deadline on August 15. Winners will be announced on September 15. There will be interactive galleries to attract old and new moviegoers to relive the country's best films through the years.Even the annual parade of stars will be bigger and also be interactive for the fans
Here are the important dates to remember. July 8. 2016 - deadline for the submission of a Letter of Intent to join the festival. October 31, 2016 - deadline for the submission of completed full-length film entries. November 10, 2016 -- announcement of the selected film feature entries. December 25 - Opening of the film festival, to run until January 7, 2017. January 8, 2017 - the filmfest awards Night.
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Find Out What New Rules The Metro-Manila Filmfest Executive Committee Has Come Up With For This Coming December Film Festival Reviewed by Unknown on 8:38 AM Rating: 5


A sappy, emotional tear-filled journey with strictly average performances and a weak screenplay.
Jalebi Story: An estranged couple happen to meet on a train journey where they independently reflect on what went wrong in their relationship and whether they will truly be able to move forward and start a new chapter, together or alone.
Jalebi Review: Unrequited love is the strongest kind of love, is what debutant filmmaker Pushpdeep Bhardwaj is trying to tell the viewers through this love story. A remake of a hit Bengali film, 'Jalebi' tells the story of Aisha (Rhea Chakraborty) and Dev (Varun Mitra). A carefree student, Aisha ends up marrying a local guide-type boy next door, Dev. Turns out Aisha is not really cut out for marriage or for living with Dev and his family in their haveli in Old Delhi.
The film is told in flashbacks which happen over a train journey from Mumbai to Delhi where the two protagonists meet and reflect over their lives. The problem is that Dev is with his current wife (Digangna Suryavanshi and daughter on the train. Because a train has other passengers, we get to see other characters, none of whom contribute in any way to the film's story or to the stories of the central characters.
Unlike Vishesh films'other projects, the songs in 'Jalebi' are not the strongest part of the film. The chemistry between Dev and Aisha lacks the spark, so the multiple flashbacks don't seem to hold your attention. While the story is interesting and the end almost salvages the film, the bland performances and the uninspiring screenplay have done the harm already.


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Nobel Prize winners in 1903
The Nobel Prize is a set of annual international awards granted in several categories by Swedish and Norwegian institutions in recognition of academic, cultural, or scientific advances. The will of the Swedish scientist Alfred Nobel established the five Nobel prizes in 1895. The prizes in Chemistry, Literature, Peace, Physics, and Physiology or Medicine were first awarded in 1901. Today, the prize is awarded for Outstanding contributions to humanity in Chemistry, Literature, Peace, Physics, and Physiology or Medicine and Economics.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1903
Antoine Henri Becquerel – "in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by his discovery of spontaneous radioactivity"
Pierre Curie and Marie Curie, née Sklodowska – "in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel"
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1903
Svante August Arrhenius – "in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered to the advancement of chemistry by his electrolytic theory of dissociation"
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1903
Niels Ryberg Finsen – "in recognition of his contribution to the treatment of diseases, especially lupus vulgaris, with concentrated light radiation, whereby he has opened a new avenue for medical science"
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1903
Bjørnstjerne Martinus Bjørnson – "as a tribute to his noble, magnificent and versatile poetry, which has always been distinguished by both the freshness of its inspiration and the rare purity of its spirit"
The Nobel Peace Prize 1903
William Randal Cremer
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Drag-Line is a robust, performance mono that's been designed to withstand the rough and tumble of commercial-water carping. The repeated casting, playing and landing, especially with method feeders and pellet wagglers, that commercial-water success entails places great strain on a reel line, which is why we had to be completely happy with this one before Guru launched its first mono. The key criteria that the team identified meant that they'd only settle for a line that offered the optimum combination of abrasion resistance and diameter.


Nintendo Germany has made a recent announcement today, they have said that the Nintendo Switch has hit a massive 650,000 units sold, breaking a new record.
Previously, the Nintendo Wii held the ten-year record sales but now the Nintendo Switch has broken through that record with over 650,000 units sold in just the first year of the handheld console.
The sales of the Nintendo Switch is honestly shocking, the more games that debut to Nintendo's console the more of a steady incline the console sales could have. We now know that Super Smash Bros. is coming to the Nintendo Switch, so we could possibly see a slight increase in sales whenever Nintendo decide to release the brawler.


Philip Larkin's restless spirit could not commit to any one course: he wrote serious poems and comical ones, had serious friends and comical ones, a religious and 'proper' lover and a sceptical, flamboyant one; he coveted fame and luxury - bathing and booze and birds - yet was known as a hermit.
Sigmund Freud did not care greatly for his patients, and learning and teaching were more to his taste than helping and healing. Nevertheless, psychoanalysis has become in our age the pervasive orthodoxy of self-knowledge, even if its scientific claims are on a par with those of, say, aromatherapy.
If our economic insufficiencies in the 1950s were obvious, and our attempts to address them obviously inadequate, this might not be because history, or our inescapable national character, were stacked against us. The fault, an unlikely clerical source argued, might not be in our stars but in ourselves.
Scholarly research into 'dead' languages evolved over many centuries into an intellectual discipline which was to become the backbone of universities' humanities departments. The history of this progress is the subject of an impressive and hugely industrious new work.
Dworkin argues that, as well as religious theists, there are many others who because they believe the universe is inherently ordered while at the same time reaching beyond our comprehension, should also be regarded as religious. He calls them religious atheists. Among scientists, Einstein is the most famous religious atheist.
Edward St Aubyn has undoubted comic gifts, as he has proven in his previous work, but his satire on the Booker Prize judging process tacks a little too closely to burlesque. Perhaps he was having so much fun he 'let himself go'. But satire, when it is successful, is a serious business.
The 'ressourcement' movement helped create the intellectual climate for the Second Vatican Council through its critique of a theology which had as its dominant concern not so much seeking an understanding of faith and mystery, as responding to and opposing heresies.


Pedestrian accidents are usually relatively well covered by the news, as they can be some of the most deadly motor vehicle incidents that occur. In major cities in which more people get around on foot (as opposed to the suburbs, for example), the rate of pedestrian accidents is higher.
Regardless, the rate of pedestrian accidents in Chicago has consistently declined in recent years. According to the City of Chicago Pedestrian Crash Analysis, the past decade has seen a dramatic downward trend in the number of people injured or killed in pedestrian–motor vehicle accidents. In 2009, for example, the 3,130 pedestrian crashes "represented a nine-year low, dropping eight percent since 2005 and more than 22 percent since 2001," according to the Pedestrian Crash Analysis.
Chicago was just outside of the top ten of American cities when it came to number of pedestrian accidents for data kept between 2005 and 2009. The city, in fact, had the lowest pedestrian fatality rate in large cities with a population density more than 5,000 people per square mile. Chicago ranked 11th on the list, just behind New York. Phoenix, Arizona had the highest rate of pedestrian accidents, with just more than three fatalities per 100,000 residents.
It should come as no surprise that the vast majority of pedestrian accidents occurred on arterial and collector roadways, as these are the most traversed. Just less than 80 percent of all fatal and serious crashes happened close to an intersection. This autumn, according to DNAinfo Chicago, the Active Transportation Alliance issued a report naming the 10 most dangerous intersections in the city. While the number of pedestrian accidents has decreased in the past decade, in 2013 alone, according to DNAinfo, there were 29 pedestrian deaths within the city limits.
North Elston Avenue/North Western Avenue/West Diversey Avenue in Logan Square.
If you have been injured in a pedestrian accident, you could be eligible for compensation. Do not go through it alone. Contact a Chicago motor vehicle accident attorney today.


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using Android.App;
using Android.Content;
using Android.OS;
using Android.Runtime;
using Android.Views;
using Android.Widget;
using LiveDisplay.Models;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;

namespace LiveDisplay.Services.Notifications.NotificationStyle
{
    class DecoratedCustomViewStyle: NotificationStyle
    {

        public DecoratedCustomViewStyle(OpenNotification openNotification, ref LinearLayout notificationView, AndroidX.Fragment.App.Fragment notificationFragment)
: base(openNotification, ref notificationView, notificationFragment)
        {

        }
        public override void ApplyStyle()
        {
            base.ApplyStyle();
            var view = OpenNotification.CustomView.Apply(NotificationFragment.Context, null);
            view.Tag = CUSTOM_VIEW_TAG;
            ActualNotification.AddView(view, 2);
            //Index two because at index 0 we have icons, at index 1 we have the close button and app name, etc, index 2 is for the actual notification content.
            //See Notification layout file.
        }
    }
}


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The Golden Age of Fake IDs Could Be Over
by Sarah Laskow August 18, 2015
McLovin will be out of luck (Photo: youngthousands/Flickr)
The past century has been a golden age of identification documents.
As international travel and auto ownership boomed, so did the use of licenses and passports. And as the need for government-issued IDs grew, so did the demand for fake ones. But have the glory days passed as biometrics replace paper forms? Will new facial recognition technology make harder than ever to get a fake ID—or to use one?
For now, it's still possible for an underage drinker to borrow an older sibling's license and sneak into a bar. But the technology already exists to foil that plan; the only question is how far it will spread and who will be allowed to use it.
Early IDs didn't include photographs. A British passport issued a century ago, for instance, would have described a person's features, with more details than today's standard height, weight, hair and eye color. But today, the photograph used on a driver's license or passport is one of its key features, and as facial recognition technology improves, those photos are being used to prove that you are who you say you are.
Over the past few years, state DMVs across the country have been implementing programs to stop people from getting false identifications to begin with. When a person seeking a new license visits the DMV, their image is checked against a database of photos. If the person is trying to obtain a false ID—because they're trying to shed their old, shitty driving record, because they're trying to steal another person's identity, or any one of myriad reasons one would try to scam a new card—their face won't match the photos associated with their assumed name. Or the search will find photos of that person under their true name.
This technology's essentially the same as the algorithms that let Facebook automatically identify people in posted photos. But it's been very effective in cracking down on fraud. A couple years ago, the New York DMV announced that it had arrested more than 2,500 people as a result of identity fraud investigations that grew from this technology, in the few years it'd been in use. New Jersey identified almost 1,000 potential criminal cases. In Arizona, the number of potential ID fraud cases identified increased by 860 percent, the Arizona Republic reported.
And just this year, the federal government's Customs and Border Protection started a pilot program that uses facial recognition technology to check that the person using a passport is the same person in the passport's photo. The digital chip inside all newer passports contains a digital copy of your passport photo; at passport control, the person trying to use the passport has their photo taken, and if the two don't match, the customs agent can investigate further.
Coming back from Mexico at the end of April, I had to use a system matching this description: At a kiosk at New York's JFK airport, I scanned my passport, positioned my head in front of a camera and took a selfie. The machine spit out a little piece of paper, which I handed over to an agent—and, no questions asked, I was back in the country. (There was a longer line, though, of people who the machine hadn't automatically approved.)
It's not hard to imagine this technology being used regularly in bars (and putting bouncers out of work). But privacy advocates are seeking to limit the spread of facial recognition technology: requiring people to take pictures of themselves to enter a bar or any other private spaces would create a vast database of photos that could be used to track an individual wherever she went. And it's just as easy to imagine that more Americans would take issue with that reality than with teenagers drinking a few beers before they're really supposed to. (Plus, spies aren't too keen on it, either.) For now, at least, it's still easy for college students to get and use fake IDs. As long as they come from China.
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Portugal could strip Cristiano Ronaldo of public honours
Date: 24th January 2019 at 9:40pm
Written by: Adriano Boin
Cristiano Ronaldo could be stripped of his knighthoods in Portugal according to the country's president due to his recent tax-fraud sentence.
The 33-year-old was awarded the Grand Cross of the Portuguese Order of Merit in 2016 after the team won the European Championship, along with being named the Grand Officer of Prince Henry in 2014.
However, he was recently handed a two-year jail sentence and ordered to pay €18.8 million for tax fraud by the Spanish courts.
That sentence was reduced to a fine of €365,000 along with another penalty of €3.2m, and President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa admitted his honours could be revoked due to the conviction.
"The law is very simple: it is up to the chancellors of the national orders to see if anything has happened that could lead to the loss of an honour," he told reporters.
"We should let those with the legal power to decide to do so and see whether the law applies or not in this case."
One thing that is certain is Ronaldo will not lose the Madeira Medal of Merit bestowed on him by his home island of Madeira in 2014 according to regional president Miguel Albuquerque.
"Here in Madeira, Cristiano Ronaldo has always been seen as a good person … He is not a criminal," he stated. "He is the most prestigious Portuguese in the world."


WELCOME! This is an Audiomachine/Two Steps from Hell/X-Ray Dog soundtrack submod for EBII version 2.35. You can find my RTW and M2TW music submods for previous versions of EBII here and here, and the 2.3 version still works with v. 2.35. This new submod, however, is for folks who want something completely different!
Watch out, though, my submod might be so extreme it could melt your face off, neuter your dog, sleep with your wife, and empty your bank account with untraceable credit card purchases of hookers, blow, strippers, midget dancers, and cases of tequila in Tijuana, Mexico.
2) Extract the RAR file directly to your EB II ("ebii") folder within the "mods" folder of your Medieval II game. DO NOT extract it to any other folder than the EB II one.
3) When asked to overwrite any and all files, simply click yes. If it did not ask you to overwrite any files, then you have done something wrong and have chosen the wrong installation path.
4) Boot the game up and enjoy the new tunes!
I would strongly urge you to back up the sound folder of your EBII mod before doing any of this, just in case you make an honest mistake, or a dumb one!
Download the submod here from ModDB.
ALTERNATIVELY, if you want, you can also download the submod from Google Drive, although this is not necessary. It's only if for some odd reason you have trouble with the link above or if ModDB decides one day to destroy itself and take everyone's mod materials with it. You certainly don't need both links, just choose one or the other, pal. And don't disobey me, or I'll find you. And you don't want me to do that.
YES! Duh! Of course it is. Now quit asking questions and enjoy the submod.
Last edited by Roma_Victrix; February 18, 2019 at 05:49 AM.
I just want to say that I'm waiting for 2.4 to come out to play my "perfect" campaign with new punic settlements, new scripts, new units like the Nuragic, Campanians, and a lot of wonderful new changes.
With those changes, I will include my own modifications, like the increased garrison script, AIGenerals Hitpoints, my future Barcid revenge submod that will have Hannibal appearing during the campaign and a new carthaginian unit, the Exalted African Infantry and buildable temporary forts in the campaign map.
For your sake, well...and for mine too...I hope my music mod works for 2.4 when it comes out, then!
The support for this mod and game never fails to make me smile.
Thanks for the kind words! Here's another song that appears on the battle map. It's definitely epic and gets you pumped and excited to fight a battle.
I see 30 downloads for the submod thus far. Feedback, please? Is it working fine for everybody? No hiccups or glitches?
i have stainless steel mod , to have it work properly do i dump the files inside the mod folder for stainless steel or do i just dump the data file in the main game folder. thanks .
Uh, bro, this is a music submod for Europa Barbarorum II, not Stainless Steel!!! I'm not sure if it will even work for you. That's especially the case since the files involved contain the events.dat that is specific to EBII. Ultimately, you should be pointing this submod at the EBII folder within the mods folder when unzipping it.


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using BLE.Client.ViewModels;
using MvvmCross.Forms.Views;
using Xamarin.Forms;

namespace BLE.Client.Pages
{
    public partial class CharacteristicListPage : MvxContentPage<CharacteristicListViewModel>
    {
        public CharacteristicListPage()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }
    }
}


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package org.ngrinder.script.handler;

import static org.fest.assertions.Assertions.assertThat;

import org.junit.Test;
import org.ngrinder.AbstractNGrinderTransactionalTest;
import org.ngrinder.script.model.FileEntry;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;

public class ScriptHandlerFactoryTest extends AbstractNGrinderTransactionalTest {
	@Autowired
	private ScriptHandlerFactory factory;

	@Test
	public void testFactoryCreation() {
		FileEntry fileEntry = new FileEntry();
		fileEntry.setPath("/hello/world.groovy");
		fileEntry.setCreatedBy(getTestUser());
		assertThat(factory.getHandler(fileEntry)).isInstanceOf(GroovyScriptHandler.class);
		fileEntry.setPath("/hello/world.py");
		assertThat(factory.getHandler(fileEntry)).isInstanceOf(JythonScriptHandler.class);
	}
}