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#include "CCParticleSystemPoint.h"
#include "platform/CCGL.h"

namespace cocos2d {

#if (CC_TARGET_PLATFORM != CC_PLATFORM_LINUX) && (CC_TARGET_PLATFORM != CC_PLATFORM_QNX)

	bool CCParticleSystemPoint::initWithTotalParticles(unsigned int numberOfParticles)
	{
		if (CCParticleSystem::initWithTotalParticles(numberOfParticles))
		{
			m_pVertices = new ccPointSprite[m_uTotalParticles];

			if (!m_pVertices)
			{
				CCLOG("cocos2d: Particle system: not enough memory");
				this->release();
				return false;
			}

#if CC_USES_VBO
			CrossEngine::cglGenBuffers(1, &m_uVerticesID);

			// initial binding
			CrossEngine::cglBindBuffer(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, m_uVerticesID);
			CrossEngine::cglBufferData(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, sizeof(ccPointSprite)*m_uTotalParticles, m_pVertices, GL_DYNAMIC_DRAW);
			CrossEngine::cglBindBuffer(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, 0);
#endif
			return true;
		}
		return false;
	}
	CCParticleSystemPoint::~CCParticleSystemPoint()
	{
		CC_SAFE_DELETE(m_pVertices);
#if CC_USES_VBO
		CrossEngine::cglDeleteBuffers(1, &m_uVerticesID);
#endif
	}

	CCParticleSystemPoint * CCParticleSystemPoint::particleWithFile(const char *plistFile)
	{
		CCParticleSystemPoint *pRet = new CCParticleSystemPoint();
		if (pRet && pRet->initWithFile(plistFile))
		{
			pRet->autorelease();
			return pRet;
		}
		CC_SAFE_DELETE(pRet)
			return pRet;
	}

	void CCParticleSystemPoint::updateQuadWithParticle(tCCParticle* particle, const CCPoint& newPosition)
	{
		// place vertices and colos in array
		m_pVertices[m_uParticleIdx].pos = vertex2(newPosition.x, newPosition.y);
		m_pVertices[m_uParticleIdx].size = particle->size;
		ccColor4B color = {(GLubyte)(particle->color.r * 255), (GLubyte)(particle->color.g * 255), (GLubyte)(particle->color.b * 255),
			(GLubyte)(particle->color.a * 255)};
		m_pVertices[m_uParticleIdx].color = color;
	}
	void CCParticleSystemPoint::postStep()
	{
#if CC_USES_VBO
		CrossEngine::cglBindBuffer(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, m_uVerticesID);
		CrossEngine::cglBufferSubData(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, 0, sizeof(ccPointSprite)*m_uParticleCount, m_pVertices);
		CrossEngine::cglBindBuffer(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, 0);
#endif
	}
	void CCParticleSystemPoint::draw()
	{
		CCParticleSystem::draw();

		if (m_uParticleIdx==0)
		{
			return;
		}

		// Default GL states: GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_VERTEX_ARRAY, GL_COLOR_ARRAY, GL_TEXTURE_COORD_ARRAY
		// Needed states: GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_VERTEX_ARRAY, GL_COLOR_ARRAY
		// Unneeded states: GL_TEXTURE_COORD_ARRAY
		CrossEngine::cglDisableClientState(GL_TEXTURE_COORD_ARRAY);

		CrossEngine::cglBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, m_pTexture->getName());

#define kPointSize sizeof(m_pVertices[0])

#if CC_USES_VBO
		CrossEngine::cglBindBuffer(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, m_uVerticesID);

#if CC_ENABLE_CACHE_TEXTTURE_DATA
		CrossEngine::cglBufferData(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, sizeof(ccPointSprite)*m_uTotalParticles, m_pVertices, GL_DYNAMIC_DRAW);
#endif

		CrossEngine::cglVertexPointer(2,GL_FLOAT,kPointSize,0);
		CrossEngine::cglColorPointer(4, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, kPointSize,(GLvoid*)offsetof(ccPointSprite,color));

#else // Uses Vertex Array List
		int offset = (int)m_pVertices;
		CrossEngine::cglVertexPointer(2,GL_FLOAT, kPointSize, (GLvoid*) offset);

		int diff = offsetof(ccPointSprite, color);
		CrossEngine::cglColorPointer(4, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, kPointSize, (GLvoid*) (offset+diff));
#endif

		bool newBlend = (m_tBlendFunc.src != CC_BLEND_SRC || m_tBlendFunc.dst != CC_BLEND_DST) ? true : false;
		if (newBlend)
		{
			CrossEngine::cglBlendFunc(m_tBlendFunc.src, m_tBlendFunc.dst);
		}

		CrossEngine::cglDrawArraysCompatible(GL_POINTS, 0, m_uParticleIdx);

		// restore blend state
		if (newBlend)
			CrossEngine::cglBlendFunc(CC_BLEND_SRC, CC_BLEND_DST);

#if CC_USES_VBO
		// unbind VBO buffer
		CrossEngine::cglBindBuffer(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, 0);
#endif

		// restore GL default state
		CrossEngine::cglEnableClientState(GL_TEXTURE_COORD_ARRAY);
	}

	// Non supported properties

	//
	// SPIN IS NOT SUPPORTED
	//
	void CCParticleSystemPoint::setStartSpin(float var)
	{
		CCAssert(var == 0, "PointParticleSystem doesn't support spinning");
		CCParticleSystem::setStartSpin(var);
	}
	void CCParticleSystemPoint::setStartSpinVar(float var)
	{
		CCAssert(var == 0, "PointParticleSystem doesn't support spinning");
		CCParticleSystem::setStartSpinVar(var);
	}
	void CCParticleSystemPoint::setEndSpin(float var)
	{
		CCAssert(var == 0, "PointParticleSystem doesn't support spinning");
		CCParticleSystem::setEndSpin(var);
	}
	void CCParticleSystemPoint::setEndSpinVar(float var)
	{
		CCAssert(var == 0, "PointParticleSystem doesn't support spinning");
		CCParticleSystem::setEndSpinVar(var);
	}
	//
	// SIZE > 64 IS NOT SUPPORTED
	//
	void CCParticleSystemPoint::setStartSize(float size)
	{
		CCAssert(size >= 0 && size <= CC_MAX_PARTICLE_SIZE, "PointParticleSystem only supports 0 <= size <= 64");
		CCParticleSystem::setStartSize(size);
	}
	void CCParticleSystemPoint::setEndSize(float size)
	{
		CCAssert((size == kCCParticleStartSizeEqualToEndSize) ||
			(size >= 0 && size <= CC_MAX_PARTICLE_SIZE), "PointParticleSystem only supports 0 <= size <= 64");
		CCParticleSystem::setEndSize(size);
	}

#endif // (CC_TARGET_PLATFORM != CC_PLATFORM_LINUX)

}

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Story of the Week December 22, 2015
"Kate's Choice," Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888)
Reprinted in Work, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Stories & Other Writings
Detail from The Christmas Party, circa 1850. Oil on canvas attributed to American painter Robert David Wilkie (1827–1903). Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
A number of sources claim that the first mention of Christmas elves was made by Louisa May Alcott in an 1855 story collection called, well, "Christmas Elves." But that claim is mitigated by a number of caveats: Alcott's book, written when she was twenty-three, was never published; since the manuscript was either lost or destroyed, we don't really know anything about its contents or if Alcott's elves resemble Santa's little helpers we all know today; and perhaps most important, the 1823 poem "A Visit from Saint Nicholas [Night Before Christmas]" calls Santa himself "a right jolly old elf," suggesting that the idea of Santa being surrounded by other elves had been bandied about in the several decades before Alcott assembled her manuscript.
Whatever the details of her first attempt at holiday literature, Alcott continued to write Christmas stories and poems during the three decades after her manuscript had been turned down by publishers, and a number of selections appeared in Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag, a series of six holiday books for children published between 1872 and 1882. Our current Story of the Week selection presents one of the Scrap-Bag stories, "Kate's Choice," an old-fashioned Christmas tale that a number of critics and readers regard as a precursor to her popular novel Eight Cousins.
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St. Louis, MO (November 25, 2013) – Cornerstone Mortgage, Inc., a privately-held St. Louis based mortgage-banking firm, is excited to announce President, Jim Dean, has been named one of the 100 Most Influential Mortgage Executives in America by Mortgage Executive Magazine.
Each year Mortgage Executive Magazine compiles the most comprehensive list of the nation's leading mortgage executives. The 100 Most Influential Mortgage Executives in America list recognizes and celebrates the service, dedication and hard work that mortgage executives put into building their companies and serving their clients. This distinction is by invitation only and represents individuals that have committed themselves to the mortgage business as a career. These leaders educate their peers and raise the level of professionalism throughout the industry.
"I am honored to be chosen for this list. Success in this industry means keeping your finger on the pulse of the mortgage business. As a leader, it's crucial to be involved in all aspects of home loan origination. In the future, our hope is to achieve growth in all of the markets we serve. We will continue to prosper and move forward," stated Jim Dean, President/CEO, when asked about the recognition.
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Select Committees 40 years on: wider still and wider may their bounds be set?
A former Clerk of several House of Commons select committees looks back over 30 years at how the tempo of their work has changed, and asks whether the increase in their resources and activities can or should continue indefinitely.
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Paul Evans CBE retired in August 2019 from the post of Clerk of Committees in the House of Commons, after 38 years working there. He was made a CBE in 2019. He is a longstanding Hansard Society member.
When I joined the secretariat of the Energy Committee in 1983, it comprised four staff. Quite a lot of my own job involved photocopying, envelope stuffing, and an enormous amount of proofreading. All our published output had to be set in hot metal type, corrected, proofread and reset several times. Getting the report agreed was a similarly long-winded process.
Publishing the first select committee reports
Given the resources available, committees only engaged in one inquiry at a time. When they finished taking evidence – something only a select few who could come to Westminster would be able to see live – the committee just stopped for a few weeks. We went away and prepared a draft report with the Specialist Advisers. We drafted by hand and passed the manuscripts to the secretary for typing. Word processors were just arriving – they were the size of a baby grand piano. When the Chair was happy with the draft it then often took two or three (or sometimes more) meetings to be agreed.
The draft report manuscripts were still amended by hand, sometimes with bits of text stuck in, and once finalised were sent off to be typeset (and proofread again) and bound, a process that could take two or three weeks. (Our procedural manual – the 'Red Book' – advised that if a Member sought to see a copy of a report which had been made to the House but not yet published, they should be informed that the only available copy was "at the printers".) If you wanted to include a photograph or colour diagram there was an elaborate series of bureaucratic hoops through which you would have to jump to get approval for the additional cost.
"An output of four to six reports a year was considered to be verging on the attention-seeking side of a sensible pace of proceeding."
When we did finally release a report to an expectant world, however dull it was, we always had a press conference. The lucky few would have had their 'Confidential: Final Revise' copies posted to them 48 hours beforehand. These events were well attended by the subject-specialist reporters retained in those days by all the dailies and broadcasters, the press officers of the companies, trades unions etc interested in the subject, rows of civil servants and, on special occasions, the mighty lobby correspondents themselves. There were no media officers – if we provided any briefing at all it was probably done by me.
An output of four to six reports a year was considered to be verging on the attention-seeking side of a sensible pace of proceeding. The volumes were fairly expensive to buy. If you could afford them, you could purchase a copy from the Parliamentary Bookshop on Parliament Street or HMSO on High Holborn, or order one from your local bookshop. Most copies outside Westminster and Whitehall were held by public or university libraries, but few would be able to afford a full set. A younger colleague tells me that as late as the turn of this century she had to go to the Modern Documents Room in the Bodleian Library in Oxford to read a copy of the Liaison Committee's epochal Shifting the Balance report.
Have select committees improved or just expanded?
So, the point of this nostalgic reminiscing? Other than to amuse the young and reassure the old?
Looking back on a 38-year career spent, intermittently but predominantly, working for House of Commons select committees, inevitably I sometimes wonder whether they have improved or just expanded. They have certainly changed – but to what extent have those changes been driven by political will for improved scrutiny of government, and to what extent by entirely exogenous technological and cultural changes?
They are massively better resourced. In 1983 I joined an office of around 70 souls. It is now around 300 and, judging by the Liaison Committee's recent 40th anniversary report, there is an appetite for more. 'Temporary Committee Assistants' were then rather grudgingly being introduced on fixed-term contracts. Now 'Committee Specialists' (policy analysts in practice, or research staff) make up about 80 of those 300 posts. We have around two dozen communications staff and around a dozen lawyers – two professions wholly unknown to the office in 1983. Some of the lawyers are located in the Scrutiny Unit, which also provides a financial scrutiny team – there were no economists or accountants in 1983. The smallest committee team tends to be about half-a-dozen. Some are twice or three times this size.
"Commons select committees nowadays produce a report at a rate of one nearly every working day."
The tempo of work has doubled and redoubled over 30-odd years. Commons select committees nowadays produce a report at a rate of one nearly every working day, a feat only made possible, I think, by word-processing technology. Reports are published within a couple of days of being agreed and are freely available on the Parliament website. Anyone in the world can watch oral evidence sessions in real time online, or later in the audio-visual archive. Not only is all their written evidence freely available almost instantaneously on their webpages, but so is their correspondence with Ministers and others, along with a host of other material.
Driven in part perhaps by two contradictory phenomena – the increasing centralisation of the British state, on the one hand, and the increasing incidence of the private sector standing in the shoes of what used to be the state, on the other – the committees now spread their scrutiny well outside of Whitehall. Increasingly they are using technology to gather evidence from a wider range of people. But in all this frenzy of activity they must now compete for attention with a vastly increased output from think-tanks, lobby groups, new media outlets, bloggers, vloggers, influencers, the House of Lords committees – the list goes on.
Running ahead of capacity – is the rate of output sustainable?
Sometime between spells on the Health Committee (1991-93) and the Defence Committee (1997-2001) I realised it was beyond my capacity to read all the written evidence or stay on top of every inquiry in detail. If it was like that for me, with just one job, what, I thought, must it be like for busy MPs (who seem to have become far busier over the last three decades)?
I will not pretend that even in the 1980s all MPs read all the evidence (though some did), but they mostly read the whole of any draft report. Even that would be a big ask at the current tempo. And I believe that back in the '80s even some Secretaries of State read the reports when published – at least I am certain Nigel Lawson sometimes did. I suspect that nowadays some reports are not even read by senior civil servants. To my eye, government responses have, on the whole, become less thoughtful and willing to engage with the arguments put forward by committees – they are pretty much confined to relatively formulaic responses to recommendations.
Does it matter if committees run ahead of the capacity of politicians to engage in the detail? After all, we pretend Ministers are responsible for every jot and tittle of their departments' work, but we know it is a constitutional fiction. Is it not sensible for Parliament to have its own civil service pitted against the government's? There is a lot to be scrutinised, and the recent Liaison Committee conference celebrating the 40th birthday of departmental select committees gave an overwhelmingly positive impression of energy and innovation.
"Accountability is a democratic good, but it is not cost-free."
People are always coming up with good and worthy ideas about what committees should be doing. But if they did them all, they would do nothing well. Select committees need to talk the language of priorities, but consensus-cultures do not lend themselves readily to hard choices – it takes a lot of work. So I am sometimes assailed by doubts. Accountability is a democratic good, but it is not cost-free. The return on some aspects is higher than on others, and the nature of the returns can be hard to compare – greater engagement versus deeper expertise, or more consensus versus clearer contradictions.
How should committees make choices? What information do they have to base them on? Who challenges them? Is it a job for the secretariats? All bureaucracies tend to the condition where their main purpose becomes their own survival and expansion. But what if the institution that is supposed to guard against that tendency is at risk of succumbing to the same disease? I do not know the answer to these questions, but I am sure that Parliament has to justify the resources it uses. I wonder if the Liaison Committee's injunction in its latest report, to do less better, is likely to be heeded?
Paul Evans was one of the editors of, co-authored an article in, and contributed the Conclusion to, the special issue of the Hansard Society's journal Parliamentary Affairs on '40 years of departmental select committees in the House of Commons' (vol 72, issue 4, October 2019).
Parliamentary Affairs: special issue on '40 years of departmental select committees in the House of Commons' (vol 72, issue 4, 2019)
The 2019 Liaison Committee report on the Commons select committee system: broadening the church, integrating with the Chamber
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Total Supply of Tethers Increases By 20% in One Week Comments Off on Total Supply of Tethers Increases By 20% in One Week 345
Samuel Haig November 10, 2017 7:30 pm November 10, 2017
The controversy surrounding the correlation between the release of new Tethers (USDT) and dramatic price spikes led by Bitfinex trading continues. 20 million new USDT were released shortly before a single market buy of approximately $13.5 million USD worth of bitcoin was executed on the 8th of November. The sudden spike in buying pressure quickly drove the price of bitcoin from $7075 to $7350 in less than 60 minutes. Since then, an additional 20 million USDT have been released into circulation on the 9th, and another 30 million USDT on the 10th of November.
Also Read: The Controversy Surrounding Tether's USD "Backing" Continues
Approximately 110 Million USDT Have Been Released Since November 3rd
Many traders are noting an increasing correlation between the release of significant quantities of Tether and sudden movements in the price of bitcoin, with some expressing concerns at the speed with which a large volume of margin trades are executed following the release of new USDT.
Chart showing the release of USDT batches during the recent bitcoin bull run
Notorious Bitfinex critic Bitcrypto'ed has documented the market action that took place immediately following the release of 20 million USDT on the 8th of November. According to data shared by Bitcrypto'ed, $25 million USD worth of margin longs were executed in less than 30 minutes including a single market order estimated to be valued at $13.5 million USD. As a consequence, the price of bitcoin shot from approximately $7075 USD to roughly $7350 in less than one hour.
During 2017, the Number of Tethers in Supply Has Increased by More Than 3400%
The total supply of Tether has risen from less than 15 million in January to over 550 million as of this writing – comprising a more than 3400% increase since the start of the year. To some, this dramatic rise in the number of Tether has appeared significant as Bitfinex, a majority shareholder in Tether, appears to have failed to attain banking services since Taiwanese banks associated with Wells Fargo terminated the processing of wire transfers to the exchange, shortly after which Tether posted the following statement on their website:
"Tether is currently expecting continued delays in processing international wires to and from tether. to users… Since April 18, 2017, all incoming international wires to Tether have been blocked and refused by our Taiwanese banks. As such, we do not expect the supply of tethers to increase substantially until these constraints have been lifted."
Although Phil Potter of Bitfinex has sought to distance the relationship between the two companies, stating that "Tether is a completely separate entity [from Bitfinex]," he has conceded that Tether "operates through the same money service money operator license that Bitfinex operates under in Hong Kong." In response to questions regarding Tether's banking relationships, Mr. Potter of Bitfinex has previously stated that Tether "ha[s] several banks in multiple jurisdictions, our principal banking relationships are in Taiwan." Notably, however, he has failed to reveal what banking institutions provide services to the company since April, further arousing suspicions.
What do you make of the vast quantities of USDT that have recently been released? Share your thoughts in the comments section below!
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I'm sure it's not always easy to be a book publicist, particularly now. Self-publishing booms have to make it even harder to achieve recognition for your authors. So many books! So little time! What to choose, what to choose? I feel for you, I really do.
But don't make your difficulties my book club's problem.
I lead my library's book club. I organize meetings, I find relevant supplementary material, I schedule our selections, and I seek out excursions that coincide with our readings (public showings of movies based on the book, author signings, etc.). I can get a little boastful about how neatly it all runs.
And I feel real affection toward the people I read with. I think we're a great group. In a moment of magnanimity, I even publicized our club, first on Goodreads, then on Reader's Circle. I thought: surely there are other readers who'd love to get in on this fun.
Those moves, particularly the Reader's Circle sign-up, appear to have been a mistake. Our club grows via word of mouth. We haven't gotten one new reader from those platforms. But I attached my library e-mail address to the Circle posting in case.
I have since have received a bevy of e-mails from publicists just SURE that my book club would love to read the newest book from blank, an exciting work that addresses hot topic! They can offer me a free copy, even!
No. Emphatic no. That surety is misplaced.
My annoyance at these solicitations wells up from the same place that I'm sure people have always tapped into when pressed to buy, or take, items for which they have no real use. You don't know anything about my book club. You don't know how we operate. Please don't thrust your book into our midst and presume that it'll fit right in.
1. What am I supposed to do with one copy? I have 6-8 attendees every month. The benefit of a library book club is that they never have to buy the book; we always have copies to borrow. We are always free. What do I do, then, with the one copy you're offering? Should I ask them to share? Buy their own? This cramps our style. If we were to write down our mission statement, this would be an affront to it. An offered e-book is even less useful.
I don't mean to sound ungrateful–a free book is always nice–but what you're offering is not useful to my readers.
2. Should we drop everything to read your book? Even if you were offering us the eight copies that I need to make your book gel with our style, I can't give you a place in our reading schedule until next December. My club, you see, already has a method for selecting books. Book clubs tend to.
In our case: each member chooses a title that they've TBRed (something they've been meaning to read, but have not yet), and we read them month by month. We break once in the summer to vote on a title that ties into our adult summer reading theme. Members have months reserved and titles selected through next October. So even if I could drum up interest for your book: I'm not pushing anyone off schedule to read it, and you've got a long wait ahead of you.
3. You want what in return? Y'all want feedback in exchange for your free books. I get that. Here's the thing, though: book club feedback comes in the form of the discussion we have about the book when we meet once a month. That's what members have committed to. They read our selected titles for fun, they come to meetings for leisure, they discuss for their own enjoyment. This is a time out from work; I'm really not comfortable asking them to do additional work after. And your "quick reviews"? They are work.
In short, the whole concept of soliciting a book club to read the books you're promoting is presumptuous. You're assuming that we have the space, the time, and the inclination to read and review books that we've never heard of before. We really do not.
There are platforms for getting ARCs out to readerships; please make use of those, and leave my book club alone.


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Oddly this is the first time I have used an after shave product that had a matching shave cream (I used two creams last month Proraso Blue and TOBS Coconut which I will review later this month), and I will have to say using complementary scents is quite nice. I am a big fan of the Proraso Blue Shaving Cream, specifically its scent, so naturally I was excited to add this after shave to my shelf. If you have used the Proraso Blue and enjoyed the scent there is no need for hesitation picking up this product. Having said that the scent doesn't linger for very long, not much of a problem if you wanted to follow up the Proraso Blue After Shave Balm with some cologne that doesn't really complement it – just a bit of disappointment if you were hoping to get through your morning with a hint of Proraso Blue in the air. I'm not sure how to best describe the smell other than stating that it is very fresh with a classy edge to it. Great for these summer months.
As for performance I didn't really have any doubts. The Proraso Blue After Shave Balm does a great job fighting razor burn, minus the burning you would get from an alcohol based product. However, I feel that it excels in is its ability to moisturize; my face felt noticeably moisturized most of the day, often realizing that I was rubbing my fingers on my face for longer than normal or healthy. The balm contains Vitamin E, Aloe Vera, and a few other natural products, perhaps making this a good choice if you daily routine is void of any other moisturizing products.
Another things worth mentioning is the packaging of the Proraso Blue After Shave Balm. As with many of their products Proraso really seems to care about the presentation they provide. The balm comes in a nice hefty glass container and can be left on your counter or sink and not look out of place, messy, or provide any reason for your wife to make you store your grooming products out of sight.
If you are a fan of Proraso products there is no need to hesitate with the Proraso Blue After Shave Balm. You will receive a great product, with a great results, and some nice packaging. As stated above this is a cream product, if you were looking for a splash you may want to consider something like Clubman Pinaud, but I wouldn't let the cream base deter you from trying it out.


Governor Baker visited North End restaurants and businesses at this year's Fisherman's Feast to greet local North Enders. The Governor stopped inside Cafe Vittoria for a quick espresso to escape a downpour, but was quickly back on track to check out the Fisherman's Feast. After talking with feast goers, Governor Baker made his way to the statue of the Madonna to pin some money onto it.
The Governor chats with some feast goers.
See a schedule of the remaining feasts to come this Summer.


Resume posted by swiggins00 in Museum and Gallery.
Work experience includes museum, auction house and art studio assistance. Have great writing and communication skills.
•	Coordinated with Press Office written/visual materials for press releases and the monthly members' publication.
•	Prepared didactic panels for department's collection.
•	Coordinated with Registrar's Office the movement of objects for loans, conservation, photography and incoming possible acquisitions.
•	Compiled written and photographic materials for docents touring visitors through the permanent collection and temporary exhibitions.
•	Assisted preparing materials for proposed exhibitions, travelling exhibitions and their accompanying catalogs.
•	Extensive travel arrangements and expense tracking.
•	Prepared hundreds of canvases for large-scale conceptual piece to be shown in Summer 1991, NY (Metro Pictures).
•	Executed preparatory drawings for exhibits in New York (Whitney Bienniel), Milan, Nice and Los Angeles.
•	Prepared and assisted in execution of large-scale work featuring silkscreens for Helter Skelter at MOCA.
•	Assisted in preparing works of art for publication (Flash Art, ArtIssues).
•	Prepared press releases promoting art galleries and non-profit charitable causes (including Amfar).
•	Assisted in compiling fine art photography for books featuring the work of Baron de Meyer and George Hurrell in coordination with G. Ray Hawkins Gallery.
•	Prepared monthly expense account reports, accounts payable and receivable.
•	Converted and expanded national promotions database.
•	Consulted with local press regarding features placement.
•	Liaison with all specialists, their departments and the LIC press.
•	Oversaw the five stages of publication process for sales catalogues averaging roughly 14 catalogues per year.


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Santa Cruz County man suspected in homophobic knife attack
Man expected to recover from Santa Cruz attack
By Jessica York | jyork@santacruzsentinel.com | Santa Cruz Sentinel
PUBLISHED: November 3, 2021 at 6:18 a.m. | UPDATED: November 3, 2021 at 9:21 a.m.
SANTA CRUZ — A 39-year-old Watsonville man is behind bars Tuesday, suspected of initiating an early-morning homophobia-fueled stabbing in the Beach Hill neighborhood.
Two male victims reported that a man had attacked them around 3:45 a.m. near Main and Beach streets, calling them homophobic epithets and brandishing two knives, according to a media release from Santa Cruz Police Department spokesperson Joyce Blaschke. One of the men was reportedly stabbed in the leg and was transported to an area trauma center for treatment of a significant wound that was not life-threatening, police said.
The attack, Blaschke said, was unprovoked, despite the victims' effort to deescalate the encounter.
Officers arrested Anthony Williams several blocks away from the scene, jailing him on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, carrying a concealed dagger and a civil rights violation/hate crime.
Gag order issued in San Jose serial-robbery case over law-enforcement news conferences
Defendant seeks new attorney in Santa Cruz Black Lives Matter mural defacement
San Diego police seek witnesses to suspected hate crime attack that left elderly Laotian man hurt
Top 10 Bay Area stories of 2021 — and what they mean for 2022
Anti-Semitic COVID flyers found near California homes
A hate crime is against a person, group, or property motivated by the victim's real or perceived protected social group, according to Santa Cruz police. The department leadership, in a statement, "denounces hate crimes of all kinds." Member of the public are encouraged to promptly report potential hate crimes by calling the Santa Cruz police 24-hour dispatch center at 831-471-1131, or 9-1-1 in an emergency
Williams was being held without bail Tuesday night due to a suspected violation of the terms of his release related to a July criminal case. Santa Cruz police also had received a $200,000 bail increase related to the alleged hate crime, according to Blaschke.
Jessica York | Reporter
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      Provides utilities and common files used by the rest of MRALD.  Utilities include:

Config - general configuration information.  Reads information from config.properties and provides easy programatic access.

XML file generation

Drill down utilities

FormConverter -  Command line class to convert MRALD XML form files to HTML forms

FormUtils - utilities for personalized form generation and management

Mailer - sends emails

MiscUtils - Well, miscellaneous utility functions.  Examples include converting text to html, converting html to text, string replacement, loading property files, and standardized logging.

MraldConnection - a thin wrapper around a JDBC connection

MraldError/Exception - common Exception handling for MRALD which take advantage of some of the architecture.

MraldOutFile - logging

MultiPartRequest - aids in uploading files

Snoop - standardized logging

User - representation of an MRALD user

      Error and Exception Handling for MRALD

      Why?

    MRALD as a whole should have a consistent Error and Exception handling philosophy and infrastructure. This document describes the philosophy and infrastructure provided.

      Java Basics

    From the Java Language Specification, Second Edition:

      The possible exceptions in a program are organized in a hierarchy of classes, rooted at class Throwable, a direct subclass of Object. The classes Exception and Error are direct subclasses of Throwable. The class RuntimeException is a direct subclass of Exception.

        Programs can use the pre-existing exception classes in throw statements, or define additional exception classes, as subclasses of Throwable or of any of its subclasses, as appropriate. To take advantage of the Java platform's compile-time checking for exception handlers, it is typical to define most new exception classes as checked exception classes, specifically as subclasses of Exception that are not subclasses of RuntimeException.

        The class Exception is the superclass of all the exceptions that ordinary programs may wish to recover from. The class RuntimeException is a subclass of class Exception. The subclasses of RuntimeException are unchecked exception classes. The subclasses of Exception other than RuntimeException are all checked exception classes.

        The class Error and its subclasses are exceptions from which ordinary programs are not ordinarily expected to recover. See the Java API specification for a detailed description of the exception hierarchy.

        The class Error is a separate subclass of Throwable, distinct from Exception in the class hierarchy, to allow programs to use the idiom:

} catch (Exception e) {

      to catch all exceptions from which recovery may be possible without catching errors from which recovery is typically not possible.

    Also, in Java 1.4, we have access to the new Chained Exception Facility:

      It is common for Java code to catch one exception and throw another:

try {
    ...
} catch(YourException e) {
    throw new MyException();
}

      Unfortunately, the information contained in the "causative exception" (<tt>YourException</tt> in the example above) is generally lost, which greatly complicates debugging. Recognizing this problem, developers sometimes build ad hoc mechanisms to allow certain "wrapped exceptions" to contain a second exception. An accessor is generally provided to extract the contained exception. Such mechanisms are sometimes known as "exception chaining facilities", as they allow arbitrary chains of exceptions to be constructed when contained exceptions are, themselves, wrapped exceptions.

        There are many advantages to unifying all of these facilities. Chief among them are: (1) We guarantee that anyone who wants to record the fact that one exception caused another can do so, regardless of what the exceptions are. (2) By providing a common API to record the fact that one exception caused another, we ease this task, making it more likely that programmers will take the trouble to do it. (3) By providing a common API to access causative exceptions, we greatly increase the likelihood that this information will be made available to those who need it. In fact, the proposed mechanism prints entire "causal chain" as part of the standard stack backtrace, ensuring that preexisting programs will provide this information with no additional effort on the part of their authors.

        To address these issues, we have added two new methods to <tt>Throwable</tt>, <tt>getCause()</tt> and <tt>initCause(Throwable)</tt>, and two new constructors, <tt>Throwable(Throwable)</tt> and <tt>Throwable(String, Throwable)</tt>. Other "general purpose" exception classes (like <tt>Exception</tt>, <tt>RunTimeException</tt> and <tt>Error</tt>) have been similarly outfitted with <tt>(Throwable)</tt> and <tt>(String, Throwable</tt>) constructors. However, even exceptions without such constructors will be usable as "wrapped exceptions" via the <tt>initCause</tt> method.

        The implementation of <tt>Throwable.printStackTrace</tt> has been modified to display backtraces for the entire causal chain of exceptions. New method <tt>getStackTrace</tt> provides programmatic access to the stack trace information provided by <tt>printStackTrace</tt>.

        All of the platform's wrapped exceptions will be retrofitted to support the new facility (in addition to their legacy APIs).

      MRALD complications and opportunities

    In MRALD, much of the internal state of the current thread can be shown by the internal state of the MsgObject. In order to take advantage of all these facilities, two new classes will be added to MRALD, MraldException and MraldError. Both these take constructors containing a MsgObject as well as having accessor methods for getting and setting the MsgObject fields in these classes.

      MraldException

      An MraldException is a subclass of Exception that indicates either reasonable calling code might want to catch this exception, or the current thread's MsgObject is not available to the throwing method.

        An MraldException should be used when the current thread's MsgObject is not available OR the calling code should handle the exception.

        An MraldError needs to be declared in a method's throws clause.

      MraldError

      An MraldError is a subclass of Error that indicates a serious problem that calling code cannot be expected to deal with.

        An MraldError should only be used when the current thread's MsgObject is available AND there is no way reasonable calling code should be expected to handle the problem. If the case does not meet both requirements, use an MraldException instead.

        An MraldError does not need to be declared in a method's throws clause.

      Handling exceptions

    When used properly, all errors and unhandled exceptions will traverse up the execution path to a final exception handling facitlity which will provide feedback to the user. The primary way of doing this now is ErrorHandler.jsp, though other mechanisms are possible. All of MRALD's code will be retrofitted to support the new facility.

     In ErrorHandler.jsp, the user will be provided with a simple message, instructions on how to report the problem, and a link to an .err file. This file is a file that is created and contains the exception cause, the stack trace, and the interal state of the MsgObject at the time of the failure. For certain common exceptions, the user may also receive suggestions on how to fix a problem. A sample file is included below. Remember when writing exception messages in MRALD that the end user gets what you write as the error message. In addition to being useful to another developer (not just you), it should also be fairly nice to an average user.

      Sample MRALD .err file:

          Fri Aug 29 10:04:46 EDT 2003
          ~v~v~v~v~v~v~v~v~v~v~v~v~v~v~v~v~v~v~v~v~v~v~
          Message: org.mitre.mrald.util.MraldThrowable: ERROR:  For SELECT DISTINCT, ORDER BY expressions must appear in target list
          Root Cause:
          java.sql.SQLException: ERROR:  For SELECT DISTINCT, ORDER BY expressions must appear in target list
          at org.postgresql.core.QueryExecutor.execute(QueryExecutor.java:131)
          at org.postgresql.jdbc1.AbstractJdbc1Connection.ExecSQL(AbstractJdbc1Connection.java:505)
          at org.postgresql.jdbc1.AbstractJdbc1Statement.execute(AbstractJdbc1Statement.java:320)
          at org.postgresql.jdbc2.AbstractJdbc2Statement.execute(AbstractJdbc2Statement.java:48)
          at org.postgresql.jdbc1.AbstractJdbc1Statement.executeQuery(AbstractJdbc1Statement.java:153)
          at org.postgresql.jdbc1.AbstractJdbc1Statement.executeQuery(AbstractJdbc1Statement.java:141)
          at org.mitre.mrald.output.OutputManager.run(OutputManager.java:423)
          at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:534)
          State of this MRALD run's MsgObject:
          Content Type: text/html
          Queries stored:
          SELECT DISTINCT addictives.pat_id, addictives.heroin, subject.initial_exam, subject.nation_of_residence, subject.gender, subject.second_language, subject.third_language, subject.handedness From subject, addictives Where  ( subject.pat_id = 'MNI_0100' ) AND addictives.pat_id=subject.pat_id ORDER BY addictives.ex_date DESC
          Links stored:

          This is a(n) LINK element
          It's type and memory location are org.mitre.mrald.query.LinkElement@162e295
          It contains the following in its nameValues:
          SecondaryLink=addictives.pat_id; addictives.pat_id
          PrimaryLink=subject.pat_id; subject.pat_id
          Working Objects stored:

          This is a(n) FILTER element
          It's type and memory location are org.mitre.mrald.query.FilterElement@109de5b
          It contains the following in its nameValues:
          Table=subject
          Value=MNI_0100
          Field=pat_id

          This is a(n) SELECT element
          It's type and memory location are org.mitre.mrald.query.SelectElement@e53220
          It contains the following in its nameValues:
          Table=subject
          Field=second_language
          Order=29

          This is a(n) SELECT element
          It's type and memory location are org.mitre.mrald.query.SelectElement@13e0aba
          It contains the following in its nameValues:
          Table=subject
          Field=gender
          Order=26

          This is a(n) SELECT element
          It's type and memory location are org.mitre.mrald.query.SelectElement@3257b8
          It contains the following in its nameValues:
          Table=subject
          Field=nation_of_residence
          Order=25

          This is a(n) SELECT element
          It's type and memory location are org.mitre.mrald.query.SelectElement@11d2572
          It contains the following in its nameValues:
          Table=subject
          Field=initial_exam
          Order=23

          This is a(n) SORT element
          It's type and memory location are org.mitre.mrald.query.SortElement@859a68
          It contains the following in its nameValues:
          Table=addictives
          OrderType=DESC
          Field=ex_date
          Order=1

          This is a(n) SELECT element
          It's type and memory location are org.mitre.mrald.query.SelectElement@15c62bc
          It contains the following in its nameValues:
          Table=addictives
          Field=pat_id
          Order=1

          This is a(n) FILTER element
          It's type and memory location are org.mitre.mrald.query.FilterElement@5660d6
          It contains the following in its nameValues:
          Table=addictives
          Operator=<=
          Field=ex_date

          This is a(n) SELECT element
          It's type and memory location are org.mitre.mrald.query.SelectElement@ef83d3
          It contains the following in its nameValues:
          Table=addictives
          Field=heroin
          Order=15

          This is a(n) FILTER element
          It's type and memory location are org.mitre.mrald.query.FilterElement@b7b3f9
          It contains the following in its nameValues:
          Table=addictives
          Operator=>=
          Field=ex_date

          This is a(n) SELECT element
          It's type and memory location are org.mitre.mrald.query.SelectElement@88df60
          It contains the following in its nameValues:
          Table=subject
          Field=handedness
          Order=34

          This is a(n) SELECT element
          It's type and memory location are org.mitre.mrald.query.SelectElement@1318b
          It contains the following in its nameValues:
          Table=subject
          Field=third_language
          Order=30
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      Dealing with .err files

    Left alone, .err files will quickly proliferate and fill up your ROOT (or other) directory. To avoid this, there is an option in the config.properties file, errFileExpireDays, which takes a number. After XX days, the .err files will be deleted.  This "expiring" of .err files is still being discussed - any input is welcome.


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Personal Injury Compensation Guidelines
If you are considering making a personal injury claim, it's important that you understand the possible outcomes. Here we outline the main elements that are taken into account when calculating your compensation sum.
Why claim compensation?
The principle reason that somebody makes a personal injury claim is to obtain compensation for their injury and to recover out of pocket expenses that have been a result of that injury.
Importance of ensuring roads remain clear to avoid accidents
By Andy Petherbridge, Associate of Chartered Institute of Legal Executives, Hudgell Solicitors
Keeping the roads in good condition and making sure there is nothing to obstruct motorists is absolutely vital to ensure the safety of other road users.
Often, we assume the council is responsible for debris, such as mud, left on the carriageways or country roads.
But sometimes, this is not the case and others, such as local farmers, are responsible.
APIL right to call tailgating 'as socially unacceptable as driving without a belt'
By Becci Snow, Chartered Legal Executive at Hudgell Solicitors
This Wednesday, August 19, marks Injury Prevention Day, a day when the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) is urging us all to think about what we can do to help prevent needless injuries and accidents across the UK.
This year, APIL has quite rightly been placing a major focus on the dangers of tailgating – driving too closely to the car in front – in its work.
It is an offence it has labelled 'as socially unacceptable as driving without a seatbelt', and as specialists in handling thousands of car accident injury claims each year, we at Hudgell Solicitors agree entirely.
How to stay safe at work
Workplace injuries are preventable. With this in mind we thought we would take a look at two of the nation's most dangerous industries and offer advice on staying safe at work and avoiding accidents at work.
How many accidents occur at work?
1.2 million working people suffered from a work-related illness between 2013 and 2014 (according to the Health and Safety Executive), 133 workers were killed and 629,000 injuries at work were reported under RIDDOR (Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations).
Such shocking statistics have implications not only on victims and their families, but on business too. In 2012 to 2013, new cases of ill health resulting from poor work conditions cost an estimated £14.2 billion to the UK economy. In total 28.2 million working days were lost due to ill health or injury.
Accidents in agriculture
Agriculture is considered to be one of the most dangerous industries to work in, with one person killed as a result of agricultural work every week for the last decade (according to the HSE). The industry represents 1.8% of the workforce in Great Britain, yet accounts for 19% of reported fatal injuries each year.
In an industry which requires heavy tools and labour-intensive work, health and safety is paramount, and the cost of an injury can be devastating. The total annual costs of injuries in farming, forestry and horticulture are estimated at a staggering £190 million, whilst fatalities account for an extra £55 million.
Common agriculture injuries and suggested precautions:
Falls from height
Ensure that buildings are kept in good repair.
Provide handrails on stairs.
Ensure that you take special precautions if you are constructing a steel frame.
When travelling on public roads ensure that trailers are secure and protected by an appropriate guard.
Audible alarms should be fitted to the vehicle
Always plan your journey.
Machinery contact
Ensure all machinery carries a 'CE' mark and is carefully maintained.
Many agricultural machines have dangerous moving parts. Ensure that these parts are maintained and carefully protected.
Never use a machine if you haven't received training, never wear loose clothing and never distract somebody using a machine.
Contact with electricity
If you suspect that there are underground cables in the vicinity, then someone who is experienced in cable detection should locate them for you.
Make sure that you don't overload power supplies and that wiring is correctly installed.
If you receive an electric shock always remember to disconnect the power and never touch the electrocuted person with non-conducting items.
Chemicals and waste
You should comply with the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002.
Waste falls into three categories: Hazardous (lead batteries and dangerous chemicals), potentially hazardous chemicals which need to be tested (inks or paints(, non-hazardous (edible oil)
Pesticides and dangerous chemicals should be stored in their original containers with approved product labels.
There are strict controls on the movement, recovery and disposal of farm waste.
If you dispose of any hazardous waste, you need to record every incident in a records register. If you receive hazardous waste you are a 'consignee' and you must keep detailed records how the waste is stored and the quantity.
More about chemicals can be found here.
Agriculture employee rights
You can avoid potential risks by following health and safety rules that govern farming. By undertaking a health and risk assessment you can limit the likelihood of accidents occurring. This assessment includes maintenance checks on all equipment and appropriate signage.
It is a legal requirement that training is provided, protective clothing is used and that safety procedures are followed. National vocational qualifications are available at three academic levels and are supported with training courses.
Further information can be found at the Farming Health & Safety Guide at gov.uk.
Accidents in construction
Spurred on by the government's investment in property, construction is one of the leading sectors for the UK economy. Construction is an intensive industry in which workers may be relied upon to use machinery, lift heavy goods and complete high-risk tasks.
According to the HSE, there have been significant reductions in the rates of injury across the last twenty years. However, it remains an industry laden with risks, as 40% of construction sites failed health and safety checks last year. Injuries and new cases of ill health from working conditions in construction have cost the industry over £1.1 billion between 2013 and 2014.
Source: HSE
All construction businesses should ensure that they follow all health and safety guidelines whilst providing adequate training for their employees. This will vary from sector to sector in construction. The HSE has provided a guide on how to assess, control and review any potential risks in the construction industry.
Common construction injuries and suggested precautions:
Clear any designated walkways
Provide adequate signposting and lighting.
Remove any trailing cables or any potential hazard that may cause an uneven surface.
Fall restraints and safety equipment should be provided at all times.
If you are building tower scaffolds this safety guide will provide more detailed information.
All electrical equipment should be properly maintained and used by an authorised individual.
All work near overhead power lines should be carefully planned.
A responsible person on-site should be appointed fire marshal and should assess means of escape and fighting fire.
All flammable materials should be kept away from ignition.
All vehicles should be regularly inspected with considerations needed to segregate vehicles from pedestrians.
Construction employee rights
On a construction site there are generally contractors, sub-contractors, self-employed workers and casual labourers. This means that when an injury occurs the responsible individual can be unclear. By law all employers are required to maintain employer's liability insurance. These cases can often be complicated because not all workers can be legally classed as employees. In which case insurance cover may not in fact be operative. These cases are complicated and legal advice and the instruction of a solicitor is often necessary. This equally highlights the need for self-employed individuals to carry their own insurance to cover lost earnings and financial commitments in the event of them being unable to work through injury.
The Health and Safety Executive subjects the construction industry to particular scrutiny. Most accidents and injuries tend to be attributable to a breach of safety regulation.
Further information on safety in construction can be found here at the HSE website.
Dealing with an accident at work
If you believe that health and safety issues could lead to accidents in your workplace, or you have been the victim of an accident at work, contact Hudgell Solicitors to find out more about your rights and options.


The 31st meeting of the Council of Presidents of GCC National Olympic Committees was held in Muscat, Oman on Tuesday.
The meeting was attended by Jassim bin Rashed al Buenain, Secretary- General of the Qatar Olympic Committee (QOC).
The meeting approved the formation of the GCC Dispute Resolution Authority to be based in Bahrain. The Authority's board of directors will include secretaries- general of the GCC Olympic Committees, executive director of the authority and representative of the GCC Secretariat- General.
The meeting, chaired by Sheikh Saif bin Hilal al Hosni, Acting Chairman of Oman Olympic Committee, also congratulated Qatar on winning the title of 2019 AFC Asian Cup held in the United Arab Emirates.
The QOC Secretary -General Jassim al Buenain thanked the officials of the Oman Olympic Committee for hosting the meeting and for their efforts to strengthen the GCC joint action.
Buenain also thanked the presidents and representatives of the GCC Olympic Committees for congratulating Qatar on winning the 2019 AFC Asian Cup.
Another decision of the meeting was the formation of a team including the Oman Olympic Committee and Kuwait Olympic Committee to prepare a vision draft of joint sport cooperation in the GCC countries. On international cooperation, the GCC meeting emphasised the continuation of cooperation in the field of sport between the GCC and both Jordan, and Morocco.
Also in Muscat, Qatar participated in the 32nd meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Committee of Ministers of Youth and Sports.
Minister of Culture and Sports Salah bin Ghanim al Ali led Qatar's delegation to the meeting.
The meeting discussed the final communique of the 39th session of the GCC supreme council, and 31st meeting of the GCC ministers of youth and sports as well as the recommendations of the 35th meeting of the GCC youth and sports undersecretaries.


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The sense that America is more divided than ever came to a head in November, when voters elected the most unpredictable, and certainly most untraditional, presidential candidate. The gap between red and blue America in 2016 grew to its widest in at least seven election cycles — and the repercussions reverberated through the education sector, shredding what leaders call the "big tent" of education reform.
In response, The 74, in partnership with NewSchools Venture Fund, has produced a series of videos featuring key actors and thought leaders on both the left and right discussing critical issues and major areas of tension in education. Among those interviewed: Sen. Lamar Alexander; Jonah Edelman, CEO and co-founder of Stand for Children; and Margaret Spellings, president of the University of North Carolina system and secretary of education for the George W. Bush administration.
The political anxieties that preceded President Trump's election, hurtling the polarization of America to the forefront of the national conversation, did not crop up overnight. The squeezing of the center and the migration toward extremes on the left and right have been years in the making across sectors, including education.
These tensions manifested themselves at last year's NSVF Summit, an invitation-only gathering of more than 1,000 entrepreneurs, educators, community leaders, and policymakers dedicated to sharing ideas on how to innovate schools. At that California summit, issues of political and racial diversity exploded.
This year — at a time when 86 percent of Americans believe the country is more politically divided than ever before — NSVF Summit leaders sought to address that acrimony directly and attempt to find a way back to the elusive middle. Four on-stage panelists tackled the gaping divide in a meaningful discussion led by NSVF CEO Stacey Childress: Shavar Jeffries, president of Democrats for Education Reform; Layla Avila, CEO and executive director of Education Leaders of Color; Matt Ladner, senior research fellow at the Charles Koch Institute; and Gerard Robinson, a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
With bipartisan efforts seeming to be increasingly out of reach, experts say it's OK to disagree.
"For me, I think the question is less left or right, Democrat or Republican, but frankly right or wrong, and there ought to be a certain set of moral values rooted in what we ought to expect, children ought to be entitled to," Jeffries said, noting that those entitlements include quality teachers, a curriculum that's competitive globally, and access to food and health care. "In order to forge how we move forward, there needs to be a clarity of values. Where is it do we agree? Let's work together where we agree. Where we disagree, let's try to find common ground where we disagree. If we disagree and we can't find common ground, then we got to fight. And that's OK. That shouldn't be a problem. We have to fight when we have disagreements in our core values. And we can do that respectfully."
Going forward, that disagreement might continue to grow.
"[Let's] find areas where we agree to disagree, but because of raw politics, there are going to be harder conversations coming in the next 18 months than there will be soft ones," Robinson said. "So let's write some love letters on the moon, because the monsoon will come."
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This is a paragraph stack for our Anchor stack example. We've indicated our Anchor stack's position in this example with an icon to the left -- a blue bookmark. This shows where the anchor is located, as well as allows the visitor to right-click on the anchor icon and choose Copy Link. This copied link, when entered into a browser web address field will take the visitor directly to this section of the page.
This is a unique name that will be used in the URL that links to this anchor. This will also be the name that you will use in the Mega Menu stack if you're using the Anchor stack in conjunction with the Mega Menu stack.
Please Note: Keep your anchor name simple. Also remember that you do not want to use spaces or special characters in your anchor name. One word anchors are best when possible.
The icon is used to indicate that an anchor is present at a specific section on your page. It is by no means required.
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Choose from a wide variety of icons to optionally indicate your anchor's position.
Choose whether your icon should be to the left, or the right of your content. The anchor icon is placed using absolute positioning, meaning is can be placed outside of your content area.
Used to adjust the placement of your icon in relation to your other content. You can adjust these settings while in preview mode to see how it affects their positioning.
Set the color of the Anchor stack's icon to match your site using one of Foundry's color swatch presets or make use of custom color pickers.
Adds a popup tooltip to your Anchor icon. You can then set the tooltip text and its location, which can be set to either bottom, top, left or right.
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Mark of the Vampire (1935) Starring Bela Lugosi
Steve Calvert	American Horror Movie, Bela Lugosi Movie, Vampire, Vampire Movie
Mark of the Vampire Movie Poster
Mark of the Vampire is remake of the 1927 movie London After Midnight (now considered to be a lost film). Tod Browning directed both movies and although London After Midnight was a silent movie, things had changed a lot in the eight years between the two movies, so Mark of the Vampire has the benefit of sound.
The movie is set in a village community where the residents are very superstitious and live in fear of the vampire Count Mora (Bela Lugosi) and his daughter Luna, who is also a vampire.
There are, of course, a few members of the community who consider the idea of vampires to be absurd, but when a local dignitary, Sir Karell Borotyn, is found slumped over his desk, dead, with two pinpricks in his neck, even the most level-headed of them finds it hard to come up with a rational explanation. Sir Karrell's close friend Baron Otto has no doubt a vampire is responsible and the local doctor is in agreement, but Prague police officer, Inspector Neumann, refuses to accept the idea. With so much confusion about Sir Karell's death, and with Sir Karell's daughter in imminent danger of being the next victim, expert help is needed; and who better to help than Professor Zelin?
Zelin is very knowledgeable about the occult and about vampires in particular, but even with his expert help keeping Irena Borotyn safe proves to be very difficult indeed.
Mark of the Vampire is just an hour long, but it is generally believed the movie was originally fifteen minutes longer, and MGM cut out much of the material because they considered it to be unsuitable. It is, however, hard to say for sure what the real problem was with the cut material. Some sources claim the cut scenes were considered to be too comical, but it is also rumored that the cut material referred to an incestuous relationship between the Count and his daughter, and certain on screen evidence makes it seem likely that this was the real reason behind at least some of the cuts.
All through the movie Count Mora has a bloody mark on his right temple. It looks suspiciously like a bullet wound and there seems no reasonable explanation as to why a vampire should be walking around with a hole in his head. Until, that is, you become aware that it is rumored that, in the original scrip, Count Mora killed himself because of his incestuous relationship with Luna.
The most controversial thing about Mark of the Vampire is not the reason for the cut material. It is the way the movie ends. Mark of the Vampire begins as a horror movie and, with plenty of drifting fog and flying bats, it is a good fit for the genre. Lugosi is, as always, the epitome of all things vampire and it has to be said that Carol Borland was very well cast as Luna. She remains silent throughout most of the movie, but presents an intimidating on screen presence. The scenes where Luna is shown peering in through the windows are particularly chilling.
However, in the last few minutes of the movie there is a complete about face and the viewer realizes that they have not been watching a horror movie at all, but a murder mystery. This is a very disappointing way to end the movie and I was left feeling like I had been slapped in the face. From what I have read many horror fans feel the same way and even Bela Lugosi stated he found the ending ludicrous.
Lionel Barrymore
Elizabeth Allan
Lionel Atwill
Jean Hersholt
Henry Wadsworth
Donald Meek
Jessie Ralph
Ivan F. Simpson
Franklyn Ardell
Leila Bennett
June Gittelson
Carroll Borland
Holmes Herbert
Michael Visaroff ===
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Count Mora
Inspector Neumann
Baron Otto
Dr. Doskil
Sir Karell
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I am an instructor at Blackwell and oversee many projects including the upkeep of the activities, looking after bespoke packages for specific groups, such as corporate or additional needs groups and helping oversee the activities in general.
There are a number of things that I love about my job; being outdoors and working at Blackwell and at Pike Pool is great. I also enjoy working with a variety of different children and helping them achieve great things. Finally the team I work with, we have each year a new number of Gap students who bring lots of fun and variety as they come to us from all over the world.
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Make sure you've read the Ultimate DAF System Buyer's Guide Parts 1 & 2 before starting here.
The method used to distribute whitewater into the incoming wastewater stream makes all the difference in the way sludge forms and floats inside the DAF vessel. Let's examine two different approaches.
Some DAF manufacturers employ a specialty whitewater pump, vertical saturation pipe and diaphragm valve assembly to generate and inject whitewater into the incoming wastewater. Others use ANSI recycle pumps, an angled air saturation tube, and a whitewater distribution manifold with multiple ball valve and tubing assemblies. A comparison of these two configurations might sound like splitting hairs, but it's definitely worth some consideration.
The vertical saturation pipe configuration is designed to bleed off air that doesn't dissolve into solution. While most excess air will escape from the top of the tube, the side-mounted whitewater discharge line will draw some portion of it into the tank. As excess air enters the flotation cell, large bubbles form and burp at the water's surface. These bubbles disturb already floating sludge and immerse solids back into the water.With an angled configuration, excess air escapes out the elevated portion of the tube as whitewater flows out from the lowest point. No undissolved air can enter the flotation tank because the water flows from top to bottom, not the other way around.
DAF systems that use vertical tubes typically only have one dissolved air injection port. When flowing 100 gpm (1.67 gallons per second) of wastewater into the flotation cell, a single dissolved air injection point is unable to effectively and evenly spread whitewater over the entire incoming solution. Some portion of the flow gets a huge shot of whitewater, while other parts go entirely without. It's up to the hydraulic patterns inside the flotation cell to distribute the bubbles. Often times this works, but it's unpredictable and uncontrollable. A habitual problem with this design is that solids cannot float to the water's surface quickly enough to keep up with the incoming flow. By all calculations, a system designed to process 100 gpm of wastewater is unable to achieve that flow rate because solids are not separating quickly enough. DAF systems with whitewater distribution manifolds do not have this issue. Numerous whitewater injection ports are placed across the width of the flotation cell at different heights to evenly distribute micro-bubbles all throughout the DAF tank in a controllable manner.
The start-up routines for these two configurations also varies by nature of the whitewater injection system. A single air injection port saturates the tank with whitewater from one origin. As tanks are sized longer and wider, it takes more and more time for the bubbles to disperse throughout the whole tank. Some manufacturers's DAF operation manuals suggest allowing 5-10 minutes for tank saturation before opening the wastewater influent valve and proceeding with treatment. DAF systems with an air distribution manifold are fully saturated within 60 seconds or less. Shorter start-up time means less waiting around and more getting work done.
The lesson is is to get in closer and examine the design differences. The details matter. Ask the manufacturer about their design justifications.
Think of a hammer, a tool meant to deliver impact to an object. Now, picture one in your mind. What do you see?
If you've ever worked in carpentry maybe you visualized a claw hammer. Metalworking? A ball-peen hammer with a hemispherical head. Maybe you're a stonemason and thought of a brick hammer with it's long chisel-shaped blade. Everyone thinks of the hammer they use in their trade. But, no one should know better than the hammer-maker which one is the most appropriate for a specific task.
A DAF system manufacturer should have that same level of expertise and knowledge about which DAF system design is most suited to a specific application. If a designer is using the same DAF system for a dairy acidulation process as they use in a cattle abattoir plant, that's like a rail worker using a judge's gavel to pound in a railroad spike – similar tool, wrong application.
The application specific design largely comes down to materials selection and process engineering. Take for example a DAF system used in a cattle kill plant. Without understanding that these types of facilities generate wastewater laden with sandy, gritty materials, a manufacturer may opt to use their design standard, say a cast iron pump. Unfortunately for the person who buys this DAF system, their gritty wastewater will wear pin holes in the pump casing and eventually cause a pump failure. This results in down-time and replacement of the most expensive component on the system. When something like this happens, not only does it reflect poorly on the manufacturer, but also on the engineer/consultant that presented it to the end client as the right solution. The master craftsman would understand the gritty nature of cattle wastewater and select a pump casing with high Brinell Hardness, like CD4MCu.
On the process side, the DAF designer should understand how to properly calculate and interpret hydraulic surface loading rate, solids loading rate, and air-to-solids ratio based on the application at hand. Solids in poultry kill plant wastewater separate infinitely easier than those from the effluent of an activated sludge system. Using the same values for each of these processes would likely result in an oversized poultry DAF and an undersized bio-mass separator.
You're the one buying the system, don't be afraid to question why a specific configuration was selected over another and be sure to ask for an explanation of the calculations behind your system sizing.


New York, March 07, 2011 -- Moody's Investors Service has downgraded the corporate family rating of Bumble Bee Holdings, Inc. (Bumble Bee) to B2 from B1 following the company's announcement of plans to make a $145 million distribution to shareholders. Concurrent with this action, Moody's assigned a Caa1 rating to the proposed $150 million senior PIK toggle notes due 2018. Proceeds from the notes offering will be used to fund the distribution and related fees. The rating outlook is stable.
The probability of default rating to B2 from B1.
Caa1 (LGD6, 93%) to the proposed $150 million senior PIK toggle notes due 2018.
The ratings on the PIK toggle notes have been assigned subject to review of final documentation.
The downgrade of the corporate family rating to B2 reflects the aggressiveness of Bumble Bee's fiscal posture as demonstrated by its increased financial leverage and meaningful reduction in sponsor contributed equity following the shareholder distribution. The B2 rating reflects Bumble Bee's proforma adjusted financial leverage of 6.8x, aggressive financial policies, limited category diversification and the commodity-like nature of the North American shelf stable seafood industry. The rating is supported by Bumble Bee's large scale, top-tier position in the North American shelf-stable seafood category, well-established brand names, and low cost sourcing capabilities. Further, the rating anticipates that Bumble Bee will continue to generate solid cash flows, despite the increased interest burden, and reduce its reliance on its revolver over the next two years with available cash.
The stable outlook reflects the expectation that Bumble Bee will continue to generate solid margins despite increasing fish, aluminum and fuel prices in 2011 given its ability to pass along price increases, particularly on its albacore tuna products. Further, ongoing category growth initiatives are expected to support the company's top line expansion beginning in 2011. Moody's anticipates leverage to remain high over the next twelve to eighteen months despite modest revenue growth and Bumble Bee's plans to reduce ABL borrowings.
The ratings are unlikely to be upgraded in the near term as a result of Moody's view that Bumble Bee's financial policies will continue to be aggressive given its private equity ownership. A demonstrated commitment to maintaining leverage below 5.0x would be viewed positively assuming the company maintains an adequate liquidity profile. While leverage is viewed as high, Moody's would not anticipate lowering ratings absent a meaningful deterioration in its operating performance, addition of incremental debt as a result of an additonal distribution or the tightening of its liquidity profile.
The proposed $150 million PIK toggle notes are expected to be senior unsecured obligations of Bumble Bee Holdco S.C.A. and will not be guaranteed by any of the company's operating subsidiaries or holding companies that guarantee the senior secured notes or $225 million asset based lending facility (not rated by Moody's). The notes will contain a PIK toggle feature that will allow the company to defer interest payments at its discretion by adding the deferred interest to the notes initial principal obligation.
Bumble Bee, headquartered in San Diego, California, is the largest producer and marketer of shelf-stable seafood in North America and maintains a leading share in virtually all segments of the U.S. and Canadian shelf-stable seafood categories. Revenues for the twelve months ending October 2, 2010 were $945 million.