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Companion Pet Rules & Laws in California
By: Teo Spengler, J.D.
How to Apply for a California Assistance Dog Tag
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Assistance dogs, service dogs, psychiatric service dogs and emotional support animals – understanding the protections afforded them in California is not a simple matter. Most Californians agree that disabled persons who require trained service dogs to assist them should be allowed to take them into public places. And that is, in fact, a dictate of federal laws like the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Where California state law provides more protections to people with service dogs than does federal law, it trumps the federal law. Various California statutes protect the rights of people with assistance dogs, service dogs, psychiatric service dogs and emotional support animals, giving disabled persons broader protection in housing and the work place.
Federal Service Dog Laws: ADA
Federal laws apply to all states, including California. However, where state and federal laws offer different protections, the one with the broader protections takes precedence. Three federal laws protect the rights of the disabled who use service dogs as support animals. Each adds something specific to the protection.
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is the grandfather of service dog laws. It defines a service dog as "any dog that is individually trained to do work or perform tasks for the benefit of an individual with a disability." Sometimes, under the ADA, protections also extend to miniature horses that are trained to provide assistance to disabled people, but it does not apply to emotional support animals. The Department of Justice defines service animals under the ADA as dogs trained to perform identifiable tasks that are specific to a disabled individual's unique physical, sensory, psychiatric or mental disabilities. Who has to train the dog? It doesn't matter. Dogs can be trained by the owner, medical professionals or friends who know something about dogs.
The ADA regulates access to public places by disabled persons with service dogs. It provides that these people must be given equal access to public places like government buildings, hospitals, shops and hotels. These places that admit the public are legally obligated to allow service dogs, and the provisions of the ADA mandate that they modify their rules to accommodate service dogs.
However, these protections apply only to dogs that satisfy the ADA's definition of "service animal." The ADA defines a service animal as a dog that is "individually trained" to "perform tasks for the benefit of an individual with a disability." The tasks a dog has been trained to provide must be directly related to the person's disability. For example, guide dogs that help blind people are good examples of service dogs, but dogs are also regularly trained to help deaf people and people with mobility impairments.
Federal Service Dog Laws: Fair Housing Act
The federal Fair Housing Act is another federal act that protects Californians, as well as people in the other 49 states, who have assistance animals. Unlike the ADA, the Fair Housing Act protects people with assistance animals needed for emotional support as well as service dogs.
The Act requires reasonable accommodation in housing for those who need assistance animals. The federal Fair Housing Act gives a disabled person the right to keep an assistance animal, often defined to include emotional support animals, in a house, apartment or other housing facility that otherwise does not allow pets.
The Fair Housing Act has been interpreted to include animals other than dogs. The housing managers or owners must make reasonable accommodations in their rules to allow people with assistance animals to use the housing like any other tenant.
Federal Service Dog Laws: AAA
The Air Carriers Access Act addresses the rights of disabled persons to travel by air. It prohibits discrimination against disabled persons (defined as anyone having an impairment) in air travel. The law requires – in every state in the country including California – that commercial airlines allow assistance animals to accompany disabled passengers traveling by plane.
This federal law prohibits airlines from requiring proof of service dog status when a physically disabled person is traveling with a service animal. However, for a psychiatric service animal or emotional support animal, the disabled person usually needs a letter from a mental health professional setting out the person's need for an assistance animal.
California Companion Animal Laws
In California, several laws describe the rights of people who require assistance animals. These include the Unruh Civil Rights Act, the California Disabled Persons Act and the Fair Employment and Housing Act. It is sometimes difficult to determine which law applies, and that can depend on the type of animal, how the animal assists the person, and the location.
One big difference between California and federal law is the definition of "disability." The state definition is broader. Under the federal ADA, a impairment, whether physical or mental, rises to the level of a disability only when it "substantially limits" a major life activity. Under state law in California, an impairment doesn't have to substantially limit life activities, but only limit them. That has been interpreted as meaning that an impairment is a disability if it makes the related activity difficult. Applied to mental disabilities, this has been held to include most mental conditions or psychological disorders, including depression and learning disabilities as well as bipolar or other disorders as long as a major life activity is impacted.
California law defines "service dog" much like federal law. The law provides that a service dog is a dog trained to help an individual with a disability in specific ways. For example, the service dog could be trained to pull the owner's wheelchair or to recover items the disabled owner has dropped. First, the definition of service dogs applies only to dogs, so no animal other than a dog can qualify. Second, the dogs must be trained to help their owners in specific ways.
"Psychiatric service dog" is a term you hear frequently in California when people speak about service animals. What is a psychiatric service dog? You can look high and low in California codes for the definition but you won't find one. California law doesn't define "psychiatric service dog," but if a person with a mental disability obtains a a dog individually trained to help her, the animal fits the general definition of a service dog under California law. For example, a psychiatric service dog might be trained to respond to a panic attack with comfort, or getting someone who is depressed up from bed at a certain hour. A person using a psychiatric service dog has the same rights as someone with a physical disability who uses a service dog.
One other important term regarding assistance animals in California is "emotional support animal." The term means a dog or other animal that, by its very presence, assists a person by giving them a sense of well-being and serenity. An emotional support animal in California is not necessarily trained to perform specific acts related to the owner's disability. It need not be a dog, although most emotional support animals are dogs. California laws mandate that both landlords and employers must make accommodations to allow disabled persons to keep these assistance animals with them.
California Assistance Dogs in Public Places
California law echoes federal law guaranteeing disabled people the right to take service dogs into public places. And, state laws define "public places" more broadly than the ADA does. In California, you have the right to take your service dog to anyplace where the public is permitted, like doctors' offices, public transport including streetcars and boats, and concert halls. California law provides the same type of protection for those training service dogs. A trainer without a disability bringing a service dog trainee has the same rights to go to public places as a disabled person with a service animal.
Those who operate facilities to which the public is invited must change their practices if necessary in order to accommodate the animals. The laws in California do not require that persons with service dogs put vests or tags on the dogs or otherwise "mark" them as assistance dogs. Nor are service dogs required to be certified or registered. People in charge of a public place can ask the individual only whether the dog is a service dog and, if so, what work the dog is trained to perform. They cannot ask for written proof or documentation that the dog is a service dog.
One exception to the requirement that places open to the public allow people to enter with service dogs is wild animal parks. If no physical barrier separates the public from the wild animals, these types of parks are exempt.
Note that these protections apply to service dogs, not to emotional support animals. There is no California law that requires an emotional support animal to be allowed in public places. However, special state laws protect emotional support animals in housing and in the workplace.
Read More: How to Apply for a California Assistance Dog Tag
California's Fair Employment and Housing Act
Under California's Fair Employment and Housing Act, it is unlawful for employers to discriminate against someone because of a disability. If a disabled person needs an assistance animal, an employer with five or more employees has to make reasonable accommodations for the disability, including allowing the animal in the workplace.
Emotional Support Animal Rental Laws in California
Many of the questions people have about service dogs involve the right to keep emotional support animals in their rented housing units. Both federal law applicable in California and state law requires that a landlord allow a disabled person to keep a service dog in a rental unit even if the policy disallows pets. It is usually considered a reasonable accommodation and therefore must be accepted.
How about emotional support animals? Do landlords have to accept companion animals? The answer is the same. Both the Federal Housing Act and California law require that landlords allow disabled persons to keep emotional support animals in housing units, even if the general rules of the premises are that no animals are permitted. Likewise, a landlord cannot ask tenants with service dogs, psychiatric service dogs or assistance animals to pay a pet deposit. This is true even if other tenants in the building are required to put down pet deposits.
Although a landlord cannot object to allowing service dogs or emotional support dogs into the building, the law does permit exclusion of specific dogs. A request to keep an assistance animal can be legally rejected if the specific animal is a threat the health of others or would cause substantial physical damage to the property of others.
But landlords need to be careful here. They cannot reject a dog because it's big, weighs a lot, or is a particular breed. Nor can the rejection be premised on fear or speculation. The decision that an animal poses a direct threat or would cause substantial physical damage has to be made on objective evidence about the particular animal's actual conduct.
Service Dog Fraud in California
Under California's Penal Code, it is a crime for a person to represent an animal as a service dog or emotional support animal when it is not. A person who does this intentionally can be found guilty of a misdemeanor. The penalties can include jail time and a fine up to $1,000.
Shouse Law Firm: Service Dog Fraud
CertaPet: Emotional Support Animals in California
SF Chronical: Where Service and Support Animals Are, and Aren't, Allowed
SF Mayor's Office: Service and Support Animals
Ogletree Deakins: The New California Regulations Part IV: Support Animals in the Workplace
Teo Spengler earned a J.D. from U.C. Berkeley's Boalt Hall. As an Assistant Attorney General in Juneau, she practiced before the Alaska Supreme Court and the U.S. Supreme Court before opening a plaintiff's personal injury practice in San Francisco. She holds both an M.A. and an M.F.A in creative writing and enjoys writing legal blogs and articles. Her work has appeared in numerous online publications including USA Today, Legal Zoom, eHow Business, Livestrong, SF Gate, Go Banking Rates, Arizona Central, Houston Chronicle, Navy Federal Credit Union, Pearson, Quicken.com, TurboTax.com, and numerous attorney websites. Spengler splits her time between the French Basque Country and Northern California.
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We're looking for a sales leader with experience building highly profitable, scalable, and leveraged teams to ensure the optimal balance of company growth and customer experience in a segment where we've already proven strong product-market fit.
Asana's unique business model and disciplined sales approach enables us to build a user-driven marketing and sales engine that can scale quickly and effectively. We have experience at the forefront of bottom-up enterprise software sales, helping customers scale from initial adoption to large, high-impact deployments.
As the Commercial Sales Manager, you will build the playbook for the Commercial team to take Asana's customers from initial deployment to wall to wall deployments through upsells + cross sells. You'll own the strategy to find ways to drive business growth and prove scalability of our Commercial sales program. You'll manifest our values and contribute to building a sales culture that is integrated with the entire company.
What You'll Achieve:
Manage, hire, and develop Asana's Commercial Sales team in San Francisco
Lead strategic planning for your team, including: territory planning, deal strategy development, and enablement
Participate directly in complex sales situations and negotiations
Set and achieve ambitious targets quarter after quarter
Partner with Marketing, Customer Success, Sales Enablement, and Product teams
Establish and implement best practices for maximizing pipeline creation, forecasting accuracy, and Salesforce hygiene
Sit as part of the Asana Sales Leadership team
1+ year of sales leadership experience in SaaS preferred
3-4+ years in a quota carrying role
Experience building an outbound sales process
A knowledge and passion for high volume, bottoms up sales, complemented with top down selling
A passion for coaching and developing world class talent
A strong bias towards action; you believe strong execution is the key to success
An aptitude for problem solving and developing creative solutions
Impeccable customer skills: communication, empathy, integrity
Enjoy working with peers on the Marketing, Enablement, Customer Success, and Product teams
At Asana, we're building a better way to work, fueled by transparency, inclusion, and technology that is a force for positive change. Asana is a work management platform that helps teams orchestrate their work, from daily tasks to strategic initiatives, so they can move faster and accomplish more with less. For the past 5 years, we've been named a top workplace, including top 10 Great Place to Work Best Small & Medium Workplaces, #1 Fortune Best Workplace in the Bay Area for four years in a row, #8 Fortune Best Workplaces for Women, #14 Glassdoor Best Place to Work, and one of Ireland's Best Workplaces. With offices all over the world, we are always looking for curious, collaborative, and mission-driven people to help us enable the world's teams to work together effortlessly.
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Bidah Busters are Back!
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Green Wedding.
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Year over year, spring fashion is marked by a definitive use of florals. While florals will always be iconic, it's fun to reinvent the wheel and go for the unexpected. In San Diego, I wore a t-shirt from Portland Gear that's emblazoned with two roses, serving as my nod to spring's signature print. I love the tattoo-like rendering of these flowers against the heather gray backdrop of this comfy, casual tee.
With my Portland Gear tee as the focal point, I layered my look with one of my new favorite items: a denim jacket from Calvin Klein Jeans. This jacket features the brand's timeless logo on the buttons, giving it such a throwback vibe that I love. I added some pure white adidas shoes to this outfit for a continually fresh aesthetic. When the sun was just bright enough, I would pop out my Saint Laurent sunnies to complete the ensemble.
As much as the conceptually-drawn roses on this shirt are a surprising way to wear florals, I thought wearing some Portland pride in Southern California was even more unexpected. I think it's fun to wear a little piece of your background whilst traveling, especially if that little piece of your background is irrefutably stylish.


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How Italy was marginalised in Libya (Commentary)
Mattia Giampaolo - 17 January 2020
Italy has achieved little through independent diplomacy in Libya. It may have more success by acting within a European framework.
How to repair Europe's credibility in Libya (Commentary)
Tarek Megerisi - 16 January 2020
European countries and the EU can still use the strength of their diplomatic assets to reassert their influence in Libya. But they will first need to overcome their internal divisions to do so.
Will he stay or will he go? Putin's role will change (Commentary)
Kadri Liik - 16 January 2020
A political transition has started in Russia. While preserving a powerful role for Vladimir Putin, 2024 might nonetheless bring about real-enough change.
Europe's new gamble: Dispute resolution and the Iran nuclear deal (Commentary)
Ellie Geranmayeh - 15 January 2020
The dispute resolution mechanism presents the E3 with risks but it could also buy them time to keep the nuclear deal on life support until the US presidential election in November.
Control issues: The UK's defence procurement woes (Commentary)
Nick Witney - 14 January 2020
The UK Ministry of Defence has shown a chronic lack of decision discipline, sometimes undermining its role in joint European projects.
After Qaboos: The future of Oman and Gulf geopolitics (Commentary)
Cinzia Bianco - 14 January 2020
The fractious context of the Gulf means Oman's new ruler could soon find himself seeking to emulate his predecessor and championing regional diplomatic dialogue
Trading places: Europe and China in 2020 (Commentary)
Andrew Small - 13 January 2020
The US-China trade deal could make life tougher for Europe. But there are risks for China too in provoking greater coalition-building against it.
"More coordination" won't fix the Sahel (Commentary)
Andrew Lebovich - 10 January 2020
Picking sides and intervening via local proxies often makes matters only worse, not better, in the countries of the Sahel.
A call for increased European de-escalation efforts in the Middle East (Commentary)
- 08 January 2020
Prominent Europeans call for increased European de-escalation efforts in the Middle East.
Soleimani strike: Loosening future restraints on military action? (Commentary)
Anthony Dworkin - 07 January 2020
The drone strike against Soleimani marks a novel shift in targeted killing, dangerous to the global order.
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10-year Treasury Yield Rises To Highest Level Since Early August
By Joseph AdinolfiMarketWatch Pulse
The yield on the 10-year Treasury note rose to its highest level since Aug. 5 Wednesday after Chinese policy makers said they would adopt more fiscal stimulus measures, causing investors to move out of Treasury bonds and into risky assets like stocks. The yield was last up 5.8 basis points to 2.251%. The yield on the two-year note rose two basis points to 0.761%. Meanwhile, U.S. S&P 500 futures were up 1.1% to 1,988.


Walter Gabrielsen is proposing a bistro at his Glass Greenhouse on Route 25 in Jamesport and he said his farm market complies with the town's definition of a farm stand, an issue that resulted in litigation between the town and Glass Greenhouse in 2014.
The owners of the Glass Greenhouse are again seeking a special permit to create a bistro inside The Farm Market, their building on Main Road in Jamesport.
"Anywhere he wants to." That's the punch line of the ancient joke about where an 800 -pound gorilla sits.
BARBARAELLEN KOCH PHOTO | The Glass Greenhouse Farm Market on Main Road in Jamesport opened to the public in October.
What is a farm stand? It's such a simple question, yet one loaded with meaning and innuendo. After asking five people (including farmers) and getting five different answers, I thought it best to consult an authoritative source: Agriculture & Markets, the agency that regulates and protects the activities of farmers statewide. What I found was surprising.
A definition of "farm market" is easy to locate, and it's just as easy to see it doesn't apply to the business Save Main Road has been asked to comment on: The Glass Greenhouse Farm Market. A "farm market" in New York showcases and sells goods from two or more farmers. Such a market is also typically located on municipal land. When a dozen growers gather in the parking lot along the river downtown to sell their produce to the public, that's a "farm market." The Glass Greenhouse store, in our opinion, is not.
About "farm stands," Ag & Markets has nothing to say. Literally. They have no rules and no policy that define or govern retail operations conducted by a single farm on its own land. When I spoke to an Ag & Markets official to confirm what their law seemed to indicate, she confirmed they defer to town code on this issue.
Riverhead code says little. A paragraph tucked into zoning law restricts farm retailing by what's called merchandising area: at least 60 percent of the space must be devoted to selling goods grown on the farm where the stand is located. Save Main Road thinks neighboring Southold's code, which goes into far greater detail on this point, has much to offer; we plan to work with Riverhead officials to improve our code.
Still, the letter and spirit of existing Riverhead farm stand code can be applied in this situation.
Two things concern us: what the law says and the intent of the owner.
Letters in our possession from Ag and Markets suggest Glass Greenhouse owners asked the agency to intercede with the town so they could bypass the site planning and permitting process. (We think that's how the market got built.) While FOIL research is underway, it's already clear Ag & Markets argued strongly that routine application of town rules and procedures would "unreasonably restrict the farm operation." We take issue with this interpretation.
One reason we're concerned is that Ag & Markets alternates between calling the new Glass Greenhouse operation a "farm stand" and a "farm market" in ways we think facile and inappropriate. The agency shouldn't say it's a "proposed farm market" when, by their own definition, it's not. The requirement that produce from multiple New York farms be presented appears absolute. (Packaged Arizona tomatoes we saw on display don't count, nor does other imported produce.) We haven't heard Glass Greenhouse mention the involvement of any other farms.
Additionally, state law heavily emphasizes the public, not private, nature of these markets. An example is that Ag & Markets may provide technical assistance for developing and improving farmers' markets only to public and private "agencies," not to individual farmers.
Ag & Markets relied on the only definition of "farm market" in Riverhead town code 108-56, which deals with signs, despite the fact that the definition is "as used in this section," meaning it applies only to signs.
We think Ag & Markets' reasoning is similarly weak throughout the documents.
We're much more disturbed that Ag & Markets failed even to mention the "60 percent rule." That rule is the clearest statement of purpose in current Riverhead code as to what farm stands may sell, and it appears to have been wholly disregarded.
To apply the rule, look at the store's "merchandising area" only. For discussion, disregard the entire bakery (which we think is inappropriate and not allowed in a farm stand, and which appears to comprise 20 percent or more of the structure). We believe even a casual observer would conclude the total amount of farm produce offered in the new Glass Greenhouse retail space falls far short of the 60 percent threshold.
According to Ag & Markets, the Glass Greenhouse says they need the new facility to provide cooler space to market produce and additionally to sell fresh honey, eggs and free-range chickens. If that were all the new facility sold, there would be no issues.
Walking through as a consumer, I saw a gelato counter 12 feet long (all estimates by my eye), a cheese counter almost as big, 10 feet of candles, 20 feet of displayed bakery goods and rack after rack of manufactured foods and household items from a dozen or more states. My guess is that all actual produce displayed totaled well under 20 percent of the floor area (excluding bakery production).
The new "stand" is 4,500 square feet. We know a local farmer who raises 1,000 laying chickens and sells their eggs — together with other farm produce — in a farm stand of 150 square feet. We'd be surprised if there are enough chickens, eggs and honey in all of Riverhead to make a dent in a 4,500-square-foot farm stand.
Save Main Road doubts that a farm stand of this size, however attractive and well-built, can be profitable if 60 percent of its retail area displays the off-season greenhouse products, chickens, eggs and honey that Ag & Markets claims are the intended items for sale. That said, if and when the owner achieves that critical measure of content, it should be allowed to operate.
Today, it seems to us an ersatz market, a "farm stand" in name only. We don't think an upscale deli belongs in the Rural Corridor, and we support the town in its opposition.
My favorite North Fork slogan is: "We have the right to remain rural." Save Main Road is committed to helping farms and farmers, and we enthusiastically support "real" farm stands. This one doesn't qualify.
Larry Simms owns a home in South Jamesport and is a director of savemainroad.org, an advocacy group dedicated to preserving the character of the Main Road corridor and surrounding areas.
He also serves on the town's Code Revision committee.
The Riverhead Town Board voted to authorize legal action against the owners of the Glass Greenhouse Farm Market at Tuesday's Town Board meeting, after holding off on such action at its prior meeting.
The town claims the new building, approximately 5,000-square feet large, is being operated in violation of the town code definition of a farm market, in that more than 40 percent of the items sold there are not grown locally.
Owner Walter Gabrielsen, reached afterward, declined to comment on the Town Board action.
The board vote was 3-1 with Councilman George Gabrielsen, Walter's brother, absent. George Gabrielsen had previously said he planned to abstain on all votes involving his brother's business anyway.
Councilman Jim Wooten cast the lone vote against authorizing state supreme court action. He has said he thinks the town can settle the matter out of court.
Supervisor Sean Walter and board members John Dunleavy and Jodi Giglio supported the action.
The supervisor has said the town took another business, A Taste of Country, to court on the same issue and prevailed, adding that it would be hypocritical for the town to enforce its code against one business and not another.
"If Mr. Gabrielsen wants to have 60 percent locally grown produce, I would support it 100 percent, but clearly when you walk into that building, that's not what's there," Mr. Walter said two weeks ago.
Also at Tuesday's meeting, the Town Board voted 4-0 in favor of awarding a contract to Borrego Solar to lease space on the town landfill for a solar project, and 4-0 in favor of a resolution requesting proposals to build solar energy projects on other town parking lots.
Click below to read a recap from the board meeting.
BARBARAELLEN KOCH PHOTO | The Glass Greenhouse Farm Market on Main Road in Jamesport.
After preparing to move forward with a plan to sue the owners of a 5,000-square-foot farm market on Main Road in Jamesport for operating outside the law, Town Board members opted on Tuesday to sit tight on heading to court — at least for now.
During last Thursday's public work session in Town Hall, a resolution to authorize legal action against the owners of the Glass Greenhouse Farm Market was discussed and was expected to be approved Tuesday night.
But the resolution got tabled Tuesday by the three board members eligible to vote on it.
About a dozen supporters of the project came to speak against the lawsuit plans but couldn't do so because Supervisor Sean Walter ended the meeting early due to icy road conditions and allowed no public comment.
CYNDI MURRAY PHOTO | The market's interior as it appeared in October.
Mr. Walter said the measure had been tabled in part because those in attendance didn't get to be heard.
Walter and Edith Gabrielsen own the Jamesport building, and the Farm Market was granted a temporary two-month certificate of occupancy by Riverhead Town on Oct. 4, Supervisor Sean Walter said. The market opened on Oct. 11, though without town site plan approval. The town considered commencing legal action shortly after the temporary CO expired on Nov. 4.
Councilman George Gabrielsen — Walter's brother — has abstained from any vote related to the property, and Councilwoman Jodi Giglio has been away from Town Hall over the past week due to a family emergency. She was not at Tuesday's Town Board meeting.
Mr. Walter said he still supports heading to court in this case.
However, the Farm Market's location could prove tricky for the town if it attempts to shut the operation down through the courts.
While the entire parcel on which the Farm Market is located sits in the town's Agricultural Protection Zone, the first 500 feet of the plot — and others in the area along Route 25 — are listed as Rural Corridor, a zone created to "allow a very limited range of roadside shops and services that are compatible with the agricultural and rural setting," according to town code.
One of the accessory uses permitted in rural corridor zone is a farm stand. But in an accessory use in the agricultural protection zone, at least 60 percent of merchandise sold must be locally-grown — a standard Mr. Walter doubts the operation is meeting.
Town Attorney Bob Kozakiewicz offered no comment when asked if the owners of the Farm Market could have found a loophole in the town code — which doesn't define uses of a farm market in the rural corridor zone — though Mr. Walter said "it doesn't matter," as the 60-40 requirement is also mandated under state Agriculture & Markets law.
The supervisor referred to a similar case in 2010, when the town took "A Taste of Country" on Sound Avenue to state Supreme Court for the same reasons and the courts backed the town. That business is now closed.
Mr. Wooten said most of the time when the town takes a business to state Supreme Court, the dispute is resolved by an out-of-court settlement. While he preferred attempting to sit down with the Gabrielsens before litigating, he added that he reserves the right to go to court in the future.
"We can do that without the expense of court," Mr. Wooten said.
For the time being, Councilman John Dunleavy agreed with Mr. Wooten.
"Sometimes you have to work with people," Mr. Dunleavy said. He said Mr. Gabrielsen told him he has ordered products that can be grown locally and help meet the 60 percent threshold — but they won't arrive until spring.
Walter Gabrielsen declined to comment Tuesday when given the chance by a reporter after the meeting. He also declined to speak with a reporter when the News-Review first broke news of the dispute at riverheadnewsreview.com on Thursday.
Mr. Walter said the state Agriculture and Markets Department wants the town to give the business time to meet the 60-40 threshold.


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Q: console.log() not returning logical test without using parenthesis () Today while trying logging and testing conditions i came across following scenario with Chome console. Can someone help me understand why exactly this behavior.
// 1. in this output "this is not good" is not there and returned is false then
// undefined ?? is that returned value
console.log("this is not good = " + 100 > 0 )
false
undefined
// 2. next case is executing fine by introducing ()...
// undefined ?? return type
console.log("this is not good = " + (100 > 0) )
this is not good = true
undefined

A: The problem lies in operator precedence. 'Plus' operator (+) has higher priority than >.
So your first log is intepreted as follows:
console.log((this is not good = " + 100) > 0);

In the first step JS interpeter will concatenate string and "100".
See this MDN article for more info.

A: It's a normal behaviour.
1) When you evaluate
"this is not good = " + 100 > 0

you will evaluate:
"this is not good = 100" > 0

It's obviously false, so false will be printed.
2) When you evaluate
"this is not good = " + (100 > 0)

you will evaluate
"this is not good = " + true

It will just print the string.
Bonus) And for the undefined, that's the return valuse of console.log(). It's always undefined for this function.

A: Because Javascript is executing the operations in the order you have specified.
"this is not good = " + 100

will result in
this is not good = 100

and then
"this is not good = + 100" > 0

will be false, because a String is not greater than zero.

In your flow, the first variable is a String, and the + (Addition operator) will try to concat two Strings. Then 100 will be cast in "100" and added.
If you use parenthesis instead, the mathematical operation will be executed (because the first variable will be 100, a number) and the result false will be returned, cast to a String "false" and then added to your first String variable.

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Fertility quango sits on £3.4m as thousands of women are refused IVF
By Sophie Borland for the Daily Mail
Updated: 03:08 EST, 16 February 2012
The fertility quango has £3.4million of unspent funds – while thousands of women are being refused IVF on the NHS because it is too expensive.
Figures reveal the surplus money built up by the Human Fertility and Embryology Authority could pay for 850 women to have treatment.
The funds have been gradually accumulated from the £75 fee paid by the NHS and private clinics to the HFEA every time a woman has treatment.
Expensive: An investigation found health trusts were denying women IVF treatment on grounds it could not be afforded
Campaigners have demanded the organisation gives the money back to the dozens of NHS trusts which are refusing women IVF because they are so short of money.
Last year a report by MPs found three quarters of primary care trusts are denying women treatment and not funding the three courses recommended by the health watchdog NICE.
This includes five PCTs which refuse to pay for IVF altogether while many others reject women deemed too fat, thin, old or young.
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Benefits: Infertility UK's Clare Lewis-Jones called for the surplus to be reinvested so other patients could benefit from the excess
As a result, couples desperate for children are having to go to private clinics and take out loans or re-mortgage their homes to cover the hefty fees.
Last year 45,000 women underwent IVF treatment, with 60 per cent having to pay for it privately.
One cycle of IVF can cost between £4,000 and £8,000 as clinics charge vast fees for 'extras', including up to £200 for a consultation and as much as £1,000 for freezing and storing embryos.
The surplus, the equivalent to half of the organisation's annual budget, could pay for about 850 women to have IVF at a cost of £4,000 a treatment.
Clare Lewis-Jones of the charity Infertility UK, said: 'We believe the funds built up by the HFEA should be re-invested back into the area which they regulate and that infertility patients should in some way benefit from this excess.'
The HFEA has insisted that the money was accumulated through 'prudent' budgeting, and said it would be too 'complex' to try to give the money back to cash-strapped NHS trusts.
The figures were obtained by the Health Service Journal.
A poll in December revealed that a quarter of women having IVF said that they have to take out high-interest loans, reach their credit card limit and even re-mortgage their homes for a chance to realise their dream of motherhood.
Couples were forced to go to private clinics for IVF despite the Human Fertility and Embryology Authority building up a surplus big enough to pay for 850 women to undergo treatment
A third of the 2,500 British women questioned by Red Magazine for its annual fertility report had spent more than £20,000.
Success rates are just 32 per cent for women under 35, falling rapidly with age to just 1.5 per cent for those over 45.
This means that many are being forced to fork out for three or more cycles of treatment.
Dr Allan Pacey, of the British Fertility Society, said: 'This comes at a time when NHS funding for infertility treatment such as IVF has been cut in many parts of the country as a cost cutting measure, and both hospital and household budgets are feeling the squeeze.
'The £3.4million is a significant sum of money and by a conservative estimate would fund over 850 cycles of IVF treatment.
'The BFS believes it is inappropriate for the regulator to amass such a sum, which by its own admission is "unusually large".
'We will be writing to the HFEA chief executive to ask for an explanation.'
A spokesman from the HFEA said: 'Previously, we have agreed with the department not to pursue the possibility of returning the money to clinics due to the complex principles and practicalities that would entail.
'We developed proposals to enhance our capabilities in three ways, to spend the surplus money "wisely", over three years.
'The Department of Health have told us that they cannot agree to this for the next financial year, and so we await the department's alternative suggestions.'
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Script for downloading entire albums at once from http://musicmp3spb.org,
as opposite to song-by-song manual downloading.
Downloaded files are stored in 'getalb/music/' directory.
Script works with Python 2.7.
Script uses BeautifulSoup library for parsing html pages.

## Version history

0.1.0 - Initial release.

0.2.0 - Almost all code have been refactored according to PEP 8.

0.2.1 - Fixed crash with no URL passed as input.

0.2.2 - Fixed savind albums to cwd. Albums are saved to 'getalb/music/' dir
irrespective from cwd.

0.2.3 - Fixed missing '/music' dir.

0.2.4 - Added function unify_album_name for deleting OS reserved characters.
Improved code readability.

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## Known issues

## License

Copyright (c) 2015 Oleg Esenkov. See the LICENSE file for license rights and
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Paul Scholes Thought He Would Have To Leave Manchester United After Sir Alex Ferguson Row
Josh Lawless
Paul Scholes has revealed he thought he would have to look for another club after Sir Alex Ferguson went "ballistic" at him following a costly mistake.
Scholes was on the receiving end of Fergie's hairdryer treatment after a 4-3 defeat to Newcastle.
The former England midfielder had come on as a substitute for Andy Cole and helped United get back into the game but attempted a flick for the Newcastle goal that ultimately put the contest to bed.
After the game, the player and manager butted heads in the changing room - with Scholes simply replying "B***ocks" to the fiery Scot's criticism in actions that were out of character for him.
After the heated exchange, Scholes had doubts as to whether he would pull on the United shirt again.
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"I had a few [received a rant from Ferguson], some lads will say I didn't have any," Scholes recalled on The Robbie Fowler Podcast, as per Pundit Arena.
"I remember one at Newcastle when Newcastle were a really good team. He left me out, we were 3-0 down and he brought me on with 20 minutes to maybe, 3-0.
"We got it back to 3-2, I'm not saying it was anything to do with me, made two chances, made two goals, but nothing to do with me. Anyway, got it back to 3-2, we were flying creating chances.
"I tried a back flick in the middle of the pitch on the halfway line, they broke away and I think Shearer scored, that made it 4-2. We got it back to 4-3 and then in the dressing room, I'm walking in thinking, 'I made a difference in that game, I did okay'.
I had a couple of chances where I should have scored but he went ballistic at me. You'll never play for this club again and all that type of stuff because I made that mistake on the half-way line.
"I was never, ever one to answer back, people like Giggsy always answered back, even Becks would say something but, I don't know why I just kept saying 'b***ocks'. I just kept saying that to him, no matter what he said.
"I don't know what I was doing, I was frightened to the death of the man! I was on the way back on the coach thinking 'I'm going to have to look for a new club here'."
The game in question was in the 2001/02 season and was Sir Bobby Robson's 100th game in charge of Newcastle. Scholes was thinking the worse after feeling Fergie's wrath but to his surprise, he received an apology days later.
"Monday morning, he came straight over to me," Scholes continued.
"I'm thinking he's going to fine me two weeks' wages here. He said 'I'm sorry, I realised you did make a difference in the game, what happened after the game was an overreaction'.
"That was the quality of the manager. If he thought he'd made a mistake he'd quickly rectify it."
Scholes spent his entire career at Old Trafford, scoring 155 times in 718 appearances and winning a total of 25 trophies - including 11 Premier League titles.
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The dad, who is in his 40s, was stabbed repeatedly in his testicles when he reportedly confronted "local scallies" outside his home.
A dad suffered horrendous injuries after being repeatedly stabbed in his testicles when he reportedly confronted "local scallies" outside his home.
The victim's house was apparently turned into a 'bloodbath' and the aftermath of the attack was witnessed by his young children .
Sources described the victim, who is in his 40s, as a "family man" who has a full-time job and is "not involved in gangs or drugs."
The traumatic incident occurred in Kemsley Road, Dovecot, shortly before 6.30pm yesterday.
The victim was attacked after a dispute in the street with what residents described as "the local scallies."
His partner and two of his young children arrived home and witnessed the bloody aftermath of the stabbing, which has left the house "a mess."
was found with serious but not life-threatening injuries to his thigh and groin.
he's a working man and a family man. He's stood up to the local scallies basically.


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America Makes and the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) have published version 2.0 of its Standardization Roadmap for Additive Manufacturing. The roadmap is a product of the America Makes & ANSI Additive Manufacturing Standardization Collaborative (AMSC), a group formed to help develop industry-wide additive manufacturing (AM) standards and specifications.
The new roadmap describes the current AM standardization landscape and identifies 93 gaps – 18 of them high priority – where no published standard or specification currently exists to address a particular industry need. In 65 of those gaps, additional pre-standardization research and development (R&D) needs are identified. Updates are provided on progress against gaps identified in the earlier version of the roadmap, with many gaps having been substantially revised.
The document covers the life cycle of an AM part, from initial design, to materials and process selection, production, post-processing, finished material properties, testing, qualification, and maintenance.
'We are extraordinarily pleased at the AMSC's continued progress to define a coherent set of additive manufacturing standards and specifications that will benefit the industry,' said Rob Gorham, executive director of America Makes.
The roadmap is supplemented by the AMSC Standards Landscape, a listing of standards related to the issues described in the roadmap. Both documents and additional information are available on the AMSC website.
This story is reprinted from material from America Makes, with editorial changes made by Materials Today. The views expressed in this article do not necessarily represent those of Elsevier.


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By Carl Weber
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Carl Weber is the Essence and Blackboard best-selling author of Married Men. The hilarious story of four single black men in New York City, this novel takes the game of love from the playoffs through the finals. Kevin's got the good looks; Antoine's got the heart and soul; Tyrone's got the skills; and Maurice has all the heartless player moves-but not one of them has a good woman in their life (not counting their mommas). So what do they do? They call 1-900-BLACK-LUV, the ultimate African American date line of course! The outrageous experiences that follow-including dates with everyone from bible-thumpers and chicken heads, to gold diggers and soulmates(!)-have to be heard to be believed. This unflinching window into the erotic world of contemporary romance will leave mature listeners satisfied. An authentically voiced narration from Kevin R. Free ensures a laugh-out-loud good time. "Filled with entertainment . will have you laughing from the beginning to the end."-Kimberla Lawson Roby
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package org.apache.ignite.yardstick.upload;

import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.PreparedStatement;
import java.sql.SQLException;

/**
 * Measures total time of upload data using sequence of single inserts;
 * Supports streaming.
 */
public class InsertBenchmark extends AbstractUploadBenchmark {
    /** {@inheritDoc} */
    @Override public void warmup(Connection warmupConn) throws SQLException {
        try (PreparedStatement insert = warmupConn.prepareStatement(queries.insert())) {
            for (long id = 1; id <= warmupRowsCnt; id++) {
                queries.setRandomInsertArgs(insert, id);

                insert.executeUpdate();
            }
        }
    }

    /**
     * Sequence of single inserts.
     */
    @Override public void upload(Connection uploadConn) throws Exception {
        try (PreparedStatement insert = uploadConn.prepareStatement(queries.insert())) {
            for (long id = 1; id <= insertRowsCnt; id++) {
                queries.setRandomInsertArgs(insert, id);

                insert.executeUpdate();
            }
        }
    }
}


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Difference between revisions of "Talk:Pantheon of Crosswordery"
FeRDNYC (talk | contribs)
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Cassia Rainsonne (talk | contribs)
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The formatting of the resulting link is slightly different ({{god|Woody Pecker}} vs. [https://godvillegame.com/gods/Woody%20Pecker Woody Pecker]), but if that's an issue I could easily create a "normal-link" version of the {{tl|God}} template that renders the same way as the standard-hyperlink version. Doesn't really make too much difference for the final output, but it might make your life simpler in editing the article source text. So, like I said, up to you. -- [[User:FeRDNYC|FeRDNYC]] ([[User talk:FeRDNYC|talk]]) 07:43, 16 October 2018 (UTC)
::: I agree with all your previous edits in the other section (thanks for doing that). That template is definitely simpler, although it'll take more reformatting, I think it'll be worth it in the long run. --[[User:Cassia Rainsonne|Cassia Rainsonne]] ([[User talk:Cassia Rainsonne|talk]]) 00:43, 17 October 2018 (UTC)
1 If people are interested in this, I think it's great to track it here
2 Two questions, two suggestions
2.1 1: The page formatting
2.2 2: The rankings
3 Oh, another suggestion
If people are interested in this, I think it's great to track it here
I only have two reservations:
I'm not sure about the article name, since (as you say) it's not actually an official Pantheon. Maybe something as simple as renaming it "Unofficial Pantheon of Crosswordery", just so that it doesn't give the impression that it's one of the official pantheons. (Only from the title, obviously anyone who reads the page will understand that it's unofficial.) Not a big deal, just a thought.
(This one is much more of a big deal...) We really don't support "ownership" of articles in the main namespace, as that goes against the entire concept of a Wiki. So, I'm really uncomfortable with a wiki article containing a message that nobody else should edit the page, or should get "clearance" from a particular user before editing. If any user wants to maintain a page that only they can edit, they can do so as a subpage of their user page, (for example, perhaps /Crosswordery). That way, all other users will be prohibited from editing it. Otherwise, with a few exceptions (like the Guild articles), the Wiki's articles are open for editing by all users.
-- FeRDNYC (talk) 01:15, 7 October 2018 (UTC)
Oh, I can rename the article, no problem. Sorry about the "ownership" message, I have removed it. I don't really want to move it to a subpage of my userpage, because I feel like that's not the best place for it since it's something for GV as a whole. -- Cassia Rainsonne (talk) 23:28, 10 October 2018 (UTC)
No apology necessary, thanks for understanding. Up to you on the rename, really. If you do Move it (which you can do from the More actions menu), a redirect will be automatically created from the old name, so technically it'll exist at both names unless a new (official?) Pantheon of Crosswordery article is created to replace the redirect. -- FeRDNYC (talk) 20:22, 14 October 2018 (UTC)
Two questions, two suggestions
I had further thoughts/questions about two things, related to the article content:
1: The page formatting
It's... how can I put this delicately... a horror show? 😉
It looks like you're using the Omnibus List as a template? That's basically the worst possible example, since it combines the worst aspects of HTML and Wiki features to create a Frankenstein's Article formatting that ends up being messy everywhere, but especially on mobile where you end up having to swipe left and right to read the whole page.
Some of the data (specifically, the daily rankings) would also benefit from a tabular format, instead of being just four separate lists that happen to appear side by side. If you moved that information into a single table of its own, you could add a row in one place, rather than having to add items to the end of four different lists.
I'd suggest replacing everything to the right of the Pantheon list with a separate daily rankings wikitable, like so:
Daily Top Rankings
Woody Pecker Dan Maku Kevin-g93 October 4, 2018
Kevin-g93 Cham Almighty Woody Pecker October 5, 2018
Kevin-g93 Cassia Rainsonne Cham Almighty October 6, 2018
Dan Maku Cassia Rainsonne Kevin-g93 October 7, 2018
The Great Jimsky Cham Almighty Woody Pecker October 8, 2018
Kevin-g93 Cham Almighty Beausoleil October 9, 2018
Kevin-g93 Woody Pecker Goddygoddy October 10, 2018
Dan Maku Kevin-g93 Kazehime October 11, 2018
Wawajabba Kevin-g93 Beausoleil October 12. 2018
Woody Pecker Cassia Rainsonne Cham Almighty October 13, 2018
You can see the code for the whole table if you Edit the page, but basically the headers look like this:
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+Daily Top Rankings
! First !! Second !! Third !! Date
and each row looks like this:
|[https://godvillegame.com/gods/Woody%20Pecker Woody Pecker]
|[https://godvillegame.com/gods/Cassia%20Rainsonne Cassia Rainsonne]
|[https://godvillegame.com/gods/Cham%20Almighty Cham Almighty]
|[https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/479824788047659019/500791759949791232/image0.png October 13, 2018]
(I might also suggest moving the Date column to be first, instead of last, but that's a separate issue.)
If you wanted to do things that way, I'd suggest moving the rankings table before the Pantheon listing, since it's the more important of the two. Then you can get rid of the <table> tags entirely, and the Pantheon can come after as a simple list. It can also be made collapsible (or collapsible after a certain point), to avoid displaying such a long article by default.
2: The rankings
Regarding the rankings themselves, I know originally when you set up the pantheon only the first three to solve the crossword received rankings. But now that it's expanded so that everyone who solves the crossword gets ranked, how do you ensure that you count everyone? The list of solvers is cleared when a new crossword is posted, so doesn't the list you have depend on when you capture the list? In theory, if you get the list of crossword-solvers at, say, three hours before the new issue, then anyone who solves after that won't be counted.
Because of that, and because it's unreasonable to expect that you'd camp out and watch the crossword solvers list until the moment it's cleared every day, it might make sense to limit rankings/points to only the first 10, or 20, or 30 people who solve it each day. That way, you can stop at that point and not have to worry about missing anyone who solves after.
Just a thought, since it seems more fair to set a cutoff than to risk missing some people based on timing. -- FeRDNYC (talk) 21:35, 14 October 2018 (UTC)
LOL, yeah I'm not very good with Wiki stuff, and I like the idea of the wikitable for sure. Concerning the rankings, I also suggested using a cutoff time to get the pantheon rankings, but people didn't really like that. I do have my own cutoff time an hour before the crossword ends, and someone usually gets me the last five people that miss my cutoff. If I don't get the names, then they can submit screenshot proof if they're that concerned about it (but I don't think anyone is haha). However, this is pretty much me just trying things out for a month and seeing how it goes. I like the idea of having the first 10, 20, 30 people etc. because it's less work for me, but we'll see how things go. -- Cassia Rainsonne (talk) 22:45, 15 October 2018 (UTC)
I think the table looks good, it's definitely an improvement! I'm going to Be Bold™ and make a few more (small-er) changes, for the reasons I'll explain below (before making the edits).
I'll also make each of these a separate edit, to keep them separated and self-contained. You should feel free to be equally bold and revert (via the undo link next to each edit, in the page history) any of them you disagree with, in order to restore the previous state of the article. Then we can further discuss them here and hopefully reach some consensus on how to proceed.
(I'll be changing the existing, accepted article content, so you changing it back if you feel it's necessary (and can provide an explanation why) would be every bit as not-wrong — our views on the article have equal weight. It would then be wrong for me to reinstate my reverted changes, without further discussing them with other editors (you). That's the point at which it becomes edit warring. To decide whether and how contested changes should be made, consensus needs to be reached among everyone involved.)
The changes:
I'm going to get rid of the side-by-side thing.
To see why, just look at the article on a phone or other mobile device. Or use the mobile-display emulation of your desktop browser. (In either Chrome or Firefox, hit F12 to launch the developer tools, then Ctrl+Shift+M. The page view will be reformatted for a mobile screen, you can choose your screen size at the top and then Reload the page to bring up the Godwiki mobile formatting.)
I don't know the stats for Godwiki, but currently on Wikipedia "Oct 2018: mobile traffic represents 55.8% of total traffic". I would probably expect Godwiki's percentage to be higher, if anything, since a lot of the traffic here is driven by the game app's built-in browser. It's no longer "good enough" for articles to be formatted so they look OK in desktop browsers, as much of Godwiki was until quite recently. With more than half of web users browsing on a mobile device, content has to adapt to mobile screens.
A lot of work has actually gone into making Godwiki mobile-friendly over the past year, and at this point nearly all of the articles are, even tricky ones like the Main Page. The Omnibus List is really one of the only remaining holdouts, for reasons I won't go into.
I'm going to get rid of the header.
I know why that header's there on the Omnibus List, and it makes sense in that context — it links to each of the different lists, which are otherwise hard to reach as they're long and scattered all over the page, and it acts as the color key for the list shading.
But this article only has one table and one list, each of which has a heading or caption identifying it. The header serves no purpose here.
By the same token, I'm going to get rid of the colored background on the Pantheon.
This one's actually a bigger thing, for accessibility reasons. It makes sense to color-code the different lists on the Omnibus List, since everything's crammed into one article and the color-coding is the only way of being sure which list you're even looking at. But with only one list, the color-coding again serves no purpose here.
And more importantly, in the the Omnibus List all of the content is plain text — black on $background_color (teal, in this instance). But nearly all of the Pantheon list's content consists of hyperlinks, so instead of black-on-teal, it's blue-on-teal. That's going to be a complete nightmare for people with certain types of color-vision deficiency.
Anyway, I'll go make those three edits now so you can take a look, and if you have any thoughts on different approaches or ideas for further changes, feel free to build on it from there, or outline them here on the Talk page and I'll be happy to give what input I can. -- FeRDNYC (talk) 06:43, 16 October 2018 (UTC)
Whoops. Well, I accidentally combined edit #1 and #3, since the colored background got dropped when I removed the Pantheon list from its HTML table wrapping. So it's actually only two edits, sorry. -- FeRDNYC (talk) 06:54, 16 October 2018 (UTC)
Oh, another suggestion
This one's totally up to you, but I just thought I'd point out that the same HTML links you're creating "by hand" in the table can also be created using the wiki's {{God}} template.
Instead of: [https://godvillegame.com/gods/Woody%20Pecker Woody Pecker]
you'd just write: : {{god|Woody Pecker}}
The formatting of the resulting link is slightly different ( Woody Pecker vs. Woody Pecker), but if that's an issue I could easily create a "normal-link" version of the {{God}} template that renders the same way as the standard-hyperlink version. Doesn't really make too much difference for the final output, but it might make your life simpler in editing the article source text. So, like I said, up to you. -- FeRDNYC (talk) 07:43, 16 October 2018 (UTC)
I agree with all your previous edits in the other section (thanks for doing that). That template is definitely simpler, although it'll take more reformatting, I think it'll be worth it in the long run. --Cassia Rainsonne (talk) 00:43, 17 October 2018 (UTC)
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Wallaby turns Pom for Falcons
Matthew Burke, former rugby World Cup-winning Wallaby, is applying for British residency allowing his club side Newcastle to select other international players in the English Premiership.
Changing allegiances: Former Wallaby Matt Burke
Burke, who is risking wrath and ridicule from former Australian teammates and Wallabies supporters, is seeking residency through his British-born mother and has applied to the U.K. Home Office to change his status to boost the Falcons' selection options.
English Premiership regulations allow only one foreign player in a side at any one time outside of autumn tours and Six Nations schedules.
"I'm waiting for the flood of emails from Australia calling me a traitor," Burke said on Newcastle's official Web site.
"I spoke about it with (then Newcastle coach) Rob Andrew last year, when he was still with the Falcons, and my feeling was that the club had been extremely good to me, so this is one small way in which I can repay them."
33-year-old Burke was the fifth-highest scorer in rugby tests with 878 points when he retired, and kicked 25 points in Australia's World Cup winning final over France in Cardiff, 1999.
The backline player said the residency application had been made some time ago and would allow Newcastle to select himself and the likes of new All Black signing Joe McDonnell.
"We explored the option, and with my mother Maureen being born in London my qualifying for British residency has helped the club out and meant they could go and recruit Joe, who will be a fantastic addition to the squad.
"It means I become a local, donned in the flag of St George – or maybe not," joked the Falcons skipper.
"I still know who I'll be supporting in the Ashes cricket, don't worry about that, but the wheels are in motion with the relevant authorities and I just see it as helping the club out. It doesn't mean I'll be a Pom, it's just paperwork."
Burke, the fourth highest Wallaby try scorer in history, joined the Falcons in 2005 and was named the club's player of the year in his debut season.
He is contracted to the club until 2008.


Dr. S. Ramachandra is the consultant for dermatology at the Karkhana facility of Lucid Diagnostics. He is a 22-year veteran of the Armed Forces and served in various parts of the country in Military Hospitals. He is alumni of the Armed Forces Medical College, Pune and holds an MD in Dermatology. Post his Army Service he was the Professor & HOD for the Department of Dermatology at Kamineni Medical College.
Vastly experienced in his field, Dr. Ramachandra's areas of expertise include – skin, nail and hair disorders; STDs; leprosy; cosmetic and electrosurgical procedures.


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Il suo film A Soap ha vinto l'Orso d'argento, gran premio della giuria al Festival di Berlino 2006.

Filmografia parziale
Pigen som var søster (1997)
Indien (1999)
Habibti min elskede (2002)
A Soap (En Soap) (2006)
Dansen (2008)
En familie (2010)
En du elsker (2014)

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


Since it was founded in 1997, MATRIX GmbH has been a developer or mold clamping systems. The idea of developing clamping jaws based on the pin cushion principle was the first step towards a true innovation.
Following a development time of just 11 months to the first prototype and patenting, the company initially focused on the field of metrology and acquired a number of prestigious customers.
The MATRIX clamping systems went into series production in 1999. Various modules with differently-sized pin fields, for example, as well as additional modules relevant in measuring technology for the improved securing of complex components are introduced into the MATRIX GmbH portfolio. As a result, the first module, which included height and angle elements, as well as blank holders, cone and prism supports, was produced in 2000. With the aid of the modular system, relationships with customers were extended across the entire globe. New target groups were acquired, since the sets were constantly being adapted to the needs of customers and their applications.
The realization of customers' specialist wishes led to special developments in the X-SHIFT series (support of large-surface parts in measuring technology) and the X-TABLE series (height and inclination-adjustable trolley adapted to the mold clamping system) in 2004 and 2005.
Over the years that followed, the X-CLAMP series was developed. This allowed differently-shaped parts and parts with complex molds to be clamped and processed.
Since 2005, the company has been based in Ostfildern-Nellingen, near Stuttgart in Germany.
These are the pledges for the future of MATRIX GmbH: plain, modern design, modularity combined with straightforward handling, low wear, always keen to listen to customers' requests and offer a high level of service.


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Q: How many threads are allocated by default by actor system? When I create an actor system
val simpleActorySystem = ActorSystem("SimpleActorSystem")

Can we determine, how many threads are allocated for the SimpleActorSystem by default?

A: From the default dispatcher documentation:
# warning: these values are not updated  regularly
# see documentation for most recent settings

# Min number of threads to cap factor-based parallelism number to
parallelism-min = 2

# Parallelism (threads) ... ceil(available processors * factor)
parallelism-factor = 2.0

# Max number of threads to cap factor-based parallelism number to
parallelism-max = 10


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Q: What is the updated belief of B given F and I with all of them being independent? What is the updated belief of B given F and I with all of them being independent?
This is more of a smell check cause I'm decently sure I have the correct thought process but it seems weird in the context of the story:
"Say you are 20% sure GameStop stocks will go up in a week, but your friend says it will for sure go up and your friend is correct 60% of the time. Then say you talk to a professional investor and they say that the stock will go up and is correct 80% of the time. Assume your belief, your friend's accuracy and the investor's accuracy are all independent events. What is your updated belief after observing what your friend says? How about after observing your friend and the investor?"
So I'm decently sure it's 20% for both cases, because the events are independent. So let's call my belief event B, friend's correctness F and investor's correctness as I. Then $P(B|F)=\frac{P(B,F)}{P(F)}$, but since they're independent $P(B|F)=\frac{P(B)P(F)}{P(F)}=\frac{(0.2)(0.6)}{0.6}=0.2$ then also because I is independent of B and F then $P(B|F,I)=\frac{P(B,F,I)}{P(F,I)}=\frac{P(B)P(F)P(I)}{P(F)P(I)}=P(B)=0.2$. This all makes sense to me given that they're all independent and only the marginal probabilities are given, it'd be impossible to solve this if they weren't independent because the joints and conditionals are not given, but it feels weird that my belief wouldn't improve given my friends and investor's correctness as evidence.

A: Call $S$ the unknown event (i.e. that the stock is actually going to go up) and $A,B,C$ the events for the people's "hunches" (including your own, if you want).
It's reasonable to treat $A,B,C$ as independent given $S$, i.e. $P(A,B,C|S)=P(A|S)P(B|S)P(C|S)$, and you can model the different people's success rates using the conditional probabilities for each of the hunches (so e.g. $P(C|S)=P(\lnot C|\lnot S)=0.8$). Doing Bayesian inference to take the hunches into account means calculating $P(S|A,B,C)$, and this can definitely be different from $P(S)$ (and from $P(S|A)$, where $A$ is your own hunch).
With the information you gave, I'd leave out $A$ (since $P(S)$ already represents your prior belief in $S$). Then:
$$
\begin{align}
P(S|B,C)
&=\frac{P(S,B,C)}{P(B,C)}\\
&=\frac{P(S,B,C)}{P(S,B,C)+P(\lnot S,B,C)}\\
&=\frac{P(S)P(B|S)P(C|S)}{P(S)P(B|S)P(C|S)+P(\lnot S)P(B|\lnot S)P(C|\lnot S)}\\
&=\frac{(.2)(.6)(.8)}{(.2)(.6)(.8)+(.8)(.4)(.2)}\\
&=0.6
\end{align}$$
So hearing your friends' predictions increases your confidence from $0.2$ to $0.6$.


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The 4 Biggest Contrarian Dividend Plays Out There
It's time to take a look at the stocks the market is underestimating.
Anand Chokkavelu, CFA
(TMFSimplify)
Updated: Apr 6, 2017 at 10:40AM
Published: Nov 4, 2010 at 12:00AM
Anand is the Editor-in-Chief of Fool.com. He loves pithiness, clever turns of phrase, and helping people simplify their money decisions.
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A big dividend yield is one of the most alluring statistics in all of investing. It feels like free money. In fact, you often hear the related phrase, "this company is paying you to own its stock."
And when the market is also underestimating the value of a dividend stock, you have the opportunity to get paid while you watch the stock price appreciate.
That is absolute nirvana for a contrarian dividend investor -- getting large dividends and large capital gains. Today, there are four stock plays that could provide just such an opportunity.
Contrarian dividend play No. 1: dogs of the S&P 500
My colleague Dan Dzombak made a list of the 10 S&P 500 stocks with the largest dividend yields -- ranging from 5.6% to 8.4%. Five telecom stocks dominated that list, with Frontier Communications (NYSE: FTR) sporting the largest yield.
The S&P 500 is made up of the largest, most venerable companies in the U.S. But what you have to watch out for is the dividend payers on the way down -- companies on this list that have run out of growth options and are just paying out their cash flow. For example, I worry that this may be the case for mail processor Pitney Bowes (NYSE: PBI). Hence, despite its 6.7% dividend yield, I'd require a very low normalized earnings multiple to buy into that stock.
Conclusion: This list is definitely worth investigating for beaten-down prospects.
Contrarian dividend play No. 2: mortgage REITs
I've warned in the past about the dangers of taking a huge dividend yield at face value, and no stocks have bigger face values than mortgage REITs. Annaly Capital (NYSE: NLY), American Capital Agency (Nasdaq: AGNC), and Hatteras Financial (NYSE: HTS) all have dividend yields between 15% and 20%. Yowza!
They have similar business models -- borrowing short-term at cheap interest rates and buying longer-term, higher-interest rate mortgage-backed securities that are guaranteed by government agencies or government-sponsored entities like Fannie Mae.
How is this a contrarian play? Because investors haven't bid up share prices to lower these dividend yields. That's because they know that this party ends at some point, when interest spreads will contract and these companies won't be able to support such high dividends.
But Ben Bernanke's announcement yesterday that the Fed will again start buying government bonds -- $600 billion worth -- shows that this interest rate party may last quite awhile. Even after the party's over, it's possible these companies will stick around with lower but still attractive dividend yields.
Conclusion: This is something to consider for advanced investors who want to make a bet on the government's will to keep interest rates low. But read this warning before proceeding.
Contrarian dividend play No. 3: bank stocks
I've said it before and I'll say it again: The financial industry is a ripe area for contrarians these days. I love areas of the market that investors don't even consider considering. So many people got burned by the dividend cuts of the thought-to-be-safe banks that a large percentage of former bank investors are once bitten, twice shy.
Small banks provide great opportunities. But today, I want to highlight the opportunity in two big banks that have cut their dividends to basically nil. Because of the uproar over the foreclosure mess, Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase are trading at price-to-tangible book values of 0.9 and 1.3. That's impressive considering anything under 1.5 catches my eye.
Besides more clarity around foreclosures, dividend increases could be a share price catalyst for these two (and all the big banks).
Conclusion: If you believe the foreclosure headlines are overblown (I do) and if you're willing to roll the dice on banks with virtually no balance sheet visibility and virtually no current dividends, these two banks are quite cheap.
Contrarian dividend play No. 4: defense stocks
When the big kahuna of clients -- Secretary of Defense Robert Gates -- announces he wants to cut $100 billion over the next five years from a $700 billion annual U.S. defense budget, you can bet defense stocks of all stripes react negatively.
But here's the thing. Even though stock prices across the industry are depressed, individual players will have different outcomes. Sales at the big defense contractors are chunky. A big win at the expense of your competitors can negate a lot of the ill effects of newfound government thrift.
Picking out the winners is tricky, but the prices we're seeing make it worth the effort. Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), and Raytheon all have forward earnings multiples below 11 ; Lockheed also has a trailing multiple below 10 and pays the highest dividend yield of the group -- 4.2%.
Conclusion: It would be great if defense companies were rendered obsolete, but strife isn't going anywhere. I'll definitely be looking further into these three to determine if any will be less affected than the group.
These four dividend plays -- the dogs of the S&P 500, mortgage REITs, banks, and defense stocks -- are being given short shrift by the market. It's left to us contrarians to profit from their neglect.
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