Erm…. its a Kinder Egg.
Chocolate is lovely. Toys are also enjoyable. Kinder Eggs combine both of these things, so the Nestle Toto, a similar treat, MUST be good, mustn't it?
Well, no. Its a bit of a let down. Firstly, the chocolate it only one type of chocolate. Kinder Eggs give you milk chocolate on the outside and a creamy white chocolate on the inside. This is just Nestle chocolate. It's nice, as Nestle chocolate usually is, but its just not as exciting without the two-tone chocolate.
The toy was rubbish too. In trying to insert my bikes back axle, I ended up snapping a wheel off rendering the bike useless. Yes, I know it is already technically useless in that the bike was the size of a couple of sugar cubes, but if I had owned a flea circus or something, and had told a flea that I was getting them a bike, imagine the disappointment THEY would have felt on Christmas day.
Not as good as a Kinder Egg, in my opinion.


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Slovakia Starts COVID-19 Vaccinations a Day Earlier Than EU's Plan
Slovakia started its COVID-19 vaccination campaign on Saturday, a day earlier than the European Commission's planned coordinated roll-out across all member states.
EU member states each received a first shipment of just under 10,000 doses of the Pfizer/BioNtech vaccine on Saturday but vaccination was not supposed to start across the bloc's 27 nations until Sunday.
Vladimir Krcmery, a member of the government's Pandemic Commission, was the first person in the country inoculated by the vaccine produced by Pfizer and BionTech.
The first ten vaccines, administered in front of cameras, went to members of the government's advisory body, top experts in immunology, infectology, and epidemiology.
President Zuzana Čaputová, cabinet ministers, and representatives of the parliament will be vaccinated in Bratislava on Sunday.
Today, we start turning the page on a difficult year. The #COVID19 vaccine has been delivered to all EU countries.
Vaccination will begin tomorrow across the EU.
The #EUvaccinationdays are a touching moment of unity. Vaccination is the lasting way out of the pandemic. pic.twitter.com/pYOj5vS2gV
— Ursula von der Leyen (@vonderleyen) December 26, 2020
Healthcare worker Vladimir Krcmery, receives the first injection nationwide, with a dose of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at the University Hospital, as the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak continues, in Nitra, Slovakia, December 26, 2020. REUTERS/Radovan Stoklasa
In an effort to ensure fair access across the bloc, the EU is carrying out a coordinated vaccination program.
The European Commission, the bloc's executive arm, has already signed contracts with several other suppliers of potential coronavirus vaccines in an effort to secure enough doses for all adult EU citizens.
The BioNTech-Pfizer vaccine presents a unique logistical challenge as it must be stored at around -70 degrees Celsius to keep the doses viable. Over short distances, the vaccine can be transported for short periods at 2 – 8 degrees Celsius.
Vaccinations are already underway in the United Kingdom and the United States after regulators pushed through emergency approval.
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CLEVELAND — The losing streak was five. The most recent defeat still stuck in their guts, just 24 hours old. And with an upcoming schedule that's as appealing as curdled cream, the rematch with the Cavaliers last night carried extra weight for the Nets.
"It felt like the seventh game of a series," said emergency starter Kris Humphries.
Nothing brings out a playoff atmosphere more than the eighth game of the season between two teams that are a combined two games under .500. Still, the Nets played it like it meant their lives. Losing was not an option. And so the Nets came away with a win, a comeback win over the Cavs who had beaten them the previous night. A 95-87 losing-streak-ending win that contained physical play, plus defense and execution when it mattered most.
"A big time bounce-back effort. Defensively we just got stops," said coach Avery Johnson, who before the game talked about beauty being the in eye of the beholder while admitting recent Nets games were as beautiful as a kindergartner's pudding painting. "We had some really special individual performances, and Kris Humphries is leading the parade."
Humphries started for Troy Murphy (sore foot), who was shelved along with Terrence Williams (lower abdominal strain, second straight scratch). All Humphries did was score 13 points, grab a career-high-tying 18 rebounds, block two shots and make life miserable for Cavs who wandered in the paint.
"He was huge, blocking shots, rebounding," said Devin Harris, fairly huge himself with 31 points as he kept the Nets (3-5) above water in the early going. "He did the dirty work."
Or as Johnson put it, "It's what we need. We need our big guy first and foremost to defend the paint. When Humphries is in there, people don't drive down there so enthusiastically."
Hear that, Brook Lopez? The Nets starting center, who was on the bench before two minutes had elapsed (he picked up two fouls six seconds apart) had his fifth straight stinker, playing 19 minutes, shooting 1-of-5 and scoring four points. In his last five games, Lopez shot .288 (21-of-73), averaged 11.8 points, 5.6 rebounds. And he admits it is getting to him.
"I'd be lying if I said it wasn't a little," Lopez said.
But Lopez was expendable last night because Humphries said he made "a conscious effort to block shots and play physical." So Johnson stayed with a lineup of Harris, Anthony Morrow (21 points), Jordan Farmar (12 points), Humphries and Derrick Favors (seven points, seven rebounds).
Favors played tough, noting, "I went back to the style I know how to play and didn't worry about fouls."
Humphries, the Nets' third different starting power forward in just seven games, gave the Nets a 78-77 lead at 6:37. The Cavaliers, who lost Mo Williams (leg strain) in the third quarter, went up 81-80, at 4:53 on a dunk by J.J. Hickson (15 points). Farmar delivered a 3-pointer at 4:35 to ignite an 8-0 run, part of a larger 19-6 streak, that allowed the Nets to lay claim to their first road victory and first win overall since Oct. 29.
This began looking like a disaster. But Harris put the Nets' offense on his shoulders and awaited help beyond Humphries' rebounding. He waited until the second half, but at least it showed up. Trailing by as many as 11 points in the third quarter, the Nets closed to within 69-67 as Morrow hit the third of his triples in the quarter at the buzzer. Morrow finished with five total 3-pointers, which helped undo team .378 shooting from the floor and .462 from the line in the first half.
"We had to grind this one out," Harris said. "It wasn't perfect, but we did what it took."
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As millennials age, more U.S. companies look ahead to Generation Z
After a decade of focusing on the so-called millennial generation, some U.S. companies are starting to look ahead to what's next.
Apparel company Abercrombie & Fitch Co launched a YouTube show to promote its Hollister brand of clothesPhoto: The Carpe Life
Target Corp is introducing new in-house brands of shoes, apparel and accessories this year, geared toward customers who may not be old enough to drink legally. Apparel company Abercrombie & Fitch Co launched a YouTube show hosted by online celebrity Hunter March rather than spending on television commercials to promote its Hollister brand of clothes. And pizza chain Papa John's International Inc is investing more in online ordering, trying to catch up to Domino's Pizza Inc's lead in catering to a demographic that does not want to speak on the phone.
It is all part of an effort to reach so-called Generation Z, the moniker given to the 68 million Americans born after 1997.
For companies, the focus on the youngest generation is not just about selling toys or video games. Instead, they are reworking their marketing and technology in order to appeal to a customer base that is more diverse than any other U.S. generation and grew up with streaming services like Netflix Inc that make watching television commercials seem foreign.
Overall, Gen Z alone spends $44 billion a year, and influence an additional $600 billion in household spending, according to research firm Mintel.
"There's a tendency to keep brands for life and you're seeing more companies trying to find themes that will speak to their future customers," said Bill Smead, a portfolio manager at Seattle-based Smead Capital who holds positions in companies like American Express Co and Discovery Inc in part due to their success in marketing to Gen Z. "Whoever wins this generation will be rich for a long time."
Taken together, Millennials - those born between 1981 and 1996 - and Generation Z will form the largest population cohort in 2019, according to Pew Research. While both generations grew up with computers in their homes, members of Generation Z were too young to remember the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and were 10 or younger when Apple launched its first iPhone, making mobile devices their primary means of connecting to the Internet and each other.
That focus on mobile devices presents a special challenge to marketers, said Stefan Pollack, a public relations professor at the University of Southern California. "While millennials share this trait, they straddle the world where traditional channels and messaging can still resonate," he said.
As a result, companies that focus most directly on Gen Z have already had to change their marketing. Education Realty Trust Inc, which develops and manages college housing, upped its marketing budget by 19 percent in areas such as Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and is now emphasizing value over luxury to appeal to students who came of age during the Great Recession.
"Our millennials have aged out and our Gen Z has come in, and so that's a strategy adjustment," Christine Richards, the company's chief operating officer, told analysts in February.
"If you can make day-to-day commerce more like a game they can play on their phones, (Millennials) are more likely to engage," says Matthew Litfin atColumbia Threadneedle Investments
INVESTING IN 'SAVVY MARKETERS'
Matthew Litfin, a senior portfolio manager at Columbia Threadneedle Investments, said that he has been adding to positions in software companies such as Q2 Holdings Inc and Mindbody Inc that make it easier for small companies like banks and yoga studios to have robust online apps that are similar to their larger competitors.
"This is a gaming generation and they do not like to have to talk to somebody. If you can make day-to-day commerce more like a game they can play on their phones, they are more likely to engage," he said, citing Domino Pizza's early investments in online ordering - a category that now constitutes more than 60 percent of its sales.
"Our focus on digital efforts (is meant to) make certain that we are appealing to younger audiences, which will be the future of the overall business," Papa Johns chief executive Steve Ritchie said on the company's May 8th earnings call.
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"We favor companies that are savvy marketers," he said. "The management teams that say that people don't care about mobile we quickly remove from our list."
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Yes, He Sold Fakes. They Are Supposed to Be Fake
By JEFFREY E. SINGER and COREY KILGANNON
Published: August 24, 2011. New York Times. [link]
The items, mostly copies of luxury objects, inside the little shop in downtown Manhattan are made of thin cardboard and might not even pass muster deep in the background of a movie set.
But that did not deter the police from arresting a shop worker on counterfeiting charges for selling several items, including Louis Vuitton and Burberry handbags.
There is just one problem: the items are supposed to be fake.
The store, Fook On Sing Funeral Supplies, on Mulberry Street along what is known in Chinatown as Funeral Row, sells traditional objects of mourning, mostly copies of luxury objects. The items are made of cardboard, paper and plastic, to be used at funerals as symbolic gifts for the deceased. The cardboard models are burned as part of traditional Chinese funeral practices.
The store sells a cardboard mansion for $400 and a cardboard flat-screen television for $40. There are stacks of money ($10,000 bills) for sale, as well as miniature sports cars, cellphones, double-breasted suits and even smiling dolls to act as servants in the hereafter.
"When people die, they feel they are going to need things in the next world," explained one of the store's owners, Amy Mak-Chan, who is the arrested man's aunt. "They might want a car and a house and other nice things. People buy these things here, to give them as gifts at the funeral."
A police spokesman on Wednesday would only offer information from the arrest report, including that the worker who was arrested on Tuesday, Wing Sun Mak, was observed offering to sell three handbags "that bore a counterfeit trademark Burberry" and one handbag that bore a fake Louis Vuitton insignia. He was also observed offering for sale four pairs of shoes and two outfits.
Mr. Mak said that a man in street clothes entered the store and seemed particularly interested in the handbags and loafers, obviously cardboard, that have print designs that vaguely resemble Louis Vuitton's and Gucci's.
"He asked me, 'How much is this?' " recalled Mr. Mak, pointing to a handbag on display. "I said $20, and he pulled out his badge and said, 'Are you selling this to me?' And then he arrested me."
He was held overnight in a local precinct house and then arraigned Wednesday afternoon in Criminal Court at 100 Centre Street, several blocks from the store, before being released.
He was charged with two counts of copyright infringement in the third degree. Jonathan L. Stonbely, a lawyer from Legal Aid assigned to Mr. Mak, said that he was prepared to defend his client against the charges and that he had rejected an offer from prosecutors to allow Mr. Mak to plead guilty to disorderly conduct and pay a $100 fine.
Ms. Mak-Chan said that the items offered to the dead change with the times.
"We never thought that updating things would go against America's laws," she said.
After he was handcuffed and escorted into a police van, Mr. Mak said, the police went on to arrest other people in Chinatown who seemed to be hawking items that more closely resembled designer products.
In the wake of their fellow worker's arrest, store employees on Wednesday said they were outraged and a bit jittery. On a four-foot-long cardboard sports car, they used Post-It notes to cover a blue and white design that resembled the BMW insignia.
Councilwoman Margaret Chin, who represents the neighborhood and was contacted by the store's owners for help, said she had requested a meeting with police officials.
"You expect the police to be culturally sensitive," Ms. Chin said. "This has been going on for hundreds of years, the Chinese burning offerings to the dead, and that's what these kind of stores are for. It's hard to understand how someone could mistake this for criminal activity."
Suki Lin, the wife of the arrested man, picked up her own Coach handbag. "It's real," she said, a gift from her husband. She motioned toward a cardboard bag and said, "If he gave me that bag, I'd beat him to death."
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Revolution by 'MeetUp' - the internet wins Italy's election
Beppe GrilloWeb guru Pierandrea Casaleggio and comedian Beppe Grillo's M5S, winning almost a quarter of votes in Italy's general election, is no traditional political party. It's a horizontal web-based network whose spending on offline media advertising was zero.
Unlike the mega budgets spent on political campaigning in the UK, USA and other democracies, Italy's Five Star Movement is all built using the "MeetUp" internet platform as the vehicle for information exchange and for a decision-making process based on online voting. The result is a peer-to-peer, purely horizontal network. It's the opposite of the standard political parties as they are today. The movement has a base without a leadership, traditional parties have a leadership without a base.
Casaleggio said his long-term aim was to bring the M5S to power on its own. Until then, it would not make agreements with any other political group. He said observers had been wrong to see the huge vote for M5S purely as a reaction to the economic crisis or austerity policies. Though the crisis had accelerated the movement's progress, it was essentially a product of the internet, he said, as it enabled the direct democracy that the movement espoused and practised. "What is happening in Italy is just the beginning of a much more radical change that is going to touch all democracies."
But this new party is less revolutionary in the political sense. The offices of Casaleggio's internet consultancy are in the most fashionable, and expensive, part of Milan. Grillo himself trained as an accountant, and has long been a critic of corporate corruption. He has been sued several times for libel by many people and organizations which he had exposed, such as Telecom Italia. When Italian judges were investigating the Parmalat scandal, which was then the world's largest corporate bankruptcy scandal, Grillo was called to testify as he anticipated the imminent collapse of the dairy conglomerate in one of his TV shows. When he was asked by judges how he had been able to discover that, he simply said that Parmalat's financial holes were so evident that anybody who had enough ability to see them would see them, since the corporate accounting was easily accessible.
After the success of online campaigning groups like Avaaz and 38Degrees, does the new process initiated by Grillo and Casaleggio represent the true political coming of age of the internet?.
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Shorten seeks third leaders' debate
Labor leader Bill Shorten has offered to take part in a third leaders' debate as part of the election campaign.
Federal Liberals have accused Mr Shorten of resisting proper scrutiny by avoiding more than the two already-scheduled leaders' debates.
Mr Shorten and Prime Minister Scott Morrison are due to go head-to-head in Perth on Monday, televised by the Seven Network, and Brisbane next Friday on Sky News.
The opposition leader released a letter on Friday evening seeking a televised debate at the National Press Club in Canberra on May 8.
It would involve journalists from Nine, the ABC and another media outlet on a panel.
Mr Shorten questioned where some government ministers have been during the campaign and why they haven't been allowed to debate with their Labor counterparts.
"Mr Morrison is keeping many of his ministers in witness protection because he's too embarrassed by them or too afraid of what they'll say," he said.
Labor also points out Mr Shorten will be doing a solo appearance on the ABC's Q&A program on May 6 and suggests Mr Morrison do the same.
Mr Morrison earlier took aim at the Labor leader's strategy.
"Bill Shorten seems to be treating this election campaign as if it is some sort of coronation for him," the prime minister told reporters in Townsville.
"I see this election campaign as the opportunity for me to talk about the plan that I have for Australia."
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Q: h(k) = k mod m, where k is a character string interpreted in radix 2^p and m = 2^p – 1. Show that h(x) = h(y) The full question is:
Consider the hash function:

h(k) = k mod m, where k is a character string interpreted in radix 2p and m = 2p – 1. Show that by permuting characters in string y we can derive string x ⇒ x and y hash to the same value.

I have decided that there are two ways to solve this problem.  I can either show that
h(x) - h(y) = 0 or

h(x) = (x * (2p - 1)) % (2p - 1) which would always equal 0 no matter what x we use

I've looked up several solutions online but I'm very confused with this problem.  I think my biggest problem is I'm not sure how I'm supposed to use the radix information to solve this problem.
Can I get a hint as to how I should begin this problem?

A: if m = 2^p - 1 and k is a character string interpreted in radix 2^p,
Then two strings that are identical except for a transposed character hash to the same value For example let m = 2^3 - 1 = 7 and using ASCII values for characters:
String ``abcd'' is represented as

k = 97 . 8^3 + 98 . 8^2 + 99 . 8 + 100 = 56828 which hashes 56828
  mod 7 = 2.

String ``badc'' is represented as

k = 98 . 8^3 + 97 . 8^2 + 100 . 8 + 99 = 57283 which hashes 57283
  mod 7 = 2.

A: Though its too late now to answer this question but I would still go ahead and record it for two reasons: 1. help anyone looking for an answer and 2. for my own reference.
Note following mathematical facts on modulo arithmetic

*

*if a ≡ b (mod n)
then a^k ≡ b^k (mod n) for any non-negative integer k (compatibility with exponentiation)
refer "Properties" section at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular_arithmetic

*2^p = 1 (mod 2^p - 1). For example 8 = 1 (mod 7)

Now, coming to proving the point asked in the question:
Let the string be "xyz", when represented in radix 2^p then xyz can be written as:
{x.(2^p)^2 + y.(2^p)^1 + z} (mod 2^p-1)

= x.(2^p)^2 mod (2^p-1) + y.(2^p)^1 mod (2^p-1) + z mod (2^p-1)
= x.{(2^p)^2 mod (2^p-1)} + y.{(2^p)^1 mod (2^p-1)} + z mod (2^p-1)
from (1) and (2) above: {(2^p)^2 mod (2^p-1)} = 1 and  {(2^p)^1 mod (2^p-1)} = 1
therefore, the expression is reduced to (x + y + z) if (x + y + z) is less than 2^p-1 or it becomes (x + y + z) (mod 2^p-1)
Now, if we permute the characters of the string "xyz", and solve for modulo (2^p - 1) and follow the above reasoning, we would still get either (x + y + z) if (x + y + z) is less than 2^p-1 or get {(x + y + z) (mod 2^p-1)}
Hope above explanation helps in clearing the doubt.
P.S. x^y means x raised to the power of y

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The Chukchansi Elections Committee explains the political problems that led to violence this week. Meanwhile, the 48 hour stand down expired but both sides remain peaceful and are working to extend the deadline by 24 - 48 more hours, because an agreement has not been reached.
Two factions of the tribe have been at odds for two months due to the last election results and questions over Harold Hammond Sr's elegibility to be on the tribal council. Even though he was one of the winners.
"There was some paperwork that came in, in the appeal process after the elction... and we had to investigate and then we had to go from there. And there is an appeal process after the election which is 10 days," said Dominique Carrillo, the Elections Committee Chairwoman.
The committee says Hammond already had a violation from when he served on the council in the past, for being on casino property in an area where only employees are allowed.
"I was never charged with anything, and I never have seen any evidence that they're proclaiming of the laws that I broke," said Hammond, in a phone interview with CBS47.
Still, Hammond was able to run for council again but then, came claims of more violations. Hammond admits he went into the Butler building. The Elections Committee says the building is owned by the casino which makes it a violation for Hammond to be there because of his previous problems. But Hammond says the building is subleased to the tribe and is where monthly Chukchansi tribal meetings are held.
"That building belongs to us, it doesn't belong to Chukchansi Gold Resort and Casino," said Hammond.
The committee says the other three members that won in the December election will be on the council. As far as the two council members that lost, but did not step down, Chairman Reggie Lewis and Chance Alberta, the committee says they're following tribal law.
"They will stay seated until we finalize this election," said Carrillo.
The new election will be held on March 10th, all of the candidates that lost the race will be on the ballot for that seat, including Lewis and Alberta. Many tribal members have a problem with that, because they claim Lewis has been disenrolling members from the tribe who don't support him. Therefore, a new election with fewer voters would give him and others an unfair advantage.
But the Elections Committee says disenrollments have been happening for decades, because many current tribal members are not actual Chukchansi descendants.
We'd love to hear the Chukchansi disenrolled side of it.
Ok Election Committee, since when has it been your place to decide whether or not we are chuckchansi?
And do you have any proof that were not? Besides if anyone should be disenrolled it should be Reggie Lewis, he hasent been on the council since the last election, remeber? He was voted out any objections he had at the time were void.
Yeah, they bullied the Election Committe and made them turn. The Attorney even thought there was no merit until they found out Chance was behind the appeal. It's corruption with all their family set on different committees. Step down Reggie and Chance!!!!
That's right, "Lewis," you lost the election, now get over it and "Step Down, for the good of your Tribe."


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A light breakfast will be served the next morning and Horniman staff will be on site throughout the night.


Many University Club Committees struggle to think long term (3 years) but if you can, it actually helps your club grow as well as reduces the demands on you as volunteers.
Like a sporting team, a club needs to set goals as to what direction the club wants to head and then step out how it is going to reach these goals over a period of time. The best way to do this is to create a 3 - 5 year Strategic Plan, which is supported by yearly Business Plans and Timelines.
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Dynamic Duos of D3 Football: Mitch Hendricks and Matt Boyce of Gustavus Adolphus
Dynamic Duos is a new weekly series I want to use to examine the top pairs in D3 football. These can be anyone from a quarterback/wide receiver combo, a couple defensive linemen, or even coaches. It could really be any combination of D3 footballers — the only catch is, there must be two … you know, like a Sith.
To get things started, I went with the most obvious choice this week: a quarterback/wide receiver combo. In this instance, I chose the Gustavus Adolphus duo: quarterback Mitch Hendricks and wide receiver Matt Boyce, who have connected 43 times in six games for 820 yards and 11 touchdowns.
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Mitch Hendricks, Quarterback
153-for-207 (73.9%), 2,009 yards, 23 TDs, 5 INTs
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Matt Boyce, Wide Receiver
43 receptions, 820 yards, 11 TDs
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THE SEASON SO FAR
The Gusties have started the 2015-16 season red hot, outscoring opponents 327-138, en route to a perfect 6-0 record. They rank No. 6 overall in total offense (545 yards per game, 20 TDs scored), largely due to the fantastic duo that is Mitch Hendricks and Matt Boyce.
To recap, in Week 1 versus Crown College, the duo connected for two touchdowns, one going for 77-yards, the other for 20. Against Lake Forest, Hendricks found Boyce three times for TDs of 36 yards, five yards and 16 yards.
In Week 3, the Gusties led Hamline University by seven points with 2:02 left in the game. Hendricks chucked a pass down the sideline to Boyce, who corralled the ball for what turned out to be a backbreaking first down in an impressive 42-35 victory.
The following week saw the pair connect for three more TDs — from nine yards, 29 yards and four yards — in a victory over Augsburg. Hendricks finished the game with over 300 passing yards, Boyce pulled down eight catches for 106 yards.
Against Carleton, Boyce scored twice, taking catches of five yards and 68 yards to the house. The 6-foot-2, 175-pound wideout logged 161 reception yards on eight catches in that game.
In their most recent outing, a 58-34 win over St. Olaf, Hendricks totaled 383 yards and five touchdowns. Boyce pulled down three catches for 82 yards.
It's safe to say these two have terrific chemistry.
What's great about this particular duo is how they trust one another when the game is on the line. Hendricks likes to spread the ball around, but tends to target Boyce in big-time situations, including the aforementioned strike against Hamline. In the first play of the second quarter versus Augsburg, the Gusties led 14-7 when Hendricks found his receiver for a 29-yard TD that provided some comfort in a competitive contest.
Trust is the most important dynamic with any QB/WR combo, and Hendricks and Boyce have plenty of it after four straight years together.
Last season the Gusties started out in a similar manner and boasted a 6-0 record three-quarters of the way through the season. Unfortunately, a four game losing skid (starting with a Week 7 loss to St. John's, who the Gusties face this week, strangely enough) axed the team's season.
Hopefully this dynamic duo can keep avoid that type of collapse and lead their team to a deep playoff run.
As it stands, the Hendricks and Boyce are on pace to surpass their 2014 totals when Boyce racked up 1,196 receiving yards and 17 touchdowns and Hendricks amassed 3,400 passing yards and 35 scores. Should they keep up their current level of play, there's no reason Gustavus Adolphus shouldn't go far in the NCAA Playoffs.
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CLEMSON, S.C. — Clemson head basketball coaches Larry Shyatt and Jim Davis have announced Littlejohn Coliseum's version of Midnight Madness "Excitement Before The Battle" will take place from 9:00 pm – 10:30 pm on Friday, October 22, in Littlejohn Coliseum . Admission is free to this basketball/football pep rally the night prior to the Clemson-Florida State football game with doors opening at 8:30 pm.
"We felt it was advantageous to move this event to the night prior to the football game due to Clemson University's Fall Break which begins on October 15" said Shyatt. We wanted the students to be a part of this event because of the support that they have given to both basketball programs over the years. The timing of the Florida State football game just made it a natural to have "Excitement Before The Battle" the night before the football game. Coach Jim Davis said "the defending ACC Champion Lady Tiger basketball team is anxious to be in front of the Clemson students and fans as they go for a repeat of their ACC Championship".
Some of the featured events will be the introduction of current and former players, videos of last year's teams, analysis of this year's ACC races and a half-court shooting contest to win basketball tickets. In addition, there will be a drawing in which one Clemson student will be selected to be able to run onto Frank Howard Field to remove the opening kickoff tee for the Florida State football game. This historic kicking tee will symbolize the first time in Division IA football that a father and son has coached against each other.


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Israel has passed a law allowing its Minister of Education to ban from its schools any person or group who criticizes Israel — apparently something that no teachers or students in Israel are supposed to do either (though some do). The hasbara, or pro-war propaganda, spin on this is that it is protecting Israel's brave Troops from (rhetorical) "attacks." But one of the chief targets of the law is understood to be Israeli troops who speak about what it is they do. And the law explicitly identifies for banning from schools those who advocate "legal or political" actions, which tend to be taken against those who make laws and political decisions, not against Troops.
Are recruits told that their military training will reduce them to such pitiful beings that they will magically suffer if children in a school somewhere speak critically of Israeli government policies?
If Israel were doing nothing wrong, if it had the ability to show with reasonable argument that it was doing nothing wrong, it would not need to go to such efforts to shield its young people from undesirable viewpoints. If it were trying to educate them to be thinkers and pursuers of justice, it would welcome all viewpoints. Instead it is banning advocates for peace and nonviolent rational debate and conflict resolution — violating basic principles of liberalism and also violating the law.
As Pat Elder has pointed out to me, Israel is party to the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict, which makes the minimum age for military recruitment 18, while allowing 17-year-olds to voluntarily enlist, as Israel does, if . . .
(a) Such recruitment is genuinely voluntary;
(b) Such recruitment is done with the informed consent of the person's parents or legal guardians;
(c) Such persons are fully informed of the duties involved in such military service;
(d) Such persons provide reliable proof of age prior to acceptance into national military service.
But how can this be voluntary and fully informed in a state where anyone who mentions the actual "duties involved in such military service" is banned from entering any school?
When Israel ratified the above Protocol, it added this language:
"The Government of the State of Israel maintains the following safeguards in respect of voluntary recruitment into the armed forces so as to ensure that such recruitment is not forced or coerced: . . . Clear and precise explanation of the nature of the duties involved in military service is provided to both the person and the person's parents or legal guardian."
Clear and precise? What about true or accurate or complete?
What does Israel have to hide?
Well, nuclear weapons. Maintaining the threat of ending the world will be the task of some recruits.
Apartheid. Israel just passed another law to encourage the creation of Jewish-only towns, or what the United States calls sundown towns (Get your [black/Palestinian] ass out of [town name] before sundown). That will require help from military recruits.
Arming Nazis. Israel can't get enough weapons to Nazis in Ukraine without the work of some of its well-educated recruits.
Genocide. Israel is gradually killing the entire population of the territories it seizes and occupies. An open discussion by honest seekers of truth and understanding might end up including some slight questioning of the morality of this.
That won't happen in Israeli schools, unless the world condemns fascism EVERYWHERE it arises. Here's an email address for the Ministry of Education: edusite@education.gov.il
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Accounts for daily salary sealed by a high civil servant named Ur-Shara – Girsu, Sumerian object dated to circa 2044 BCE, Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon via Wikipedia. Finding evidence of significant teacher raises since 2044 BCE can be difficult.
Washington, DC – A new report from the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) finds that although teachers continued to get raises following the recession, there was a noticeable slow-down in teacher salary growth on par with that of comparable professions. Post-recession raises have been one-third to one-half of what they were at the beginning of the recession, with almost all 41 districts studied by NCTQ freezing or cutting at least one component of scheduled teacher raises at some point between the 2008-09 and 2011-12 school years. In 80 percent of the districts sampled (33 out of 41), teachers had a total pay freeze or pay cut in at least one of the last four school years.
The recession's impact on teacher raises varied district by district. Cutting annual adjustments, which are raises for cost-of-living and other market forces, was the most common method used to reduce raise amounts. However, no district had a pay cut or freeze every year and eight districts had positive salary growth over the entire four-year period (Fort Worth, Memphis, Milwaukee, New York City, Jefferson County, KY, Fresno, Chicago, and Baltimore City). Of the 41 districts in the sample, Chicago Public Schools had the highest average raise over the four years at 6.5 percent. The report includes detailed information on teacher raises in each of 41 districts from 2008-09 to 2011-12, including the methods each district used to reduce raises. To view the full report, visit http://www.nctq.org/tr3/docs/nctq_recession_salary.pdf.
The report draws on data from the 50 largest U.S. public school districts in 2010-11 (the most recent year for which such data are available). Forty-one of the 50 districts responded to the data request with enough information to be included in the report. NCTQ calculated the average annual salary growth in the 41 school districts from 2008-09 to 2011-12 by analyzing districts' salary schedules and determining teachers' movement on the schedules (using information reported by the districts). Salary growth calculations take into account raises for earning additional years of experience (also known as "step increases") and annual adjustments for cost-of-living increases and other market factors. They do not take into account raises for completing additional coursework.
The National Council on Teacher Quality advocates for reforms in a broad range of teacher policies at the federal, state, and local levels in order to increase the number of effective teachers. In particular we recognize the absence of much of the evidence necessary to make a compelling case for change and seek to fill that void with a research agenda that has direct and practical implications for policy. We are committed to lending transparency and increasing public awareness about the four sets of institutions that have the greatest impact on teacher quality: states, teacher preparation programs, school districts and teachers unions. For more information, visit: www.nctq.org.
Our local newspaper, The Dallas Morning News, climbed on the Finland-does-it-right bandwagon a couple of years ago, with several long dispatches from reporter Jim Landers on the education system in Finland, and how well it works (sadly, all those articles are behind paywalls with terrible search engines now).
In meetings and discussions with educators around Dallas, I have found almost no one who remember seeing the series, and none who can remember any lessons from it.
Government officials flock to Finland today. OECD ratings put Finland near the top of education achievement, on a near-equal footing with Singapore and Shanghai. That this is done with public schools causes brief flurries of hope.
But I gather the policymakers look at Finland, conclude that the lessons cannot be repeated in the U.S., and then move on to find new and better cats-o-nine tails to flog teachers with. Nothing ever seems to come from looking at Finland.
We even have the book, now! How can we miss the lessons?
From his [Sahlberg's] point of view, Americans are consistently obsessed with certain questions: How can you keep track of students' performance if you don't test them constantly? How can you improve teaching if you have no accountability for bad teachers or merit pay for good teachers? How do you foster competition and engage the private sector? How do you provide school choice?
School reform? We're not even asking the right questions, let alone getting the right answers. "How can we learn to flog teachers better from Finland, when they don't flog teachers at all?" the policy makers may ask.
Read the story in The Atlantic.
Maybe we should change to daily flogging of state legislators and administrators, from the daily flogging of teachers. Maybe the morale problem is up, not down.
Tip of the old scrub brush to inkbluesky.
Of one thing I feel sure—history will not be kind to those who gleefully attacked teachers, sought to fire them based on inaccurate measures, and worked zealously to reduce their status and compensation. It will not admire the effort to insert business values into the work of educating children and shaping their minds, dreams, and character. It will not forgive those who forgot the civic, democratic purposes of our schools nor those who chipped away at the public square. Nor will it speak well of those who put the quest for gain over the needs of children. Nor will it lionize those who worshipped data and believed passionately in carrots and sticks. Those who will live forever in the minds of future generations are the ones who stood up against the powerful on behalf of children, who demanded that every child receive the best possible education, the education that the most fortunate parents would want for their own children.
Now is a time to speak and act. Now is a time to think about how we will one day be judged. Not by test scores, not by data, but by the consequences of our actions.
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ADDIS ABABA: The United Arab Emirates (UAE) will build a pipeline connecting Ethiopia to the Eritrean port of Assab, state media reported Friday.
The agreement was reportedly made during discussions in Addis Ababa between Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and UAE Minister of International Cooperation Reem Al-Hashimy.
The state-affiliated Fana Broadcasting Corporate did not provide details on the agreement.
Landlocked Ethiopia used an oil refinery located in Assab port for its domestic oil needs before a two-year war over the demarcation of the border broke out between the two countries in 1998, leaving some 80,000 dead before settling into a bitter cold war.
In a surprise move in June, Ethiopia's new reformist Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced he would finally accept a 2002 United Nations-backed border demarcation, paving the way for peace between the two nations.
Reciprocal visits by the two nations' leaders led to the resumption of flights between their capitals as well as the opening of embassies and phone lines.
The UAE, which is reportedly using the Assab port to conduct military operations against Houthi rebels in Yemen, has been seen as a key mediator in the diplomatic thaw between Ethiopia and Eritrea.


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The regulation of utilities in Rhode Island is the responsibility of the Rhode Island Public Utilities Commission ("RIPUC"). That commission is a creature of statute. As an attorney, practicing before the commission is different than appearing in state court. Public utility law follows various enabling acts and observance of a variation on the state's rules of evidence and civil procedure.
The substantive foundation of public utility law comes from the Rhode Island Public Utilities Commission Act. Under that statute, the RIPUC is meant to "serve as a quasi-judicial tribunal with jurisdiction, powers…to hold investigations and hearings involving the rates, tariffs, tolls, and charges, and the sufficiency and reasonableness of facilities and accommodations of railroad, gas, electric distribution, water, telephone, telegraph, and pipeline public utilities…" RIGL §39-1-3. The investigations and hearings mentioned here are the events where the public and attorneys most commonly interact with the RIPUC.
What is a tariff and how is it set?
A tariff is customarily a tax or fee paid on a particular class of imports or exports. In public utility law, a utility tariff is a pricing structure. The energy company will charge its customers for energy usage. The pricing schedule is set by the energy company and requires approval by the RIPUC. This approved charge then appears on a customers' bill in dollars per kilowatt-hour (kWh).
Setting a tariff can be a long and complicated process. The burden of proof is on the utility company to demonstrate the reasonableness of its pricing structure. There are some minor/administrative changes to a tariff are allowed without commencing a formal hearing process. Otherwise, if the changes are substantive, a hearing is held.
At the beginning of the hearing, the utility company must file its complete direct case. This includes written testimony and exhibits. Public utility law in this context also requires filing of additional documents. Examples are previously filed Annual Reports to the RIPUC, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and stockholders.
What is Distributed Generation and how is it regulated?
With the advent of reliance on alternative sources of renewable energy, public utility law is changing. Distributed generation (on-site generation) is a phrase used to explain the generation of electricity from sources other than the traditional power plant. The generation occurs closer to the location where the electricity is being used. This type of system has implications felt throughout the industry.
Very recently, the RIPUC voted to adopt a new set of reporting and process requirements related to "Affected System Operator (ASO) Studies affecting Distributed Generation (DG) applications." In public utility law, distributed generation project developers must ask for an interconnection from the transmission company. The interconnection is likely to have an impact on its neighboring transmission systems. The RIPUC's recent vote now requires additional consideration of these potential impacts. You can read the RIPUC's notice here.
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If your brand is underperforming, you need to think about rebranding. But just as a brand is much more than a logo, rebranding needs to look at much more than just your visual identify. Rebranding means a thorough reappraisal of what your business is about.
An effective rebrand delivers a new brand identity that truly reflects your business values, how you behave and what you can offer to customers. A new, stronger brand can breathe new life into the business, helping to enthuse employees, attract more customers and set the foundation for long-term growth.
Why would a business rebrand?
Businesses typically think about rebranding when their existing brand is underperforming, or has become tired or outdated.
what customers feel about you, and whether they have any emotional attachment to the business, your products and services.
problems recruiting and retaining employees.
Even a successful brand in a well-managed business can lose effectiveness over time. In fast-changing markets, a brand can feel relevant one year but lose credibility the next. New competitors, changing customer demand and emerging technologies can all have an impact.
The visual expression of your brand - logo, website design and so on - can also get dated. If so, your rebrand may only need to deal with visual branding, but it's important to check that there isn't a deeper underlying problem.
Small start-ups often skimp on branding, for understandable financial reasons. Attention tends to be focused on dealing with customers on a one-to-one basis rather than developing a brand. The brand that emerges from this sort of approach tends to reflect the personality of the owner or the team that started the business.
helps you promote your business to a wider area or internationally.
The starting point for a rebrand is to look at your existing brand.
Revisit your USP. What is it that makes your business different?
What are the values that guide your business and how you behave?
What do customers think about your brand?
Are there other important groups where your reputation matters, and what do they think?
This process should help you identify the problems with your existing brand. Often, part of the problem is that different groups of people have different perceptions of the brand, or if your supposed brand values aren't actually reflected in the way you behave.
Decide what you want to keep from your current brand, and what you want to change. Look at any fundamental changes you need to make - for example, making sure your pricing is in line with your brand positioning, or updating customer care processes to deliver the quality of service you want to be known for.
Once you have these building blocks in place, go on to revitalise how you communicate your brand.
Update your business image, with a consistent approach covering everything from your logo and website to premises and employee dress codes.
Develop the key messages you want to put out and a tone of voice that reflects your brand.
Consider getting help from professionals - for example, using a graphic designer and a copywriter.
Aim for consistency across everything you do, from working practices to visual identity.
Too often, rebranding - particularly visual rebranding - is seen as a quick solution, without addressing underling problems. If you no longer match up to the competition, there's little point in trying to gloss over that with a new logo.
Equally, a brand only works if everyone - particularly your customers and employees - believes in it. Keep employees involved throughout the rebranding process, letting them know what's happening and listening to their suggestions. Think about how you should involve key customers.
Rebranding, like any change, is disruptive. Plan how you will manage the process and be ready.
Customers and employees who are most heavily tied to the old brand are likely to shout the loudest. But are these representative of where your future lies?
A rebranding may mean a dramatic refocusing. Are you ready to lose customers who are no longer a priority, ease out employees who cannot change, or ditch products that no longer fit with what you are trying to do?
Take a step-by-step approach to rebranding.
Assess the strength of your current brand and identify whether you need to rebrand.
Review your market and the competition. Where are you now and where do you want to get to?
Revisit and if necessary update your USP.
Establish your objectives and set a budget.
Assess the scale of the changes that the rebranding will involve.
Decide who will be responsible, including any external suppliers you want to use.
Develop your new visual identity and key messages.
Involve customers and employees throughout; test new plans.
Plan how you will launch your rebranding for maximum impact.
Monitor outcomes and identify opportunities for further improvements.


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Q: SQL - Select In from Array, and NOT in in same query I have a userform built in VBA where my coworkers can enter multiple values that builds an array and places it into an IN statement, which works great. Problem is I need to also be able to display what values do not exist within the tables.
Example table
id | value
1  | value1
2  | value2
4  | value4

Then a query that could be generated would be
SELECT [id],[value] FROM [tablea] WHERE [id] IN (1,2,3,4)

Expected or desirable outcome would be as follows
id | value
1  | value1
2  | value2
3  | null
4  | value4

I've tried doing it like so;
SELECT [id],[value] FROM [tablea] WHERE [id] IN (1,2,3,4) AND [id] NOT IN (1,2,3,4)

since both arrays will be the same, this returns 0 of course.
I know I can do this with a union, and define the not in statement within the second union, but I'd like to do this without a union.. Any other thoughts?
This is on Microsoft SQL 2005
I unfortunately only have access to SELECT, since I'm performing queries either via VBA or Tableau. So I cannot create a derived table or have anything to reference other than the select statement.

A: You need a left join of some sort.  One way would be to construct your query as:
select v.id, t.value
from (values (1), (2), (3), (4)
     ) v(id) left join
     table t
     on v.id = t.id;

A: Thanks to Joel Coehoorn for the tip towards using a CTE
I was able to accomplish this like so;
WITH numbers AS (
    SELECT 1 AS num UNION ALL
    SELECT 2 AS num UNION ALL
    SELECT 3 AS num UNION ALL
    SELECT 4 as num UNION ALL )

SELECT
    COALESCE(id,num) as col1,
    id as col2
FROM tablea

RIGHT JOIN numbers ON tablea.id = numbers.num

This would return
col1  |  col2
1     |    1
2     |    2
3     |    NULL
4     |    4