"For those people that had been around the longest, I think there was — I would describe it as sadness through this, because this is not what we're used to," the former staffer told Politico.
Following Nunes' departure from the Russia investigation, Republican Rep. Mike Conaway of Texas took over leadership. But because he remains the committee's chairman, Nunes is still somewhat involved in the Russian probe — The Washington Post reported last month that after his recusal, Nunes approved five to six "unmasking" requests to US spy agencies related to Russia's election interference. The Post added that the requests were made with respect to both the Trump campaign and the Hillary Clinton campaign.


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U-Report: CD Criticizes South-East Legislators Over South-East Roads
Report By: Campaign For Democracy South-East Publicity Arm
The Campaign for Democracy (CD), South-East Region has criticized the South-East legislators in the National Assembly for their failure to impress on the Federal Government to fix its roads within the zone.
``We are calling for their recall; most of them had preformed abysmally and the zone is no longer comfortable with their non-performing representation,'' the group said in a statement.
The statement, which was issued in Onitsha, Anambra, was signed by Dede Uzor A. Uzor, Chairman, Campaign for Democracy (CD), South-East Region.
``The South-east region is the worst zone affected by bad roads and gully erosion in all most trunk A roads.
``The gully erosion had sub-merged buildings, industries and threaten public installations.
``The bad roads have affected business and industrial activities within the zone.
``Many lives had been lost; while goods worth billions of naira destroyed in the course of failure or somersault of heavy-duty trucks conveying them.
``The Federal roads are Onitsha-Awka-Enugu road; Ihiala-Orlu-Mbano road; Enugu-Port Harcourt and Owerri-Aba-Port Harcourt,'' it said.
The statement also urged the legislature to pursue the case for the building of the 2nd Niger Bridge; adding: ``It is not enough for the approval of the feasibility study to be given''.
``Even as the feasibility study case is approved; there had been no engineering company on site to show that the study is going on against the backdrop that President Goodluck Jonathan had promised to deliver the Bridge before 2015 general elections,'' it said.
The statement said that CD was giving the lawmakers 30 days to start action on the roads and the bridge.
``Without which a mass protest would be organized against them within the five states in the region,'' it said.
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Destinations > Austria > Burgenland
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For many years, German-speaking Burgenland was part of Hungary until it joined Austria in 1921. The name reflects the multitude of castles that dot it as well as the adjacent areas.
Burgenland has a mild climate and numerous days of sunshine. As a result, it is a thriving wine-growing area. Its wines are of high-quality although their reputation was temporarily damaged during the wine scandals of the 1980s. Goldburger is a notable white wine, Uhudler, a rosé.
Middle Burgenland calls itself "Sonnenland," Land of the Sun. Lutzmannsburg is a Sun Spa catering largely to children polio victims.
Southern Burgenland's thermal springs have attracted visitors seeking cures since Roman times. Bad Tatzmannsdorf is one of Austria's leading health and wellness resorts.
In Northern Burgenland, Eisenstadt, the capital of Burgenland, became, in the middle of the 17th century, the domain of the Eszterházys, a Hungarian aristocratic family. Their Baroque castle is the major attraction of the city. They were sponsors of composer Joseph Haydn who conducted concerts in their palaces for many years. Eisenstadt has thus become the "City of Haydn," home of the Haydn Haus, his mausoleum with his casket in a local church and periodic Haydn Music Festivals.
There was a flourishing Jewish community in Eisenstadt. In the 19th century, Burgenland had 8,000 Jews, today there are a handful. The Eisnstadt Jewish quarter has been restored with the Austrian Jewish Museum housed in the mansion of Samson Wertheimer, a prominent Rabbi and talented financier of the late 1600s.
In 1670 Prince Eszterházy settled Jews, who had been expelled from Vienna, in Eisenstadt and six neighboring towns. These seven communities (Siebengemeinden), under his protection, had administrative autonomy and became centers of Jewish learning until destroyed by the Nazis.
Lake Neusiedl is a popular vacation destination, known as the Sea of the Viennese. It is the only lake in Europe without a natural outflow. As a result, careful control is required to keep the water level within reasonable limits. The area is a paradise for bicycle enthusiasts with 300 miles of bicycle paths surrounding the lake.
Superb Hotels in the region, top-rated by guest reviewers, are listed at the bottom of the page.
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Apetlon - Bad Sauerbrunn - Bruckneudorf - Eisenstadt - Frauenkirchen - Halbturn - Jois - Kittsee - Klingenbach - Marz - Mattersburg - Neufeld an der Leitha - Pamhagen - Parndorf - Sankt Andra am Zicksee - Trausdorf an der Wulka - Zurndorf
Breitenbrunn - Donnerskirchen - Gols - Illmitz - Monchhof - Morbisch am See - Neusiedl am See - Podersdorf am See - Purbach am Neusiedlersee - Rust Austria - Weiden Am See
Bad Tatzmannsdorf - Bernstein - Burgauberg-Neudauberg - Deutsch Kaltenbrunn - Deutsch Schützen-Eisenberg - Eberau - Eltendorf - Grosspetersdorf - Gussing - Heiligenbrunn - Heiligenkreuz im Lafnitztal - Jennersdorf - Kohfidisch - Kukmirn - Litzelsdorf - Markt Allhau - Minihof-Liebau - Neuhaus am Klausenbach - Ollersdorf im Burgenland - Pinkafeld - Rauchwart - Rosendorf - Rudersdorf - Sankt Martin an der Raab - Sankt Michael im Burgenland - Stadtschlaining - Stegersbach - Stinatz
Superb Hotels, rated 9.0 out of 10 or higher by guest reviewers.
St. Martins Therme & Lodge
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Questions about the LOR Pixel Editor? This is the place to ask.
Looking for help using the Pixel Editor?
Also, the Pixel Editor is installed with a help file, just like the rest of the programs that make up the Light-O-Rama Software Suite. So select Help > Contents from the Pixel Editor menu and dig in.
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Q: HowTo get a Tag Cloud on gitweb? How can I configure a Tag Cloud view to my gitweb project list?
I saw an example of this on the git repo http://repo.or.cz/ but i'am not sure how to configure this on my own gitweb installation.
Is there an example gitweb_config.perl for this?

A: The gitweb.perl script documentation (included in the git repo itself) does mention:

Allow gitweb scan project content tags of project repository, and display the popular Web 2.0-ish "tag cloud" near the projects list.
  Note that this is something COMPLETELY different from the normal Git tags.
gitweb by itself can show existing tags, but it does not handle tagging itself; you need to do it externally, outside gitweb.
  The format is described in git_get_project_ctags() subroutine.
  You may want to install the HTML::TagCloud Perl module to get a pretty tag cloud instead of just a list of tags.

git_get_project_ctags() subroutine:

supported formats:

*

*$GIT_DIR/ctags/<tagname> file (in 'ctags' subdirectory)

*

*if its contents is a number, use it as tag weight,

*otherwise add a tag with weight 1

*$GIT_DIR/ctags file, each line is a tag (with weight 1)
  the same value multiple times increases tag weight

*gitweb.ctag multi-valued repo config variable

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Q: Phantom Suggested Edit
Possible Duplicate:
Number of items needing review is a lie

Using the review tool at
https://stackoverflow.com/review
I constantly see 1 Suggested Edit. Clicking on Suggested Edits shows

There are no items for you to review.

I can do this over, and over, and over to the point where the probably that someone keeps grabbing the 1 suggested edit before I do is vanishingly small.
When there are N (where N > 1) Suggested Edits, I can go in and review (N-1), after which I'm told there are no more.
If I go back to https://stackoverflow.com/review I see 1 Suggested Edit again.
Is there a phantom suggested edit or possibly a broken counter?
I started noticing that this afternoon PST.  This morning it was fine.
UPDATE
Now there appear to be 3 phantom Suggested Edits to review.


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True Love Starts with the Kiss of Hearts
By Jeremy Reynalds, Ph.D. Founder and CEO Joy Junction Inc. What makes the "other heart" of Joy Junction beat with such a resounding passion for the needy? As the old song says by veteran Christian musicians Steve and Annie Chapman "True love starts with the kiss of hearts." It continues to say, "Though a kiss may be the end result, … Read More
Joy Junction at 31. Turning 60, Shelter Founder and CEO Has Spent More Than Half of His Life There
By Jeremy Reynalds, Ph.D. Founder and CEO Joy Junction Inc. Joy Junction is three decades plus old. It is hard to believe the shelter I founded turned 31 this year, and turning 60, that I've spent almost half my life at what has obviously now become a lifetime calling. Looking back, it seems just like a short time ago that … Read More
Jeremy Reynalds. The Man, The Message and The Wife.
By Jeremy Reynalds, Ph.D. Founder and CEO Joy Junction Inc. Six months in and loving every minute People "liking" Joy Junction on social media usually do so because they have a concern for the homeless and hungry, and an appreciation for the help that community support allows us to give. However, all of our staff at Joy Junction have a … Read More


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A JavaScript-searching chainsaw! Query by AST shape! Print arbitrary output per selected AST node!

Find potential constructed-HTML XSS vectors in your site:

```
$ jik 'call > *:first-child + binary[operator=\+] > literal:contains(>)' js/
```

Give it more context than just the innermost node!

```
$ jik 'call > *:first-child + binary[operator=\+] > literal:contains(>)' \
  '{print($POS, parents("call"))}' js/
```

Find signed int conversions in your codebase!

```
$ jik 'binary[operator=\|] > literal, assign[operator=\|\=], unary[operator=\~] > unary[operator=\~]' js/
```

List all of the function names defined in your codebase!

```
$ jik \
  'function[id] > id:first-child, :any(assign,variable) > id + function' \
  '{print($POS, (is("function") ? $NODE.parent.id || $NODE.parent.left : $NODE))}' \
  js/
```

# basic usage

`jik <selector> [<action>] <target> [<target>...]`

Where selector is a [cssauron-falafel](http://npm.im/cssauron-falafel) selector, action
is any valid javascript surrounded by `{}`, and `<target>` is a file or directory. Directory
targets are recursed and every entry ending with `.js` is searched.

The help -- accessed via `jik --help` has an **extensive** description of the selector language
and available variables in actions.

# installation

`npm install -g jik`

# license

MIT

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package org.hswebframework.web.system.authorization.api.entity;

import io.swagger.v3.oas.annotations.media.Schema;
import lombok.Getter;
import lombok.Setter;
import org.hswebframework.ezorm.rdb.mapping.annotation.Comment;
import org.hswebframework.web.api.crud.entity.GenericEntity;
import org.hswebframework.web.authorization.DimensionType;
import org.hswebframework.web.validator.CreateGroup;

import javax.persistence.Column;
import javax.persistence.Table;
import javax.validation.constraints.NotBlank;

@Getter
@Setter
@Table(name = "s_dimension_type")
@Comment("维度类型")
public class DimensionTypeEntity extends GenericEntity<String> implements DimensionType {

    @Comment("维度类型名称")
    @Column(length = 32, nullable = false)
    @NotBlank(message = "名称不能为空", groups = CreateGroup.class)
    @Schema(description = "类型名称")
    private String name;

    @Comment("维度类型描述")
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Sports for Peace - Example: Sports for Peace Programme in Mindanao, Philippines
The concept of Sports for Peace was introduced to the Island of Mindanao, Philippines as an alternative approach to conflict transformation and peace building by the GTZ supported "Poverty Reduction and Conflict Transformation" (PRCT) Project team. It was tested in four regions in Mindanao.
The Sports for Peace programme links individual skills with the values of sports in order to achieve the goal of conflict transformation/peace building, and eventually a more peaceful environment. Throughout the entire process it is important to bear in mind that the work takes place in a conflict environment, and therefore all activities undertaken need to be conflict sensitive.
Before the PRCT team was able to conduct the Sports for Peace programme, the participating community/school had to be selected. This required not only gaining an overview of the existing conflict lines in the area but also applying a simple selection criteria. The communities were chosen according to their willingness to address the conflict they were facing, and in accordance to their available facilities and willingness to integrate all conflict parties. At the same time, it was essential that the communities were willing to end the conflict. They had to assure the PRCT team that they would engage in further conflict transformation/peace building activities even after the Sports for Peace event, which was key to achieving sustainable development.
Several community members and stakeholders were involved in the planning process, and as many different tasks as possible were assigned to the participating communities by the team. By doing so the team gained the support of the various people involved as well as the community they were coming from. Being part of the programme made them feel important; this in turn made it easier for the team to concentrate on the issues of conflict transformation/peace building.
Furthermore, the team could focus on deciding which activities should be conducted with the students with regards to these issues. As a result of the whole exercise PRCT also elaborated a Sports for Peace manual. The manual aims at providing basic knowledge on how this activity can be used as a conflict transformation/peace building tool. The exercises were carefully selected and tested in the pilot areas. The manual likewise discusses the importance of coordination and other administrative concerns that are equally necessary for the smooth implementation and performance of Sports for Peace.
After selecting the schools, the next step involved training the teachers for them to become effective trainers. The trainers/teachers were introduced to conflict sensitive approaches of dealing with the ongoing conflict. At the same time they were prepared for their assigned tasks in the Sports for Peace event. The whole team including the teachers/trainers involved in the preparation for the event embarked on developing peaceful and open atmosphere so that the students would feel comfortable and could concentrate on the programme. During the Sports for Peace programme, in preparation and for the actual sports event, the following steps were followed:
"Preparation, administration and management" dealt with the necessary information for the preparation, coordination, organization and management of Sports for Peace events. All necessary information had been obtained before the team decided when and where they were going to conduct the event. Not only all problems regarding the performance of the event but also issues like providing halal food, medical assistance and transportation for the students and teachers were clarified beforehand.
"Looking back to the past" provided a historical perspective of the conflicts in the specific regions of Mindanao. The intention of this step was to help participants understand the history, the nature and sources of conflicts, and the initiatives undertaken to resolve these conflicts. To be able to do this activity properly, first the PRCT team had to become aware of the conflicts the participants were dealing with. One conflict line was chosen along which the Sports for Peace event would be conducted.
"Peace Concepts and Activities" was a self-discovery journey aimed at giving the participants a better grasp of peace concepts and principles. It presented a series of learning exercises envisioned to deepen the children's understanding of personal peace and societal transformation in Mindanao.
"Sports Core Values" discussed the three sports core values focused on by the PRCT team: discipline, teamwork and fair play or sportsmanship. It also presented the sports core value rating system wherein non-playing children observed the playing teams and rated them along the three core values by dropping colored stones in color-coded glasses ("The marble/ stone theory"). By doing so the students were able to value good behavior and the playing students had to think about their results.
"Sports Events" was the module where the competitive games in the four team sports of football, volleyball, basketball and Little League baseball were conducted. It presented among others the field and equipment requirements, number of players, and referees and umpires who officiated in the games.
This step was the last one where the team got actively involved in. Here the students were able to show what they had learned during prior sessions and to act accordingly. The PRCT team had organized all materials required for the games including: different colored t-shirts as well as the awards for the various teams, which pictured the symbol of peace: a flying dove.
Figure 1: A step-by-step approach
Important for the success of the event is that all of the above steps depicted in figure 1 are needed for a successful Sports for Peace event. Each step builds upon each other.
Detailed activities for a Sports for Peace event
The activities which form part of each step were further sub-divided according to the age, mental and physical fitness as well as with a view to the expected outcome that should be reached by the activity. While the stepwise approach proved successful for the events organised by PRCT, they should not be treated as a value-print. The steps need to be adapted and modified according to the individual settings.
Photo 1 & 2: Adapting Sports for Peace for individual settings
Step I: Preparation, Administration and Management
Proper preparation, management and administration are important in ensuring the smooth implementation of the Sports for Peace event. If any rules are needed for managing the event these more often than not depend upon the persons responsible for the event as well as the general "management" or "organizational" culture of the community where the event is taking place.
There is no substitute for a good plan but planning requires time, effort and much thought. A two-month lead-time proved to be a good recommended time span, especially when considering the involvement of several stakeholders and the number of activities to be conducted at the field level.
Even though the Sports for Peace activity was set up according to plan there was an urgent need to track and monitor the implementation of the various steps. This included establishing meaningful and effective linkages among various people involved and other stakeholders. It further required an active role by the participants in contributing to the various processes and/or activities to ensure their success.
The actual event always went smoothly if there was sufficient time and good planning. Nevertheless, this did not mean that even some of the simplest tasks were not forgotten. When coordination was slack there was a danger that persons assumed that certain tasks were being taken care of by somebody else. As a result, some activities were left unattended or neglected while others overlapped. Caution should be exercised so that in the midst of all the activities taking place one does not lose track and nothing is omitted in the process.
Photo 3: There is no substitute for a good plan!
Step II: Looking Back to the Past to Find Peace
What also proved important was to present and discuss with the participants the the historical perspective of Mindanao and it various conflicts. This was necessary in order to enable participants to grasp the complexities and nature of the conflicts that have made peace so elusive. At the same time it was also necessary to discuss the different peace building and conflict transformation initiatives that had been undertaken, highlighting the success and lessons-learnt.
At the end of the discussions / trainings the participants were able to:
Discuss the importance of studying history in forging peace;
Trace the roots of present-day conflicts in their local area / region and to put this into a national perspective and relate it to the history;
Define the role of culture in people's actions; and
Initiate a change in perspectives about the situation in their area/region.
Activity 1: Description of the region in Mindanao where the Sports for Peace took place in
Activity 2: Listing – Signing
Activity 3: Mindanao and its history
Photo 4: Learning about the history of Mindanao from each other
Step III: Peace Concept and Culture of Peace
Step III involved four modules. These were aimed at providing the participants with a broader orientation on peace concepts and pedagogical principles while developing positive values and attitudes necessary for both personal and societal transformation. The modules were developed using structured learning exercises (SLEs) and other participatory and creative activities that can be done either in classrooms or outdoor settings. The age bracket of participants was considered in developing the activities. Hence, the participants were grouped into three age brackets: 6-8, 9-11, and 12-15 years of age.
The SLEs drew learnings and conclusions from the experiences of the participants. A mini-lecture was often given to reinforce positive values that were drawn from the participants' experiences. In some instances further discussions were actively encouraged to deepen learning and insights. These insights were captured in a reflection paper or a diary that the participants were requested to write.
Module 1: Peace concept and activities
At the end of the session or activity, the participants were able to:
Appreciate the different concepts of peace and culture of peace;
Develop critical understanding and expression of own concepts of peace and culture of peace; and
Suggest possible ways on how they can contribute in building a more peaceful community.
Activity 1: "Peace awareness"
Activity 2: "Peace alphabet"
Activity 3: "Visioning"
Module 2: Personal peace
Personal Peace refers to the harmonious relationship with oneself, with others, with the natural environment, and with God, Allah or one Supreme Being. The issue of personal peace is very basic: unless a person is peaceful, nothing is peaceful to him or to her.
Genuine personal peace is supposed to contribute to peace building in societies. No one can claim to be personally peaceful when peace is limited to one's "well being", unmindful of existing social conflicts or violence. Thus, personal peace must be linked integrally with social peace.
Module 3: Children's rights
The Convention on the Rights of a Child defines a child as a person under 18 years old, unless under the law applicable to the child the age of majority is attained earlier. While the Convention on the Rights of the Child recognizes 18 years as the upper age limit for children, it permits governments a degree of flexibility by adding the clause "age of majority".
The following are the most important Rights of a Child:
Equality regardless of race, color, religion, sex and nationality;
A name and a nationality;
Right to grow up in a family environment;
Adequate means of survival: food, clothing, shelter and medical care;
Special care (if handicapped);
Free education, play and recreation;
Right to express his or her views;
Immediate aid in the event of disaster and emergencies;
Protection from cruelty, neglect and all forms of exploitation;
Protection from persecution and to an upbringing in the spirit of worldwide brotherhood and sisterhood and peace.
Identify the rights of children;
Define a child according to the Convention on the Rights of a Child; and
Identify activities that will serve as active and concrete response in promoting children's rights and preventing abuses against children.
Activity 1: "Picture identification"
Activity 2: "Song analysis/interpretation"
Activity 3: "Collage making"
Photo 5: Learning about their rights
Module 4: Cultural solidarity
Inter-cultural conflict and issues play a vital role in obstructing peace at the regional and national levels. It is important to realize that cultural solidarity is essential and highly desirable for peace. The cultural conflicts that are plaguing Mindanao must be resolved through non-violent strategies. The tasks of the concept were to have the people understand the different cultural values and traditions within Mindanao.
This module encouraged people to work together peacefully towards a society which respects cultural differences, while seeking to build cultural solidarity amidst diversity.
At the end of the lesson or activity the participants:
Had greater awareness and appreciation of the cultural traditions and traits of all people in their area, region and the country;
Developed empathy and solidarity with other groups by actively participating in activities to promote respect of cultural differences; and
Identified activities that could serve as active and concrete response in the promotion of the culture of different communities.
Activity 1: "Picture analysis I"
Activity 2: "Dramatization/role play"
Step IV: Sports core values
The Sports for Peace programme in Mindanao aimed to inculcate sports three core values among children and youth through the process of playing:
teamwork, and
sportsmanship or fair play.
It is the introduction of these core values which differentiates the way Sports for Peace was further developed by PRCT in Mindanao compared to similar events in other countries.
"The marble/stone theory"
Under the Marble/Stone theory, even at an early age, the children were given the responsibility to choose and decide which teams were best in the three core values through the use of marbles and/or colored stones that they dropped in properly marked glasses. After making their choices, the children discussed the results with their coaches who in return filled up a Core Value Evaluation Sheet based on the inputs of the children.
Step V: The actual sport events
The four sports chosen for the Sports for Peace programs in Mindanao — basketball, volleyball, baseball and football — were team sports that are based on popularity in the localities this concept was applied in. They are also played by both boys and girls and in mixed teams. However, other sports might be organized as long as they are intended at promoting peace and solidarity, teamwork and socialization while establishing the basic foundation of the core values of sports. The sports should likewise recognize individual talent and skills.
The games and the way they were played had been piloted in three separate areas among children in different age groups, social standing, gender and beliefs.
The sports event was the highlight of the Sports for Peace activity wherein the participating students were able to "live" the concepts and culture of peace they had learned. In the sports event, the concept, objectives and guidelines for Sports for Peace as well as the roles of all participants were discussed as these provided the bases of the evaluation and rating after the games have been played.
2. Preparatory discussions and workshops
As preparatory activities before the conduct of the games, discussions and workshops were organized to fully explain to all participants the concept and objectives of Sports for Peace.
3. The different team sports
In this section the sports requirements and rules for each sport were the main focus. Preparations before the Sports for Peace event provided exact information about e.g. the size of the field, the number of participants, the rules of the games and some simple examples on tactics. The descriptions used are those general procedures and rules known all over the world. While these general rules were applied, it was sometimes good to simplify the rules to make the sports more applicable to the students.
A. Football
B. Volleyball
C. Basketball
D. Baseball (little league)
4. Roles of major stakeholders
There were different stakeholders involved in the Sports for Peace events and they had different roles. An important role is that of the resource person. The resource person is responsible for the overall programme and therefore needs to fully understand the whole process. The following roles proved important for the success of the Sports for Peace Events in Mindanao:
Organizers: As the team manager, club official, competition organizer, or local, regional, national or international administrator, the organizers represent authority and have power. They also have various responsibilities, one of which is to safeguard the public image of the sport to ensure that it prospers and encourages promoting the concept of sports for peace.
Players: They hold the key to a fair and enjoyable game. They want to play well, want to win, and want to display their talents and skills by exercising the virtues and the core values of sport. They are the ambassadors of goodwill.
Referees or Umpires: Players want to enjoy the game. They must gain the confidence and trust of all players and teachers through fair and firm control over the events.
Coaches: They are concerned with the fitness and skills of players to compete in the games. Their concern is also to focus on the design of the Sports for Peace programme which is a combined skill in sporting events and indoor activities on culture of peace to foster among children and youth the spirit of unity, understanding, and solidarity using sports as a mechanism and venue. They influence character building and development of young people at an impressionable age.
Teachers: They teach in school, college, university, or any other institution where they have special opportunities to mold and nurture young people of formative ages.
Parents: They want the children to enjoy the sport, develop physical and mental health, and behave in a manner which reflects favorably on the family, clan and society.
Fans: They support the sport and enjoy the thrill and suspense, the drama and beauty of the game. They are attracted by its colours, athletic grace, and the fun they get from it.
Doctors: They are concerned for the physical and general health of the players. They work with nutritionists, parents, teachers and coaches. They are concerned about the general welfare of the players.
Journalists: Whether they are a part-time or full time journalist or a reporter or commentator for radio, TV or film, any sport needs their help to keep the game colorful, attractive and exciting.
Photo 6: Involving different stakeholders and learning from the "wise-elders"
Throughout the whole process the sustainability of the different events was monitored by the PRCT team on a daily basis. Regular feedback sessions helped to continually improve the events and include the community and students in the set up of the Sports for Peace occasions. At the end of each event the team evaluated the entire process, and noted changes and improvements to be made for the next Sports for Peace event.
In order to attain enhanced sustainability of the whole programme the teachers were asked to present their revised timetables to the team including the lessons they wanted to pass on to their students. The PRCT team offered to assist the teachers in setting up trainings on further conflict sensitive approaches as well as help train the studusing peaceful conflict transformation tools.
Photo 7: Regular feed-back sessions helped to improve the Sports for Peace events
Whether the concept of Sports for Peace proves to be a sustainable conflict transformation/peace building approach in the context of Mindanao cannot be assessed at this point in time as the number of events carried out (nine in total over two year period of time) is not sufficient as it takes a longer period to achieve a significant change of
behavior and attitude. Only if Sports for Peace becomes a regular and long-term recurring event can it make a sustainable impact on conflict transformation/peace building.
Nevertheless, the successfully implemented Sports for Peace events revealed that sports can become a powerful tool to deepen the children's understanding of the core values of discipline, teamwork, sportsmanship and fair play. The PRCT supported events highlighted that practising these values during sports events achieves a greater impact compared to the traditional frontal teaching approach.
As an innovative approach to peace building and conflict transformation, Sports for Peace raises the children's awareness of the sports core values by allowing the values to be demonstrated and seen in pitches, courts and playing fields. By requiring the children to observe all matches when they are not actively participating in the sports games, they are capacitated to see good performances and to note violations of the desired values. On the other hand, while being observed by the other players, the children are given the chance to practice what they
learned and behave accordingly. The children thus learn the importance of transparency and wise decisions.
In general, the Sports for Peace programme provides children the opportunity to play and enjoy the games, interact with other children to exchange ideas, develop friendships that cut across borders, and engage in friendly competitions. More importantly, they learn that even in diversity, people with different beliefs, practices, origins and languages could embrace each other, engage in the same activities and work together to achieve common goals. These activities promote peace and solidarity, teamwork and socialization while establishing the basic foundation of the sports core values and recognizing individual talents and skills. What is important is to develop mechanisms to sustain the events over time since single, isolated events by tachieve the long-term aims and objectives.
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DECATUR — In an election that saw a shift in party control on the national level, local voters sent a slate of incumbents to the General Assembly in Springfield, and gave a win to former Decatur City Councilman Dan Caulkins, who will keep the 101st Illinois House District under Republican control.
"I think this is an affirmation of my priority to return the state to fiscal soundness first before we can start any new programs," Caulkins said Tuesday night, with a commanding 40 percent lead before all the votes were tallied Tuesday night. "I'm humbled by the support that I've received tonight, this is beyond my expectations to be honest."
Caulkins said he was proud of running a clean, on-the-issues campaign against Democrat Jen McMillin of Decatur, who went Tuesday night to congratulate Caulkins for his win at his victory party in Decatur.
"I wish the numbers had been different of course, but we showed the people of the 101st you can have more than one choice," McMillin said. "That you can have a progressive Democratic candidate getting a large portion of the vote fighting for what we believe in."
McMillin received little fundraising support from Illinois Democratic leaders, and she took tough campaign positions that voters traditionally balk at, such as her message that shoring up Illinois' financial mess will require a combination of higher taxes and fees as well as cuts to services.
Caulkins kept to a traditionally conservative platform that stressed fiscal discipline and lower state spending. He promised voters he would challenge the Illinois Democratic machine and he would not take a legislator's salary and benefits while in office.
Caulkins' predecessor, Bill Mitchell of Forsyth will retire at the end of this year after serving 20 years in the Illinois House. Frustrated by Gov. Bruce Rauner's inability to negotiate an agreement with Democrats to pass a budget, he was one of a handful of Republican legislators who voted with the other party to raise the state income tax from 3.75 to 4.95 percent to bring state government operations back to normal and public universities, community colleges, public schools and social services back from the financial brink.
With a new governor in billionaire businessman J.B. Pritzker and a strong showing in state legislative races Tuesday, Democrats will likely have an embarrassment of riches at the state level since Illinois Democrats were projected to retain large majorities in both chambers of the General Assembly — something Republican voters worried about.
"There genuinely could be a lot of fear in communities like Decatur, Champaign, Bloomington and Springfield," said Evan Hall, a Decatur resident who worked with Macon County Republicans to get out the vote. "Just because of things like the mileage tax, and what could potentially happen to your average middle-class family Downstate."
If there was anything close to an upset victory, it was the incumbent Democratic state Sen. Andy Manar of Bunker Hill who fended off a well-funded Republican challenger Seth McMillan, a small business owner and former Taylorville school board member. Manar came away with 57 percent of the vote at the end of the night.
"We're happy that voters embraced a positive message and a campaign that was based on producing results for the district in a highly partisan environment," Manar said after McMillan conceded the race. "I'm proud to be someone who has shown the ability to bring Democrats and Republicans together in Springfield."
In a moderate district with strong contingencies of both Democratic and Republican voters, Manar relied on a bipartisan message and record of legislative accomplishments, including his central role in passing a state law last year that gives more state money to needy school districts.
McMillan's newcomer campaign, which stressed the candidate's newcomer status to state politics and conservatism, was not enough to overcome Manar's deep support from the Illinois Democratic Party and his record of results in a district that he first won in 2012.
"I want to thank our awesome volunteers and the people who are dedicated to trying to take Illinois in a different direction and put a representative in office that represents what I believe are the conservative values that the 48th district has," McMillan said in a speech to supporters Tuesday night.
Within Manar's Senate district, state Sen. Sue Scherer won reelection for the fourth time in the 96th House District, one drawn by Democrats in 2012 to be favorable to their own party. The former Decatur school teacher beat Republican Springfield Alderman Herman Senor, despite his support of public sector unions and emphasis on the need for inner-city social programs — two positions not usually found in GOP platforms.
"It ended up being much closer than I thought it would be," Scherer said after winning 60 percent of the vote. "But I didn't want to wake up in the morning thinking I didn't work hard enough for the people."
Scherer's challenger, Republican Springfield Alderman Herman Senor said he was proud of the effort his team made. "We thought we would try something new and it just because it didn't work out, I think we still made some big strides," Senor said. "For (Scherer) to be the incumbent and lose by 6,000 votes. I think we did a good job."


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Dec 13, 2017 -
Schumer calls cops after forged sex scandal charge
Mike Allen, author of AM
Photo: J. Scott Applewhite / AP
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said he was the victim of a fake news hit on Tuesday, and has turned over to Capitol Police a document that purports to detail lurid sexual harassment accusations by a former staffer.
Why it matters: This was an apparent effort to dupe reporters and smear a senator — both symptoms of an amped-up news environment where harassment charges are proliferating and reporters have become targets for fraud.
The former staffer told me in a phone interview that she did not author the document, that none of the charges ring true, and that her signature was forged.
She said she had never heard of the document before Axios took it to Schumer's office for comment on Tuesday.
Matt House, Schumer's communications director, told me: "The document is a forged document and every allegation is false. We have turned it over to the Capitol Police and asked them to investigate and pursue criminal charges because it is clear the law has been broken."
House continued: "We believe the individual responsible for forging the document should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law to prevent other malicious actors from doing the same."
The backstory:
A password-protected PDF of the 13-page document was shopped to Axios and other outlets. The document, which is dated 2012 and has the file name "Schumer_Complaint," looks like a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
One of many red flags: No lawyer for the staffer is named.
The woman named in the document was a legislative staffer for Schumer from 2009 to 2012, and is now a career employee of the federal government.
The former staffer said she took the matter to Washington, D.C. police on Tuesday. She said the police told her they were unsure of their jurisdiction in the case. She said she now plans to go to Capitol Police.
She told me in a statement: "The claims in this document are completely false, my signature is forged, and even basic facts about me are wrong. I have contacted law enforcement to determine who is responsible. I parted with Senator Schumer's office on good terms and have nothing but the fondest memories of my time there."
Axios agreed to her stipulation that she not be named, because she said she is the victim of a crime.
A source close to Schumer said the document is full of errors:
"The document contains an allegation of inappropriate behavior on September 16th 2011 in Washington, but Schumer was in New York City."
"It contains an allegation of inappropriate behavior by Schumer on August 25th 2011 in Washington, but Schumer was in France."
The source tells Axios that reporters from the Washington Post, CNN, BuzzFeed, The New Yorker and ABC all inquired about the document Tuesday.
Be smart: Look for more hits like this, aimed at victimizing both reporters and public figures.
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package java8.pro.probs;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.Reader;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;

import org.apache.commons.csv.CSVFormat;
import org.apache.commons.csv.CSVParser;
import org.apache.commons.csv.CSVRecord;
import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;

import java8.pro.probs.GnisId.GNIS_ID;

public class BuildTree {

    public static HashMap<Long, GnisId> objMap;

    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
        BuildTree obj = new BuildTree();
        objMap = obj.parseRelationData(args[0]);
        System.out.println(objMap);
        Tree tree = obj.parseSQLRelationData(args[1]);
        System.out.println(tree.getRoot());
    }

    private Tree parseSQLRelationData(String filePath) throws FileNotFoundException, IOException {
        Reader file = new FileReader(new File(filePath));
        try (CSVParser parser = new CSVParser(file, CSVFormat.EXCEL)) {
            Tree rootNode = null;
            Node tempNode = null, prevNode = null;
            boolean first = true;
            long count = 0;
            HashMap<Long, Integer> ids = new HashMap<>();
            for (CSVRecord csvRecord : parser) {
                List<Node> children = null;
                long pValue = Long.parseLong(csvRecord.get(0));
                if(first) {
                    first = false;
                    rootNode = new Tree(pValue);
                    children = parseChildren(ids, csvRecord);
                    rootNode.getRoot().setChildren(children);
                    prevNode = rootNode.getRoot();
                } else {
                    for (Node child : prevNode.getChildren()) {
                        if(child.getData() == pValue) {
                            tempNode = child;
                        }
                    }
                    if(tempNode != null) {
                        children = parseChildren(ids, csvRecord);
                        tempNode.setChildren(children);
                        prevNode = tempNode;
                    } else {
                        count++;
                        System.out.println("Forest found!!!");
                    }
                    tempNode = null;
                }
                ids.put(prevNode.getData(), 0);
            }
            System.out.println(count);
            return rootNode;
            //System.out.println(rootNode.getRoot());
        }
    }

    private List<Node> parseChildren(HashMap<Long, Integer> ids, CSVRecord csvRecord) {
        List<Node> children = new ArrayList<>();
        for (int i = 1; i < csvRecord.size(); i++) {
            Node node = new Node(Long.parseLong(csvRecord.get(i)));
            if(ids.containsKey(node.getData())) {
                System.out.println(node.getData());
                throw new RuntimeException("Tree loop found");
            }
            children.add(node);
        }
        return children;
    }

    private HashMap<Long, GnisId> parseRelationData(String filePath) throws FileNotFoundException, IOException {
        Reader file = new FileReader(new File(filePath));
        try (CSVParser parser = new CSVParser(file, CSVFormat.EXCEL.withHeader(GNIS_ID.class).withTrim())) {
            HashMap<Long, GnisId> objMap = new HashMap<>();
            for (CSVRecord csvRecord : parser) {
                GnisId gnisIdRecord = parseGnisIdRecord(csvRecord);
                objMap.put(gnisIdRecord.getId(), gnisIdRecord);
            }
            return objMap;
        }
    }

    private GnisId parseGnisIdRecord(CSVRecord csvRecord) {
        long id = Long.parseLong(csvRecord.get(GNIS_ID.ID));
        String device_type = csvRecord.get(GNIS_ID.DEVICE_TYPE);
        String description = csvRecord.get(GNIS_ID.DESCRIPTION);
        String gnis_table_name = csvRecord.get(GNIS_ID.GNIS_TABLE_NAME);
        long gnis_id = Long.parseLong(csvRecord.get(GNIS_ID.GNIS_ID));
        double latitude = StringUtils.isEmpty(csvRecord.get(GNIS_ID.LATITUDE)) ? 0
                : Double.parseDouble(csvRecord.get(GNIS_ID.LATITUDE));
        double longitude = StringUtils.isEmpty(csvRecord.get(GNIS_ID.LONGITUDE)) ? 0
                : Double.parseDouble(csvRecord.get(GNIS_ID.LONGITUDE));
        long house_id = StringUtils.isEmpty(csvRecord.get(GNIS_ID.HOUSE_ID)) || StringUtils.equals(csvRecord.get(GNIS_ID.HOUSE_ID), "No House ID") ? 0
                : Long.parseLong(csvRecord.get(GNIS_ID.HOUSE_ID));
        long power_supply_name = 0;
        try {
            power_supply_name = Long.parseLong(csvRecord.get(GNIS_ID.POWER_SUPPLY_NAME));
        } catch(Exception e) {

        }
        long node_id = Long.parseLong(csvRecord.get(GNIS_ID.NODE_ID));
        long upstream_device_id = StringUtils.isEmpty(csvRecord.get(GNIS_ID.UPSTREAM_DEVICE_ID)) ? 0
                : Long.parseLong(csvRecord.get(GNIS_ID.UPSTREAM_DEVICE_ID));
        return new GnisId(id, device_type, description, gnis_table_name, gnis_id, latitude, longitude, house_id,
                power_supply_name, node_id, upstream_device_id);
    }

    /*private GnisId parseGnisIdRecord(CSVRecord csvRecord) {
        long id = Long.parseLong(csvRecord.get(GNIS_ID.ID));
        String device_type = csvRecord.get(GNIS_ID.DEVICE_TYPE);
        String description = csvRecord.get(GNIS_ID.DESCRIPTION);
        String gnis_table_name = csvRecord.get(GNIS_ID.GNIS_TABLE_NAME);
        long gnis_id = Long.parseLong(csvRecord.get(GNIS_ID.GNIS_ID));
        double latitude = Double.parseDouble(csvRecord.get(GNIS_ID.LATITUDE));
        double longitude = Double.parseDouble(csvRecord.get(GNIS_ID.LONGITUDE));
        long house_id = StringUtils.isEmpty(csvRecord.get(GNIS_ID.HOUSE_ID)) ? 0
                : Long.parseLong(csvRecord.get(GNIS_ID.HOUSE_ID));
        long power_supply_name = StringUtils.isEmpty(csvRecord.get(GNIS_ID.POWER_SUPPLY_NAME)) ? 0
                : Long.parseLong(csvRecord.get(GNIS_ID.POWER_SUPPLY_NAME));
        long node_id = Long.parseLong(csvRecord.get(GNIS_ID.NODE_ID));
        long upstream_device_id = Long.parseLong(csvRecord.get(GNIS_ID.UPSTREAM_DEVICE_ID));
        return new GnisId(id, device_type, description, gnis_table_name, gnis_id, latitude, longitude,
                house_id, power_supply_name, node_id, upstream_device_id);
    }*/

}


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Attendance at all Research Roundtables is by invitation only. If you are interested in receiving an invitation, please send your request to: searlecenter@law.northwestern.edu.
Fourth Annual Research Roundtable on Energy Regulation, Technology, and Transaction Costs: Cross-Cutting Perspectives
Regulatory Capture in a Resource Boom
Timothy Fitzgerald, Rawls College of Business, Texas Tech University
Integrating Energy Markets: Implications of Increasing Electricity Trade on Prices and Emissions in the Western United States
Steve Dahlke, U.S. Department of Energy and First Solar
Mining for Favors: The Impact of Lobbying on Regulatory Enforcement
Anastasia Shcherbakova, Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University
Quantifying the Resilience Value of Distributed Energy Resources
Jamie Van Nostrand, College of Law, West Virginia University
Confirmed Participants
Wes Burnett, Department of Economics, College of Charleston
James Coleman, SMU Dedman School of Law
Max Harleman, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh
Sarah Johnston , Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Lynne Kiesling, Institute for Regulatory Law & Economics, Carnegie Mellon University
Andrea La Nauze, Department of Economics, University of Pittsburgh
Matthew L. Spitzer, Center on Law, Business, and Economics, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Anna C. Terkelsen, Michigan State University, Department of Economics
Justin Winikoff, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Third Annual Research Roundtable on Energy Regulation, Technology, and Transaction Costs: Cross-Cutting Perspectives
Are the Productivity Costs of Environmental Regulation Persistent? Evidence from the U.S. Electricity Industry since 1938 (with Akshaya Jha, Joshua Lewis, and Edson Severnini)
Karen B. Clay, Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
Clean Energy Justice (joint with Shelley Welton)
Joel B. Eisen, University of Richmond School of Law
Examining the Role of NIMBYism in Public Acceptance of Energy Infrastructure (with David Konisky and Stephen Ansolabehere)
Sanya Carley, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University
The Cost of Adapting to Climate Change Through the Grid
Steve Cicala, The University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Polic
Fiona Burlig, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago
Wesley Burnett, Department of Economics, College of Charleston
Dylan Brewer, Michigan State University
Steve Cicala, The University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy
Eric Hittinger, Rochester Institute of Technology
Lynne Kiesling, Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University
Felix Mormann, Texas A&M University School of Law
Ilia Murtazashvili, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh
Matthew L. Spitzer, Searle Center, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Mark Templeton, University of Chicago Law School
Manuscript Preview Roundtable on "The Corruption of Libertarianism" by Andrew Koppelman
Thursday, March 15-Friday, March 16, 2018
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Second Annual Research Roundtable on Private Environmental Governance and Climate Change
Monday, April 30-Tuesday, May 1, 2018
Co-sponsored by the Buffett Institute for Global Studies at Northwestern.
Dynamics of Corporate Campaigns
Daniel Diermeier, Provost, The University of Chicago
Facility-Level Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Local Socio-Political Factors in the United States
Thomas P. Lyon, Ross School of Business, School of Environment and Sustainability (SEAS), University of Michigan
Transnational Climate Governance
Michele Betsill, Department of Political Science, Colorado State University
The Law of the Corporation as Environmental Law
Sarah E. Light, The Wharton School, The University of Pennsylvania
Beyond Politics: The Private Governance Response to Climate Change
Michael Vandenbergh, Vanderbilt Law School
The Reformation of Global Environmental Governance
Eric W. Orts, The Wharton School, The University of Pennsylvania
Following Exxon: Climate Change, Corporate Messaging, and Political Attitudes
David Dana, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Janice Nadler, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Resilience to Natural Disasters: A Private Sector Response
Brent McKnight, DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University
Sixth Annual Roundtable on Standard Setting Organizations and Patents
Patents and the 4th Industrial Revolution
Yann Ménière, European Patent Office
Digital "Mash-ups," Patents, and Copyright
Kevin Boudreau, Northeastern University
Lars Bo Jeppesen, Copenhagen Business School
Milan Miric, USC Marshall School of Business
IEEE Patent Policy Revisions: An Empirical Examination of Impact
Georgios Effraimidis, Qualcomm Inc.
Kirti Gupta, Qualcomm Inc.
The IEEE Controversial Policy on Standard Essential Patents – The Empirical Record Since Adoption
Ron D. Katznelson, Bi-Level Technologies
Dear Enemy: Litigation and Cooperation in a Mobile Phone Standard Development Organization
Stephen Jones, College of Business, University of Wyoming
Aija Leiponen, Cornell University
Gurneeta Vasudeva Singh, University of Minnesota
No Double Standards: Quantifying the Impact of Standard Harmonization on Trade
Julia Schmidt, Banque de France
Walter Steingress, Bank of Canada
Technology Standards and Cross-Border M&A: The Role of Standards Setting Organizations
Avik Chakrabarti, Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Anjishnu Banerjee, Division of Biostatistics, Institute for Health and Society, Medical College of Wisconsin
Patent Exhaustion Regime and International Production Sharing: Winners and Losers?
Olena Ivus, Smith School of Business, Queen's University
Edwin L.-C. Lai, Department of Economics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Co-Opetition and Firm's Information Environment
Jessica Kim-Gina, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Brian Bushee, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Thomas Kesuch, INSEAD
Discrimination in the Patent System: Evidence from Standard-Essential Patents
R.N.A. Bekkers, School of Innovation Sciences, Eindhoven University of Technology
Gaétan de Rassenfosse, Chair of Innovation and IP Policy, College of Management of Technology, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Emilio Raiteri, Chair of Innovation and IP Policy, College of Management of Technology, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Embracing Technological Similarity for the Measurement of Complexity and Patent Thickets
Charles DeGrazia, United States Patent and Trademark Office
Jesse Frumkin, United States Patent and Trademark Office
Nicholas A. Pairolero, United States Patent and Trademark Office
Intellectual Property Regimes and Firm Structure
Pavel Chakraborty, Lancaster University
Chirantan Chatterjee, Indian School of Business
Sourav Bhattacharya, University of London
Innovation and Knowledge Protection: How Firms Respond to a Loophole in Non-compete Enforcement
Hyo Kang, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
Wyatt Lee, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
Capital Gains Tax and Innovation
Sapnoti Eswar, Linder College of Business, University of Cincinnati
Lora Dimitrova, University of Exeter
Product Market Competition and Long-Term Firm Value: Evidence from Reverse Engineering Protections
Scott B. Guernsey, The University of Oklahoma
An Empirical Analysis of Bargaining Power in Licensing Contract Terms
Gaurav Kankanhalli, Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University
Alan Kwan, University of Hong Kong
Green Technology Diffusion: A Post-Mortem Analysis of the Eco-Patent Commons
Christian Helmers, Santa Clara University
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Vincentian sports club celebrates 40 years
A 1986 photo of Hairoun Soccer Team of St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
Hairoun Sports Club
A popular Vincentian sports club that dominated Brooklyn's Caribbean Soccer in the 1980s and 1990s and was dubbed the "Kings of Brooklyn Caribbean Soccer" is celebrating its 40th anniversary.
According to Hairoun Sports Club's long-standing president, Stanley "Luxie" Morris, a St. Vincent and the Grenadines Sports Ambassador, the club, among other activities, will celebrate its milestone with a gala awards ceremony on Aug. 17 at the Friends of Crown Heights Educational Center, 668 Logan St., Brooklyn.
Morris – a former St. Vincent and the Grenadines national soccer captain and coach and erstwhile coach of Team SVG-USA (St. Vincent and the Grenadines) in Brooklyn's Caribbean Soccer Cup – said the event will be held under the auspices of St. Vincent and the Grenadines' New York Consulate General.
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He said "soccer legends" of Victoria Park, in Kingstown, the Vincentian capital, will be honored, as well as "legends of 79 of Arnos Vale."
Among the honorees will be Notre Dame's "Fab 4" – Jeff Bailey, Rudolph "Rudy" Boucher, Douglas Doyle and Norbert Hall. Notre Dame was one of the leading soccer teams in St. Vincent and the Grenadines in the 1960s and early 1970s.
Morris said a Lifetime Achievement Award will be presented to Basil "Bung" Cato, a former president of the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Football Association, now federation, who managed the St. Vincent and the Grenadines 1979 soccer team, the 1992 World Cup squad, and the Under 19 Cable and Wireless teams.
Cato had coined the phrase, "Soccer, the game of the people."
Derek Dupont, the Hairoun striker, who "transformed the game of soccer in Brooklyn," will be the "Recipient of Deserving Honor," Morris said.
In addition, he said special honors will be bestowed on Gladstone George, "Notre Dame and St. Vincent and the Grenadines' erstwhile fan at Victoria Park in the 60-80's."
Morris also said former national soccer players – "Babs" Jones, Sydney Mandeville, Keith "Slick" Bonadie and Dr., Brother William Muckett – will be honored posthumously.
Additionally, Morris about 30 current and former soccer stars players will receive Certificates of Recognition.
"It will be a night of story-telling, fellowship, laughter, food and drink, catching up, players with players, fans from far and wide, with old idols from Victoria Park," said Morris about the gala cerebration on the night before the annual, massive Vincy Unity Picnic in East Islip, Long Is.
Morris said Hairoun Sports Club will next year honor some former netballers at the Nutricia Center and the cricketers at the St. Vincent Grammar School — both in Kingstown.
"Hairoun SC (Soccer Club) was the 'voice' of Vincentians in the Diaspora during the 1980s through the 1990s, through its dominance in the sport of soccer in Brooklyn, New York at our 'home away from home,' the Boys and Girls stadium, slotted in the middle of Central Brooklyn," Morris said.
"Hairoun SC brought joy to the thousands of Vincentians on the weekends; games were played every Saturday and Sunday," he added.
Morris said Hairoun first participated in the Five Boro Soccer League, winning the championship from 1981 to 1983, then moved to the newly-formed Central Brooklyn Soccer League (CBSL) in 1984, where it held the championship title for over two decades.
Hairoun players dominated Team SVG-USA when the Caribbean Soccer Cup was launched in 1992.
"Hairoun dominated CBSL, and Team SVG-USA destroyed the other 11 countries in CCI (Caribbean Cup, Inc.) with an emphatic hattrick of championships from 1993 – 1995," Morris said. "Both teams continued their dominance well into the 2000s —Hairoun to 2008, Team SVG-USA to 2014.
"SVG, we love you, and that's why we did what we did for so long," he added. "We kept the flag (St. Vincent and the Grenadines') flying highest for four decades."
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Anyone: A Novel (Paperback)
By Charles Soule
"Charles Soule's Anyone is a satisfying follow-up to The Oracle Year. Again, he takes a small technological change and uses it to explore the future course of humanity. Soule definitely leaves the reader with lots to think about when done with Anyone, and it'll be a great recommendation for thinky book clubs. An easy sell to anyone who comes in and asks, 'Hey, you know that movie Looper? I want something like that, but with more words.'"
— Mark Teppo, A Good Book, Sumner, WA
Soon to be adapted for television by Carnival, creators of Downton Abbey
An Indie Next Pick • A Science Fiction Book Club Pick
Bestselling author of The Oracle Year, Charles Soule brings his signature knowledge—and wariness—of technology to his new novel set in a realistic future about a brilliant female scientist who creates a technology that allows for the transfer of human consciousness between bodies, and the transformations this process wreaks upon the world.
Inside a barn in Ann Arbor, Michigan, a scientist searching for an Alzheimer's cure throws a switch—and finds herself mysteriously transported into her husband's body. What begins as a botched experiment will change her life—and the world—forever…
Over two decades later, all across the planet, "flash" technology allows individuals the ability to transfer their consciousness into other bodies for specified periods, paid, registered and legal. Society has been utterly transformed by the process, from travel to warfare to entertainment; "Be anyone with Anyone" the tagline of the company offering this ultimate out-of-body experience. But beyond the reach of the law and government regulators is a sordid black market called the darkshare, where desperate "vessels" anonymously rent out their bodies, no questions asked for any purpose - sex, drugs, crime... or worse.
Anyone masterfully interweaves the present-day story of the discovery and development of the flash with the gritty tale of one woman's crusade to put an end to the darkness it has brought to the world twenty-five years after its creation. Like Blade Runner crossed with Get Out, Charles Soule's thought-provoking work of speculative fiction takes us to a world where identity, morality, and technology collide.
Charles Soule is a New York Times-bestselling, Brooklyn-based comic book writer, musician, and attorney. He is best known for writing Daredevil, She-Hulk, Death of Wolverine and various Star Wars comics from Marvel Comics, as well as his creator-owned series Curse Words from Image Comics and the award-winning political sci-fi epic Letter 44 from Oni Press.
"Fast-paced and suspenseful. Soule's uncomfortable vision of the future will please readers of cutting-edge speculative fiction. "
"An imaginative, time-fragmented thriller about the bitter and potentially deadly consequences of body-snatching. Readers won't feel that they're on the edge of their seats as much as they're on a balance beam above a pit of lava while trying to solve a Rubik's Cube."
"With his second novel, Anyone, Charles Soule establishes himself as an author that readers of speculative fiction will love for years to come. The book will leave you thinking about gender, power, and what it means to be human for long after the final chapter."
— Jennifer Wright, author of Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes That Fought Them
"Soule has wrapped a sharp, prescient investigation of the human mind inside a breakneck thriller that will have you riveted until the very last twist. Anyone is truly a book for everyone."
— Peng Shepherd, author of The Book of M
"I spent much of my childhood inside DARPA, where my father was Deputy Director, and this book captures the imagination and double-edged sword of our greatest scientific leaps. The same technology that can cure the world's ills might also cause us to spiral into our own greed, selfishness, and vanity. Charles Soule's Anyone is a remarkable, consequential novel and a terrifying wake-up call."
— Susan Henderson, author of The Flicker of Old Dreams
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Q: Conversion of Data frame consisting of a timestamp of UTC to Indian Standard time in python I wan to convert the given set of data present in the data frame of timestamp currently in the UTC format to be converted to Indian Standard Time.
Given below is the type of data taken in a Data frame:-
Time Series
0   01-02-2018 16:23:07
1   01-02-2018 16:23:08
2   01-02-2018 16:23:09
3   01-02-2018 16:23:10
4   01-02-2018 16:23:11
Given below is my code:
enter code here
import pandas as pd
load_var=pd.read_excel(r'path/file_name.xlsx')
load_var
a=load_var[['Time Series']]
a

Please suggest the next steps in the code to convert the UTC to IST
Thank you.

A: First convert the column to date-timestamp-format-type if it's not converted
import dateutil
...
# Converting to date-type (if it's already in that format)
load_var['Time Series'] = load_var['Time Series'].apply(dateutil.parser.parse)

#Then use `tz_localize` to make timestamps aware about time zone and then convert to IST (Asia/Kolkata)
load_var['Time Series_ist'] = pd.to_datetime(load_var['Time Series']).\
                                               dt.tz_localize('utc').\
                                               dt.tz_convert('Asia/Kolkata')


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Biography of Jasper V. Palmer
Lake County, CA Biographies
PALMER, JASPER V. Was born in Steuben County, New York, September 29, 1836. When eleven years of age his parents moved to Illinois. Here young Jasper resided with his parents on a farm until 1854, when he concluded to go West, and accordingly set sail in a "prarie schooner," and crossed the plains, arriving in California sometime in October of the above year. The first year was spent in mining and the second in farming at Yreka. He then returned via Panama to New York, and after a short time went to Illinois, where farming was prosecuted until 1860, when he again crossed the plains and arrived late in the fall. The winter was spent at Marysville, and in the spring of 1861 we find him engaged in the wood business in Silver City, Nevada, which he followed for about eighteen months. He next engaged in farming in Yolo County until 1870, at which time he came to Lake County and settled on his present place, consisting of four hundred acres, located in Morgan Valley. Farming, stock raising and wool growing comprise his business. Mr. Palmer married, October 22, 1859, Miss Deborah Wing, a native of New York. By this union they have five living children: Carrie, Mice, Frances Nettie, and Jasper; and have lost one, Eddie.
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Kenya-Uganda – Entebbe and Mombasa main routes for ivory smuggling
Date: November 21, 2018Author: somervillesustainableconservation 0 Comments
The Investigator
by Patrick Jaramogi November 20, 2018 in Africa
KAMPALA, Uganda: Entebbe Airport and Mombasa ports remain the leading exit route and global hub for illegal Ivory trade, The Investigator can reveal.
But as more and more nations strengthen their bans on the import and sale of elephant ivory, the cartel who operate in a sophisticated manner, are also getting much smarter.
Recent investigations on DNA tests on illegal ivory unmasked the three largest smuggling hotspots in Africa: the three elephant poaching cartels operates out of Kenya, Uganda, and Togo.
In 2016 the International Union for Conservation of Nature cited ivory poaching as a primary reason for the staggering loss of around 111,000 elephants between 2005 and 2015 – leaving their dwindling total numbers at an estimated 415,000.
The poaching isn't for elephant ivory, but other species such as rhino horns, pangolins that the Investigator has established is smuggled hidden and rightly concealed in cargo containers and shipped worldwide through the port of Mombasa.
About 70 percent of ivory seizures between 1996 and 2011 were in large consignments of at least half a metric tonne, according to a 2013 study.
Professor Samuel Wasser, director of the University of Washington Centre for Conservation Biology, said: 'Our prior work on DNA testing of illegal ivory shipments showed that the major elephant 'poaching hotspots' in Africa were relatively few in number.
'Now, we've shown that the number and location of the major networks smuggling these large shipments of ivory out of Africa are also relatively few.'
The team identified what appear to be the three largest ivory smuggling cartels in Africa, operating out of Mombasa, Kenya; Entebbe, Uganda; and Lomé in Togo.
"Out of 38 large ivory shipments analyzed, the team was able to link 11 of the shipments together," said Prof. Wasser.
They did this by identifying tusk pairs that had been separated after poaching, yet shipped out of the same port between 2011 and 2014. Large shipments currently dominate the illegal ivory trade, according to the researchers.
Professor Wasser said linking multiple large ivory shipments to the same smuggling networks will help build evidence against the cartels that are responsible for the bulk of illegal ivory trade and shipment.
Professor Wasser said: 'We reveal connections between what would otherwise be isolated ivory seizures – linking seizures not just to specific criminal networks operating in these ports, but to poaching and transport networks that funnel the tusks hundreds of miles to these cartels.
Now the East African regional states are moving a step further to manage the cartel. The move is being championed by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW).
IFAW is one of the largest animal welfare and conservation charities in the world. The organization works to rescue individual animals, safeguard populations, preserve habitat, and advocate for greater protections.
Working with governments of Uganda and Kenya, IFAW in partnership with Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) is conducting a weeklong training on Cross-Border Enforcement for Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) and Customs officials of Uganda and Kenya.
Steven Njumbi, the head of programmes at IFAW told the trainees at Hotel Africana in Kampala that Kilimbi Port in Mombasa and Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi are recorded as the leading points for smuggled ivory from Kenya, Uganda, and DRC.
"Between 2013 and March 2016, seizures in big scale (over 500kgs) were reported in Kenya and Uganda," he said. Njumbi who represented the IFAW regional director said cross-border training is one of the IFAW 2018- 2020 strategic planning to combat rampant poaching and illegal trade of wildlife.
He said as the sniffer dogs get busier tracing the ivory being smuggled out of Entebbe and JKIA, the cartel is now using the One Stop Border Points of Malaba and Busia to ship out the ivory.
John Makombo, the UWA Director for Conservation said using dogs can be a great tool to nab the cartel. "Much as we are now training the CAA and Customs officials on how best to detect the contrabands, the use of dogs has proved to be a much better option to identify smuggled ivory.
Dubbed The Ivory dog project, the project has been tested at Kenya's Mombasa port.
Statistics indicate that almost 40,000 pounds of ivory were seized at Mombasa between 2009 and 2014, a haul that represents the killing of 2,400 elephants. That number tragically does not account for the amount of ivory that was successfully smuggled out of the country.
According to the World Wildlife Fund, the process is called Remote Air Sampling for Canine Olfaction (RASCO). First, dogs are trained to recognize the scent of ivory, rhino horn, and other commonly trafficked wildlife products. Then, authorities use special equipment to suck an air sample out of a suspected cargo container, which is then passed through a filter that collects the scent for the dog to smell. A pooch that sits is an indicator that the container carries illicit materials.
Before RASCO, the Kenyan port was already using dogs to investigate containers, leading to 26 seizures in just six months. But sniffing 2,000 containers per day was slow and the dogs often got hot and fatigued. It may take hours for inspectors to completely empty a container and locate the often cleverly concealed ivory. John Makombo said that with the new method, the dogs can smell the filters from comfortable, climate-controlled rooms and examine a container's scent within a few minutes.
"If we work a team, with the customs, and Civil Aviation officials coming together to join the works of UWA, its intelligence and security services, the cartels can easily be handled," he said.
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Break the chocolate with your hands and put in a saucepan with the butter. Then melt together stirring occasionally until smooth. Put to one side.
Whisk the eggs and sugar together using an electric mixer until creamy in a mixing bowl.
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Then add the flour and whisk until you cannot see any flour lumps. Then add the almonds and coco powder into the cake mix and fold.
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She wants Trump's DNA
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She says Trump raped her and seeks his DNA for testing
Lawyers for a woman who accused President Donald Trump of raping her asked for a DNA sample, seeking to determine whether his genetic material is on a dress she said she wore during the encounter. Author and advice columnist E. Jean Carroll's lawyers served notice to a Trump attorney Thursday for Trump to submit a sample for "analysis and comparison against unidentified male DNA present on the dress." Such legal demands often spur court fights requiring a judge to weigh in on whether they will be enforced. Carroll filed a defamation suit against Trump in November after the president denied her allegation that he raped her in a dressing room more than 20 years ago.
Coronavirus outbreak considered an international health emergency
As the death toll from the illness alarming the world climbed past 170, the World Health Organization declared a global health emergency Thursday. The declaration came soon after health officials reported the first case of person-to-person spread of the coronavirus in the USA. The new case, confirmed by the CDC, is the sixth reported in the USA. The U.N. health agency defines an international emergency as an "extraordinary event" that constitutes a risk to other countries and requires a coordinated international response.
Coronavirus: What are the symptoms?
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Why do people say Lysol sprays and Clorox wipes fight coronavirus? It's probably wishful thinking.
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Trump's impeachment trial: Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts refused to read a question from Sen. Rand Paul. Why? It included the name of a person identified in news reports as the alleged whistleblower.
Kobe Bryant: The crash that took the lives of the NBA icon and eight others could lead to safer helicopters, experts say.
College admissions scandal: Actress Lori Loughlin and her fashion designer husband, Mossimo Giannulli, will be among the first group of parents to be tried.
Harvey Weinstein trial: An accuser's ex-boyfriend testified that she was "shocked" and "upset" after a meeting with the movie mogul.
Good news for humanity: Life expectancy in USA is up
To soften the blow of all the coronavirus coverage, we've got some rare good news in health: Life expectancy in the USA is up for the first time in four years, new reports show. Americans can expect to live to an average age of 78.7 years, a gain of a 10th of a year from 2017 to 2018 (that's a little more than a month, but I'll take it). Perhaps more importantly, the gain reversed a three-year trend of decreases or no gains in life expectancy. Lower death rates in the two leading causes of death – heart disease and cancer – contributed to Americans' increased longevity.
House votes to curb Trump's war powers
The House voted Thursday to sharply limit Trump's ability to launch a military strike against Iran and to repeal the 2002 law that authorized the Iraq War, which has been used as justification for other U.S. military operations. Democrats said the two votes were vital to rein in what they see as an impulsive president, pointing to his decision to authorize a U.S. drone strike that killed Gen. Qasem Soleimani. Republicans warned the bills would tie the president's hands at a perilous moment, and they applauded Trump's decision to target Soleimani, saying the Iranian leader was a terrorist with American blood on his hands. Both bills will face stiff opposition in the Republican-controlled Senate. Trump could veto both measures.
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The House of Representatives will vote this year on whether Washington, D.C., should become the country's 51st state.
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Super Bowl LIV is almost upon us, sports people. Here's a super-quick recap of what to know before Sunday's big game between the San Francisco 49ers and the Kansas City Chiefs: What time should I expect to hear grown men yelling at TVs? Kickoff is at 6:30 p.m. EST. If I feel like yelling, too, what channel will it be on? Fox. Who will belt the national anthem? Demi Lovato. Great, but what about the ✨halftime show✨? Jennifer Lopez and Shakira, Shakira (future footage of me watching the show, probably). Most importantly: Who is going to win this thing? Experts who know more than I do about sports say this game should be a close one.
The San Francisco 49ers planned to wait to find their quarterback of the future – then came Jimmy Garoppolo.
Kansas City Chiefs' quarterback Patrick Mahomes is one of the NFL's biggest superstars, but you'd never know it from his demeanor, his teammates say.
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When the fires broke out in Australia, this band of knitters and sewers worked together to help save baby bats.
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This week we started painting the City of San Francisco RED. 60,000 attendees, $100M income to the City of SF, all three convention center buildings filled, 11 hotels plus Masonic Auditorium, data lines enough to run circles around the earth several times. Are we ready to rock? You bet!
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The Bliss-Leavitt Mark 2 torpedo was a Bliss-Leavitt torpedo adopted by the United States Navy for use in an anti-surface ship role after the E. W. Bliss Company of Brooklyn, New York, which had been building Whitehead torpedoes for the US Navy, began designing and manufacturing their own torpedoes in 1904. It was the first American-built torpedo to feature counter-rotating turbines, each driving a propeller. This design eliminated the unbalanced torque that contributed to the tendency of its predecessor (the Bliss-Leavitt Mark 1 torpedo) to roll.

Characteristics
The design of the Bliss-Leavitt Mark 1 torpedo was revolutionary, but not without problems. The single-stage turbine engine drove a single propeller, which had a tendency to develop unbalanced torque and thus to roll in the water, affecting its accuracy. This problem was corrected by Navy Lieutenant Gregory Davison in the Mark 2 by using a twin-turbine engine driving twin propellers, thus steadying the torpedo's trajectory. The Mark 2 was a "hot-running" torpedo, propelled by heated air. About 250 units were built by E. W. Bliss for the US Navy.

The Bliss-Leavitt Mark 2 was launched from battleships, torpedo boats and cruisers.

See also
American 21 inch torpedo

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Exactly a year after Indonesia sent the 'Bali Nine' drug convicts to the firing squad inviting harsh censure from the world for the mass killing, Jakarta has said it's preparing to execute up to 13 prisoners in the next few days.
Deaths of eight prisoners, including two Australians, prompted a huge outcry – and a pause in executions. But now foreigners on death row fear their own sentences could be just weeks away.
Bahrain Mirror: Kytos Cultural Center said it will launch a book entitled "Plea of Dignity", which comprises the plea entered by Sheikh Nimr Al-Nimr, on Friday (April 29, 2016) in the Lancaster Hotel Hazmieh, in the Lebanese capital, Beirut.
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2 first songs » the two secret airing signals of the Revolution.
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The 2016 Pulitzer Prize winners were announced at 3pm eastern time, April 18th. Winning stories, photographs and cartoons, along with bios and photos of all the winners are here.
The New York Times and Thomson Reuters shared the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography for coverage of Europe's refugee crisis.
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9 Guantanamo Prisoners Released !!!!!
During a meeting with Human Rights Watch this week, Indonesia's minister of health, Nila Moeloek, committed to providing mental health medication in all 9,500 community health centers (puskesmas) across the country. Achieving this could turn the tide against shackling.
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and about the depths of night.
from the thick layers of absolute shade.
and put up for me a little window.
the noisy crowd of the happy alley.
wowwwww my planet is magical !!!!!
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❝ Écrire, c'est aussi ne pas parler.
C'est se taire. C'est hurler sans bruit.
Writing also means not speaking.
Keeping silent. Screaming without sound.
que le souffle est rendu à la vie.
breath is put back into life.
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There is nothing you can think that is not the moon.
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Does God Still Speak? Dappled Things "God is dead," proclaimed Nietzsche through his mouthpiece Zarathustra. But if he is dead, I should not expect to hear him speaking. And yet, in the quiet hours of the morning, when my head screams from last night's binger and my body rails against my malformed will, I hear [...]
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