Jiřina is the class teacher of the Beetle Group. She quickly wins over everyone with her loving approach and constant smiley mood. She enjoys painting and creating crafts from non-traditional materials with the children, and she also reveals the world of Czech traditions and customs to them. Jiřina focuses on preparing the children for school and also leads a cooking activity club.
In the beginning it was the challenge, the possibility to be at the start of something new. Now it's because of a great team and the feeling that I simply belong here.
To be surrounded only by satisfied and happy people.


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So proud of little Scrumpy Dog he swam with us all the way from the boat on the anchorage to the beach & back again!!!! You can see just how far from the photo below with the canoes.
He even managed the courage to finally jump off the swim platform twice. Such an amazing little doggy. Unfortunately he did knock my glasses off my face into the oggin but good old Shavora were on hand yet again to scuba dive down & unbelievably found them despite the rocky terrain!
They have also lent us their 4 man tender as my parents are here & Jacqui made me an amazing personalised bag from recycled sail. We thanked them by enjoying some home made Nutella cup cakes & tea on board!
Just another day in the life of a boat hobo.
Thanks AGAIN Jacqui & Freddie you're stars!!!


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In addition to sets with The Early November, Ace will be playing as I Can Make A Mess at every date of the 2013 Van's Warped Tour on the Acoustic Basement stage.
When you're the main songwriter and driving force in a successful band, you often find yourself creatively stifled. Your fans have certain expectations, and therefore you have an obligation to deliver to them an album that meets their expectations, fits in their comfort zone, all while growing and maturing as an artist. The problem with this is, true artists are capable of so much more, music to them is an art, and the urge to create something new and exciting is something that they can't suppress.
Ace Enders found that success, both critically and commercially during his tenure as the main songwriter of The Early November. The band went on to sell over 450,000 albums (3 of which sold over 100,000). And as much as Ace loved penning rock classics such as "Ever So Sweet" and "I Want To Hear You Sad," he wanted more, he wanted something different. He wanted to be able to write songs that were more experimental, and creative. He wanted to work in his own studio, on his own schedule and create songs that were truly important to him and a pure reflection of who he was as an artist.
These desires grew until they finally manifested into I Can Make A Mess, Enders' solo project. I Can Make A Mess, isn't just a flash in the pan one off solo album. Over the past 9 years Enders has recorded four full length albums, he's had his songs in commercial movie trailers such as Must Love Dogs and has toured the country with bands such as All American Rejects.
His newest masterpiece is titled Enola and it will be issued on Rise Records in the summer of 2013. The album is passionate, and personal, experimental and honest, it's a must for fans of Bon Iver, Iron & Wine, Animal Collective and American Football. If you're looking for great songs, that are a little out of your comfort zone, look no further. The LP version of Enola comes on colored vinyl and also includes a bonus CD.


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Video: Tampa stories of local homeless in the time of COVID-19
By Eileen Sweeney | Tuesday, April 14, 2020
Tampa native Bruce Johnson
Bruce Johnson delivers a backpack filled with supplies to a homeless man along The Tampa Riverwalk.
GivingBackTV videotapes stories of the homeless in the Tampa Bay Area.
Tampa native Bruce Johnson, a Florida State University graduate and local businessman, first got involved working with non-profits when he was a young man through mentoring a pair of brothers from an under-resourced community. The brothers were young and Johnson was there for them in critical times.
Many years later, he is still connected with them and they check in with each other on their progress as they have grown to be adults with their own families.
But that's just the kind of man Johnson is. He believes in building relationships, in both his personal and in his business life.
Johnson has accepted challenges since he was a young man and striking out on his own in business. It has paid off. He is now very successful in the local insurance world. He also believes in giving back and has supported many charities whenever he is asked. These are, for the most part, at arms-length through making generous financial donations.
But a bike ride through Downtown Tampa changed all that.
Johnson and his wife Beth were riding along enjoying the sights and sounds when they met Jack on The Tampa Riverwalk.
Jack appeared to be homeless.
The Johnsons stopped to say hello, looked Jack in the eyes, and held a conversation about life and about living on the streets. That conversation has taken all of them on a journey none of them expected.
You see, Johnson is that rare individual who goes that extra mile -- and has a deep passion for people and helping those who need help. He and his wife volunteer at a soup kitchen in Ybor City once a week, make charitable contributions to many charitable causes, and recognize the needs in the community are great.
In many ways, you could say he is following the lead of Mother Teresa: "Numbers don't matter. Help who you can, and always start with the one closest to you."
So, Johnson stopped and spoke with Jack, eventually helping him out to find a place to stay for several nights. But that wasn't the end of the story. Johnson reconnected with Jack the following week. And with a friend of Jack's as well.
What Johnson realizes is that these connections could inspire others. Looking someone in the eye. Having a conversation. Listening. And then sharing.
All of this has led Johnson to a new understanding and a new passion for the homeless. After Jack, there have been many more (Timothy, Minnie, John, Mark, Jamie, and so on) and each time, there is a connection with another individual. Another person who most of us would never recognize, never get to know.
So, Johnson has decided to tell their stories through video and get the stories out to those who can help. Doing so helps educate, inspire, and often celebrate the triumphs of the human spirit that he gets to see in his interactions with those experiencing homelessness.
In subsequent months, Johnson has made real connections and shared them across his social media platforms. The stories are incredible. The faces are our own.
From getting a roof over someone's head to paying off a car loan so a homeless young man could get back on his feet to finding a motorized trike for a previously homeless outlaw biker, Johnson has been helping one on one, one after another.
And, as importantly, he has been telling the stories. In the voices of the homeless. He started his own YouTube channel, GivingBackTV, where he is posting videos.
Where does this lead?
Well, a network of caring people has emerged in the Tampa Bay Area. They are coming forth with ideas, clothing, equipment, even an RV!
This network is being inspired to look in the faces of the homeless in their own hometowns, their own street corners, their own sidewalks.
And they too are asking the questions, "How are you? How can I help?'' Just like Bruce Johnson does.
Johnson isn't sure where this path winds up, but he knows that it is a journey of the heart worth taking.
Eileen Sweeney is Principle/Executive Producer of the Humankind Partnership, a content creation company, based in Tampa. Johnson is one of her clients. For more information, visit the GivingBackTV website.
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America's Leftist and Islamic Enemies Lose to Capitalism
Originally posted to Front Page Mag by Daniel Greenfield
Raising the corporate tax rate and the minimum wage aren't just hot leftist ideas in America. Forget the "Fight for $15". Venezuela just raised its minimum wage by 3,000%.
That adds up to $30 a month.
At least if you trust Venezuelan exchange rates. Which no one in the failed socialist state does.
"I want the country to recover and I have the formula. Trust me," President Maduro, the union boss turned incompetent dictator, declared, touting his "monetary reconversion and integral economic reconversion."
The formula, meant to save a country whose people are fleeing massive gang violence, hunger, lack of food, water, power, and medicine, includes a higher corporate tax rate and a higher minimum wage. The latest currency devaluation pegs its worthless money (expected to hit 1 million percent inflation) to its dubious cryptocurrency which is pegged to Maduro's hallucinatory version of revolutionary socialism.
Venezuela's economic collapse is not an outlier. Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega, the Marxist terror boss whom every 80s leftist, from John Kerry to Bernie Sanders, had a crush on, touched off another mess.
Unemployment has nearly doubled as 86,000 jobs vanished. A contraction of 6% is being predicted. The country's $13 billion economy depends on under a billion in tourism and $725 million in remittances. Venezuela is starving, and though its government is still subsidizing Cuba, it can't also afford to keep floating his Sandinista Marxist allies.
The direct reason for this crisis can be found in the violent riots tearing apart Nicaragua. But the reason for the rioting is that Nicaragua's social security fund was running out of money. The Nicaraguan Social Security Institute (INSS) offered very generous retirement benefits beginning at 60. Nicaraguan governments were repeatedly warned that INSS was unsustainable because of the small number of people paying into it and the generous payouts. Even for a socialist, there was no choice except raising payroll taxes and cutting benefits. Either that or Nicaragua would be forced to default on its loans.
But it was too little, too late.
The Sandinistas controlled too much of the government. The last-minute reforms infuriated the public. The socialist paramilitary thugs cracked down violently on protesters turning economic protests into a call to overthrow the government. And the economic collapse means that there won't be enough money for the economy, the country, and social security. Like Venezuelans, Nicaraguans are flooding into other countries, where they're being attacked by the local population which isn't interested in illegal aliens.
American lefties paint a nightmarish picture of the ICE "terrorizing" Latin Americans. But in Brazil and Costa Rica, local mobs are attacking Venezuelan and Nicaraguans who have crossed into their country.
And the devastation is spreading.
The Trump administration's decision to end Temporary Protected Status for economic migrants from El Salvador is hitting it hard. The American money that they send back to El Salvador makes up some $4.57 billion in remittances of a $27 billion economy. Lefties have praised El Salvador's income equality and unfavorably compared the "income inequality" in the United States to one of the poorest countries in the region. But it's easy to have income equality when what's left of your middle class is sending money back from America by working the lowest types of jobs.
Income equality doesn't mean everyone rises. It means that everyone falls down and stays there. America's "unequal" society offers more opportunities, even at the bottom, than "equal" poor societies.
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Call it the Trojan horse of nanomedicine: Researchers have developed a way to cloak drug-carrying nanoparticles with the same membranes as the body's own white blood cells, allowing those drugs to bypass the immune system without being harmed.
Specific molecules on white blood cells' membranes signal to other cells that they belong in the body. By coating nanoparticle drug vehicles with these same lipids and proteins, scientists at the Methodist Hospital Research Institute in Houston have created "LeukoLike Vectors," or LLVs, that are similarly welcomed by the immune system.
The researchers developed a procedure to physically remove the membranes from active white blood cells and drape them over the nanoparticles. The part-synthetic, part-natural LLVs are "the first drug-carrying nanoparticles that look and act like cells," Methodist said in a release. While the immune system normally neutralizes strange materials within minutes of their entry, the membrane coating allows the fake cells to survive in the body for hours.
But white blood cells can be hard to come by, Department of Medicine Co-Chair Ennio Tasciotti acknowledged. "Being able to use synthetic membranes or artificially created membranes is definitely something we are planning for the future," he said in a statement. "But for now, using our white blood cells is the most effective approach because they provide a finished product. ... We are aware we will not always have access to an infinite number of white blood cells."
A different group of researchers last year undertook early stages of a similar premise, in which they produced proteins to disguise nanoparticles as red blood cells using synthesized proteins.
Researchers in the U.K. have developed a technique to better predict results in liver cancer when drug-laden polymer beads are used to deliver medicines.


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Dr. Kerry Magro, a professional speaker diagnosed with autism, visited New Foundations Charter School for Autism Awareness Family Night, saying that autism looks different for every person on the spectrum.
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Awareness & acceptance: Dr. Kerry Magro, a professional speaker diagnosed with autism, visited New Foundations Charter School for Autism Awareness Family Night. LOGAN KRUM / TIMES PHOTO
With "Uptown Funk" booming from speakers and a crowd excited for the final act in the talent show, 9-year-old Keith Coleman strummed his guitar in the auditorium at New Foundations Charter School. Unable to get a tight grip on the instrument, it slipped between his knees and clattered to the floor, but that slip-up didn't deter him. Making his recovery, he seized the guitar and stood from his chair, pacing the stage like a rock star.
When he strummed his final note, parents and fellow students in attendance at the school's Annual Autism Awareness Family Night burst into applause. The theme of the night, according to special guest speaker Dr. Kerry Magro, was seeing autism appear differently to everyone diagnosed with it.
"Autism truly is a spectrum," he said. "We have a saying in our community where if you've met one individual with autism, you've met one individual with autism."
Diagnosed with autism at a young age, Magro is a professional speaker focusing on motivational speeches involving disability-related topics, having spoken at over 900 different events across the globe in the past nine years.
He visited New Foundations on April 11 to speak about his experience growing up with autism and how he was able to transition into an independent adult. April marks National Autism Awareness Month, but Magro would prefer to see it as more of an autism acceptance month.
Keith Coleman, 9, strums his guitar during Autism Awareness Family Night. LOGAN KRUM / TIMES PHOTO
"Please know that autism can't define our loved ones, and only we can help them define autism," he said.
Magro was nonverbal when he was 2 and a half years old, and was diagnosed with Pervasive Developmental Disorder-Not Otherwise Specified, a form of autism, when he was just 4 years old.
"You would know that when I was in school, my peers labeled special education wrong, instead of special," Magro read as part of a poem he had written. He said he spent "hundreds of hours a year" in physical, occupational, speech, music and theater therapy to get him where he is today.
"You would also know, though, that unfortunately I spent hundreds of hours a year being bullied because of my autism diagnosis," he read.
Magro recounted sensory overloads he experienced as a kid, including not being able to get a haircut due to the sensation so he grew his hair out "like a rock star." He also requested bologna sandwiches for every meal as a picky eater, and didn't have strong enough social skills to stand up against bullies. He said practices like role-playing certain social scenarios and learning from other self-advocates helped him overcome some of his issues. He also recommended keeping a daily journal for things they liked and didn't like throughout their day to help express themselves.
On his Facebook page A Special Community, Magro interviews young people on the autism spectrum about their experiences, ambitions and anything else they want to share with the world. He brings a camera and tripod everywhere he speaks to give people the opportunity to talk about what they want the world to know about them.
"One of the biggest misconceptions I often see in the autism community is the misdiagnosis but also the unfortunate fact that girls in our community fall through the cracks most of the time," Magro said. "Right now in our community one in 59 have autism. One in 34 of them are boys, and one in 151 are girls."
He shared the story of Rebecca Barcellona, a girl from Florida on the autism spectrum with aspirations to become Miss America. In her video interview with Magro, she expressed that she loves school and refused to give it up.
"Her story of not being defined by her label is something I can only hope becomes a universal message," Magro said.
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As the meeting went on, Magro had parents and kids split into pairs and discuss the first time they had been introduced to the topic of autism
Magro has published three books; Defining Autism From The Heart, which describes what it's like to live with autism from an emotional stance; Autism and Falling in Love, which speaks about his own romantic experience; and College for Students with Disabilities: We Do Belong, based on his journey navigating post-secondary education on the autism spectrum. All books can be found on Amazon.
To find Magro's Facebook group, go to www.facebook.com/ASpecialCommunity/.
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Tushar is the Executive Director and CEO of D-Link India – a Taiwanese multinational networking equipment manufacturing corporation. Before being associated with D-Link, Tushar worked in a number of companies like Virtual Computers and Cyberoam with his first job stint being at Virtual Computers Pvt. Ltd. as a Sales Engineer. His vision for what might be the next big thing that would hit the world is very certain – the Internet of Things. However, his thoughts on his preferred avenue to start his startup is not so certain as he believes the startup scene in India is very dynamic with situations changing drastically and so are the opportunities in the innovation space. Reversing to the initial days, the first gadget he owned was a Pager. When not working, Tushar would be found indulging in sports & spending time with his family. Tushar is a reader with Build to Last – Jim Collins being one of the most inspirational books he has read.


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The reported mass information theft is the latest incident to raise doubts about the security measures that big and small companies use to protect people's information online. Dan Gold / Alamy
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Russian hackers steal more than 1 billion Internet credentials
Group has collected 1.2 billion passwords and 500 million emails, the largest known data theft
August 6, 2014 3:50PM ET
It's time to change your passwords. Again.
In just a matter of months, a Russian crime ring has apparently managed to steal 1.2 billion Internet passwords and 500 million email addresses — the largest known collection of stolen data — according to the The New York Times. Hold Security, a cyber security firm in Milwaukee, discovered the massive breach of approximately 420,000 websites.
The reported break-ins are the latest incidents to raise doubts about the security measures that big and small companies use to protect people's information online.
Security experts believe hackers will continue breaking into computer networks unless companies become more vigilant.
"Companies that rely on usernames and passwords have to develop a sense of urgency about changing this," Avivah Litan, a security analyst at the research firm Gartner, told the Times.
Retailer Target is still struggling to win back its shoppers' trust after hackers believed to be attacking from eastern Europe stole 40 million credit card numbers and 70 million addresses, phone numbers and other personal information last winter.
The 500 million email addresses mentioned in the Times' investigation could potentially be used help the hackers engineer other crimes, according to Hold Security, but so far they are only being used to send marketing pitches, schemes and other junk messages on social networks, the newspaper said.
Little of the information stolen appears to have been sold to other online crooks, according to the Times.
The breadth of the hack should serve as a chilling reminder of the skulduggery that has been going undetected on the Internet for years, said John Prisco, CEO of another security firm, Triumfant.
"This issue reminds me of an iceberg, where 90 percent of it is actually underwater," Prisco said in an email to The Associated Press. "That's what is going on here ... So many cyber breaches today are not actually reported, oftentimes because companies are losing information and they are not even aware of it."
Hold Security declined to identify the sites that were breached, citing nondisclosure agreements and concerns that they remained vulnerable to attack, the Times reported.
"Hackers did not just target U.S. companies, they targeted any website they could get, ranging from Fortune 500 companies to very small websites. And most of these sites are still vulnerable," Alex Holden, founder of Hold Security, told the paper.
Dmitri Alperovitch, chief technology officer of the cyber security firm CrowdStrike told Reuters that the stolen passwords could be used to access other accounts beyond the ones on sites that were breached because people commonly use the same passwords for multiple sites.
"A compromise like this could mushroom," said Alperovitch.
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Abstract Changes in the Testicular Damage Caused by Indium Arsenide and Indium Phosphide in Hamsters during Two Years after Intratracheal Instillations: Minoru OMURA, et al. Department of Hygiene, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University-Change in the testicular damage caused by indium arsenide (InAs) and indium phosphide (InP) was examined during two yr after repetitive intratracheal instillations in hamsters. In this study, 4.0 mg/kg body weight/day of InAs or 3.0 mg/kg body weight/day of InP was instilled intratracheally twice weekly for eight wk. A single instillation dose of indium was 2.4 mg/kg body weight in both groups. Testicular damage was evaluated 0, 8, 16, 40, 64 and 88 wk after the last instillation. Both InAs and InP were proved to be definite testicular toxicants. Both materials decreased reproductive organ weight and caudal sperm count, and caused severe histopathologic changes in the testes. InAs-induced testicular damage was always more serious than InP-induced testicular damage. The serum indium concentration in the InAs group was always higher than that in the InP group, and indium was probably a toxic element in both materials. In the histopathologic examination, vacuolization of seminiferous epithelium was frequently observed as an early histopathologic change and spermatogonia remained in general even in the seminiferous tubules with severe histopathologic changes in both groups. It is therefore estimated that Sertoli cells, not stem cell spermatogonia, were the target cells of these indium-containing compound semiconductor materials. The threat of InAs and InP to male reproduction was proved in this study. We concluded that male reproductive disorders should not be overlooked when severe exposure to indium-containing compound semiconductor materials is apparent in human subjects.


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DC Water Replacing All Residential Meters After Billing Mishaps
Outdated transmission equipment caused inaccurate readings
By Susan Hogan, News4 Consumer Investigative Reporter and Meredith Royster • Published March 2, 2017 • Updated on April 11, 2017 at 1:47 pm
Every home in the District is getting a new meter from DC Water in a massive effort to prevent billing mishaps.
Water bills stay roughly the same all year round, which was the case for Dorothy Reese for 20 years until the fall. In November, her bill increased more than 500 percent to $425 with no increase in usage.
"I became speechless, really," she said. "I said, 'How in the world am I going to pay this bill?"
Searching for answers, Reese called DC Water but was left with more questions.
"They began to put me off, and what really got me was when they kept giving me an estimate bill for a whole year," she said.
Reese's meter hadn't sent a reading in more than two years, and a replacement meter installed by the utility sent in old data, causing the sudden increase.
Reese isn't the only customer that experienced a meter-related issue. DC Water launched a massive effort to replace all residential meters throughout the District.
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"We're going to do more than 85,000 meters," DC Water spokesman Vince Morris said. "All of our customers are getting brand new meters, the latest technology, and they're replacing meters that are in most cases more than 10 years old."
Outdated transmission equipment caused billing mishaps, including Reese's sudden increase.
"What we were noticing is a slight uptick in usage readings that were off, where we would have to make an estimate because we weren't getting accurate readings from our transmission units," Morris said.
NBC4 Responds worked with DC Water to get Reese a more accurate estimate.
"After I called you, my bill was $11.12," Reese said.
DC Water expects the meter replacements to continue well into 2018. Meters have been replaced in Ward 1 and currently are being replaced in Ward 4.


The Fenix PD35 Flashlight is fitted with an advanced CREE XM-L2 U2 LED that produces a brilliant and clean beam pattern. With a maximum output of 960 lumens, this LED flashlight is brighter than many search and rescue flashlights on the market while remaining a fraction of the size and the cost. Powering this incredible technology is either two lithium CR123 Batteries, or a single, rechargeable Li-Ion 18650 cell. The Fenix PD35 throw distance does not fall short of impressive at 208 meters max.
Next week you've got a camping trip, last week there was a power outage, and just last night, you found yourself searching for Fido in the neighbor's woods. Sometimes life demands a little extra light. That's what the Fenix PD35 is for. This well-rounded and feature-rich device can handle any situation perfectly – from full-blown search and rescue, to searching for a water bottle in a crowded tent. It's this versatility that has kept the Fenix PD35 LED Flashlight as a top-seller year-in and year-out.


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The Mr. Robot Season 3 Trailer Is Creepy as Hell
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Elliot is visiting Evil Corp in the third season of Mr. Robot. Image: YouTube
Your first, full look at the third season of USA's Mr. Robot is here and we have absolutely no idea what's going on. But, that's exactly what we want when it comes to the continually twisty, turny show.
The editing, music and voiceover are also just straight up creepy. More than usual even. It's a solid trailer.
There are a lot of interesting things in that trailer, many of which involved Tyrell Wellick, who was mysteriously and purposefully absent for most of the last season. There are also new characters (Bobby Cannavale!), surprising scenarios (is that the military toward the end?), and fsociety really, really going all out with the use of masks.
Mr. Robot is back on October 11.
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Q: Setting title from input on fullcalendar scheduler eventReceive In setting up the Scheduler premium component to test with the FullCalendar integration, I'm trying to simulate a conference room schedule using time durations from external events. The same concept as the normal drag n' drop external events demo on the fullcalendar site but with each event being a specific length of time. I have this working but I want to be able to set the title of the event in a text Input field before I drag then use that text as the Event Title once it's dragged onto the scheduler.

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    $('#external-events div.external-event').each(function() {

    var eventtitle = $('#event-title').val();
    // store data so the calendar knows to render an event upon drop
    $(this).data('event', {
        title: $.trim(eventtitle), // use the element's text as the event title
        stick: true // maintain when user navigates (see docs on the renderEvent method)
    });

    // make the event draggable using jQuery UI
    $(this).draggable({
        zIndex: 1111999,
        revert: true,      // will cause the event to go back to its
        revertDuration: 0  //  original position after the drag
    });

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This is working great for getting the title from the input and the duration size working.
In the fullCalendar initialization I believe I need to use the eventReceive function to update that title with whatever is typed in because currently it uses the "test" only since that's what is defined above.
    eventReceive: function(event) {
        var eventtitle = $('#event-title').val();
        // some way of defining the title here???
    },

A: Figured it out. Simply requires the 'updateEvent' method
        eventReceive: function(event) {
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        $('#calendar').fullCalendar('updateEvent', event);
    },

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Q: Java: Cannot access protected methods of nested class subclass in subclass of outer class I'm decomposing a class to allow for reuse, different info-hided implementations etc.
It was:
public class Outer
{
    public static class Inner
    {
        // ...
        protected static void innerDoSomething()
        {
            // ...
        }
    }

    public outerDoSomething()
    {
        //...
        Inner.innerDoSomething();
        //...
    }
}

And all was well and good, since the outer Outer class is allowed to access protected members of nested Inner class.
But trying to decompose as such:
public class SuperOuter
{
    public static class SuperInner
    {
        // ...
        protected static void innerDoSomething()
        {
            // ...
        }
    }

    // ...
}

public class SubOuter extends SuperOuter
{
    public static class SubInner extends SuperInner
    {
        // ...
        protected static void innerDoSomethingElse()
        {
            // ...
        }
    }

    public outerDoSomething()
    {
        //...
        SubInner.innerDoSomethingElse(); // OK
        SubInner.innerDoSomething();     // Error: cannnot access!
        //...
    }
}

innerDoSomething() is not accessible, even if protected members of SubInner are accessible by SubOuter, and all protected members of SuperInner should be part of SubInner protected interface.
The only way to make it work, seems to be to add explicit delegation for each method, such as:
    public static class SubInner extends SuperInner
    {
        // ...
        protected static void innerDoSomethingElse()
        {
            // ...
        }

        protected static void innerDoSomething()
        {
            SuperInner.innerDoSomething();
        }
    }

Which is annoying, error-prone and time-wasting. I'm tempted to just declare innerDoSomething() as public, but it's not really correct since it's meant to be used only by SubOuter and its subclasses.
How come? Shouldn't innerDoSomething() protected access be ihnerited and accessibile by SubOuter?

A: The protected method cannot be access from different package through variable reference.
It will work if the two classes SuperOuter and SubOuter will be in the same package.

A: OK, I think I got around it, carefully  re-reading Gosling's The Java Programming Language, 4th ed:

*

*SuperOuter and SubOuter are in different packages, as they logically should be, so there's no blanket whole-package protected members accessibility in place.

*Access to protected member of a nested class is actually intended as a special means of access between outer and nested classes (see Chapter 5. Nested Classes and Interfaces)

*Yet, protected member accessibility is not simply transitive: apart form nested/outer grant, you need to both to be in a subclass and have a reference that is at least of the type of that subclass (i.e. at least SubXXX, SuperXXX is not enough), because, I quote paragraph 3.5. What protected Really Means:

Each subclass inherits the contract of the superclass and expands that
  contract in some way. Suppose that one subclass, as part of its
  expanded contract, places constraints on the values of protected
  members of the superclass. If a different subclass could access the
  protected members of objects of the first subclass then it could
  manipulate them in a way that would break the first subclass's
  contract and this should not be permissible.

So, even if in my case xxxInner are meant to logically be part of xxxOuter, and SubOuter extends SuperOuter so the former logically should be able to access any protected members of the latter, still SubOuter cannot access protected members of SuperInner in SuperOuter just in the same way as it couldn't if it had received a SuperInner as an argument to a parameter, because that argument could belong to a completely different hierarchy ramification. There's no specific provision in the language to make the connection in this case.
This also explains why explicit delegation works: SubOuter has access to protected members of SubInner, because outer/nested grant, and SubInner has access to protected members of SuperInner because of extension, but SubOuter cannot access protected members of SuperInner because the latter could actually belong to a different hierarchy ramification, and it's SubInner's job to make the connection, so to say.
Explicit delegation respects everything of the above, logically and by language definitions, so it should be the "correct" way to go, considering proper access, but it's error-prone in implementation because of redundancy (what if I invoke SuperInner.innerDoSomethingElse() inside SubInner.innerDoSomething()?)
Ultimately: I could automate the explicit delegation with some python scripting, for example (I did to automate creation of Builder patterns, which have similar redundancy weakness), or simply renounce to the added safety of access control and make the protected members public.


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Qatar's foreign policy success
The revolution in Libya was a success for Qatar's foreign policy, but life could get trickier for Doha in the future. Published in MEED, 23 September 2011
On 24 August, when opposition fighters stormed Muammar Gaddafi's Bab al-Aziziya compound in central Tripoli, one rebel stopped to pose for a photo. He stood smiling on top of the statue of the fist crushing an American fighter jet that Gaddafi commissioned in the wake of the 1986 US attack on his residence. In his right hand, he held a gun and in his left, the Libyan rebels' tricolour; and on top of the graffiti-strewn building behind him was the maroon and white of the Qatari flag.
It was a clear sign of the way in which Qatar's assertive foreign policy has placed it firmly at the centre of events in Libya. The country was a prominent and active supporter of the rebel movement, contributing military planes alongside Nato forces and helping Gaddafi's opponents to sell the oil under their control. Although the UAE also sent some of its air force jets, Doha was the most forthright of Arab states in its support for the anti-Gaddafi cause.
Libya success for Qatar
Now, having played such a prominent role in the campaign to oust Gaddafi, there is a question mark over what benefits might accrue to Doha from the role it played in the conflict and what it might mean for the Gulf state's foreign policy in the future.
Qatar insists that it is not looking for any special favours in Libya as a result of its support for the winning side. In an interview on Al-Jazeera television on 7 September, Qatar's emir, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, said: "All know that Qatar is rich and is in no need of others' help. We interfered there for the sake of the Libyan people. In the meantime, it is unthinkable that the Libyan people would allow their wealth to be plundered or exploited only because there are countries that helped them gain freedom."
Such munificence does not mean that the favours will not be returned by the new rulers in Tripoli and Benghazi though. It is certainly true that access to Libya's oil or money is not, per se, of too much interest to Qatar, but there are likely to be some other ways in which it could benefit as the country seeks to rebuild and reform itself. In particular, Qatari companies have been actively seeking and making investments around the region for years, including many government-owned firms, and they will no doubt be hoping that few obstacles are placed in their way in Libya in the coming years.
"They don't need Libya's oil, but I'd be amazed if you did not see Qatari companies investing there and that is in Qatar's interest," says Jane Kinninmont, a senior research fellow at Chatham House, a London-based think tank. "They need more diversified investments and Libya needs investment in practically every sector – not because of the conflict, but because of the sanctions before that.
"I'm sure you'll see Qatari and UAE firms interested in the banking sector, which is completely underdeveloped. I would be pretty certain that there will be investment in construction and tourism because the Gulf countries are good at that and they've invested in pretty much every other country in North Africa."
Libya's interim government, the National Transitional Council (NTC), has been outspoken in its praise of Qatar, with vice-president Abdul Hafeez Goukh telling the official Qatar News Agency on 3 September that "without the unlimited support provided by the state of Qatar, the rebels would not have achieved victory". He added that he hoped to receive the emir in Tripoli soon.
It was merely the latest in a series of positive remarks by NTC officials, which has helped to create the impression that the new government in Libya is favourably disposed towards Doha.
While there may be some benefits for Qatar from the outcome in Libya, the position it took in the conflict also carries some potential costs. Until the turn of this year, Doha had developed a reputation as a regional mediator, willing to talk to all sides in a conflict when others would not. It followed this approach in Lebanon, Sudan and elsewhere and has generally been seen as successful. The decision to take sides in Libya could, however, make it more difficult for Doha to play a similar role in the future.
Qatar's growing confidence
"For the past few years they've clearly taken a strategic option to try and assert their foreign policy," says Karim Makdisi, associate professor of political studies at the American University of Beirut. "It has been growing in confidence, largely because they've managed to be effective, at least in some of these endeavours, such as brokering a peace agreement in Lebanon in 2008. They were doing something that a lot of the other regional and international powers weren't doing, which was reaching out to talk to everyone and thus creating genuine spaces of dialogue. They were able to exploit European weakness and dithering on the one hand and the collapse in US credibility and legitimacy in the region on the other.
"In Libya, they seem to have changed tack and, rather than play that mediator space, they went all-out and took a very strong position with one side. The coming weeks will determine whether this apparent shift in strategy is a clever or detrimental move to Qatar's image in the region and its ability to get things done." Qatar has also taken sides in other countries affected by this year's Arab Spring, although to a lesser extent.
In July, it became the first of the Gulf states to withdraw its ambassador to Damascus after an attack on its embassy there and, with its GCC partners, it has called for President Bashar al-Assad to end his brutal repression of protests. It was also part of the GCC efforts to resolve the conflict in Yemen before pulling out of that initiative in May due to the lack of progress. Earlier in the year, Al-Jazeera played a notable role in broadcasting the Egyptian uprising.
Diplomacy in the Middle East
Closer to home though, it has stood firmly alongside those in power, siding with the Al-Khalifa ruling family in Bahrain in the face of pro-democracy protests there in February and March. Although Al-Jazeera's English language channel aired a highly critical documentary in early August about the vicious crackdown on protesters, called Shouting in the Dark, it was notable that the documentary was not carried by its Arabic language sister channel.
Al-Jazeera is a key element in Doha's foreign policy apparatus, although it is nominally independent from government control. Qatar's international presence has also been aided by its use of other soft power tools, from the successful bid to host the football World Cup in 2022 to more prosaic initiatives such as Silatech, which aims to address issues around youth unemployment in the Arab world by supporting small and medium enterprises. Alongside its actions in Libya, such initiatives have helped Qatar to create a distinct international identity for itself as a more open and forward-thinking Gulf state. Of course Qatar itself remains an autocratic monarchy, but there has been no sign of domestic unrest this year. Indeed, the ability of Doha to favour the opposition movements in Libya and at least some other countries has largely been a result of this absence of political problems at home.
"Qatar's behaviour is explained partly by its complete lack of fear of domestic unrest," says Kinninmont. "There are some people who are dissatisfied with some aspects, who don't like everything the government is doing, but with such a small and wealthy population they seem very confident that they will be internally secure."
Despite the partial positions it has taken during the Arab uprisings, Qatar is expected to try and maintain its more neutral position when it comes to other areas of tension in the region.
In recent years Doha has been able to remain a close ally of the US, while still keeping channels open to both Hamas and Hezbollah, which the US deems terrorist organisations. It also has far more cordial relations with both Tel Aviv and Tehran than its GCC peers, even if there is still much mutual distrust. In a US diplomatic cable of 20 December 2009 released by whistleblowing website Wikileaks, prime minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani is quoted as characterising Qatar's relationship with Iran as one in which "they lie to us and we lie to them."
This diplomatic strategy can irritate its Gulf neighbours at times. "Qatar has a more liberal view to a lot of these things," says one Doha-based political analyst. This, he says, can cause tensions with both Saudi Arabia and the UAE, particularly over relations with Iran.
Upstaging Riyadh
Indeed, Saudi Arabia, which has traditionally been the most important diplomatic actor in the GCC, is the country that has perhaps the most to lose as Qatar becomes a more confident and active player on the international stage. Meanwhile, Israel has expressed anger with Doha for the latter's support for Hamas, as well as its backing of the recent initiative for the UN to recognise Palestinian statehood.
Despite the complaints it gets, Doha clearly perceives a benefit in trying to play both sides and, despite what others might say in public, this could suit some of its key allies, both in the region and beyond. There may be a benefit in the future if they have an ally with good connections to Tehran, to ease the path of any negotiations over its nuclear programme, for instance.
For all its studied neutrality in these long-term issues, however, the events of this year have exposed a problem at the heart of Qatar's foreign policy, namely the county's strategy of supporting autocratic GCC regimes, while backing democracy movements elsewhere.
"There's an apparent contradiction between Qatar supporting rebellion and democracy in parts of the Arab region and it being a kingdom," says Makdisi. "It's going to be interesting to see how this is resolved."
Doha has proved adept at walking a diplomatic tightrope in the past. The events of this year will mean those skills will be tested even more in the future.
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package com.daniel.weixin.cp.api;

import com.google.inject.Inject;
import com.daniel.weixin.common.exception.WxErrorException;
import com.daniel.weixin.common.util.StringUtils;
import org.testng.Assert;
import org.testng.annotations.Guice;
import org.testng.annotations.Test;

/**
 * 基础API测试
 * @author Daniel Qian
 *
 */
@Test(groups = "baseAPI")
@Guice(modules = ApiTestModule.class)
public class WxCpBaseAPITest {

  @Inject
  protected WxCpServiceImpl wxService;

  public void testRefreshAccessToken() throws WxErrorException {
    WxCpConfigStorage configStorage = wxService.wxCpConfigStorage;
    String before = configStorage.getAccessToken();
    wxService.getAccessToken(false);

    String after = configStorage.getAccessToken();

    Assert.assertNotEquals(before, after);
    Assert.assertTrue(StringUtils.isNotBlank(after));
  }

}

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In March 2019, Virginia and West Virginia became the first states in the nation to ban copay accumulators—an increasingly common benefit adjustment that prevents manufacturer drug coupons from paying-down patient deductibles and out-of-pocket maximums. Many employers and managed care organizations adopted these programs for the 2019 benefit year, and more are expected to follow in 2020. At the heart of the issue is the high cost of prescription drugs, particularly specialty drugs that have few, if any, alternatives available. Copay accumulators grant insurers a mechanism for shifting some of the cost burden for these drugs away from their own wallets and onto patients and drug manufacturers.
It was this cost-shifting approach that drew the ire of patient advocacy groups, including organizations for patients suffering from HIV and other costly diseases. The outcry around the programs was expected to lead to some legislative action around the issue, and while Virginia and West Virginia are the only two states to adopt laws against copay accumulators, more states are considering bills that would ban the programs. Arizona, Indiana, Kentucky, Connecticut, and Rhode Island each have bills pending in their respective state legislatures that would outright ban copay accumulator programs by requiring insurers to apply manufacturer copay assistance toward deductibles and out-of-pocket maximums.
Obviously, copay accumulator bans are a major win for drug manufacturers and patients that rely on coupons and their insurer to afford high-cost specialty drugs. That being said, it is vital to remember that state regulations apply only to fully insured policies sold within a state; they do not apply to self-insured employer health benefits. Self-insured plans are governed by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, which preempts state insurance regulations. Thus, patients exposed to a copay accumulator through a big, self-insured employer like Walmart or Home Depot, will not be protected if their state bans the programs.
That such a huge component of the commercial market relies on self-insured plans means copay accumulator programs still pose a substantial threat to patient therapy adherence and, by extension, drug manufacturer income and market share. Patients taking autoimmune, dermatology, HIV, hepatitis C, and multiple sclerosis drugs are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of copay accumulators, due to the extent that patients in these therapy areas rely on drug coupons. Per DRG's Copay Accumulator Threat Assessor dashboard, there can be substantial differences in risk across brands, with some manufacturers eliminating their risk through debit card programs, which are hard for PBMs and insurers to track, or by simply offering generous coupons that are difficult for patients to max-out, even with the steep bills they already encounter at the pharmacy.
As more employers adopt copay accumulators, manufacturers that fail to implement effective mitigation strategies will still see drops in therapy adherence during the year, especially among patients that must satisfy deductibles of $1,300 or higher if they exhaust their coupon programs. The state-level bans in Virginia, West Virginia, and any states that follow are certainly a benefit to pharma, but by and large manufactures are not out of the woods yet.


Installation of fluorescent lamp circuits, we can see that most of the foot fluorescent lamp mounted in series with the ballast and partly installed pareral the starter.
Preventing the occurrence of an increased flow of sparks that exceeds a certain limit for each lamp size.
Besides ballast serves to reduce the influence of the changes that interfere with the movement of light (stroboscopic) and reduce the loss side (auxiliary losses). Therefore, each fluorescent lamp ballast has always had a planned to power, voltage, and frequency are adjusted to the light TLnya respectively.
Starter on a fluorescent lamp consists of a small glass balloon filled with noble gases. Inside the bubble there are two metal electrodes as dual filament. The distance between the two electrodes are arranged with a certain distance so that the starter will turn on voltage of 100-200 V. Starter switch serves as the delay time (time delay switch) are connected in parallel with two-foot fluorescent lamp.
When the fluorescent lamp is connected to the voltage of tissues, then in a short time starter filament is connected (on) and then decide again if the lamp has been lit with a stable NE. At the time of the filament is connected, a large current will flow through the ballast from the power grid, then to the lamp electrodes, wire electrodes and the other starter, for subsequent return to the network. The existence of these currents will make the incandescent lamp electrodes and removing electrons.
Meanwhile, the voltage at the starter has been lost, so that the starter went out and become cool. Both dual metal electrodes in the starter going straight back and decided that the current is flowing. Because of the sudden termination of this, the ballast will be raised an electromotive force is quite high. Shock voltage is in series with line voltage. When raised at the right time, the voltage at the two filament lamps TL will be high enough to ignite the filament-provided tube filaments are hot enough.
In the first cycle of the tube is not already on the events as described above will be repeated, until the tube lights up. After the fluorescent lamp is lit, the starter will be parallel with the lamp. Therefore, the voltage on the lamp voltage is lower than the starter, the starter will remain extinguished.
To reduce the spark at the spark electrode bi-metal can be mounted a small capacitor in parallel with the starter. Installation of condenser is also able to improve the termination of the current in the starter and reduce radio interference.


Love Lion to Release Gospel Compilation, "Shout Music"
Here's a sneak peek at the next Love Lion release, Shout Music.
After costs are covered, proceeds from this release will go to the BLM movement. Stay posted for official release date.
Culled from dusty 45s and LPs while working at Reckless Records in Chicago, this track is from a collection of soulful, gospel music that accompanied an article written by Emily Elhaj in March 2010 entitled Shout Music.
"Gospel music has left deep impressions in soul, country, funk, blues, and even Rock n Roll. These genres owe thanks to African work songs, spirituals, shout music, and, later, revivalist bands of the Church."


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Monitoring Report - Mapping Media Freedom January - June 2022
The current Monitoring Report tracks media freedom violations across Europe during the first semester of 2022
Publisher: European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) International Press Institute (IPI) ECPMF, European Centre for Press and Media Freedom
Link: Monitoring Report - Mapping Media Freedom January - June 2022
The report analyses alerts originated in 29 countries, an area comprising both EU Members States as well as candidate countries. Moldova and Ukraine both became EU candidate countries last June. However, while Moldova will only figure in MFRR next semester report, press freedom violations perpetrated in Ukraine since the start of the Russian aggression had been monitored in a chapter of the current document.
During the first six months of 2022, MFRR network recorded 311 media freedom violations, targeting 522 media professionals and media-related entities (media companies, journalists' family members, journalists' sources and NGOs committed to freedom of press).
The report dedicates an in-depth analysis to a number of selected countries where challenges to journalism are on the rise according to the collected data: Turkey, Germany, France, Serbia, Greece, Poland, Spain, and Malta.
The most common attacks registered (39.2%) took the shape of verbal attacks, harassment, and threats, while a significant number of individuals have been subjected to legal incidents (30.9%), such as detention, criminal charges, civil lawsuits, and interrogations.
The Media Freedom Rapid Response recorded a number of cases involving physical attacks (19.3%). The most dramatic one resulted in the assassination of Güngör Arslan, owner and managing editor of Turkish local outlet Ses Kocaeli.
Finally, MFRR registered alerts related to attacks on media professionals' property (14.2%) and a concerning number of cases (12.9%) regarding various kinds of censorship ranging from blocked access to information to denied accreditation to press conferences.
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A Virginia appellate court recently issued a written opinion in a Virginia product liability case discussing a plaintiff's burden in establishing a defective design claim. Ultimately, the court concluded that the plaintiff's claim was insufficient as a matter of law, and it dismissed the case.
The plaintiff worked at a factory. He was trained on a folder-gluing machine, and to earn some extra money, he cross-trained on another vehicle that was similar to a forklift. While the plaintiff completed some of the training to operate the forklift, he did not obtain certification to use the vehicle.
One day, the factory was especially busy, and the plaintiff's supervisor asked him to operate the forklift. The plaintiff agreed and began unloading boxes of paper from a trailer. In order to do this, the plaintiff had to drive the forklift up a ramp and into the trailer. During one of the trips, the forklift got caught between the ramp and the trailer.
The plaintiff engaged the brake and, with a colleague, wrapped a chain around the forklift in an attempt to get it free. However, as the plaintiff was behind the forklift, the brake failed, and the machine rolled backwards, crushing him. He died from the injuries he sustained. It was later established that the brake was in need of regular maintenance at the time it failed.
The man's widow then filed a wrongful death claim against the manufacturer of the forklift under a product liability theory. Specifically, the widow claimed that the brake was defectively designed in that it was adjustable by the operator. The widow claimed that a safer design would be a brake that only a mechanic can adjust.
The court began its analysis by noting that in Virginia deign defect claims, the plaintiff is required to present a safer design that would have been a reasonable alternative to the design chosen by the manufacturer. Here, as noted above, the employee's widow suggested a brake that was not adjustable by the operator would be safer because a forklift operator likely would not have the skills necessary to make the adjustments or replace the brake.
The court, however, disagreed. The court explained that there was a reasonable basis for the manufacturer's decision to use an operator-adjustable brake because a forklift with a brake that could only be adjusted by a mechanic would require the machine be taken out of service for a longer period of time. Given the realities of a busy factory environment and the pressure to be constantly meeting production goals, the court agreed that such a brake may result in necessary maintenance being put off for extended periods of time. Thus, while the court agreed that the plaintiff's proposed design may have prevented this specific accident, the design was not likely to be safer overall.
If you or a loved one has recently been injured due to a dangerous or defective product, you may be entitled to monetary compensation through a Virginia product liability lawsuit. Attorney Charles B. Roberts is a dedicated Virginia personal injury lawyer with decades of experience representing Virginia victims in all types of claims, including product liability cases. He works closely with all of his clients to ensure that they are kept well informed about their cases throughout the process. Call 703-491-7070 to schedule a free consultation with Attorney Roberts today.
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Photographic paper is a paper coated with a light-sensitive chemical formula, used for making photographic prints. When photographic paper is exposed to light. Sun printing may refer to various printing techniques which use sunlight as a developing or fixative agent. Contents. 1 Techniques. Cyanotype; Light- sensitive vat dyes; Potassium dichromate Once the paper dries, parts that were exposed to the sun will turn a shade of Prussian blue (ferric ferrocyanide), while. The history of photography began in remote antiquity with the discovery of two critical principles . Silver nitrate would later be used as a light sensitive material in the He also noted that paper wrapped around silver nitrate for a year had turned . French balloonist/professor/inventor Jacques Charles is believed to have.
William Henry Fox Talbot FRS HFRSE FRAS was an English scientist, inventor and photography pioneer who invented the salted paper Talbot invented a process for creating reasonably light-fast and permanent photographs of silver nitrate, which created a tenacious coating of very light-sensitive silver chloride that. In , while visiting Lake Como in Italy, his lack of success at sketching the scenery prompted him to dream up a new machine with light-sensitive paper that . The Daguerreotype was invented by the Frenchman Louis Daguerre in was given a light sensitive surface coating of iodine vapour. After the sheet was sensitive paper and, because of this, Calotypes can often be identified by fibres.


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BETTY WHITE INVITES YOU TO HER 100TH BIRTHDAY PARTY WITH A ONE-DAY ONLY SPECIAL MOVIE EVENT: BETTY WHITE: 100 YEARS YOUNG—A BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION
LOS ANGELES - December 16, 2021 - Betty White, one of America's most beloved stars, turns 100 years old on January 17TH and to mark the momentous milestone, Betty is inviting her fans to celebrate with her in this once-in-a-lifetime event: Betty White: 100 Years Young—A Birthday Celebration.
White granted exclusive access to filmmakers Steve Boettcher and Mike Trinklein in the making of this special movie event. It offers a revealing glimpse into her life—behind-the-scenes on set, working with her office staff, entertaining at home, lending her voice as an animal advocate and, we join her at her actual birthday party, as she celebrates the big day with a star-studded cast of friends that love her! Special guests include: Ryan Reynolds, Tina Fey, Robert Redford, Lin Manuel- Miranda, Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Jay Leno, Carol Burnett, Craig Ferguson, Jimmy Kimmel, Valerie Bertinelli, James Corden, Wendie Malick, and Jennifer Love Hewitt among many others.
Betty White: 100 Years Young—A Birthday Celebration will play in almost 900 movie theaters nationwide on Monday, January 17 at 1:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. (all times local). Tickets can be purchased online at www.FathomEvents.com or at participating theater box offices. A complete list of theater locations is available on the Fathom Events website (participating theaters are subject to change).
Betty White: 100 Years Young Birthday—A Birthday Celebration is packed with clips from some of Betty's most famous roles, including the innocent Rose on Golden Girls, her celebrated host gig on Saturday Night Live - one of the highest rated SNL episodes ever - her award-winning Super Bowl/Snickers commercial, the worldly Elka on Hot in Cleveland, and her role as the bawdy Sue Ann on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and numerous other career highlights. Also included is a lost episode from Betty's early sitcom from the 1950's.
According to Betty herself, "Who doesn't love a party?!? This one is gonna be GREAT!" Says the film's producer and director, and a long-time chronicler of Betty's life, Steven Boettcher, "We didn't want this day to pass without bringing together all the people that love her, from her co-stars and friends to her many millions of fans of all ages, to celebrate her 100th birthday with an entertaining and loving look at what makes Betty a national treasure!"
"Betty White is a beloved cultural icon. We couldn't be more excited to celebrate this milestone birthday with her and fans around the county," said Daren Miller, Fathom Events VP, Programming, Strategy & Business Affairs.
While Betty ranks among the most cherished figures in America, her legacy is much deeper than most realize. She was the first woman to produce a national TV show; the first woman to star in a sitcom; the first producer to hire a female director; and the first woman to receive an Emmy nomination. In fact, she is the first woman to ever appear on television, given her performance on an experimental broadcast in the late 1930s.
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Is it about racism, COVID or about getting Trump?
This country keeps getting nuttier by the day.
I think they've gone nuts from being cooped up at home too long and losing their jobs and they've snapped. Plain bonkers. Nutso.
The leftist politicians who have said for months how unsafe it was for churches to gather (even if masked) or enjoy a nice day at the beach six feet apart, had absolutely no problem allowing protestors to gallivant around in the streets shoulder to shoulder with or without masks. Ask yourself why. Think good and hard and honestly tell me that they aren't allowing rioting in the streets for political reasons.
Can't you see, folks? This is all about election tampering. It's about creating and allowing civil unrest (looters) and poverty (economic shutdown). Why? So people will desire a change in leadership when – before COVID-19 hit – we had the best economy ever. Seems like sowing discord for political change.
I get that people hate the president for his lack of a filter. He does let people have it – and hard. Most certainly because of his political incorrectness. I'll be the first to admit that I am critical of his endless impromptu ramblings at press conferences where he repeats himself and speaks in fractured sentences. But his policies have been good to build our economic health and make people less dependent upon the government. When you see young people protesting against police brutality holding up "F*** Trump" signs then you suspect this is all about a protest of the president who had nothing to do with the lawless actions of that officer in Minneapolis.
It's an organized effort to tear apart the country, as we know it, so they can reassemble it into a socialist platform that robs the rich to reward the poor – for giving up on life.
The real problem of bad apple cops seems to be in liberal cities run by liberal mayors and police chiefs. I find it ironic that Minneapolis has a black police chief and a liberal Democrat mayor. Why aren't protesters laying blame on them instead of the president who has no direct control?
It's a valid question. After all, Officer Derek Chauvin was the subject of 18 complaints – one for each year that he worked – that went to Internal Affairs. He was only reprimanded twice. Apparently two times for verbally using demeaning tone and derogatory language. The fact that his wife filed for divorce the day after his arrest might tell you something. He simply was a bad cop who should have been flushed out by his superiors, at least from this perspective of this editor.
When I think of police officers in general I think of the ones I know. They are flesh and blood required to be as professional as possible. But they are human. That's why I am appalled to see skulls of mush and little understanding of the world screaming obscenities at police officers – likely some being their neighbors whom they don't even know. Ask Don Cool of Ceres who watched it happen in Oakdale last week. They were also screaming obscenities at him and he was only there to shoot photos.
Mark Twain once said: "When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years."
Modified for today's immaturity level, I'd say the age of enlightenment Twain was referring to needs to roll back to age 35.
It was a different scenario when protesters gathered in Placerville where the police chief is none other than Joe Wren, the former Ceres sergeant who was in charge of code enforcement just years ago cleaning up the crap and filth of some slovenly kept Ceres properties. Joe was present at a peaceful demonstration against the death of George Floyd. He publicly stated that "what happened to George Floyd sickens me and was disturbing. I am reluctant to even call that man (Derek Chauvin) a police officer."
Indeed, few officers would put up with Chauvin.
Ceres police has been good about firing its bad apples. One example was in April 2013 when Officer Chris Melton kicked a surrendered Daniel Reagan in the groin and laughed about it. Officer Ross Bays reported it and Melton was ultimately fired and went on trial.
But to protest across the country what was a problem in Minneapolis is a bit off. Candace Owens, a popular and outspoken black conservative, said the black community is unique in that it caters to the bottom denominator of society. She said while not every black American is a criminal Owens noted "we are the only people who will fight and scream and demand support and justice for the people in our community that are up to no good." She noted that Jews don't do it, whites don't do it and Latinos don't do it.
George Floyd, while certainly not deserving of the inhumane treatment that ended in death, was not an upstanding citizen. In 2005 a man knocked on the door of a pregnant woman's house and tried to pass himself off as a water worker. She realized it was a set-up and shut the door but the man and his buddies jumped out of the car and barged into her home. Floyd was one of them; he stuck a gun to her belly and kept her at bay while they ransacked her home. They were tracked down through a license plate a bystander took down. George Floyd served five years behind bars in 2009 for an assault and robbery two years earlier, and had been convicted of charged with theft with a firearm and cocaine offenses. At the time of his death on May 25 he was high on meth and Fentanyl.
You have to wonder what our schools are teaching.
I saw Yari Gutierrez holding a sign with a pink pig on it and the words, "Defund the police. Hold COPs ACCountable."
I asked her how that would work. She said defund the police and spend it on healthcare and other areas for minorities. I said, "So you don't want any police then?" She replied, "You said that, not me." I responded, "Well, if you cut off their funding there won't be any police. They don't work for free."
It's an example of how futile the thinking of this generation has become. The quest to defund police is an idiotic concept dreamt up by liberals. If your aim is to destroy any community and promote lawlessness, defund all police.
I'm also quite appalled that Samson Gonzalez spoke at Sunday's protest in Whitmore Park and said: "... I'm not saying all police officers are criminals or are bad. But what I'm trying to say that the bad by far outweigh the good. Not only in the force but in white individuals too."
Can you imagine the backlash if somebody were to say that the bad in black people far outweighs the good? Yeah, racism goes both ways.
You knew it would happen, right? Somebody gets coronavirus and someone dies and the loved one sues, presumably to cash in. The widow of a man who died in the Turlock facility is suing, as is Norma Zuniga, the widow of a Safeway warehouse employee who died because she said the company didn't protect her husband enough. Of course her attorney, Paul A. Matiasic, is quick to jump on the cash bandwagon, saying, "Safeway put production and profits over the protection of its workers. Tragically, the Zuniga family was forced to pay the price of Safeway's misguided priorities."
You're darned right Safeway wanted to continue making groceries available to feed families – at least the ones who wanted to eat. Why is every greedy attorney always quick to vilify a company for wanting to profit. Isn't the whole purpose of a business to make a profit? Why are legal people and leftists trying to condemn anyone wanting to make a buck?
It's not like Pedro Zuniga didn't have a choice if he was in questionable health. I don't know the man but based on his picture, I'd say he struggled with obesity and likely diabetes, which are risk factors for dying for dying from this.
A little more perspective above the hype.
Stanislaus County has had 30 COVID-19 related deaths. Eighteen were within the confines of Turlock Nursing & Rehabilitation Center. Subtract those and we had 12 outside of that facility. Take 12 and divide it by county population of 550,660 and you can see that 0.00002179 percent of the county has died from it. Like a 3/50000th chance of dying.
And why are we continuing this social distancing and mask sham? Why are state officials hardly letting anyone dine or shop like they did on March 1?
Stop the shoppers but let's not restrict any woman who wants to kill her fetus, though. That's a priority.
State Attorney General Xavier Becerra continues his obsession with suing Trump. The newest suit – we can't keep count now – is aimed at the FDA because it is restricting Mifepristone, the RU-486 abortion pill, to only be dispensed by certified providers at a hospital, clinic, or medical office and not by pharmacy or mail. You see, Becerra thinks killing a baby should be as convenient as possible and doesn't want pregnant women to have to go into an office for a prescription to "minimize transmission of the COVID-19 virus."
Who is he fooling? He and his party of death don't want ANY restrictions on abortion. Remember, it's also the party that doesn't believe in any consequences for questionable and bad behavior. Let all prisoners out of jail, go soft on crime, protect people who can't pay their bills, give people money for not being successful in life, let those who sneak across the border stay and pay their medical bills, bail people out when they default on mortgages or student loans, let men use the women's bathroom, pay for sex change operations of prisoners and now excuse people who torch police vehicles as free speech. But you church people had better not speak out against anyone's lifestyle or, or, or, well, just wait until we come up with hate speech legislation.
Again, COVID-19 doesn't seem to be a liberal's concern as rioters throw frozen water bottles at cops or walk through the broke down of the clothing store to steal bras and panties. But how dare you make a woman go into a medical office to get a pill to kill the life growing inside her.
And by the way, I became a grandfather again last Thursday so I'm a bit sensitive about killing babies.
I'm not going to ask the rhetorical question, how did Becerra the Radical get elected as attorney general. I already know how. I'd guess that about 80 to 90 percent of voters have zero idea who or what they are voting for. They vote solely because of the "D" or an "R" and to heck with knowing what the candidate stands for. We live in the age of the low information voter who only gets his information through a filtered social media that is intentionally designed to squelch conservative voices. They watch cable TV news that puts a 99 percent negative slant on all its coverage of Trump and Republicans in Congress. It's the same news media that builds up Gov. Cuomo of New York as being brilliant for his COVID-19 response when he made the idiotic decision to stick COVID-19 victims in rest homes. Brilliant.
People are waking up to the lies of the national news media … such as the repeated lie that peaceful protesters were tear-gassed so Trump could walk to St. John's Church burned the day before. Want the truth? Protesters were told three times to push back one block but became more combative and threw frozen water bottles and caustic liquids instead of compliance. Some attempted to grab officers' weapons, so officers used smoke canisters and pepper balls. There were also caches of glass bottles, baseball bats and metal poles hidden along the street and ready for use against police. So tell me again why Trump was the bad guy?
Becerra fails to keep his nose out of other state's affairs. Now he's muscling into Hawaii, trying to be the big brother defending little brothers' passage of gun laws there. Specifically, the biggest liberal in the nation, Becerra, wants Hawaii to mimic him … background checks for ammo, making it illegal to build a gun. KITV Channel 4 reported that Honolulu Police Chief Susan Ballard said two such ghost guns were used in officer-involved shootings last year. Their report said: "Ghost guns are typically put together using home kits with 80% of the parts. An owner is required to register the assembled firearm with police, but criminals don't."
Well there you go. Because criminals don't report ghost guns after they make them, Hawaii is going to make sure law abiding citizens who do can't make guns either. News flash, Hawaii Legislature: criminals also don't obey laws against shooting people or robbing stores with guns either. So will your ghost gun ban work?
Gun laws only prevent law-abiding citizens from owning them so it makes it harder to defend one's life and property.
I saw a funny video sent to me by former Ceres resident Robert Fauss. Now I don't know if that was real or staged but the point is nonetheless well taken. It was shot by an older man in a shopping center parking lot. He explains how two young punks were sitting on a tailgate of a truck and demanded his wallet as they drank beer. He said "Give me the beer and we'll forget about it." The man said one of the punks flipped out a switchblade and challenged him to come get the beer. The shopper lectured the two about social distancing and how they needed to stay six feet apart. He said the two ran off across the parking lot running over a hill (as the camera pans up to show the direction – pointed by the gun in his left hand.) The man grabs the Corona beer and leaves.
People sometimes need to take of situations with their gun! Especially if police are going to sit by and do nothing when mob violence occurs.
I'm a history buff. I enjoy learning about our past. The Civil War fascinates me. It fascinates me that Ulysses Grant actually visited his brothers-in-law in Knights Ferry long before the War Between the States. It fascinates me that John Muir walked along the Merced River as he made his way to Yosemite the first trips. It fascinates me that outlaw Bill Dalton is buried in a Turlock cemetery, 2,100 miles from where he was gunned down. Old cemeteries fascinate me.
So when this history lover hears about politically correct politicians tearing down statues, I cringe. Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam now wants to remove the iconic statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from Richmond's Monument Avenue. Like him or not, Lee was a huge historical figure and the statue itself is historical. Instead of tearing his statue down, why can't we use it as a teaching moment for our kids? Why not take kids down there and say, "Kids, this guy was an important general who scores some major victories against the Union. But he was a mean slave owner and he helped divide the nation. You see kids, we've advanced since that time and slavery has been abolished."
Or has it? Maybe that's the time to start educating our young men about sex trafficking, the biggest human rights violation in our country.
What a great time for a lesson on a divided nation instead of a wrecking ball. But as we can see, a large segment of the country is all about tearing down.
The violent idiots in the street who attacked St. John's in D.C. need some enlightenment. As White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany noted, that same church supported the civil rights movement and 1963 March on Washington where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous "I have a Dream" speech. Apparently Antifa is ignorant of U.S. history.
What happened to the concept of being responsible for one's self? By that I mean, when did we decide to allow government to feed our kids, forgive our loans, save us from financial mistakes?
What happened to the concept of self-control? By that I mean being upset about a situation while having the self-control to not pay evil with evil?
So a Latino group wants Ted Howze to bow out of the congressional race because of the flap about social media posts that were removed a long time ago? Oh yeah? Since they didn't offer a suggestion of a Republican to take his place I'm going out on a limb that they are only interested in eliminating any competition for Josh Harder. And how much would you care to bet that if this was Josh Harder's social media flap their response would be: "Oh, Harder didn't post those, somebody else did. You Republicans are always on the attack."
Admit it – I'm right.
Howze said somebody else posted them. I don't doubt that. Here's why.
When I worked for Congressman Tony Coelho in 1979, my job as an intern was to scour the newspapers and find stories about people so that I could then compose congratulatory letters based on the story I gleaned. Tony would sign the letters on the weekend. The recipient would feel puffed up that a congressman took notice when it was an unpaid volunteer only making it look that way.
The same thing is going on today in social media with candidates giving out likes on others' posts.
So why do people predisposed to the Democrats have a hard time believing somebody else had the Howze password? Makes sense to me. Why would Howze, a candidate for Congress, sabotage his own candidacy with posts considered politically insensitive? He wouldn't but a lackey could.
This column is the opinion of Jeff Benziger, and does not necessarily represent the opinion of The Ceres Courier or Morris Newspaper Corp. of CA. How do you feel about this? Let Jeff know at jeffb@cerescourier.com


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Remaining Central Hotel tenants asked to vacate site
Lou Whitmire
GALION – — The remaining 17 households in Central Hotel Apartments on the square in downtown Galion have been asked to relocate from their units in order for work to done on structural problems at the historic building.
Michael Swemba, an asset manager at the Ohio Capital Corporation for Housing in Columbus, which has Central Hotel Apartments in its portfolio, said Friday ownership met with the remaining tenants.
The apartment complex, which offers affordable housing for senior citizens, earlier moved some of its residents to facilities elsewhere — including hotels, family members' homes and other units within the building — while the owners conduct structural investigations. Hotel stays, meals and transportation are being provided to the displaced tenants at no cost to them.
The Central Hotel was built in the late 1800s.
Friday, Swemba said the 17 remaining households (unknown number of exact residents affected) living in units here must be relocated so the rest of the building can be assessed and a plan devised to get people in there to work.
Galion Building Inspector Bob Johnston had said earlier that officials met at the site to check on "settling of the floor joists" with architectural engineers.
The building was built in 1852.
Swemba said residents are being offered generally the same assistance offered to residents who were asked to relocate earlier.
"We are offering an incentive, we pay them cash if they terminate the lease with us in so many days," he said. "We are asking residents to vacate the units within the next two weeks. We hope to have building back up and running by the end of the year. There's no guarantee but that's our hope and goal."
In December 2002, the pieces finally came together in a plan to turn the dilapidated structure into an apartment complex. Developers received approval of $3.1 million in loans that enabled them to finally move forward on the project. Still, a planned 10-month construction timetable stretched to more than two years.
Several groups looked into restoring the old hotel, but financing could never be completed until December 2002 when G. Fred Schwab and Asebrook Ltd., secured loans of more than $3 million for the project.
The first tenants moved into the building in 2005.
lwhitmir@nncogannett.com
Twitter: @LWhitmir


IBM's X-Force Red penetration testing service is expanding with new labs and a service that will test the security of banking machines.
IBM announced on Aug. 6 that it is expanding its X-Force Red security testing business with four new physical lab locations and a new service for testing the security of ATM banking systems.
The locations of the four new X-Force Red Labs are Austin, Texas; Hursley, England; Melbourne, Australia; and Atlanta. The new labs will be used to test the security of multiple types of devices and services, including ATM banking systems.
"One of the biggest problems is that a lot of financial institutions assumed that the manufacturers were doing the testing and the manufacturers assumed the financial institutions were doing security, so we got a mature industry in terms of rollout, without a lot of testing," Charles Henderson, global managing partner of IBM X-Force Red, told eWEEK.
After joining IBM in October 2015, Henderson created the X-Force Red business unit to bring a dedicated penetration testing and offensive security practice to IBM. X-Force Red has been adding formal practice areas and services over the last two years, including the addition of IoT and Connected Car Security Services to its testing portfolio in July 2017.
X-Force Red had been testing ATMs for some time and recently has seen an increase in interest from financial institutions, and so decided to create a formal practice area, according to Henderson. Multiple factors are driving demand for ATM research, including large global sporting events, which are sponsored by various financial institutions. IBM gets requests from the financial institutions years before events to help them make sure that ATMs are secured, he said.
IBM X-Force Red has found ATMs to have multiple risks, including what is known as "jackpotting," where an ATM is hacked to shoot out cash to an attacker. ATM attacks are not a new phenomenon, with researchers demonstrating ATM jackpotting attacks at the Black Hat security conference in 2009 and again in 2016.
"Remember, we're talking about criminals, and criminals are looking to monetize stuff, and it turns out that cash is easily monetized," Henderson said.
There are multiple types of risks associated with ATMs, including the physical security of where the ATM is located. Henderson said X-Force Red does not visit every ATM location and as such doesn't validate the physical security of every deployment.
What X-Force Red does is validates the security of a default deployment to identify potential areas of weakness. For example, Henderson said X-Force Red will consider what the risk and impact is if an attacker is able to physically intercept a cable to an ATM to attempt a man-in-the-middle (MiTM) attack.
"We evaluate everything we can," he said.
While ATMs typically include security controls, Henderson said X-Force Red has seen circumstances where the security controls were not properly implemented. One such example is with full disk encryption, which is supposed to keep financial details protected on an ATM.
Another risk to ATM security comes from running older operating systems. There was a time when most of the world's ATMs were running Microsoft's Windows XP operating system, which in 2018 is no longer supported and has multiple known vulnerabilities. When X-Force Red comes across financial institutions that are still running ATMs with Windows XP, Henderson said they usually recommend that they change operating systems. That said, he noted that whether an organization is running Windows XP or a more modern operating system, X-Force Red is still finding vulnerabilities that can either be software, implementation or infrastructure flaws.
"We're very careful to make recommendations not just solely based on operating system, but also because of actual vulnerabilities," Henderson said.