I want to work in an environment that makes me happy – that inspires my curious mind, encourages my unique voice, and enables me to collaborate with others.
Meet Drew: Drew is an established software developer competing in a rapidly growing industry of creativity and innovation. Like many others of his generation, Drew can be considered a "social" employee, part of a growing "on-demand" workforce, largely in the tech sector, working smarter across the globe.
Drew wants to work (and play) hard in an environment that supports a lifestyle, not just a paycheck.
Creating such an environment however, means anticipating the needs of a highly competitive and rapidly growing network of industries. It means staying at the forefront of a developing culture that voluntarily blurs the lines between workspace and social space. It means being as agile and forward thinking as they are.
So… How do we support Drew's present needs while preparing him and his colleagues to embrace future change?
Basically, we have to RETHINK WORK!
…And do it from Drew's perspective. What are the core environmental components that define this new take on the workplace – and on work in general?
Interior design catalyzes the work created within it, and becomes an essential piece of a company's daily life. Culture grows from within architecture and landscape. The patterns and behaviors that become cultural pillars manifest themselves over time as people adapt to their work environments. The more "at home" people feel, the more they act like it.
The key to anticipating these patterns is predicting how people will use their space, what "rituals" they will develop over time, and ultimately making design choices that will foster natural company culture, quality, and creative work.
Like most companies, Drew's organization is facing increasingly sophisticated challenges. Time and resources are in high demand, and sometimes short supply. Changes on the horizon are becoming more and more apparent, affecting the company's ability to attract and retain talent. Emerging technology, shifting management styles, simply how people connect with one another… Each has an impact on infrastructure. For Drew's company and many others, the future is foggy.
So, how do we create a place for Drew to create, to connect, to work, that isn't another typical workplace? How does design keep pace with change?
Let's go back to the beginning. Drew is a member of "Generation Y." He remembers life before the rise of digital technology – when people would organize, plan, and interact with others without the useful tools and resources offered by the internet and mobile devices.
Although Drew has an appreciation for unfettered mobility, he still values true social connection, structure, and communities that allow face-to-face contact. To anticipate and meet such needs in this newly defined workspace, we need to support not only his workstyle, but also his lifestyle with the environmental elements that define them.
The "office" must serve as a platform for knowledge and collaboration.
Create articulation within the architecture through a palette of well-defined zones.
Plan for a multi-generational office – no "one size fits all" model.
View workplace as inherently tied to culture. Synchronize architecture with core values, cultural staples, and brand identity.
Make technology more "human," adding energy to work, not draining energy from it.
Support life-long learning and individual growth.
View wellness as a key resource in the office economy.
Recognize (and embrace) that there is no norm.
Comfortable – suited for portable computing and not tied to traditional workstations.
Motivating – with high-performance areas like innovation labs and "war rooms" blending seamlessly with working cafes and "3rd places," spaces between work and home for recreation and social collaboration.
Aesthetic – providing an environment that feeds creativity and fosters community while reflecting common goals, interests, and organizational identity.
Drew thrives in a place that is part of both his personal and professional life, where trading music happens side by side with trading project ideas, where he feels like part of something contributing to the greater good, with his own crucial role to play. The physical space must enable and empower those ideals. Drew wants a workplace that reflects his identity – and the only way to provide that is to get to know Drew!


This paper attempts to provide insights into current E-procurement practices. A survey was conducted among 342 members of Institute of Supply Management –Western Washington (ISM-WW), the local chapter of the Institute of Supply Management (ISM). This paper reports on the findings of the survey conducted. The research helped the author to identify numerous critical success factors to effective implementation, key factors in making the decision to implement E-procurement systems, problems encountered during the implementation, and unanticipated things that were not considered in a company's original plan to implement E-procurement systems as well as the benefits that the companies gained as a result of successful E-procurement implementation. The author's aspiration is that the results of the survey will help companies develop a better understanding of use and implementation of E-procurement systems and avoid the problems encountered by other firms.
Developments in technologies have made it possible for organizations to improve efficiency and save money in many areas of the business. Procurement -a vital part of supply chain management- is one of those areas that has been significantly impacted by the new technologies. Rather than using traditional, paper-based methods for acquiring goods and services, organizations have begun to take advantage of technology-enabled acquisition of goods and services. Looking for ways to improve operating efficiency and cut costs, supply chain managers have looked to electronic procurement (E-procurement) systems and methodologies to aid them in this effort. Moving away from the traditional tactical view of procurement and evolving into more of a strategic role contributed to that development significantly (Smart, 2010). Although there are many different definitions of E-procurement in the literature, E-procurement mainly refers to the use of Internet and related technologies to streamline and perform all operational and strategic procurement activities (Teo et al., 2009). Well implemented E-procurement systems enable users to systematically and efficiently connect with suppliers, resulting in increased productivity, lowered operational costs and optimization of resources. However, decisions to purchase and implement E-procurement systems and methodologies can sometimes be costly and painful. Acquisition of E-procurement tools must be balanced against return on investment.
One of the very first applications of E-procurement systems included electronic data interchange (EDI) which was developed in the 1970s to help companies improve their purchasing process (Wisner et al., 2012). The EDI system which enabled computer-based exchanges of data between buyer and seller has been adopted by a number of organizations since its introduction. However, an EDI system is very expensive and difficult to implement, and often inflexible. As Presutti (2003) noted, implementation cost was a significant barrier to the widespread use of EDI as a large-scale facilitator of E-procurement. The emergence of the Internet in the 1990s offered significant opportunities and opened up new possibilities for companies to be able to perform most purchasing activities online. As a result of the increasing use of the Internet, a number of Internet-based E-procurement applications including e-sourcing, e-catalogs, e-marketplaces, and electronic contracts management systems have been developed. These systems have been in use by many organizations since the 1990s and have become viable alternatives to traditional paper-based systems. Amongst those systems e-sourcing includes forward and reverse electronic auctions, online bidding and tendering (Johnson & Klassen, 2005). E-sourcing helps the buying firm in all stages of the supplier selection process, from prequalification of suppliers through the construction of a comprehensive request for proposal to the selection of the final supplier (Presutti, 2003). Another widely used E-procurement system is E-catalogs that are the electronic representations of information about the products and/or services of an organization (Baron & Shaw, 2000). Therefore e-catalogs provide a passage to sourced products, suppliers and the ordering process which will all lead to increased operating system efficiencies. One of the most common E-procurement applications is e-RFX which is an electronic tool that allows procurement professionals to issue and manage electronic requests for information (eRFIs), requests for quote (eRFQ), and requests for proposal (eRFPs). It is a suite of applications which support buyer analysis of supply markets and suppliers (Smart, 2010). Because of the differences between E-procurement systems, companies should be careful in choosing the one that is most appropriate for them. No matter which application is used, E-procurement is a viable and valuable way of doing business and promises to be something that will soon be adopted by companies large and small (Neef, 2001).


We are still undecided for this weeks screening, but the most likely show at this stage will be True Blood. If you would like to screen something else please bring along the DVDs/HDD/Flash that you have it on and we can take a vote tonight.
It has received mixed reviews with some loving it and others hating it. This series is rated R and although I have not seen it, I have been warned that it does contain some fairly explicit s_x scenes.


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Stories from Friday, December 9, 2016
NP's Haste first-team all-state pick (High School Sports ~ 12/09/16)
North Putnam senior tight end Max Haste was named to the Associated Press Class 2A all-state first team on Wednesday after a stellar season for the Cougars. Haste, a 6-3, 220-pounder, caught 49 passes for 770 yards and caught three touchdowns in helping the Cougars to compile a 7-3 record...
Good Citizenship (Local News ~ 12/09/16)
Windy Hill Donation (Local News ~ 12/09/16)
BENNETT'S MINUTES: Clover-PT matchup one of many good ones in TipOff (High School Sports ~ 12/09/16)
Any basketball fan going to Southport on Saturday to see the Cloverdale-Park Tudor contest in the Forum TipOff Classic would do well to leave two hours earlier than planned. The preceding game is between defending 4A state champion New Albany and perennial power North Central of Indianapolis...
This weekend's basketball game previews (High School Sports ~ 12/09/16)
Game time: 6 p.m. So far: The Tiger Cubs have lost two of their last three games, but the six teams to defeat them are a combined 41-13. South Putnam's only loss came 53-35 to Greencastle in the championship game of the Putnam County tournament. History: Greencastle has won the last five meetings between the teams...
Cameron calls 2016 'course correction' for U.S. and world (Local News ~ 12/09/16)
The year 2016 has brought about an inordinate share of historic events. Brexit in Britain. The election of Donald Trump as U.S. president. A referendum for government reform in Italy. Addressing "The Historic Events of 2016 and Where We Go From Here," former British Prime Minister David Cameron told a DePauw University audience Tuesday afternoon that it all depends "on what political leaders do next."...
South Putnam's Lois Cheatham earns 2016 DAR Good Citizen award (Local News ~ 12/09/16)
By ERIC BERNSEE Editor For the second straight year, the Putnam County DAR Good Citizen Award is calling South Putnam High School home. South Putnam senior Lois Cheatham, the daughter of Liz and Gary Cheatham, South County Road 25 East, Greencastle, was named the 2016 DAR Good Citizen winner by Washburn Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, during a Wednesday afternoon reception at the Putnam County Public Library...
Visitor trying to pass drugs to brother arrested at Putnamville (Local News ~ 12/09/16)
PUTNAMVILLE -- A male visitor was arrested Thursday at the Putnamville Correctional Facility for reportedly attempting to pass drugs and other contraband to his incarcerated brother. Alan Rogers, 32, of Monticello, was booked into the Putnam County Jail on a pair of Level 5 felonies, attempted trafficking with an inmate and possession of suboxone...
First Baptist Church plans upcoming Christmas services (Local News ~ 12/09/16)
The First Baptist Church family invites the community to a series of services to celebrate the wonders of Christmas. On Sunday, Dec. 18 at the 9:30 a.m. worship service Kingdom Kids children's group will join the Celebration Choir in a special presentation of "Sing the Glory."...
Presbyterian Choir and friends present 'Singing with the Angels' (Local News ~ 12/09/16)
The Greencastle Presbyterian Church choir and friends will be performing the musical "Singing with the Angels" by Joel Raney at 10:30 a.m. Sunday, Dec. 11. The free performance will be presented at the Presbyterian Church, 653 S. CR 100 East (Round Barn Road)...
Keener's named Ariens Co. Sophomore Dealer of the Year (Local News ~ 12/09/16)
AMELIA ISLAND, Fla. — Ariens Co. recently named Keener's Mower Sales & Service its Sophomore Dealer of the Year during the company's annual dealer summit. The sophomore award is given to the Ariens Co. second-year dealer with the highest percent growth in sales during fiscal year 2016. Only dealers who signed on with Ariens Co. as a new dealer in fiscal year 2015 were eligible for the sophomore award...
Handy-Lackner Engagement (Engagement ~ 12/09/16)
Loran and Sue Ann Handy of Gosport are pleased to announce the engagement and upcoming marriage of their daughter Sarah Handy to Jeffery Lackner, son of Robert and Cindy Lackner of Coatesville. Jeffery is employed at Stephen Gould Corporation as a production manager and Sarah is employed at Creative Underwriters Corporation as a processor...
Goad - 65th Anniversary (Anniversary ~ 12/09/16)
Samuel Jr. and Uldene (Rooze) Goad will celebrate their 65th anniversary on Saturday, Dec. 17 from 1-4 p.m. at New Providence Church. They were married Dec. 16, 1951 at West Union Church in Monrovia. They have resided near Brick Chapel since 1971. They have five children, Kevin (LeaAnn) Goad of Cloverdale, Kathy (Jim) Clements of Mooresville, Karen (Kenny) Cash of Cloverdale, Karla Buis of Greencastle and Keith (Tracey) Goad of Reelsville, as well as nine grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.. ...
Putnam Scanner 12-10-16 (Police Logs ~ 12/09/16)
Four people were booked in the Putnam County Jail on Thursday. • At 4:01 p.m. Bambi Lynn Bicknell, 44, Terre Haute, was lodged at the jail on a warrant for contempt of court. • At 3:24 p.m. James Allen Lewis, 38, Covington, was taken into custody on a local warrant...
Registration open for digital photos computer class (Local News ~ 12/09/16)
Putnam County Public Library will be offering a Managing Your Digital Photos computer class on Monday, Dec. 19. The group will discuss the basics of importing and exporting digital photographs from your camera or phone to your computer, give tips on organizing large numbers of photos, creative ways of managing photos across different devices like phones, tablets and cameras, and demonstrate some basic photo editing techniques from 5:30-7:30 p.m...

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What is a Poetry Slam? How is spoken word poetry becoming mainstream? Dr Jack McGowan who is Course Leader for Creative Writing BA (Hons), a performance poet and a verse enthusiast, explores the art of spoken word.
Spoken word is a fast moving art form that has received increased attention in the 21st century across the globe. In the UK, artists such as Kate Tempest, George the Poet, and Holly McNish are taking their place among established 'page poets', winning prizes and racking up the kind of readership figures that are firmly changing how we think about poetry as a society.
Internationally, for non-Western audiences, spoken word has a well-established presence in the cultural landscape. In the UAE 'Million's Poet'; a reality TV competition featuring spoken word recitations of popular Arabic and Persian Gulf poetry (if you're thinking 'Britain's Got Talent', but exclusively for poetry readings, you wouldn't be far off) became one of the region's most watched television shows of all time.
The attraction of spoken word is detailed and complex. For one thing, it evokes traditions of oral storytelling, and a time before smartphones and Netflix where stories were told by word of mouth, by the fireside, by grandparents. This idea of spoken word is warm and cosy and probably makes us think of marshmallows. It is also a million miles away from the modern spoken word scene, which often features a different kind of fire entirely. Contemporary spoken word is dynamic, highly charged, and frequently politicised, with poems that are carefully crafted to encourage strong thoughts and strong emotions. It's this kind of environment that has established a great proving ground for Poetry Slams.
Slams are a burgeoning phenomenon that began in the US in the 1980s. Let's be clear from the outset: if you look up Slam Poetry in the Urban Dictionary you will (unsurprisingly) be misled. If you look up Slam Poetry in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, you will (more surprisingly) be misled. 'Slam Poetry' is not in fact a thing. To the majority of people who have never experienced a poetry Slam (and no small number of initiated audience members) Slam is incorrectly deployed as a way to describe a particular style or genre of performance poem. As the veteran spoken word artist Buddy Wakefield explained in his 2012 interview with Used Furniture Review: 'Slam poetry is a term that seems to have evolved into a generalization, given to a style of delivery culminating in rapid, rhythmic, cathartic voice and presence [...] Poetry Slam is an event. Slam poetry does not exist (not outside of its practical role of being any given poem entered into a Poetry Slam)'. A 'Slam' is an event, not a style of poetry.
Poetry Slams can be run very differently. Poetry Slam Inc provides a helpful online handbook that contains the basic rules of Poetry Slam. The 2017 version of the handbook is 75 pages long. Don't let that fact put you off though; however complex Slams have become, different approaches tend to be variations on the same basic principles. A select number of poets will compete against each other, performing their own poems in front of a live audience. Typically, these performances will then be evaluated by a panel of judges (sometimes randomly selected from the audience), or judged directly by the whole audience.
Each poem will be given a score, often between 0.0 and 10.0, or simply by show of hands. Poets with the highest scores will proceed to the next round until one poet is determined the winner. Slams can be open (anyone who wishes to perform in the first round may do so) or invitational (only pre-selected poets can perform). Often Slams will not encourage themes so that poets do not feel constricted, but some do. There's also a number of imaginative takes on the basic Slam structure such as the Anti-Slam; where it's the poet with the lowest score that wins.
An Anti-Slam can be a hilarious evening of poetic clangers, but it also highlights the big problem that many critics have with Slams. In a Paris Review Interview in 2000, the notoriously fusty academic Harold Bloom referred to Slams as 'the death of art', complaining that poetry did not need an invisible clap-o-meter. For many people ascribing a score to poetry is deeply uncomfortable. Slams can unfairly privilege more enthusiastic performances over denser or more complicated poems. They can also feel like a popularity contest at times.
But to take the Slam at such face value is arguably missing the point. To quote Allan Wolf, slam master of the 1994 National Poetry Slam: 'The points are not the point; the point is poetry.' Much like the Anti-Slam, which entices its participants to perform the worst poem they can muster, at the most effective Slams, the competition is paradoxically something of an afterthought.
Why have Slams at all then? Because they provide something that is different from the conventional identity of poetry, and something that might encourage new audiences. For all the judging and competitiveness, a Slam can also be a powerfully democratic way of experiencing poetry, which has unfortunately been associated with exclusivity and elitism. In print culture, publishers and literary critics have traditionally acted as gatekeepers who control what books are considered worthwhile. This accessibility is changing with the development of internet cultures, and spoken word (which is often experienced online) has a major part to play.
At an open (rather than invitational) Slam, anyone can get up on stage and perform. Nobody is dictating whether your work is good enough to share or not, and everyone is welcome. Slams judged by the audience allow audience members to feel like they are part of the event and to see that their opinions of a poem matter.
Maybe it is no surprise then that fusty old gatekeepers like Harold Bloom are so dismissive of Slams. They're putting him out of a job.


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Q: Amcharts - Checkbox legend I'm trying to find if amcharts has a facility to have legends as checkboxes just like highcharts does. Some examples in here -
    http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19174158/in-highchart-legend-want-to-bring-checkbox-at-start
    http://jsfiddle.net/lukelarsen/yHGS9/9/
http://flexdevtips.blogspot.co.nz/2009/10/linechart-with-checkbox-legend.html

I tried to put checkboxes outside the chart & add listeners & so forth. it gets complicated. So wondering if anyone has had this requirement & has managed to implement it?
Any help would be highly helpful.

A: There you go:
First we have to add eventlisteners to create the boxes everytime the chart redraws. (this is necessary because the checkboxes are child elements of the legend and the legend is recreated everytime sth happens with the chart)
chart.addListener("init", function() {
    chart.addListener("drawn", createCheckboxes);
    chart.legend.addListener("showItem", createCheckboxes);
    chart.legend.addListener("hideItem", createCheckboxes);
}

Then we're creating the one checkbox for each legend entry.
function createCheckboxes() {
    var legend = chart.legend.legendData;
    var div = $("

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    for(var i = 0; i < legend.length; i++) {
        div.append("<input style='float: left; "
            + "position: absolute; top:" + legend[i].legendEntry.y + "px' "
            + "type='checkbox'" + (legend[i].hidden ? " " : " checked ")
            + "onclick=toggleItem(" + i + ")></input>");
    }
    div.appendTo($(chart.legend.div));
}

The last step is to handle the click event on the checkboxes.
var toggleItem = function(i) {
    chart.legend.clickLabel(chart.legend.legendData[i], event);
}

That's it. Demo

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In our latest video, 11 great writers and actors – including Simon Schama, Tom Stoppard, Antony Beevor and Philippa Gregory – talk about the romance of books and what they love about The London Library. And as Simon Callow describes, "For those with a lifelong romance of books, The London Library is the High Temple".
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Faithlab offers a wide range of services designed to help make your communications more effective, easier to use and more attractive. Because Faithlab's roots are in the publishing world, we have a strong focus on sharing ideas using multiple forms of media. And all our services are personal — you'll have a real person to interact with around ideas and projects.
Identity package: logo design, business cards, stationary, etc.
Jim Dant and David Cassady will visit with your staff and leadership, tour your campus and setting, and make recommendations on strengthening communications and outreach.
Jim Dant offers retreats, revivals and leadership around a range of topics. Check out more about Jim Dant and his current offerings and schedule.
Have a question or a project to discuss? Need pricing for services? Contact David or Jim at Faithlab today at 478-747-2322. We look forward to talking with you. Rather email us? Use this handy online form.


Cornerstone Church is a covenantal body of believers, who share life together. In short, we are a family. We take this designation by God very seriously. We are committed to real relationships, and we recognize that the fundamental human relationship is the family.
From our corporate worship services to our smaller group activities Cornerstone Church is committed to being the family which God has made us, as well as, honoring the families which make up our church.
Therefore we do not over-inflate ourselves with programs that run families ragged. That is not to say that we do not offer programs and activities, like our Children's, Youth, Adult and Mother's Day Out ministries. But, we would much rather encourage you to spend more time around your family table enjoying one another's company, and engaging in Christian hospitality toward your neighbors, which is the primary form of evangelism. This is why we worship and meet the way we do.
Our desire is to encourage families to be all God wants them to be, since the strength of the church is dependent upon the strength of individual families.
While we believe the ideal family involves two loving, godly parents, we do not consider single-parent families inferior to traditional, nuclear families. We understand that many people find themselves raising children without the help of a spouse for a variety of reasons beyond their control, and we embrace these families.
We recognize the added burdens involved in raising children alone, and believe God has called us to come alongside single parents in an effort to lighten their load wherever possible. And we know that this can only be successfully done in the context of the whole life of the church family.
Cornerstone is a family made up of the individual families in our congregation. Our responsibility is to bring glory to our "Heavenly Father" in how He has fit us together in Jesus Christ.


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Q: ajaxComplete firing multiple times - woocommerce add to cart I am trying to make an alert window fire when adding specific products to cart in WooCommerce. For this I am adding a click function to the add to cart button, that fires on ajaxComplete. However, the ajaxComplete seems to make it fire multiple times. How can I prevent this?
jQuery('#bvbutton').click(function() {
  jQuery( document ).ajaxComplete(function() {
    alert("testing!");
  });
});

EDIT: Per request here is a more thorough explanation:
The ajax call is made from within WooCommerce and I would prefer not editing this. What I am trying to do is giving the buttons of the specific products a unique id, and making a click on a button with this id trigger an alert box.
The whole point is that items from within in a specific category, a, is supposed to give 10 % percent discount on products from category b. When adding a product from category a, the alert box is supposed to fire and inform about discount on category b. Hence I give these buttons a specific id, and would like to make a click event targeting these id's. When clicked, I need to await the ajax call that adds item to cart and then fire alert box.
Hope it makes sense now

A: $.ajaxComplete is global. This handler will be added to all AJAX requests as many times as is called. In your case each time #bvbutton is clicked a another handler instance is added globally.
Instead, add the handler once in the DOM ready event. Not on any specific click events.
$(function() {
  jQuery( document ).ajaxComplete(function() {
    alert("testing!");
  });
});

A: Personally I wouldn't do it this way as this will affect all AJAX operations that you do. I would be more inclined to use trigger to fire a custom event when that particular AJAX process is successful. That way you can be more precise as to when your alert goes off. Here's an example:
jQuery(document).on('product-added', function () {
  console.log('Product added');
});

jQuery('#bvbutton').click(function() {
  jQuery.ajax({
     url: endpoint,
     type: 'POST',
     ...
   }).success(function (data) {
     // process data
     jQuery(document).trigger('product-added');
   });
});


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Pence calls Medicaid "deeply flawed" and notes "many doctors and hospitals don't take Medicaid patients anymore." What about the politics of this, I ask, noting the Congressional Budget Office's estimate that millions will lose their health insurance under this reform?
Pence mentions what he calls "the fundamental difference" between Obamacare and the president's proposal. Under Obamacare, he says, the government ordered everyone to have health insurance and the exchanges forced people to pay for services they would never use. The president's goal, he says, is to expand choice and allow people to choose policies — or not — tailored to their needs. The poor would get tax credits to help them purchase policies, should they choose to.
"Amendments" to the House bill, Pence says, "Will be forthcoming" in an effort to address some of the concerns of conservatives who oppose the current measure.
If a Republican congressional majority and a Republican president can't use their power of persuasion to convince enough members of their party to repeal and replace Obamacare, it will leave many people wondering why they are needed.


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from django.db import migrations, models
import django.db.models.deletion

class Migration(migrations.Migration):

    initial = True

    dependencies = [
    ]

    operations = [
        migrations.CreateModel(
            name='Game',
            fields=[
                ('id', models.AutoField(auto_created=True, primary_key=True, serialize=False, verbose_name='ID')),
                ('player1', models.CharField(max_length=100)),
                ('player2', models.CharField(max_length=100)),
                ('winner', models.IntegerField(null=True)),
            ],
        ),
        migrations.CreateModel(
            name='Position',
            fields=[
                ('id', models.AutoField(auto_created=True, primary_key=True, serialize=False, verbose_name='ID')),
                ('square1', models.IntegerField()),
                ('square2', models.IntegerField()),
                ('square3', models.IntegerField()),
                ('square4', models.IntegerField()),
                ('square5', models.IntegerField()),
                ('square6', models.IntegerField()),
                ('square7', models.IntegerField()),
                ('square8', models.IntegerField()),
                ('square9', models.IntegerField()),
                ('game', models.ForeignKey(on_delete=django.db.models.deletion.CASCADE, to='app.Game')),
            ],
        ),
    ]


The stakes for software security are very high, and yet many development teams deal with software security only after the code has been developed and the software is being prepared for delivery. As with any aspect of software quality, to ensure successful implementation, security and privacy issues should be managed throughout the entire software development lifecycle. This course presents an approach for dealing with security and privacy throughout the entire software development lifecycle. You will learn about vulnerabilities that undermine security, and how to identify and remediate them in your own projects. You will learn general strategies for dealing with security defects and misconfiguration, how to design software to deal with the human element in security, and how to incorporate security into all phases of development.
In this course, you will employ best practices in software development to develop secure software.
Identify the need for security in your software projects.
Use a Security by Design approach to design a secure architecture for your software.
Apply various testing methods to find and correct security defects in your software.
Maintain deployed software to ensure ongoing security.
This course is designed for software developers, testers, and architects who design and develop software in various programming languages and platforms including desktop, web, cloud, and mobile, and who want to improve their ability to deliver software that is of high quality, particularly regarding security and privacy.
This course is also designed for students who are seeking the Logical Operations Cyber Secure Coder (CSC) Exam CSC-110 certification.
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Carry-over credits and carbon offsets are hot topics this election – but what do they actually mean?
by Alan Pears And Tim Baxter, The Conversation
Organisations can use offsets as part of their emission reduction strategy. Credit: Shutterstock
In this election, often dubbed the "climate election", voters are refusing to settle for weak policies on climate change.
But between the "will they/won't they" question of whether the coalition will meet their climate targets and the costing of the ALP's targets, there is a lot of misunderstanding, even among experts.
Unsurprisingly, even the best-informed voter is liable to struggle, particularly when generic terms like "carbon credits" are used to describe completely different things.
Broadly, carbon credits work as a certificate permitting someone to emit greenhouse gases. To assess Australia's performance, it's important to understand the differences between the types of certificate.
Just because we can count something as climate performance does not mean we should. Both approaches from the two major parties have their own issues, but that does not mean they are equal.
What are Kyoto carry-over credits and carbon offsets?
Kyoto carry-over credits
Carry-over credits are "certificates" that translate our international commitments as a number of tonnes. These credits represent emissions we could have released into the atmosphere under our international commitments, but didn't.
As we come to the end of the second international commitment period, we have a lot of leftover credits. The government wants to use credits from the first and second periods (2008-2012 and 2013-2020) to satisfy our obligations under the third (2021-2030).
Carbon offset credits
In the case of offsets, these certificates come from actions that reduce emissions. These actions should be measurable and new. Sadly, they do not always meet that simple standard.
Offset credits are a trading "currency" that, in principle, reduces the overall cost of emission reduction.
Australia's current and projected emissions and targets with Kyoto carry-over credit transfer. Credit: Tim Baxter, 'In a Canter'? Demystifying Australia's Emissions Budget for Paris., Author provided
Emission reduction can be costly or difficult for some, and offsets allow individuals or businesses to buy certificates from others who can cut or capture emissions at lower cost.
Rules to create, trade and monitor offsets can be set at an international, regional or national level. Some offsetting is voluntary, but most is to comply with legal requirements.
The carry-over credit debate
The Coalition plans to use credit from our "over-achievement" in meeting Kyoto targets, as a shortcut to meet the Paris Agreement targets.
Under the Paris Agreement, Australia has voluntarily agreed to reduce its cumulative emissions to 26-28% below 2005 levels by 2030. If we use the Kyoto-era credit for the Paris Agreement, it will take only a 15% reduction on 2005 levels to successfully meet our commitment.
But the Kyoto Protocol only applied to developed countries, while the Paris agreement applies to many developing countries.
This means many signatories to Paris have no "carry-over" credits they can use. Among those developed nations that do have this credit, almost all have said they will not use Kyoto carry-over credits to meet their Paris commitments.
So the coalition's position is widely seen as morally dubious. And there are real questions around whether our supposed credit from the Kyoto era can be used at all.
Given the nature of the Paris Agreement, the international community will unlikely enforce an express ban on using carry-over credit.
But that doesn't mean we should use it. Australia's international reputation depends on rejecting the use of Kyoto carry-over. More importantly, so does our climate.
Under the Kyoto Protocol, several offsetting schemes were created between countries, so-called "flexible mechanisms". Among these emission reduction opportunities is the Clean Development Mechanism.
Sydney's School Strike 4 Climate, March 2019. Climate change is one of the top issues voters care about in the upcoming election. Credit: Shutterstock
The Clean Development Mechanism is an offset scheme where developed countries fund emission reduction action in developing countries.
If projects meet the requirements of the mechanism, the developing country claims certificates equal to the amount of emissions reduction they can prove. They then sell the certificates they have earned to developed countries.
This scheme has seen a number of renewable energy projects constructed, such as hydroelectric dams and projects that consume waste to create electricity.
Offsetting carbon voluntarily
Voluntary use of carbon offsets has also grown. For example, Australia's voluntary National Carbon Offsets Standard allows organisations to use offsets as part of their emission reduction strategy.
Australia's Carbon Farming Initiative is one such example. This offsetting scheme was originally designed by the ALP, but now underpins the coalition's Emissions Reduction Fund.
Projects registered under this scheme can create Australian Carbon Credit Units through methods such as revegetation, capture and combustion of methane or surrender of land clearing rights.
The government buys these credits through reverse auctions – one buyer with many potential sellers. They're also frequently purchased by Australian facilities caught by the safeguard mechanism (a framework for the largest emitters to measure, report and manage their emissions) and individuals looking to voluntarily offset their own emissions.
The ALP plans to tighten the baselines under the safeguard mechanism, compelling Australia's major emitters, such as our largest resource companies, to either reduce on-site emissions or purchase Australian Carbon Credit Units.
In a 2014 report, the Climate Change Authority recommended Australia adopt an emission reduction target between 45% and 65% below 2005 levels by 2030. It noted international carbon offsets would help ensure Australia could meet this more ambitious target.
The ALP's approach is superficially compatible with the Climate Change Authority, though it plans to negotiate the detail if elected. A lot will hang on where these negotiations fall.
Using offset credits is undoubtedly better than taking no action at all. But offsetting must have integrity, not accounting sleight-of-hand. If genuine, they can help cut global emissions at the lowest cost while also delivering local social, economic and environmental benefits.
It is important offsetting methods continue to be refined and debated, while keeping a critical eye on whether they provide environmental benefit.
Credit scheme backfired, hiking greenhouse gases, study finds
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'use strict';

var should = require('should'),
	request = require('supertest'),
	app = require('../../server'),
	mongoose = require('mongoose'),
	User = mongoose.model('User'),
	Competency = mongoose.model('Competency'),
	agent = request.agent(app);

/**
 * Globals
 */
var credentials, user, competency;

/**
 * Competency routes tests
 */
describe('Competency CRUD tests', function() {
	beforeEach(function(done) {
		// Create user credentials
		credentials = {
			username: 'username',
			password: 'password'
		};

		// Create a new user
		user = new User({
			firstName: 'Full',
			lastName: 'Name',
			displayName: 'Full Name',
			email: 'test@test.com',
			username: credentials.username,
			password: credentials.password,
			provider: 'local'
		});

		// Save a user to the test db and create new Competency
		user.save(function() {
			competency = {
				name: 'Competency Name'
			};

			done();
		});
	});

	it('should be able to save Competency instance if logged in', function(done) {
		agent.post('/auth/signin')
			.send(credentials)
			.expect(200)
			.end(function(signinErr, signinRes) {
				// Handle signin error
				if (signinErr) done(signinErr);

				// Get the userId
				var userId = user.id;

				// Save a new Competency
				agent.post('/competencies')
					.send(competency)
					.expect(200)
					.end(function(competencySaveErr, competencySaveRes) {
						// Handle Competency save error
						if (competencySaveErr) done(competencySaveErr);

						// Get a list of Competencies
						agent.get('/competencies')
							.end(function(competenciesGetErr, competenciesGetRes) {
								// Handle Competency save error
								if (competenciesGetErr) done(competenciesGetErr);

								// Get Competencies list
								var competencies = competenciesGetRes.body;

								// Set assertions
								(competencies[0].user._id).should.equal(userId);
								(competencies[0].name).should.match('Competency Name');

								// Call the assertion callback
								done();
							});
					});
			});
	});

	it('should not be able to save Competency instance if not logged in', function(done) {
		agent.post('/competencies')
			.send(competency)
			.expect(401)
			.end(function(competencySaveErr, competencySaveRes) {
				// Call the assertion callback
				done(competencySaveErr);
			});
	});

	it('should not be able to save Competency instance if no name is provided', function(done) {
		// Invalidate name field
		competency.name = '';

		agent.post('/auth/signin')
			.send(credentials)
			.expect(200)
			.end(function(signinErr, signinRes) {
				// Handle signin error
				if (signinErr) done(signinErr);

				// Get the userId
				var userId = user.id;

				// Save a new Competency
				agent.post('/competencies')
					.send(competency)
					.expect(400)
					.end(function(competencySaveErr, competencySaveRes) {
						// Set message assertion
						(competencySaveRes.body.message).should.match('Please fill Competency name');

						// Handle Competency save error
						done(competencySaveErr);
					});
			});
	});

	it('should be able to update Competency instance if signed in', function(done) {
		agent.post('/auth/signin')
			.send(credentials)
			.expect(200)
			.end(function(signinErr, signinRes) {
				// Handle signin error
				if (signinErr) done(signinErr);

				// Get the userId
				var userId = user.id;

				// Save a new Competency
				agent.post('/competencies')
					.send(competency)
					.expect(200)
					.end(function(competencySaveErr, competencySaveRes) {
						// Handle Competency save error
						if (competencySaveErr) done(competencySaveErr);

						// Update Competency name
						competency.name = 'WHY YOU GOTTA BE SO MEAN?';

						// Update existing Competency
						agent.put('/competencies/' + competencySaveRes.body._id)
							.send(competency)
							.expect(200)
							.end(function(competencyUpdateErr, competencyUpdateRes) {
								// Handle Competency update error
								if (competencyUpdateErr) done(competencyUpdateErr);

								// Set assertions
								(competencyUpdateRes.body._id).should.equal(competencySaveRes.body._id);
								(competencyUpdateRes.body.name).should.match('WHY YOU GOTTA BE SO MEAN?');

								// Call the assertion callback
								done();
							});
					});
			});
	});

	it('should be able to get a list of Competencies if not signed in', function(done) {
		// Create new Competency model instance
		var competencyObj = new Competency(competency);

		// Save the Competency
		competencyObj.save(function() {
			// Request Competencies
			request(app).get('/competencies')
				.end(function(req, res) {
					// Set assertion
					res.body.should.be.an.Array.with.lengthOf(1);

					// Call the assertion callback
					done();
				});

		});
	});

	it('should be able to get a single Competency if not signed in', function(done) {
		// Create new Competency model instance
		var competencyObj = new Competency(competency);

		// Save the Competency
		competencyObj.save(function() {
			request(app).get('/competencies/' + competencyObj._id)
				.end(function(req, res) {
					// Set assertion
					res.body.should.be.an.Object.with.property('name', competency.name);

					// Call the assertion callback
					done();
				});
		});
	});

	it('should be able to delete Competency instance if signed in', function(done) {
		agent.post('/auth/signin')
			.send(credentials)
			.expect(200)
			.end(function(signinErr, signinRes) {
				// Handle signin error
				if (signinErr) done(signinErr);

				// Get the userId
				var userId = user.id;

				// Save a new Competency
				agent.post('/competencies')
					.send(competency)
					.expect(200)
					.end(function(competencySaveErr, competencySaveRes) {
						// Handle Competency save error
						if (competencySaveErr) done(competencySaveErr);

						// Delete existing Competency
						agent.delete('/competencies/' + competencySaveRes.body._id)
							.send(competency)
							.expect(200)
							.end(function(competencyDeleteErr, competencyDeleteRes) {
								// Handle Competency error error
								if (competencyDeleteErr) done(competencyDeleteErr);

								// Set assertions
								(competencyDeleteRes.body._id).should.equal(competencySaveRes.body._id);

								// Call the assertion callback
								done();
							});
					});
			});
	});

	it('should not be able to delete Competency instance if not signed in', function(done) {
		// Set Competency user
		competency.user = user;

		// Create new Competency model instance
		var competencyObj = new Competency(competency);

		// Save the Competency
		competencyObj.save(function() {
			// Try deleting Competency
			request(app).delete('/competencies/' + competencyObj._id)
			.expect(401)
			.end(function(competencyDeleteErr, competencyDeleteRes) {
				// Set message assertion
				(competencyDeleteRes.body.message).should.match('User is not logged in');

				// Handle Competency error error
				done(competencyDeleteErr);
			});

		});
	});

	afterEach(function(done) {
		User.remove().exec();
		Competency.remove().exec();
		done();
	});
});


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Hurt – and healed – by love: Korn's Fieldy on sobriety, faith, and more
May 3, 2009 by John Cody 12 Comments
During our initial conversation, Welch admitted to being nervous over upcoming plans to meet with Fieldy for the first time since quitting Korn. When we next spoke, he said the meeting hadn't happened; that he was waiting on God's timing.
Head and Fieldy
"I still haven't really talked to him," Fieldy confirms. "There was one point where I was on the phone with him. He was going to come to my house, and we were going to have lunch, and at the last minute he pulled out of it. He called me, and was like 'Well, what do you want to talk about?' and I said 'I want to sit down and talk to you; I don't want to talk over the phone.'"
Head cancelled. "He's like: 'Well, just go do this tour, and when you get back, we'll hook up.'" There's been no communication since.
"He's changed numbers, lost contact." Arvizu still hopes to connect. "I don't know; I don't know where it's at or what's going on. But he knows where to find me when he's ready. Because I've been more than ready forever to sit down and talk with him."
While Arvizu stayed with the band, he fully supports Welch's decision to leave.
"The way I see it today, with more understanding, is it's so cool that he actually left, because there's so many people in the world that are stuck in situations that are afraid to leave. And he did that. And he still can reach people where they're at.
"And then from my side of it, there are so many people who are afraid to make that change, and stay right where they're at, and be strong enough. So, both ways are good. And who knows what tomorrow brings? He may be back with us, or I may not be in Korn. I don't know."
For the time being, he believes he's exactly where God wants him to be. "There's so much power by staying. I can either walk away from it, or I can use the power of Korn to release books like I just did.
"If I stay, I'm walking with a sword. If I walk away, it becomes like a butter knife. I'm going to have a hard time doing anything. Because eventually, you get forgot. So I'm just taking the good out of it right now and trying to push as much as I can."
Throughout our conversations, Arvizu conveys a genuine sense of peace and humility. Visions of grandeur – rock star turned egotistical preacher – are refreshingly absent. His goal is to connect through authentic dialogue, avoiding any sense of the traditional performer/audience dynamic. "Hopefully, and who knows? If they get led to Christ, they may have a whole different style."
He makes a point of meeting fans as often as possible. "I love it. Right now I'm traveling, and I'm able to reach so many people. I step off my bus and there's thousands of kids. I can go out and do a book signing every day.
"I'm a people person, and for years, I've had people come up – and I didn't really know how to ask – but they'll walk up to me, crying, and saying; 'You saved my life.' Now, when they say 'You saved my life,' I'll go; 'How?' And I start talking with them, and I start to get in their head. Instead of just going; 'That's nice, cool. I'm glad we could help you.' I'm like; 'How?'"
Bible study is a vital part of Arvizu's daily routine. When I call at 9:00 in the morning, he's already finished his morning reading, and eager to share some insights.
"What I love, is that you always go through seasons. For the four years I've been reading, I've noticed that pretty much the same scriptures pop out at me – for me. And that's like God screaming out to me, so I've been starting to write down the ones that keep popping out, so I can memorize, throughout the Bible, these same scriptures."
It's a method he endorses wholeheartedly. "We should all grab those – memorize them. And once you memorize, you begin to walk with a sword of the word of life."
He's well aware that what resonates with one person may not impact another in the same way. "Someone else, like for example, a friend of mine, he might text me over a scripture, and I'm like" — he begins to laugh — "'I don't even know what you're talking about!' It doesn't even hit me, but it hit him, and he's passionate about it."
Continuous study has resulted in an increasing awareness of common theological pitfalls – and grace for those who stumble.
"When I go to church – even when I listen to Christian talk radio – sometimes I'll hear things the inner spirit just doesn't agree with, but I understand we're all a work in progress, and whoever is speaking is doing the best they can do. I know they're going to fail in some departments, and I'm alright with that. And I know there's going to be people in the church that are just coming off of drugs, or whatever. I just go there and I get the good out of it."
That attitude applies to those who hold to doctrine well outside of traditional church teachings. He mentions a Mormon friend. "I don't say this to him, but I don't agree with a lot of things that they do. Because they say, 'We go door to door, so we can do our good works.' And good works get them into heaven – I don't agree with that. But then I'm saying; 'Well, that's way better than what I'm doing.' That's a good deed – that's pretty cool. So how am I going to point the finger?"
In Save Me From Myself Welch wrote of his misplaced belief that, as a new man in Christ, he would never again face temptation. When that proved to be anything but the case, reality was difficult to accept.
"You know, a lot of people think that, too. When they first get saved, they're like: 'Oh, things are going to be great!' And the only thing I can say," [here – not for the first time – Arvizu quotes scripture to make his point], "is in Corinthians: 'The temptations in your life are no different than what others experience, and God is faithful, he will not allow the temptations to be more than you can stand.' It says, 'When you are tempted, He will show you a way out, so you can endure.' 'When you are tempted,' it says.
"Sometimes, as a new person in Christ you don't really get that right away, because that's way in Corinthians, and if you're starting in Genesis, you may not get to that for awhile.
"Or, you could be reading your Bible for a year, and actually be thinking about something else, and pass right over that scripture. You're like, 'Man! I've been reading this for three years and I never got that one" It could be that. There's so many things."
In some form or other, he agrees, the struggle is ongoing. "Christ says; 'Come follow me, my burden is light, my load is light.' It's still a load. And I always think about that. I always think, man, I could ditch all this, and just go back the other way. But the other load is way heavier than following this way. So I always remember that, and it always keeps me walking strong. Because I know it's going to get better and better, and you get stronger and stronger, and your foundation is better. It's a load, though; it's just a lighter load."
As he points out, if getting stoned worked better, he'd still be doing it.
Not surprisingly, his approach to parenting is different than what he experienced growing up; "It doesn't really work for me to tell my kids; 'You can't do this, you can't do that.' I think that loving them unconditionally, and loving them through their seasons of life is the best way. And for me, just living my life and let them watch me live. Just through my actions and how I live."
Arvizu and son Israel. Photo: Regin
As his family continues to grow – in addition to a son, he has two daughters from his second marriage – church attendance has declined. "After having my boy – he just turned 2 – it's really hard. And my touring: I'm going to be gone for three months. I'd have to go in a different city every time, and I'm not going to know those people. So it's almost like I'm at a point in my life where Paul was, when he was traveling in Acts, and he was moving everywhere. It's like this is where I'm at in this season. But I do like to go to church, and when I do have some down time I do like to go. I guess that's where I'm at right now. But I can't wait, because, when I do go to church, it's fun. There's so much activity there."
As far back as he can remember, Arvizu's dream was to be a rock star. Image was everything, and music was a distant second – simply a means to achieving stardom.
"I grew up in a house of rock 'n' roll," he recalls. "Getting into music was nothing more to me than sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll." After experience all that fame can offer, his priorities have changed.
"Today, I understand how music is; man, it's the best. I love it so much, and create it so much, that I can only think that when you go to heaven, you're gonna see me up there playing my harp.
"For some reason music always falls right into my lap. I'm always doing it. I don't even know how or why, it just comes to me, and it's always there."
He offers a typical example. "I went down to San Diego yesterday to do a book signing. I had a radio interview at 9:00 AM, and then a book signing at 7:30 at night. So I packed my gym clothes, and I'm like, 'I'll sleep in the car, this is going to be a slow day. I guess I need it.'
"I get down there, and end up stopping to see my friend Bobby, who runs a clothing line. Next door is the P.O.D. studio, so we walk over there, just showing a couple of friends the studio, and I'm thinking 'Man, I should have brought my guitar.' [P.O.D. drummer] Wov said, 'I've got a guitar right here.' He starts plugging things in, and we ended up creating a song and jamming the whole entire day, until I had just enough time to run out of there and make it to my book signing.
"These situations always happen to me, and I don't even try. It's just crazy, like non-stop, always doing some type of music."
He credits his father with instilling the practical skills he would need to survive as a musician: dad taught him to read music and become fluent in a number of different styles.
"Growing up, there were instruments all over the place. So I guess I'm a little familiar with everything. I played a lot; from classical to rock to jazz to funk to everything. When you're doing anything – whether you're an artist drawing, or any type – you always end up doing a bunch of things until you find the one you like. It's cool, though, because you get all that experience. It ends up being good later."
Photo: Sébastien Paquet
That early experience has paid dividends. He played stand-up bass on a session with DJ Lethal ["I just jumped on it"], even though he'd never performed on the instrument before, and he's currently working on a jazz fusion project — his self-described 'bass solo album.'
An even bigger stretch is his work with Stillwell; "I'm the guitar player on that project. I just picked up a guitar, and started practicing hours and hours a day. Six months go by, and I'm like; 'You know what? I'm pretty good at this thing now.' Because I realized my fingers were getting confident. It was weird — I didn't used to be able to do these things."
Stillwell's debut CD, tentatively titled Surrounded by Liars, is slated for release later this year. The band, whose sound he describes as "street metal,' released the video 'Killing Myself To Live' under the name Capitol Q last year.
"I've got Wuv from P.O.D. playing drums, and the singer's name is Q-Unique. The whole album is lyrically-based on struggles, just life struggles, but in a spiritual way. It's not really like your 'Christian' album, I guess I could say it's more like if Job decided to write an album. That's what it's really based on."
Considering it's straight ahead message of grace and forgiveness, reaction to Got The Life has been overwhelmingly upbeat. Sharing his story without alienating those who might not agree with his new outlook was the goal.
"I was trying, man. I was trying as much as I could, to not be too preachy, but get the message in there, you know? I was trying to do that. Because this is the first book; the next one I can do that – the full-on Christian book. This is just like the first little seed."
Fieldy and wife Dena
He's already begun a sequel of sorts. "I'm actually working on another book, a daily devotion book that I'll be able to push – another thing I can push. I can use the power of Korn, you know? I'll be able to continue to just use this, through this season. And who knows when it's going to change."
Arvizu believes that as tough as the dark times were, without his history, no one would be interested in his future. The past, he claims, is a gift — albeit, a painful gift.
"It was something I had to go through. And it was a gift, because that old life that I lived is dead. I don't even want it. It's gone. I'm restored, and I'm healthy. So I know that God's saying 'I want to use you for this.' And that's what it was. I was strong enough. I made it through."
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Selena Gomez dead at 19
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Selena Gomez was pronounced dead at the scene of a fatal alcohol-related accident.
Los Angeles – Fans mourn the loss of Disney star Selena Gomez, who was pronounced dead in a fatal car crash Friday. According to police on the scene, alcohol is believed to have been a factor in the accident.
Gomez had to be cut loose from the wreckage of her late model Ford Escape Hybrid, which was tangled between a guardrail and telephone pole off Santa Monica Boulevard, authorities said.
"When I see this happening to kids," explained LAPD's Deputy Foster, holding back tears, "I wrench up inside. This is a tragedy. They weren't even old enough to drink or have sex with me."
Attorneys confirmed profits from Gomez's new clothing line, "Dream Out Loud by Selena Gomez," are contractually obligated to absorb into Disney, which has outraged family members seeking comfort from the corporation which capitalized so heavily upon Gomez's image, at the cost of her life.
The teen starlet, who just recorded a song with heartthrob Justin Bieber, was not alone in the accident. Two others died at the scene, however because they are not famous, and never will be, their names will not be printed here.
Uncomfirmed reports of two other individuals have surfaced amid reports Gomez was cheating on Bieber. Unnamed sources close to the couple indicated the two had "been having problems" but would not comment on the accident, or Gomez's awesome underage drinking "problem."
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Are British A-Levels hard?
Yes, the UK A-levels are much harder than the US high school exams, but it's not about the "exam format." Instead, it's about the "exam specialisation". In the UK, most children take a wide range of subjects at age 14–15.
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Is British school harder than American school? There's nothing really different between the UK and the US when it comes down to Tests and Schools. The UK have harder tests but a laughable school grading scale, while the US has slightly easier tests but a harsher grading scale.
Then, Which is harder IB or A-Level? Each qualification offers something different to the individual student. A Levels have been shown to offer more in-depth subject expertise, the IB a more global outlook and understanding of the world and Cambridge Pre-U a more rigorous course for top students.
Do UK universities prefer IB or A-Levels?
When it comes to UK university applications, the A-level is still the benchmark against which most universities set their entry requirements for courses. If you're a UK student making decisions about which university is right for you, then A-level results are everything.
In this regard Are mocks easier than GCSEs? A lot of mock papers, particularly maths and english, are the resit papers. They are harder than the regular GCSE paper with higher grade boundaries.
Are GCSEs harder than SATs? Originally Answered: Are GCSEs harder than SATs? SAT's are easier because they are done at the end of Primary School and don't seem to mean anything after that, whereas GCSE's are at the end of High School and you get a qualification for them that follows you to College and maybe University & jobs.
Is PE GCSE easy? SOME GCSEs are easier than others, despite official claims that each subject is equally difficult, a study has concluded. … Drama was the easiest GCSE to do well in, followed by PE/sport, media studies, English, sociology, English literature, business studies and religious studies.
What do British call high school?
The first thing to note is that in most parts of the UK, high school is referred to as secondary school. The term high school is more frequently used in Scotland, which is where the term originates.
Are SATS easier than Gcses? GCSE exams can take weeks to finish. SAT's are easier because they are done at the end of Primary School and don't seem to mean anything after that, whereas GCSE's are at the end of High School and you get a qualification for them that follows you to College and maybe University & jobs.
What are Gcses equivalent to in America?
5 GCSE passes at grade C or higher are considered the rough equivalent of a US High School Diploma (without Honors or 'Advanced Placement' (AP) classes). This will be sufficient for a student to gain entry to less selective US colleges and universities.
Is IB easier than GCSE? The myth probably comes from the fact that many students feel they absolutely must get an A* for every subject at GCSE, or at least most of them – only the top grade will do! A Level and IB are both clearly a lot harder than GCSEs – aim high by all means but do realise what it all means!
Does IB like Oxford?
The University does not accept the IB Career-related Programme.
Why is IB so hard?
The intensity of IB is one of the factors which makes it appear 'difficult'. Students, to a large extent, have to perform as all-rounders. With the help of CAS, IB ensures that student's education is not only limited to their classrooms.
Is a-level harder than AP? An A-level Physics paper is MUCH, MUCH harder than an AP Physics paper, but you are only taking 3 or 4 subjects. By contrast in the US system, students do not specialise until university.
Does Harvard accept A levels? Over 825 universities in the US formally accept Cambridge International AS & A Levels, including all Ivy League and Ivy Plus universities. These universities include Brown, Harvard, MIT, Stanford and Yale.
How hard is it to get a 9 in GCSE?
In 2020 Grade 9s made up 6.6% of all results in England across all GCSE subjects – slightly higher than the previous year, but still quite a small percentage. … You'll need to work hard at your Maths throughout your GCSE years in order to get a 9, putting in regular effort rather than leaving it all until exam time.
Can you use dictionary in GCSE? Bilingual translation dictionaries can be used by candidates in certain exams if their 'first language is not English, Irish or Welsh' and where this reflects their 'normal way of working' (section 14.2, page 27). The centre does not need to make an application for this or record the use of the dictionary.
Do YR 10 mocks matter?
Year 10 mock exams are designed to prepare you for your final Year 11 exams. They will be used to inform end of Year 10 predicted grades in each subject. These exams are very important and you should revise for each subject thoroughly, before the exam takes place.
Is school in England harder than America? There's nothing really different between the UK and the US when it comes down to Tests and Schools. The UK have harder tests but a laughable school grading scale, while the US has slightly easier tests but a harsher grading scale.
What is GCSE called in America?
There is no common equivalent to GCSE in the USA; there is no exam at 16. There is no direct equivalent to A-level, though AP gets quite close. There is no common equivalent to GCSE in the USA; there is no exam at 16. There is no direct equivalent to A-level, though AP gets quite close.
At what age are SATS taken? These assessments take place in the May of year 6 (age 11) and are more formal tests in English (grammar, punctuation, spelling and reading) and maths.


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Chris Coghlan Stats & Scouting Report - Baseball America
Chris Coghlan
Name: Christopher B. Coghlan
Born: Jun 18, 1985 in Palm Harbor, FL
High School: East Lake HS, Tarpon Springs, Fla.
Drafted in the supplemental 1st round (36th overall) by the Miami Marlins in 2006 (signed for $950,000)
While Coghlan has never hit more than six home runs in a college season, he's a polished hitter who is a good bet to hit for average with a wood bat. He took a step toward proving that last summer when he won the Cape Cod League batting title with a .326 average. He doesn't generate above-average bat speed, but like Georgia Tech third baseman Wes Hodges, he has a penchant for making solid contact. He uses the entire field, has exceptional plate discipline, good plate coverage and works counts well. He caught briefly when he was younger, and a club could be tempted to move him back there, considering his lack of power at third base. Second base is another option. Coghlan has good hands and moves well to both sides. He has an average arm.


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Thursday, November 4. 2010
What do "Left" and "Right" mean? - with the obligatory reference to Hitler (A Leftist, of course)
Big lies, small lies, creative and manipulative "narratives," etc. are what much of politics is all about. We know that politics is a more humane substitute for war.
(We also know that, as virtuous souls, Conservatives always hold the high moral ground. Always.)
That aside, I am still puzzled by the shorthand of "Left" and "Right." It makes no real sense, as Wiki explains well.
If today people use those words nowadays to signify collectivism vs. individualism and freedom, why don't we use those words instead?
Jonah Goldberg notably dealt with these issues in his Liberal Fascism.
OK, but what about Adolf Hitler? Left or Right? This via Doug Ross:
"I have learned a great deal from Marxism, as I do not hesitate to admit. The difference between them and myself is that I have really put into practice what these peddlers and penpushers have timidly begun...I had only to develop logically what Social Democracy repeatedly failed in because of its attempt to realize its evolution within the framework of democracy. National Socialism is what Marxism might have been if it could have broken its absurd and artificial ties with the democratic order." -- Hitler to Rauschning, The Voice of Destruction, pg. 186
I found another one, too:
"It is thus necessary that the individual should come to realize that his own ego is of no importance in comparison with the existence of his nation; that the position of the individual ego is conditioned solely by the interests of the nation as a whole ... that above all the unity of a nation's spirit and will are worth far more than the freedom of the spirit and will of an individual. .... This state of mind, which subordinates the interests of the ego to the conservation of the community, is really the first premise for every truly human culture .... we understand only the individual's capacity to make sacrifices for the community, for his fellow man." Adolph Hitler, 1933.
Yes, he was just another messianic Leftist dictator with a zealous faith in governmental benevolence and altruism - at gunpoint. Just one amongst the number of Socialist mass-murderers of the 20th Century. I think Hitler would have argued against being part of any "Right."
Statist, collectivist people should be called that - or just called Socialist. People like me can be termed Constitutional-Conservatives-with-a-broad-Libertarian-streak. I guess it's no wonder people look for a shorthand for that, but "Right" doesn't fit.
Posted by The Barrister in History, Our Essays, Politics at 14:02 | Comments (7) | Trackbacks (0)
"I am still puzzled by the shorthand of "Left" and "Right." It makes no real sense."
I think it comes from the Bible. Sheep and the Goats, Good and Evil, Righteous and the Wicked, Dexter and Sinister, Beck Watchers and Olbermann Watchers, that kind of thing. . . .
Certainly that's the way I view it. But I have always been a kind of simplistic guy.
#1 Jim on 2010-11-04 14:11 (Reply)
I always associated the terms with the French revolution - but your post opened my eyes! The Bible - of course.
This may be something for Dan Brown:
"Seated at the right hand of God" equates to right wing politics. It is so natural.
The left is, therefore, the devil's work!
I like it. It's so simpel and so clear to me now. Thanks Jim
#1.1 jg on 2010-11-04 14:45 (Reply)
National Socialism was both fascist (one of the original modern fascist states) and leftist. Nationalistic and socialistic. Hence the name.
Jerry Pournelle has a better, two-dimensional, organization of political thought, Rationalism vs Statism.
Pournelle Political Axes
http://www.baen.com/chapters/axes.htm
It works so well that it will never be popular.
#2 Looking Glass on 2010-11-04 14:59 (Reply)
Conservative thought has always been "Right" in the sense that the right hand was always considered "good" while the left was not. Things on the "Right" are usually standard, typical, acceptable.
Consider the Rive Gauche (Left Bank), which was hip and trendy, but outcast at the same time. Bohemianism, excessive behaviors were associated with "Left" behavior.
Hitler was called "Right" by many because of the lack of understanding of Fascism. Fascism today is viewed as the state barging in the door and taking you to jail or worse for thinking the wrong way. Nothing is further from the truth. Fascism is an economic policy whereby private ownership of the means of production are overseen by political dictate. You may own the factory - but you'll build what we tell you to build.
Ayn Rand, correctly, saw this as nothing more than DE FACTO Socialism, indeed Hitler himself knew this - which is why he considered Communists and Socialists his enemy. They engaged forms of democracy to achieve their goals, a risk he couldn't allow.
But they were bedfellows, nonetheless.
The political spectrum is a circle, rather than a line. Humans like to think in a linear fashion. We fear complex, non-linear behaviors. Asymmetrical warfare is poorly understood by the armchair general - it's abhorrent and considered chaotic and bordering on terror by amateurs. The same is true of the market. Ask anyone how they feel when prices are falling and it's "the market is broken". But when it rises, "the market is working great". Our linear minds work this way because it suits us. It's incorrect, of course, but this is where politics comes in.
A TRULY GOOD politician would realize this, and speak to it...use it to his advantage to show the poor thought patterns of the left. The left, in their desire for perfection and Utopia, think in a fashion FAR TOO LINEAR.
The Right, less so.
Libertarians, by their nature, are probably the truest non-linear thinkers. They believe in pure freedom and the rights of man. It's a scary proposition, alot of chaos wrapped up in it. But it works every time it's applied because of the invisible hand......(which is said to "not work" even as it doles out perceived slights).
Communists, or anyone who believes in "economic fairness" (LOL, now THERE'S a funny term) are not clear thinkers.
The idea that any kind of fairness exists beyond natural rights and freedoms is absurd. Fairness in economics is accrued by action and behavior....not legislation, regulation and dictate. These things create black markets - increasing the unfairness overall.
#3 Rick on 2010-11-04 15:32 (Reply)
I think you want to look at a different Wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_spectrum
Isn't it just that as you view both our house congress and the senate from the gallery, the Democrats sit on the left side and the Republicans sit on the right side by tradition?
#4 Douglas2 on 2010-11-04 16:23 (Reply)
no, the "Left" is a very old term and has little to do with our Congress and where they sit.
If it did, the French would never have adopted the term.
"Left" as a concept of something different comes from left and right handedness.
Right was traditional, "normal".
Left was an aberration.
#4.1 Rick on 2010-11-05 10:59 (Reply)
It's Adolf with an "f," not a "ph."
#5 The Oracle (Link) on 2010-11-05 11:07 (Reply)
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Wednesday April 6, 2022
Editorial Cartoon by Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator – Wednesday April 6, 2022
In Bucha, death, devastation and a graveyard of mines
The Russian forces had not been in town for long before they came to the home of Volodymyr Avramov, a resident of Vokzal'na Street in the quiet Ukrainian suburb of Bucha.
Three Russians kicked in the doors and threw in a grenade, the 72-year-old Avramov said. Inside were Avramov, his daughter, and his son-in-law, Oleh.
They dragged Oleh outside and made him kneel – then shot him in the head as Avramov and his daughter watched, he said. The two then had to shelter in a basement for weeks as the fighting continued.
"Oleh was laying on the street for a month. I could not come close or bury him, nothing," he said.
Images of dead civilians lining the streets of Bucha have shocked the world in recent days and heightened concerns that Russian soldiers are committing war crimes in Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called it genocide.
"There were piles of dead corpses lying here, without arms, without legs, without skulls," Avramov said. "You wouldn't see it in a nightmare. It's horror."
Stories resembling the one told by Avramov have been documented by Human Rights Watch, which found evidence of execution-style killings of civilian men in multiple Ukrainian cities, including Bucha.
Now Ukraine has intensified its calls for the West to provide more military aid and take greater action against Russia, in hopes of tipping the scale as the fight shifts from Kyiv to eastern Ukraine.
"If we had already got what we needed – all these planes, tanks, artillery, anti-missile and anti-ship weapons – we could have saved thousands of people. I do not blame you — I blame only the Russian military. But you could have helped," Zelenskyy said in a speech Monday.
As part of the effort, Ukrainian authorities have organized tours for foreign journalists to see the extent of Russia's devastation of Bucha: Destroyed homes, blackened buildings, blown out windows, and the apocalyptic Vokzal'na Street – a half-mile-long graveyard of burned out tanks and cars.
Amid the ruins, members of a demining crew showed journalists some of the explosives that have been recovered from homes in the city. About 4,000 were found on Monday alone, officials said, a mix of mines, ammunition and unexploded missiles.
The bodies of some 200 civilians have been recovered so far in the Bucha area, officials say, and more are uncovered each day as crews work to remove mines and clear rubble. (NPR)
Posted in: International Tagged: 2022-12, atrocity, Bucha, civilian, death, flag, massacre, Russia, terror, Ukraine, war
Saturday February 12, 2022
February 12, 2022 by Graeme MacKay
Editorial Cartoon by Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator – Saturday February 12, 2022
Flying the Maple Leaf
After the first full week of Winter Olympic competition in Beijing, Team Canada has won a total of 12 medals: one gold, four silver and seven bronze. (The Globe & Mail)
Meanwhile, an expected protest at the Peace Bridge in Fort Erie, Ont., has police, border services, public health and politicians watching closely, fearing it could endanger people or further business woes.
Social media posts show people opposed to continued pandemic mandates have plans to bring transport trucks and crowds of people to the border crossing that connects southern Ontario to Buffalo.
Currently, protests are ongoing in border cities like Coutts, Alta., Emerson, Man., and Windsor, Ont., as rallies that started in Ottawa two weeks ago continue. (CBC)
Nobody is threatening gridlock or shutting down the U.S.-Canada border as groups are in Ottawa and at northern crossings over the past few days.
Posted in: Canada Tagged: 2022-06, Border, bridge, Canada, commerce, convoy, flag, freedom, Maple Leaf, olympics, pandemic, patriotism, protest, trucker
MPs vote to label China's persecution of Uighurs a genocide
Parliament today accused the Chinese government of carrying out a campaign of genocide against Uighurs and other Turkic Muslims.
A substantial majority of MPs — including most Liberals who participated — voted in favour of a Conservative motion that says China's actions in its western Xinjiang region meet the definition of genocide set out in the 1948 United Nations Genocide Convention.
The final tally was 266 in favour and zero opposed. Two MPs formally abstained.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and almost all of his cabinet colleagues were absent for the vote. Foreign Affairs Minister Marc Garneau was the only cabinet minister present. When it was his turn, he said he abstained "on behalf of the Government of Canada."
The motion also calls on the government to lobby the International Olympic Committee to move the 2022 Winter Olympic Games out of Beijing.
It was passed over the strenuous objections of Chinese Ambassador to Canada Cong Peiwu, who denounced the vote as meddling in China's internal affairs.
Media reports and academic and UN experts have accused China of imprisoning Uighurs in concentration and "deradicalization" camps and targeting them for forced labour, sexual violence, population control methods and sweeping surveillance. China's foreign ministry has denied the accusations.
The motion calls on the government to officially adopt the position that China is engaged in genocide, and to coordinate a response with the U.S. and other allies.
While it's not clear what impact — if any — the non-binding resolution will have on the Liberal government's approach to China, it threatens to inflame relations between the two countries at a time when they're already tense due to the arrest of Huawei CEO Meng Wanzhou by Canadian authorities over two years ago, and China's subsequent imprisonment of Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor.
In a statement posted to the Chinese embassy's website prior to the vote, Cong insisted the reports of Uighur persecution are based on lies.
Bob Rae, Canada's ambassador to the United Nations, called on the United Nations in November to investigate whether China's persecution of ethnic Muslim Uighurs in Xinjiang constitutes genocide.
Despite these calls, Prime Minister Trudeau and his cabinet ministers have been reluctant to use the word "genocide" to describe China's actions against the Uighurs. Last week, Trudeau said the word is an "extremely loaded" one and he is not prepared to use it at this point.
In question period today, Garneau said the government takes allegations against China "very seriously" and has raised its concerns directly with the Chinese government.
Garneau said Canada wants independent investigators to go into China to document abuses and is working with international partners to gain access to the region. (CBC)
Posted in: Canada Tagged: 2021-07, Annamie Paul, Canada, China, flag, Genocide, Jagmeet Singh, Justin Trudeau, Uighur, Uyghur, Yves-François Blanchet
Tuesday December 8, 2020
December 15, 2020 by Graeme MacKay
Editorial Cartoon by Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator – Tuesday December 8, 2020
Canadians must never forget 'the two Michaels'
If any Canadians still wonder why their country isn't ready to become one of China's best bosom buddies, this week should remind them.
As of Thursday, Canadians Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig will have suffered for two full years in Chinese jails where they were almost certainly locked up for political, rather than legal, reasons.
Just think back to Dec. 10, 2018 and consider all the things you've done, all the places you've been, all the people you've seen and all the freedoms you've savoured since then. Then remember the men who are now widely referred to as "the two Michaels."
While both have had only restricted contact with the outside world, we know they've endured months of daily interrogations in deplorable, solitary confinement-like conditions where the lights were kept on 24 hours a day. And while for a time Spavor and Kovrig were at least allowed an occasional, brief visit from Canadian consular staff, the Chinese are now using the COVID-19 pandemic as an excuse to make them even more unreachable — and alone.
That this constitutes cruel, inhumane treatment should go without saying. But it is also egregiously unjust and underlines the stark difference between Canada's adherence to the rule of international law and China's inclination to make up the rules that suit its fancy.
The Chinese incarcerated the two Michaels just days after Canada's house arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou, who is wanted on fraud charges in the United States. While Spavor and Kovrig languish in cramped cells, Meng is out on bail, living comfortably in Vancouver where she divides her time between her two mansions. While Spavor and Kovrig have been denied proper legal representation, Meng has access to the small army of lawyers she hired to fight her extradition to the U.S.
From the day of Meng's arrest two years ago, the Canadian government clearly explained a legal agreement with the U.S. compelled it to take action against her. In contrast, while China has formally charged Spavor and Kovrig with espionage, its real motive for arresting them is different.
This is hostage diplomacy, plain and simple, a blatant attempt by a global superpower to force Canada to bow to its commands. The Chinese themselves basically confirmed this is the case in June. That's when Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said it was "within the rule of law" for China to release Spavor and Kovrig — if Canada freed Meng first.
Of course, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was right not to buckle to the pressure on him to interfere with Canadian courts and free Meng. If you give in to a bully once, the bully will inevitably be back again to twist your arm into doing something else. And this is the same bully that has also arbitrarily blocked its imports of Canadian farm products, all while badgering Canada to allow China's Huawei Technologies Co., equipment to be used in Canada's 5G wireless networks.
China is a country that, because of its political power and economic prowess, Canada must engage. But its aggressive dealings with Canada, including sending over state agents to intimidate Canadian citizens who publicly criticize China, mean we should keep a wary distance — and keep it out of our 5G network.
Such a relationship should be reserved for a true friend. But a true friend wouldn't have kept Spavor and Kovrig behind bars for two years. (Hamilton Spectator Editorial)
Posted in: Canada Tagged: 2020-42, anniversary, Canada, captivity, China, detainee, flag, hostage, Maple Leaf, Michael Kovrig, Michael Spavor, two michaels
Friday November 6, 2020
November 6, 2020 by Graeme MacKay
Editorial Cartoon by Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator – Friday November 6, 2020
Trump's Stunning News Conference
What the president of the United States did tonight wasn't complicated but it was stunning, even after four long years of the politically extraordinary.
President Trump attacked democracy.
In his remarks tonight from the White House, Mr. Trump lied about the vote count, smeared his opponents and attempted to undermine the integrity of our electoral system.
"If you count the legal votes, I win," he said, before ticking off a litany of baseless claims about ways his campaign had supposedly been cheated by his opponents, nonpartisan poll workers and a vast conspiracy of technology companies and big business.
But nothing is "rigged" or "stolen" or "illegal." No one is "doing a lot of bad things."
Donald Trump is simply losing.
And he's apparently decided to try and take our system down with him.
John McCain's revenge
Joe Biden has been cutting into Mr. Trump's lead, or expanding his own, in three of the four states that will decide the next president: Pennsylvania, Georgia and Nevada. Notably, in the state where Mr. Trump appears to be making gains — Arizona — the president seems to take little issue with the vote count.
The votes that Mr. Trump calls "late" and "illegal" were postmarked by Election Day, making them valid. In Pennsylvania, the Republican-led state legislature wouldn't allow poll workers to start counting mail ballots until Election Day. So now, they're being counted.
Instead of letting the process play out, the president is calling on election officials to stop counting ballots, potentially disenfranchising hundreds of thousands of voters. As James Baker, the former secretary of state who led the Republican legal and political team during the Florida recount battle in 2000, told my colleague Peter Baker today: "That's a very hard decision to defend in a democracy."
There's also a pragmatic question about the president's allegations: If Democrats were going to rig an election, why didn't they do a better job of it? After many Democrats all but predicted a landslide, the party has so far lost seats in the House and faces a steep path to take control of the Senate. Mr. Trump touted those Republican victories in his comments tonight.
On social media, his family members and allies have been calling for Republicans, like Senator Lindsey Graham, to support the president's claims — even trying to make the issue an early litmus test for the 2024 campaign. (We haven't even finished with 2020!) Of course, Republicans who back Mr. Trump could be throwing into question the validity of their own victories.
So with a few exceptions, they've largely returned to the position they often adopt with the president: silence. But it may become increasingly difficult to stay quiet. (New York Times)
Posted in: USA Tagged: 2020-37, defeat, disgrace, divide, division, Donald Trump, election, flag, loser, loss, nails, USA


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Home / News / World / Woman Killed, 7 Injured In San Diego Shootings
Woman Killed, 7 Injured In San Diego Shootings
May 01, 2017 News, World
A woman is dead and seven people are injured after a gunman opened fire at a birthday pool party at a San Diego apartment complex Sunday, police said.
The alleged gunman, identified as Peter Selis, 49, was shot and killed by police, San Diego police said.
Numerous calls were made to 911 around 6 p.m. local time to report the shooting at the pool area of the La Jolla Crossroads apartment complex, police said.
Maniza Sheikhani, who was at the complex at the time, told ABC News, "I heard what sounded like fireworks, I wasn't sure what it was. And then I smelled smoke and I turned around and I heard people screaming and running ... I just ran. And I heard other people screaming, 'There's a shooter, there's an active shooter.'"
Selis, who was allegedly armed with a high-caliber handgun, lived in the apartment complex, police said.
Police said eight victims, all adults, were hospitalized and one later died.
It is not clear if the suspect knew the victims, police said.
Authorities do not know the motive and are interviewing witnesses, police said.
San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer called it a "horrific and disturbing act."
This was a truly horrific and disturbing act. We pray for the victims and thank our 1st responders. Our city rejects this senseless violence.
— Kevin Faulconer (@Kevin_Faulconer) May 1, 2017
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