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School District Tried To Cover Up Rape Of Student By Trans/Nonbinary Student
In recent days as liberals try to defend the Biden Admin recently saying they would focus on going after protestors at school board meetings as potential terrorism, I've seen amongst the videos going around of chaotic meetings, used by liberals to 'justify' this, one video showing a man who appears very angry, being manhandled to the ground and then out of the meeting by the police.
What isn't shared is that this man's (Scott Smith) daughter was raped this May in a girl's bathroom, by a student in a skirt who has a penis (I've seen conflicting reports on if they were a trans person or a cross-dressing 'non-binary' student.
When he arrived at school after being called and told his daughter had been assaulted, no police were present. He found out she'd not just been assaulted but raped. THe school told him they were going to handle it 'in house'. Eventually police did show up, but they were called to escort him out because he was rightfully outraged and made a scene leading to the admin calling the cops on him. The cops didn't end up arresting him, but did take him and his daughter to the hospital to get a rape kit done.
The meeting he was at in June, was the school district's meeting to decide on increasing their 'trans inclusivity' policies, allowing all trans and non-gender-conforming students to go into the bathrooms they want to (as well as allow trans folks to play on sports teams matching their claimed gender). Minutes before in the meeting, the superintendant declared that there had been no assaults by trans students at the school and that people's concerns over the policies were misplaced. A woman at the meeting wearing a rainbow shirt, declared that she did not believe his daughter, leading to his anger (along with the school's attemts to cover up the assault)and the argument, that led to the scene (his daughter underwent a rape test after the incident, proving she was raped).
That same day, the Principal sent out an email not to say anything about the rape, but instead to tell parents there had been an incident with an angry parent and that everyone was safe and there was no threat in the school.
So, while the school system tried to cover up anything about the rape, and thejustice system meandered about charging this trans/nonbinary rapist for the rape of Scott Smith's daughter, he was transferred to another school in the district, where this October (days before he was expected in court for a likely juvenile conviction) he sexually assaulted ANOTHER girl, and was charged again.
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On June 22, Scott Smith was arrested at a Loudoun County, Virginia, school board meeting, a meeting that was ultimately deemed an "unlawful assembly" after many attendees vocally opposed a policy on transgender students.
What people did not know is that weeks prior on May 28, Smith says, a boy allegedly wearing a skirt entered a girls' bathroom at nearby Stone Bridge High School, where he sexually assaulted Smith's ninth-grade daughter.
Juvenile records are sealed, but Smith's attorney Elizabeth Lancaster told The Daily Wire that a boy was charged with two counts of forcible sodomy, one count of anal sodomy, and one count of forcible fellatio, related to an incident that day at that school.
As a result of the viral video showing his arrest, Smith became the poster child for what the National School Boards Association has since suggested could be a form of "domestic terrorism": a white blue-collar male who showed up to harangue obscure public servants on his local school board.
"If someone would have sat and listened for thirty seconds to what Scott had to say, they would have been mortified and heartbroken," Lancaster said.
Minutes before Smith's arrest, the Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) superintendent lectured the public that concerns about the transgender policy were misplaced because the school system had no record of any assault occurring in any school bathroom.
Then a woman wearing a rainbow heart shirt – a left-wing community activist – told Smith she did not believe his daughter, he says. His rage reached a boil and he had a heated exchange of words with the woman. A police officer, there to keep the peace in the meeting, pulled on his arm. Smith yanked it away. Before he knew it, Smith says, he was hit in the face, handcuffed, and dragged across the floor, with his pants pulled down. Images of the incident were splashed on televisions and newspapers across the world.
Buta Biberaj, the county's progressive, top elected prosecutor, who has close ties to the school board's most liberal members, appeared in court to personally prosecute Smith for disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. Biberaj ran on a platform of ending "mass incarceration," but she wanted to put Smith in jail for the misdemeanors.
As prosecutor, Biberaj would have known about the case involving Smith's daughter. The suspect, juvenile court prosecutors assured Smith, was being held responsible: He was on house arrest, confined to his mother's townhouse. According to Lancaster, a conviction was expected on October 14, likely in the form of a guilty plea to a lesser sexual assault charge.
But on October 6, according to the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office, a 15-year-old was charged with sexual battery and abduction after police said he forced a girl into an empty classroom, held her against her will, and touched her inappropriately.
Lancaster says the suspect is the same boy that allegedly attacked Smith's daughter.
What follows, based on extensive exclusive reporting from Loudoun County, is Smith's experience. It is a story the school system and media were never going to tell.
An Incident In A School Bathroom in Loudoun County
On May 28, Stone Bridge High School called Smith to come to the school, where they told him that his 15-year-old daughter had just been physically assaulted in a bathroom by a male, Smith says. When he arrived, he determined that what had happened was not a case of his daughter being beaten up: It was far more serious.
The school said it was handling the incident in-house. Smith was dumbfounded.
Deputies from the sheriff's office ultimately responded to the school – not to investigate the alleged rape of a child, Smith said, but because school administrators called them on him for making a scene about it.
Smith acknowledges he did make a scene and says any father would have done the same in the situation. "I went nuts. I called the principal a p—-," he said. "Six cop cars showed up like a f—ing SWAT team" to respond to the school's complaint about an assertive parent, he said.
"Thank God that I drew enough attention to it, without getting arrested, that we got an escort to the hospital and they administered a rape kit that night," Smith said. A SANE exam and buccal swab, his lawyer said, later came back favorable to the prosecution's case.
All juvenile court records are sealed. The sheriff's office declined to release records relating to Smith to The Daily Wire but, in response to a public records request, confirmed that a report with "Offense: Forcible Sodomy [and] Sexual Battery" matching that date and location exists.
At 4:48 p.m. on the day of the incident, the principal sent out an email to the community that claimed nothing jeopardizing student safety had occurred, painting Smith as the villain, and offering counseling services for witnesses of Smith's blowup:
Good evening Stone Bridge families this [sic] is Stone Bridge Principal Tim Flynn. There was an incident in the main office area today that required the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office to dispatch deputies to Stone Bridge. The incident was confined to the main office and the entrance area to the school. There was no threat to the safety of the student body. The incident was witnessed by a small number of students who were meeting with staff adjacent to the main office. Counseling services and the services of our Unified Mental Health Team are available for any student who may need to talk about today's incident. Students might have noticed Sheriff's Office personnel on campus and I wanted to let you know that something out of the ordinary happened at school today. The safety of our students and staff is the top priority of Loudoun County Public Schools.
"LCPS washed their hands of this," Smith said, and it was taken seriously only because of the sheriff's office.
LCPS Director of Communications Joan Sahlgren said only that "Any information related to student information is confidential under state and federal laws regarding student privacy."
Lancaster told The Daily Wire that she accompanied Smith's daughter to meetings with prosecutors, that the suspect made self-incriminating statements in an interview, that prosecutors brought the charges, and that a conviction was expected imminently, likely in the form of a plea deal to a charge of felony aggravated sexual battery.
Smith had not opposed the downgrade, saying about the boy, "What if he made one mistake?"
An "Unlawful Assembly"
Smith, a plumber, and his wife Jess, who grew up as an Army brat, have always leaned conservative politically, but not terribly so. "I'm embarrassed to say I didn't really follow politics until the last few years," he said. The couple had never been to a school board meeting.
But on June 22, the school board held a meeting where the focus of discussion was a proposal expanding special protections to transgender students. They showed up out of practical concerns.
"My wife and I are gay- and lesbian-friendly," Smith told The Daily Wire. "We're not into this children transgender stuff. The person that attacked our daughter is apparently bisexual and occasionally wears dresses because he likes them. So this kid is technically not what the school board was fighting about. The point is kids are using it as an advantage to get into the bathrooms."
From the dais, school board member Beth Barts painted such concerns as paranoia and prejudice. "Our students do not need to be protected, and they are not in danger," she said. "Do we have assaults in our bathrooms or locker rooms regularly?"
Superintendent Scott Ziegler replied: "To my knowledge, we don't have any record of assaults occurring in our restrooms."
Board chair Brenda Sheridan asked, "Have we had any issues involving transgender students in our bathrooms or locker rooms?"
Ziegler answered:
Time Magazine in 2016 called that a red herring, that the data was simply not playing out that transgender students were more likely to assault cisgender students in restrooms than were other students. In fact, regardless of the gender identity of the student, if a crime or violation of the rules were committed, that would be investigated and dealt with to the full extent of the rules or the law. …
I think it's important to keep our perspective on this, we've heard it several times tonight from our public speakers but the predator transgender student or person simply does not exist.
Smith tried to contain himself as activists who prioritize "lived experience" and "believe women" ignored his daughter.
"My child was raped at school, and this is what happens!"
Nearly 250 members of the public had signed up to speak. Many of them were critical of the school system's racial and transgender initiatives. Others were supporters of the transgender policy who painted their neighbors as ignorant bigots, with one saying "hate" was "dripping from the followers of Jesus in this room." Opponents booed at that remark, and the board threatened to stop the meeting if participants were loud again.
After another speaker blasted the school board for suspending a teacher named Tanner Cross for speaking in opposition to a transgender proposal during the public comment portion of a previous meeting, the crowd cheered, and the board shut the meeting down. (Two courts later ruled that Cross must be reinstated.)
The response – a public body censoring the public as a direct result of it complaining about earlier censorship – was typical of what has made Loudoun County an avatar of the social instability brought by the politicization of schools.
This much you may know already: Infamously, after far-left board member Barts was elected in 2019 with 55% of the vote, she lashed out at parents who disagreed with progressive- and teachers union-backed policies so often and with such vitriol that her peers – most of whom agreed with her views – censured her and stripped her of her committee assignments.
Barts retreated to a Facebook group, officially known as the Anti-Racist Parents of Loudoun County and later known to critics as Chardonnay Antifa, populated by other progressive government officials, teachers, and a small but highly engaged faction of activist-minded community members. "I'm losing any hope that remaining civil towards these people changes anything," one member wrote. "Avoiding these people isn't enough to stop the spread of their evil rhetoric."
Barts told the group that ethics rules were making it difficult for her to identify and call out such parents by name, and asked for help. The group took the hint and took up the banner.
They responded enthusiastically to a call to "hack" parents who questioned school board policies and "expose these people publicly." They set out making lists of parents who posed a risk to their school policy agenda, replete with their spouse's names, areas of residence, and employers.
Less understood, until now, is that these initiatives were not necessarily limited to behind a keyboard.
A frequent participant in the group was a woman named Jackie Schworm.
"Does anyone have a list of the parents who organized against the diversity library books?" Schworm posted, according to records subpoenaed from Facebook pursuant to a sheriff's criminal investigation into the group. Schworm volunteered to find information about parents who disagreed with school policies, writing of one, "I'll see what I can find out. She blocked me a while ago."
One member wrote that a conservative school board member, John Beatty, had once spoken to parents at a church and told attendees they "should tell the schools what they wanted taught." Another member replied with an idea to convince the Southern Poverty Law Center to list disfavored local groups as "hate groups," then cite that designation to give ammunition for the school board to "have them banned from speaking publicly at meetings."
Schworm said one minute later: "He's truly scary… Have seen him 'around' and he makes Michelle Leffler [a conservative mom who has called attention to sexual assault in LCPS] look sane."
Schworm was at the June 22 school board meeting, wearing a shirt with a rainbow heart on it. As a Girl Scout troop leader, Jess had mentored Schworm's daughter. Smith and Jess said Schworm sought them out in the crowd, demanded to know which side they were on, then berated them that they were wrong. "Jess, who is this?" Smith asked his wife.
"I thought she was my friend," Jess replied.
Smith tried to tell her what happened to his daughter, he said. "And she looks me dead in the eyes and says 'that's not what happened.'"
Schworm noticed that Smith was wearing a shirt with the name of his plumbing business on it, "And she goes 'Oh… I'm going to ruin your business on social media,'" he said.
"You're a bitch," Smith told her, video shows. A police officer monitoring the tension-filled exchange pulled on Smith's arm, he yanked it away, and soon, Smith and the officer were wrestling. Other officers pinned Smith to the ground, bloodying his lip in the process, as Smith uttered, "I can't breathe."
Jess cried out, in words lost in the chaos: "My child was raped at school, and this is what happens!"
Smith was charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.
An Effort At "Restorative Justice"?
In an often-contradictory, nearly 40-minute call with The Daily Wire, Schworm contended she had no relationship to this topic, that she did not have any sort of argument with Smith, and did not know he had been arrested. "I'm a stay-at-home mom. I volunteer, I donate," she said.
After The Daily Wire offered evidence of her involvement, she said she went over to ask Jess for a "play date" between their teenage daughters. She claimed that she asked Jess how she was doing, to which Jess purportedly responded: "We know CRT [critical race theory] isn't real, but we don't want them to know it."
Schworm told The Daily Wire that if Smith's daughter told them she was raped by "a Martian," she would believe her, but also made repeated comments about the daughter's mental stability.
As to her comments on the Facebook group, she told The Daily Wire that the group was apolitical, she had never taken part in list-making activities, and that "I have no idea who Michelle Leffler is." She later amended her remarks to say that Leffler is racist.
After Schworm repeatedly brought up that Smith was convicted of a crime, The Daily Wire asked if a restorative justice circle – a technique pushed by progressive prosecutors as an alternative to punishment – would have been a positive resolution to the arrest.
The case would seem to be a better fit than most for the technique: It would mean getting everyone in a room to talk about what happened. The daughter shares her story, Schworm, Smith, and the cop talk about why they did what they did, and everyone understands each other better. Schworm said she did not know what restorative justice was.
The Daily Wire told Schworm it was interested in the incident as an emblem of Americans talking past each other, dividing neighbors into camps populated by two-dimensional caricatures. Is it possible she did not hear what Smith was trying to tell her because she went over there with a predetermined conclusion and loud opinions, just as he may have done the same? Does learning of what his daughter went through now give her a more nuanced understanding of why Smith holds the beliefs on school policy that he does?
This attempt at quasi-restorative justice did not seem to cause any breakthroughs. Though it may never be known definitively what words were exchanged during the incident, the remark Schworm attributes to Jess – that Jess confessed that she "knows" that critical race theory does not exist, but hatched a plot to come to a school board meeting to trick rubes into thinking it does in order to stir them up – strains credulity.
An International Media Incident And A Humiliated Parent
The overweight white plumber in handcuffs has served as a two-dimensional caricature for a variety of ideologues all over the world for three months. No one knew what happened – but they were sure they knew exactly who he was anyway, and they hated it so badly that one suburb's town hall became an international media event.
Smith had to put up temporary fencing around his house for three days to keep the media out. "The radio and TV people were coming for days," he said. When he arrives at people's homes for early-morning plumbing jobs, he has a habit of bringing customers' newspapers in from the driveway for them, but for days, every newspaper he picked up had his bloodied face on it. When he finally laid in bed with his wife to get some rest, he turned on the TV and inevitably saw himself.
The body-positive crowd humiliated him for his looks. They mocked his inadvertent near-nudity, with one activist heckling online, "his gender pronoun is almost showing." The National School Boards Association cited Scott's arrest as an example of the sort of incidents that, they said, might justify invoking the anti-terrorism PATRIOT Act on U.S. citizens.
When it was all over, he was no longer politically uninvolved… nor moderate. Now, when people associated with left-wing activists call his plumbing company for service, "we started saying if you support this bulls—, call a different plumber."
What has happened to Loudoun County in the last two years is notable not because its population is especially far-left, but because it is not, and this has happened anyway. Loudoun is in many ways more typical of America, with a politically mixed population. Its western half is bucolic farmland. In 2015, every member of its county board of supervisors was Republican. Its congresswoman, until 2018, was Republican.
Smith grew up in the area "when it was farms and cows and rednecks and we drank beers and smoked pot and got along with everyone. There was no white and black issue. We all got along," he said. To this day Loudoun has no inner-city areas whose problems are the impetus for places like San Francisco to adopt far-left policies; black families in Loudoun have a median income of $112,000. It is, for the most part, just a lot of regular, two-parent suburban households.
In November 2019, progressive activists won public office in Loudoun with as little as 51% of the vote, and Democratic control was cemented. It is a peculiarity of Virginia law that local elections are held in odd-numbered years, leading to low-turnout elections that can be carried by small numbers of people with strong beliefs. Some of these elections were defined by the brazen intervention of outside interests. It was clear they were often more interested in national politics than in the everyday concerns of local residents.
Juli Briskman was a tech worker who happened to be captured by White House press corps photographers extending her middle finger at then-President Donald Trump's motorcade as it passed through the county, where his company owns a golf property. After national left-leaning publications had some fun with the photograph, her local employer fired her for the uncouth act, but she set up a GoFundMe that raised money from Trump haters across the country, in order to make up for lost wages. So much money poured in that she used the windfall to run for a position on the county's board of supervisors. She won 54% of the vote, turning an obscure position previously concerned largely with activities like paving roads into a soapbox for national partisan affairs.
Biberaj, the prosecutor, was elected by a 1% margin after George Soros paid $845,000 to support her bid. Her opponent, the Republican incumbent, spent $113,000 altogether.
Despite a moderate population and few of the problems that typically justify radical politics, when Democrats crossed the 50% mark, they began using formerly apolitical institutions, such as schools and courts, as weapons in a nakedly partisan quest for power.
When citizens collected enough signatures to begin a court process recalling Barts, partly for her activities in the Anti-Racist Parents Facebook group, it would fall, under the vagaries of Virginia law, to Biberaj to prosecute the recall. Biberaj did not recuse herself, even though she was part of that group and promoted a letter to the editor that mocked the recall effort and those opposed to transgender policies. A judge ultimately had to intervene to disqualify her.
There was one relief valve: the sheriff, which is an elected position for which voters chose Mike Chapman, a Republican. In response, the Democrat-controlled board of supervisors pushed for stripping the duties of the sheriff's office and creating a police force that would report to them instead.
A Disorderly Conduct Prosecution
Biberaj is known for leniency and alternatives to incarceration. On July 30, Peter J. Lollobrigido was released from jail on a $5,000 unsecured bond while facing charges of strangulation, abduction, and assault on a family member. On September 19, he allegedly returned to finish the job, killing his wife with a hammer. A few days after Lollobrigido was released, on August 17, Smith faced court for two misdemeanors, disorderly conduct and obstruction of justice (resisting arrest), for the school board incident.
Lancaster, the Smith family's attorney, was sure the charges would be dropped. Instead, Biberaj – the top law enforcement officer in a county of 400,000 residents – showed up to personally try the misdemeanor case.
Lancaster explained in court that her client was angry after his daughter was sexually assaulted in a bathroom by a person identifying as "gender fluid" and reminded her that prosecutors had substantiated the assault and chosen to bring charges. But Biberaj sought jail time against Smith.
"It is incredibly unusual for a disorderly conduct case to even go forward. The idea that they would actually be seeking jail time, I'd guess in my 15 years the number of times I've seen that happen would be zero," Lancaster told The Daily Wire. "It would be completely unheard of for the prosecutor to handle a misdemeanor."
Biberaj was not just the top prosecutor. She was the prosecutor who espoused a radical commitment to not jailing people for minor crimes and avoiding criminal convictions altogether when possible.
But when Smith crossed the far-left by holding an opposing opinion on a school policy affecting his daughter, there was no "believe all women." There was no appeal for tolerance and inclusivity for Smith's viewpoint. His case brought no outrage about police kneeling on men saying "I can't breathe." And a strict law-and-order approach triumphed over leniency.
"The idea that this is a person who we need to put in a cage was astounding to me given the social justice reform she was pushing. I was blown away," Lancaster said.
"I'm a bleeding heart liberal," Lancaster, a former public defender, said. But "I don't get where the vitriol comes from… that if you don't believe what I believe, you're a monster."
"I've known Buta for years. We've been colleagues for years," she said. "When you're a public defender you get to recognize the humanity of every single person, no matter what they look like or talk like. She used to do that, and I guess it's gone. And that's sad to me."
The charges against Smith were so minor that there was no option to have a jury trial, which Smith believes he would have won. That option is available only through an appeal, which will cost him more than the thousands of dollars he has already spent on legal fees.
On August 11, the school board voted to approve the transgender policy. Smith could not sign up to speak so that policymakers could make their decision with knowledge of the Stone Bridge incident: Days before it, he received a letter informing him he is banned from the school board building.
A Second Sexual Assault
Smith said nothing as his likeness traveled around the world, the avatar of ignorant bigotry. Advisors told him it would be better to let the process against his daughter's assailant play out. He did not want to risk interfering.
"It has been so hard to keep my mouth shut and wait this out. It has been the most powerless thing I've ever been through," Smith said.
"It has been so hard to keep my mouth shut and wait this out. It has been the most powerless thing I've ever been through," he said. "I don't care if he's homosexual, heterosexual, bisexual, transsexual. He's a sexual predator."
The culprit was expected to plead guilty on October 14, following the negotiation of a plea agreement. But on October 6, the Sheriff's Office put out a press release that led Smith to believe that the process was not working.
"A teenager from Ashburn has been charged with sexual battery and abduction of a fellow student at Broad Run High School. The investigation determined on the afternoon of October 6, the 15-year-old suspect forced the victim into an empty classroom where he held her against her will and inappropriately touched her," it said.
A government official told The Daily Wire the name of the student. It was the same name as the boy who allegedly assaulted Smith's daughter.
The Daily Wire is withholding the name of the suspect because of his age. Reached at home, his mother declined to comment on the allegations.
The prosecutors with whom Smith and his wife had been communicating about the rape case "never alerted us" about the alleged repeat offense, Smith said. He did not believe it could actually be the same person.
But "we called his probation officer and he told me 'yep, I put him in juvy yesterday.'" They contacted the Special Victims Unit detective, "and she said 'I can't tell you what happened, but it happened and it's bad.'"
Jess contacted prosecutors, whom Jess said told her that his court date had been postponed from October 14 to October 25 in order to handle both charges together.
"I don't even know why he was at a school," Smith said. "Why was this motherf—er allowed to do this again?"
Two girls, allegedly sexually assaulted in school, four months apart, by the same person. And so far, the only person to be convicted of a crime is the victim's father.
A school policy passed following what appear to be false statements from the superintendent – a policy whose passage would have been politically impossible had Smith's story seen the light of day.
Will this cause anything to change in Loudoun? Has anyone learned anything? There is no evidence that the answer is yes on either count.
Biberaj did not return a request for comment. Though the criminal justice system is a bedrock component of any community on which everyone must be able to rely, her office generally does not reply to The Daily Wire's inquiries on various topics.
Though the injection of politics into schools and criminal justice have led to pain where there was none before, and enemies where there once were neighbors, it is possible – no less surreal than any other element of this story, at least – that some elected officials of Loudoun County might actually believe this story has a happy ending:
Though Smith's daughter has been allegedly raped and separately beaten at school, the teen has adopted increasingly strong progressive views over the course of her tenure at LCPS.
"Where does she get these ideas? From school, obviously," Jess said. "It's not from our home."
Posted in full because it's behind a paywall I have access to.
Been watching this and was just about to post it.
I don't know exactly what I would do if anything like that happened to my daughter, and I hope I never get to find out.
Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
Than a fool in the eyes of God
From "Fools Gold" by Petra
It appears the District has failed to follow the law and has not reported numerous sexual assaults over a period of years (this one included), despite being legally required to report it to the state:
https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclu...w-records-show
Loudoun County Public Schools did not record multiple known incidents of alleged sexual assault in schools dating back several years, despite a law that requires statistics about school safety incidents to be reported to the public and which includes provisions holding school superintendents personally liable for violations, a Daily Wire review of public records found.
After The Daily Wire raised the discrepancy with the Virginia Department of Education, VDOE spokesman Charles Pyle said that "VDOE is reviewing the discipline, crime and violence data submissions of Loudoun County Public Schools and is in communication with LCPS to determine whether the division's reporting is accurate and whether the division is in compliance with state and federal law."
The same law could have implications for a Loudoun superintendent or principal in the wake of a May 28 alleged sexual assault in a bathroom — an incident first reported by The Daily Wire Monday. On June 22, Superintendent Scott Ziegler told the public, "To my knowledge, we don't have any record of assaults occurring in our restrooms."
Virginia law requires that "Reports shall be made to the division superintendent and to the principal or his designee on all incidents involving … sexual assault."
The Daily Wire asked LCPS questions last week including, "Has Stone Bridge ever reported the May alleged sexual assault in any statistics or made anyone aware of it?" LCPS hid behind state law, with Director of Communications Joan Sahlgren replying that "Any information related to student information is confidential under state and federal laws regarding student privacy."
However, state law actually requires statistics on assaults and other incidents in schools to be reported to the public, in the form of annually updated statistics available on a public database called Safe Schools Information Resource (SSIR) administered by the Virginia Department of Education. LCPS reported to the state that Stone Bridge had zero sexual assaults for the 2020-2021 school year, which includes May 28, 2021.
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Virginia law says that "The division superintendent shall annually report all such incidents to the Department of Education for the purpose of recording the frequency of such incidents on forms that shall be provided by the Department and shall make such information available to the public."
The issue with missing sex assault statistics in Loudoun is not limited to the latest case, raising the prospect that untold numbers of sexual assaults and other infractions have gone unreported.
In October 2018, in a case that was widely reported by the media at the time, three football players at Tuscorara High were arrested and charged with sexual assault. A source told local media that it's believed a younger player was "held down by teammates who inserted objects into the victim" in a locker room. A spokesperson for LCPS said at the time that "the case will be subject to disciplinary action." The annual report for Tuscorara that year reported zero instances of sexual offenses against students.
LCPS provided no response at all to The Daily Wire's question about the reason for the "zero" figures despite having two days to do so.
While the suspect in the May 28 alleged assault was not arrested until July 8 following the conclusion of an investigation, police officers were present at the school that day, law enforcement was notified of the incident, and a police report was filed on the attack, though it is not clear who filed the report.
Pyle, the state spokesman, noted that SSIR's "mandatory reporting is not contingent on the filing of charges by law enforcement or subsequent convictions."
Additionally, the safety statistics for that school year were not due to the state until July 16. And in the case of Tuscorara, the school year did not end until months after the incident and arrests, yet the district still reported zero, and has for every year since. The SSIR manual says sexual assault is "Required to be reported regardless of sanction."
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The law says that "A division superintendent who knowingly fails to comply or secure compliance with the reporting requirements of this subsection shall be subject to the sanctions authorized in § 22.1-65. A principal who knowingly fails to comply or secure compliance with the reporting requirements of this section shall be subject to sanctions prescribed by the local school board, which may include, but need not be limited to, demotion or dismissal."
On Wednesday, LCPS put out a statement, which it did not send to The Daily Wire, in response to mounting public pressure. It said in part:
Loudoun County Sheriff's Office was contacted within minutes of receiving the initial report on May 28. Once a matter has been reported to law enforcement, LCPS does not begin its investigation until law enforcement advises LCPS that it has completed the criminal investigation… Furthermore, LCPS is prohibited from disciplining any student without following the Title IX grievance process, which includes investigating complaints of sexual harassment and sexual assault.
But an email from Stone Bridge Principal Tim Flynn, which was sent to the entire community at 4:48 pm the day of the alleged rape, told students and parents that "There was an incident in the main office area today that required the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office to dispatch deputies to Stone Bridge. The incident was confined to the main office and the entrance area to the school. There was no threat to the safety of the student body… Students might have noticed Sheriff's Office personnel on campus and I wanted to let you know that something out of the ordinary happened at school today." There was no mention of the alleged attack.
This corresponds to the story offered by Scott Smith, the victim's father, who told The Daily Wire that police arrived because the school called them on him for making a scene about his impression that it was not treating the incident seriously.
LCPS's October 13 statement also says that "members of the Loudoun County School Board were not aware of the specific details of this incident until it was reported in media outlets earlier this week." However, on August 17, local paper Loudoun Now published an article saying that when Smith was in court that day — because he was charged for disorderly conduct after becoming angry at the school board meeting where Ziegler denied there were any bathroom assaults on record — Smith's lawyer explained the incident stemmed from his "anger about an alleged assault of an immediate family member inside a bathroom by a person identifying as gender fluid."
It seems unlikely that no school board members would have seen that article in their local paper – or heard about it from someone else — given that Smith's arrest was extremely high-profile, came as a direct result of his actions at a school board meeting, and was pursued zealously by an ally of progressive school board members, Commonwealth's Attorney Buta Biberaj. Biberaj came to court to personally try Smith, taking the highly unusual step of seeking jail time for him, based on painting him as a threat to school board members. The judge said his punishment was important because otherwise, "why would anybody want to be on a School Board?"
Following The Daily Wire's revelation of two alleged sexual assaults by one student, Biberaj belatedly acknowledged the accuracy of main elements to local outlet WTOP, confirming that one 15-year old has been charged in two alleged sex assaults, one in May and one in October.
Biberaj told WTOP that the prosecution's case was relying on DNA evidence, without which a conviction would have been much more difficult. Smith told The Daily Wire in its original story that he does not believe a rape kit would have been ordered that day if it weren't for him causing a scene in the main office.
rogue06
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Location: Southeastern U.S. of A.
Same here but was busy yesterday (so far I'm the only one up )
And while they were trying to conceal the first assault he apparently assaulted another girl in a different bathroom.
I'm always still in trouble again
"You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
"Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
"Of course, human life begins at fertilization that's not the argument." --Tassman
These school boards are out of control, and they try to claim the parents are "domestic terrorists" for calling them out on their crap. I think this will be one of the biggest issues in the upcoming elections next year.
At another school, actually. He forced her into a room and assaulted her. They shuttled him off to another school to victimize while he was going through court (IIRC they assured the father that he was at home under house arrest), much like the Catholic Church did with its pedophile priests, shuttling them from church to church with new victims.
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Amens Received: 334
This looks like it might turn out to be a legit worst case scenario, but going after random school boards in response isn't warranted. It's not the school boards bringing violence into these meetings. It's the parents, none of whom have this guy's excuse.
I can tell you right quick what would happen if a parent tried to rip the mask off my face. That's what out of control looks like, and it needs to be stopped.
CivilDiscourse
Amens Given: 8
Originally posted by Juvenal View Post
I mean, what's next, parents aiming fireworks at schoolboards?
If they were the only ones that would be one thing but old Joe's AG is leading the charge. Even siccing the FBI on them.
We really dodged a bullet with that clown. He could have been a SCOTUS judge
On June 22, Superintendent Scott Ziegler told the public, "To my knowledge, we don't have any record of assaults occurring in our restrooms."
This seems to be a case of using the truth to deceive. If they knew about instances of sexual assault but never bothered to document them, then he could truthfully say that they "don't have any record of assaults". Also notice how he limits the statement specifically to the restrooms. What about assaults that happened elsewhere in the school?
To summarize, the man is scum.
And the Democrats tried to sell that radical to us as a mild-mannered moderate.
Isn't it interesting how Joe's administration is everything that President Trump's administration was falsely accused of being?
The MSM claims that virtually every Democrat is a moderate. I remember when Kerry and Edwards ran in 2004 and despite having the first and third most liberal voting records in the Senate as ascertained by both liberal and conservative groups, we were repeatedly told how moderate and mainstream they were.
They would declare Bernie was middle-of-the-road if they thought they could get away with it.
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Location: Central VA
https://www.yahoo.com/news/virginia-...125752632.html
Virginia Democrats Voted to Allow Schools to Refrain from Reporting Sexual Battery in 2020
Democrats in the Virginia General Assembly voted for — and Governor Ralph Northam signed — a law allowing schools to refrain from reporting instances of sexual battery, stalking, violation of a protective order, and violent threats occurring on school property in 2020.
§ 22.1-279.3:1 of Virginia code had required that these, among a number of other major crimes, be reported to law enforcement if they occurred on campus. Democrats insisted that misdemeanors be extirpated from reporting requirements in House Bill 257, replacing the word "criminal" with "felony" in the code.
That's what
- She
Without a clear-cut definition of sin, morality becomes a mere argument over the best way to train animals
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I may not be as old as dirt, but me and dirt are starting to have an awful lot in common
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That is insane.


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Mass Shooting Suspect Shoots Himself in Van During SWAT Standoff in Torrance
Law enforcement vehicles surround the suspects white van in Torrance. Courtesy OnScene.TV
A suspect in a mass shooting in which 10 people were killed and another 10 wounded at a ballroom dance studio in Monterey Park killed himself inside a white van at a Torrance strip mall during a Sunday standoff with law enforcement.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has identified the gunman as Huu Can Tran, 72. Authorities said the man turned a handgun on himself Sunday morning when approached by police.
Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said during a Sunday evening press conference the motive for Saturday's mass shooting was not known and that the suspect wielded a pistol with a high-capacity magazine.
The sheriff added that the pistol Tran used appeared to be illegal in California, where state laws ban any magazine holding more than 10 rounds.
"We want to know, we want to know how something this awful can happen," Luna told reporters.
The mass shooting occurred at 10:22 p.m. Saturday at the Star Dance Studio in the 100 block of West Garvey Avenue, Homicide Bureau Capt. Andrew Meyer of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department told reporters at the scene during an early morning news conference.
Ten people were pronounced dead at the scene and the 10 injured were listed in stable to critical condition at area hospitals including Los Angeles County/USC Medical Center, Meyer said.
Luna said the 10 dead were five men and five women all aged 50 and older. Of the injured, seven remained hospitalized Sunday night, with at least one person in critical condition.
About 17 minutes after the Monterey Park shooting, a man walked into the Lai Lai Ballroom & Studio in the 100 block of South Garfield Avenue in neighboring Alhambra with a gun, but two people wrestled the weapon away from him and he fled, Luna said.
"I can tell you that the suspect walked in there, probably with the intent to kill more people, and two brave community members decided they were going to jump into action and disarm him," Luna said.
In what he earlier had called a "preliminary description," Luna had said the shooter was an Asian man between 30 and 50 years old. The sheriff's department later released surveillance images of the suspect taken from the Alhambra incident and added that he was 5-feet-10 inches tall and 150 pounds, and last seen wearing a black leather jacket, beanie and glasses.
Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna speaks at an evening news conference in the aftermath of a shooting during a Chinese Lunar New Year celebration in Monterey Park, Jan. 22. REUTERS/Alan Devall
Luna added that authorities were searching for a white cargo van the suspect might have used to escape.
Torrance police later cornered a white van at a parking lot on the south side of Sepulveda Boulevard, just west of Hawthorne Boulevard, at a strip mall not far from Del Amo Fashion Center. Police maneuvered two SWAT vehicles on either end of the van, butting up against it, while a large number of police vehicles stood by for support.
All lanes at the intersection of Hawthorne and Sepulveda were closed for the police investigation.
A law enforcement source told the Los Angeles Times that shots were fired, but it was not clear if anyone was hit. A bomb squad truck was sent to the strip mall, which contains a Tokyo Central outlet and a Daiso store. A sheriff's department helicopter also landed on Hawthorne Boulevard and was standing by.
Authorities entered the van shortly before 1 p.m. and found Tran in the driver's seat dead from one or more gunshot wounds.
Investigators continue to seek a motive for Saturday's attack. The shooting took place near a large celebration for the Chinese New Year.
The gunman has been identified as Huu Can Tran, 72. Authorities say Tran took his own life inside a white van in Torrance after police surrounded his vehicle. #MontereyPark Updates: https://t.co/q8OFgyMhlV pic.twitter.com/oTIVNvuISB
— KTLA (@KTLA) January 23, 2023
The city of Monterey Park canceled Sunday's planned second day of the two-day celebration, but other holiday events were still planned throughout Southern California. Luna said at the Sunday morning news conference that he would be attending a similar event in a few hours, and encouraged the public to continue celebrating the holiday.
The manhunt drew assistance from the FBI, the ATF, the Governor's Office of Emergency Services and a host of local law enforcement agencies. Luna said authorities recovered the weapon from the Alhambra incident.
Asked if it might be a hate crime, the sheriff said, "Everything is on the table."
However, Chester Chong, chairman of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce L.A., told ABC7 that he knew the husband and wife who own the studio and he believed it was a domestic violence incident.
"Sometimes, the wife go (to the dance studio) and the husband does not go. That's why he's so upset, and because we have so many guns, it's too easy to bring a gun over there to kill people. It's horrible, it's very sad," Chong said.
"This is not a hate crime, this is not. This case is a personal case," he said.
Monterey Park has a population of about 61,000, roughly 66% of whom are Asian. Witnesses said several of Saturday's victims were senior citizens who appeared to be Asian.
About 50% of Alhambra's population of nearly 82,000 is Asian.
Hate crimes targeting Asians increased by 339% nationwide in 2021, the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism reported.
Anyone with information about the shooting was asked to call sheriff's homicide detectives at 323-890-5500 or leave anonymous tips on the Crime Stoppers line at 800-222-8477.
Ten people were killed and at least 10 others were wounded in a mass shooting at a ballroom dance studio in Monterey Park on Saturday night, and authorities cornered a vehicle containing the possible suspect at a strip mall in Torrance Sunday.
The attack occurred at 10:22 p.m. Saturday at the Star Dance Studio in the 100 block of West Garvey Avenue, Homicide Bureau Capt. Andrew Meyer of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department told reporters at the scene during an early morning news conference.
Ten people were pronounced dead at the scene and the 10 injured were listed in stable to critical condition at area hospitals including Los Angeles County/USC Medical Center, Meyer said. Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said the 10 dead were five men and five women.
About 17 minutes after the Monterey Park shooting, a man walked into the Lai Lai Ballroom & Studio in the 100 block of South Garfield Avenue in neighboring Alhambra with a gun, but some people wrestled the weapon away from him and he fled, Luna said.
In what he called a "preliminary description," Luna said the shooter was an Asian man between 30 and 50 years old. The sheriff's department later released surveillance images of the suspect taken from the Alhambra incident and added that he was 5-feet-10 inches tall and 150 pounds, and last seen wearing a black leather jacket, a beanie and glasses.
All lanes at the intersection of Hawthorne and Sepulveda were closed for the investigation.
A law enforcement source told the Los Angeles Times that shots were fired, but it was not clear if anyone was hit. A bomb squad truck was sent to the strip mall, which contains a Tokyo Central outlet and a Daiso store.
A sheriff's department helicopter also landed on Hawthorne Boulevard and was standing by.
The motive for Saturday's attack has not been released, but the shooting took place near a large celebration for the Chinese New Year.
The city of Monterey Park canceled Sunday's planned second day of the two-day celebration, but other holiday events were still planned throughout Southern California. Luna said at a Sunday morning news conference that he would be attending a similar event in a few hours, and encouraged the public to continue celebrating the holiday.
Police Chief Michel Moore said the Los Angeles Police Department has "added patrols across our Asian communities today and will meet with any organizers hosting New Year celebrations."
"We are working closely with @LASDHQ and @MontereyParkPD to support in any manner possible. Such a tragic loss of life and a dark day," Moore tweeted.
The Long Beach Police Department also said its officers would be increasing patrols Sunday.
The manhunt was drawing assistance from the FBI, the ATF, the Governor's Office of Emergency Services and a host of local law enforcement agencies. Luna said authorities recovered the weapon from the Alhambra incident, but he did not say what kind of weapon was used in the Monterey Park shooting.
Chong's account was unconfirmed.
A news videographer at the scene in Alhambra said people at the business were able to disarm the male suspect, who fled the scene, and no injuries were reported.
The Monterey Park shooting occurred about an hour after thousands of people had been in the area for the first day of a two-day Lunar New Year festival that had ended before the shots were fired. Most of the crowds had already left the area.
Seung Won Choi, who owns a seafood barbecue restaurant across the street from the shooting site, told the Los Angeles Times that three people rushed into his restaurant and told him to lock the door because a man with a semiautomatic gun was in the area, The Times reported.
They told Choi the shooter had multiple rounds of ammunition and was able to reload his weapon, according to the paper.
Saturday's shooting was the worst mass shooting in Los Angeles County since a disgruntled ex-husband killed 10 people, including himself, in Covina in 2008.
City News Service and Reuters contributed to this report.
Updated 5:30 p.m., 6:10 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Jan. 22, 2023
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Elena Dache (n. 24 martie 1997, în Galați) este o handbalistă din România care joacă pentru CS Măgura Cisnădie și echipa națională a României. Dache poate juca pe orice post la linia de 9 metri, intermediar stânga, centru și intermediar dreapta.

Biografie
Elena Dache a fost descoperită de profesorul Manuel Ivan și a început să joace handbal la Clubul Sportiv Școlar Galați, unde a fost pregătită de profesoara Maria Lupu. În 2014, ea a fost transferată de CSU Danubius Galați, care avea ca obiectiv promovarea în Liga Națională. Anul următor a fost adusă la echipa a doua a CSM București, unde a fost antrenată de Kasper Jensen și Daniela Strat. În vara anului 2016, Elena Dache a fost promovată la prima echipă a clubului bucureștean. În sezonul 2017-2018 a evoluat împrumutată la echipa Rapid București, iar în 2018, a semnat cu HC Dunărea Brăila. Din vara lui 2021 până în 2022 Dache a evoluat pentru SCM Râmnicu Vâlcea. În vara lui 2022, ea a semnat cu CS Măgura Cisnădie.

A fost componentă a echipei naționale de tineret a României, cu care a câștigat medalia de bronz la Campionatul Mondial din 2016, desfășurat în Rusia.  Dache a jucat în toate cele 9 partide și a înscris 21 de goluri.

Palmares
Campionatul Mondial pentru Tineret:
 Medalie de bronz: 2016

Liga Națională:
 Câștigătoare: 2017
 Medalie de bronz: 2022

Cupa României:
 Câștigătoare: 2017
 Finalistă: 2022

Supercupa României:
 Câștigătoare: 2016

Liga Campionilor:
 Medalie de bronz: 2017

Liga Europeană:
Sfertfinalistă: 2021, 2022

Statistică goluri și pase de gol
''Conform Federației Române de Handbal, Federației Europene de Handbal și Federației Internaționale de Handbal:

Goluri în competițiile naționale:

Goluri în Liga Națională

Goluri în Cupa României

Goluri în Supercupa României

Goluri și pase de gol în competițiile internaționale:

Goluri și pase de gol la Campionatul Mondial de Handbal Feminin pentru Tineret

Goluri și pase de gol la Campionatul Mondial de Handbal Feminin

Goluri în Liga Campionilor

Goluri în Liga Europeană

Note

Legături externe
Profilul Elenei Dache pe pagina EHF
Pagina de Facebook a Elenei Dache
Interviu cu Elena Dache în Jurnal Sportiv

Nașteri în 1997
Sportivi români în viață
Jucătoare de handbal din România
Handbaliste ale Rapid București
Handbaliste ale CSM București
Gălățeni

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03.25.16Hampton by Hilton Opens Flagship Hotel in China
Hilton Worldwide (NYSE: HLT) today announced the opening of Hampton by Hilton Guangzhou Zhujiang New Town, its newest Hampton by Hilton hotel and flagship property for the brand in China. The 223-room hotel joins the Hampton portfolio of more than 2,100 hotels around the world. Hampton by Hilton Guangzhou Zhujiang New Town is located in the Tianhe District, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China and is managed by Huanpeng Hotel Management (Guangzhou) Limited.
05.28.15Hilton Hotels & Resorts Opens First Hotel in Yunnan, China
Hilton Hotels & Resorts today announced the opening of Hilton Yuxi Fuxian Lake, bringing Hilton's world-class hospitality to picturesque Yunnan Province for the first time. Owned by Yunnan Metropolitan City Investment Group and managed by Hilton Worldwide, Hilton Yuxi Fuxian Lake is located on the northeast coast of landmark destination Fuxian Lake.
10.30.14Hilton Worldwide Signs Exclusive License Agreement for Major Expansion of Hampton by Hilton Hotels in China
Hilton Worldwide today announced an exclusive license agreement with Plateno Hotels Group, one of China's leading hospitality groups, to rapidly launch and develop the Hampton by Hilton brand in China. With this agreement, Hampton plans to have over 400 deals signed, with the first hotel expected to open by the end of 2015.
01.16.14Hilton Worldwide Enters Bangalore with Launch of DoubleTree Suites by Hilton Bangalore
Hilton Worldwide and DoubleTree by Hilton today announced the launch of the full-service, upscale DoubleTree Suites by Hilton Bangalore. Located on Sarjapur - Outer Ring Road, in the southeast region of Bangalore, the contemporary hotel is near several IT / ITES Technology Parks, commercial and business hubs, entertainment and shopping centres, educational institutions and sports facilities.
12.18.13DoubleTree by Hilton Enters Suzhou, Anhui
DoubleTree by Hilton and Hilton Worldwide today announced the opening of the 23-story, 301-room DoubleTree by Hilton Anhui-Suzhou. The opening marks the first DoubleTree by Hilton property in Suzhou as well as in north Anhui Province. The hotel is operated by Hilton Worldwide and owned by Anhui Shou Cheng Investment Management Co., Ltd.
12.16.13DoubleTree by Hilton Enters Hangzhou, China
12.06.13Hilton Worldwide Signs Agreement with Amrit Bottlers Pvt. Ltd. for Hilton Garden Inn Brand Hotel in Lucknow
11.11.13Hilton Worldwide Signs Management Agreement With Pekah Hotels Sdn. Bhd. For Fifth Hilton Hotels & Resorts Branded Hotel In Malaysia
Hilton Worldwide today signed an agreement with Pekah Hotels Sdn. Bhd. to manage Hilton Kota Kinabalu in Sabah, Malaysia. The ninth Hilton Worldwide property in Malaysia, the 313-room Hilton Kota Kinabalu will also be the fifth Hilton Hotels & Resorts branded hotel in the country, scheduled to open in 2015.
11.04.13DoubleTree by Hilton Enters Wuhu, China
08.09.13Hilton Worldwide Signs Agreement To Expand Presence In Northwest China With New Hilton Hotels & Resorts Property In Lanzhou
Hilton Worldwide today announced the signing of a management agreement with Lanzhou Friendship Hotel to build a hotel consisting of approximately 389 guest rooms in Lanzhou, the capital of Gansu province. Scheduledh to open in the first quarter of 2017, the 389-room Hilton Lanzhou will reside in the city's central commercial district and provides Hilton Worldwide with greater access to China's rapidly developing northwest China.
08.01.13Hilton Worldwide Signs Management Agreement With Dijaya Land Development Sdn Bhd For Hilton Okinawa Kin
Hilton Worldwide today announced the signing of a management agreement with Dijaya Land Development Sdn Bhd to manage Hilton Okinawa Kin in Kin, Kunigami-gun, Okinawa, Japan. Scheduled to open in 2016, the 190-room Hilton Okinawa Kin will be part of an integrated resort development located on the eastern side of Okinawa's main island facing Kin Bay and the Pacific Ocean.


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Q: Is DVCS (Mercurial) not for me? I work in a company where we create a lot of small customer-specific applications.
We are a few developers but most of the time there is only one developer per project.
Customer1
    ProjectX
        App
        Tests
    ProjectY
        App
        Tests
Customer2
    Project2
Products
    Product1
Common

Today everything is stored in a single repository.
The process is simple.

*

*A developer takes on a new project for a customer

*Create a new folder for the project

*Code in new project

*Do some maintenance in another project

*Check in updates to maintenance project

*More work in new project

*Check in new project

*Deliver to customer

There is no tagging nor branching. Earlier versions are checked out based on date.
This process has served well for many years but there are a few pain points with the current tool (CVS)

*

*Slow. Checkout takes minutes even if nothing has changed. History is stored on the server so diffs takes too long time

*Adding new projects. If you worked with CVS you know it is like: add folder, add files in folder, add next folder...

*No way to back out obvious errors (checking in binaries etc)

*No support for renaming which makes necessary refactoring even more painful.

I have used Mercurial privately for some time and would like to extend it to all developers.
I might have got it all wrong but there are a few things that I don't understand how to implement in our organization.
CVS commits are current folder only but in mercurial they are repository wide.
In our case it means that committing maintenance work in one folder will also commit yet unfinished stuff in another folder.
(I assume we could do hg ci ./** in changed folders but that is not allowed on merge, at least that is what the documentation says If you are committing the result of a merge, do not provide any filenames or -I/-X filters.)
The common practice in Mercurial is to have one repository per project.
One repository per project is OK for us but it creates some other issues like:
How to manage multiple repositories on the central server?
If a developer creates a new project he eventually need to push his changes.
Just doing
hg push http://localhost:8000/Customer1/NewProject
crashes the hg-webserver with an ugly stack dump and hangs the client.
The way I understand it is that the developer need access to the server shell to add the new repository to a configuration file and restart hgweb
The alternative is to use SSH or a share
(are there benefits using SSH instead of a file share?)
cd Customer\NewProject
hg init
hg clone --noupdate --pull . //mercurialshare\Customer\Project
echo "[paths]" >.hg\hgrc
echo "default=//mercurialshare\Customer\Project" >>.hg\hgrc

hg push

Works, but is a bit to complicated for some developers
All developers need to have all projects.
(Not really all but many projects are linked so they need to be present and it is easiest to just have all)
With many existing projects and new ones added weekly we need a way to pull all projects in one go and also clone new ones.
I was thinking that subrepos could solve the "global" pull but the following
line in the documentation is a showstopper
"When we commit, Mercurial will attempt to create a consistent snapshot of the state of the entire project and its subrepos.
It does this by first attempting to commit in all modified subrepos and then recording the state of all subrepos."
Back to the single repository problem of global commits.
(Tried a few variants of hg ci .hgsub .hgsubstate <subrepo> but .hgsubstate seem to only be updated on full commits. Other users will not see project changes without an explicit hg pull --update in the project folder)
My current thinking is to have a batch file in the root that pulls all projects
Any other ideas on how to use mercurial in our organization?
Edit
Thanks for the reply. I am currently evaluating how one repository per project will work for us. I put a batch file at the top level
FOR /F %%x IN (repolist.txt) DO (
    If EXIST .\%%x\.hg (
        ECHO Pull %%x
        hg pull --update --repository .\%%x
    ) ELSE (
        ECHO Clone %%x
        mkdir .\%%x
        hg clone --pull %1\%%x .\%%x
    )
)

A: Your right in saying that Mercurial is designed for one project per repo. It's also a lot nicer when you work like this because the history of different projects are kept separate.
Trying to have multiple projects in a DVCS repo just causes pain.
Personally I prefer serving projects via SSH rather than HTTP. One reason is the ability to...
# hg init blah
# hg clone blah ssh://server/blah

If you're serving via HTTP this doesn't work (as you've found out). I'm surprised it causes a hard crash though :-/
The sub-repos method of getting all projects isn't quite as you describe it. It's not that you're back to global commits (projects can be developed individually), but that the super-project stores the version of the sub-projects it depends on. This is exactly what you want if you have (for example) a library as a subproject, but the release depends on a specific version. Effectively a sub-repo link is a bookmark into another repo at a specific version.
Not really what you're after though.
Possibly, the common stuff should be a sub-repo of the projects that need it. Each project might then be frozen on a different version of the same code and you've got no problems. That would need a little thinking about.
Otherwise the script idea is probably easiest.


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Q: Undefined reference when using glew and mingw? I am using Eclipse, I had originally downloaded the binary from the website until someone pointed out that I needed to build it from source to make it work with mingw, so I did and I got these files: glew32.dll, libglew32.a, and libglew32.dll.a
I dropped the glew32.dll into the debug folder, and linked the libraries but it did not work.
The weird part: GLenum status = glewInit(); works but glClearColorand glClear do not work and I get a undefined reference to error when I try to call them.
Please see these screenshots: http://imgur.com/a/L8iNb and http://imgur.com/a/nYoWD
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#include <iostream>
#include "classHeaders\display.h"
#include "GL\glew.h"

int main(int argv, char** args){
  display x(800,600,"something");

  while(!x.isClosed()){
    glClearColor(0.0f,0.15f,0.3f,1.0f); //undefined reference to ERROR here
    glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT); //undefined reference to ERROR here
    x.Update();
  }
  return 0;
}

display.cpp
#include "classHeaders\display.h"
#include "GL\glew.h"
#include <iostream>
display::display(int width, int height, const std::string& title){

     SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_EVERYTHING);

     SDL_GL_SetAttribute(SDL_GL_RED_SIZE,8);
     SDL_GL_SetAttribute(SDL_GL_GREEN_SIZE,8);
     SDL_GL_SetAttribute(SDL_GL_BLUE_SIZE,8);
     SDL_GL_SetAttribute(SDL_GL_ALPHA_SIZE,8);
     SDL_GL_SetAttribute(SDL_GL_BUFFER_SIZE,32);
     SDL_GL_SetAttribute(SDL_GL_DOUBLEBUFFER,1);

     m_window = SDL_CreateWindow(title.c_str(),SDL_WINDOWPOS_CENTERED,SDL_WINDOWPOS_CENTERED,width,height, SDL_WINDOW_OPENGL);

     m_glContext = SDL_GL_CreateContext(m_window);

     GLenum status = glewInit(); //NO ERRORS OCCUR

     if(status != GLEW_OK){
         std::cerr << "glew failed to initialize" << std::endl;
     }

     m_isClosed = false;
}

display::~display(){
     SDL_GL_DeleteContext(m_glContext);
     SDL_DestroyWindow(m_window);
     SDL_Quit();
}

bool display::isClosed(){
     return m_isClosed;
}

void display::Update(){
     SDL_GL_SwapWindow(m_window);
     SDL_Event e;

    while(SDL_PollEvent(&e)){
        if(e.type == SDL_QUIT){
           m_isClosed = true;
         }
    }
}

display.h
#ifndef DISPLAY_H_
#define DISPLAY_H_

#include <string>
#include "SDL2\SDL.h"
#undef main /*need to put this in or else it gives me "undefined reference to WinMain" ERROR*/

class display{

    public:
        display(int width, int height, const std::string& title);
        void Update();
        bool isClosed();
        virtual ~display();

    private:
        display(const display& other){}
        display& operator=(const display& other){}
        SDL_Window* m_window;
        SDL_GLContext m_glContext;
        bool m_isClosed;

  };

  #endif /* DISPLAY_H_ */

A: To set up GLEW, a current OpenGL Context is needed (see Creating an OpenGL Context (WGL) for more information).
Create OpenGL context and window
A OpenGL Context and a window can easily created by SDL, GLFW or GLUT (see Initializing GLEW for more information).
Initilize  SDL
If you are using SDL you have to create the window and you have to create the OpenGL context.
SDL_Window *window = SDL_CreateWindow(""OGL window", SDL_WINDOWPOS_CENTERED,SDL_WINDOWPOS_CENTERED, width, height, SDL_WINDOW_OPENGL );
SDL_GLContext glContext = SDL_GL_CreateContext( window );

Note, you should check for errors with SDL_GetError.
The OpenGL context has to become the current context before you use it. Use SDL_GL_MakeCurrent therefor.
SDL_GL_MakeCurrent( window, glContext );

Initilize GLUT
To set up GLUT you have to use glutInit and can follow the instructions of initializing glew.
glutInit(&argc, argv);
glutCreateWindow("OGL window");

Initilize GLFW
Note, glfwInit returns GLFW_TRUE if succeded:
if ( glfwInit() != GLFW_TRUE )
    return;

GLFWwindow *wnd = glfwCreateWindow( width, height, "OGL window", nullptr, nullptr );
if ( wnd == nullptr )
{
    glfwTerminate();
    return;
}

glfwMakeContextCurrent( wnd );

After you have created an OpenGL Context and you have made it become the current context, you have to initialize glew.
Set up GLEW
Note that glewInit returns GLEW_OK if succeded:
if ( glewInit() != GLEW_OK )
    return;

To link the GLEW library correctly you have to set up proper preprocessor definitions:

On Windows, you also need to define the GLEW_STATIC preprocessor token when building a static library or executable, and the GLEW_BUILD preprocessor token when building a dll

See also the answer to GLEW Linker Errors (undefined reference to `__glewBindVertexArray')

A: So basically to solve this problem you want to download the source from the glew website and compiler it yourself. You use the command prompt to get in the directory of the folder you downloaded and execute these commands line by line in order:
gcc -DGLEW_NO_GLU -O2 -Wall -W -Iinclude -DGLEW_BUILD -o src/glew.o -c src/glew.c
gcc -nostdlib -shared -Wl,-soname,libglew32.dll -Wl,--out-implib,lib/libglew32.dll.a -o lib/glew32.dll src/glew.o -L/mingw/lib -lglu32 -lopengl32 -lgdi32 -luser32 -lkernel32
and finnally:
gcc-ar cr lib/libglew32.a src/glew.o (though the "gcc-" may not be needed, it was for me)
Once you're done with that left click on your project and go to Properties, then under C/C++ Build go to settings, then under MinGW C++ Linker click in Libraries. Once you're there make sure your Library search path is correct (the place where Eclipse looks for your libraries) then in Libraries enter these one by one: glew32 opengl32 glu32 glew32.dll SDL2 SDL2main SDL2_test
Also when you compiled from source there should be a glew32 with a .dll not a .a extension in your lib folder inside the glew folder you downloaded from the website, drop that in into your debug (where your .exe is created). Do the same for the .dllnot the .dll.a for SDL and also make sure you have your include folders for both glew and SDL set up under the GCC C++ Compiler (also under your settings for the C/C++ Builder). It should work now.


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Q: Different time for getting value from two arrays different length I was surprised that getting value by index from the first array need more time then from second one. It is not depend on arrays lenght, in my tests it is true for any combinations. I guess that it is depends on some low level optimizations. Can somebody explain it?
code example is bellow:
            var a1 = new int[10];
            var a2 = new int[1000000];

            #region init
            var random = new Random(12345);

            for (int i = 0; i < a1.Length; i++)
                a1[i] = random.Next(1000000000);

            for (int i = 0; i < a2.Length; i++)
                a2[i] = random.Next(1000000000);

            #endregion

            Console.WriteLine("a1 Length = " + a1.Length);
            var watcher = Stopwatch.StartNew();

            var t1 = a1[a1.Length / 2];

            watcher.Stop();
            Console.WriteLine("a1 timestamp = " + watcher.ElapsedTicks); // average value 130-150 ticks

            Console.WriteLine("a2 Length = " + a2.Length);
            watcher = Stopwatch.StartNew();

            var t2 = a2[a2.Length / 2];
            watcher.Stop();
            Console.WriteLine("a2 timestamp = " + watcher.ElapsedTicks); //average value 10 - 15 ticks

            Console.ReadLine();

My result is:
- getting value by the index from array with lenght 10 is ~130-150 ticks
- getting value by the index from array with lenght 1000000 is ~10-15 ticks

A: I would suggest you to change how you measuring the performance, but let's assume that your measurement is correct. It could be a few reasons here and one of them is branch prediction. In short, modern processors are using branch prediction for their computations.
As it says on Wikipedia:

The purpose of the branch predictor is to improve the flow in the
  instruction pipeline. Branch predictors play a critical role in
  achieving high effective performance in many modern pipelined
  microprocessor architectures such as x86.

So the digital circuit is trying to identify a pattern and follow it. If you guess right every time, the execution will never have to stop and it goes fast and if you guess wrong too often, you spend a lot of time rolling back and restarting. For the same reason processing sorted array is faster than processing unsorted array.


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We'll be working the reviews in to our summaries later today.
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The round Coffee Table Metal (CTM) by Charles and Ray Eames has an understated design, consisting of a plywood top with a slightly raised moulded edge and four slender tubular steel legs.
With the aim of producing a round coffee table, Charles and Ray Eames pursued various experiments that ultimately resulted in the CTM table (Coffee Table Metal). Designed in 1946, this simple table has a round plywood top with a slightly raised moulded edge and four slender tubular steel legs. It is ideally suited for use with other designs from the Plywood Group by Charles and Ray Eames.


Loop Quantum Gravity has been around a while, but Bojowald appears to have simplified it, using different mathematical terminology. This allows solutions to be determined for what was, before, an intractable problem. And what his solution reveals is something that's . . . well, it's astonishing.
What Bojowald's work does, as I understand it (the paper as I write this is not out yet, so I am going by my limited knowledge of LQG and other theories like it) is simplify the math enough to be able to trace some properties of the Universe backwards, right down to T=0, which he calls the Big Bounce. The previous Universe collapsed down, and "bounced" outward again, forming our Universe.
In many if not most (but not all) cases atheism or agnosticism blinds one to the spiritual dimension in life, inhibits one from experiencing and expressing awe, reverence, and gratitude for one's life and world, and cuts one off from the possibility of participating in the forms of spiritual life offered by the great religions.
It is such an open, tolerant, infinitely interpretable, transforming God that, to my mind, is the only God who can save us from ourselves. All other so-called "Gods;" national Gods, Gods of certain religions and peoples, are in danger of becoming idols. This is the simple message of Abraham, but it must be repeated with great force today. The idol Gods of tribes, nations, and religions are divisive and potentially destructive, unless they are seen as manifestations of a single essentially unknowable God, a God who is subject to interpretation, transformation and emendation; who is the province of all and who embraces all peoples, cultures, species, and ideas.
In recent times i've been doing a lot more reading about Jewish Kabbalah1.
My initial interest was in Qabalah, via Ellen Cannon-Reed's "Witches Tarot" (a lovely tarot deck, which i sadly rarely see referenced). But apart from Dion Fortune's fascinating Mystical Qabalah , i've not found many readable texts on hermetic Qabalah (although i'm pretty sure that they're probably less scarce than i think).
This had frustrated me, because i'm what one might call a foundationist2. By this, i mean that i tend to try to understand a particular topic by heading right back down to the foundations of that topic. So, for example, in trying to learn Haskell, i've ended up going right back to the basics of functional programming, and learning about the lambda calculus. Similarly, in wanting to learn more about Qabalah, i've ended up doing a lot of reading about Kabbalah - going back to the Sefer Yetzirah , Lurianic Kabbalah (e.g. via Rabbi Chaim Vital's Etz Hayyim ), and bits of the Zohar (via Gershom Scholem's selected excerpts). And after having three separate dreams in which i was about to read or purchase Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed , i found a copy of it through Sacred-Texts.com, and have been working my way through it.
i've never felt comfortable with Christianity. For a long time, Christianity has to me been a religion which spits on reason, treated women and queers like dirt, and generally felt that it has the right to interfere in the lives of non-Christians. At the same time, i have made an effort to seek out interpretations of Christianity which are less literalist / fundamentalist and more broad-minded, to ensure that i have a more balanced view of the diversity of Christian thought. Nonetheless, Christianity is not a religion i feel at all comfortable with.
1. In this, and other, posts, i follow the convention of transliterating the Hebrew word 'קבלה' as 'Kabbalah' when referring to its use in a Jewish context, and 'Qabalah' when referring to its use in a Hermetic context, even though the latter is probably the more accurate transliteration overall.


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Die Liste der Distrikte in Indien gibt einen Überblick über die Distrikte in Indien. Die Daten zu Einwohnerzahl und Bevölkerungsdichte beruhen auf der letzten Volkszählung aus dem Jahr 2011.

Zum Zeitpunkt der Volkszählung 2011 bestanden in Indien 640 Distrikte. Seitdem hat sich die Anzahl durch Neugründungen auf mindestens 659 erhöht. Hinsichtlich Größe, Einwohnerzahl und Bevölkerungsdichte der Distrikte bestehen große Unterschiede. Der flächengrößte Distrikt war 2011 Leh in Ladakh mit 49.035 Quadratkilometern, der kleinste Mahé in Puducherry mit 9 Quadratkilometern. Die meisten Einwohner hatte Thane in Maharashtra mit 11.054.131, die wenigsten Dibang Valley in Arunachal Pradesh mit 7.948. Dibang Valley war zugleich mit nur einem Einwohner pro Quadratkilometer der am dünnsten besiedelte Distrikt Indiens. Die höchste Bevölkerungsdichte hatte North East Delhi mit 37.346 Einwohnern pro Quadratkilometer. Die meisten Distrikte hatte der Bundesstaat Uttar Pradesh mit 75, die wenigsten Goa mit zwei. Die Unionsterritorien Chandigarh, Dadra und Nagar Haveli und Lakshadweep waren nicht weiter unterteilt und werden hier als jeweils ein Distrikt gezählt.

Anmerkungen
* Nach der Volkszählung 2011 neu gegründet, Zahlen liegen nicht vor.
** Nach der Volkszählung 2011 verkleinert, Zahlen beziehen sich auf den Distrikt in den Grenzen von 2011.
*** Nach der Volkszählung 2011 durch vergrößert, Zahlen beziehen sich auf den Distrikt in den Grenzen von 2011.

Quellen
 Provisional Population Totals Paper 1 of 2011 (India & States/UTs). Census of India 2011

Einzelnachweise

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Indien


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Card payments in Vietnam set to hit 522.5m by 2023 (The Business Times)
The days of cash remaining king may soon be numbered. Card payments in Vietnam are set to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 17.8 per cent to hit 522.5 million transactions by 2023, GlobalData said in a report.
The data and analytics company's Vietnam Cards & Payments: Opportunities and Risks to 2023 report said the number of card payments increased more than fivefold in the last five years, from 56 million in 2015 to 271 million in 2019.
"While Vietnam remains a cash-based society, the government's financial inclusion initiatives, the emergence of digital-only banks, improved payment infrastructure and the adoption of new payment card technologies have led to the growth of card-based payments," Kartik Challa, payments analyst at GlobalData, said.
The report noted that the expansion of banking infrastructure and the licensing of non-bank companies to offer payment services in rural areas were also instrumental in driving the consumer shift towards electronic payments.
Recently, the government approved a scheme to encourage bank payments for public services, as part of overall aims to bring 70 per cent of the adult population under the formal banking system by 2020. World Bank figures from 2017 showed that only 30.8 per cent in Vietnam have bank accounts.
To read the rest of the article, please use this link: https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/asean-business/card-payments-in-vietnam-set-to-hit-5225m-by-2023
By The Business Times | October 4th, 2019


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Terror of the Autons: Episode 4
Broadcast on January 23rd 1971 @ 5.15pm (8.4 million viewers)
'Terror of the Autons' features not only the return of the Autons who had debuted the previous year but introduces us to the archetypal villain for the Doctor, the Moriarty to his Sherlock Holmes, another renegade Time Lord from Gallifrey, the Master. Another addition to the Doctor Who family was the wonderful Katy Manning as new assistant to the Doctor, Jo Grant.
Jon Pertwee and Katy Manning – Doctor Who – Terror of the Autons
Jon Pertwee's second season as the Time Lord therefore builds upon the successes of the first, maintaining the UNIT base of operations, adding a new recurring villain and toning down the companion to include less scientific language and make it easier for the audience to follow the action. All these aspects would continue throughout the season and what better way to open than with a development of a popular story from that previous year, once again brought to us by writer Robert Holmes.
'Terror of the Autons' develops the concepts put forward by the original Auton tale, with plastic being a more varied weapon than just shop window mannequins. As a result, telephone cables, chairs, dolls and even daffodils, all have the capacity to kill, taking the horror and threat into the home in a way that the programme had not explored before but as a result would incur complaints from some concerned sections of the audience. Curiously, the final defeat of the Autons and the Master occurs very abruptly, the Doctor easily appealing to the Master about the Nestene's ability or not to differentiate between Time Lords and Humans.
Doctor Who – Terror of the Autons
Viewers had already seen a few Time Lords up to no good previously in the form of the Meddling Monk in 'The Time Meddler' and the War Chief in 'The War Games'. However, the Master would become the epitome of the renegade villain, the equal of the Doctor in intelligence, ingenuity and ability. Undergoing a number of regenerations, the character is still going strong today thanks to Michelle Gomez's portrayal which still maintains characteristics of the original incarnation. Roger Delgado was a perfect piece of casting, oozing villainy and menace in a suave manner which provided the perfect counter to Jon Pertwee's Doctor and so the two characters would enjoy a continuing duel for the rest of the season.
Memorable Moment (Spoiler Warning)
The sequence of the UNIT troops engaging with the Autons is a throwback to similar battles against the Yeti in 'The Web of Fear', the Cybermen in 'The Invasion' and also of course against the Autons in 'Spearhead from Space'. The stunt team Havoc provide a bit more excitement to this battle however with more explosive effects, weapons firing and soldiers being thrown about. The Autons themselves are very creepy with their over-sized heads and false smiles, again building on the blank masks that had been seen in their first appearance, another example of how the excellent 'Spearhead from Space' was enhanced for this story.
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The bags opener machine has been designed and manufactured to open bags or other kinds of containers usually used to collect M.S.W. The opening of the bags is assured by the circular motion of a drum equipped with retractile teeth and by a contrast comb.
The rotor's sharp tools, made of wear resistant material, reach the maximum point of amplitude in the material receiving section (conveyed by a chain metal plates conveyor) and re-entering on the rotor in the discharge side. The motion is by means of a hydraulic unit and by a variable control motor pump, therefore the applied power is always proportional to the type of material to be processed. So the rotation speed is easily variable according to the quantity of the processed material.


The commuter train connects Lachine station to the Lucien-L'Allier station, in downtown Montréal, in approximately 21 minutes.
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The Lachine station is located in zone 1.


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Albert Steinberg
By Lori Silberman Brauner April 17, 2014, 12:00 am Edit
Albert H. Steinberg, 88, of Houston died Jan. 5, 2014. Born in Germany, he was one of the children on the Kindertransport sent to England before the outbreak of World War II. He was later able to reunite with his family. After immigrating to the United States, he resided in Morris Plains for 25 years and also lived in Whippany and Morristown before moving to Houston a year and a half ago.
A chemical engineer, he graduated from City College of New York and later received master's degrees from Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and Fairleigh Dickinson University.
He served in the U.S. Army during World War II as a telephone instructor.
He is survived by his wife of 60 years, Phyllis; three sons, Steven of New York City, Robert of Houston, and Donald of Boston; daughters-in-law Alice Sung and Rebecca Kotkin; and four grandchildren.
Services were held Jan. 7 with arrangements by Houston Jewish Funerals.


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Home » Types Of Diabetes » Type 1 Diabetes » Understanding Type 1 Diabetes » What is Type 1 Diabetes?
Type 1 diabetes is caused by a loss or malfunction of the insulin producing cells, called pancreatic beta cells. Damage to beta cells results in an absence or insufficient production of insulin produced by the body. Most cases of type 1 diabetes have an autoimmune basis, and the immune system mistakenly attacks and destroys beta cells. Since insulin is necessary to sustain life, the missing insulin has to be replaced. The replacement insulin is administered by injection using a syringe or an insulin pump, which delivers the insulin under the skin.
Type 1 diabetes accounts for about 5-10% of diabetes worldwide.
It is diagnosed in every ethnic group, but is most frequent in individuals of European ancestry.
While type 1 diabetes is commonly diagnosed during adolescence and early adulthood, it can occur at any age. Older people who develop type 1 diabetes are often misdiagnosed as having Type 2 diabetes.
Most people first diagnosed with type 1 diabetes are lean.
85-90% will have no known family history of the disease.
There are many theories about what causes type 1 diabetes. Autoimmune disease, viral infection, genetic disposition, and environmental factors may all play a role.
There is a hereditary component to type 1 diabetes; however, it is still difficult to predict who will develop it. Among identical twins (who presumably have the same genetic and environmental risk), it is traditionally reported that only about 40% will both have the disease. Recent research suggests that the number may be much higher.
Markers in your blood and the presence of certain gene types, coupled with test results, can help predict who might develop diabetes.
Diabetes researchers are seeking ways to identify both high-risk individuals and ways to protect them. Read more about Type 1 Research.
Your immune system is so overactive that it is destroying normal beta cell tissue. The telltale signs of this destruction are detectable by a laboratory blood test. The test looks for markers. The list of markers includes glutamic acid decarboxylase antibodies (GADA), islet cell antibodies to membranous tyrosine phosphatase (ICA-512), islet cell antibodies (ICA), and insulin auto antibodies (IAA).
Some adults have a slowly progressive autoimmune destruction of their beta cells referred to as Latent Autoimmune Diabetes of Adults or LADA. Sometimes this is also known as diabetes type 1 ½. Individuals with LADA may be treated for years with diet and pills, and often are misdiagnosed as having Type 2 diabetes. Ultimately insulin replacement therapy is necessary to control the blood sugar. A diagnosis is made by confirming the presence of antibody markers.
You meet two criteria: the first, if there is no evidence in your blood that your immune system is attacking beta cells and the second, if you have alternating cycles where you need and then don't need insulin replacement. This form of the disease is unusual and most often diagnosed in those of African or Asian heritage.