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Bourque leaving GM School Board after 7 years
Rebecca Salem | Apr 25, 2012 | Comments 1
By Rebecca Salem
Bill Bourque, GMUHS board chair/ Photos by Shawn Cunningham
After seven years serving as chair of the Green Mountain Union High School Board, Bill Bourque will be stepping down in July. He and his family are moving west – from Andover to Manchester, VT.
Bourque became chairman of the school board shortly after joining in 2005. At that time, he was charged with the task of hiring a new principal for the school. The board hire, Tom Ferenc, still leads the school today
In a recent interview, Bourque recalled the improvements he has helped initiate at the school, including the reconstruction of the auditorium, an energy efficient lighting project and the current library renovation. These projects were funded by a capital improvement fund initiated by Bourque.
Other successes include the increased use of technology at the school.
Bourque said that "not everybody always agrees with that approach and you have to be careful that (the process of learning) doesn't become about the devices. But schools have been using technology for years. It has been a continuum. Now we are just at the point where you can be hugely more productive. There is a challenge in teaching not just the students but the staff as well. So we hired a technology integration specialist to work with teachers and students to get it up and running in a sensible way."
"We hired a technology integration specialist to work with teachers and students to get it up and running in a sensible way."
Bill Bourque
Departing board chair
Amanda Bourque
One ongoing concern, Bourque said, is the decline in student enrollment, since the amount of state funding a school receives is dependent on the number of students enrolled. Fewer students, he said, means decreased state funding and an increased burden on local taxpayers.
"It's always a tough balance between what taxpayers can afford and what the students need. We are always trying to raise standards and improve student outcomes, in terms of academic achievement. But our capacity to do that can be limited due to budget issues affecting staff and programs for the students."
Bourque does not yet know who will replace him on the board, although it will have to be another Andover resident, chosen by the town's school board. Vice Chair Alison DesLauriers will take over as chair until the board votes in March, at which point there will be a board reorganization.
In terms of looking to the future, Bourque hopes that the school keeps up with the good work they've been engaged in to improve student learning and "keep the building in tip-top shape." He hopes too that GMUHS can do more to involve parents in the school and in their children's education. "It's important that kids get that kind of support because they will do better when they get it."
It is clear that both he and his wife, Amanda, have followed this advice. Amanda also has been involved in the schools, having served on the board of the Chester-Andover Elementary School. And since 2000, she has been crucial to the school's drama club, acting as costumer for the annual dramas and musicals since their eldest daughter began attending GMUHS. She also has been active with the Booster Club, helping to organize the snack booth.
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About the Author: Rebecca Salem lives with her family in Chester. She is the director of development for the Windham Child Care Association and will be receiving her MFA from Bennington College in June 2013.
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Bill Bourque says:
There are many individuals involved in efforts to maintain and improve GMUHS. My fellow board members and — to a greater extent — GMHUS's administration and staff, all play a role in trying to move the school forward. I don't want to give the impression that I was responsible for all that work was highlighted in the article.


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Magical identities
Home Things Animagus
"The Animagus transformation can go horribly wrong - one reason the Ministry keeps a close watch on those attempting to do it."
-- Remus Lupin (PA18)
An Animagus is a witch or wizard who is capable of transforming him- or herself into the form of an animal.
Ordinary Transfiguration of a human into an animal's shape results in the human having an animal's brain (QA1) (although Draco Malfoy's experience in GF13 is worth considering since he was apparently able to retain enough of his faculties to try to reach the dungeons while in ferret form, and also Viktor Krum's half transformation in GF26). Those who master the advanced Transfiguration of turning into an animal while retaining their mental capacities – referred to as Animagi – are rare; the number of Animagi in the wizarding population is thought to be around one in a thousand (PmP).
More precisely, an Animagus is a witch or wizard who has the ability to Transfigure herself/himself into a certain animal at will while staying in their own mind, retaining their intelligence, memories and sense of self; however, they do have simplified feelings and emotions and take on an animalish edge to their thoughts and desires, for example eating the food their animal form would normally eat. Even if they remain in their Animagus form for a long period of time, like Peter Pettigrew, the length of their life expectancy will remain human (PmP).
The Animagus Transfiguration can be performed wandlessly, but this can only be accomplished by advanced Animagi (PmP). It is possible for another witch or wizard who is sufficiently knowledgeable to force an Animagus to Transfigure from animal shape back into human shape; the incantation (if any) for the spell is not currently known, but it is accompanied by a flash of light around the target Animagus. If used on a true animal, the "resume natural shape" spell would have no effect (PA19).
An Animagus normally retains his or her clothing, spectacles, and so on throughout the transformation, disappearing when the Animagus is in animal shape but reappearing when human shape is resumed. Sirius, for example, when Transfiguring into human shape for a meeting with Harry, Ron, and Hermione outside Hogsmeade, retained his wizard's robes (GF27). The clothes become part of the Transfiguration process, absorbed into the skin. The Animagus can also choose to leave their clothes behind, and the longer they have been an Animagus the easier it is for them to choose the nature of their transformation (PmP).
In some cases items such as spectacles may affect the animal's appearance. For example, both Minerva McGonagall and Rita Skeeter wear spectacles in human shape, and these are not only transformed with the Animagus but in these two cases form part of the resulting animal's markings (PA6, GF37).
The Animagus form almost always matches the witch or wizard's Patronus. While the form of your Patronus can change during the course of your life, there is no recorded instance of the Animagus form also changing to match it. However, as it is very rare to be an Animagus and also be able to cast a Patronus (as well as rare for a Patronus to change), there isn't enough data on the subject to know for certain what happens in this situation (PmP).
An Animagus appears to have some ability to communicate with true animals, although it is not known whether an Animagus must be in Animagus form to do so. For example, Sirius was able to understand fairly complex concepts from Crookshanks during their alliance in Harry's third year, such as the fact that Crookshanks had stolen a list of Gryffindor Tower's passwords from a boy's bedside table (PA19). Peter Pettigrew has an affinity with rats, and was able to learn Voldemort's hiding place in Albania from their knowledge of a place in the forest that was deadly to small animals such as themselves (GF33). Whatever this form of communication is, it is evidently not speech; Sirius did not know Crookshanks' name until Harry, Ron, and Hermione told him, although he had been working with Crookshanks for months at that point (PA19).
Animagi and the Law
The Improper Use of Magic Office maintains an Animagus Register of all known Animagi (PmP). The register is a matter of public record; Hermione Granger at age thirteen could consult it for the information therein, including the names of registered persons (PA19). The register keeps a record of each known Animagus (GF26), noting the kind of animal that Animagus transforms into and their distinguishing markings.
There are serious penalties for being an Animagus and failing to register, most commonly a stretch of imprisonment in Azkaban (PmP). The threat of exposure as an unregistered Animagus was enough to persuade Rita Skeeter to take a year off from her job as a scandal-mongering reporter (GF37).
Process of becoming an Animagus (summarised from PmP)
A single leaf from a Mandrake plant is kept in the mouth for one month, from full moon to full moon. If at any point the leaf is swallowed or removed from the mouth, the process must be started again.
The leaf is removed at full moon and placed in a crystal phial that receives the pure moon rays (if it is cloudy, again the process must be restarted), together with one of the wizard's hairs, a silver teaspoonful of dew collected from a place untouched by sunlight and human feet for seven days, and the chrysalis of a death's-head hawk moth.
This mixture is placed in a quiet, dark place and must not be disturbed, touched by sunlight or even looked at until the next electrical storm. Meanwhile the following spell must be performed without fail every dawn and every dusk: the tip of the wand is placed over the heart and the incantation "Amato Animo Animato Animagus" is spoken. There will come a time when, when the wand touches the chest, a second heartbeat is sensed.
As soon as lightning appears, the final stages are enacted. The crystal phial should now contain a blood red potion, which is drunk after performing the spell one last time. The witch or wizard experiences a "fiery pain and an intense double heartbeat", and has a vision of the animal they are to transform into.
The first transformation is painful and frightening; it is important not to resist the change or panic, as the animal mind may take over. The Animagus can change back into their human form by visualising themselves in their minds. Learning to transform at will takes a lot of practice, but gets easier and faster with time.
This process is long, complex and tedious; skill in both Transfiguration and Potions is required, not to mention no small amount of patience (PmP). It can take several years to complete. When it goes wrong, there are horrible consequences usually involving half-human, half-animal mutations. These mistakes are irreversible, and the witch or wizard in question remains in this state for the rest of their life (PmP).
The type of animal the Animagus becomes is not a matter of choice, but of personality (AOL, Sch2, WBD, PmP).
The animal's size, temperament and even markings may reflect the witch or wizard. For instance, Peter Pettigrew is small in stature and thus his Animagus form is a small animal. However, he was also a sneaky traitor, so his status as a rat should have been a warning to his friends that all was not well (PA18).
There were only seven Animagi registered in the twentieth century, one being Minerva McGonagall and the other six unknown (PA19). However, there were at least four more that went unregistered by the Ministry: James Potter, Sirius Black, Peter Pettigrew and Rita Skeeter.
The students at Uagadou are known for being particularly adept at self-transformation and the school has an Animagus team, which put on a display of synchronised transforming at an International Symposium of Animagi (Pm).
The Native American legend of skin walkers - evil wizards who could transform into animals at will - has its basis in Animagi; Native American Animagi were falsely rumoured to have gained their powers by sacrificing their family members (Pm).
Known Animagi and Their Forms
Falco Aesalon (first recorded Animagus)
Falcon (FW)
Dog, very large with black fur ( PA19 )
Cliodna (a.k.a. Cliodne)
Bird (FW)
Morgan le Fey (a.k.a. Morgana)
Tabby cat with spectacle markings around her eyes, matching her own spectacles (PS1, PA6, PA19)
Peter Pettigrew
Rat, formerly with toe missing on right front paw (PA19)
James Potter
Stag (PA19)
Rita Skeeter
Beetle with spectacle markings around her antennae, matching her own spectacles (GF37)
Babbitty the washerwoman transforms into a rabbit in the story "Babbitty Rabbitty and Her Cackling Stump" (TBB/BR)
Adrian Tutley
Gerbil (Pm)
Falco Aesalon
Cliodna
Morgana / Morgan le Fay
Babbitty Rabbitty
Gryffindor Tower
Shrieking Shack
Forbidden Forest
Hogsmeade
Cave above Hogsmeade
Transfiguration classroom
Uagadou Wizarding School
Animagus Transfiguration
Corporeal Patronus
Patronus Charm
The Marauders finally learn the complex spells necessary to become Animagi
In disguise as a rat, Peter Pettigrew becomes a pet of Percy Weasley
Percy Weasley gives his pet rat, Scabbers, to his younger brother Ron
Sirius Black escapes from Azkaban
Peter Pettigrew, disguised as Scabbers the rat, is cornered and revealed
Peter Pettigrew fakes his own death, killing twelve Muggles in the process
Marauder's Map
The Grim
Improper Use of Magic Office
Metamorphmagus
Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs
Kneazle
…and I Grew Up With Percy…
"My Dad Didn't Strut… and Neither do I!"
A View of the Map: Understanding How the Marauder's Map Works
An Elegantly Woven Tapestry: Plotlines in Prisoner of Azkaban
British Schooling in the 1970s
Genes and Appearance in Animagi
High Fidelity (or: How does the Fidelius Charm work?)
Animagus (an-i-MAH-jus OR an-i-MAY-jus)
From Latin "animalis" (animal) and "magus" (magic user)
Plural: Animagi
Q: If you were an Animagus, what kind of animal would you be?
A: I'd like to be an otter - that's my favourite animal. It would be depressing if I turned out to be a slug or something.
- JKR on Animagi (Sch2)
Q: When you turn into an Animagus, can you choose what animal you become? Or does this get "assigned" to you?
A: No, you can't choose. You become the animal that suits you best. Imagine the humiliation when you finally transform after years of study and find that you most closely resemble a warthog.
-- JKR on the role of personality in becoming an Animagus (WBD)
We don't know whether the wealth of unregistered Animagi we encounter in the series is just a strange coincidence, or if it's a regular occurence in the wizarding world; if it's the latter, the number of Animagi is surely higher than the believed one in a thousand. --RP
It's interesting to note that we don't know what the legal restrictions on Animagi are in any countries other than Britain. At Uagadou for example, which is somewhere in Africa, it sounds as though Animagus transformation is actually included in the school curriculum. --RP
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circa July 30th, 1993 : Sirius Black escapes from Azkaban
June 6th, 1994 : Peter Pettigrew, disguised as Scabbers the rat, is cornered and revealed
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Q: C# NullReferenceException when reading array that won't initialize I am trying to make an editor extension for Unity that reads a class named Attack, but C# is not throwing back a NullReferenceException when try to set the object.
This is where the problem lies:
void OnGUI(){
    EditorGUIUtility.labelWidth = 60;
    GUILayout.Label("Attack Manager", EditorStyles.boldLabel);

    Attacks[DataStrings.Length - 1] = new Attack();
    if (DataStrings != null){
        foreach(string Dataline in DataStrings){
            Attacks[i] = new Attack();
            Attacks[i] = JsonUtility.FromJson<Attack>(DataStrings[i]);
            NewAttack(true);
            i++;
        }
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A: Attacks = new Attack[0];

Will initiate your Array. HOWEVER I suggest you replace the array with a list
Initialize it like this
List<Attack> Attacks = new List<Attack>()

Then inside your method
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{
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Bioenergy and water are inextricably linked. For the first time, this report examines in depth these interlinkages, highlights the risks and opportunities, and offers an outlook on ways to address them. It provides policymakers with scientific information to support informed strategies and policies. The report also points to the need for further research, filling data gaps, and the development of regionalized tools. Water quantity and quality are factors that determine the extent to which bioenergy can contribute to the overall energy mix. For example, in a world already facing water stress, largely due to over 70% of freshwater being consumed by the agricultural sector, bioenergy development is likely to add to this through feedstock production and conversion processes - and hence increase the pressure. At the same time, there are opportunities to harness bioenergy development to help increase access to water by leveraging the introduction of efficient water management techniques, by increasing soil absorption capacity in dry areas, by selecting appropriate crops, by providing energy for water pumping and cleaning water.


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Two men guilty of first degree murder in death of Shawn Yorke
Kitchener -
Emotions were high in a Kitchener courtroom Tuesday as a judge handed down a pair of first-degree murder verdicts to two Kitchener men.
Kenneth Morrison, 30, and Mowafag Saboon, 27, received an automatic life sentence with no chance of parole for 25 years.
In the judge-alone trial, Justice James Sloan determined both were responsible for the shooting death of 46-year-old Shawn Yorke.
Court heard Yorke was killed in his townhome on Elm Ridge Drive around 1 a.m. on July 8, 2018 during a botched robbery.
The judge noted Yorke sold drugs out of his home, and Morrison, Saboon and two teens had planned to rob him.
Justice Sloan added they carried out a home invasion robbery with "two guns at the ready."
Court was told the group found Yorke sitting on the edge of his bed and he had attempted to fight back.
However, Justice Sloan said Morrison pointed a gun at Yorke and unlawfully confined him before the shooting.
According to the judge's findings it was Saboon who fired the fatal shot at close range and hit him in the chest.
"I am satisfied beyond a reasonable doubt that Saboon murdered Shawn," said Justice Sloan.
After the decision Tammy Lee, Yorke's family member, provided a statement to CTV:
"We, Shawn's family, are thankful for the verdict and our justice system. Without the hard work from the Crown Attorney, and everyone involved at the WRPS we would not have the verdict we received today! Although this is not a 'win' we are grateful that Shawn's life was considered and justice was served. Shawn was a man with a heart of gold, and today he is proud of all of us for enduring the pain we have all suffered for three and half years."
Meanwhile, Morrison's lawyer said they are disappointed with the judge's decision.
"Our client has never minimized his role in this offence, but it is our legal position that he is not guilty of murder," said defence attorney Jessyca Greenwood. "It will be for a higher court to review the conviction should Mr. Morrison decide to appeal."
Morrison and Saboon will return to court on Dec. 9 for a sentence hearing where victim impact statements will be heard.
The two teens involved in this case pleaded guilty to manslaughter in 2019 for their role in Yorke's death.
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'£49million for a player with potential, we did well there' – Celebrity Liverpool fan Ben Joliffe's verdict on Raheem Sterling
5th August 2015, 1:30 pm
Updated: 30th May 2018, 2:23 pm
Each week, a leading band or musician takes our special Starting XI Q&A. Stepping up this week is Ben Joliffe, drummer with the Young Guns…
Who would be the most rock 'n' roll signing your club could make?
We've already made it, Mario Balotelli. Whilst he hasn't been the best player of late, and he'll most likely be sold this summer, I don't think there's many players that play by their own rules, and do whatever they like.
If your club was a song or a lyric, what would it be?
Maybe one of our songs, 'Brother In Arms'. It's all about unity and being a group. Something a lot of teams lack these days.
Which football stadium would you most like to play a gig at (that's not your club's home ground)?
Well, my obvious one would be Wembley for many reasons but if I'm thinking clubs, I do think the Emirates is a great looking stadium. Usually lacks atmosphere but our fans aren't Arsenal fans….
Which footballer has the most potential to be a rock star?
Didier Drogba. I think his guitar hero celebration using the corner flag says it all. Peter Cech plays drums but I don't think you could find someone who looks less rock 'n' roll.
Brit award or Premier League trophy?
I'll take both please.
When you were a kid, which football and music posters did you have on your wall?
I had literally every single Liverpool player on my wall. I grew up when the likes of Barnes, Rush and Razor Ruddock were playing so I collected them from a magazine and had the whole team up. I had all sorts of music posters up, from Rancid to the Spice Girls…
Elvis was the king of rock 'n' roll, Michael Jackson the king of pop… Who's the king of football?
King Kenny.
If you were in charge of your club's dressing room stereo, what tunes would you put on before a big game and why?
Thunderstruck by AC/DC. You can't find a song with better suspense.
Which signing got you most excited and which player's departure broke your heart?
I'm so excited about Firmino. I think he's going to do really well at the club. Raheem Sterling would be the one I was disappointed to see leave but after the way he's been lately I'm so happy to see him go. £49million for a player with potential, we did well there.
Which footballer would you refuse complimentary tickets to one of your gigs?
Joey Barton probably. For some reason I follow him on Twitter and he p****s me off every day!
What's the best/worst football song ever recorded?
'Blue is the Colour' – Chelsea's anthem that somehow stayed at number one like 20 years ago. The lyrics are just dreadful!
Young Guns' new album 'Ones And Zeros' is out now. Find out more at weareyoungguns.com
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Robert Moog obituary
Electronic engineer celebrated for his eponymous invention, the synthesiser that was to inspire generations of experimental musicians
David Patrick Stearns
Thu 25 Aug 2005 06.43 EDT First published on Thu 25 Aug 2005 06.43 EDT
Robert Moog ... analogue adventurer
Robert Moog, the inventor of the Moog synthesiser, who has died of brain cancer aged 71, was a household name that was rarely pronounced correctly, and a celebrity with only the most casual public profile.
Though his inventions changed the complexion of the pop and classical music worlds, Moog was known mainly within his industry, and as an unassuming individual who was just as likely to turn up at a planetarium show in some small city as he was to write testimonials for re-releases of the best-selling album that wouldn't have happened without him, Wendy Carlos's 1968 Switched-On Bach.
Beginning in his teenage years in New York City where he grew up, Moog (whose name rhymes with "vogue") learned basic electronics from his radio-operator father and became fascinated with the Theremin, custom building and selling the spooky-sounding electronic instrument as a hobby. At Cornell University he studied physics, but after a fateful meeting with composer Herbert Deutsch, Moog became aware of electronic music studios in Princeton and Toronto, and in 1964, began working on his own synthesiser prototype. Learning from the mistakes he made in his previous efforts to develop a guitar amplifier that turned out to be prohibitively expensive, Moog realised - like car builder Henry Ford before him - success lay in practicality and affordability.
"The most important parameter of any product is price," he told Synthmuseum.com, "because everything is measured against price, just the same way that in music, everything is measured against time." Though his early instruments, with sound generated by voltage-controlled oscillators, sounded like primitive doorbells, early customers were influential, experimental figures such as choreographer Alwin Nikolais and composer John Cage. The breakthrough came from Wendy Carlos, who used the synthesiser to painstakingly build sounds for a series of outrageously colourful transcriptions in the album, Switched-On Bach, in 1968. It won three Grammy Awards and become the first classical album to be certified platinum. Glenn Gould touted one of Carlos's Brandenburg Concerto transcriptions as "the finest of any of the Brandenburgs - live, canned or intuited - I've ever heard."
Elsewhere, though, the synthesiser suffered the up-and-down shelf-life of a fad - even amid the development of the portable Minimoog. And though Moog had a clear vision of what kind of synthesiser the world needed, his strengths didn't lie in running a company. During an economic downturn in the music industry in the early 1970s, Moog was forced to take on investors, merge with another company, set up shop in a less-than-ideal former gelatine factory in Buffalo, New York State, and gradually give up control of the operation. He left Moog Music in 1977. "What prompted me to leave? What prompted me to stay that long, more like it," he once said. "I had a four-year employment contract I had to stick out in order to cash my stock in. I would have left before if I could."
Moving to North Carolina, he began Big Briar Inc. and was later the vice president of new research at Kurzweil Music Systems. In later years, he designed a variety of electronic instruments, including an interactive piano that is operated by a touch screen and offers sound sampled from a Steinway grand piano. "I was never worried that synthesisers would replace musicians," he told journalist Jason Gross in 1997. "First of all, you have to be a musician in order to make music with a synthesiser. And second, I never thought that analogue synthesiser sounds would ever be mistaken for traditional musical instruments. To me, the synthesiser was always a source of new sounds."
Initially, the Moog synthesiser signified liberation from "received sounds" generated by pre-existing musical instruments - an attitude in step with America in the wake of the Vietnam war and the fall of Richard Nixon when nearly everything about the old order was up for revision. Though the appeal of those new sounds now can seem as baffling as that of the equally synthetic polyester leisure suit, the synthesiser was really a more portable extension of the pipe organ, its range of sound allowing the creative breakthroughs of the progressive rock bands Yes, and Emerson, Lake and Palmer.
In baroque music circles, the Moog synthesiser forced a reopening of the original instrument question: the argument in favour of playing Bach on piano rather than harpsichord could be applied to the synthesiser. If the composer had such sonic opportunities, wouldn't he certainly have taken them? Perhaps because Carlos's realisations were so fanciful, that line of reasoning didn't get very far. Perhaps not coincidentally, the fast rise of the Bach-on-authentic-instrument movement closely followed the abandonment of synthesisers in serious classical circles.
However, the synthesiser's ability to imitate sounds of pre-existing instruments has had darker, more far-reaching implications that continue to haunt, in particular, the employment of conventional musicians: large numbers of them can be replaced by a single synthesiser. Even if audiences can tell the difference between traditional instruments and their synthesised replacements, have their ears been conditioned so that they don't care?
Moog is survived by his second wife, Ileana, and a son and three daughters by his first wife.
· Robert Arthur Moog, engineer, born May 23 1934; died August 21 2005
Robert Moog: 'I wouldn't call this music' – a classic interview to mark a Google doodle
As what would have been the 78th birthday of Robert Moog is celebrated in a Google doodle, we visit Rock's Backpages – the world's leading archive of vintage music journalism – for this interview by Don Snowden, first published in the Los Angeles Times in 1981, in which he shares his views on the new synth gods
Robert Moog's 78th birthday celebrated in Google doodle
Robert Moog rhymes with 'vogue': mispronunciations that annoy you
Dark side of the Moog
One nation under a Moog
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But What is Digital Advertising?
Digital advertising is a combination of strategies and tools that help you reach potential customers and residents at all stages of their 20+ point decision-making journey and, in this case, potential employees. For G5, digital advertising is everything from paid search and display ads to remarketing and paid social, we work with you to ensure your search engine marketing (SEM) strategy is aligned with your business needs.
Facebook, for instance, remains an underutilized recruitment function for senior assisted living communities. According to the Jobvite Recruiter Nation Report, 67 percent of job seekers use Facebook in their job search. Effective digital advertising utilizes big data to help target the right people. For example, a nursing student is active on Facebook and they post about their practicum or a lesson on skilled-care facilities. Or, they've included their degree and university in their profile data. That data is then used to help you target that individual since they meet the criteria for a great potential employee.
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Bulgarije was een van de deelnemende landen aan de Olympische Winterspelen 2018 in Pyeongchang, Zuid-Korea.

Deelnemers en resultaten

Alpineskiën

Biatlon

Langlaufen

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Schansspringen

Snowboarden

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Joshua Bell extends his contract as Academy of St Martin in the Fields' Music Director until 2023
The Academy of St Martin in the Fields is delighted to announce that Music Director Joshua Bell's contract has been extended until 2023. The news comes at the start of the Academy's 60th anniversary season and was announced at a Gala concert, on 12 November, at Southbank Centre's Queen Elizabeth Hall.
As one of the world's most celebrated violinists and a renowned figure on the international concert stage, Bell has led the London-based chamber orchestra as Music Director since 2011. He is only the second person to hold the title, succeeding Academy founder Sir Neville Marriner, who held the role from the orchestra's formation in 1958 until 2011, when he was named Life President. Bell's appointment cemented a long and acclaimed partnership with the Academy which began in 1998, when Bell was 21 years old, with their first collaboration, Bell's first concerto recordings of Bruch and Mendelssohn, conducted by Sir Neville Marriner.
Joshua Bell comments: 'I'm truly thrilled to be extending my contract as Music Director of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields for another three seasons. Since the start of my tenure in 2011, the Academy has been my musical family, and each time we see each other it feels like both a homecoming and the start of a new adventure. I'm already looking forward to many more exciting concerts and tours around the world with this incredible orchestra.'
Alan Watt, Chief Executive of Academy of St Martin in the Fields comments: 'Since joining the Academy as Music Director in 2011, Joshua Bell has led the Academy on an exciting musical journey and on behalf of the Academy – our musicians, staff and board – I'm delighted that today we are announcing his contract extension. I'm thrilled that we'll be continuing our close collaboration with this extraordinary musician into 2023 and look forward to inspiring new audiences around the world together.'
Bell directed the gala concert from the violin, performing as soloist Mendelssohn's beloved Violin Concerto in E minor. The programme celebrated the Academy's past, present and future, with Mozart's Symphony No. 25, which famously features on the orchestra's soundtrack to the Oscar-winning film Amadeus, as well as featuring the UK premiere of Composer-in-Residence Sally Beamish's Hover, dedicated to the memory of Sir Neville Marriner. The Academy are Classic FM's Artists in Residence, and will broadcast the concert in Classic FM's The Full Works on Thursday 21 November, 8 – 10pm.
The Academy perform the Beamish and Mendelssohn alongside Mozart's Divertimento at West Road Concert Hall, as part of the Cambridge Music Festival on Thursday 14 November. The Academy Chamber Ensemble also returns to Wigmore Hall with Bell on Friday 15 November to perform Dvořák's well-loved String Sextet in A major and the two surviving movements of Borodin's lesser known String Sextet. Two horns join the ensemble for Mozart's charming and light-hearted Divertimento No. 10.
Later in the season, Bell directs the Academy from the leader's chair in Edinburgh's Usher Hall on Sunday 19 January 2020. The programme explores iconic string orchestra repertoire from the 18th, 19th & 20th centuries: from Bach's spirited Violin Concerto with Bell as soloist, to Schubert's Death and the Maiden (arranged for string orchestra by Mahler), to Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No.3 in G major and Piazzolla's virtuosic Four Seasons of Buenos Aires (arranged by Leonid Desyatnikov for violin and strings). The Orchestra takes the same programme to London's Cadogan Hall on Monday 20 January 2020.
The Academy and Bell travel to the United States Saturday 15 February – Wednesday 4 March for a 17-date tour to Sarasota, Vero Beach & West Palm Beach, Florida; North Bethesda, Maryland; Newark, New Jersey; Boston, Massachusetts; East Lansing, Michigan; Akron, Ohio; Stillwater, Oklahoma; and Davies, San Francisco, San Diego, Costa Mesa & Northridge, California. Bell directs a programme of Mozart, Brahms and Beethoven, and performs as soloist in Paganini's Violin Concerto No. 1 and Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor. The Academy also travels abroad this season with acclaimed guest artists such as Jörg Widmann, Fazil Say and Principal Guest Conductor Murray Perahia.


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Kourtney Kardashian Rolls the Dice on Risky New Year's Eve Look
Kourtney Kardashian ended 2021 with a bang.
The Poosh founder went all out on her final fashion look of the year, donning a silver bustier bra top and high-waisted shorts combo. The sparkling look naturally included some ice—a multi-strand choker with a large cross pendant—and a special dice accessory.
Clearly, her gamble paid off.
Kourtney, 42, shared photos of herself in the silver ensemble and tossing the giant dice in the air. "2022 the best is yet to come," teased the star, which we can only hope is a reference to her future wedding to Travis Barker.
Her fiancé's daughter, Alabama Barker, commented her approval on the NYE post. "Yesss," she wrote with a flame emoji.
On her Instagram Story, Kourtney also revealed a bouquet of red roses and two dishes from private vegan chef Aaron Elliott that helped her end 2021 on a high note. Plus, her Story offered a first look at her family's upcoming Hulu reality show.


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Ankur Goel to head Plantronics and Polycom business in India
Updated: Mar 4, 2019 11:00 am IST
Days after making announcement about new leadership in Asia Pacific (APAC) region, American audio and unified communication firm Plantronics said that it has appointed Ankur Goel as Managing Director for India & SAARC.
The compay which recently acquired Polycom said that Goel will oversee both Plantronics and Polycom business in India and manage the company's joint business spanning voice, video, content and cloud solutions.
Goel will be responsible for expanding Plantronics' footprint in the government, commercial and SMB sectors. He will report to Pierre-Jean Châlon, Senior Vice President, Asia Pacific.
Goel has more than 20 years of experience in enterprise communication. More recently, he was Sales Director of India for Polycom.
"It is an exciting time for the unified communications market in India. Video collaboration is no longer just a fancy term but has become a critical driver of productivity in the global marketplace. As new generations enter the workforce, expectations around being able to connect instantly, from any device or workspace are rising," said Châlon.
"The combination of Plantronics and Polycom is well positioned to capitalize on this opportunity as the combined company delivers excellent collaboration experiences for every environment, workspace, and worker. I am excited to have Ankur lead the team in India. He is a respected industry veteran with an excellent track record of growing sales and improving operational efficiency in the market, Châlon.
"I am very excited about my new role. Over the next few months, our focus will be on bringing collaboration solutions to more tier 2 and tier 3 cities in India so more people can benefit from seamless, unified communications. We will work closely with customers across sectors to provide the best collaboration solutions to deliver the right foundation for their digital initiatives," said Goel. "I look forward to building on our momentum and developing even stronger ties with our customers and wide ecosystem of partners."
After Plantronics acquired Polycom, the company has extended portfolio of integrated products and service spanning across headsets, software, desk phones, audio and video conferencing, and cloud services. Plantronics has significant presence in Asia Pacific, with multiple offices in Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam.
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Wearing BlueSeventy swim socks for swimming keeps the chill off your feet during those early season lake swims and protects your feet from sharp or rocky surfaces. These swimming socks for adults are made from quality neoprene and are cut for a close fit so that your kick is unaffected and water ingress is kept to a minimum. Because of the long length of the BlueSeventy swim sock, we have found them to be most effective when tucked under the wetsuit legs to further reduce water intake; the non-slip 'hold up' seal around the top of the sock works a treat.
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Australian P2P lender SocietyOne has revealed it has issued more than $350 million in loans on its platform since 2012, reports Julie Muhn at Finovate (Banking Technology's sister company). Additionally, the company has the highest number of current loans, setting a record for itself with $200 million in its books.
"Our growth in 2017 underlines the demand from consumers for a real alternative to the major banks. Consumers are looking for a better deal on their finances and our risk-based pricing is attractive for customers that have demonstrated that they have a good credit history," says Jason Yetton, CEO and MD of SocietyOne.
The company's loan volumes have seen seven successive quarters of growth. In fact, loan volumes in the first three quarters of this year have totaled $141 million so far; surpassing the $139 million in loans facilitated over the entire course of 2016.
Yetton also noted the growth of SocietyOne's AgriLending product, which launched in 2014 to serve Australia's farmers and ranchers. Out of the $350 million in lending on the company's platform, $80 million was issued to farmers, ranchers, and their agents via AgriLending.
"I'm also pleased at the way we are getting behind Australian livestock farmers as the growth in SocietyOne AgriLending has shown. The team is standing ready to help them even more so as rural and regional Australia waits for the rains that will kick start the Spring growth and rearing season," says Yetton.
SocietyOne offers borrowers personalised repayment programmes with lower interest rates than major banks. Users can borrow between $5,000 to $50,000 for unsecured, personal loans for two, three, or five year terms. In August, the company celebrated five years of facilitating loans.
Australian peer-to-peer lending firm also gets new CEO.
Fintech and marketing services company Kasasa unveiled its newest offering, Kasasa Loans, which lets consumers pay ahead to reduce debt and take that extra money back if they need it.
Citing the strong "alignment between car shopper and car dealer motivation", Global Lending Services has forged a partnership with auto financing specialist AutoGravity.


I love carrot cupcakes! This recipe uses a pound of carrots -- so it could be considered a vegetable dish somewhat? - or so I tell myself.
I have tried a few recipes for carrot cakes and cupcakes and I like this one the best -- and hey, it's a 'tweaked' Martha Stewart recipe!
It's straightforward, pretty much don't need a mixer, though using even a hand mixer would help make the cake more fluffy and the batter rise up nicely, and would make my life easier.
The recipe is very moist because it is oil-based, or uses vegetable oil rather than butter -- so it stays soft even straight out of the refrigerator. (Butter cakes are usually hard out of the fridge, they have to come up to at least close to room temperature before you could enjoy them).
As for the carrots, I use a food processor with a fine shredding disk, it does the job in just a minute, but if not available, a good old box grater (pang-gadgad) is just as good.
The best part of it all is the cream cheese icing -- I'd say it is just not right to use any other icing for carrot cupcakes -- this one is a tangy, not-too-sweet icing... And again, if a mixer is not available, beating by hand takes a little more time but it's doable.
Preheat oven at 350ºF (around 180ºC).
1 Sift together the flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt. Set aside.
2 In a separate bowl, beat the eggs until light colored, then add the buttermilk, vegetable oil, vanilla extract and the spice mix of cinnamon powder, ground ginger and ground cloves. Stir in the raisins.
3 Whisk or mix together the dry and wet ingredients until fully incorporated. Fold in the nuts (optional).
4 Scoop on to individual paper-lined muffin tins and bake for 20 to 25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.
5 Set aside the cupcakes to cool down completely before frosting.
6 To make the Frosting , beat or whisk together softened butter, cream cheese and vanilla extract.
7 Add the confectioner's sugar a cup at a time, beating thoroughly.
8 Pipe onto completely cooled carrot cupcakes.
9 (Optional Step) To make the carrot decorations on top, prepare 2 bowls with 1/4 cup of the frosting each -- color one in orange, the other in green.
10 Using 2 small ziplock plastic bags, place the tinted frostings in each bag, and cut out a small hole at one corner for each. Pipe the orange carrot first for all the cupcakes, then do the green leaves next. (Press heavily at first for the thicker part of the carrot, then lightly as you go to the thinner end, then release -- same with the green leaves).
11 Your cupcake is ready to eat. Enjoy your vegetable dessert!
- Buttermilk makes the cake more tender and the tangy flavor cuts into the sweetness of the cake -- but if not available, make your own buttermilk by stirring together 1/2 cup of milk with 2 1/4 tsp white vinegar and set it aside until it thickens or curdles -- about 15 to 20 minutes. Stir before using.
- This cake has to be refrigerated until ready to serve. The frosting is not as stable as buttercream and the cream cheese could become runny and easily go bad if left out at room temperature for more than couple hours.
- For those who are not crazy about putting frosting on cakes or cupcakes, just dust the top generously with confectioner's or icing sugar using a sieve.
- The recipe can be made into a cake, as well - divide the batter equally in 2 8-inch or 9-inch round cake pans and bake at same temperature but for 30 to 35 minutes. Level the cakes and put 1 cup of frosting in between. Frost the cake top and side and apply (to cover the side) with toasted, coarsely chopped walnuts.


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Health Minister Vili Beros: Covid Cost Croatia Almost 6 Billion Kuna
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October 19, 2022 - Health minister Vili Beros said that the current epidemiological situation in Croatia is relatively stable and stated that the total cost of the coronavirus epidemic is close to six billion kuna.
As Index writes, while reporting to the parliament on the measures taken by Croatia against the covid-19 epidemic from January 1 to August 31, 2022, Beros pointed out that for the sixteenth day in a row, we have recorded a decrease in the number of newly infected people per day. The drop is significant and perhaps unexpected because the school year has already started, said Beroš, but he also warned that the epidemic is still around us and we must be careful.
He added that the majority of hospitalised patients are still completely unvaccinated citizens or vaccinated only with the primary vaccine, which indicates the need to increase the vaccination rate of citizens. He also presented the information that the Croatian Institute for Health Insurance paid almost six billion kuna from compulsory health insurance funds from the beginning of the epidemic until August 31.
"Although it is a large figure in financial terms, it is important to see that it cannot be considered a cost but an investment in the health and treatment of our citizens, which ultimately affects the performance of other sectors such as tourism and the economy," said the minister.
State Secretary Marija Bubas referred to the problematic statements in the media about vaccination, which certain opposition parties support. "Protests by various interest groups with their destructive messages have not caused any political damage to the government, but they are certainly causing damage to our citizens, who are still weighing out if they want to get vaccinated," she said.
To the opposition's criticism that Croatia has failed in the fight against the epidemic with regard to the mortality rate, Beros replied that statistics should take into account the demographic picture of the population, comorbidity, and the percentage of vaccinated people, which is still insufficient. The representatives were also interested in how many vaccines were ordered, how many were used, and how much it all cost.
9.7 million doses were acquired, 5.3 million doses were used, 4.4 million doses were unused, of which 1.1 million were donated, and 426 thousand doses were destroyed having had expired, the minister stated. Vaccination against the coronavirus will become lifelong, that is, constant, and it is necessary to keep buying new doses, said Beros. He did not provide an answer about how much it cost, pointing out that the vaccine saves lives and that the price is not important in that context. "The government will pay for everything necessary to provide Croatian citizens with adequate medical care, including the vaccine, so I won't tell you how much it costs; someone else will answer. We don't pay for it from the system; it is procured through joint procurement by the European Commission," he said.
The slogan should be changed from "get vaccinated, save others" to "get vaccinated, save the supplies," proposed Zvane Brumnic (Social Democrats). Beros also rejected Miro Bulj's (Most) claims that the Ministry of Health hides public purchases of medical equipment and vaccines like a snake its legs. "Everything is public and transparent, but there are elements such as the contract of the European Commission that do not allow us to communicate the price of the vaccine," he said.
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Hitting KO Prime for the first time in a year, I came, I suspect, as close as I'll ever come to celebrating the Saturnalia without actually traveling back in time to inhabit the body of a Roman slave, packing a week of howling, chest-pounding debauchery into an evening (that, granted, began around noon with lunch & cocktails at dante, continued with more cocktails at UpStairs on the Square & still more cocktails plus apps at Hungry Mother, & ended with a nightcap or two at No. 9 Park). As promised here—where the pics below of chef Jamie Bissonnette's signature bone marrow & surely-soon-to-be-signature calves' brains piperade (essentially a Basquaise sofrito, heavy on the peppers) 1st appeared—what follows is a montage that, I imagine, speaks for itself, albeit in a slur devolving into a series of grunts.
Kobe flatiron with grilled onions & romesco, professedly, though I remain confused by the profession; although almonds and stale bread are key in traditional recipes for the Spanish sauce, so are red peppers—sweet & dried chile—& tomato, & the color of the final product generally reflects as much.
absolutely no recollection. cocoa-dusted cheesecake? semifreddo? with mint coulis?


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'The Lion King' Live Action Film Has Cast 2 More Characters And They're Perfect
by Billy Lorusso
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I'm just gonna jump right out and say it, our world is decaying right before our eyes. It's an absolute dumpster fire out there, y'all. That's OK, though, because a live-action version of The Lion King is making its way to theaters and there is literally nothing as exciting as that. I mean, really, what a time to be alive. Every day we inch closer to seeing the most iconic lions of the past century take on the big screen, and it seems like every day we get new information on The Lion King's live-action cast to keep us prepared. Today is no exception, and I'm freakin' all the way out because The Lion King has cast its Rafiki and Sarabi. That's right, it looks like Alfre Woodard will be voicing Simba's momma and John Kani will be playing our favorite primate Rafiki. Talk about perfect casting.
Woodard and Kani have worked together before in Marvel's Captain America: Civil War, and this is their first project together since then.
Aside from these two newcomers to the Disney family, a few other actors have been cast in major roles. Billy Eichner will be joining the cast as Timon and Seth Rogen will be voicing his warthog sidekick, Pumbaa. Additionally, Donald Glover will play Simba and John Oliver will voice Zazu. All of this on top of the fact that James Earl Jones will be reprising his role as Mufasa in the live-action Lion King. Really the only major character we have left is Nala, who many have suggested Beyoncé might be voicing.
There's still plenty of time left, though, since The Lion King reboot isn't set to hit theaters until July 2019, and there are plenty of actresses worthy of voicing Queen Nala. I guess we'll just have to be prepared for more amazing casting announcements and sneak peeks between now and then.


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Home » Tension in Taiwan as the Formosa Strait continues to simmer
Tension in Taiwan as the Formosa Strait continues to simmer
Characterised by provocative addresses and actions, a wave of renewed tension and concern has surrounded the question of Taiwan's future in recent months- for the Island nation itself, China, and an international community increasingly focused on the region.
Separated by a wedge of Pacific Ocean just a hundred miles in width from coast to coast, it might be falsely assumed that two nations within such close geographic and cultural proximity of one another have a stable relationship.
The recent array of military presences in the Formosa strait illustrates an opposing reality. Since the beginning of Taiwan's politically alternative path to that of a mainland turned communist through China's 1949 civil war, geopolitical tension has hung thick in the region's subtropical air.
Most recently, in a four-day period starting on October the 1st, China sent 150 aircrafts to missions in Taiwan's air-defence identification zone (ADIZ). Regarded by China as a show of strength against a growing western military interference in the country's surrounding seas, for Taiwan and its international supporters, intimidation was perhaps a more apt description for the mainland superpower's actions.
A marriage between heavy-footed military tip-toeing on the edge of Taiwan's internationally recognised airspace and Chinese president Xi Jinping's subsequent reiterations of a historical state desire for 'reunification' have led many to even consider the potential for an imminent invasion.
As early as last April, the head of the Pentagon's Indo-Pacific command Admiral John Aquilino warned that an invasion of Taiwan was 'much closer to us than most think'. Now, Taiwan's defence minister Chiu Kuo-Cheng has stated that China would be prepared to launch an invasion within three years if motivated.
This growing sense of threat carried through Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen's speech during last week's national celebrations as she pledged not to bow to mainland pressure and to bolster defences.
Yet beyond the expansionist bogeyman narrative of old, consumed in the west with a glass of warm milk before bedtime, is inevitably an alternative world view. Last week, an American destroyer the USS Dewey and a Canadian Frigate the HMCS Winnipeg were only the most recent military ships of monthly excursions that pass close by the Chinese mainland through the Formosa strait.
From the perspective of Taiwan's US ally, the excursions are a marker of what the Biden administration has called their 'rock-solid' commitment to Taipei and what a US military spokesperson called a commitment to a 'free and open Indo-Pacific'. To the Chinese state these actions are the true provocations that jeopardise regional peace and stability.
Clearly as the splashing persists the paddling pool spats are growing more menacing, only time will tell how much so.
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Where is my mistake? Thank you!

A: I don't know where was the problem, but i fixed it by changing DockPanel to Grid. It was a magic.


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Google to Glass Developers: Start Developing on Android SDK
While they wait for the Google Glass Development Kit to see the light of day, developers are being encouraged to test their ideas in the Android SDK instead.
By David Murphy
https://www.pcmag.com/news/google-to-glass-developers-start-developing-on-android-sdk
Chomping at the bit to design your own Google Glass app? You'll have to wait a little bit longer to get your hands on Google's to-be-released Glass Development Kit (GDK), a software toolkit that will officially (and finally) allow developers to build apps that can run directly on Glass itself.
Currently, the best one can do is to design a web-based service — "Glassware," as Google describes it — that interacts with Google Glass via cloud-based APIs. Limited APIs, we should note; Developers interested in exploring the full range of functionality that Glass (supposedly) provides have noticed that Google haven't exactly given them the kitchen sink to play around with.
"The platform itself is a RESTful-based API meant for sending small messages of push data. Video, picture, audio, and text linked from HTML/CSS formatted messages are sent via a web service request to the Google Glass Mirror API. The API is not for developing true native applications," writes Playground's Dave Senior.
Well, Google has a (temporary) fix for that, at least. According to a new Google+ post from the Glass Developer Relations Team, developers are now being encouraged to "design and develop your awesome ideas" via the current Android SDK while waiting for the official GDK to hit the Web.
"Glass is built on the Android 4.0.4 platform, so you can write APKs using the standard Android SDK (API Level 15) and sideload them onto Glass. The Android SDK provides you with a wide range of APIs to do things such as access the low-level hardware, render OpenGL, use stock Android UI widgets, and much more. You can even use the Android NDK to develop," reads Google's description on its Glass Development Kit webpage.
Those new to Glass and Android can benefit from some of the sample APKs that Google's thrown up onto GitHub, which consist of three simple Compass, Level, and Stopwatch apps.
"When we launch the GDK, we'll also update these samples to show the migration path from a traditional Android app to a full Glass experience," reads Google's site.
Google still hasn't teased out when the GDK might see the light of day, but something's better than nothing, eh Glass aficionados?
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Taylor is so desperate to write her next big hit that she may have to turn to one of her many ex-boyfriends.
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Bamboo spoke with Swift at a local Kentucky Fried Chicken, where she had half an order of chicken tenders, with a side of okra, and a Diet Mint Julep.
Tay-Tay, as her millions of fans call her, told Miss Bamboo that her manager told her that she needs to get on the ball and find a damn boyfriend, make some whoopie, break-up with him, and write her next number one song.
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Q: Reducing an array of objects to key value map I have an array of objects. I need to make an object so that I can fetch the name based on an id.
const drinks = [
  { _id: "5fe40ad4d2e6e6de85c46a6c", name: "Americano", __v: 0 },
  { _id: "5fe40ad4d2e6e6de85c46a6d", name: "Latte", __v: 0 },
  { _id: "5fe40ad4d2e6e6de85c46a6e", name: "Flat White", __v: 0 }
];

I tried this which almost works:
console.log(drinks.reduce(
  (accumulator, currentValue) =>
     Object.assign(accumulator, accumulator[currentValue._id] = currentValue.name), {}));

However it outputs:
Object {
  0: "F", 1: "l", 2: "a", 3: "t", 4: " ", 5: "W", 6: "h", 7: "i", 8: "t", 9: "e",
  5fe40ad4d2e6e6de85c46a6c: "Americano",
  5fe40ad4d2e6e6de85c46a6d: "Latte",
  5fe40ad4d2e6e6de85c46a6e: "Flat White"
}

I need:
Object {
  5fe40ad4d2e6e6de85c46a6c: "Americano",
  5fe40ad4d2e6e6de85c46a6d: "Latte",
  5fe40ad4d2e6e6de85c46a6e: "Flat White"
}

Why is my function also breaking down one of the values into characters?

A:

const drinks = [{ _id: "5fe40ad4d2e6e6de85c46a6c", name: "Americano", __v: 0 },
                { _id: "5fe40ad4d2e6e6de85c46a6d", name: "Latte", __v: 0 },
                { _id: "5fe40ad4d2e6e6de85c46a6e", name: "Flat White", __v: 0 }];

                const result=drinks.reduce((acc,curr)=>{
                acc[curr._id]=curr.name;
                return acc;
                },{})

console.log(result)

A: You can map your array into an array of entries (key / value pairs) which you can then run through Object.fromEntries() to create the final object

const drinks = [
  { _id: "5fe40ad4d2e6e6de85c46a6c", name: "Americano", __v: 0 },
  { _id: "5fe40ad4d2e6e6de85c46a6d", name: "Latte", __v: 0 },
  { _id: "5fe40ad4d2e6e6de85c46a6e", name: "Flat White", __v: 0 }
]

const result = Object.fromEntries(drinks.map(({ _id, name }) =>
  [ _id, name ]))

console.log(result)

The longer version would be something like this
const result = drinks.reduce((obj, { _id, name }) => ({
  ...obj, // spread syntax is like `Object.assign()`
  [ _id ]: name // use `_id` as a dynamic object key with value `name`
}), {})

The issue with your current code is that the result of...
accumulator[currentValue._id] = currentValue.name

is the value assigned (ie currentValue.name). When used as an argument in Object.assign(), it is broken down as object entries, thus resulting in what you're seeing with
{
  0: "F",
  1: "l",
  2: "a",
  3: "t",
  4: " ",
  5: "W",
  6: "h",
  7: "i",
  8: "t",
  9: "e"
}

A: Just pass the object { [currentValue._id]: currentValue.name } to assign instead of assignment accumulator[currentValue._id] = currentValue.name

const drinks = [
  { _id: "5fe40ad4d2e6e6de85c46a6c", name: "Americano", __v: 0 },
  { _id: "5fe40ad4d2e6e6de85c46a6d", name: "Latte", __v: 0 },
  { _id: "5fe40ad4d2e6e6de85c46a6e", name: "Flat White", __v: 0 }
];

console.log(drinks.reduce(
  (accumulator, currentValue) =>
     Object.assign(accumulator, { [currentValue._id]: currentValue.name }), {}));

A: This will work
drinks.map(({ _id, name }) => ({
  [_id]: name
}))


NextDecade Corporation ("NextDecade" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: NEXT) announced today that Dr. Ping Lee has joined the Company as Senior Vice President, LNG Marketing – China and Southeast Asia. NextDecade announced earlier this year that it had opened offices in Singapore and Beijing to serve customers throughout Asia.
Lee is the former President and Asset General Manager of BG Group, China, a position he held until 2016. In that role, Lee was instrumental in building BG Group's commercial and E&P interests; before its acquisition by Shell, BG Group had become China's largest LNG supplier. Prior to his time with BG Group, Lee held positions of increasing management responsibilities with Schlumberger, ultimately serving as Area President of Schlumberger from 2007 until 2011. He began his career with Schlumberger as a Research Scientist in 1990 in Austin, Texas.
Lee holds masters and doctorate degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics, respectively, from Cornell University. He completed his undergraduate studies at the State University of New York in Buffalo. Lee serves on the Board of Directors of Cornerstone Bank in Atlanta, Georgia.
Located at the Port of Brownsville in South Texas, NextDecade's Rio Grande LNG project is expected to be a leader among second wave U.S. LNG projects. NextDecade's customers and shareholders will benefit from the project's low cost, lower risk, and optimal location. The use of proven technology will foster operational reliability and afford NextDecade's customers access to reliable, low-cost, abundant natural gas from the Permian Basin, Eagle Ford Shale, and other basins.
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The Academic Second Chance program is an "amnesty" program that provides a benefit to students who are returning to the college, or transferring to Daytona State, when their prior educational experience has not been totally satisfactory.
The Second Chance Program does not apply once a certificate or a degree (associate or bachelor's) has been earned. The program will only apply to additional courses taken toward a subsequent degree. The Academic Second Chance Program can only be used once in a lifetime.
All courses remain on the transcript, except from new transfer students. Students planning to transfer to another college or university are cautioned that the receiving institution may use all original grades earned when computing a GPA for admissions eligibility or for other purposes.
If a student has earned a certificate and subsequently takes additional courses toward an associate degree, only the new courses taken would be applicable to this policy. The same applies to students who return for a second associate degree. Grades for courses that qualify for this amnesty program will be remain on the transcript and the code "AMN" is added to indicate the amnesty was applied. The following statement will be added to the student's course on the transcript when the petition is approved: "Academic Amnesty." The transcript legend will indicate the "AM" grade original grade of "F" excluded from GPA calculation upon Second Chance Amnesty Appeal approval.
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The Academic Second Chance Program allows former students of Daytona State College who return to college after a three calendar year break in higher education enrollment to have coursework with a grade of "F" be excluded from Daytona State College GPA calculations once their appeal is approved.
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Many times students are unsure of their career goals, or may attempt courses and programs not suited to their academic skills. For students who are successful after a career/program change, the Academic Second Chance Policy permits a student to select up to three grades of "F" earned previously in required courses (not electives or General Education courses) in the prior major, to be marked "AMN" and not counted in the GPA. To take advantage of this provision the student must have earned 50% of the credits toward their new program.
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New students transferring to Daytona State College will automatically take advantage of the Academic Second Chance Policy for Transfer Students. The college will not transfer grades of "F" and "W" onto the Daytona State College transcript. This policy does not apply to students who were enrolled at the college prior to fall 2009. The college will continue to require the receipt of all prior college transcripts, even if no credits are to be awarded in transfer.
Students must clearly understand that other colleges may not use the Daytona State College GPA for transfer purposes if any type of grade amnesty has been applied.


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Until the previous parsha, Shlach, the Jewish nation in the desert thought they were but three days away from entering Israel, their Promised Land. However, in that previous parsha, the Jewish people sent spies ahead to spy out the land. The spies brought back an evil report about the land, and the Jewish people believed them. As a result, the Jewish people are punished by having to wander 40 years in the desert before entering the land.
In the first aliyah we read of a man named Korach in the Kehos family within the tribe of Levy. He starts a rebellion against Moshe along with 250 men of renown from the congregation. They claim that Moshe and Aharon are no holier than the rest of the congregation. Therefore they want to know why do Moshe and Aharon act in a special capacity, above the rest of the congregation? Moshe answers that in the morning they will hear G-d's decision.
In the second aliyah Moshe tells Korach and his 250 followers in the rebellion to prepare a firepan and incense and present it before G-d. In addition, Korach goes around to all the Jewish people and incites them also against Moshe and Aharon. Everyone comes to the door of the tent of meeting and the Glory of G-d appears to them there. What happens then is in the next aliyah.
In the third aliyah G-d tells Moshe and Aharon to separate themselves from this community so G-d can destroy them in an instant. Moshe and Aharon fall on their faces and pray to G-d to not destroy everyone for the sake of the few who sin. Actually, according to Rashi, they pointed out that G-d is not like a mortal king who doesn't know a person's thoughts. Therefore a mortal king is likely to punish many because of a few, because the mortal king doesn't know who the guilty few are. But G-d knows each and every thought of each and every creature; therefore, G-d can distinguish the good from the bad.
G-d then made the earth opens up and swallows Korach and the ringleaders of the rebellion and their families, and fire consumes the rest of the 250 rebels.
The next day, the whole community starts complaining to Moshe and Aharon that they killed G-d's people! Once again the cloud of Glory appeared and ... (to be continued in the next aliyah)
In the fourth aliyah, just like the previous aliyah, G-d tells Moshe and Aharon to separate themselves from the community so G-d can destroy them in an instant. And again Moshe and Aharon fall on their faces. But this time Moshe tells Aharon to quickly take a firepan and incense and go into the midst of the congregation because Moshe says that a plague is beginning while they speak. Aharon runs to do this and stops the plague. Actually, Rashi says that once when Moshe visited heaven, an angel told him this technique of using incense to stop a plague. Rashi also says that when Aharon went into the midst of the people he grabbed and physically restrained the angel making the plague. The angel complained and asked that he be permitted to do his job. Aharon told him that Moshe commanded him to stop the angel. The angel said that he was sent by G-d and Aharon was only sent by Moshe. Aharon replied that Moshe only speaks the will of G-d and he pointed out that G-d and Moshe are standing together, and that the angel can go over to them and ask about it.
The fifth aliyah describes the test of the staffs. In order to prove which tribe is divinely chosen to do the priestly service, G-d tells Moshe to take a staff from each tribe with the name of that tribe's prince on it, and the name of Aharon on the staff of the tribe of Levi. These staffs are to be placed in the tent of meeting. This is done, and in the morning it is found that Aharon's staff sprouted leaves, almond blossoms and even almonds! This proves that Aharon is G-d's choice of Kohane Gadol.
The sixth aliyah begins with the Jews expressing to Moshe their fear of dying by mistakenly coming too close to the Mishkan. G-d then commands Aharon and his sons and the Levites to guard against any such mishap by carefully guarding the Mishkan from any common people approaching too close. After that G-d enumerates what Rashi calls the 24 gifts of the priesthood. These include the privilege of eating of the sacrifices the Jewish people bring as well as receiving the five shekels that Jews use to redeem their first-born sons in a Pidyon-haben ceremony. The aliyah ends with G-d stating that the Kohanim won't receive a portion of the land of Israel like the other Jews, instead G-d says that He is their portion.
In the seventh aliyah, G-d says that the Leviim, like the Kohanim, won't receive a share of the land of Israel. Instead they will get the tithes of the other Jews. Furthermore, of this tithe that the Leviim receive from the Jewish people, the Leviim must, in turn, separate a tithe from it and give it to the Kohanim. The balance the Leviim keep as a wage for their service.
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So why does all this matter? Aside from the fact that Atlanta could be on the road to the orchestral hell that the Minnesota Orchestra endured during a 16-month lockout, there is the fact that the ASO's special performing traditions are threatened (listen to their latest release of Vaughan Williams to see what I mean), that two of the strongest and most artistically profitable conductor-orchestra relationships could dissolve, and that an international audience will miss what the ASO and its chorus have achieved together – to say nothing of what Atlantans will feel about the loss of what is arguably the cultural jewel in their crown. The betrayal of Shaw's legacy must not be allowed to continue: Atlanta's lockout is just as serious – if not more so – than Minnesota's for classical music in the US and beyond.


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(born 1930). American public official Nicholas F. Brady was a savvy businessman and financial leader. In the late 1980s and early '90s he served as U.S. Treasury secretary under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.
Nicholas Frederick Brady was born on April 11, 1930, in New York, New York. He graduated with a bachelor's degree from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1952 and with an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1954. He subsequently began working at the investment firm of Dillon, Read, and Company, where he rose to president and chief executive officer in 1971 and became chairman of the board in 1974.
Brady began his career in politics in April 1982 as a Republican U.S. senator from New Jersey. The governor appointed him to fill out the unexpired term of Democrat Harrison A. Williams, Jr., who had resigned from office after having been implicated in Abscam, a sting operation carried out by federal agents who posed as wealthy Middle Eastern businessmen and offered bribes in exchange for political favors. Brady resigned the post in December 1982 and resumed his career in investment banking.
From 1983 to 1985 Brady worked on five presidential commissions under President Reagan, including the Commission on Strategic Forces and the Commission on Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Salaries. In 1987 he was named chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Market Mechanisms (also called the Brady Commission), which investigated the causes of that year's stock market crash. The commission published its findings, which included reform recommendations, in early 1988.
In 1988 President Reagan appointed Brady secretary of the treasury. After Reagan's term ended, President Bush retained Brady in the post. During his tenure Brady was instrumental in alleviating the debt crisis incurred by less economically developed nations, offering a plan (dubbed the Brady Plan) of debt relief to countries that undertook economic reforms. He also reformed the U.S. savings and loan industry, which at the time was going through a major financial crisis. Brady resigned his position in early 1993, when Bush's term in office was over. In 1994 he founded and became chairman of Darby Overseas Investments, a private investment firm that concentrates on emerging markets in Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, and Latin America.
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