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Code, in communications, an unvarying rule for replacing a piece of information such as a letter, word, or phrase with an arbitrarily selected equivalent. The term has been frequently misapplied and used as a synonym for cipher. In the past this blurring of the distinction between code and cipher was rather inconsequential; in fact, many historical ciphers would be more properly classified as codes according to present-day criteria.
cryptology: The fundamentals of codes, ciphers, and authentication
The most frequently confused, and misused, terms in the lexicon of cryptology are code and cipher. Even experts occasionally...
In modern communications systems, information is often both encoded and encrypted (or enciphered), and so an understanding of the difference between the two is important. Both codes and certain kinds of ciphers—substitution ciphers—replace elements of a message with other symbols; however, unlike codes, ciphers do so in accordance with a rule defined by a secret key known only to the transmitter of the information and the intended receiver. Without this secret key, a third party cannot invert the replacement to unscramble the cipher.
During the early years of the 20th century, elaborate commercial codes were developed. One such system was the Baudot code, which encoded complete phrases into single words (five-letter groups) for use by telegraphers. This type of code proved inadequate for radio, however, and other, more advanced forms of communications subsequently developed. In recent years various codes have been introduced to accommodate computer data and satellite communications. See also cryptology; cipher.
The most frequently confused, and misused, terms in the lexicon of cryptology are code and cipher. Even experts occasionally employ these terms as though they were synonymous.…
communication: Signals
A code system that refers interruptions to some form of meaningful language may easily be developed with a crude vocabulary of dots, dashes, or other elemental audio and visual articulations. Taken by themselves, the interruptions have a potential breadth of meaning that seems extremely small; they…
military communication: The advent of electrical signaling
…development of extensive and complicated codes and ciphers as necessary adjuncts to military signaling. The struggle between the cryptographer and the cryptanalyst expanded greatly with the adoption of radio and continued to be a major factor affecting its military use.…
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The northern part of the Spanish island of Mallorca boasts spectacular scenery. You can view my photos from Mallorca here. My day-by-day itinerary can be found under Longer Trip Itineraries.
For this 5-night/6-day trip, we flew out of Paris and back to Nantes as we were headed out to Brittany afterwards. At €125 total (both legs) per person, we figured we paid only slightly more than we would have paid for a train from Paris to Brittany, and got a free stop-over in Mallorca!
Despite having lived in Madrid and traveled through most regions of Spain, I had never been to the Balearic Islands (Mallorca, Menorca, Ibiza being the main ones). After this trip, I wondered why it took me so long! Although Mallorca was so spectacular, I'm debating whether it's worth going to Menorca or Ibiza or if I'll be disappointed. Recommendations, please!
We stayed almost entirely in the mountainous northern part of Mallorca, primarily straying never too far from the Ma-10, the main road that cuts east-west along the northern coast of the island.
We rented a car to explore as much as possible. I would definitely recommend driving if you have a fearless driver in your party. It's not easy driving though. If you're at all hesitant behind the wheel, this is not the place to rent a car. While the roads are generally very well maintained, they are very windy and narrow in places with 1,000-foot drops off the side. The Ma-10 and its offshoots are also apparently very popular among cyclists, so it's a constant challenge to share the road without having to drive along behind the cyclists.
We were fairly ambitious in our explorations, though per usual, it wasn't 100% vacation for me. We generally explored in the morning and early afternoon, went back to the hotel from about 4pm-8/8:30pm to swim, rest up or in my case work from the beautiful terrace bar at the Can Verdera hotel. With the gorgeous view, super fast wifi, shaded couches and local wine, this may rank as my all-time favorite place to "work from home". Our hotel was fantastic. I would definitely stay in Fornalutx again. I think it's one of the two or three most beautiful towns on the island if not the most beautiful. It's small and very walkable, though there were enough restaurants to keep us from having to attempt the treacherous driving at night.
While you can visit any corner of the island as a day trip from any one base, distances take much more time than they would appear to on the map; as I said, the roads are windy! Picking a second base for the second half of the trip would not be a bad idea.
One last thing—while Mallorcan natives generally speak Catalán and not Castellano (the Spanish of Madrid and of most Spanish-speaking countries), no one expects you to speak Catalán. In fact, no one really expects you to speak Castellano either. While I did try to brush of my Spanish and take advantage of the opportunity to practice, I think you'd find it quite easy to get around with just English.
You can view all my photos from Mallorca here. I've also included this write-up and my day-by-day itinerary under Longer Trip Itineraries.


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Every ten years or so, energy secretaries feel the need to roll out an energy saving initiative of their own devising, backed by a high visibility media campaign. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. Posters, booklets and TV ads featuring Delia Smith urged the populace to Save It! in 1976, with a memorable rubber stamped logo (albeit one easily confused with the Yeoman gristle guarantee stamp). Fine. Ten years later they tried something similar, but got a bit too clever by branding it 'Monergy'. 'Get more for your money! More out of energy! More for your Monergy!' was the clumsy explanation. This time the populace just shrugged a collective 'eh?' and went off to run a very deep bath for one.
I remember my primary school had Save It stickers near the light switches well into the 1980s.
David Waddington the forgotten Home Secretary?


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Defeating Autism, Now
by Steven Higgs
When she discusses her autistic clients, Marcella Piper-Terry almost always speaks in reverential and laudatory tones. "They're just absolutely gorgeous children," she says of kids with Asperger's Disorder, such as her 15-year-old daughter Rachel. "Great big eyes, long eyelashes — amazing, beautiful children. And very smart, very creative and extremely sensitive. Extremely sensitive."
Only when a two-hour interview in her rural, Southwest Indiana home turns to the notion that children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs) cannot be treated does Terry's demeanor assume an edge.
"That is not true," she says. "It's unacceptable to write these kids off because standard medical practice says there is no medical treatment for autism."
Terry understands that there are no cures for ASDs. But those who are diagnosed with social, behavioral and communication deficits on the autism spectrum can recover, she says. A common analogy is getting hit by a bus.
"You can't be cured from being hit by a bus," she says. "But you can recover. Some people, with the right treatment and the right therapy, can recover to the point where they may not have to walk with a cane anymore. Or they may not have to park in a handicap spot anymore."
While there are rare reports of children who fully recover after exhibiting symptoms of autism — rigid, repetitive actions, avoiding eye contact when talking, fascination with spinning objects, for example — no one claims to know what causes autism or how to cure it.
"Though there is no single known cause or cure, autism is treatable," the National Autism Society says on its Web site. "Children do not 'outgrow' autism, but studies show that early diagnosis and intervention can lead to significantly improved outcomes. With the right services and supports, people with autism can live full, healthy and meaningful lives."
During an interview in the spring of 2009 at the Christian Sarkine Autism Treatment Center at Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis, Clinical Director Naomi Swiezy agreed and cited numerous science-based approaches that are effective at helping children with autism.
The Sarkine Center, the nation's largest such facility, employs a combination of medication, behavioral therapy and intervention. Because the range of children on the autism spectrum runs from Autistic Disorder to Asperger's, a multidisciplinary approach is needed, she said.
Autistic Disorder is sometimes called "full-blown autism," and kids often need 24-hour, professional care. Those with Asperger's, sometimes called "high-functioning autism," can lead challenging but successful lives.
Among the therapies used at the Sarkine Center and other clinics around the nation are behavior-based approaches like Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), Discreet Trial Training and Pivotal Response Therapy. These techniques encourage learning through incremental behavior modification.
Another is TEACCH, or Treatment and Education of Autistic and related Communication-handicapped CHildren. Developed at the University of North Carolina, TEACCH utilizes visual tools like pictures, cue cards and colors to enhance learning.
Speech and occupational therapies are also commonly used to treat children with ASDs.
The Food and Drug Administration has approved only one medication for treating autism, and that didn't happen until 2006, Swiezy said. It's called risperidone or Risperdal, and it's used to treat symptoms of aggression and irritability.
Marcella "Marci" Terry bills herself as a "biomedical consultant," which means she believes that some manifestations of autism and other developmental disorders can be ameliorated through "alternative" forms of treatment, like vitamins, enzymes, probiotics and other dietary changes and supplements.
Probiotics, according to the National Institutes of Health, "are live microorganisms (in most cases, bacteria) that are similar to beneficial microorganisms found in the human gut. They are also called 'friendly bacteria' or 'good bacteria.'"
Terry doesn't really like the term alternative. "It's all about improving the body's ability to absorb and use the nutrients and minerals needed to bring a state of balance that allows the system to heal and grow in a more effective way," she wrote in an e-mail. "In many ways it boils down to two things: assimilation and elimination. Assimilation of good things and elimination of bad things (toxins). That, to me is very basic and there is nothing 'alternative' or 'woo-woo' about it."
Terry is a practitioner of the treatment model called Defeat Autism Now!, which is a project of the 42-year-old Autism Research Institute.
No longer known as DAN! due to copyright issues, Defeat Autism Now!'s mission is summarized by Director Jane Johnson on its Web site. The project researches and educates parents and clinicians about "medical treatment and metabolic support sufficient to reduce physical pain and roadblocks in children with autism, to the extent that many are newly able to communicate and learn," she writes.
Biomedical, Johnson continues, is but one of a multitude of treatment options that parents and health-care professionals have at their disposal. "Many therapies, including Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA), occupational therapy (OT) and speech therapy (among others), help a child's chances of improving, and in some cases recovering. But without addressing the physiological disorders and medical conditions that lie at the core of autistic disorders, little true or lasting progress or benefit can be expected."
Promoting the biomedical approach, however, puts Defeat Autism Now! and Marci Terry in the crosshairs of the emotional national debate over autism.
A Nov. 22, 2009, investigative piece in the Chicago Tribune led readers to the conclusion that it's quackery. The headlines: "Autism treatments: Risky alternative therapies have little basis in science; Alternative therapies amount to uncontrolled experimentation on children, investigation finds."
The piece quoted Dr. Steven Goodman, a pediatrician and clinical trial expert at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics: "They really should be seeing treatment of patients with unproven therapies as dangerous experimentation. The problem with uncontrolled experiments … is that it is experimentation from which we can learn nothing."
Terry, however, has an arsenal of anecdotes and data that tell an entirely different story.
She agrees that medication is sometimes necessary, but she scoffs at the approach taken by many in the psychiatric profession. "Autism and ADHD are not the result of a deficiency of Ritalin," she wrote in an e-mail. "Prescription drugs (psychoactives) should be reserved for the last resort — or in cases where the child is a danger to himself/herself or others."
With an M.S. in psychology from the University of South Alabama, where she pursued both the clinical and experimental tracks, Terry cannot practice in Indiana unless she is under the direct supervision of a licensed mental health professional. From 2003 to 2006, she worked at the Cady Wellness Institute in Newburgh, Ind., under a "very progressive" psychiatrist named Dr. Louis Cady, and with Dr. Jeff Gray, a neuropsychologist, in 2007.
In April 2007 Terry attended her second Defeat Autism Now! Conference where she trained to become a DAN! provider. She rejoined the Cady Institute in August 2008, after Cady likewise took the training.
One of the catalysts for her decision to become a Defeat Autism Now! provider was a 13-year-old girl she saw during her first stint with Cady. The girl had been diagnosed with moderate mental retardation, autism and selective mutism, which meant she was capable of talking but chose not to. The first time Terry approached the girl, she almost caught a fist in the side of the head.
After several sessions and little progress, Terry told the girl's mother that she didn't believe she could help. But the mother was insistent. "I want my daughter back," she said. "I know she's in there, and I think you can find her."
So Terry dug deeper into the 20-page developmental history form she has each child's parents fill out. When she inquired about the girl's "chronic constipation," the mother said she sometimes went a month without a bowel movement. Terry recommended a "vitamin C flush" and digestive enzyme therapy and told her to come back in a month.
While in a meeting two weeks later, Cady told Terry: "The 13-year-old you were trying to test, mom called, she's talking." Within a few weeks, the girl was not just talking, she was scoring in the normal range on IQ tests.
"This child, who had been diagnosed by a licensed clinical psychologist, PhD level, who had been diagnosed as having moderate mental retardation, came out with an IQ of 80," she says. "It's right on the cusp, but it's normal range of intelligence."
Terry likewise bristles at the suggestion that mainstream science has a better grasp of what treatments do and do not work for treating the symptoms of autism. She pulls out the results of nearly 40 years of Autism Research Institute surveys from parents who scored the effectiveness of treatments tried on their autistic children.
As of 2007, 6,387 respondents had offered feedback on the use of Vitamin B6 and magnesium — 48 percent said the combination improved their children's behavior, 48 percent said it showed no effect, and 4 percent said it got worse.
"The better-to-worse ratio was 11:1," Terry says. "So 11 kids got better for every one that got worse."
Yet, in 912 cases where children were given Risperdal, 54 percent got better, 27 percent showed no effect, and 19 percent got worse.
"The better to worse ratio was 2.9:1," she says.
Another area that Terry often finds herself at odds with the medical and special education establishment involves diagnosis. "There's a lot of overlap between diagnostic criteria, and what label you get kind of depends on where you go and who does the diagnosing a lot of times," she says.
When Terry and her family moved to Southwest Indiana from Washington D.C. in 2002, she worked as a consultant for the Evansville-Vanderburgh School Corp. (EVSC). She evaluated preschool children for Attention Deficit
Hyperactivity Disorder, learning disabilities and other impairments.
"There are a lot of kids misdiagnosed with communication disorders," she says. "There are a lot of kids misdiagnosed as being mentally handicapped that are not mentally handicapped."
According to special education data from the Indiana Department of Education, on Dec. 1, 2008:
* 7.6 percent of children in the EVSC received special education services under a primary diagnosis of Communication Handicapped. The state average is 4.6 percent.
* 1.8 percent of EVSC students received services under the Mildly Mentally Handicapped category. The state average is 1.4 percent.
* 0.5 percent of EVSC students were diagnosed autistic. The state average is 1.0 percent.
Marcella Terry left the Cady Institute in May 2009 and now struggles to help her clients since only a handful of licensed practitioners will work with her. The Defeat Autism Now! Web site lists only five Indiana health care providers on its Clinician Registry. All but Cady are in Indianapolis.
"I'm dependent on trying to find somebody who will work with me," she says. "And it is very, very difficult." So frustrating that, sometimes, she vows to quit. "I want to hibernate, I want to paint, and I want to write," she says. "I don't want to do this anymore."
But her resolve, so far, has always faded.
"I get an e-mail or a phone call from somebody who says, 'I can't believe how well my child is doing. Thank you, so much,'" she says, her voice breaking. "Then I go, 'Okay. This is what I'm supposed to be doing.'"
STEVEN HIGGS is editor of The Bloomington Alternative and writes the "Autism and the Indiana Environment Blog." He can be reached at editor@BloomingtonAlternative.com.
Editor's note: This story is the third in a series on autism and the Southwest Indiana environment.
More articles by:Steven Higgs
Steven Higgs is an environmental journalist and photographer living in Bloomington, Ind. He owns and operates Natural Bloomington: Ecotours and More. His new book A Guide to Natural Areas of Southern Indiana is scheduled for release by Indiana University Press on April 20, 2016.

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Last week I presented at the Lear Antitrust 2.0 conference in Rome. While there was no specific agenda beyond thinking about search and advertising, much of the discussion centred around Google's travails as EU Competition Authorities investigate its Google Shopping results (yes, really) and its dominance in Android. It was clear from the presentations by the chief economists of Google (Hal Varian) and Microsoft (Preston McAfee) that there was a significant issue at the heart of search.
The general thinking is that Google's dominance in search comes from its superiority in handling 'long tail' queries. That is, for common searches, both Google and Bing are roughly the same but Google performs better as searches become less common. An example of a less common search is apparently "red roses in Birmingham Alabama" that, if not for presentations for this conference, would not have been searched for on Bing at all! Why this search term? Well, it was the subject of a SearchEngineLand article some years back.
The big question is whether Google's large share of searches gives it an insurmountable advantage over Bing and others in competition for consumers. Google argued that it did not — well, sort of — while Microsoft argued that it did. This puts Microsoft in the awkward position of arguing before regulators that Bing is worse while Google argues that Bing is just as good.
Let me try and unpack it a little. It turns out that nowadays, in contrast to a decade ago, search engine results are made better by a process of machine learning. The primary input to this is the combination of a search term and then an observation of the websites users, not only click, by stay with. In other words, if you search for something, click on a site and immediately dart back to search, then the machine decides that the url of that site was not a good outcome for that search term. By contrast, if you search for something, click and stay away from search, the machine decides it is a good outcome. Basically, it is as if search engines are run by Reddit up and down voters.
Now there is more going on at the heart of search than just this but this particular set of inputs seemed to be at the heart of the matter. Google argued that Bing gets "enough" searches to not be at a significant disadvantage in providing and developing a competitive search engine while Microsoft argues that is not the case. Both have a point. In the US, Bing has about 20 percent of the market, and so, for Internet Explorer users, may actually learn as much as Google does from user behaviour. But in the rest of the world, Bing has a much smaller fraction of searches. So if geographical differences matter, and they surely do, and if platforms matter — Mac rather than PC or, more critically, mobile rather than desktop, then Bing would appear to be at a disadvantage. It is, of course, the latter that matters for the current European antitrust investigations. Put simply there are likely to be many searches that occur on Google that never occur on Bing and so Google is likely to learn about behaviour at a quicker rate.
We could argue — and apparently some high powered economists would for at least two days — whether even this matters or not. But, for me, there is a larger issue. Let's take the datum as a quadruple of a search term, a URL list, a clicked URL, and a success/failure of that click. That data is provided by users to search engines. To be sure, users get a return for that, in the form of the URL list and search service. But apart from that URL list, the remaining triple is all provided by the user. And there is a case to be made that it is that data that really matters for search engine performance.
In a world where we like user data — to the extent that it does not impinge on privacy concerns — to be openly available, it is surely unusual that data that is being contributed in the billions everyday is locked into proprietary platforms. While Google may claim that Microsoft is at no disadvantage as a result of this, I have to observe that Google isn't making this data available to put the proof in the pudding here, so we would have to guess that they don't really believe that.
So even if the Europeans hit Google for antitrust violations, is it really going to change everything. Google could be up for 10% of its revenue in fines but is that just a tax for operating in Europe? What one would want to look for is remedies that will actually go to the heart of the aspects that are driving Google's dominance. I would not want to suggest that Google give away stuff it has actually innovated on — namely, the algorithms that it has learned to provide good search results — but the data provided by users is another matter.
In an ideal world, this data should be available to all so that many can experiment with different algorithms using that data and we can have real competition in search. It is time we recognised the user contributions at the heart of search and think about ways in which that contribution can be leveraged beyond closed, proprietary platforms. Google is actually very good about this with regard to the email information users have stored in Gmail, for example. Why not extend it more broadly?


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The Promo Code App Store Feature for In-App Purchases Could Revolutionize App Development
Ask most people who are in the habit of shopping online and they'll tell you one of their favorite things about the experience is coupons. Promo codes, vouchers, discount codes – call them whatever you like. The important thing is that they provide shoppers with a welcome price cut, oftentimes without them even expecting it. Now, until early May, Apple's App Store did not allow for this, but it seems that they have recently added a promo code App Store feature for in-app purchases. This will make it easier for developers to test out and market freemium applications which offer purchases after the download of the app itself.
The promo code App Store feature for in-app purchases is here!
It's not that Apple had completely ignored the benefits of promo codes until now. However, before May, it was only offering developers the possibility to apply such codes to the initial purchase of the app. The promo code App Store feature for in-app purchases had been talked about, but not implemented. Not only does this feature make it easier to market games (which often provide paid content in-app), but it will also allow developers to grant their testers access to an app's full content – both to the paid features and to the free ones of freemium apps.
As of the time this post was written, it remains unclear whether or not all app and game developers have access to the promo code feature for in-app purchases. For one thing, Apple has yet to update the rules on its developer site. They still read "Promo codes don't work for In-App purchase products, including Newsstand issues." Yet the rumor is definitely true, even though Apple might be slow to update its official website. To prove it, Jeff Scott of 148apps.com recently Tweeted a screenshot of a promo code for an in-app purchase he used on Real Racing 3, a game from well-known developer EA. The promo code in question offers users a $1.99 discount, which they can only use as 10 gold. You can access the promo code in question at this link. If you don't have the game downloaded yet, it will automatically download before the in-app purchase promo code is effectively redeemed.
Are in-app promo code purchases that big a deal?
It depends on whom you ask, really. Since many Apple device users tend to associate them with social gaming of the Farmville variety, they disregard their existence altogether. Although no official data on this issue exists, it's a well-known fact that some users have simply blocked out all in-app purchase options for all their apps. On the other side of the debate, there are those commenters who see the introduction of this feature as useful, yet would like to see Apple step up its game, when it comes to offering app developers certain facilities.
Several commenters on this piece of news have decried Apple's decision not to implement public app beta testing. They're also asking for the ability to run paid upgrades on apps, which they assume would reduce the volume of in-app purchases that app developers offer. Perhaps at some point in the future Apple will allow devs to list their betas on the App Store, together with an ID code which can be put in the same way discount codes can now be applied. These beta apps, with expiry dates, as it were, would make things much easier both on developers, as well as on the consumer, proponents of this idea argue. For the time being, though, it looks like the public at large will only have to do with the implementation of the promo code App Store feature for in-app purchases. It is a step in the right direction, but many seem to believe Apple still has a long way to go until the app buying and upgrading processes become truly seamless.


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Gov. Whitmer's Michigan budget vetoes: The 7 big cuts
Whitmer said she made the cuts as a way of restarting budget talks because she believes the GOP budget threatens public health and safety
Gov. Whitmer's Michigan budget vetoes: The 7 big cuts Whitmer said she made the cuts as a way of restarting budget talks because she believes the GOP budget threatens public health and safety Check out this story on thetimesherald.com: https://www.thetimesherald.com/story/news/2019/10/01/gretchen-whitmer-budget-vetoes-michigan/3833987002/
Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press Published 4:01 p.m. ET Oct. 1, 2019 | Updated 4:04 p.m. ET Oct. 1, 2019
Gov. Whitmer said she made the cuts to road funding, schools, health care and more as a way of restarting budget talks because she believes the GOP budget threatens public health and safety
LANSING — In a high-risk maneuver aimed at gaining leverage over Michigan Republican lawmakers in negotiating a new state spending plan, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Monday issued 147 line-item vetoes totaling $947 million.
She said she made the cuts as a way of restarting budget talks because she believes the budget sent to her by the Legislature threatens public health and safety by, for example, underfunding state prisons and state cyber security efforts.
"This is not the end of the end of the conversation," Whitmer said Tuesday after making more aggressive use of the budget veto pen than any governor in Michigan history.
"It's just the beginning."
Here are seven sets of budget items that will disappear if Whitmer's vetoes are not reversed through a supplemental appropriation bill for the 2020 fiscal year that began Tuesday:
Road and bridge funding
Whitmer vetoed $375 million in general fund spending targeted at road and bridge repairs, including repairs on four bridges that Whitmer recently visited and highlighted as in urgent need of repairs. She said the use of general fund money for roads hurts other priorities and is no substitute for a comprehensive road funding plan.
Pure Michigan campaign
The governor axed the entire $37-million Pure Michigan tourism advertising and Michigan branding campaign. "I love Pure Michigan," and "I think it's a fantastic ad campaign," Whitmer said. However, "I'm always going to put public safety ... ahead of an ad campaign."
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Whitmer vetoed more than $128 million from the school aid budget, including $35 million in foundation allowance increases for charter schools, $16 million for career and technical education equipment, $10 million in school security funds, $1.6 million to fund "strict discipline academies," $3 million for online algebra and other math programs.
Whitmer vetoed $38 million in higher education tuition grants for independent and private colleges and $150,000 in student services for students who are pregnant and parenting.
Whitmer vetoed more than $40 million in payments to hospitals and millions more in rate increases for pediatric psychiatrists, neonatologists, and private duty nurses. She also vetoed $1.1 million in autism funding, including funding for a Navigator program that helps connect families affected by autism with the services they need.
More: Whitmer defends budget vetoes: 'I do not relish using these powers'
Veto cuts included $13.1 million for secondary road patrol programs, $10 million from the Rural Jobs and Capital Investment Fund, $3 million for the Michigan Animal Agriculture Alliance, $1 million for county fairs and exhibitions, and $500,000 for the Farm Stress Program.Steven Currie, executive director of the Michigan Association of Counties, said the vetoes will cost counties about $60 million, including $27 million chopped from a program that makes payments in lieu of taxes to county governments for state-owned land.
The governor vetoed $15 million in grants to municipal airports to combat PFAS (per- and polyflouroalkyl substances), $750,000 to demolish the former Deerfield Correctional Facility in Ionia, $1 million for property tax assessor training, $4 million from the County Veteran Services Fund, $14.8 million from the County Jail Reimbursement Program, and $300,000 from a program for runaway and homeless youths.
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Shrimaan Shrimati was a famous TV serial broadcasted on Doordarshan in the era of 1990s. This show was scripted on the love for the neighbor's wife.
The lead roles in this serial are played by Jatin Kanakia, Rakesh Bedi, Reema Lagoo and Archana Puran Singh. It is story of two couples. Keshav Kulkarni is husband of Kokila. Their neighbors are film actress Prema Shalii and her husband Dilruba. On one hand Keshav is attracted towards the glamorous looks and lifestyle of Prema, the film actress while on other hand Dilruba got attracted towards Kokila, the wife of Keshav, who is a housewife. Both Keshav and Dilruba make use of every possible opportunity and create many of their own to flirt with the wives of one another. Whenever they do so, they get noticed by someone and thus it makes the serial very entertaining, and it attracted a huge audience in that era.
In the show Jatin Kanakia is acting as Keshav Kulkarni while the role of his wife Kokila Kulkarni is played by Reema Lagoo, other characters in are Chintu, son of Kulkarni family played by Ajay Nagrath. Shrimaan Shrimati had also been re-telecast on SAB TV the new season telecasted on SAB TV as Aaj Ke Shrimaan Shrimati based on same concept but with a new cast in the year 2005. An entertainment channel launched by the Adhikari brothers and later bought by Sony Entertainment Television.
Veteran Bollywood Star Reema Lagoo Is No More!


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Arthur Butterworth - Symphonies 1, 2 & 4
Label Catalogue Number:
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Running Time: 106:01
Arthur Butterworth
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Christopher Adey
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Symphony No.2 Op.25 (1963)
Allegro molto
Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Christopher Adey
BBC Broadcast 20 January 1975
Moderato, quasi Allegro
Allegretto con moto scherzo
Largamente - Allegro molto quasi presto
Orchestra: BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra
BBC Broadcast 8 May 1986 (Premiere)
Lento molto
Allegretto con moto
Vivacissimo e furioso
Conductor: Arthur Butterworth
BBC Broadcast 2 December 1976
This tape required significant restoration. It is a unique, but imperfect, recording of the composer conducting his
favourite among his own works.
Arthur Butterworth was born in New Moston, Manchester on 4 August 1923. He became a choirboy at the age of seven, but it was the sound of a brass band performing in a park which ignited an enduring passion for music. He attended North Manchester Grammar School for Boys and in 1939 was awarded the prestigious Alexander Owen Memorial Fund scholarship which helped admit him to the ranks of the celebrated Besses o' th' Barn Band. After war service in the Royal Engineers, he entered the Royal Manchester College of Music, where he received tuition in trumpet and conducting and studied composition with Richard Hall. A prolific and hardworking composer, Arthur Butterworth produced over 150 scores for a variety of musical forces. He wrote mainly to commissions which were often extended by fellow musicians confident he would provide a piece for their instrument or ensemble that was both idiomatic and challenging.
**** (Excellent Disc) *** (Good Sound)
Michel Fleury – Classica magazine (France) – October 2016
Performance **** Recording ***
"... This is a musical country well worth a visit."
Geoff Brown - BBC Music magazine - August 2016


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Brittney Griner's Family Issues Statement After Her Release
After spending the entirety of 2022 in the Russian jail, WNBA player Brittney Griner is finally back home.
The United States agreed to a prisoner swap deal with Russia in order to bring Griner into America
Griner was detained at the Russian Airport in month of February when she was found to be carrying cannabis oil.
After a couple of hours to absorb her new realities Griner's family and friends issued the following statement.
"We would like to express our sincere thanks to President Biden and the Biden administration for all the hard efforts they put into bringing Brittney to her home." the announcement from the Biden family read
"We would like to offer our sincere thanks to Governor Richardson as well as Mickey Bergman of the Richardson Center for their hard work as well as their constant contact with us."
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require 'spec_helper'

RSpec.describe Review do
  describe 'associations' do
    it { is_expected.to belong_to(:author).class_name('User').with_foreign_key(:author_id).inverse_of(:reviews) }
    it { is_expected.to belong_to(:merge_request).inverse_of(:reviews).touch(false) }
    it { is_expected.to belong_to(:project).inverse_of(:reviews) }

    it { is_expected.to have_many(:notes).order(:id).inverse_of(:review) }
  end

  describe 'modules' do
    it { is_expected.to include_module(Participable) }
    it { is_expected.to include_module(Mentionable) }
  end

  describe '#all_references' do
    it 'returns an extractor with the correct referenced users' do
      user1 = create(:user, username: "foo")
      user2 = create(:user, username: "bar")
      review = create(:review)
      project = review.project
      author = review.author

      create(:note, review: review, project: project, author: author, note: "cc @foo @non_existent")
      create(:note, review: review, project: project, author: author, note: "cc @bar")

      expect(review.all_references(author).users).to match_array([user1, user2])
    end
  end

  describe '#participants' do
    it 'includes the review author' do
      project = create(:project, :public)
      merge_request = create(:merge_request, source_project: project)
      review = create(:review, project: project, merge_request: merge_request)
      create(:note, review: review, noteable: merge_request, project: project, author: review.author)

      expect(review.participants).to include(review.author)
    end
  end
end

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Environment, health and safety executives say they will increase EHS spending in 2016, according to a Verdantix survey.
The global survey of 312 EHS executives found that 10 percent of firms will increase spending in 2016 by double digits and 21 percent will spend between 5 percent and 9 percent more next year. Three quarters of respondents expect budgets to increase in 2016, which is an increase from 62 percent who increased spend in 2015.
According Verdantix's complimentary report, which breaks down budget increases by country, 54 percent of firms surveyed in India will increase spend by at least 5 percent, 48 percent will do the same in the Middle East and 47 percent of UK respondents will boost EHS spending by at least 5 percent next year.
60 percent of respondents see incident management as a high priority, 59 percent put risk analysis as a high priority and 45 percent say the same for EHS auditing.
Good news for employees: training and hiring will see the biggest increases in spending in 2016.
57 percent of respondents expect spending to stay flat for environmental consulting, 40 percent anticipate higher spend in 2016.
A Verdantix survey published in October found ERM has the highest brand preference in the EHS consulting sector, the Bureau Veritas brand ranks highest in the verification sector, SAP tops the brand preference list in the EH&S software sector and IBM has the highest brand preference for EH&S technology services.
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Mount Shasta singer Camryn Brooks points to her roots during 'The Voice' blind audition
When Camryn Brooks selected the song she'd sing for her blind audition on NBC's "The Voice," she had her hometown of Mount Shasta in mind.
"The minute the spotlight went on and I saw those four big red chairs, I was like, 'this is real life,'" said 21-year-old Brooks, who sang a little-known Adele song, "Hometown Glory," for the show's four judges: Blake Shelton, Ariana Grande, John Legend and Kelly Clarkson.
Although Brooks didn't move on after the blind audition, which aired on Tuesday, Sept. 21, she said she plans to take vocal lessons — something she's never done before — and return to the show next year "with a vengeance."
"It was the biggest, scariest thing I've ever done, and I'd do it all over again," said Brooks, who grew up singing the National Anthem before many Siskiyou County sporting events.
Clarkson commented on Brooks' "beautiful" voice, and encouraged her to incorporate more of her own style into future performances.
"If Camryn can really tap into who she is, I think that she's gonna make an incredible vocalist," said Clarkson, who won the first season of American Idol in 2002 and went on to become a Grammy winning vocalist.
Mount Shasta teen following her dreams on 'The Voice'
"The reason why you will succeed when you return is because of the way you handled this moment, and you are clearly not afraid to do to the work," said Grande, also a Grammy Award winner. "And I love that about you. Please come back."
Brooks said she would have been happy for any of the coaches to turn around to see her during her song, but she knew that if she had a choice, she'd pick Grande to work with in a heartbeat.
Brooks has auditioned for "The Voice" every year since she was a freshman at Mount Shasta High School — even getting a call back when she was 15 — but this was the first time she's been able to see herself on the nationally televised show.
"A lot of factors decide if it's your time," she said. "This was the one that finally landed."
Brooks said it's easy to watch the show from the comfort of your couch and imagine how you'd perform, but it's a different experience actually doing it. And after spending her life listening to the judges' music, to have the chance to perform for them was a special experience.
'Hometown Glory'
Brooks' favorite thing about NBC's "The Voice" are the segments about each contestant. "I love how they really emphasize the contestants' lives in such a positive light," she said.
Brooks' segment was taped in the Mt. Shasta area in May, in advance of the blind audition taping in June. It featured local scenes, and she told the story of growing up in a small, supportive community. It also highlighted her eldest brother Corben's 2008 football injury, which left him paralyzed.
"Corben had to relearn how to live," said Camryn's mother, Ronna, in the segment. "Cami, in particular, stepped up and was right there, hands on with Corben."
"She gave up being a little kid," said Corben, "to take care of me and do things that, as her older brother, I should have been doing for her."
While Brooks grew up in Mount Shasta and attended Mount Shasta High School her freshman year, she moved to Los Angeles with her mom and Corben, where she attended Ramon C. Cortines School of Visual and Performing Arts, with Corben's constant encouragement. There, she had the chance to perform with professionals and concentrate on her singing career.
Brooks said many contestants select a song that reflects the story they're telling in their introductory segment. She said she resonated with Adele's "Hometown Glory" because it "really embodies what it's like to come from a small town."
"It seems like it would be a sad song, since it's a ballad, but it's really about how much Adele loves her hometown," said Brooks.
Home from India, Corben reports progress
"Being from a place like Mount Shasta, where everyone is so tight knit and supportive, it's amazing. The outpouring of support and love is something that you don't see in LA. When you live in the middle of it, you don't realize how special it is."
Skye Kinkade is the editor of the Mt. Shasta Area Newspapers and the Siskiyou Daily News. She is a fourth generation, lifelong Siskiyou County resident.


I never intended to make work about my mother's illness or her inevitable passing. It was something that I told myself I would only explore if both the timing and the emotion was right. Nearly ten years after she left, I began processing recollections of her. In doing so, I began my fascination with the powerful connection that exists between fabric and memories.


Just when you thought the punks had moved on from the "knockout game," the morons are at it again.
In Albany, New York, the victim, in a brown T-shirt and red shopping bag was walking south on Quail Street toward Central Avenue when he suspected something was wrong, and glanced over his shoulder.
What he saw were four punks who thought ambushing an unsuspecting, law-abiding citizen would be great fun.
After the attack, the punks fled northbound.
The poor victim's injuries were minor, and he was treated for them at Albany Medical Center, LiveLeak reported.
Anyone with information about this cowardly act is urged to call the Albany Police Department.


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Darshak Sanghavi, M.D.
Former Chief Medical Officer - UnitedHealthcare's Medicare & Retirement
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Darshak Sanghavi, MD, was most recently the Chief Medical Officer of UnitedHealthcare's Medicare & Retirement business, the largest commercial Medicare program in the country with over $90B in revenue, where he successfully executed dozens of programs aimed at improving cost and quality of care, resulting in over $425M in incremental savings, exceeding Wall Street-facing targets. Before then, he was Chief Medical Officer at OptumLabs, overseeing a diverse portfolio of innovation-directed projects addressing national health priorities including the opioid crisis, health care affordability, artificial intelligence and big data, maternal mortality, dementia, diabetes, and numerous other collaborative clinical programs with an extended team spanning over 100 projects and one of the nation's largest health care databases.
Earlier, he was a member of the Obama administration, as the Director of Preventive and Population Health at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMS/HHS), where he oversaw the development of large pilot programs aimed at improving the nation's health care costs and quality. In this capacity, he was the architect of numerous initiatives, including the $157 million Accountable Health Communities model, the 3 million member Million Hearts Cardiovascular Risk Reduction model, and the $1 billion Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program.
Dr. Sanghavi was formerly a fellow and a managing director of the Brookings Institution in Washington D.C., where he directed efforts to better engage clinicians in health care payment and delivery reform. He is also an associate professor of pediatrics and was chief of pediatric cardiology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, directing clinical and research programs dedicated to children's heart defects, where he still sees patients.
Dr. Sanghavi is an award-winning medical educator, who has worked in medical settings around the world and published dozens of scientific papers on topics ranging from the molecular biology of cell death to tuberculosis transmission patterns in Peruvian slums. A frequent guest on NBC's Today and past commentator for NPR's All Things Considered, Dr. Sanghavi is a contributing editor to Parents magazine, a health care columnist with Slate, and has regularly written about health care for the New York Times Magazine, Boston Globe, and Washington Post. His best-seller, A Map of the Child: A Pediatrician's Tour of the Body, was named a best health book of the year by the Wall Street Journal. He was a visiting media fellow of the Kaiser Family Foundation and a winner of the Wharton Business Plan Competition.
He previously worked for several years as a U.S. Indian Health Service pediatrician on a Navajo reservation. Educated at Harvard College and Johns Hopkins Medical School, Dr. Sanghavi completed his pediatrics residency and cardiology fellowship at Harvard Medical School and Children's Hospital Boston.
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Georgia's Education Exchange Network Connects 330 Schools
A new high-speed fiber-optic network that will connect schools across Georgia is the first of its kind in the US.
The 3,600-mile network referred to as the Education Exchange is a joint project of the North Georgia Network, Parker FiberNet and ETC Communications. The project will connect more than 330 schools and 250,000 students across the state, offering digital access to textbooks, resources and instructional material through a 10-gigabit connection.
Paul Belk, CEO of North Georgia Network, thought of the idea three years ago in hopes of allowing schools to share their ideas and resources instead of competing with one another. Belk hopes that doing so will affect student attitudes toward the future.
"This network will open up classrooms to the region and to the world in a way we have never seen before," Belk said. "Within our beta exchange sites, schools in Northeast Georgia have improved administrative services, deployed advanced video streaming projects, and performed real time music collaborations with other schools."
Members of the program will decide which resources to share. According to David Parker, President of Parker FiberNet, schools make the most use of the Internet.
"Schools will be able to teleconference, share instructional content, even put their phone systems on the internet," said Jason Smith, VP of Business Development at ETC Communications, which covers schools in the middle of North Georgia. "The speed of this system will allow schools to share information in real time and instantly access stored instructional material, while reducing costs within each school system," he said.
The program is currently in place in 8 schools, who are using one of the three networks. The technology is up and ready to use in all 30 counties.
The network offers Internet access all the time at the highest speed possible by interconnecting the regional networks at the key telecommunications exchange in Atlanta.
"It really gives us access to bandwidth that we couldn't get any other way," said assistant superintendent Pete Seabolt for Lumpkin County High School.
Cirrus Networks, a local IT company, will be handling network setup and maintenance, allowing schools the freedom of using the network without worry of technical difficulties.
The network is a possibility due to the mass amounts of fiber optic cable that has been installed across North Georgia over the past five years, paid for through federal and state investments.
"The strength of our communities, our economy, and workforce all starts in our schools," Belk said, "as a community-owned company, it's our job to give back and use our resources to better the next generation."
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Janet Jackson | Photo by Lindsay Davis
Live Review: Janet Jackson's State of the World Tour
Far Out Midwest Staff and Lindsay Davis July 27, 2018
Superstar Janet Jackson's State of the World tour is on its second leg. Droves of fans filed into the Riverbend Music Center in Cincinnati, OH on Sunday evening. Everywhere you looked, fans had homemade Janet Jackson t-shirts, posters, and all kinds of memorabilia celebrating their favorite pop diva. One woman had a hoodie dress printed in Janet Jackson photographs and album covers and several others donned similar hairstyles to the one Janet wore during her performance.
DJ Aktive spun famous 80's and 90's hits, occasionally throwing in some dance classics to get the crowd on its feet. Audience members excitedly cheered as the crew took their positions on stage, shortly followed by the band. Screens slowly descended from the rafters. Despite the looming threat of thunderstorms, there was zero chance of dampening the high spirits and anticipation.
The show began with a video, a commentary on the current social and political climate. The crowd whooped and hollered in agreement as they heard words from great leaders of the past, including MLK, reminding us all to choose peace and love. Then, the music for "The Knowledge" blasted over the soundsystem and a tiny silhouette appeared behind the stage right screen.
Janet Jackson took the stage by force for a solid 90 minute show, give or take only a few minutes for quick wardrobe changes. From the moment she stepped out from behind the screen, Ms. Jackson gave an unforgettable and flawless performance. She danced with the highest energy, supplemented by her amazing backup dancers. The choreography was on point. Hit after hit, Janet Jackson did not fail her fans.
One particular performance stuck out among the rest. The mood became real and somber for a moment when she performed "What About". As Janet crooned, her dancers performed a story of an abusive relationship. As the male dancers would exhibit the behavior of abusers, the women, in unison with the strong refrain, would stand up to them and take their voices back. As they danced and the song went on, tears began to fall on Janet's face. She was fully emotionally pulled in by the song. This was a performer who felt was she was doing. Janet Jackson did something rare: she put an uneasy subject right in people's faces and did it with emotional truth. "What About" is an important song and she was able to express her truth with the words and visuals in a way that not many other singers can.
After "What About", followed by "You Ain't Right", Janet Jackson turned her set back around to the uplifting experience it was before. Nobody in the packed amphitheater could stand still as they heard the electric intro for "If". As if that weren't enough, everyone lost their minds when they saw Michael Jackson's face grace the screen for the classic "Scream". She ended her set with "Rhythm Nation", but fans kept screaming for more. Janet ran onstage to close out her show with "State of the World".
Janet Jackson is a true superstar. She delivered a flawless, high energy performance for an hour and a half. She sang with emotion and danced with soul. But what really stands out about her among other high-caliber performers, is how she seemed so grateful to her fans and the people surrounding her. Her dancers each got solos to demonstrate their own style and skills. She was all smiles as she looked out at the crowd and blew kisses to her fans. She introduced her backup dancers and band, as diverse a group as her fanbase, one by one at the end of her show. Janet Jackson truly seems to care about the people in her crew and in her fanbase. That is why she is a superstar.
Janet Jackson's State of the World tour continues through mid-August. You can check out the tour dates at https://www.janetjackson.com/tour. If you missed her this time around, make sure you don't miss her when she comes near you again. Janet Jackson is truly a legend.
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When I load the page to upload the file in the form.
I know a lot of other people cite a problem with the enctype or php.ini settings as reasons for this error but I'm quite sure mine are ok. I've cleared the browser (chrome) cache and restarted the MAMP server a couple of times just to make sure but I'm still getting the error.
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In these tough economic times, we all need to do all we can to support our local bike shops.
Try my shop. Valley Bicycles Chatsworth.
Second that. That little shop in Chatsworth has treated me very well over the years.
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Riding your favorite trail and NOT missing a shift..................priceless!
When I recently had an issue with Ellsworth over a cracked frame, the Valley Bicycles guys came through for me. And on many other occasions over the years.
I am a firm believer on supporting my local bike shop,Performance Cyclery in Saugus,CA. I like when i buy something i can take it home and install it immediatly and not have to wait for it to come in the mail. Obviously if they don't have it i have to wait but thats ok. And if i find a deal on-line they will either match it or give me a good deal.
I just got a new drive train for my Truth from Valley Bicycles, Chatsworth. They gave me a good price and installed the whole deal. They did a great job.


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Hispanic and Latino Heritage and History in the United States
Since 1988, the U.S. Government has set aside the period from September 15 to October 15 as National Hispanic Heritage Month to honor the many contributions Hispanic Americans have made and continue to make to the United States of America. Our Teacher's Guide brings together resources created during NEH Summer Seminars and Institutes, lesson plans for K-12 classrooms, and think pieces on events and experiences across Hispanic history and heritage.
The Reconstruction Era
This Teacher's Guide provides compelling questions to frame a unit of study and inquiry projects on the Reconstruction Era, includes NEH sponsored multimedia resources, activity ideas that include use of newspapers from the time and interdisciplinary approaches to bring social studies, ELA, and music education together, and resources for a DBQ and seminar.
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Our Women's History Teacher's Guide provides compelling questions, lesson activities, and multimedia resources for integrating women's perspectives and experiences throughout the school year.
Chronicling America: History's First Draft
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This collection of free, authoritative source information about the history, politics, geography, and culture of many states and territories has been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Our Teacher's Guide provides compelling questions, links to humanities organizations and local projects, and research activity ideas for integrating local history into humanities courses.


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New Jersey Homeowners Now Using Quiet Title Actions to Affirmatively Challenge a Party's Standing to Foreclose
saul.com | November 18, 2013
On November 4, 2013, the New Jersey Appellate Division in Suser v. Wachovia Mortgage, FSB, et al. affirmed a homeowner's right to file a prospective quiet title action to affirmatively challenge a bank's standing to foreclose on a particular piece of property. This ruling may result in additional litigation for banks and lenders because homeowners can affirmatively bring these actions without waiting for a bank or lender to initiate foreclosure.
The plaintiff in Suser initiated this action by filing a quiet title action against Wachovia Mortgage, FSB ("Wachovia") and Deutsche Bank National Trust Company ("Deutsche Bank") in the Superior Court of New Jersey. While Plaintiff's complaint sought to discharge the mortgages held by Wachovia and Deutsche Bank, the main thrust of his argument sought to challenge the defendants' standing to seek foreclosure of their respective mortgages. Among other things, Plaintiff asserted that the subject mortgage loans were not properly assigned to the defendants and they should be estopped from maintaining their liens under the doctrines of laches and waiver. During discovery, the lower court denied the plaintiff's discovery requests looking into the circumstances surrounding the assignment of the mortgage allegedly held by Deutsche Bank. The lower court subsequently granted summary judgment in favor of the defendants and dismissed plaintiff's complaint.
The plaintiff appealed the lower court's orders granting summary judgment and denying him discovery of the circumstances surrounding the assignment of the mortgage allegedly held by Deutsche Bank. The Appellate Division upheld the order granting summary judgment in favor of Wachovia, but reversed and remanded the lower court's order granting summary judgment in favor of Deutsche Bank and the order precluding the plaintiff from discovery relating to the subject assignments. The Appellate Division held that in viewing the facts most favorable to the plaintiff, there was a legitimate dispute as to whether Deutsche Bank obtained an effective assignment for the subject loan and as a result, whether it had the right to foreclose or whether such right would reside with the assignor or some other entity.
The Appellate Division also held that the plaintiff was permitted to affirmatively file an action for quiet title because the question of whether Deutsche Bank was the proper holder of the subject mortgage with the right to foreclose is properly adjudicated through a quiet title action. Specifically, one of the purposes of N.J.S.A. 2A:62-1 "is to permit a landowner to sue for clarification of the validity or reach of his title in circumstances that otherwise preclude a forum for the resolution of such a dispute." The Appellate Division also held that Deutsche Bank may in the near or distant future seek to foreclose on the subject property and that "could sufficiently enshroud plaintiff's title" to permit him to file a quiet title action.
The import of this decision is that it permits homeowners to preemptively challenge a bank or lender's standing to bring a foreclosure action. This finding provides homeowners with another avenue to raise potential foreclosure defenses and may lead to additional litigation on these issues prior to a foreclosure action ever being filed. This decision also reaffirms the importance of ensuring that all appropriate assignments and documents evidencing a proper chain of title are promptly recorded.


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Ligaments are what hold our bones together, and they are non-contractile meaning that they are just 'there' - you cannot directly control their tension level. Tendons are what muscles blend into before they attach to bone (ie. muslces and tendons are part of the same 'rope'). When you contract a muscle, the tendon that it becomes on the way to its bony attachment site is also put under tension.
Damage that occurs to a ligament (ie. tearing) due to over-tensioning is referred to as a "sprain".
Damage that occcurs to a tendon (ie. tearing) due to over-tensioning is referred to as a "strain".
When either of these terms are used in conjunction with the terms "mild", "moderate" or "severe", one is just further describing what percentage of the fibres of that ligament or tendon have been damaged or torn.


The City of Millington is committed to promoting the quality of opportunity for all citizens. The City of Millington takes pride in ensuring that people with disabilities are able to take part in, and benefit from, the range of public programs, services, and activities offered by the City of Millington. The City of Millington continues to modify its facilities, programs, policies, or practices, as necessary, to ensure access is provided. The City of Millington does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, religion, creed or disability in admission to, access to, or operations of its programs, services, or activities. Discrimination against any person in recruitment, examination, appointment, training, promotion, retention, discipline or any other employment practices because of non-merit factors shall be prohibited.
People with disabilities also have the right to be accompanied by service animals in public areas throughout Shelby County under the Americans with Disabilities Act, and interference with or denial of this right may also be a violation of state law. Service animals play an important role in ensuring the independence of people with disabilities, and it is therefore our policy to welcome into our County any animal that is individually trained to assist a person with a disability.


More than 130 researchers from Vietnam and other countries in the region including Malaysia, the Philippines and Hong Kong gathered at an academic event on research career development today at the Saigon South campus of RMIT International University Vietnam.
The two-day workshop on Research and Publication was hosted by RMIT Vietnam in association with the Australian & New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM) and Asia Academy of Management (AAM).
The workshop was designed for people undertaking or considering a PhD as well as those interested in publishing from their research.
"The workshop offered opportunities for professional development, social interaction, and networking with academics and PhD candidates from Australia, New Zealand, Vietnam and many other countries. In addition, it offered benefits for both study and research collaboration," Professor Julian Teicher, President, ANZAM Asia Division, and Head of Centre of Commerce & Management, RMIT Vietnam, said today.
"RMIT Vietnam is pleased to have created a forum for senior academics from a range of international institutions to help develop the potential of PhD candidates and emerging researchers from across South East Asia."
Academics from a wide range of universities were in attendance at the event, including Vietnam National University, University of Economics HCMC, and Can Tho University, as well as representatives from overseas universities including Universiti Sains Malaysia, University of Cracow (Poland), University of the Philippines and others. A particularly large contingent attended from HCMC Open University.
- Research methodology: qualitative, quantitative, mixed methods.
- Writing for international refereed journals.
- Choosing the right topic for your PhD.
- Managing your project and your supervisor.
- Thinking about and framing your research questions.
- Structuring your thesis for the greatest impact.
- Publishing from your thesis and research: strategies, hints and advice.
- From thesis to book: choosing publishers and understanding the technicalities of book publishing.


Meghan DaumMeghan Daum is an opinion columnist for The Times. Contact her at magazine@latimes.com.
Anyone can hire a personal assistant, but how do we decide whether we're busy or important enough to deserve one? Is it a matter of having disposable cash to pay someone $15 to $50 an hour to run to the dry cleaner or answer the phone and tell our mother we're in a meeting? Or must we hit bottom? Must we lose our library privileges because we didn't return our books? Must we forget our partner or spouse's birthday/anniversary/major surgery date once too often? Would employing a personal assistant solve these problems?
The answer these days is an unqualified yes. Not to be confused with office assistants or interns, personal assistants do just what their job description implies: They help us with that thorny enterprise known as being a person.
"A lot of people who have a personal assistant don't need one," says Jack Lippman, owner of the Elizabeth Rose Agency, a domestic-help outfit known for its celebrity clients. "And a lot of people who don't have one do."
Lippman, who produced and starred in "High Maintenance 90210," a reality show about his agency that aired on the E! channel earlier this year, has owned the business for 18 years. During that time, he says, people have increasingly needed help.
"Even in a so-called recession the demand is still here," Lippman says. "People will get rid of a Rolls-Royce, but they'll still need an assistant."
Those whom Lippman places earn $40,000 to $125,000 a year. Almost all have worked at big talent agencies or for celebrities. But the job of celebrity assistant, with its reputation for bizarre demands as well as spectacular perks, is generally considered an entity unto itself. Ordinary civilians who need help--and who can't afford a placement service such as Lippman's, which charges clients 15% of an employee's annual salary--often are forced to take matters into their own hands. And it can feel a lot like Internet dating.
"I put an ad on Craigslist, and I got about 100 responses," says Jamison Baum, an L.A.-based graphic designer. "I sat in the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf and interviewed people. And when I finally hired someone, she only lasted about two weeks."
Then Baum heard about Lambent Services, one of a handful of companies that provide part-time personal assistants. With specialties in everything from bookkeeping to foreign language translation to what the company's website calls "exercise enforcement," Lambent's assistants are young, college-educated and available for as few as four hours per week. The hourly rate for most services: $30. That means that for $120 a week you can have someone run errands, organize your closet or translate poetry into Russian (no child care or housework, though). Lambent originated in New York, but its L.A. office has quickly outpaced its East Coast counterpart. According to the website, "those who are affluent in L.A. most easily perceive the benefits of framing their lives as a thing to be managed by others."
Baum, for his part, has no trouble perceiving the benefits of his Lambent assistant, a 24-year-old Yale graduate named Jamie who has helped him shop for healthcare plans, set up computer databases and mail rebate certificates worth hundreds of dollars.
"There are so many things that you're just too busy or lazy to do yourself," Baum says. "You know how you get a bill or a bank statement in the mail and there's a mistake? It would take me forever to deal with that, but Jamie can do it in five minutes."
The appeal of having an assistant may be obvious, but the question of necessity still looms. There is, after all, a fine line between knowing how to ask for help and just being helpless. An assistant in your life can provide a feeling of accomplishment, even if nothing is being accomplished at all. Wasted time doesn't feel quite as wasted if it's not yours.
"Much of the popular conception of personal assistants comes from watching reality television, where celebrities don't go anywhere by themselves," says Christine Gutierrez, client relations manager at Lambent Services. "But it doesn't have to work like that. There's a cachet to saying you have an assistant. No one has to know it's only four hours a week."


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April 18, 1962 -- U. of I. at Chicago Trustees Scoop Up Land for New Campus
April 18, 1962 – University of Illinois trustees approve the purchase of a "near west side slum clearance site" [Chicago Daily Tribune, April 19, 1962] for a new Chicago campus. The approximate cost will be about $4,650,000 or $1.008 per square foot. Although the new campus will ultimately cover 105.8 acres, the first land transfer will be made up of 50 to 60 cleared acres near Halsted and Harrison Streets along with a small tract in the middle of Blue Island Avenue, Morgan Street, and Roosevelt Road. The first phase of construction is scheduled to start on June 30 with this initial $60 million section scheduled to open in 1964 with an enrollment of 9,000 students. This section will include a 28-story administrative building, a large one-story lecture center, a four-story library, a four-story engineering science laboratory building, seven classroom buildings, and a student center, along with a heating and air conditioning facility. The buildings involved in this first phase of construction are shown in the construction photo above.
April 18, 1867 -- Under "City Improvements" the Chicago Daily Tribune makes these observations . . .
"Why Madison Street from the lake to the river -- one of the great thoroughfares of travel -- should be permitted to remain in its present condition another year, cannot be explained by any rational process . . . As it is, the street is a nuisance, unsafe for travel, and offensive to the eye and nostrils of all who have to use it."
"The condition of [La Salle, Franklin, Monroe, Adams, Jackson, Harrison and Polk, from the lake to the river] is of that deplorable state which nothing short of their curbing, grading and paving can remedy. Public health, the general welfare and appearance of the city, as well as the public convenience, demand that these streets be permanently improved, and be no longer abandoned as mud holes and receptacles of filth of all kinds."
"These portions of Canal, Clinton, Jefferson, Union, Deplanes and South Halsted streets, lying between Lake and Madison streets, are almost impassable to vehicles, and are very little more convenient to pedestrians. The mud is so deep that no accident insurance company, managed with ordinary prudence, would take a risk from travellers on either of them. Drovers would attempt to swim their beeves, sheep and hogs across the river than attempt to pass over either of these streets from one of the three thoroughfares to the other with their stock."
"Halsted street, from Randolph to Madison, is a disgrace to the city. We think if the Board of Public Works would make the voyage of that street on horseback or in canoes, they would, while being fished out by the friendly neighbors living on the banks, appreciate the necessity for finishing the work only commenced by the paving of Lake, Randolph and Madison streets."
Somehow, a winter of potholes doesn't seem all that bad. The photo above shows State Street and the bridge across the river on November 2, 1867.
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I have a problem, today I met a hacker on the server that gave us all the disconnector to the server. I'd also like to send me an email and I explain exactly how and where I post someone give a picture to add ... that I was tired of hackers, hackers server is full . Please email trimitetimi nice and explain me how I post.


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Q: Can't get two variables to concatenate I'm a newbie, making a little exercise to practice with arrays. I've tried solving this from previous articles but none seem to have the relevant scenario.
I want to randomly generate sentences into paragraphs using phrases from an array. I got the random sentence generation part working fine.
    var ipsumText = ["adventure", "endless youth", "dust", "iconic landmark", "spontaneous", "carefree", "selvedge","on the road", "open road", "stay true", "free spirit", "urban", "live on the edge", "the true wanderer", "vintage motorcyle", "american lifestyle", "epic landscape", "low slung denim", "naturaL"];

//a simple function to print a sentence //

var sentence = function (y) {
var printSentence = "";
for (i=0; i<7; i++) {
    //random selection of string from array //
    var x = Math.floor(Math.random() * 20);
    printSentence += y [x] + " ";
}
return printSentence
};

console.log(sentence(ipsumText));

But now I want to be able to add a comma or full stop to the end of the sentence.
Because each word/phrase from the array used in the sentence prints with a space after it, I need to add an extra word with a full stop or comma right after it to avoid the space between them. To do this I created an extra variable
 // create a word and full stop to end a sentence//
var addFullstop = ipsumText[Math.floor(Math.random() * ipsumText.length)] + ". ";
var addComma = ipsumText[Math.floor(Math.random() * ipsumText.length)] + ", ";

These variables work on their own how I expect. They print a random word with a comma or full stop right after them.
However now I can't work out how to get them to add to the end of the sentence. I have tried quite a few versions referencing articles here, but I'm missing something, because when I test it, I get nothing printing to the console log.
This is what I have most recently tried.
// add the sentence and new ending together //
var fullSentence = sentence(ipsumText) + addFullstop;
console.log(fullSentence)

Can someone explain why this wouldn't work? And suggest a solution to try?
thanks

A: See ES6 fiddle:  http://www.es6fiddle.net/isadgquw/
Your example works.  But consider a different approach which is a bit more flexible.  You give it the array of words, how long you want the sentence to be, and if you want an ending to the sentence, pass in end, otherwise, just leave it out and it will not be used.
The first line generates an array of length count which is composed of random indices to be used to index into the words array.  The next line maps these indices to actual words.  The last line joins all of these into a sentence separated by a single space, with an optional end of the sentence which the caller specifies.
const randomSent = (words, count, end) =>
    [...Array(count)].map(() => Math.floor(Math.random() * words.length))
                     .map(i => words[i])
                     .join(' ') + (end || '')

randomSent (['one','two','x','compound word','etc'], 10, '! ')
// x x one x compound word one x etc two two!

To make it more flexible, consider making a function for each task.  The code is reusable, specific, and no mutable variables are used, making it easy to test, understand, and compose however you like:
const randInt = (lower, upper) =>
    Math.floor(Math.random() * (upper-lower)) + lower

const randWord = (words) => words[randInt(0, words.length)]

const randSentence = (words, len, end) =>
    [...Array(len)].map(() => randWord(words))
                   .join(' ') + (end || '')

const randWordWithEnd = (end) => randWord(ipsumText) + end
const randWordWithFullStop = randWordWithEnd('. ')
const randWordWithComma    = randWordWithEnd(', ')

// Now, test it!
const fullSentWithEnd = randSentence(ipsumText, 8, '!!')
const fullSentNoEnd = randSentence(ipsumText, 5)
const fullSentComposed = fullSentNoEnd + randWordWithFullStop

Link again for convenience: http://www.es6fiddle.net/isadgquw/


Discussion Disable the Body is required message.
Disable the Body is required message.
Well, I did say should.
I can't see why they would define 'Body' as required since it is already in the schema. This code definitely smells.


No stranger to the livestock industry, Joel Cowley has been involved with livestock since his youth. His interest in livestock started as a youth 4-H member and grew throughout his college days. Now well into his professional career, Joel recently embarked on one of his most exciting livestock adventures.
In August, Cowley was named president and CEO of the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, the largest livestock show and rodeo in the world. Cowley began his new duties after spending eight years as the Show's executive director of agricultural competitions and exhibits. He will continue to work with the extensive volunteer base and staff to carry on the Show's success.
Cowley first attended the Houston Livestock Show as an intercollegiate judging contestant in 1985, and has participated in every Show since 1988 as a judging team coach, livestock judge or employee.
As a youth 4-H member, Cowley was active in livestock projects and a member of national champion 4-H wool judging and livestock judging teams. He received a bachelor's degree in animal science from Colorado State University, a master's in animal science from Texas A&M and an MBA from Michigan State University.
While at Texas A&M, he coached more than 75 students from the 1989 to 1994 livestock evaluation teams as a lecturer and livestock judging team coach. These students competed with universities from across the nation and brought back dozens of trophies and banners in recognition of their hard work and livestock knowledge.
Prior to joining HLSR, Cowley worked for Certified Angus Beef LLC, as executive account manager in the international division and as assistant director of the food service division. Before joining CAB, he served as an extension beef cattle specialist at Michigan State University.
Do you feel your advanced degree in animal science and your time at Texas A&M has helped you prepare for where you are today?
Without question. With all due respect to my other alma maters and the great universities around the country, Texas A&M had, and continues to have, the finest animal science faculty in the nation. The relationships that I developed and the lessons that I learned, both in and out of the classroom, were a tremendous springboard in my professional development.
What are you currently doing and how has your passion developed for this area of work?
I currently serve as president and CEO of the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. My passion for the stock show industry is a direct result of the impact that the junior livestock program had upon my early development. Having lost my father when I was eight and my mother when I was nine, my two brothers and I were adopted by our paternal grandparents. Despite living on a fixed income, my grandfather enrolled us in 4-H and made sure that we had the opportunity to raise livestock projects and participate in livestock judging. With the exception of home environment, nothing has had a greater impact on my personal development than my participation in these activities.
What activities did you participate in as a graduate student? What is your fondest memory?
Though I enjoyed participating in many traditions and events that are unique to Texas A&M, the vast majority of my time was consumed with teaching class and coaching the livestock judging team. As a result, my fondest memories are related to the relationships that I developed with students and the successes that they experienced as a result of their hard work.
I believe that we succeed in life because other people believe in our character and our ability. I was very fortunate to earn the belief of many great people during my time at Texas A&M University. For any students who may be reading this, I would advise them to seize the opportunity that they have to do the same.


I've been a fan of amusement parks ever since I first visited Peppermint Park as a young child. It was a small Houston-based amusement park that had rides, games, and the best fair food. I was fascinated by the sights, sounds, and smells. I often begged my mother to take me there, and she would abide when she had some extra cash.
When I was a little older, I started going to Astroworld, Houston's big amusement park. It had roller coasters with names like Excalibur, Greezed Lightnin', XLR-8, and Texas Cyclone. I rode most of the coasters, but I never had the courage to ride Texas Cyclone. It was a massive wooden roller coaster that had steep drops and sharp curves. My daughter, who loves roller coasters, would have enjoyed it.
Growing up with amusement parks in my city made it fairly easy for me to experience these thrill rides on a regular basis. However, things are much different now. Astroworld closed in 2005 (it was a sad day for Houstonians) and the nearest amusement park is in San Antonio (there are plans to open a new park in the Houston area in 2015). Taking my kids to an amusement park requires significant planning and budgeting.
I've managed to take my family of five to Disney World, Disney Land, Sea World, Universal, and Santa's Workshop. I must admit these vacations had hefty price tags, but I was able to afford them by learning a few cost-saving techniques.
The first time I took my family to Disney, I bought tickets at the gate. The sticker shock nearly knocked me off my feet. Rather than purchasing day-of tickets, consider purchasing tickets online. Some parks offer discounted rates if purchased ahead of time, which can save a significant amount on the ticket cost combined. It's also worth checking park websites for flash sales and other discounts, and sometimes purchasing tickets as part of a combined package with other attractions can also save on individual costs.
Coupon sites like RetailMeNot and flash sale sites like Groupon and LivingSocial often post a collection of deals and discounts to amusement parks. Membership groups like AAA and AARP also offer discounts to theme parks, and some credit cards provide special promotions to cardholders – American Express partners with Universal Studios to offer card members special benefits including an American Express lounge, and Discover Card provides its members with a dedicated park entrance and exclusive ride times at Six Flags parks. Travel agents can also help you to get great deals on vacation packages.
I always bought a season pass for Astroworld when I was a teenager. For $29.99, I was able to enjoy many carefree days at the amusement park. Obviously, the price of multi-day passes has increased significantly since then. However, families spending more than one day in the area, or who live within close distance to an amusement park, can save hundreds by purchasing a season- or multi-day passes. Season passes can also provide additional bonuses such as exclusive ride times and free or discounted parking. Some parks with more than one location also honor season passes at other locations as well – providing savings close to home and while away on vacation.
Many parks partner with nearby hotels to extend special offerings to hotel guests, such as discount tickets, complimentary breakfast or early park entry. Some packages also include transportation to and from the park to help families save on the cost of parking.
Some parks offer discount tickets after a certain hour in the day. If you don't mind a shortened visit, or don't have time to spend an entire day at the park, check to see if there are half-day or evening tickets at a discounted rate. Visitors can sometimes save as much as half-off by taking advantage of off-peak deals.
Taking your family to an amusement park doesn't have drain your life's savings. With some careful planning and savvy shopping techniques, you can give your family a great vacation and save money at the amusement park.
Join the conversation: What tips do you have to save money at amusement parks?