Strain S12-2-1T was isolated from a soil sample collected in the Gyeongsangnam-do province of the Republic of Korea. The isolate is a Gram-stain-negative, aerobic, short, rod-shaped bacterium, and its colonies are red to pink in colour. Analysis of the 16S rRNA gene identified strain S12-2-1T as a member of the genus Hymenobacter in the family Cytophagaceae , with high levels of 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity to Hymenobacter arizonensis OR362-8T (97.7 %), Hymenobacter sedentarius DG5BT (97.4 %) and Hymenobacter humi DG31AT (97.2 %). The isolate was positive for catalase and oxidase, but negative for acid production from glucose. The growth of strain S12-2-1T was supported at 4–30 °C, pH 7–10 and in the presence of 0–0.5 % NaCl. Strain S12-2-1T contained menaquinone-7 as the predominant respiratory quinone, sym-homospermidine as the major polyamine and iso-C15 : 0, anteiso-C15 : 0 and summed feature 3 (C16 : 1ω7c/C16 : 1ω6c) as the major fatty acids. Phosphatidylethanolamine was the major polar lipid. The genomic DNA G+C content was 58.7 mol%. Phenotypic and chemotaxonomic data supported the assignment of the isolate to the genus Hymenobacter . However, strain S12-2-1T exhibited a relatively low level of DNA–DNA relatedness with H. humi (31.7 %), H. arizonensis (24.4 %) and H. sedentarius (21.3 %). Based on its phenotypic and genotypic properties, along with its phylogenetic distinctiveness, strain S12-2-1T should be considered a novel species in the genus Hymenobacter , for which the name Hymenobacter pedocola sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is S12-2-1T (=KCTC 52730T=JCM 32198T).
The NCBI GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of strain S12-2-1T is LC315612.


I listened to radio 4 this morning explaining about Deep Learning.
Apparently deep learning is the exciting new thing in using big data. It is a set of algorithms used in machine learning or AI.
When I studied education ( back in the day) deep learning was a learning style, or preference, of humans.
I checked what it says in wikipedia. No mention at all of Marton and Säljö (1976), Ramsden (1992), Biggs (1987, 1993) or Entwistle (1981) even.


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When the Beatles played Atlantic City
Bill Doyle Published: September 2, 2020
In 1964 the Beatles were a worldwide sensation, and, in August of that year, they brought their pandemonium to Atlantic City. They were still about a year away from their triumphant Shea Stadium show, but they had already appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show to a record audience and, earlier in 1964, their songs had occupied all of the top five spots in the Billboard Hot 100.
Their movie, A Hard Day's Night, had been released earlier in August. Beatlemania was at a fever pitch by the time they played Convention Hall in AC. According to the book On This Day in New Jersey History, the Fab Four were ferried from New York city via helicopter to Bader Field. They stayed at the Lafayette Motor Inn where they took up the entire seventh floor. The promoter had "leaked" the news that the Beatles would be arriving by bus and staying at a different hotel, but the truth came out and thousands of adoring fans milled around the Lafayette looking for a glimpse of the stars.
Ticketholders started lining up hours in advance at Convention Hall; the capacity for the concert was 18,000 and, of course, every seat was taken, although many never bothered sitting down. By our standards (and, really, by standards of the day), the concert was brief, lasting only about 30 minutes, opening with "Twist and Shout" and ending with "Long Tall Sally." After the show, they were whisked away in a police van and taken back to the hotel where they were photographed playing, fittingly, Monopoly and eating a sandwich from White House Subs before leaving for a show in Philadelphia.
The post above reflects the thoughts and observations of New Jersey 101.5 talk show host Bill Doyle. Any opinions expressed are Bill Doyle's own.
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Publish Date January 26, 2022
Eplontersen Gets Orphan Drug Status for Transthyretin-Mediated Amyloidosis
Brian Park, PharmD
Eplontersen is a ligand-conjugated antisense medicine. Credit: Getty Images.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Orphan Drug designation to eplontersen for the treatment of patients with transthyretin-mediated amyloidosis.
Transthyretin-mediated amyloidosis (ATTR) is a systemic, progressive and fatal disease caused by the inappropriate formation and aggregations of transthyretin (TTR) amyloid deposits in various tissues and organs. Eplontersen is a ligand-conjugated antisense medicine designed to reduce the production of TTR protein to treat both hereditary and nonhereditary forms of ATTR.
The Company is currently evaluating eplontersen in the phase 3 CARDIO-TTRansform (ClincialTrials.gov Identifier: NCT04136171) and NEURO-TTRansform (ClincialTrials.gov Identifier: NCT04136184) studies for the treatment of hereditary and wild-type amyloid transthyretin cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM) and hereditary transthyretin-mediated amyloid polyneuropathy (hATTR-PN), respectively.
"Receiving FDA Orphan Drug status for eplontersen underscores the significant unmet need for novel treatment options for people living with transthyretin-mediated amyloidosis," said Richard S. Geary, PhD, executive vice president and chief development officer at Ionis. "We look forward to working closely with regulators, clinical investigators, patients and their families to advance this important medicine and make it available to those who may benefit from it."
The FDA's Orphan Drug designation is granted to medicines intended to treat or prevent rare diseases or disorders that affect fewer than 200,000 individuals.
Ionis announces eplontersen receives orphan drug designation from US FDA. News release. Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Accessed January 25, 2022. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ionis-announces-eplontersen-receives-orphan-drug-designation-from-us-fda-301466177.html
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I like to stay busy during the day, love spending a little time outside swimming laps at a outdoor pool, then at night I am ready to relax have dinner watch a little TV, may be go to the movies or out to dinner sometimes or just relax on my couch. I do not drink or smoke .
I'm a hard working man. I'm confident and I like to make great decisions that will benefit both of us. Smile and lets have some fun.
Honest caring respectful trustworthy romantic loyal adventurous and love to cuddle and kiss.
I'm tall, medium build. I'm reserved, but the life of the party once you get to know me.
Im easygoing old fashioned positive family oriented love kids look for the good things in people and life in general.
I like to play video games wnd watching movies. I want someone.
A little about myself down to earth laid back cool rebel love to laugh music buff preferably hip hop , R&B soul etc very outgoing love to travel.
I have a good heart. I am at the point in my life where I really want someone who will be faithful.
I live in california and am the father of 2 grown children. I like to sing and dance even if I am not that good. I enjoy family outings. I do enjoy riding my bike and hiking. as for movies I think I like action and comedy the best.


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Q: understanding composer require & its remote location i have this in composer.json and i am trying to undersntad which file it is pulling. its tinipng magento extension code
i can understand that its requesting version greater than 1.5 and here in github i can see version 1.5.2 but github link how it is added. its not just github.com/tinify/tinify
https://github.com/tinify/tinify-php/releases/tag/1.5.2
so magento is pulling require field from some other place or some link in require field ??
"minimum-stability": "alpha",
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A: i am sorry. coposer documentation is right place.
this question all answers are in https://getcomposer.org/doc/03-cli.md
got the answer

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Hello everyone, I just joined this forum hoping you guys have the answer to a gecko question that's been bothering me for a while now.
Does anyone have any care sheets (substrate, lighting, etc...) or other information on this gecko? I think it is either a Cape Zebra False Day Gecko or a Zanzibar dwarf gecko (Lygodactylus luteopicturatus). I am thinking about buying one at a pet store, but they don't know anything about them. I've looked everywhere I can think of, online and off, but can't find anything either. If anyone has any information I would greatly appreciate it.


It takes too long time to compile a computational graph. Can I skip it?
Chainer does not compile computational graphs, so you cannot skip it, or, I mean, you have already skipped it :).
It seems you have actually seen on-the-fly compilations of CUDA kernels. CuPy compiles kernels on demand to make kernels optimized to the number of dimensions and element types of input arguments. Pre-compilation is not available, because we have to compile an exponential number of kernels to support all CuPy functionalities. This restriction is unavoidable because Python cannot call CUDA/C++ template functions in generic way. Note that every framework using CUDA require compilation at some point; the difference between other statically-compiled frameworks (such as cutorch) and Chainer is whether a kernel is compiled at installation or at the first use.
These compilations should run only at the first use of the kernels. The compiled binaries are cached to the $(HOME)/.cupy/kernel_cache directory by default. If you see that compilations run every time you run the same script, then the caching is failed. Please check that the directory is kept as is between multiple executions of the script. If your home directory is not suited to caching the kernels (e.g. in case that it uses NFS), change the kernel caching directory by setting the CUPY_CACHE_DIR environment variable to an appropriate path. See CuPy Overview for more details.
Many users reported that mnist example does not work correctly on Mac OS X. We are suspecting it is caused by vecLib, that is a default BLAS library installed on Mac OS X.
Mac OS X is not officially supported. I mean it is not tested continuously on our test server.
We recommend to use other BLAS libraries such as OpenBLAS. We empirically found that it fixes this problem. It is necessary to reinstall NumPy to use replaced BLAS library. Here is an instruction to install NumPy with OpneBLAS using Homebrew.
If you want to install NumPy with pip, use site.cfg file.
You can check if NumPy uses OpenBLAS with numpy.show_config method. Check if blas_opt_info refers to openblas .
See detail about this problem in issue #704.


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Apareiodon itapicuruensis är en fiskart som beskrevs av Eigenmann och Henn, 1916. Apareiodon itapicuruensis ingår i släktet Apareiodon och familjen Parodontidae. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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Other people gave more money than this woman did. But they still had plenty of money. This woman gave everything to God. She had nothing else.
Jesus said that, really, the woman gave a bigger gift than anyone else. She gave all her money because she loved God very much.
Perhaps other people thought that she was a fool. But when she gave her money, she was also giving her life to God. She wanted him to have everything. And God would not disappoint her.


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Koon Hock Seng, regional service manager of Zeiss, takes a look at preventive and reactive maintenance and how they help maximise machine performance.
Handling responsibility for quality control means closing the loop on coordinate measuring machine operations. By Daniel Brown, B Eng, senior product manager at Creaform.


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Chicago Named Top Corporate Metro Seven Years in a Row
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Leads the nation in corporate investment in 2019, according to Site Selection magazine
CHICAGO—Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot and World Business Chicago (WBC) today announced that for the seventh consecutive year, Chicago has been ranked "Top Metro" in the United States for corporate investment by Site Selection magazine. In 2019, the Chicago metro area once again saw more new and expanding corporate locations than any other region in the country.
"Unmatched talent, connectivity and infrastructure are found in every part of Chicago, which gives businesses the confidence they need to thrive and grow," Mayor Lightfoot said. "Being named number one in the nation for corporate relocations and expansions is a testament to the strength of Chicago's dynamic economy, powered by industry in communities across the city. We thank our corporate partners for their continued confidence in Chicago, and for their commitment to propel jobs and investment that will help see all Chicagoans prosper."
In another sign of Chicago's market strength, the City was also named number one in the U.S. for foreign direct investment (FDI), according to the 2019 IBM Global Location Trends report. The annual report, which outlines the latest trends in corporate location selection, named Chicago the top North American metro in foreign direct investment projects.
Site Selection tracked 416 business expansions and relocations in the Chicagoland MSA, accounting for more than $5 billion in investment. Major corporate expansions last year reflected growth in top industries, from tech to manufacturing, including Uber Freight, KeeperSecurity, Accenture, SpotHero, Snapsheet, Fyllo, Health Joy, and Farmer's Fridge; citing Chicago's diverse pipeline of talent, global connectivity and other core strengths as reasons why.
"We chose to expand our global headquarters in Chicago for a few key reasons. First, Chicago is a clean, organized and conducive environment to build a great business," said Darren Guccione, CEO & Co-Founder, Keeper Security. "Chicagoans are friendly, talented, diverse and driven – they have a passion to help build successful businesses with global impact. Chicago's technology ecosystem and networks aligned with our strategic plans. This not only had a local impact on our new headquarters, it also helped fuel our global expansion."
"Companies like Keeper Security choose Chicago because they know Chicago is the place where their business can truly thrive," said Andrea Zopp, President and CEO, World Business Chicago. "Site Selection's award confirms that everything from our diverse and highly educated pipeline of talent, our growing tech and innovation ecosystem, global access, affordability, and quality of life, make Chicago an ideal home for businesses looking to root, grow and expand."
"As Deloitte Global Location Strategy Leader Darin Buelow told us, Chicagoland is winning projects because of talent," says Site Selection Managing Editor Adam Bruns. "The region is still eminently affordable compared to some coastal metros, and prospers thanks to a blend of industries from tech to advanced manufacturing to logistics. The combination of neighborhood focus, institutional strength, cultural richness and corporate citizenship is hard to beat."
Chicago will continue to propel its economic growth in the years ahead through a new economic growth strategy led by Mayor Lightfoot. The Mayor's 10-year economic growth plan is focused on fueling the growth of technology and other high impact industry sectors to drive inclusive economic growth, expand jobs and restore Chicago's population to three million residents. This plan will work to attract investment from all over the world by highlighting the best of Chicago—from the strength and talent of our people, to our top- notch education institutions and world class transportation—found across Chicago's 77 diverse community areas.


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Friday, June 1 • 2:00pm - 2:30pm
Taking It Bay by Bay and Making It Day by Day: Engaging the Community to Improve Physical Collections in the Library
Limited Capacity seats available
Who says libraries are irrelevant and our physical collections are dead? Not a mid-career librarian at the University of Winnipeg, who jumped from Head of Library Systems to Head of Collections almost two years ago. He has never been more active or engaged with his community. From a retention project, to dealing with catastrophes, to weeding, to inventory, to processing donations, to assessing the reference collection, print serials and microfilm collections, to taking new approaches to the budget formula, he has been taking collective action, working together with those inside and outside the library to build much needed vitality back into the library and its physical collections. Taking even the smallest opportunity to talk to stakeholders face-to-face and taking them directly to the space has really help to engage and inspire a renewed sense of place and interest in our physical collections.
Michael Hohner
Head of Collections, University of Winnipeg
Friday June 1, 2018 2:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
Tags career transitioning, physical collection vitality, community engagement


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Grease, flour, and line three 8 x 1.5 inch cake pans with parchment paper rounds.
In a small separate bowl, combine coconut milk and vanilla.
In a stand mixer with a paddle attachment, beat butter and sugar on medium-high speed until light and fluffy.
Add eggs one at a time and beat well to combine.
Add a third of the flour mixture and mix on low speed to combine.
Add a third of the coconut milk mixture and mix to combine.
Continue adding flour mixture and coconut milk mixture, alternating between the two and scraping down the bowl in between each addition.
Add sour cream and buttermilk and mix to combine.
Transfer batter to a separate bowl and clean mixing bowl.
In the stand mixer with the whisk attachment, beat whites on high speed for 3-4 minutes, until they form soft peaks.
Stir 1/3 of beaten egg whites into cake batter, and then fold in remaining whites.
Bake for 30-35 minutes or until a toothpick emerges with moist crumbs.
While cakes are baking, whisk together rum and vanilla in a small bowl.
Cool cakes on racks in pans, then invert onto cooling racks.
Using a long serrated knife, level cakes so they are flat on top.
Brush cakes all over with the rum-vanilla mixture.
At this point, cakes can be used immediately, or wrapped in plastic wrap and foil and frozen for up to 1 month.
For the chocolate fudge filling, beat 1-1/2 cups butter and cream cheese on medium speed until pale and fluffy.
Reduce speed to low, and add in sugar, cocoa powder, coffee, sour cream, vanilla, and salt, and beat until well-combined.
Chocolate fudge filling can be stored in the refrigerator for up to 4 days or used immediately.
For the coconut swiss buttercream, in a double boiler, over low heat, whisk egg whites, sugar, and salt together until mixture registers 160 degrees.
In a stand mixer with the whisk attachment, beat egg whites until they reach room temperature.
Add in 1-1/2 cups of the butter and beat until pale and fluffy.
Add in cream of coconut and vanilla and beat to combine.
If buttercream curdles, heat part of the mixture in the microwave for 30 seconds, add back in, and beat until smooth again.
At this point, buttercream can be refrigerated up to 3 days, or used immediately.
To assemble the cake, layer chocolate filling in between cake rounds.
Spread buttercream all over top and sides of cake, and smooth all over.
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The House GOP health care bill is a job killer, says a new report
In addition to potentially increasing the number of uninsured by 23 million and being unequivocally unpopular, House Republicans' Obamacare replacement plan could leave nearly a million people unemployed.
That's according to a new study published Wednesday by the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University and The Commonwealth Fund projects, which finds that the U.S. economy could see a loss of 924,000 jobs by 2026 if the American Health Care Act (AHCA) becomes law.
The study concentrated on coverage-related and tax repeal policies included in the AHCA. Some of the key provisions it said could add to job losses would:
Phase out enhanced funding for Medicaid expansion by restricting eligibility in 2020, and imposing either a block grant or per capita caps.
Replace premium tax credits with age-based tax credits. The premiums can be five times higher for older individuals, compared to the current threefold maximum.
Allow states to waive key insurance rules, like community rating and essential health benefits. (The study does account for the Patient and State Stability Fund, a $8 billion grant meant to relieve states of high-cost patients.)
Eliminate the individual mandate tax penalty and premiums hikes for people who do not maintain continuous coverage.
Repeal numerous taxes and tax increases, like a tax on high-cost insurance (i.e. the "Cadillac tax").
Short-term gain, long-term pain
Federal health funding stimulates the economy and job creation. Health funds pay hospitals, doctor's offices, and other providers, and these facilities pay for their own respective employees and other goods and services, like rent and equipment. Health care employees and private businesses then use their earnings to purchase consumer goods like housing and transportation, circulating this money through the larger economy.
The GWU study found government spending or subsidies stimulate the economy more than tax cuts. Tax cuts do help, but only in the short term. The way AHCA is set up is that the tax cuts take effect sooner than federal funding cuts, which is why some states see net job growth by 2018. Then, when federal dollars are eventually pulled, states begin to see job losses by 2026.
Who's most affected:
The employment rate among states that expanded Medicaid eligibility could disproportionately be affected, because those states received more federal dollars. New York, a state that expanded Medicaid, could be among the hardest hit with 86,000 job losses by 2026.
Between April 2016 and April 2017, New York added 76,800 jobs and the educational & health services sector saw the largest job gains, at 46,600 jobs. "The Affordable Care Act [ACA] contributed to that [growth]," Ronnie Kauder, senior research director at the New York City Labor Market Information Service, told ThinkProgress.
Kauder emphasized that the ACA wasn't solely responsible for New York's job growth, even in the health care sector. Uncontrollable factors like the state's growing aging population and increasing life expectancy contribute to job growth as well.
New York has reaped the employment benefits of comprehensive health care, said Kauder. That's in part because ACA encouraged states to test new models of health care delivery and shifted from a reimbursement system based on volume of services to value of services.
For example, New York received ACA grant funding to test effective ways to incentivize Medicaid beneficiaries, who struggle with chronic diseases, to participate in prevention programs and change their health risks. With that grant, New York created new programs at existing managed care organizations, which required new hires. The grant created positions like care coordinators, who connect and follow-up up with patients and providers in the program, said Kauder. "They are heavy on the training, but not licensed professionals," she said.
But while she attributed some of New York's job gains to the ACA, Kauder was skeptical that the GOP replacement plan would kill as many of them as the GWU study projects. "We don't know what the state response will be," he said. "It could be worse in Kentucky."
The largest health care provider in New York, Northwell Health, hires on average 150 people a week. Northwell chief public relations officer Terry Lynam told ThinkProgress he doesn't think the ACA directly contributed to a spike in job growth; however, it did help expedite the provider's move from hospitals to outpatient care centers, also called ambulatory care, in an effort to slow rising health costs.
"What [ACA] has done was contribute to the ambulatory net growth [by cutting costs]," said Lynam. Northwell Health has 550 outpatient locations.
Northwell Health has qualms with the House GOP bill; specifically its cuts to Medicaid and change in coverage rules. "We are in a stronger financial position to survive that kind of reduction in revenue," said Lynam. "But what about small providers serving low income areas, who need those Medicaid [dollars]?"
This blog was originally published at ThinkProgress on June 15, 2017. Reprinted with permission.
About the Author: Amanda Michelle Gomez is a health care reporter at ThinkProgress.
Tags: AHCA, American Health Care Act, community rating, economy, eligibility, essential health benefits, federal funding, George Washington University, job loss, Jobs, medicaid, Milken Institute School of Public Health, New York, obamacare, Tax Credits, The Commonwealth Fund, uninsured
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How Does the Fall of DOMA Impact the FMLA and Other Employee Benefits?
Unless you've been securely wedged under a rock over the past 24 hours, you know that the U.S. Supreme Court has declared unconstitutional the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which had established a federal definition of marriage as a legal union only between one man and one woman.
Yesterday, as Justice Anthony Kennedy read the opinion of the Court in U.S. v. Windsor, I can only imagine that his thoughts were consumed completely by the manner in which the extinction of DOMA would impact the future of the Family and Medical Leave Act. Right?
But let's not leave this to chance. In the unlikely event that Justice Kennedy (and the rest of the Court's majority) didn't fully appreciate how the FMLA might be impacted, we've got the Court's back, as we discuss the issue more fully below:
How FMLA is Impacted after the Fall of DOMA
As we know, the FMLA allows otherwise eligible employees to take leave to care for a family member with a serious health condition. "Family member" includes the employee's spouse which, under the FMLA regulations, is defined as:
a husband or wife as defined or recognized under State law for purposes of marriage in the State where the employee resides, including common law marriage in States where it is recognized. 29 C.F.R. 825.102
Initially, this seems to suggest that the DOL would look to state law to define "spouse." Not so fast. According to a 1998 Department of Labor opinion letter, the DOL acknowledged that the FMLA was bound by DOMA's definition that "spouse" could only be a person of the opposite sex who is a husband or wife. Thus, the DOL has taken the position that only DOMA's definitions could be recognized for FMLA leave purposes. As result, FMLA leave has not been made available to same-sex spouses.
That changed yesterday, at least in part.
What's Clear about FMLA After the Court's Ruling
In striking down a significant part of DOMA, the Supreme Court cleared the way for each state to decide its own definition of "spouse." Thus, if an employee is married to a same-sex partner and also lives in a state that recognizes same-sex marriage, the employee will be entitled to take FMLA leave to care for his/her spouse who is suffering from a serious health condition, for military caregiver leave, or to take leave for a qualifying exigency when a same-sex spouse called to active duty in a foreign country in the military.
What's Unclear about FMLA After the Court's Ruling
But what about employees who live in a state that does not recognize same-sex marriage? Are they entitled to FMLA leave to care for their spouse?
As an initial matter, the regulations look to the employee's "place of domicile" (state of primary residence) to determine whether a person is a spouse for purposes of FMLA. Therefore, even if the employee formerly lived or was married in a state that recognized the same-sex marriage, he/she is unlikely to be considered a spouse in the "new" state for purposes of FMLA if the state does not recognize the marriage. This is no small issue, since 30+ states currently do not recognize same-sex marriage and some don't go all the way (e.g., Illinois, which recognizes same-sex unions, not marriages).
Surely, some might argue that the United States Constitution requires other states to recognize the marriage; however, this issue is far from settled. My friend and Indiana University Maurer School of Law professor Steve Sanders writes a compelling article for SCOTUSblog contending that an individual married in one state maintains a "significant liberty interest" under the 14th Amendment's Due Process Clause as to the ongoing existence of the marriage.
Here, employers clearly need some help from the DOL. Might the DOL draft regulations on how employers administer the FMLA in situations where the employee's spouse is not recognized under state law? If so, we could see the DOL give life to concepts such as a "State of Celebration" rule, in which a spousal status is determined based on the law of the State where the employee got married.
Without more guidance, it still is too early to tell where this question is heading. Nevertheless, the employer community looks forward to helping shape these rules.
Other Key Benefits Affected by the DOMA Decision
FMLA is not the only federal law impacted by the fall of DOMA. If federal regulations follow through, some of the notable federal laws and benefits impacted may include:
Taxes: Same-sex spouses likely will share many federal benefits and be able to manage tax liability in a way that opposite sex spouses typically do. For instance, an inheritance, which was taxed under DOMA, will no longer be taxed for a same sex spouse (this was the factual scenario at issue in the decision). Income taxes, payroll taxes, health insurance benefits, and tax reporting may also be impacted.
Affordable Care Act and COBRA: NPR reports that the Court's decision will impact how the Affordable Care Act (affectionately referred to as Obamacare) is carried out, though many details remain unclear. Moreover, same-sex spouses may be eligible for continuation of health insurance benefits (COBRA) even though the spouse may lose his/her job.
Employee benefits: Same-sex spouses likely will be treated equally when it comes to employee benefits, including a 401(k) plan.
Social security benefits: The Court's decision also paves the way for social security survivor benefits to continue onto a legally married same-sex partner.
Citizenship: According to NBC News, some 28,000 same-sex spouses who are American citizens will now be able to sponsor their non-citizen spouses for U.S. visas and can qualify for immigration measures toward citizenship.
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This article was originally printed on FMLA Insights on June 27, 2013. Reprinted with permission.
About the Author: Jeff Nowak is a management side attorney at Franczek Radelet P.C. and author of the FMLA Insights blog.
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NSW Budget 2016: Sydney entrepreneur school hunting for unicorns
June 19, 2016 — 8.53pm
A new Sydney "entrepreneur school" will be established by the state government in partnership with universities and TAFE to foster potential technology and other start-ups in NSW.
The Sydney School of Entrepreneurship (SSE) will be modelled on Sweden's renowned Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship and established next year with $25 million to be announced in Tuesday's state budget.
About 1000 top students each year from partner universities and TAFE NSW are expected to attend the school, which is likely to be based at Ultimo TAFE.
NSW Treasurer Gladys Berejiklian said the school "will foster collaboration and use the expertise within our world-class universities across a range of disciplines".
About 1000 top students each year from partner universities and TAFE NSW are expected to attend the "entrepreneur school", which is likely to be based at Ultimo TAFE. Credit:Brook Mitchell
"We want to help create a critical mass of informed, dynamic and enthusiastic professionals with the practical skills required to thrive as an entrepreneur," she said.
"The SSE will foster the emergence of small innovative companies with the potential for rapid growth – and that means job creation."
Among its backers is high-profile businessman Tony Shepherd.
The Stockholm school is run by Australian Nick Kaye, who was recently in Sydney for a forum at the invitation of NSW chief scientist Mary O'Kane.
"We want to help create a critical mass of ... professionals with the practical skills required to thrive as an entrepreneur": NSW Treasurer Gladys Berejiklian. Credit:Louise Kennerley
The government says more than one-in-three graduates of the Stockholm school have successfully launched start-ups, including two so-called "unicorns" – those valued at more than $US1 billion.
Industry minister Anthony Roberts said 46 per cent of all Australian start-ups are based in Sydney and NSW accounts for 64 per cent of "all tech start-up activity across the nation".
Among the new school's backers is high-profile businessman Tony Shepherd. Credit:Dominic K Lorrimer
"It is estimated the tech start-up sector could be worth $109 billion to the national economy and create 540,000 jobs by 2033," Mr Roberts said.
"The SSE will not only ensure we remain No.1 in the nation, it will put NSW at the epicentre of entrepreneurship in the region."
Ms Berejiklian will also say on Tuesday that NSW net debt is expected to be $663 million, or just 0.1 per cent of Gross State Product, thanks largely to its crackdown on expenses and "asset recycling" strategy.
She will also say state-funded investment in infrastructure in NSW will average $12.1 billion a year over the next four years.


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MOSCOW, 4 Sep — RIA Novosti. The State Duma of the Russian Federation is open for discussion of amendments to the legislation on media if such adjustments are necessary for improvement of work of journalists, the deputy of the State Duma, the deputy head of advisory council of Rosgvardiya Mikhail Starshinov.© has said RIA Novosti / Vladimir to Fedorenko In the Federation Council have commented on the law on work of media the tochkakhobshchestvenny chamber of the Russian Federation on Tuesday carries out a round table to hot "Protection of freedom of speech or threat of national security. Activity of media — foreign agents in Russia". Experts will consider a question of legislative regulation of activity of media foreign agents and experience of law-enforcement practice and also a question of foreign influence as threats of information security of Russian regions. "The only thing, once again I want to tell a wish — work according to the current legislation. If there are any questions or wishes concerning changes of the legislation or some adjustments in this area, then we are open to dialogue — and the committee platform, including, and in the State Duma, and here the commission of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation — I think that this beautiful place where all this can be discussed at rather professional level and to make the relevant decision which would promote work of media" — Starshinov has said during a round table. The parliamentarian has noted that the question of freedom of speech, "certainly, is relevant". © RIA Novosti / Ramil Sitdikov to Pass into an image bank the Head of HRC has commented on amendments to the project about media foreign agents "And, in my opinion, it is only possible to welcome any steps which provide this freedom of speech, and the only wish is that respect for the rights and freedoms of journalists and members of the media didn't disperse from the current legislation of the Russian Federation" — Starshinov has explained. "Sometimes, frankly speaking, causes some bewilderment, in any case, in me why next any things don't become, and then come to an end with investigations, a sensation and we designate. Least of all I would like to go on the way of some bans or restrictions of activity of journalists" — the parliamentarian has concluded.


"Music's Biggest Night" returns to downtown Los Angeles Sunday evening with the 61st Grammy Awards at Staples Center, but the event will be held under a cloud of discontent among some artists — including top nominees Kendrick Lamar and Drake — who declined to perform at the ceremony.
As the event approached, there was still uncertainty about whether Lamar and Drake will even attend the show amid a growing feeling of resentment among rap and hip-hop artists, who are very often among the top nominees but rarely win in the top categories of song, album and record of the year.
Ehrlich told the paper that Lamar, Drake and Childish Gambino (Donald Glover) were all offered the chance to perform on the show, but all declined. The Times noted that the issue with hip-hop artists was highlighted last year, when top nominee Jay-Z didn't win any awards, while Lamar was passed over for album of the year, but won a Pulitzer Prize for music three months later.
Also declining to perform on Sunday night's show was Ariana Grande, who said she pulled out due to a clash with Ehrlich over creative differences. Ehrlich claimed the singer felt "it was too late for her to pull something together," but Grande disputed that on Twitter, saying she withdrew "when my creativity & self expression was stifled" by Ehrlich.
Despite the rancor, the Grammys will still feature a star-studded lineup of performers, including Lady Gaga, Dua Lipa, Travis Scott, Mark Ronson, Camila Cabello, Cardi B, Dan + Shay, Little Big Town, Katy Perry, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Diana Ross and Dolly Parton. The show will also include an Aretha Franklin tribute by Andra Day, Yolanda Adams and Fantasia.
When it comes to the actual awards — the vast majority of which will be handed out during an afternoon-long pre-telecast ceremony at the Microsoft Theater — Lamar leads the pack with eight nominations, followed by Drake with seven.
Lamar, Drake and Brandi Carlile are each nominated in all three of the top Grammy categories of album, record and song of the year. Those categories were expanded from five to eight nominees this year in an effort to boost diversity, countering an issue that came to a head in recent years over the lack of female representation in the top award slots.
This year, however, women have five of the eight nominations for album of the year and are strongly represented in the other top categories, including six female acts nominated for best new artist.
Song of the year nominations, which recognize songwriters, include Lamar's "All the Stars," Drake's "God's Plan," Carlile's "The Joke," Ella Mai's "Boo'd Up," Shawn Mendes' "In My Blood" and Childish Gambino's "This is America." Also nominated are "Shallow," the Lady Gaga-Bradley Cooper tune from the movie "A Star is Born," and "The Middle," the hit from Zedd, Maren Morris and Grey.
Women dominate the best new artist category, with nominations going to Chloe X Halle, Greta Van Fleet, H.E.R., Dua Lipa, Margo Price, Bebe Rexha, Jorja Smith and Luke Combs.
The change came on the heels of a USC report released last year that found only 9.3 percent of nominees in the top Grammy categories were women over the past five years. Portnow also came under fire when, after being questioned about a lack of female representation among nominees, he responded that women need to "step up" to be recognized.
Portnow has announced that he will step down this year at the end of his term.
The Grammys will recognize recordings released between Oct. 1, 2017, and Sept. 30, 2018.


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5 Ohio deputies investigated over racial texts
Messages were sent between November 2011 and January 2013
Updated: 3:51 PM EST Dec 4, 2014
Two white sheriff's deputies accused of exchanging racially charged text messages on their personal phones have been put on leave, and three more officers are under investigation, a southwest Ohio sheriff said.Montgomery County Sheriff Phil Plummer said employees "tarnished the office" by sending messages that included racial slurs and comments directed at two black deputies, The Dayton Daily News reported."The N-word was used several times as well as other racial slurs and jokes," the sheriff said. "Racism will not be tolerated in this office."Plummer said the messages were sent between November 2011 and January 2013, sometimes while the deputies were on duty. They might be in violation of the department conduct code signed by all employees, which instructs them not to express racial prejudice or act in a derogatory manner.An anonymous source provided the texts to the Dayton NAACP in August, and it investigated to confirm the messages' authenticity before bringing them to the sheriff's attention last week, said Derrick Foward, the local NAACP president."We cannot tolerate anybody who harbors hate, and they are supposed to be out here protecting us," he said.The deputies on leave are a captain and a detective who have worked at the department for 15 years and have no previous disciplinary issues, he said."They were in two important positions here," Plummer said. "I needed to take them out of the mix while we conduct an internal investigation."Two court security deputies and a dispatch center sergeant are also under investigation, Plummer said.
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) —
Two white sheriff's deputies accused of exchanging racially charged text messages on their personal phones have been put on leave, and three more officers are under investigation, a southwest Ohio sheriff said.
Montgomery County Sheriff Phil Plummer said employees "tarnished the office" by sending messages that included racial slurs and comments directed at two black deputies, The Dayton Daily News reported.
"The N-word was used several times as well as other racial slurs and jokes," the sheriff said. "Racism will not be tolerated in this office."
Plummer said the messages were sent between November 2011 and January 2013, sometimes while the deputies were on duty. They might be in violation of the department conduct code signed by all employees, which instructs them not to express racial prejudice or act in a derogatory manner.
An anonymous source provided the texts to the Dayton NAACP in August, and it investigated to confirm the messages' authenticity before bringing them to the sheriff's attention last week, said Derrick Foward, the local NAACP president.
"We cannot tolerate anybody who harbors hate, and they are supposed to be out here protecting us," he said.
The deputies on leave are a captain and a detective who have worked at the department for 15 years and have no previous disciplinary issues, he said.
"They were in two important positions here," Plummer said. "I needed to take them out of the mix while we conduct an internal investigation."
Two court security deputies and a dispatch center sergeant are also under investigation, Plummer said.


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»Ennis Rios new coordinator of Military Affiliated Resource Center
Submitted by Justin Frederick
Ennis Rios started as the coordinator of the Military Affiliated Resource Center on July 11.
Rios served 15 years in the U.S. Navy as an information systems technician specializing in computer, radio and satellite communications. Serving aboard ships and in the Naval Special Warfare community, he achieved the rank of chief petty officer. Upon leaving the military, Rios attended community college before he transferred and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in geographic information science technology in 2019 and a master's degree in water management and hydrological science in 2021 from Texas A&M University.
As the Military Affiliated Resource Center coordinator, Rios and his staff are the central points of contact for current or future military-connected students seeking information about benefits and programs available to them. He also manages the center's physical location in Room 217 of the K-State Student Union, which provides a space for military-affiliated students to access resources, study and build community with others who have kindred experiences.
"After the Navy, I knew I wanted to attend a university, but I had little direction on how to get started and how to use my benefits," Rios said. "I worked with a veteran resource and support center on campus. I would not have been so successful without their guidance. I am excited to be on the other side now, serving military-affiliated students — helping them navigate their own college experience."
Rios, an Olathe native, joined the Navy in 1999 and completed basic and information technology training in Great Lakes, Illinois, before reporting to his first duty station aboard the USS Chancellorsville in Yokosuka, Japan. After his three-year tour ended, he spent eight years in San Diego at various duty stations until joining the Naval Special Warfare community at Mobile Communications Team One. He deployed to Ramadi, Iraq, in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. His final duty station was in Stuttgart, Germany, with Naval Special Warfare Group Two. His primary role was providing satellite and radio communications support to SEAL and Special Boat Teams operating in the European theater.
After leaving the Navy in 2015, Rios attended Del Mar Community College in Corpus Christi, Texas, before transferring to Austin Community College in Austin, Texas. Rios transferred to Texas A&M University to complete his undergraduate degree in geographic information science technology. While at A&M, Rios was a member of Delta Company, a combat veteran outfit in A&M's Corps of Cadets. He was also a member of the Ross Volunteers, a group that serves as the Texas governor's honor guard. In his senior year, he served as the deputy corps commander, leading and mentoring nearly 2,300 cadets.
"I benefited greatly from veteran resource centers during my academic journey," Rios said. "My hope is to grow the Military Affiliated Resource Center into a one-stop shop for military-affiliated students to get the same level of support that I experienced, from application to vocation. I want Kansas State University to be the destination for military-affiliated students seeking higher education in Kansas. We've got work to do."
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At least 28 people have been killed and 240 injured during demonstrations against the government. Amnesty International says the real death toll is 37.
On Friday, the tenth day of the revolt, police fired tear gas and stun grenades on hundreds of protesters in several cities. These included the capital Khartoum and its twin city Omdurman, Port Sudan, Atbara and Madani.
The protests initially broke out on 19 December as people rallied against the government tripling the price of a loaf of bread from one Sudanese pound to three.
In the city of Atbara, protesters set fire to the ruling National Congress Party's offices. Atbara was once the centre of the rail network and the home of a militant rail trade union that was broken by military rule in the 1980s.
In a joint statement, several groups involved in the protests said nine opposition leaders had been arrested. The individuals reportedly include Siddiq Youssef, a senior leader of Sudan's Communist Party, and leaders from the pan-Arab Ba'ath and Nasserist parties.
The protests rapidly spread across many of Sudan's major towns and cities, including areas that are supposedly strongholds of the regime. They slogans generalised from bread prices to opposition to years of economic hardship and the denial of democracy.
Young people are prominent in the protests, with reports that the average age of those involved is 20.
But there are plenty of reasons for Sudan's 40 million people to revolt. Over the past year, the cost of many goods has more than doubled, while the Sudanese pound has plunged in value.
Bashir has posed as a defender of Islam. But when he went to a marriage ceremony in a mosque in Khartoum he was booed by crowds outside the room chanting, "Leave Bashir" after Friday prayers.
In January 2018 Sudan was shaken by nationwide protests, again triggered by high bread prices. But the present ones look bigger and have been more sustained.
On Thursday of last week the Sudanese Journalists Network announced that its members were starting a three-day strike in solidarity with the protesters and in opposition to the government's crackdown.
The Association of Sudanese Professionals, which includes doctors, held a successful strike on 25 December. It has called for more protests on 31 December, the eve of the country's 63rd anniversary of independence.
The US and its allies imposed harsh sanctions on Sudan in the 1990s. In 1998 US President Bill Clinton announced that Sudan was helping terrorists and launched a wave of Cruise missiles, destroying the country's only pharmaceutical plant.
It produced 50 percent of the country's medicines and veterinary vaccines. The destruction of the al-Shifa plant condemned many thousands of people to death.
But in 2017 Donald Trump lifted the sanctions, a reward for Sudan's sending around 1,000 ground troops to fight with the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen. Saudi Arabia also promised cash for Sudan after Bashir broke relations with Iran.
The European Union has also donated millions of euros to the Sudanese government for its help in stopping the flow to Europe of migrants from Sudan and those from Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, and other countries in sub-Saharan Africa who come through Sudan.
The region's dictators, including in Egypt and Qatar, have expressed support for Bashir, fearing the spread of revolt.
It would be a great start to 2019 to see the fall of the Sudanese regime.
Demonstrations have erupted in Tunisia after a journalist set himself on fire in protest at the lack of real change after the revolution of 2010-11.
Journalist Abderrazak Zorgui burned himself alive in the Tunisian city of Kasserine on Monday of last week.
Thousands protested in the city following Zorgui's funeral, spreading quickly to other areas in the following days.
Cops used tear gas in an effort to repress the protests. The new protests follow another wave of demonstrations against poverty in early 2018. And teachers struck over across Tunisia over low pay last month.
Now the journalists' union in Tunisia has called for a general strike on 14 January to mark the anniversary of the 2011 revolution that toppled the dictator Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali.


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SF WEEKLY -- D'Arcy Drollinger has legs up to ya-ya, as anyone who's seen her original musical, "Shit and Champagne," knows. She also has a keen business sense, as one of the four principals behind the year-and-a-half-old SoMa drag club Oasis, which has become a major player in S.F. nightlife in spite of a rather inauspicious start. "The architect was saying, 'No way, not going to happen for at least another month,'" Drollinger told me last year, when I profiled the club for SF Weekly. "And we'd sold out for New Year's! It was that moment when we had to go to friends in higher places for help." "I was a theatre major at SF State. I've worked On and Off Broadway. I've also written 10 original shows."


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MAD-HR > Blog > Business > Chancellor's Recovery Measures Announced
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Chancellor's Recovery Measures Announced
Chancellor's Summer Statement
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has presented his "summer economic statement" and announced that it will be supporting the UK's economic recovery, the measures include:
introducing a new Job Retention Bonus to encourage firms to keep on furloughed workers
supporting jobs with direct help to find work and to gain the skills people need to get a job
protecting jobs in the hard-hit hospitality and accommodation sectors and at attractions by supporting demand for these businesses, giving them confidence to reopen
creating jobs with action to get the property market moving, to increase and bring forward infrastructure investment, and to make homes greener, warmer and cheaper to heat.
He pledged that in his measures that, "No one will be left without hope." He then went onto remind everyone of "the Government's 'extraordinary' economic support measures have been among the largest in the world" but acknowledged that there were still "profound" challenges to be faced by the country which would include "significant" job losses.
He added that he will "not accept unemployment as an inevitable outcome to a 25% decline in national income in two months".
So here is a little more of the detail:
Supporting Jobs
Job Retention Bonus Scheme
The Government has introduced a one-off payment of £1,000 to UK employers for every furloughed employee who remains continuously employed through to the end of January 2021. Employees must earn above the Lower Earnings Limit (£520 per month) on average between the end of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and the end of January 2021. Payments will be made from February 2021. Further detail about the scheme will be announced by the end of July.
As unemployment can have long-term impacts on individuals and families, with young people particularly vulnerable due to their lack of experience in work. To address these challenges the Government has a large-scale, ambitious plan to:
support people in finding jobs
enable them to gain the skills they need to get jobs
provide targeted help for young people to get into work.
This has been established to support the direct creation of high-quality jobs for young people at the highest risk of long-term unemployment. It will give young people the chance to build their confidence and skills in the workplace, and to gain experience that will improve their chances of going on to find long-term, sustainable work. This will sit alongside a guaranteed foundation of support through an expanded Youth Offer delivered through DWP, providing a range of targeted support to help young people find lasting work.
A £2 billion fund to create hundreds of thousands of high quality 6-month work placements aimed at those aged 16-24 who are on Universal Credit and are deemed to be at risk of long-term unemployment. Funding available for each job will cover 100% of the relevant National Minimum Wage for 25 hours a week, plus the associated employer National Insurance contributions and employer minimum automatic enrolment contributions.
New funding for National Careers Service
The Government will provide an additional £32 million funding over the next 2 years for the National Careers Service so that 269,000 more people in England can receive personalised advice on training and work.
High quality traineeships for young people
The Government will provide an additional £111 million this year for traineeships in England, to fund high quality work placements and training for 16-24 year olds. This funding is enough to triple participation in traineeships. For the first time ever, the Government will fund employers who provide trainees with work experience, at a rate of £1,000 per trainee. The Government will improve provision and expand eligibility for traineeships to those with Level 3 qualifications and below, to ensure that more young people have access to high quality training.
Payments for employers who hire new apprentices
The Government will introduce a new payment of £2,000 to employers in England for each new apprentice they hire aged under 25, and a £1,500 payment for each new apprentice they hire aged 25 and over, from 1st August 2020 to 31st January 2021.
These payments will be in addition to the existing £1,000 payment the Government already provides for new 16-18 year-old apprentices, and those aged under 25 with an Education, Health and Care Plan – where that applies.
High value courses for school and college leavers
The Government will provide £101 million for the 2020-21 academic year to give all 18-19 year olds in England the opportunity to study targeted high value Level 2 and 3 courses when there are not employment opportunities available to them.
Expanded Youth Offer
The Government will expand and increase the intensive support offered by DWP in Great Britain to young jobseekers, to include all those aged 18-24 in the Intensive Work Search group in Universal Credit.
Enhanced work search support
The Government will provide £895 million to enhance work search support by doubling the number of work coaches in Jobcentre Plus before the end of the financial year across Great Britain.
Expansion of the Work and Health Programme
The Government will provide up to £95 million this year to expand the scope of the Work and Health Programme in Great Britain to introduce additional voluntary support in the autumn for those on benefits that have been unemployed for more than 3 months. This expansion will have no impact on the existing provision for those with illnesses or disabilities in England and Wales.
Job finding support service
The Government will provide £40 million to fund private sector capacity to introduce a job finding support service in Great Britain in the autumn. This online, one-to-one service will help those who have been unemployed for less than three months increase their chances of finding employment.
Flexible Support Fund
The Government will increase the funding for the Flexible Support Fund by £150 million in Great Britain, including to increase the capacity of the Job Centre's Rapid Response Service. It will also provide local support to claimants by removing barriers to work such as travel expenses for attending interviews.
New funding for sector-based work academies
The Government will provide an additional £17 million this year to triple the number of sector-based work academy placements in England in order to provide vocational training and guaranteed interviews for more people, helping them gain the skills needed for the jobs available in their local area.
Protecting Jobs
The hospitality sector plays a vital role in UK life. These sectors are amongst the highest employing sectors across the UK, with over 2.4 million workers in hospitality, accommodation, and attractions, equivalent to 8% of the entire UK workforce. They have also been among the hardest hit by the pandemic and necessary restrictions.
Hospitality and tourism also play a vital role in local economies across the UK, in particular for Scotland, Wales and several regions of England. From Cornwall and Devon to Snowdonia and the Causeway Coast, from Cumbria and the Norfolk Broads to the Highlands and Islands, local communities and economies depend on visitors and these industries to support hardworking business owners and staff.
Although many hospitality, accommodation and attractions businesses have received significant Government support through the job retention scheme, business rates holidays and lending guarantees, the nature of their businesses means that the lockdown has taken a heavy toll and many firms still face great challenges.
As restrictions begin to be eased to make it possible for more businesses up and down the country to re-open, business owners have worked hard to implement the guidelines, taking appropriate precautions to protect their staff and customers. If businesses and customers follow the guidelines, this will allow people to start to return to normality in a safe way.
To support around 130,000 businesses and help protect the jobs of their 1.8 million employees, the Government will introduce the Eat Out to Help Out scheme to encourage people to return to eating out. This will entitle every diner to a 50% discount of up to £10 per head on their meal, at any participating restaurant, café, pub or other eligible food service establishment. The discount can be used unlimited times and will be valid Monday to Wednesday on any eat-in meal (including on non-alcoholic drinks) for the entire month of August 2020 across the UK. Participating establishments will be fully reimbursed for the 50% discount.
Temporary VAT cut for food and non-alcoholic drinks
From 15 July 2020 to 12 January 2021, to support businesses and jobs in the hospitality sector, the reduced (5%) rate of VAT will apply to supplies of food and non-alcoholic drinks from restaurants, pubs, bars, cafés and similar premises across the UK. Further guidance on the scope of this relief will be published by HMRC in the coming days.
Temporary VAT cut for accommodation and attractions
From 15 July 2020 to 12 January 2021, to support businesses and jobs, the reduced (5%) rate of VAT will apply to supplies of accommodation and admission to attractions across the UK. Further guidance on the scope of this relief will be published by HMRC in the coming days.
Creating Jobs
The housing market has been severely affected by the pandemic, with activity and construction both slowing sharply. Estimates suggest that UK residential transactions in May 2020 were nearly 50% lower than in May 2019. According to Nationwide, UK house prices fell in the year to June 2020 for the first time in almost 8 years.The outlook for the housing market is closely linked to consumer confidence and therefore central to the economic recovery. Since the market reopened and construction restarted in May, activity has begun to increase.
Temporary Cut to Stamp Duty Land Tax
It is crucial to ensure medium-term confidence in the property market and maintain the growing momentum since the easing of lockdown. To do this, the Government will temporarily cut Stamp Duty Land Tax for home buyers across England and Northern Ireland from £125,000 to £500,000. This will apply from 8 July 2020 until 31 March 2021. Nearly nine out of ten people getting on or moving up the property ladder will pay no SDLT at all.
In England and Wales, an estimated 240,000 people are directly employed by housebuilders and their contractors, and between 500,000 and 700,000 employees are indirectly supported in the supply chain. Moving to a new home also boosts the economy, with estimates suggesting that doing so drives additional spending worth about 5% of the house value.
The government will take further action to improve the energy efficiency of existing homes in order to meet the UK's climate change ambitions. Heating buildings accounts for around a fifth of greenhouse gas emissions in the UK. Due to the age and design of many buildings, the UK's housing stock is among the least energy efficient in Europe.
Green Homes Grant
The government will introduce a £2 billion Green Homes Grant, providing at least £2 for every £1 homeowners and landlords spend to make their homes more energy efficient, up to £5,000 per household. For those on the lowest incomes, the scheme will fully fund energy efficiency measures of up to £10,000 per household. In total this could support over 100,000 green jobs and help strengthen a supply chain that will be vital for meeting our target of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. The scheme aims to upgrade over 600,000 homes across England, saving households hundreds of pounds per year on their energy bills.
The UK construction sector is vital for the recovery of the UK economy. The sector accounts for 7.6% of GDP and employs over 2.3 million workers spread across every UK region, including over 900,000 self-employed workers.
As part of the government's plans to boost productivity through infrastructure, the government will now focus on how we can build better, greener and faster. A new taskforce to oversee this work has been created ('Project Speed').
Construction Talent Retention Scheme
The government is funding a Construction Talent Retention Scheme to support the redeployment of workers at risk of redundancy. This will help retain construction skills and match talented workers to opportunities across the UK.
Office for Talent
The government will create a new Office for Talent based in No.10, with delivery teams across government departments. The Office will focus on attracting, retaining and developing top research and science talent across the UK and internationally.
Direct Air Capture
The government will provide £100 million of new funding for researching and developing Direct Air Capture, a new clean technology which captures CO2 from the air.
Automotive Transformation Fund
Building on the announcement last year of up to £1 billion of additional funding to develop and embed the next generation of cutting-edge automotive technologies, as part of the Chancellor's recovery measures, the government is making £10 million of funding available immediately for the first wave of innovative R&D projects to scale up manufacturing of the latest technology in batteries, motors, electronics and fuel cells. The government is also calling upon industry to put forward investment proposals for the UK's first 'gigafactory' and supporting supply chains to mass manufacture cutting-edge batteries for the next generation of electric vehicles, as well as for other strategic electric vehicle technologies.
Courts sustainability
The Government will invest £40 million to improve the environmental sustainability of the courts and tribunals estate in England and Wales, investing in initiatives to reduce energy and water usage.
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At the "I Have A Dream" Foundation, we provide individualized social, emotional, and academic support to young people from under-resourced communities from 1st grade all the way through college, along with guaranteed tuition support. We believe that when given equal access to the resources they need to succeed, all children can ignite their innate potential and achieve their dreams.
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Why is it important to scan the router ports? We tell you
The ports of our router they are an important part of everything that has to do with our own Internet connection and how certain programs interact with it. But first we must know what they are exactly, what they are for and how we can interact with them.
We must understand what we are talking about in order to explain how to scan them and how we can work with the ports of our router, something that can make a good difference in certain situations.
What are router ports?
We know that the router is the device in charge of sending our entire home the data from our Internet connection so that computers, smartphones and other devices with connection capacity can be integrated into said network.
We can be connected to the router by cable, but the most normal thing is that we do it through the WiFi connection. The moment you connect to a web page, for example, from our router and the device we are using, a continuous data exchange. In order to send this data the router uses a series of channels, which we call ports.
All the routers have a total of 65,536 ports, having three differentiated groups:
Those that go from or to 1023: those that are used for the operating system and for important protocols such as FTP or HHTP.
Those between 1024 and 49151: These are usually dedicated to programs or games that we have installed.
From 49152 to 65535: They are dedicated to those programs that need to register on a server, such as those dedicated to download programs.
Types of ports
There are two types, TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) Y UDP (User Datagram Protocol). Surely the first is the one that you have heard the most, since it is the one that is dedicated to handling end-to-end connections, being ideal for the IP protocol. UDP are those that are used mainly for voice or streaming services, since they are much faster than TCP. Another difference between them is that the TCP protocol header is 20 bytes, while the UCP is made up of 8 bytes.
Why is it important to scan them?
The main reason for scan the ports of our router it is to know which of them are open and which are closed. When we have an operator router and we scan, we realize that the vast majority of them are blocked to try to protect the user. It is true that we must be very attentive in this regard, since some can be used in a bad way and use them to enter our network, but it is also true that there are some that must be open for the proper functioning of many programs, games and even systems such as streaming.
How to scan
In order to scan the ports of our computer there is no better way than to use some third-party applications that are prepared for this purpose and that will show us all the information we need in this regard in a clear and concise way.
Scan with TCPing
This is a tool that runs through a console, very similar to Windows ping, but using the TCP protocol. It is able to show us in an extremely reliable way whether a port is open or closed.
To use TCPing, the first thing we have to do is download it from your official Web. Once we have downloaded it, we must follow these steps to be able to work with it:
We open the Command Prompt in Administrator, typing cmd in the taskbar for when it appears at the top of the window, right-click and choose Execute as an administrator.
We go to path where we have saved the program and we put the executable file (tcping.exe) to open the software and get it running.
We will see how the TCPing help menu comes out first directly on the screen, where we can see all the parameters that we have at our disposal. The ones that are not most interesting are:
-4: IPv4 protocol.
-t: ping the TCPs until we cancel ourselves by hitting Control-C.
port: With this command we can scan the port we want. If we do not put any, it scans the 80 by default.
-n NUM: performs a specified number of pings to a host. Replace NUM by the number of times you want.
destination: IP or domain of the host that we want to scan.
Scan with Zenmap (Nmap Graph)
Nmap is a free and open source tool that allows us to scan all types of ports, networks and hosts, both in Windows and Linux and also in macOS. It also works by commands like the previous example, but it is true that it has a version called Zenmap in which we can enjoy a graphical interface and thus it will be easier for us to handle.
Once we have it downloaded and installed, we only have to run it to start using it. It is very easy to put it to scan, since we only have to put our IP address in section Objective and start with the scan, choosing which type we want is the one we want to perform.
At the top of the program we have a few tabs that give us additional information, but the one that interests us is the one that says Ports / Servers where we will see all those that are open and filtered at this time. We must be clear that depending on the type of scan we have chosen, that is how they will appear more or less in this section.
Open ports
It may be that a application cannot connect to the internet correctly if we do not open a specific port, so there we have a powerful reason to make them stop being blocked.
But it is also true that ports should not be open forever, unless we work with them continuously, in which case they are fine as they are. But if you are going to open a port and it turns out that you will not use it again for days, it is best to close it the moment you stop working with it, since it could be a place where some type of attacker enters and later Let's put our hands to our heads
How to open them
To open them we must be clear that each router has a different interface, so the menus will not be in the same place, but they should be more or less called in a similar way and as an orientation it could serve us. we are going to do it on a Jazztel router.
The first thing we have to do is type the address in the browser http://192.168.1.1 and press Enter. This is the address that almost all routers go in.
Then he will ask us user and password. In many cases it is admin for both cases or it may also be that the username is the operator's name, while the password is admin. If we do not know, we must contact the company that provides us with the Internet.
Now the router menu opens and we must go to Advanced configuration and then to Network settings.
In the center we select NAT / PAP and then in application / service we choose which one we are going to use.
Now we choose the internal port, then the external port and then the protocol TCP or UDP and even both.
Now we simply give in Add and that port is already open.
How do we know which port to open?
The best way to know which port we can open and which one not, is to know the main TCP and UDP and what they are used for, unless a specific program or game asks us to leave a specific one open.
TCP port
Port 21: used for connections to FTP servers.
Port 22– Usually used for secure SSH and SFTP connections,
Port 25– Used by the SMTP protocol to send emails.
Port 53: is used by the DNS service.
Port 80: port used for web browsing in a non-secure HTTP way.
Port 110: POP3 email protocol.
Port 143: IMAP email protocol.
Port 443: used by the HTTPS browsing protocol.
Port 990: if we use FTPS.
Port 993: used by the IMAP SSL protocol.
Port 995: POP3 SSL protocol.
Port 3074: Microsoft Xbox Live online video game service.
Port 4662 TCP and 4672 UDP: those used for the mythical eMule program.
Ports 6881 and 6969: for torrent programs.
Port 25565: Port used by Minecraft.
UDP ports
Port 23– Used by Apple for its Facetime service.
Port 53: DNS services
Port 514– Used by Syslog (operating system).
Port 1701: L2TP VPN protocol.
Port 4500– IPsec VPN protocol.
Port 51871– Used by the Wireguard VPN protocol.
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LA Parents Sue State Over Remote Learning Inequities
The plaintiffs contend that the state is not providing the equipment, training and support needed for low-income families, leaving it up to districts and teachers to find solutions.
By City News Service	• Published December 1, 2020 • Updated on December 1, 2020 at 8:49 am
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The parents of a second-grader at a Los Angeles Unified School District magnet school are among seven families suing the state of California for allegedly failing to meets its constitutional obligation to ensure "basic educational equality'' during the ongoing period of remote learning stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic, according to court papers obtained Tuesday.
"These families and organizations are coming forward to hold the state accountable for educating children in their communities,'' said Jesselyn Friley, staff attorney at Los Angeles pro-bono law firm Public Counsel. "The education children were offered before the pandemic did not meet the standards set by California's constitution, and what they've received since March 2020 is education in name only.''
A message seeking comment from the California Board of Education was not immediately answered.
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The plaintiffs contend that the state is not providing the equipment, training and support needed for low-income families, leaving it up to districts and teachers to find solutions. At the same time, families of students without a computer or reliable internet access are getting further behind in their studies, according to the lawsuit, filed Monday in Superior Court in Oakland.
Plaintiff Bella R., a second-grade student who attends an LAUSD magnet school, has not had regular instruction since March, and lacks a reliable internet connection, the suit states.
As a result, the lawsuit says, the girl started the 2020 academic year behind in her studies. The individualized education program she was consideration for in the 2019-20 school year was never initiated because of remote learning and, consequently, she fell even further behind, the plaintiffs say.
According to the lawsuit, the girl wasn't offered any kind of individualized support at school until November, at which point her mother and an outside organization worked with her to supplement her school instruction.
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"Education is a critical avenue for students like Bella to reach their full potential and ultimately, provide economic stability for their families and communities,'' Public Counsel said in a news release. "The toll of remote education on countless students like Bella is incalculable.''
As the state entered safer at home orders in March, students across California were sent home and began a period of remote education, which continues now, almost nine months later. The lawsuit -- filed by Public Counsel on behalf of seven families of students, and community organizations -- alleges that various challenges starting with lack of digital connectivity and access to devices, ineffective remote instruction and a lack of academic or mental health support has exacerbated an inequitable learning environment.
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The complaint contends that a lack of support for students is met by a similar lack of support for teachers and parents, who are taking on an unprecedented level of work without the support they need to be secondary educators to their children.
"The impact of the pandemic on California's most vulnerable students has been to deny them in far too many instances even the semblance of an education, dramatically widening an already indefensible opportunity gap with their more privileged counterparts,'' said Mark Rosenbaum, director of Public Counsel's Opportunity Under Law Project. "Remote learning may not be preventable but the remoteness of California officials to the desperate educational needs of its children is."
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Video Survey Scam - "Rapper Lil Wayne Tells BBC That He Is GAY & HAPPY"
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The Facebook post: "Rapper Lil Wayne tells BBC That He Is GAY & HAPPY!" is a scam, created to trick Facebook users into completing surveys, "liking" or sharing a fake Facebook website. The post promises Facebook users a BBC video interview of Lil Wayne admitting he is gay and happy, but there is NO video.
The Video Survey Scam:Rapper Lil Wayne tells BBC That He Is GAY & HAPPY!
Rapper Lil Wayne tells BBC That He Is GAY & HAPPY!
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Clicking on this Facebook post (DO NOT) will only take you to the fake Facebook web site: lil.trickip.net.
Now, clicking the image, which appears as a video, on the fake web page will ask you to share.
Clicking this fake shared "Restricted Video" dialog box will only ask you to like, share the same page or complete surveys in order to verify your age.
It is this fake Facebook web page that the scammers want you to "like" or share, which will make it popular. Once the page is popular, these scammers can sell it to online marketers or other scammers. They will also make money from the surveys that are completed by gullible Facebook users who were tricked into completing them.
Now, if you have shared and "liked" this fake Facebook post, please remove all shared Facebook posts and "unlike" it.
If you are asked to share, "like", complete surveys in order to view a video, picture or other content, is the first sign that you are being tricked or scammed. You do not need to do any of these things in order to view any content on Facebook and the rest of the internet.
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He broke his left wrist in 2016 (missed 48 games) and fractured his right hip last season (missed 61 games).
"For this to happen, third consecutive year, another freak type of injury, it's hard to put into words", Kiermaier said. Some combination of Johnny Field, Carlos Gomez, and Mallex Smith will cover center field between now and July, in all likelihood.
Right-handed pitcher Chih-Wei Hu was recalled from Triple-A Durham to fill Kiermaier's roster spot.
"I don't want to get too far ahead of it, but he's going to be out", Rays manager Kevin Cash told the Associated Press after the game. Tampa Bay may be without Ryan Callahan and Dan Girardi, who left Game 2 with injuries, and may face a new goaltender for the Devils, Rick Stroud says in today's podcast. "We are all exhausted of KK getting hurt and there's nothing he can do about". It was a typical KK play.
The Rays placed the defensive whiz on the 10-day disabled list Monday, a day after he was injured sliding headfirst into second base during a 10-4 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies. The guy bobbles the ball. "There's a chance he's going to miss a chunk".
Rookie Johnny Field, who made his Major League Baseball debut on Saturday stepped in for Kiermaier on Sunday. Another option would be to call up prospect Jake Bauers, though he is primarily a first baseman and has not gotten off to a good start.
Clarke called for the creation of a cross-party commission to deliberate on the role of lawmakers in authorizing military action. A summary of the advice given by attorney-general Jeremy Wright to the Prime Minister was released by Downing Street.
Anderson was also a successful stand-up and magician, who often appeared on Saturday Night Live and other late-night locales. Following his stint on Night Court , he played the lead role of Dave Barry in " Dave's World " from 1993 to 97.
English referee Oliver meanwhile has been offered police support after he and his family were abused by social media trolls. Although Buffon has now had time to reflect on the incident, he has no intention of apologising.
Perhaps Linden's experience with inclement weather in MI helped give her a leg up with the rain, wind and cold in Boston Monday. USA athletes fared equally well in the men's race, notes the Washington Post .