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Line Roy resigns from Yelm Chamber and City Council,
Mayor DePinto appoints her to city communications post!
Line Roy
Credit: City of Yelm
Line Roy appointed as Yelm's Communications and Recreational Coordinator
Editor's note: Line Roy was appointed to Yelm City Council's Position 6 seat last January, filling the seat vacated by Joe DePinto, elected as Mayor of Yelm in November 2021.
That seat is now vacated and to be filled.
I reached out to both Mayor DePinto and Line Roy about the changes.
Congratulations to both the City of Yelm and Ms. Roy on her new assignment serving our town!
From Mayor Joe DePinto:
"A few weeks ago our recently hired Communications and Recreational Coordinator Desiree Atkins was recruited by a larger city and accepted a great employment offer from them. She did a wonderful job for Yelm and I am happy for her new opportunity.
"Due to the short time period (about 5 months) I made the decision to hire from the applicants who previously applied. Line Roy was on that list and was a finalist who interviewed very well. I reached out to see if she was still interested in the position, she was and her first day will be at the start of October.
"Line brings a wealth of experience from the Chamber that includes a strong familiarity with local businesses. Not to mention all the local events she coordinated or her strong social media presence, managing multiple Yelm focused social media pages. I believe she will do amazing things with the position and I'm excited to work with her.
"She announced at the last city council meeting that the September 27th meeting will be her last day as a councilperson. The city council will determine an appointment process at our next meeting, but I would imagine and hope that it will be the same as the one they utilized earlier this year."
From Line Roy:
"I'm very grateful for the time I got to serve the citizens of Yelm as a city council member. I certainly never anticipated my time there to be so short but sometimes opportunities present themselves at inopportune times, and we have to decide if we're going to ignore them or take the leap. I decided to leap. I learned a lot about the government process while I was on council, a lot of things that I'll get to take with me to my new position, and a lot about myself. I'm so excited to get to grow in the Communications and Recreation Coordinator position and still serve this community that I love so very much.
"I'm really proud of what I did at the Yelm Chamber. I can look at some of the big projects I got to work on over the past six years and know that my work made a difference. We started the Business Economic Recovery Taskforce, and were able to distribute nearly $30,000 in funds to local businesses. We improved our communications, our partnerships with county, regional, and state organizations, and brought in an amazing Yelm event with the Nisqually Valley BBQ Rally. We grew our membership, and weathered a pandemic, moving seamlessly into virtual programming while advocating for businesses.
"I believe I served our business community well. I will always be a proponent for loving local…shopping local, dining local, supporting local. I am confident that the Chamber board will find the right replacement and our Chamber will continue to serve its members and our community."


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Back To The Starting Line On Regulating For-Profit Colleges
Betsy DeVos has put the brakes on two Obama-era regulations aimed at protecting student borrowers. Beginning with two public hearings this week, one in Washington, D.C., on Monday and a second today in Dallas, the Education Department is asking stakeholders to go back to the starting line.
On Monday, speaker after speaker in favor of the rules expressed weariness at the reopening of a "negotiated rulemaking" process that took several years and much legal wrangling.
"I can't believe we're here again," Alexis Goldstein of Americans for Financial Reform, a consumer rights advocacy group, at the first public comment hearing this week. A second hearing will take place today from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. ET in Dallas.
Monday's all-day hearing marked the beginning of a "regulatory reset" announced by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos last month on two rules designed to protect borrowers from predatory for-profit colleges:
The "gainful employment" rule sanctions individual programs at colleges and universities based on how many students are able to pay back their loans.
The "borrower defense to repayment" rule smooths the way for students to get their loans forgiven if their college is found to engage in fraudulent behavior, a situation that has befallen tens of thousands of students at Corinthian Colleges and ITT Technical Institute, among others, in the last few years.
Among those who testified Monday was Kevin Thompson, a 20-year veteran of the Navy who found himself homeless, along with his family, while enrolled in ITT Tech. He testified that, after the college was shut down, he was left with no degree, exhausted GI benefits, loans that need to be repaid and credits that could not be accepted elsewhere.
"Gainful employment is meant to prevent future predatory behavior; borrower defense is meant to help those hurt," Barmak Nassirian of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, said at the hearing. Nassirian was one of the original negotiators involved in drafting the gainful employment rule.
"Repealing the gainful employment regulation will cost us, the American people, $1.3 billion over 10 years," he said.
"Why does the Department of Education want to do away with a rule that protects students' and taxpayers' investments in higher education?" asked Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers.
Speaking against the rules were representatives of for-profit, private and community colleges.
The American Association of Cosmetology Schools has sued the Education Department over gainful employment, arguing that their graduates are paid in tips and, therefore, official income data doesn't reflect the true value of the program.
Meanwhile, David Baime, with the American Association of Community Colleges, argued that the cost of compliance with gainful employment has been burdensome for many public two-year institutions.
"For our campuses, the burden of implementing GE has been huge – causing tremendous confusion and complexity and cost," he said. His group advocates that similar information be collected on all colleges, not just "career"-type programs.
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Catalyst Capital acquires stake in Hudson's Bay from Ontario Teachers', plans to oppose buyout offer
Andrew Willis
Published June 24, 2019 Updated June 25, 2019
Fund manager Catalyst Capital Group Inc. acquired a minority stake in Hudson's Bay Co. last week, and plans to oppose a $1-billion buyout offer for the retailer led by the company's executive chairman, Richard Baker.
Catalyst, a Toronto-based fund controlled by financier Newton Glassman, snapped up a portion of a 10-per-cent stake in HBC from the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Thursday, according to a Catalyst spokesperson. Catalyst is known for diving into distressed investments, and frequently uses litigation as part of its business strategy.
The spokesperson said Catalyst will argue that the current $9.45-a-share offer for HBC from Mr. Baker and his partners undervalues the company's real estate and the potential for a turnaround at its department stores, which include its namesake chain, Lord & Taylor and Saks Fifth Avenue. The fund will make its pitch to a committee of HBC's independent directors, who are currently assessing the buyout offer. Catalyst's thesis is that HBC, which was founded in 1670, can use technology more effectively to win a larger share of the online shopping market.
The fund controls publicly traded distressed-lender Callidus Capital Corp., which it took public five years ago at $14 a share and now trades at 46 cents. However, Catalyst partner Gabriel de Alba, who is responsible for the HBC investment, successfully oversaw the restructuring of European real estate company Geneba Properties NV, which owned warehouses and light industrial buildings in Germany and the Netherlands. Catalyst invested $101-million in Geneba in 2012 and made a 19.5-per-cent annualized return when it sold the company in 2017.
Mr. Baker's group declined to comment, and an HBC spokeswoman said officials weren't available to comment Monday on Catalyst's investment. Mr. de Alba was not available for comment.
Catalyst joins a growing list of institutional investors and analysts opposed to selling HBC at the price Mr. Baker is offering. Last week, Stamford, Conn.-based Land & Buildings Investment Management LLC slammed Mr. Baker's bid as "woefully inadequate." Land & Buildings is asking the company to explore all "strategic alternatives," including a sale. Jonathan Litt, founder of Land & Buildings, said in a letter to HBC's special committee that the offer should be raised to $18 a share.
Toronto-based HBC announced financial results after Mr. Baker tabled his offer in early June, and reported 2.4 per cent growth in sales at Saks and a $275-million quarterly profit, due in part to a $817-million gain on the sale of Lord & Taylor's New York flagship building.
CIBC World Markets Inc. analyst Mark Petrie reviewed the chain's performance and said in a report that HBC owns iconic properties and "with an improving retail business under competent leadership, we believe this is not adequately reflected in the $9.45 offer." He said: "In our opinion, a range of $10.25-$11.25/share would more appropriately reflect today's value."
To take HBC private, Mr. Baker's group needs approval from a majority of the company's minority shareholders. Mr. Baker is working with Rhone Capital LLC, WeWork Property Advisors, Hanover Investments (Luxembourg) SA and Abrams Capital Management LP, and the group collectively owns 57 per cent of HBC.
HBC shares closed Monday at $9.81 on the Toronto Stock Exchange, up 8 cents. The stock has consistently traded above Mr. Baker's offer since shortly after the bid was announced, a sign for some investors that the buyout offer will be sweetened. Mr. Baker gained control of HBC in 2008 when the company was private, then took it public in 2012 by selling shares for $17 each.
Back in January, the Ontario Teachers' fund agreed to sell an 18-million-share stake in HBC to Mr. Baker's group for $9.45 a share. The transaction failed to close as scheduled this month and the pension plan subsequently sold its position into the public markets in trades done last Thursday by TD Securities Inc.
Editor's note: An earlier version of this story said Catalyst Capital chief executive Newton Glassman is on medical leave from Catalyst; in fact, he is on medical leave from Callidus.
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OOTD - In Defence of Dressing Up | La Petite Noob | A Toronto-Based Fashion and Lifestyle Blog.
Omgosh, Joëlle! You look absolutely stunning in this dress! The colour, cut and shape is literal perfection on you. Gorg!
I live in a casual city, but I love dressing up. I just feel like I wouldn't stick out like a sore thumb when I do. That dress looks amazing on you!
I totally agree Helen! Toronto is exactly the same way. It definitely takes guts to step out all dressed up, but I'm going to make more of an effort for now on!
I love dressing up! Also, I have always lived in morei casual cities... and depending on who I'm with even a cotton maxi with a pretty pattern is 'too dressy' ...what I don't understand is why we don't dress up more... when I get compliments on how beautiful I look in the dress, I want to comment on how truly simple or even lazy putting on a dress is! Lazy in the best of ways that is, didn't have to try on tops with bottoms, maybe it even just slipped on over head and done! Joëlle you are always polished and this gown is beautiful on you. Long live the gown!
LOL I totally agree with you - that's actually why I wear more dresses than anything. So easy! Thank you so much Nyssa!
I love your attitude Hannah! I for one always admire the person who is most dressed up in a room - it shows lots of self-confidence!


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Posted on October 20, 2014 October 5, 2015 by Pat Lopes Harris Academics & Research, News
Faculty Notes: Research, Recognition and Global Impact
Assistant Professor Scott Hamilton will investigate the responses of juvenile rockfish to a marine environment that contains elevated levels of carbon dioxide and reduced levels of oxygen (image courtesy of Moss Landing Marine Laboratories).
Assistant Professor Scott Hamilton, Moss Landing Marine Labs, was awarded a multi-year $330,000 National Science Foundation grant to investigate the responses of juvenile rockfish to a marine environment that contains elevated levels of carbon dioxide and reduced levels of oxygen. How well the rockfish adapt will provide key information for fisheries and fishery managers. This research, incorporating both field and laboratory studies, builds on Hamilton's previous scientific investigations of temperate marine fishes.
School of Social Work Professor Laurie Drabble received funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to study the rates of alcohol consumption, hazardous drinking patterns and illicit drug use among sexual minority women. One of the aims of the study is to identify individual, community and societal factors that contribute—positively or negatively—to substance use, including such factors as social support and psychological distress. A member of California's Women's Health Survey Committee, Drabble also serves as an affiliate associate scientist with the Alcohol Research Group in Berkeley.
Produced and directed by Department of Linguistics and Language Development Professor Rosemary Henze, the documentary "Just a Piece of Cloth" received a Making a Difference Award at the Toronto Community Film Festival in September. The film, featuring Bay Area Muslim women, has also had screenings at UC Berkeley's Conference on Islamophobia, the Monterey Institute of International Studies and elsewhere.
Department of Sociology Lecturer and Center for Community Learning and Leadership Co-Director Michael Fallon helped organize the 2014 Silicon Valley Neighborhood Development Training Conference. The day-long, annual campus event brings together local neighborhood leaders and veteran community development practitioners to participate in workshops focused on public safety, health and neighborhood improvement. Among this year's workshop topics: "20 Tips for Growing Healthy Neighborhoods," "The Future of Transportation in Silicon Valley" and "Supporting and Working with Youth in Our Community."
School of Information Director Sandra Hirsh co-chaired the fourth annual Library 2.014 Worldwide Virtual Conference, held October 8 and 9. Conducted in multiple languages in multiple time zones over the course of two days, the free online conference provided participants with the opportunity to learn about the issues impacting the information profession from an international perspective. Presentations addressed such timely topics as MOOCs, e-books, mobile services, green libraries and more. Keynote and session recordings are available on the Library 2.0 YouTube channel.
Department of Economics Professor Jeffrey Rogers Hummel was one of a panel of experts asked by WalletHub.com, a web-based personal finance resource, to weigh in on the challenge of creating a skilled and educated workforce. The site, which published a list of the most and least educated cities among the largest cities in the United States in 2014, ranked San Jose seventh in a field of 150. Hummel's suggestion: "The most important step toward developing a more educated and skillful workforce would be to eliminate all federal involvement entirely."
Writing as T.T. Monday, Professor Taylor spins a tale about a baseball player/private investigator that "succeeds as both a mystery and a baseball novel," according to Publishers Weekly.
President Mohammad Qayoumi's appreciation of Afghanistan's new president, "Ashraf Ghani and Afghanistan's future," was posted on the U.S. Congress blog The Hill, a forum for lawmakers and policy professionals. Dr. Ashraf Ghani, Qayoumi's roommate at the American University of Beirut more than four decades ago, was inaugurated as Afghanistan's president this month. "If anyone can keep Afghanistan on a road to coherent self government and democracy, it is Ghani. From his earliest years he has had total clarity of purpose, great vision, and an incandescent passion to serve Afghanistan," Qayoumi wrote.
Department of English Associate Professor and Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies Director Nick Taylor discussed his new thriller, "The Setup Man" (Doubleday), at the Menlo Park Civic Center on Oct. 4. Writing as T.T. Monday, Taylor spins a tale about a baseball player/private investigator that "succeeds as both a mystery and a baseball novel," according to Publishers Weekly. Taylor is the author of two previous historical novels, "The Disagreement" (Simon & Schuster, 2008) and "Father Junípero's Confessor" (Heyday, 2013).
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Posted on September 12, 2014 July 31, 2015 by Pat Lopes Harris Academics & Research, News, Spartan Pride, Student Life, Trending Topics
Social Work Major Receives Top CSU Honor
A straight-A student, David Elliott plans to pursue a master's in social work so that he can work with youths who are involved with social services or the justice system (Photo: Thomas Sanders, '15 MFA Photography).
Media contact: Pat Lopes Harris, 408-924-1748
SAN JOSE, CA – In 2007, David Elliott was paroled from Folsom State Prison after a period of incarceration that resulted from a lifelong battle with drug addiction.
"Everything I owned fit into a backpack," he said.
Now a San Jose State senior majoring in social work, Elliott has received the California State University system's highest honor for students who overcome incredible odds to attend college.
As the 2014-15 Trustee Emeritus William Hauck Scholar, one of 23 CSU Trustees Awards for Outstanding Achievement, Elliott will fly to the chancellor's office in Long Beach on Sept. 9 to pick up the award and meet the other recipients.
Extraordinary Commitment
While their commitment, drive and perseverance are extraordinary, these students are like thousands more who look to the CSU each year for high-quality, accessible, affordable educational opportunities.
After leaving Folsom, Elliott became homeless and lived at a shelter in San Jose. Fearing that he would turn to drugs again, he asked his parole officer for help and was placed into a drug treatment program.
Six years later, Elliott is completely clean and sober and works for the program that helped save his life. As a chemical dependency technician, he assists people in some of their darkest times by supervising their medical detox and encouraging them to continue treatment.
He has also served for four years as a volunteer facilitation and facility coordinator of a drug and alcohol support group at a local homeless shelter for people with mental health and substance abuse problems.
"All of this work is an attempt to repay what has been given to me: a second chance," he said.
A straight-A student, Elliott plans to pursue a master's in social work so that he can work with youths who are involved with social services or the justice system.
"I have found a path leading to a career that employs me in useful service to others," Elliott said.
The late William Hauck, '63 social studies, served as deputy chief of staff to Governor Pete Wilson and chief of staff to Assembly speakers Bob Morretti and Willie L. Brown, Jr. The Hauck endowment will provide $6,000 to this year's CSU Trustees Award recipient.
San Jose State — Silicon Valley's largest institution of higher learning with 30,000 students and 3,740 employees — is part of the California State University system. SJSU's 154-acre downtown campus anchors the nation's 10th largest city.
Posted on October 20, 2013 July 31, 2015 by Pat Lopes Harris Internal Affairs, News, Student Life
Need Help With Health Insurance?
SJSU students trained as Certified California Covered Educators are organizing an on-campus effort to help everyone understand the rights, responsibilities and opportunities afforded by the Affordable Care Act (Covered California image).
Need help with the new health insurance law?
Get your questions answered in person at the on-campus Affordable Care Act Q & A Information Sessions Oct. 22-29.
"It is important to understand changes that will directly affect you," said Van Nguyen, '15 Public Health, who will assist as a Certified Covered California Educator.
Covered California is a new online marketplace offering affordable, quality health insurance open to all state residents, including SJSU students, staff members and their families.
The informational sessions will be held in Engineering 189 at 11 and 11:45 a.m. Oct. 22; 3:10 and 3:45 p.m. Oct. 23; 1:45 and 2:20 p.m. Oct. 24; and 6:30 and 7:05 p.m. Oct. 29.
This series is open to all SJSU community members and is being offered by the California State University Health Insurance Education Project.
San Jose State is one of 16 campuses coordinating the project, which provides hands-on experience to public health and social work students acting as Covered California educators on all 23 campuses.
Keri Simmons, '14 Public Health, joined the campaign to correct what she sees as a troubling misconception of attitudes toward health care.
It's not that college students think they are "young and invincible," so they do not need health insurance.
"We are responsible, but just often times broke," she said, a situation she understands as a full-time graduate student.
"The CSU Health Insurance Education Project is … an opportunity to challenge the 'young invincible' notion by decreasing the number of uninsured young adults. In doing so, we will shift the perception of my generation as 'young and invincible' to 'young and covered.'"
Informational sessions sponsors include the Department of Health Science and Recreation, School of Social Work, Accessible Education Center, College of Applied Sciences and the Arts, Student Health Center, Associated Students of SJSU, the Office of the President, CSU Health Insurance Education Project and California State Student Association.
Learn more about the Affordable Care Act at HealthCare.gov.
Posted on November 15, 2012 July 31, 2015 by Pat Lopes Harris Academics & Research, News
USAID Funds Social Work in Vietnam
USAID Mission Director Joakim Parker in Hanoi announcing plans for a three-year Social Work Education Enhancement Program coordinated by SJSU (photo courtesy of Alice Hines).
The U.S. Agency for International Development has tapped SJSU to coordinate an international consortium that will enhance social work education in Vietnam.
San Jose-based Cisco Systems Inc. will join the effort, which also includes Vietnamese universities, the Ministries of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs and Education and Training, and community stakeholders.
USAID will provide the SJSU School of Social Work a $2.5 million grant, to be matched by Cisco. The three-year Social Work Education Enhancement Program will create a 21st century model for higher education content and use of technology networks to improve teaching and leadership skills and strengthen collaboration.
The effort will also build capacity in a relatively new field for Vietnam. The team will develop and implement undergraduate social work policies and practices, develop competency-based, practical curricula, regional centers for excellence in social work education, and a leadership academy for social work faculty and administrators.
"Social work represents an integral part of our vision for social sector support and we are privileged to work with the Government of Vietnam and universities in this key area," said USAID Mission Director Joakim Parker. "The new partnership will strengthen the social work profession to deliver high quality social services in a variety of critical sectors. We applaud San Jose State University and Cisco's vision for public-private partnerships."
Read the USAID news release.
Posted on July 29, 2011 July 31, 2015 by Sarah Kyo Academics & Research
Students Gain Perspective During Vietnam Social Work Trip
Tearing through a village along the Mekong Delta with a lady of few words and her flower adorned horse, Mekong Delta, Vietnam. Social work in Vietnam is on a light speed track to success due to outside, developed-countries' influences (photo by Stan Olszewski/SOSKIphoto.com).
By Stan Olszewski
(Editor's Note: Olszewski is a biological forensic science major and photography minor who joined faculty and students on a Faculty-Led Student Abroad Program summer trip to Vietnam. Read more about the School of Social Work's partnership with Vietnam.)
Vietnam is a land of history and youth. Its history includes decades of war and struggle, fighting the French, Chinese, Americans, and themselves, facing famine and poverty. The list goes on and it's not looking good.
Yet a recent reunification and doi moi economic reform promotes an updated and sophisticated Asian nation. A land of hope and strength, power and courage, independence and unity. The Vietnamese are strong, proud, people. They have overcome every speed bump in the road thus far; they will continue to overcome speed bumps in the future. From what I have experienced, the Vietnamese will charge speed bumps at thirty kilometers an hour, horns blaring, carrying a dozen live, caged, pigs, several bags of rice, and two small children. Beep Beep!
So why were eight SJSU students studying in Vietnam this summer? Why were SJSU faculty members Dr. Huong Nguyen and Tuan Tran translating lectures by Vietnamese social workers? For the inexpensive beer of course!
The historic pains and recent changes have uncovered social issues in Vietnamese communities. Issues America dealt with fifty years ago, but Vietnam only began to address yesterday. Issues including poverty, drug abuse, elder abandonment, water purification, and unemployment.
Enter social workers. Enter San Jose State.
American social work developed early in the 19th century to repair Industrial Revolution socioeconomic issues. Less than a decade ago, Vietnam started to recognize social work as a profession. To develop Vietnam's new social work infrastructure, collaboration took place this July. SJSU students shared their thoughts regarding social issues in Vietnam. Vietnamese social workers, lecturers, and students shared their experiences and expressed their concerns. SJSU helped Vietnam understand issues from the outside in, from the perspective of a developed country, from a school with a well-established social work curriculum. Vietnam showed SJSU where work is needed and the difference one person can make. It was productive and inspiring.
Vietnam is inspiring.
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WBEZ: What's in a (neighborhood) name? Reviewed by Edgeville Buzz on November 15, 2012 .
With all the neighborhoods, wards and conflicting borders in this city, Chicagoans are often confused as to what lies where.
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Introducing Setlists For Young Voices, where on April 7 about 100 setlists will be auctioned off to benefit programs for young writers. Artists include The Who, Rush, Maxwell, Toro y Moi, The Pretenders, Aimee Mann, Bhi Bhiman, Wilco, Josh Ritter, Def Leppard, Andrew Bird, The Coup, Jim James, Death Cab for Cutie, Thao Nguyen, the Dixie Chicks, Sigur Ros, Allison Moorer and Shelby Lynne, Steely Dan, Nine Inch Nails, and more.
Proceeds will go to the Ministry of Stories, as well as The International Congress of Youth Voices, a new event created to connect extraordinary young writers from around the world.
This year's event takes place in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in early August, and will feature 140 of the world's boldest teen writers and activists.
"We're hoping to raise about $50,000," says Eggers. "That will go a long way at the Ministry of Stories, and will help fly all our International Congress delegates to Puerto Rico." Proceeds will also help Jim James, the singer-songwriter behind My Morning Jacket, start a center like 826 Valencia in his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky. The Young Authors Greenhouse has been operating for three years now, and is building a home base for its programs.
• Three setlists from Rush's 2013 Clockwork Angels tour (the band's penultimate tour) and one from the Sweden Rock Festival in 2013, the first festival Rush had played in years.
• Two from REM's 1989 tour, signed by all four original band members (!).
• Five – that's right, five – recent setlists handwritten (beautifully!) by Patti Smith (and always on unusual stationery).
• One from Toro y Moi this year at SXSW, which he typed up as a note on his iPhone and then printed out on a 8.5" x 11" sheet of paper and wrote on.
• A Pete Townshend-signed Who setlist from a 2016 show at the Palacio de los Deportes in Mexico City.
• Not to mention setlists from Film School, Matt Nathanson, Beirut, The Lumineers, and dozens more!
To see a preview of the auction go to youthwriting.org/bid. Bidding begins April 7.


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What if i want only to store date ? I Tried with Date.Now instead of Now .
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A: Now and DateTime.Now are the same thing. What you want is Today or DateTime.Today
These will give you the date and the time as-of midnight but if you don't want the time, you can format using something like this:
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As for the encryption, there are a lot of options out there as long as you pick something 128bit or better you will be fine. I assume you are storing the date for some type of timed trial? If so, anything you do can be circumvented easily so don't put too much effort into it.

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One Man's Battle is a story of struggle and redemption, told with honesty and refreshing candor. Rufus Battle's book is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand what it means to be Black and American in the 21st century.
"It was 1947 in America... This was the year a young African-American ballplayer with the Brooklyn Dodgers named Jackie Robinson won the inaugural Major League Baseball Rookie of the Year Award. It was the year Richard Nixon was sworn into the House of Representatives, The year Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier, the year Henry Ford died. 1947 was the year the Marshall Plan was launched, Miracle on 34th Street was released, and Hillary Rodham Clinton was born... So was I..." So begins Rufus Battle's compelling account of an African-American life lived, from a sharecroppers' shack near a Louisiana cotton field, to the shores of the Pacific and beyond. ONE MAN'S BATTLE is a story of struggle and redemption, told with honesty and refreshing candor. Mr. Battle's book is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand what it means to be Black and American in the 21st century.
Rufus Battle was born in a shack on the edge of a Louisiana cotton field in 1947. After a childhood in Tensas Parish few living Americans can relate to, Battle left for New Orleans, hoping for a better life. After stints in the Armed Forces, he carved out a successful high tech career, in LA, Colorado, and Silicon Valley. From an early age however, Battle struggled with deep feelings of inadequacy, the personal legacy of having grown up poor and Black in the rural Deep South during the dark days of Jim Crow. Inspired by the rock-solid religiosity of his grandmother, Battle changed his life, leaving his technology career behind to pursue religious studies with a particular focus on the role of the Black church in shaping African-American culture. Battle holds a Masters degree in theology from Pepperdine University. He lives in Vallejo, California.


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Venes, Donald, editor. "Demecarium Bromide." Taber's Medical Dictionary, 23rd ed., F.A. Davis Company, 2017. Nursing Central, nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/735728/all/demecarium_bromide.
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FILE PHOTO: Mazda's 2020 CX-30 is presented by Jeffrey Guyton, president of Mazda's North American Operations, at the LA Auto Show in Los Angeles, California, U.S., November 20, 2019. REUTERS/Andrew Cullen/File Photo
TOKYO (Reuters) - Mazda Motor Corp is considering cutting its global output by a 34,000 vehicles in February and March due to a chip shortage, two sources familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.
Last week, Mazda was considering cutting output of models that include its CX-5 and CX-30 SUVs, as well as the Mazda 3 sedan, due to a shortage in supplies of chips used for brake systems and safety components, said the sources, who declined to be identified.
The company plans to reduce its domestic output of the CX-5 by around 3,900 vehicles this month, they said. As of last week, it was considering reducing production of the SUV by about 6,000 vehicles in March, the sources said.
The semiconductor shortage, which in some cases has been exacerbated by the former U.S. administration's actions against chip factories in China, is now causing global automakers to curtail production and shut assembly lines.
Mazda is also considering an output cut in Japan, China and Mexico for the Mazda 3 and the CX-30 models, the sources told Reuters.
A Mazda spokesman confirmed the company expected to see an impact on its output in February, without elaborating on the size of any reduction.
"We are expecting a (global) impact on our output in February," a Mazda spokesman said. "We continue to do our best to minimise the impact."
He did not specify how many fewer cars will be made, adding the situation changes on a daily basis as the company continues to make adjustments with its suppliers.
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Lorsque nous sommes passés devant ce champ vers 13h30 nous étions très étonnés de voir six chevreuils. On imagine qu'ils devaient savoir que tous les chasseurs étaient autour d'une table de noël.
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The Dubbo region has been divided into five zones for the $5 million and year-long rollout of smart water meters starting on June 1.
But the timetable has not been released for the rollout. "At this stage there are a lot of variables that prevent us from assigning dates to each zone," a Dubbo Regional Council spokesman said on Thursday.
This week a letter from the council's chief executive officer Michael McMahon has been appearing in mailboxes, alerting residents to the imminent start to the replacement of its "ageing water meter infrastructure" and listing the benefits of the project.
The region, divided into zones, appears on the back of the letter with the council spokesman identifying the city of Dubbo covering zones one to four, and "Wellington and surrounds" making up zone five.
About 17,700 residential properties will get brand new smart water meters while about 2300 businesses can expect a "full replacement or have a smart device attached to the existing water meter".
Mr McMahon, who awarded the contract for the rollout to Taggle Systems, reports installers will approach front doors to "notify the occupant of the upgrade" or in their absence leave a flyer under it or in the mailbox.
The project's funding is coming from the council's "water and sewage budget".
Benefits of the new technology include early detection of leaks and access to data "to assist with strategies to manage water usage".
The smart water meters will detect dials rotating and transmit readings to a database managed by the council.
Article published in the Wellington Times
https://www.wellingtontimes.com.au/story/6757211/knock-knock-were-going-to-install-your-smart-water-meter-now/


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CHICAGO – Block Six Analytics (B6A) has agreed to a partnership with SponsorPark, the companies announced Thursday. The relationship will allow the companies to cross-promote their products and create new opportunities for sports organizations and corporate partners to use the B6A Partnership Scoreboard™ and SponsorPark technology platforms to generate more revenue.
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The girl's 4X800 meter relay team of Madi Stewart, Emily Eitzenhefer, Alayna Toedte, and Danika White shattered the school record by 27 seconds as they placed first at the prestigious Nashville Girls Invitational Track Meet. The girl's time of 10:25.8 is only three tenths off of the time needed to automatically qualify for the state meet. Other award winners included Danika White: 3rd in the 800 and 4th in the low hurdles and Alayna Toedte: 3rd in the 1600.
NHS is hosting Movie Night this Sunday in the junior high gym. Tickets are on sale in the cafeteria during lunch.


San Diego, Calif. – Sept. 28, 2015 – Robots and a modified human powered vehicle by National University and National University Academy (NUA) students will be featured at the first-ever Maker Faire San Diego Oct. 3-4 in Balboa Park. The projects were developed through a collaboration between the University's School of Engineering and Computing and high school students who are part of the Academy's special STEM-focused program.
Also on display will be mini-robots that resemble Mars exploration rovers built by high school students at NUA 1001, a unique STEM-focused program that is part of the National University Academy (NUA) public charter school. Mohammed Shafi, a junior at NUA 1001, is among the students behind the mini-robots. He and his cohorts in an NUA 1001 robotics club carefully disassembled two remote control cars and reconfigured them with re-coded circuit boards. No longer race cars, they are programmed to scoop up items in a sandbox on command. "It's taken a lot of work, but it's been a lot of fun," Mohammed said.
National University Computer Information Systems undergraduate students are also working on various Maker Faire projects, including User Experience (UX) testing environments and booth design elements. The University students are providing guidance and feedback to the high school students' projects in conjunction with Fardusa Sharif, the high school students' NUA teacher mentor, and Dr. James Jaurez, National University School of Engineering and Computing assistant professor: "The Maker Faire San Diego is giving our students an opportunity to work on hands-on projects with fellow engineers and show their passion for technology. It's been a very engaging and motivating experience," he said.
The Maker Faire San Diego is a partnership that includes the San Diego Makers Guild, the Balboa Park Cultural Partnership, and 10 park museums. Among the goals of the multi-museum event is to showcase innovation in San Diego, a perfect fit for the National University School of Engineering and Computing, which provides a combination of skills and knowledge vital to pursuing career opportunities in today's workplace through a broad spectrum of relevant, challenging, and highly technical academic programs. An estimated 10,000 spectators are expected to attend the event.


The opening Grand Slam tournament of the year, the Australian Open was founded in 1905. The tournament will take place from 14-27 January 2019. Australian Open Radio has lots of interesting programs related to its theme.


There's no reason to post this song today. On the other hand, there's no reason not to, especially on a day like today, one full of promise.
Drake, who lived sadly and died young, released better work during a career that was cut short by an overdose of anti-depressants at age 26. But this song is a small glimpse into the rare happy side of his genius, how he might've felt on a good day looking out the window of his parents' home in Warwickshire, where he retreated from the world and eventually died.
His reflective, somber side -- songs that are routinely called "autumnal" -- came easily. This song, it's safe to say, was a step of bravery by a man who was wracked by depression, insomnia and all sorts of dark thoughts that came across on record. To capture the rays of sunlight on Pink Moon, by someone prone to glasses half empty, took work.


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Grand Marshal announced for the Vero Beach Centennial Parade
Alma Lee Loy
When it came to deciding who would be the Grand Marshal of the Centennial Celebration Finale parade only one name was discussed. It was a quick decision to invite Alma Lee Loy, affectionately known to many as "the First Lady of Vero Beach" or "the Bridge Lady," to take the honored ride in the lead automobile. But no matter how you say it, Alma Lee Loy is indeed a lady, boasting a history of community service as long as the parade route she will lead beginning at 10 a.m. from the Vero Beach High School, down 14th Avenue on Saturday, October 26.
Serving as the Grand Marshal in a parade is not Alma Lee's first rodeo as she served in the same capacity for the Labor Day Parade in 1994.That, and another two dozen honors and awards, along with another fifty civic endeavors in Indian River County, is somewhat mind-boggling to anyone who reads Alma Lee's resume…but to anyone who knows her personally, it's no surprise. The mark Alma Lee has made on the progress this community has experienced is a feat few people can make in their lifetime, but it seems like it's almost been easy since she began her journey in 1955 as a business owner downtown. For 42 years, Alma Lee's (children's clothing center) was a happy place for her. Since then, Alma Lee has approached each of her many endeavors with a happy smile and a firm grasp on what needs to be accomplished, while treating every individual she meets along the way with a "hello darlin" as if they were family.
A myriad of prominent areas of Vero Beach seem to have been touched by Alma Lee's grace, wisdom and tenacity over the years. While the stand-outs are as the first female president of the Chamber of Commerce of IRC, the first female chairman of the County Commission, chairman of the Veteran's Memorial Island Sanctuary committee, gubernatorial appointment to the Indian River Hospital District and a member of the founding board of the United Way and the Education Foundation, she considers her presidency of the Indian River Land Trust that led the campaign to save and refurbish the now McKee Botanical Garden, as well as the 17th Street Bridge project that now dons her name, as some of her favorite challenges and closest to her heart.
In addition, Alma Lee was the social editor for the daily newspaper, and has served as president, board member, chairman, trustee, or advisory board member for so many organizations that are familiar to our ears including the hospital, Environmental Learning Center, Downtown Merchants Association, the Cultural Council and Museum of Art, to mention just a few. She has been, and still is, a mentor to many, and a woman to consult for opinion, direction, and information that only she has tucked up her sleeve.
As all residents of Vero Beach take pride on October 26, 2019 to celebrate the 100 years of our beautiful community, it is a time for us to look to and thank our founders and forefathers who have taken the significant measures to make Vero Beach the amazing city that we know and love today. And when we do, let us all remember that one woman by the name of Alma Lee Loy sits at the top of that list, and we are so lucky to have her with us as Grand Marshal, representing what she has achieved for the benefit of many thousands of people over the years. "Hello Darlin" and thank you for your service.
The Centennial Celebration year has been sponsored by Florida Power & Light. The official Centennial Flagship Radio Station is WTTB News Radio 105.7 FM/1490 AM. Co-chairs for the Celebration are Tammy Bursick and Tony Young. For road closures, parade route, parking opportunities, shuttle bus times, and all other information about the day, please visit www.verobeach100.org. Feel free to also download a Centennial flyer or brochure prepared by Beverly S. Paris, Official Centennial Publicist along with Adams Media Group, and pass on to your friends and neighbors. All times on event schedule are approximate. For added information, contact Co-chair Tammy Bursick at 772-978-4700.
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The anomaly related to the main computer being asked to do two computationally intensive tasks at once, and they were more than the computer could handle, so New Horizons switched to the backup computer, entered safe mode, stopped science, and called for help from Earth.
On Earth, engineers quickly understood the problem.
It is not a problem that can happen during the encounter.
Mission leadership chose to suspend science activities to focus on recovery efforts.
Science activities will resume on July 7 at 9:45 PT / 12:45 ET / 16:45 UT, Earth received time (so, about 12:15 UT, spacecraft event time).
30 planned science observations were lost between July 3 and 7, none of them required for the top-level science goals of the mission.
The anomaly is no reason to doubt that New Horizons will perform its encounter science as planned.
The briefing panel consisted of Jim Green from NASA Headquarters; Alan Stern, New Horizons' principal investigator (representing the science team); and Glen Fountain, New Horizons' project manager (representing the engineering team). In the interest of getting a post up quickly, I'm just posting here my notes from the briefing, only lightly edited. I attempted to transcribe as they spoke, but in some cases I paraphrased, and I added some notes of my own in brackets . I've interleaved the panelists' responses to questions in with their primary statements.
At 2pm [I presume Eastern time] on Saturday, July 4, we lost the signal. Within 90 minutes signal was reacquired, and the spacecraft found in safe mode. We are just delighted with how New Horizons team has responded.
On July 3 we were preparing for the main event -- the command load that takes us through the flyby, which starts on the 7th. [A command load is a sequence of commands for the spacecraft, a program that it will execute autonomously.] All the observations from the 7th of July through the encounter on the 14th and on through the 16th are in a single command load. On the 3rd we loaded it onto the backup computer, and on the 4th we were loading it on to the primary computer.
At the same time, we were taking all the data we wanted to get down to the ground but wanted to save, and were compressing it into a single location on the [solid-state] data recorder. We were doing multiple things on the spacecraft at the same time, and what occurred is as we were doing the compression of all the data to save it for later download, we were burning to the flash memory the command load into the primary computer.
We knew it would take about an hour for the spacecraft to transmit to Earth from the backup computer. We started looking for signal on backup side, and found it when expected. We looked at data, figured out what was happening, and started to put a plan in place to recover. The command load has now been put on the primary side so that when the 7th rolls around, we will go into the core load as planned.
We won't do another burn to flash during encounter.
This was the first time that that specific fault has occurred; all the previous safe holds have occurred on the primary computer [without a switch to the backup computer].
In encounter mode, a safe mode event like this cannot occur.
The core load will begin on July 7 at 12:24 pm Eastern time.
We designed the core load so that every observation that gets us group 1 data [highest-priority science results] is redundant, so that should a reset occur during the flyby, when we come back online, that observation will be repeated so that we still get the data. That's the kind of thoroughness with which we plan observation sequence around closest approach.
Once you're in encounter mode, the process will reboot and come back to the timeline, but recovery takes on the order of 7 minutes, so that each of these critical observations is all separated by 7 minutes.
New Horizons is operating flawlessly and on course. So are all the instruments in the payload. In the few days prior to this event we've been receiving tremendous data and I couldn't be happier with what we're seeing already from this great distance. Every day when the science team meets, the room is full of smiles.
Science was suspended, which is normal to do under these circumstances, making sure spacecraft was healthy, getting it configured the way it should be. What we lost was some of the science on Saturday, and then all the science for Sunday and Monday. And that was a command decision which I made and the team was in complete agreement with, that it's much more important to focus on getting ready for the flyby than to collect science 8 or 9 million miles from the target.
We lost 16 LORRI images, 3 of which were for navigation.
We lost 4 Ralph color observations.
1 Ralph composition spectroscopy measurement.
4 Alice atmospheric observations -- but the Alice team does not expect to detect the Pluto system until July 12, these were just being taken for due diligence.
We lost a "plasma roll" in which SWAP, PEPSSI and radio science collaborate to measure planetary environment.
We lost 3 days of SWAP, PEPSSI, and SDC background monitoring. We don't have any evidence that any of these have detected the Pluto system yet anyway.
That's 30 observations out of a total of 496 to be made between July 4 and end of close approach observations. So about 6% of observations by count, but scientifically we weight observations by how close they are to the planet. These are not nearly as important as the ones we'll make from 100 times closer. While we'd prefer this hadn't occurred, it's a speed bump in terms of total return.
The team was able to restart the compression process and save all the uncompressed data so we can downlink it after the flyby.
The spacecraft is very effective at collecting a large amount of data. We're going to have 99% of the data on the spacecraft and only 1% back on the ground by the time we finish this 9-day load.
The spacecraft is not currently collecting any data at all. Our objective, following the safe mode event, was to get to prime data collection, which is the flyby load. Distinctly secondary was the remaining observations that would have taken place before the main load begins. We made the decision to sacrifice all of those instead to focus entirely on spacecraft recovery, instead getting the flyby load up and verified, get the checksums back on the ground, erase some solid state recorder segments, finish that data compression. The first science that we will collect will be some plasma measurements that will begin shortly before the load engages. First imaging observations will begin after load engages tomorrow morning.
On this spacecraft, there's a combined data storage capability of 128 Gigabits. By terrestrial standards that's small, but by spacecraft standards, that's large. By coincidence the flyby is the 50th anniversary of Mariner 4 mission, the first flown successfully to Mars. We will collect approximately 5000 times as much data as Mariner 4. We're going to knock your socks off, and we're going to continue doing it through 2015 and 2016.
Immediately after the briefing they shared some images composed of some of the last data that New Horizons returned to Earth before the anomaly on July 3.
The left image shows, on the right side of the disk, a large bright area on the hemisphere of Pluto that will be seen in close-up by New Horizons on July 14. The three images together show the full extent of a continuous swath of dark terrain that wraps around much of Pluto's equatorial region. The western end of the swath (right image) breaks up into a series of striking dark regularly-spaced spots, each hundreds of miles in size, which were first detected in New Horizons images taken in late June. Intriguing details are beginning to emerge in the bright material north of the dark region, in particular a series of bright and dark patches that are conspicuous just below the center of the disk in the right image. In all three black-and-white views, the apparent jagged bottom edge of Pluto is the result of image processing. The inset shows Pluto's orientation, illustrating its north pole, equator, and central meridian running from pole to pole. The Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) obtained these three images between July 1 and 3 of 2015, prior to the July 4 anomaly that sent New Horizons into safe mode.
Pluto's mottled appearance began to com into focus, just 11 days before New Horizons' closest approach. A wide band of dark terrain near the equator breaks up into smaller dark islands at the bottom of the visible disk.
I would be careful about talking about impact craters at this point, we don't have any strongly confirmed impact craters. We are still very far away. The deconvolution procedures we are using are very, very mature. There is no hocus-pocus about it. We have multiple methods and intercompare them, and look for evidence of the same features in the raw data, and we look for them to be consistent from observation to observation. Things that aren't rotating with the disk are candidates for being artifacts. We are much less subject to artifacts now that we are closer because the target is so much larger.
The last photo of Pluto that New Horizons returned was taken at 23:25 UT on July 3. The next one that it will take (if I understand the plan correctly) is at 22:41 on July 7. In that time, New Horizons will have closed more than a third of the remaining distance, increasing Pluto's apparent diameter by a factor of 1.6 and the number of pixels on Pluto by more than three times. We're so close!
All the best to NH. Thanks for the detailed info, Emily!!!
Thanks for the great reporting! Do you know how long the integration of these CCD images has to be for proper exposure?
Thanks Emily. It was really difficult to get this briefing. The web link provided no audio. Finally got ahold of NASA communications and there is a number to listen to the playback: 1 866 498 9752. Listened to all of it. Your report here didn't miss a thing! Emily L is the finest part of the Planetary Society!
I hate to nitpick regarding such a wonderful post (I am _so_ appreciative of what you do, Emily!)....but I'm a little confused about the penultimate sentence. "More than a third" closer jives with diameter increase of 1.6, but how does that get "more than three times" the pixels? Pixels go as area, which goes as diameter^2, so 1.6^2 = 2.56. I'm missing something? Thanks in advance if someone can clear up my confusion.
Dark swath in July 1 image corresponds to "line" spotted by Björn earlier? In the prime meridian longitude (facing Charon) breaks up into dark patches reminiscent of lunar maria.
This is nerve-racking, but I have confidence in the New Horizons team. Everything I've seen so far has shown that they're some of the best. They'll get it done.
OK, it's real! The NH site just posted raw LORRI images for 7/7, And they are great. The raw images from 7/7 look better than the processed images from 7/3!
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