As the president prepared for his 100th day of mischief and the U.S. House and Senate edged toward government shutdown in late April, I joined dozens of other higher education leaders to advocate for grant funding and legislation to protect DACA recipients, DREAMers covered under Obama's Executive Order.
Arriving in D.C. late the night of the March for Science, as I neared the Capitol, I saw fences lined with march signs — the aftermath of a modern battle. I geared up for my own fight.
I was there to chair a meeting of the governing board of the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities at our annual forum. We heard from congressmembers, policy institutes, and accreditation bodies about the deep cuts facing higher education. Departments of Defense and Homeland Security receive over half of all discretionary spending, while Education receives only 6 percent.
The political frenzy du jour was that Trump announced he wouldn't sign a budget if it didn't include funding for "The Wall." The Trump budget plan already axed TRIO programs such as Upward Bound that promote student success. It reduces funding for work-study, cuts Student Equal Opportunity Grants, and was slated to take back over $3 billion in Pell Grant funding. A forced government shutdown would result in even deeper cuts for education.
So, we took our case to Congress.
It was pouring rain. We waited in long lines to get through security at the Capitol, surrounded by teachers, parents with special needs kids, nurses, scientists — all of us there to make our voices heard.
Two limos pulled up to the side of the building and men in four-figure suits were ushered in through a private entrance — no waiting in the rain. Who were these people? Big pharma? Defense contractors?
We eventually made it inside, and I later ran into the Expensive Suits. Subtle cues told me they were likely military contractor lobbyists, and I'll leave it at that.
Senator Richard Durbin, who calls the DREAM Act the "most successful unsuccessful legislation in history," is leading, together with the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities, an effort to extend DACA through bipartisan legislation called the BRIDGE Act [Bar Removal of Individuals Who Dream of Growing Our Economy]. "Now we have to make sure these kids don't get deported," he said.
Durbin told the story of one young Asian high school student who had been admitted to the Manhattan School of Music, but she was undocumented and couldn't attend. She became one of many poster children for the DREAM Act. Because of DACA, they were able to attend college and earned work permits.
There are now 5 million Latinos in college, making Hispanics the fastest growing segment of college students. Among colleges and universities in the U.S., 472 meet the requirements of 25 percent Hispanic undergraduate enrollment to be classified as a federally designated Hispanic Serving Institution.
Antioch University Santa Barbara, where I serve as Provost/CEO, is one of those institutions. So are UC Santa Barbara and Santa Barbara City College. When I moved here from Houston, one of the reasons was that Santa Barbara is a community that values empowering its residents. To me, this means not alienating our DREAMers.
Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's staff told us she supported all of our issues. We even met with Senator Ted Cruz. Before we entered, the same expensive suit crew vacated his office. Cruz gave us 10 minutes and told us even he supports Pell Grants.
Trump later announced he was pulling back on "The Wall" ultimatum. However, Trump did land $1.5 billion for border security and $12.5 billion for defense.
In the end, we won back Pell Grant funding that will help more students earn college degrees. But this is just Round One. The stakes are high, so make those calls and visit your congressmember or senator. As for those of us who waited in the rain, you can bet we'll be back with more in tow and better umbrellas.
Dr. William Flores currently serves Antioch University Santa Barbara and the national Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities, and is past president of the University of Houston-Downtown and former Deputy Secretary for Higher Education in New Mexico.


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Fans of CW show One Tree Hill, and The Flash are Unquestionably familiar with Shantel Vansanten's face. At the former, she performed the role ofQuinn James, the sister into Haley James Scott (Bethany Joy Lenz), and at the latter, the function ofDetective Patty Spivot. As of 2017, Vansanten portrays the role of Julie Swagger the spouse of direct personality Bob Lee Swagger from the USA Network series Shooter which originated in November 2016. Along with acting, Vansanten can also be a model that has graced the covers of both Teen Vogue, and Seventeen.
Shantel Vansanten was created onJuly 25, 1985, inLuverne, Minnesota and increased inSpring, Texas by her mother and grandma named Doris. Vansanten developed the enthusiasm for modelling when she was fifteen years old. She started with the Page Parkes Management. In a bid to progress her modelling career, Shantel became among those contestants onNBC's reality tv show Sports Illustrated: Swimsuit Model Search. Regrettably, she didn't make it past the initial episode. She then landed a few small roles in television movies. Shantel at 2007 landed a part in the movie adaptation of "t.A.T.u. Come Back. " After filming has been reasoned, the film premiered in Russia at 2011 and later from the US in 2012 using the titleYou and I. 2009 would develop into the calendar year, Shantel would land her much desired large break that came later she starred in the first episode of Final Destination. Surprisingly, she had never watched some of the last Destination movies as of if she landed the position. Although not a fan of scary movies, Shantel eve must perform her own stunts in Final Destination. The film premiered to negative reviews but grossed well in the box office, earning a whopping $186.2 million by a budget of $40 million. The movie stays her greatest grossing movie nonetheless. It was in 2009 which Shantel landed the recurring role of photographer Quin James at the 7th period of this CW hit series, One Tree Hill. She had auditioned for the part of Alexis but was instead asked to perform with the sister into Haley Scott. Shantel stayed on OTH before the 9th and last period, which finished in 2012. Shantel has also had chief functions in displays likeGang Related (2014), The Messengers (2015) in addition to a recurring roleThe Flash. In movie, Vansanten has starred inSomething Wicked, a different psychological horror movie that has been filmed in 2009 but published in 2014.
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TOKYO, May 11: Japan's Toshiba Corp. said on Thursday it plans to spend $18 billion in capital outlays by the business year ending in March 2009, and will double its output capacity of NAND flash memory chips by then.
The world's fourth-largest microchip maker said it plans capital spending of 2.04 trillion yen by that year, up from about 1.13 trillion yen in the three business years that ended in March 2006.
Toshiba aims for sales of 7.8 trillion yen in the year to March 2009.
Toshiba also said it would build a fifth NAND flash memory plant, but no details have been decided.
Toshiba is the world's No.2 maker of the NAND-type chips, which can retain data after power is shut off and are used in Apple Computer Inc.'s iPod and other portable devices. The product is the company's cash cow.
South Korea's Samsung Electronics is the market leader.
Research firm iSuppli expects the global NAND market to expand 140 percent to $26.1 billion by 2009, but the strong prospects have lured such chip industry titans as Intel Corp. into the NAND business, and an increased supply caused prices to fall sharply in the January-March quarter.
The Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported on Thursday Toshiba would spend about 300 billion yen of the planned investment to acquire a 51 percent stake in Westinghouse, the U.S. power plant arm of British Nuclear Fuels.
The company aims to pay for the investments with cash flows from its operations, it added.
In April, Toshiba and SanDisk Corp. said they would build a new 300-mm wafer fabrication plant in Japan for an undisclosed sum in anticipation of further growth in demand for music phones and other gadgets.
Strong flash memory operations helped Toshiba post a 70 percent rise in annual net profit last month, but it fell short of expectations in forecasting slower growth this year.
Shares in Toshiba closed down 0.4 percent at 750 yen. The Nikkei average was down 0.53 percent.
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What is Stephanie Courtney's net worth and salary?
Stephanie Courtney is an American actress and comedian who has a net worth of $6 million dollars. She is best known for portraying "Flo" in a series of commercials for Progressive Insurance but she has also appeared in a number of popular films and television shows like "Mad Men" and "The Goldbergs."
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Stephanie Courtney was born on February 8, 1970 in Stony Point, New York. She is the youngest of three children of her father, a high school history teacher, and mother, who is a singer. She is a 1992 graduate of Binghamton University where she earned an English Degree and did theater. In one of the school's productions of "The Crucible" she played the role of Elizabeth Proctor.
Stephanie has been quoted as saying she always knew she wanted to be an entertainer for a living, and that, in her mind, she never thought there was any other option. After graduation, she moved to New York City. Her roommate was future author and columnist Meghan Daum. In New York City, she worked evenings as a secretary for Smith Barney Chairman Robert F. Greenhill while simultaneously studying acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse.
Stephanie originally moved to Los Angeles to become a stand-up comedian. She lived with her sister, Jennifer Courtney, who was finding success as an actress. The two sisters wrote and performed the sketch Those Courtney Girls around clubs in Los Angeles and took their sketch to the Aspen Comedy Festival. Stephanie joined the training program of The Groundlings, an improv and sketch comedy group. In 2004, she became a member of its 30-person main company. It was here that she met Scott Kolanach, the theater's lighting director, who would later become her husband in 2008.
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Meanwhile, Stephanie was working odd jobs and auditioning left and right for commercials as a means of making ends meet, but was only booking one a year—until 2008, that is. That is the year Progressive Insurance cast her as Flo. Flo's Facebook fan page has over 5 million likes and several years into the campaign, Flo is going strong and Stephanie Courtney is laughing all the way to the bank with her $1 million per year salary.
She voiced the role of Joy Peters on the television series Tom Goes to the Mayor from 2004 to 2006. Courtney had a recurring role as Marge on the TV series Mad Men in 2007. She won a Copper Wing Award at the Phoenix Film Festival in 2003 for Best Ensemble Acting for Melvin Goes to Dinner. Courtney was nominated for a Streamy Award for Best Ensemble Cast in a Web Series for Back on Topps in 2010. She has also worked for brands such as Skittles, General Mills cereal and Wienerschnitzel.
Outside of her commercial work, Stephanie Courtney has appeared in several movies and television shows, most notably "Mad Men", "Blades of Glory", "Everybody Loves Raymond", "ER", "The Man Show", "The United States of Tara", "Fred: The Movie" and "Fred 2: Night of the Living Fred", "The Brothers Solomon", and "The Heartbreak Kid".
Stephanie Courtney earns $1 million per year playing "Flo" from Progressive in their commercials. Typically when an actor portrays a character for a long time, they end up negotiating a direct deal with the brand outside of the typical SAG-AFTRA union pay scales. They also get a pay bump for being the official spokesperson, residuals for current commercial airings and an exclusivity buyout which precludes them for taking other jobs. When you add it all up, someone like Stephanie Courtney likely earns at least $2 million per year.
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Home news Cardi B indicted on 14 charges in connection with New York strip club incident
Cardi B indicted on 14 charges in connection with New York strip club incident
Cardi B has reportedly been indicted on 14 charges, including two felonies, for a strip club brawl that happened in August 2018 in New York.
The 26-year-old rapper had allegedly ordered an attack on two strip club bartenders that ended in physical injury for the plaintiffs.
According to TMZ, Cardi was indicted on Friday on two felony counts of attempted assault with intent to cause serious physical injury as well as misdemeanor counts on reckless endangerment, assault, criminal solicitation, conspiracy, and harassment. The Grammy winner was originally only facing misdemeanor charges, but rejecting the plea deal caused additional charges to be made when the case was presented in front of a grand jury.
According to NBC New York, a surveillance video exists that shows Cardi B tossing an ice bucket at the sisters. The rapper and her entourage were also accused of throwing chairs and bottles at the Jade and Baddie Gi.
ABC News added that Cardi B's arraignment will occur on Tuesday afternoon, which is also when the indictment will be unsealed.
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Projet IFT-2015-TP2
Calcul d'un plan de découpage optimale (aire minimale) représenté par une structure d'arbre binaire.

Dans ma solution ce trouve également l'implémentation d'un algorithme qui fait l'approximation d'un plan
de découpage optimale. Cet algorithme ne donne pas la solution optimale, mais le temps de calcul est plus respectable.
"Simulated Annealing Algorithm for Floorplanning".

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Kansas Athletics Online Auction Set to Begin Dec. 14
The start of another exciting KU online auction is set to begin Thursday, Dec. 14,at 4 p.m. Join fellow Jayhawk fans in bidding on some great pieces of Kansas Athletics history, including Allen Fieldhouse championship banners, original light fixtures and basketball rims. The auction will last 14 days and will officially close Dec. 27. KU fans can access the auction by logging on to KU's official athletics website, kuathletics.com, or by visiting www.cstv.com.<?xml:namespace prefix="o" ns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"?>
This auction kicks off a brand new platform of Kansas Athletics online auctions. Beginning Thursday, Dec. 14, Kansas Athletics will be offering new auction items on a regular basis. Items will be updated at least every two weeks presenting unique opportunities for the biggest Jayhawk fans to own a piece of Kansas Athletics history.
To get started bidding on the items, click here.
Items for the Dec.14 auction include:
1988 NCAA Championship Banner that Hung in Allen Fieldhouse
The winner of this auction will receive the 1988 NCAA National Championship banner, which was hung in Allen Fieldhouse from 2000 to 2005. This banner measures approximately 80 inches wide by 56 inches tall.
Allen Fieldhouse Basketball Rim
This basketball rim, which was used by both the Men's and Women's KU basketball teams, hung in Allen Fieldhouse throughout the 90's. The rim up for auction includes a basketball net that was also hung in Allen Fieldhouse.
Original Allen Fieldhouse Light Fixtures
This auction is for both a Red and Blue light fixture which had hung in Allen Fieldhouse since its first day in 1955. These original light fixtures hung until 2004, when Allen Fieldhouse went through its latest renovations. These lights are still fully functional and are two of a very small number of items that can still be found from the first days of legendary Allen Fieldhouse.
These are just a few of the items that will be offered during the Dec. 14 online auction. All proceeds from these auctions will help support programs for <?xml:namespace prefix="st1″ ns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"?>University of Kansas student-athletes.
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Seven online scammers will soon begin serving out prison sentences for their involvement in an international fraud conspiracy.
On 7 September, Funso Hassan, 27, of Ibadan, Nigeria, and Anthony Shane Jeffers, 44, of Maryville, Tennessee received orders to serve out 10 years of jail time.
Their prison sentences come five months after both individuals pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit identity theft and theft of government property as well as one count of use of mail and an interstate facility to distribute proceeds of a racketeering activity.
Five other defendants–Ann Louise Franzen, 70, of Kiln, Mississippi; Gary Melvin Barnard, 64, of Palestine, Texas; Michele Gayle Fee, 55, of Stockton, California; Tanya Lynn Thomas, 52, of Turlock, California; and Shawn Ann White, 44, of Manteca, California–previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit identity theft and theft of government property.
They will each serve five years in prison.
As a general rule of thumb, users should always exercise a healthy dose of skepticism when someone mysterious on the web offers to send them a check. These types of opportunities, while they might sound promising, are usually too good to be true and as a result end up robbing the victim of their hard-earned money.
Most scams work because fraudsters rely on social engineering techniques in a bid to exploit their target's human weakness. To learn more about social engineering, click here.


The Earth's climate is currently subject to various risks, but unfortunately too much of the public and too many in official circles in the Arab world still lack an awareness of the dangers threatening it.
Scientifically speaking, climate change has direct and indirect effects on agricultural policy, industrial and economic trends, and on the daily life of people.
Such effects can be clearly noticed in the countries of the South, where many of the poor are suffering from the devastating consequences of climate change in the form of floods, hurricanes, drought and famines.
Both the 1992 Cairo earthquake and the Qena flooding revealed a catastrophic absence of plans to help face natural disasters in Egypt.
The continuation of the same practices, including the combustion of fossil fuels and the destruction of forests, will cause the emission of more greenhouse gases responsible for climate change and global warming.
This in turn will lead over a period ranging from 50 to 100 years to the enormous melting of the glaciers, the extinction of many kinds of living things and a scarcity of rain, especially in South Asia and Africa and parts of North America.
A decrease in the world's production of food, in addition to more climate change with equally destructive effects, will be the result, especially if the level of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, in the atmosphere keeps rising.
The present crisis of food waste is another reason for global warming, as it leads to an increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. According to recent statistics, one third of the world's population wastes food worth about $75 billion a year.
The issue of climate change has been tackled in international and regional conventions calling for participation on a global level to save the planet and protect our joint future.
The Kyoto Protocol called for the gradual and successive reduction of greenhouse-gas emissions, defining the costs and responsibilities the industrialised countries should bear while implementing the targets of the treaty.
The US refrained from signing the protocol, arguing that it was unfair to put the whole burden on its shoulders at a time when China and India, two main countries that can be blamed for much of the world's carbon dioxide emissions today, evade responsibility or costs.
Although the Kyoto Protocol was just the beginning of further steps to be taken in the future, the US opposition nearly emptied it of its effectiveness and hindered its implementation.
The problem is that the main challenge represented in climate change contradicts the globalised and traditional concept of the free market. If the current activities of that market continue, disaster will take place in less than a century.
Advocates of free-market policies believe that the costs of avoiding current climate disasters exceed anything that might be saved in the future. However, bearing in mind the current disastrous situation, any slowness in facing this phenomenon will have very serious repercussions and huge economic and human losses.
Should we waste more time on economic theories that serve the interests of those controlling the global market? Or should we start a march towards change?
The issue of climate change cannot be tackled away from the market economy, even if environmental issues may not often cross the minds of those controlling the global market.
They don't want to risk upsetting the equilibrium of the market system that protects their interests. In fact, their commitment to such theories of equilibrium constitutes a political necessity, and they do not take seriously the fact that climate change has a direct and negative effect on market activities, threatening their interests.
Environmental justice relies upon the important principle that "he who pollutes pays." In other words, the countries that cause pollution should pay the price for cleaning it up afterwards, and they should bear the costs of reducing greenhouse-gas emissions.
They should also define the criteria by which such costs will be distributed. This is a practical way to help achieve environmental justice.
Some 38 per cent of current greenhouse-gas emissions are caused by the US, Europe and Japan, which constitute together 15 per cent of the world's population. This percentage will increase to 58 per cent of emissions within 100 years.
The amount of carbon dioxide emitted in America is estimated at 20 tons per person, in Germany and Japan 10 tons, and in the rest of Europe seven tons.
In France and Sweden, two countries which rely on nuclear energy for electricity generation, the amount is less.
While the rich countries are required to participate in bearing the costs of climate protection, the developing countries are also responsible for rectifying the environmental behaviour of their peoples.
The aim is to reduce carbon dioxide gas emissions ahead of 2030, necessitating the launch of an emergency programme to invent new technologies with less emissions.
Some environmental scientists have called for an international treaty to protect the Earth's climate, viewing this as an absolute necessity. Reducing the world's carbon dioxide emissions should not be the responsibility of just one country, and participation in protecting the climate is a universal rather than a national necessity.
Recent environmental studies have proposed a draft agreement for protecting the climate under which each of the advanced countries should bear a percentage of the costs as follows: the US 34 per cent, Europe 27 per cent, Japan eight per cent, China seven per cent, India three per cent and the petroleum-exporting countries 7.8 per cent.
The agreement should stipulate that the advanced countries are to bear a percentage of the costs exceeding the percentage of the emissions they cause.
There are two views on tackling the issue of climate change.
The first prefers introducing minor changes to the current situation, arguing that the costs of climate protection exceed projected economic revenues.
The defenders of this point of view mostly overlook the negative repercussions of climate change on the coming generations.
They also overlook the fact that the future effects of such phenomena depend mainly on decisions made now. An accumulation of such negative effects will threaten the Earth and the lives of its population, both rich and poor.
This leads us to the alternative view, based on the principle of environmental justice, which is in turn linked to societal justice with its political, economic, cultural and social dimensions.
The first view is adopted by those controlling the centres of economic and political influence worldwide, defending the global market laws, and deliberately overlooking future environmental challenges in order to keep their current wealth safe. For such people, these are the keys to political and economic security.
However, the solutions proposed by the supporters of the globalised view and the market economy do not take the justice principle into consideration.
The poorest peoples will be the first to pay the price of the shocks resulting from climate change, although they are among the least of those causing them.
This is in addition to their inability to bear the costs of climate protection or to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.
It is also clear that the global powers, including multinational companies, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, the World Trade Organisation and the G-7 group of countries, will not exert serious efforts to help unless natural disasters threaten their interests, profits and influence.
We do not have any idea about the kind of technology that might be able to protect the climate in 50 years' time. The current stances of the countries responsible for increasing the level of greenhouse-gas emissions, in addition to behaviours that lack environmental awareness, are going to trace our future options.
Do we expect the rich countries to take the initiative and carry the responsibility for protecting the climate? Do we expect the elite, including scientists and environmental defenders, to play their role in increasing the environmental awareness of the coming generations? Through educational curricula and cultural and technical programmes, these generations must be taught how to protect the Earth, its climate, and its natural and human resources.
* The writer is a veteran professor of journalism.


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Transport strife across England and Wales after widespread power cuts - as it happened
Railways, airports and roads affected by outage across large parts of country. Follow the latest news
Updated 9 Aug 2019
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Fri 9 Aug 2019 17.39 EDT First published on Fri 9 Aug 2019 13.57 EDT
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Rail travel disruption
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We're going to close down this live blog now. Here's a summary of the evening's events:
A major power cut left nearly a million homes without electricity and caused serious disruption on the UK's rail network. The problems affected vast swathes of England and Wales on Friday afternoon and into the evening.
The National Grid said the outage was the result of losing two generators. It called the event "unexpected and unusual" but said its contingency plans included "disconnecting an isolated portion of electricity demand".
Several of the UK's largest train stations were shut down because of the loss of power. That forced the suspension of many services for the whole evening.
If you'd like to read more, our full story is here:
Transport chaos across England and Wales after major power cuts
It seems some of the problems on the east coast line may be easing very slightly:
#LNERUpdate - We are hoping a rescue locomotive will soon move a failed unit off the mainline to enable us to run services into King's Cross however the advice remains unchanged, King's Cross is closed and we are advising customers DO NOT TRAVEL today and to defer to tomorrow.
— London North Eastern Railway (@LNER) August 9, 2019
#LNERUpdate - The failed unit has now been moved so the southbound lines are open again. Services heading towards London are now able to depart however due to congestion across the network it will take some time to clear the backlog.
A train has left King's Cross station headed for Peterborough. It was the first to leave since all services were halted earlier today.
The train departed platform one at around 9.30pm despite no signage alerting passengers to the departure.
Some were able to force their way through closed barriers to get onto the train. A staff member told other people waiting more trains might leave for Peterborough tonight but said she had "no idea" if services would run to other destinations.
The National Grid has offered a little more detail on what, exactly, went wrong today. A spokesperson has said:
This evening, we had an unexpected and unusual event, the loss of two generators that connect to the GB transmission system, which led to a fall in the frequency of the electricity system.
Even though these events are outside of our control, we have plans in place to respond and the system operated as planned by disconnecting an isolated portion of electricity demand.
We appreciate the inconvenience caused but this action allows the system to protect itself and limit the fall in frequency, allowing for power to be quickly restored. By 6.30pm, all demand was restored by the distribution network operators. The system is operating normally.
This was the scene at London's King's Cross station earlier this evening Photograph: Lewis Pennock/PA
There will be no more Thameslink or Great Northern services running north of London for the rest of the day, the operator says. The Govia Thameslink chief executive, Patrick Verwer, says:
I understand this has been a very difficult evening for our customers and our staff. We continue to re-energise trains stopped in platforms but this will take considerable time which is why, despite our best endeavours, we are not able to run services north of London on the Thameslink and Great Northern routes for the rest of the day.
Our priority is to look after our customers. We have put on as many buses as we can source, arranged for our tickets to be accepted by other transport providers and organised taxis wherever possible. Details are available on our website and nationalrail.co.uk. Passengers with tickets will be able to use these for travel tomorrow and Sunday.
Prof Keith Bell, expert in electronic and electrical engineering at the University of Strathclyde has echoed Martin's comments (see 8.13pm), saying the power cut was similar to an outage 11 years ago.
It seems to have been a very similar event to one in Britain in May 2008. However, this time we were kind of unlucky in that it was a deeper drop in frequency so more demand was tripped, and it happened during rush hour.
It's fair to say that from a transmission system point of view, things have now been returned to normal, but the relays still tripped on the distribution networks.
One likes to think that, with the green light from National Grid that things are OK at the transmission level, they can restore supplies pretty quickly.
But how good have they been at managing the flow of information to ordinary people and, in particular, managers of facilities such as railway power supplies?
In the interests of transparency, Prof Bell declares his interests: "I hold the Scottish Power Chair in Smart Grids at the University of Strathclyde. (Scottish Power sponsors the Chair, not me. I speak as an independent academic. I have had various research projects over the years with the electricity companies, but only on the condition that results are published and, from my point of view, with the aim helping to improve engineering practice. I have also done work with government and Ofgem)."
CNN's Eliza Mackintosh has tweeted evidence of the frustration some rail passengers are feeling this evening:
Passengers going mad on my train from Aberdeen - London, which has been stuck in Hatfield for 3+ hours now. Any updates @LNER? #powercut pic.twitter.com/jwKXXlsswd
— Eliza Mackintosh (@elizamackintosh) August 9, 2019
National Rail is stressing the scale of the problems at St Pancras:
#LondonStPancras - Customers cannot travel from London St Pancras International this evening. Tickets for today will be valid tomorrow.
— National Rail (@nationalrailenq) August 9, 2019
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Alastair Martin, the chief strategy officer of the energy solutions specialist Flexitricty, said the UK energy system "hasn't seen anything like this for at least a decade".
A similar energy system failure took place in May 2008 after the Sizewell B nuclear power plant tripped offline, two minutes before an outage at the Longannet coal-fired power plant.
"It was a coincidence, but it was dramatic," he said. The twin outages also caused frequency to drop below the critical 50 Hz limit, which caused an automatic shutdown of parts of the energy grid, he added.
What is interesting this time around is that the energy system recovered far quicker than it did then. National Grid is more prepared, and it has more tools to help restore the frequency of the grid when it is struggling with inertia.
Footage has emerged of passengers being evacuated from a train in north London, which the operator says was travelling from Moorgate station.
16:38 from Highbury and islington get well soon. Driver handled it well ! #powercut @GNRailUK pic.twitter.com/ZkIEzlYKGr
— George keogh (@georgeykeogh) August 9, 2019
Govia Thameslink Railway's chief executive, Patrick Verwer, has said:
The wide-scale failure of the power grid that has brought our Thameslink and many of our Great Northern trains to a stand north of London continues to cause major disruption.
Despite our very best endeavours, we will not be able to run trains between London and Bedford, Cambridge and Peterborough and therefore advise customers they will not be able to travel on these routes for the rest of the day.
Where possible, we are advising people to use alternative routes and our tickets are being accepted by other transport providers.
The trains have been affected to the point where they require a technician to restart them and we are evacuating some of the trains that are stranded outside platforms. Our advice to customers is to stay on board trains for their own safety.
At St Pancras station, the Guardian's correspondents have found a chaotic scene. Henry McDonald reports that commuters are taking matters into their own hands and starting to organise taxis to different destinations. They're clubbing together in large numbers to go to Watford, St Albans and Boreham Wood, he reports.
Passengers waiting to access Thameslink services at London St Pancras International station. Photograph: henry.mcdonald@theguardian.com
One of them is the Guardian's own Nicola Davis, who reports having had to share a ride northwards to Hertfordshire after hours of waiting for information, having only made it as far as Finsbury Park station.
At Kings Cross, Zoe Hebblethwaite, a 23-year-old legal secretary from Pontefract in West Yorkshire, has described the situation as "absolute mayhem". The 23-year-old has been stuck for hours, having arrived at the station at 5.30pm before being told to leave until further notice.
They have closed doors of the station – no power whatsoever. Outside Kings Cross station is absolute mayhem nobody knows anything nobody can find an assistant to speak to at this point. No commuters are allowed in... There is so much confusion.
People walking in complete darkness at Clapham Junction station, in London. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA
Thomas Edward, a consultant at the energy specialist Cornwall Insight, says Little Barford tripped offline at 4.50pm and may have triggered the automatic shutdown of the windfarm.
The key thing about today is that it is very windy. The strength of the system is determined by how many power plants you have running all at once. If there are a lot of power plants running and one has an outage, then the others can pick up the slack.
Windfarms don't have the same level of stability as a power plant. So, on a windy day when we rely more on wind power thermal power plants, it is more difficult to manage. We need to know exactly what happened from National Grid and the network operators to understand the full cause of the blackout.
Three energy firms to pay £10.5m for failings over August blackout
UK blackout: MPs to question energy regulator's role
National Grid blames lightning strike for blackout
National Grid blackout report expected to blame avoidable faults
Verdict on National Grid's handling of blackout 'within weeks'
National Grid 'had three blackout near-misses in three months'
What are the questions raised by the UK's recent blackout?
Government launches power cut inquiry
National Grid urged to explain response to rush-hour blackouts


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Collapse Unlikely, but Russian Economy Due for Long Slump
by Vladimir Karnozov
- September 9, 2015, 11:09 AM
Natalia Orlova, left, chief of market analytics with Alfa-Bank discussed the difficult, but not impossible economic situation in Russia at a meeting with reporters near the opening of Russia's JetExpo business aviation show. She was joined by EBAA CEO Fabio Gamba. Photo: Vladimir Karnazov
Natalia Orlova, chief of market analytics with Alfa-Bank, believes Russia's current consumer-spending-based economic model has reached its limits, regardless of the political conflict with the West. Even though the geopolitics matter, she said, the economy works in its own ways, and the overall health of the business aviation sector, worldwide, is deeply affected by its ups and downs. Speaking at the Business Aviation Forum 2015 held in Moscow on the eve of this week's JetExpo show, she said, "There was a period when the Russian economy was overheated, notably in 2005-2007, and even in 2011-2012 when the GDP grew at 4 percent annually. We are unlikely to see such figures any more." This year Russia's GDP is expected to decline by 3-to-3.5 percent and then level off. "At best, if the oil prices rise again to over $100 per barrel," Orlova noted, "we can expect a 2-to-3 percent GDP rise."
Investments are low, at some 20 percent of GDP, compared to around 50 percent for China. Their dynamics are also negative, -2 percent for 2014 and -5.4 percent for 2015. Orlova sees demographics as the biggest restriction for Russian economy growth in the long term. Through 2026, the youth market will continue to decrease in numbers.
Unemployment is expected to rise from 4.8 percent in 2014 to 5.3 percent in 2015, but this is not much of an issue: "We used to have 9-to-10 percent in 2009. [Comparatively], we now have [close to] complete employment," Orlova said. The share of people employed in the public sector is rising, now at 23 percent of the work force, or about 17.4 million people. Russia's labor productivity remains relatively low at about 40 percent that of the U.S. figure.
The Kremlin is ramping up what it spends on defense, which is also a factor. Defense spending as a percentage to GDP has accelerated from 2.1 percent in 1998, 2.5 percent in the 2000s, to 3.5 percent in 2014 and 4.2 percent in 2015.Russia will record very high inflation this year at 15 percent, but then it is expected to subside and stabilize at 7-to-8 percent, which Alfa-Bank finds bearable. The rouble-to-dollar exchange rate is expected to stabilize at 75:1 by year-end.
The Kremlin is trying to reduce national dependency on oil, and its efforts have been somewhat successful in 2014-2015. Still, to balance income and spending in the 2015 budget, the price of oil needs to increase to $74 per barrel (compared to $104 in 2014, and about $100 in 2009-2011). If that occurs, Orlova said, Russia may expect its budget to become balanced within the next few years. To her mind, this is achievable.
"We have entered a new economic era. Consumers spending will not grow much more. It is a new reality in Russia and in Europe." Believing that the Russian government will continue supporting OEMs, she added, "Consumers will get poorer, but manufacturers will have better operational environment. The next 12 months will be a highly turbulent time, the stagnation of the national economy is likely to continue, but collapse of the national economy is very unlikely."
https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/business-aviation/2015-09-09/collapse-unlikely-russian-economy-due-long-slump


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A "Whodunnit" Recap
Hi, everyone! We're nearly finished with the book tour, and it's been a blast. Thank you all for taking the tour with me, and I hope you've enjoyed meeting the fab writers and bloggers along the way.
Karen McFarland and I will get together over at her place on Wed, April 3rd, where I'll announce the WINNER of the Whodunnit puzzle contest and giveaway. The winner will get a free ebook copy of my debut novel, Dangerous and Unseemly, and a $25 gift card of his/her choice to either Starbucks, Amazon, or Barnes and Noble! I'll email the winner individually, too.
If you missed any of the stops or trivia questions, no worries. I've compiled them all here.
But first, a recap of the puzzle:
You have received a partial telegram, stating that the murdered body of Sir Reginald "Good Riddance" Crenshaw, your long-lost third cousin (twice removed) has been found. However, the rest of the message has been lost, scattered and garbled along a trail of multiple telegrams to other people by a drunk clerk at the telegraph office.
Before you can make a claim upon dear Reggie's ill-gotten wealth, you must establish the particulars of the murder. Where was he found? What was he killed with? And, most importantly, WHODUNNIT?
HOW TO SOLVE: Look at the mystery trivia questions below. Each correct answer will give you the alphabet letter you need. You want to solve 3 puzzle pieces: which ROOM, which WEAPON, and which SUSPECT.
THE CLUES:
ROOM CLUES (4 letters, unscrambled):
Question #1 – One of the following is NOT a rule of Golden Age detective fiction, as famously listed by literary critic Ronald Knox (in a preface to a 1929 collection of detective stories). Which is it?
A) No more than one secret room or passage is allowable
B) The butler should be the culprit
C) No Chinaman must figure in the story
D) Twin brothers, and doubles generally, must not appear unless we are duly prepared for them
Question #2 – What famous fiction private eye said: "The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter"?
I) Sam Spade
J) Phillip Marlowe
K) Mickey Spillane
L) Raymond Chandler
Question #3 – This detective said: "Warning. Assholes are closer than they appear."
I) Charlie Chan
J) Sam Spade
K) Miss Marple
L) Ace Ventura
Question #4 – What percent cocaine solution did Sherlock Holmes inject when bored between cases?
O) 20%
P) 75%
Q) 5%
R) 7%
So, was dear old Reggie killed in the…
by K.B. Owen
Kitchen (KITC)?
Ballroom (BALL)?
Conservatory (CONS)?
Billiard Room (BILL)?
Library (LIBR)?
Study (STUD)?
Hall (HALL)?
Lounge (LOUN)?
… or Dining Room (DINE)?
Clever, aren't you? Okay, so now you know where Sir Reggie was dispatched, but what was he killed with?
WEAPON CLUES (4 letters, unscrambled):
Question #1 – Nancy Drew had two friends (who were probably jealous of her cool red roadster!) who acted as her sidekicks and assisted in her investigations. They were:
D) Porgy and Bess
E) Bess and George
F) George and Ned
G) John and Yoko
Question #2 – Nate the Great, a "soft-boiled" kid detective from a popular children's series, eats a favorite food when he needs to think out a case. What is it?
Q) hot dogs
R) pancakes
S) Doritos
T) broccoli
Question #3 – What trademark tune does Columbo whistle (beginning with the episode "Any Old Port in the Storm") which the producers worked into the musical theme?
N) "I dreamed a dream"
O) "This Old Man"
P) "Star-Spangled Banner"
Q) "Hokey Pokey"
Question #4 – Agatha Christie's detective, Hercule Poirot, favored this method of detection:
U) examining physical evidence, such as footprints and tobacco ash
V) using the little gray cells
W) beating a confession out of the murderer
X) relying on eyewitness testimony
*gasp* Oh no, was it really done with the —
image via wikimedia commons (CC)
Rope (ROPE)?
Wrench (WREN)?
Revolver (REVO)?
Knife (KNIF)?
Candlestick (CAND)?
Lead Pipe (PIPE)?
My oh my, you are a smart one! How about the biggest mystery of all…WHODUNNIT?
MURDERER CLUES (4 letters, unscrambled)
Question #1 – There was a mysterious incident in Agatha Christie's life. In her early adulthood, she:
T) was accused of murdering her first husband
U) disappeared for 11 days and when she was found had no memory of the time
V) had charge of the hospital pharmaceutical dispensary, in which a large quantity of poison disappeared
W) was rumored to have an illegitimate child
Question #2 – Who were the smartest of the Scooby-Doo gang?
L) Scooby and Shaggy
M) Velma and Fred
N) Daphne and Fred
O) Batman and Robin
Question #3 – Sherlock Holmes is partly modeled after a person in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's life. His name was:
O) Han Solo
P) Dr. Joseph Bell
Q) Dr. Joseph Whittingham
R) Oliver Wendell Holmes
Question #4 – Jessica Fletcher, a mystery writer/amateur detective on the long-running Murder, She Wrote, lived in which town (whose per capita murder rate would have been the despair of local real estate agents)?
J) Ann Arbor, MI
K) Intercourse, PA
L) Cabot Cove, ME
M) Martha's Vineyard, MA
Was it…
Colonel Mustard (MUST): did the upstanding retired army man do the dastardly deed?
Mr. Green (GREE): who is really behind that colorful exterior?
Professor Plum (PLUM): perhaps the professor is the passionate perpetrator.
Mrs. White (WHIT): would White wield the wicked weapon?
Miss Scarlet (SCAR): could the sexy Miss Scarlet be the secret sinner?
Mrs. Peacock (PEAC): who knows if poor old Reggie ruffled that lady's feathers, and she committed murder most fowul?
Think you have the answer? Drop me a line! Send an email with your answers to kbowen (at) gmail (dot) com. Heck, email me even if you get lost and/or don't have time to figure it out. This is all just for fun, after all. I'd love to hear from you, and I'll put you in the drawing, too!
Catch ya later,
karen mcfarland
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I suck at stuff like this, but I love it all the same. Can't wait to find out the answers AND the winner!
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Q: T-SQL Syntax error - Can´t find where I´m doing wrong I´m trying to add some extra info to an existing report and the SQL query requires me to add a INNER JOIN referencing an extra table.
I´m not a SQL guru, just know the basics, so I´m strugling to find hwere I´m creating a syntax error in this query.
Below a picture comparing the current working code (Left side) and the faulty code (Right) - The error I get is 'Syntax error in FROM clause'

Can anyone please take a look into this and tell me where I´m introducing the syntax error?
Not sure if it helps, but this is the faulty code:
SELECT ToolLists.Ident,
    ToolLists.Descript AS TLDescript,
    ToolLists.MaterialNr,
    ToolLists.Order,
    ToolLists.Who,
    ToolLists.NCP,
    ToolLists.Rem      AS TLRem,
    ToolLists.MDate,
    ToolLists.TDate,
    ToolLists.GDate,
    ToolList.T,
    Machines.Name      AS MachineName,
    Machines.TRelation,
    ToolList.D,
    ToolList.H,
    ToolList.Pos       AS ToolListPos,
    ToolList.Rem       AS ToolListRem,
    ToolList.How       AS ToolListHow,
    Tools.Nr,
    Tools.Z1,
    Tools.Drawing,
    Tools.X1,
    Tools.Sort,
    Tools.Design,
    Tools.Descript,
    Tools.Rem          AS ToolRem,
    ToolParts.Pos      AS ToolPartPos,
    ToolParts.Nbr,
    ToolParts.How,
    Parts.UNr,
    Parts.MID,
    Parts.Descript,
    Parts.Sort,
    Parts.Design,
    Parts.URem,
    Parts.DMC,
    Parts.CLength,
    Parts.CMainArc,
    Parts.CRadius,
    Parts.UActiv,
    MatClasses.DMC,
    MatClasses.Description,
    MatClasses.Quality,
    NoteParts.NoteText,
    SP.Place
    FROM   (Parts
    RIGHT JOIN ((Machines
                    RIGHT JOIN ((MatClasses
                    RIGHT JOIN (Materials
RIGHT JOIN ((SELECT ID,
    Param1
    FROM   WTDIDList
    WHERE  WTGUID = '8c68ba58-5ad5-4a13-9bd4-0c4d1109d7c8'
                                           )
                                           AS IDList
                                            INNER JOIN ToolLists
                                                    ON IDList.ID =
                                                       ToolLists.Nr)
                                        ON Materials.Nr =
                                           ToolLists.MaterialNr)
                            ON MatClasses.Nr = Materials.MatClassNr)
                                INNER JOIN (Tools
                                            INNER JOIN ToolList
                                                    ON Tools.Nr =
                                                       ToolList.ToolNr)
                                        ON ToolLists.Nr = ToolList.ToolListNr)
                            ON Machines.Nr = ToolLists.MachineNr)
                   INNER JOIN ToolParts
                           ON Tools.Nr = ToolParts.ToolNr)
               ON Parts.ID = ToolParts.PartID)
                   INNER JOIN NoteParts
                           ON ToolParts.PartID = NoteParts.Nr)
               ON Parts.ID = ToolParts.PartID)
LEFT JOIN (SELECT PartId, Place FROM SiteParts WHERE SiteNr = 1) AS SP ON SP.PartId = Parts.Id
ORDER  BY ToolLists.Nr,
          ToolList.Pos,
          ToolList.T;

A: It looks like there are to many or not enough closing parenthesizes.  I have formatted it a bit and think this is what you were trying to accomplish.  This should get rid of the syntax error.  Hopefully it returns the results you are looking for.

--change the SELECT * the actual select statement.

SELECT *
FROM   (Parts
    RIGHT JOIN (
        (Machines
            RIGHT JOIN (
                (MatClasses
                    RIGHT JOIN (Materials
                        RIGHT JOIN (
                            (SELECT ID, Param1 FROM   WTDIDList WHERE  WTGUID = '8c68ba58-5ad5-4a13-9bd4-0c4d1109d7c8' ) AS IDList
                            INNER JOIN ToolLists ON IDList.ID = ToolLists.Nr
                        )
                    ON Materials.Nr = ToolLists.MaterialNr
                    )
                ON MatClasses.Nr = Materials.MatClassNr
                )
                INNER JOIN (Tools
                INNER JOIN ToolList
                    ON Tools.Nr = ToolList.ToolNr
                )
        ON ToolLists.Nr = ToolList.ToolListNr
            )
        ON Machines.Nr = ToolLists.MachineNr
        )
        INNER JOIN ToolParts
            ON Tools.Nr = ToolParts.ToolNr
    )
    INNER JOIN NoteParts
        ON ToolParts.PartID = NoteParts.Nr
         ON Parts.ID = ToolParts.PartID
 )
    LEFT JOIN (SELECT PartId, Place FROM SiteParts WHERE SiteNr = 1) AS SP ON SP.PartId = Parts.Id

A: This section in red is OK
NoteParts.NoteText,

This section has a wrong sintax if you analize it in conjunction with the entire FROM clause, too many closing marks ")" wrong location, duplicate ON, etc.
INNER JOIN NoteParts
                           ON ToolParts.PartID = NoteParts.Nr)
               ON Parts.ID = ToolParts.PartID)

I modified this part so it should work well for you
SELECT *         FROM   (Parts
        RIGHT JOIN ((Machines
                        RIGHT JOIN ((MatClasses
                        RIGHT JOIN (Materials
    RIGHT JOIN ((SELECT ID,
        Param1
        FROM   WTDIDList
        WHERE  WTGUID = '8c68ba58-5ad5-4a13-9bd4-0c4d1109d7c8'
                                               )
                                               AS IDList
                                                INNER JOIN ToolLists
                                                        ON IDList.ID =
                                                           ToolLists.Nr)
                                            ON Materials.Nr =
                                               ToolLists.MaterialNr)
                                ON MatClasses.Nr = Materials.MatClassNr)
                                    INNER JOIN (Tools
                                                INNER JOIN ToolList
                                                        ON Tools.Nr =
                                                           ToolList.ToolNr)
                                            ON ToolLists.Nr = ToolList.ToolListNr)
                                ON Machines.Nr = ToolLists.MachineNr)
                       INNER JOIN ToolParts ON Tools.Nr = ToolParts.ToolNr
                       INNER JOIN NoteParts ON ToolParts.PartID = NoteParts.Nr)
                   ON Parts.ID = ToolParts.PartID)
    LEFT JOIN (SELECT PartId, Place FROM SiteParts WHERE SiteNr = 1) AS SP ON SP.PartId = Parts.Id
    ORDER  BY ToolLists.Nr,
              ToolList.Pos,
              ToolList.T;

And here you have the entire query so just copy paste.
SELECT ToolLists.Ident,
    ToolLists.Descript AS TLDescript,
    ToolLists.MaterialNr,
    ToolLists.Order,
    ToolLists.Who,
    ToolLists.NCP,
    ToolLists.Rem      AS TLRem,
    ToolLists.MDate,
    ToolLists.TDate,
    ToolLists.GDate,
    ToolList.T,
    Machines.Name      AS MachineName,
    Machines.TRelation,
    ToolList.D,
    ToolList.H,
    ToolList.Pos       AS ToolListPos,
    ToolList.Rem       AS ToolListRem,
    ToolList.How       AS ToolListHow,
    Tools.Nr,
    Tools.Z1,
    Tools.Drawing,
    Tools.X1,
    Tools.Sort,
    Tools.Design,
    Tools.Descript,
    Tools.Rem          AS ToolRem,
    ToolParts.Pos      AS ToolPartPos,
    ToolParts.Nbr,
    ToolParts.How,
    Parts.UNr,
    Parts.MID,
    Parts.Descript,
    Parts.Sort,
    Parts.Design,
    Parts.URem,
    Parts.DMC,
    Parts.CLength,
    Parts.CMainArc,
    Parts.CRadius,
    Parts.UActiv,
    MatClasses.DMC,
    MatClasses.Description,
    MatClasses.Quality,
    NoteParts.NoteText,
    SP.Place
    FROM   (Parts
    RIGHT JOIN ((Machines
                    RIGHT JOIN ((MatClasses
                    RIGHT JOIN (Materials
RIGHT JOIN ((SELECT ID,
    Param1
    FROM   WTDIDList
    WHERE  WTGUID = '8c68ba58-5ad5-4a13-9bd4-0c4d1109d7c8'
                                           )
                                           AS IDList
                                            INNER JOIN ToolLists
                                                    ON IDList.ID =
                                                       ToolLists.Nr)
                                        ON Materials.Nr =
                                           ToolLists.MaterialNr)
                            ON MatClasses.Nr = Materials.MatClassNr)
                                INNER JOIN (Tools
                                            INNER JOIN ToolList
                                                    ON Tools.Nr =
                                                       ToolList.ToolNr)
                                        ON ToolLists.Nr = ToolList.ToolListNr)
                            ON Machines.Nr = ToolLists.MachineNr)
                   INNER JOIN ToolParts ON Tools.Nr = ToolParts.ToolNr
                   INNER JOIN NoteParts ON ToolParts.PartID = NoteParts.Nr)
               ON Parts.ID = ToolParts.PartID)
LEFT JOIN (SELECT PartId, Place FROM SiteParts WHERE SiteNr = 1) AS SP ON SP.PartId = Parts.Id
ORDER  BY ToolLists.Nr,
          ToolList.Pos,
          ToolList.T;

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Hostel is why I won't totally write off horror movies released in January. Screen Gems/Lionsgate seemingly kicked it into theater as an afterthought. Little did they know that Eli Roth managed to tap into the West's natural fear of the foreign landscapes that they ignore. It's not Eastern Europe hid a murder-for-profit club that catered to the world's elite. The kicker is that no one regardless of their background was safe from attack.
If the series would have stopped at II, it would have been a perfect duology. But, studios love keeping horror trains going past their logical conclusions. Hostel Part II does its best when it leans into the violence. The Elite Hunting Club exists in its ability to minimize humans to less than animals. By placing value on class, money and predatory nature…the Hostel movies are hair away from being transcendent experiences.
More than anything, Jay Hernandez dying in the opening of Part II ends up being what helps define and up-end the series. Anyone can die, but where is the prolonged terror? At a point, it becomes a giant game to see who has what it takes to sneak away or tweak the Hunters' rules.
Hostel/Hostel Part II double feature is now available!


HELSINKI, Finland -- A Danish court has convicted a 78-year-old man of killing his ailing wife with sleeping pills, but given him a suspended sentence.
The Court of Helsingoer on Monday found the man guilty of "killing on request," or "being active in committing euthanasia." It gave him a 50-day suspended prison sentence.
Neither the man nor his 71-year-old wife was named.
The man confessed to yielding to requests from the wife "he had loved for 50 years" and giving her 100 sleeping pills to help her end her life.
He told the court he did not regret his actions, describing the death as a mercy killing.
Court documents state that doctors at a clinic where the wife was being treated for spinal injuries had said they could not treat her condition.


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Biden 'adamantly opposes' GOP bill to abolish IRS, eliminate income tax, says burden will fall on middle class | Fox News
1. The White House has warned that the Republican bill to abolish the IRS and eliminate the national income tax would raise taxes on middle-class families.
2. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Buddy Carter, would replace the current tax code with a single consumption tax.
3. The House of Representatives voted to rescind more than $70 billion in funding to the IRS as part of Speaker Kevin McCarthy's campaign promise to prevent the agency from hiring tens of thousands of new agents and conducting new audits on Americans.
This article provides an overview of President Joe Biden's opposition to a Republican bill that would abolish the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and eliminate the national income tax, as well as a vote by the House of Representatives to rescind more than $70 billion in funding for the IRS. The article is well-written and provides a clear explanation of both sides of this issue, including Biden's opposition to the bill and McCarthy's campaign promise to prevent new audits on Americans. However, there are some points that could be explored further in order to provide a more comprehensive analysis.
For example, while it is noted that lower- and middle-income families "would be especially hard-hit by a standalone retail sales tax," there is no discussion about how this might affect other groups or how it might impact economic growth overall. Additionally, while it is mentioned that eleven members have sponsored the bill, there is no mention of any potential counterarguments or dissenting opinions from those who oppose it. Furthermore, while it is noted that McCarthy sought support from members of the House Freedom Caucus for his bid for Speaker, there is no discussion about what other groups may have been involved in this decision or what their motivations may have been.
Overall, this article provides an informative overview of President Biden's opposition to a Republican bill that would abolish the IRS and eliminate national income taxes; however, it could benefit from further exploration into potential counterarguments and dissenting opinions as well as an examination into how this legislation might affect different groups or economic growth overall.
Impact of eliminating national income tax on economic growth Arguments against abolishing the IRS Motivations of House Freedom Caucus for supporting bill Effects of retail sales tax on lower- and middle-income families Potential counterarguments to bill abolishing IRS Dissenting opinions on bill to abolish IRS


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Q: Limiting List Views by Role Our Salesforce org has the following role hierarchy:

The lead list view is shared to the following roles:

For some reason Phone Advisor can see list views that should only be shared with RA Leader and and RA Advisor and internal subordinates. I also tried to restrict by individual role, instead of using RA Advisor and subordinate, but this did not work.
Any tips? Thanks in advance!

A: This is how the role hierarchy works. Given Alice in role A, Bob in role B, and Charlie in role C, where both B and C report to A, gives the following sharing profiles:

*

*Role A includes Alice

*Role B includes Alice and Bob

*Role C includes Alice and Charlie

*Roles and Subordinates A includes Alice, Bob, and Charlie

*Roles and Subordinates B includes Alice and Bob

*Roles and Subordinates C includes Alice and Charlie

In the default model, these are the only profiles available. You can't share explicitly with Charlie without Alice also having access. Even a manual share with Charlie creates a sharing profile that includes both Charlie and Alice; managers have the same access as their subordinates in the hierarchy, and managers can always perform any action their subordinate could. For example, if Charlie owns a lead, Alice can delete that lead or transfer that lead to another user (assuming her profile allowed her to do so).
Some objects can have this feature disabled through Setup > Security Controls > Sharing Settings, but this will affect sharing rules and manual sharing globally for that object. Standard objects apparently can't be configured to ignore the hierarchy. I would advise you to read the Help & Training topic on the sharing model.


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A Sneak Peek At the Opening Minutes of Killjoys Season 2
June 22, 2016 Dot R
Space Channel and SyFy have released a peek at the first few minutes of Killjoys season 2, the action adventure/science fiction show featuring a trio of space bounty hunters—Dutch (Hannah John-Kamen), Johnny Jaqobis (Aaron Ashmore), and D'Avin Jaqobis (Luke Macfarlane).
Season 2 arrives on July 1. However, Variety posted an advance look at episode 2×01, "Dutch and the Real Girl." At the end of season 1, D'Avin had been captured, held in the facility known as Red 17, along with another bounty hunter, Fancy Lee (Sean Baek).
Not to give too much away, here are some things we see in the opening peek: our main trio is reunited, bantering with each other, and armed to the teeth, but something isn't quite right, and D'Avin suspects a trap. It has all the snappy dialogue, action, and unexpected stabs to emotion of the first season—and that's just the 4-minute tease. If season 2 keeps this up, it should be another fun, exciting, and heart-wrenching ride. Spoiler: it was also really great seeing Fancy Lee in action again, hopefully we'll get more of him in season 2.
Hannah John-Kamen, who plays Dutch, dropped some hints about season 2 recently, speaking with TV Junkies. Concerning the relationships between the main bounty-hunting trio, she said:
There's definitely been progress and a step forward from what happened last season in Episode 7 and their huge fight. With Dutch and D'avin their focus is to get their friendship back and be a team again. Throughout the season she finds comfort in a character, but the most important thing is to have that friendship back with D'avin…
…as far as Dutch and John's relationship this season, Johnny needs to spread his wings and fly and do his own thing. In order to do that he doesn't want to hurt Dutch though. There's a darker way that Johnny handles things this season which does affect their relationship and rattles it.
The Geekiary posted about Killjoys' new animated opening credit sequence here along with a few more hints and spoilers in case you missed it.
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UK - Oliver Lamps has been granted sole UK distribution for Pharox 300 LED Dimmable Low Energy lamps, which provide energy savings and better lighting for poultry, the company says.
Oliver Lamps says the poultry market can really benefit from the new lamps, both the energy saving and the better light that they provide.
Several months ago, the company decided that we should try and test these bulbs in poultry farm and see what results we would find. Oliver Lamps asked Nigel Joice, vice-chairman of the Poultry Board at the NFU to test them in one of his poultry sheds and he agreed.
He found that not only are they up to 90 per cent more energy-efficient than a 60-watt incandescent bulb, they have also improved bird weight and bird welfare by a noticeable margin in all three of the crops that he tested.
Oliver Lamps says this is mainly due to the high red frequency light that the bulbs provide that is not only more similar to natural light, but the chickens mainly use the red spectrum to distinguish seeds and berries in the soil and so while using Pharox 300 better feed conversion rates are available as they can the feed better, and so naturally average daily bird growth increases.
Regarding savings, the company says that if a Pharox 300 lamp runs for eight hours a day, it will pay for itself in energy saving (compared to its 60-watt incandescent alternative) in 12 months, and should continue to illuminate for at least another 11.5 years at this usage. The saving over the lifetime is £269 – £244 if you deduct the original cost at £25 – and this does not include the increased bird weight and welfare.
The Carbon Trust is also offering three year interest free loans to purchase low-energy lamps, which may be of interest to some of your readers as this can make the purchase not only cheaper but also more manageable.
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I watched Spider-Man: Far From Home this past weekend. Great movie, you should go out of your way to watch it. And not just because you're 22 movies into the Marvel Cinematic Universe and might as well finish the cycle.
But before I really get into it, SPOILER WARNING in case you haven't seen the movie and I ruin your life.
How Peter Parker follows the legacy of the man who discovered and pushed him to become more than just a neighborhood hero serves as the movie's biggest subplot. Tony Stark's death from Avengers: Endgame resides as a cloud over the final installment of Marvel's Phase Three. So much so that Mysterio uses that cloud against Peter. It obviously (and understandably) affects the kid who looked to Stark as a father-figure.
But there's another subplot that I feel has just as much a lasting effect on what Peter does moving forward. The war with Thanos showed Peter how his battles can affect the lives of others. He saw firsthand just how vulnerable and fragile life truly is. Before that, while the Vulture threatened Peter's family, their fight was still a contained one that didn't have to put others at risk.
Far from Home continues the backdrop of risk that Infinity War and Endgame presented. With MJ, Aunt May, and Ned knowing who Peter is (and even assisting him against Mysterio), they are at risk of being hurt and used against Peter.
Mysterio is a twisted motherfucker, no doubt. But he did speak some truth to Peter when discussing how one of the tough parts of what they do is that sometimes people get hurt. Sometimes, people close to you will die. A constant mantra of masked heroes is that they don't conceal their identities for their protection. They do so for everyone else's.
We do the same thing, albeit in a more metaphorical way. I think it's metaphorical. I don't actually know what that word means. But what I'm saying is that we hide parts of our self and history because we feel it would be the best for the people around us. That's not always the reality. I use my history of disappointing and underappreciating people to excuse my isolation and pushing others away. But in the case of someone like, I dunno–Spiderman!, the shit is real.
This reality has to change and alter Spiderman as a hero. With people knowing who Spiderman really is (as his identity was broadcast in the mid-credit scenes), everyone close to him can fall in the line of fire. Peter is still a teenager just trying to enjoy and experience life. He wants to go on vacations. He's trying to go on dates. But how willing can one be to grow close to others while knowing that doing so puts others at risk?
That's not the kind of thought and decision someone is expected to make soon after hitting puberty.
Especially so after knowing half the population was dusted and watching Stark sacrifice his life to bring everyone back. Peter witnessed death. He knows what it looks and feels like. I saw my father pass away and it still finds moments to haunt me. It's hard to bear having that visual and knowing it could easily be your family, your best friend, or the girl you like (which, for a teenager is like having a fiance).
So much of our world opened up after Tony Stark revealed himself as Iron Man. And be it directly or indirectly, it led to this strange universe in 2023. Now the more micro-world Spiderman lives in has opened as well. Stark was driven to desperation to protect the planet from any and all threats. What will it do to Peter?
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Bob Woodward's new book on Trump administration coming this September
By Jamie Gangel and Elizabeth Stuart, CNN
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President Donald Trump is about to get the Bob Woodward treatment again.
Woodward's second book about the Trump administration is scheduled for release on September 15 in the lead-up to the November presidential election. The title and cover of the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter's new book has not yet been released.
The book is now posted on Amazon as "untitled" with the description, "Bob Woodward's second work of nonfiction on the Trump presidency."
Sources with knowledge of the book tell CNN that Woodward has been working on the follow-up to his 2018 runaway bestseller "Fear" for the last 18 months.
In January, Trump announced in an interview with Fox News' Laura Ingraham that he had sat down with Woodward for the upcoming book. Trump's admission came as a surprise after he was openly critical of "Fear," despite being offered an opportunity to be interviewed.
"I was interviewed by a very, very good writer, reporter," Trump said. "I can say Bob Woodward. He said he's doing something and this time I said, 'maybe I'll sit down.'"
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Woodward's new book will arrive at an especially tumultuous time in Trump's presidency amid the coronavirus pandemic and the subsequent economic fallout, national protests on race and the 2020 presidential election. Since "Fear" was published, Trump has also been impeached for his efforts to pressure Ukraine to investigate presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.
Woodward's "Fear" provided front-row accounts from inside the Oval Office of feuds and clashes within the administration, as well as how senior administration officials and Trump's own private lawyer tried to stop him from acting on what they viewed as his most dangerous impulses.


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Alexander Neef named new head of Canadian Opera Company
TORONTO The Canadian Opera Company named German-born artistic administrator Alexander Neef as its new general director Wednesday, stressing that the 34-year-olds age is an asset as the company tries to attract younger people to its productions.
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One of the things we liked about the candidate was the fact that he was young, COC president David Ferguson told a news conference before announcing Neef as the successor to former head Richard Bradshaw, who died suddenly last August at age 63.
The COC, along with many other arts organizations, faces a challenge of continuing to attract attention to our art forms in the younger elements of our community and certainly this candidate is a very visible symbol of what can be achieved by the right person, said Ferguson.
His youth certainly got the companys attention but let me say that make no mistake we do not equate youth with inexperience.
Neef, currently director of casting at the Opera national de Paris, concurred.
The fact that I am young might help get young people interested in opera, he said onstage at the COCs two-year-old home, the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, which Bradshaw was credited with building.
Neef begins his new position Oct. 1 and says its a nice challenge to follow in the footsteps of Bradshaw, an acclaimed visionary who first arrived at the COC as guest conductor in 1988 and took the helm of the company 10 years later.
Its a huge legacy but so far I really feel carried by the people of the company as well as the people of the board, said Neef, who plans to move to Toronto permanently with his wife, Eloise Bellemont-Neef, and their 11-month-old daughter by the end of September.
The COC search committee started looking for Bradshaws successor last September and used a hiring firm that drew in 1,200 international candidates, who were whittled down to a long list of about 50 and then a short list.
Neef, who has also worked with the Salzburg Festival, the RuhrTriennale in Germany and the New York City Opera, travelled to Toronto in May for interviews and was the unanimous choice of the search committee, said Ferguson.
Unlike Bradshaw, who conducted more than 60 operas with the COC, Neef has no conducting experience and plans to hire a music director for the company as quickly as possible.
His other immediate goals include planning the 2011-2012 season and looking ahead to the 2012-2013 season while concentrating on pieces that the COC has never performed before. He cited Wagners Parsifal as a possible contender.
The COC begins its 2008-2009 season with Mozarts comic drama Don Giovanni on Oct. 5.
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For Celts, The Pub functions as the place to socialize for every occasion, public or personal, from births, to weddings and on to funerals plus everything in between.
In Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, as well as here on the West Coast of America, EVERY city has a 'local' Pub, some long established, some are newly established, and all aiming to support our Celtic communities, and right now they are ALL struggling!
One of the great things about an older port city like San Francisco is the breath of ethnic diversity and culture there, and in that city, Sean Heaney established the Plough and Stars on Clement Street back in 1975. Last year, the City of San Francisco honored them with 'Legacy Business' status, and today 'The Plough' remains the #1 living venue for all things Irish in San Francisco.
The Plough, like many bars and restaurants in the San Francisco Bay Area, is struggling to survive. It is extremely difficult to support our family and employees with no ability to earn an income.
We have long prided ourselves on being ago to place for Irish traditional experiences. Over the years we have been privileged to host many well-known musicians from Ireland and around the globe. The Plough hosts weekly traditional Irish seisuns and dance. At our Irish Seisuns customers listen as musicians share tunes or even learn to play themselves. The Plough is also a vital venue for bluegrass jams and gigs, as well as a place where local musicians can be heard. We want to make sure that the Plough can continue in those efforts. We have been so touched by the support of friends, musicians, dancers, and patrons. They are what make the Plough the institution that it is and we can't thank them enough for their support at this difficult time.
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Sláinte Irish Pub in Oakland may be the newest of our local Pubs here in the San Francisco Bay area, but is equally deserving if just for Jackie Gallanagh's stellar support of Celtic culture in her first few years.
As I write this, today Wednesday, April 29th, Sláinte is celebrating its 3rd year anniversary under lockdown. None of us saw this coming and I am in shock everyday wondering how we got here and what we can do to survive this. We, the Irish Community, are fighters. We don't give up easily and I am a super stubborn gay Irish women that has now has to fight for her place in the Bay Area. The support we have received from the Oakland community has been amazing and the Jack London Square neighbors that surround us are customers that want to save their neighborhood local. Thank you all for your support thus far but we need you now more than ever. Please keep us in your thoughts and give what you can, thank you. We will get through this together.
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If we don't step up and support these local Celtic businesses, they may not survive this trying time to continue and where will we go to meet then? So please join me and support your local! Just click on the link(s) below, and Dig Deep!
The Plough and Stars Irish Pub, San Francisco, CA https://www.gofundme.com/f/sfplough
The Starry Plough Pub, Berkeley, CA https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-the-starry-plough-stay-open
O'Flaherty's Irish Pub, San Jose, CA https://www.gofundme.com/f/oflats-needs-you
Sláinte Irish Pub, Oakland, CA https://www.gofundme.com/f/save-slainte-oakland
O'Malley's Irish Pub, Tacoma, WA https://www.gofundme.com/f/save-o039malley039s-irish-pub
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Teachers' performance is a fundamental concern of all educational institutions and is negatively influenced by different dissatisfactions such as financial status and learning environments that impact on institutional productivity. Sudanese English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers of Governmental schools that simultaneously work in public and private schools have a different performances. The performance of these teachers in private schools is usually estimated adequate and of very good quality comparing to their performance in public schools where their performance is rated as less than expected or even inadequate. This study is based on a non-systematic narrative overview and the practical experience of the researcher who has been a secondary school teacher, university English language lecturer and teacher trainer and supervisor for secondary English language teachers in Sudan. Moreover, the study describes and reflects on the male teachers' condition during the year 2018 in Khartoum, Sudan. Results of the analysis suggest that performance variation of EFL teachers in public and private schools in favour of private schools is influenced by poor financial status of teachers as well as inappropriate teaching/learning environments.