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Signs of progress in Kerry peace bid
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The State Department released this photo of Secretary of State John Kerry meeting with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas today in Ramallah, amid reports Friday suggesting Kerry may be on the verge of announcing agreement on relaunching Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
Kerry extended his trip to the region Friday to meet with Abbas to see if he could overcome obstacles to resuming negotiations.
Kerry's helicopter ride from Amman to the West Bank capital was delayed two hours while he made phone calls to Israeli, Palestinian and US officials Friday, the New York Times reported.
The holdup is borders, analysts suggested.
"The biggest short term issue is at what point is Bibi actually going to be able to present a map," one US Middle East analyst told the Back Channel Friday when it looked like Kerry may return to Washington without final agreement on resumed talks. "Once he does, does he have a coalition. It's understandable the Palestinians are skeptical about that, and want that to be part of any formulation."
But signs from Ramallah Friday were that the meeting with Abbas was going well, according to Israeli media reports. Israel Channel 2 reporter Ehud Yaari, citing Israeli officials, reported Friday that Kerry was on the verge of announcing agreement on relaunching talks.
(Photo: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry sits with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas before a meeting in Ramallah, West Bank, on July 19, 2013. State Department photo/ Public Domain.)
Posted in Politics, Security	| Tagged Abbas, Ehud Yaari, Israel, John Kerry, Jordan, Netanyahu, Palestine, Palestinian Authority
The Closer: Why Ron Dermer may be Bibi's perfect peace envoy
Ron Dermer, Israel's next envoy to the United States, may be a sharp-elbowed Republican partisan who appeared to openly back Barack Obama's opponent in the 2012 presidential campaign, and who has lived longer in the United States than he has in Israel, as Akiva Eldar wrote this week for Al-Monitor.
Other observers of US-Israel relations say while this may be true, it is not the full picture and misses the point. Dermer's appointment, in this score, is not at all controversial. He has the ear of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — the gold standard for any ambassador. Dermer, because of his understanding of US politics and ties to the GOP, may be the perfect envoy to sell peace to the right if Netanyahu decides to get serious about negotiations, as many Israeli analysts suspect he is preparing to do.
"All signs point to the possibility that Netanyahu is relatively serious about going back to negotiations and attempting to do something," Shmuel Rosner, an Israeli journalist and political analyst told me Wednesday.
"It is customary to say in Israel that it is easier for left-wing governments to make war, and right-wing governments to make peace," Rosner said. "If you think about the Israeli ambassador to the US, and …the case in which the Obama administration attempts to advance some sort of peace process or any other controversial policy with the right wing, if Dermer stands behind the policy and endorses it, it will be much easier both for the government of Israel and for the [U.S.] administration to let this policy pass in the Congress."
US Secretary of State John Kerry, currently on his sixth visit to the Middle East, looks increasingly close to realizing his goal of getting Israeli Palestinian peace talks re-launched, many observers believe.
"For the Obama administration, this makes Dermer more important," Rosner said. "It also makes him a tool with which to devise a policy that Congress and the opposition cannot truly oppose."
"For Bibi, it's a good choice," said Amir Radberg, an Israeli-American who previously worked as a legislative analyst at the Israeli embassy in Washington from 1993-2003. "If he continues with his current agenda, he will have an eloquent speaker to argue for him. If he needs to sell peace to the GOP and right-wing Jews, [Dermer] will handle them much better than a professional diplomat."
In many ways, Dermer, 42, is a mirror image of Dan Shapiro, Obama's highly-regarded ambassador to Israel. Shapiro, 44, previously served as the Obama campaign's liaison to the Jewish community and as Obama's first term White House Middle East advisor. As such, Shapiro is an avowed Obama/Democratic partisan with a close personal and direct tie to the president, who is known to Israeli interlocutors to be speaking for the president. Similarly, Dermer, a longtime political advisor to Netanyahu, is a partisan who has the trust of the Prime Minister, and can speak for him.
"The fact that he is close to Netanyahu is a huge advantage," Rosner said. "When people in the administration talk to the ambassador, the first and most important thing for them to know is that their conversation has some value. To speak to someone who has no sway with Israeli government, is a waste of time. And speaking to Dermer will not be waste of time."
Meantime, Rosner notes, there are many signs that Netanyahu is serious about entering into peace negotiations with the Palestinians. "The noose is getting tighter," Rosner said. "Politically speaking, he's in big trouble within his own party. However, if he doesn't do anything about the peace process, he will have even bigger trouble with his coalition and the public."
"It's better for him to pursue something in the hope that if his approval ratings go up, his party will somehow cave," Rosner said. "Or he can do what [former Israeli Prime Minsiter Ariel] Sharon did a couple years ago: abandon his party and move to the center. Just leaving things as they are now almost guarantees that this will be his last term as prime minister."
(Photo: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Ron Dermer. Photo credit, Dudi Vaaknin, courtesy of Israeli government press office.)
Posted in Politics, Security	| Tagged Akiva Eldar, ambassador, Amir Radberg, Ariel Sharon, Dan Shaprio, diplomacy, Israel, John Kerry, Middle East, Netanyahu, Obama, Palestinian Authority, Ron Dermer, Shmuel Rosner
Israel bristles at EU measure as Kerry arrives in Amman to push peace talks
Israel on Tuesday bristled at a new European Union directive curtailing EU financial agreements with Jewish settlements built outside Israel's 1967 borders.
The move comes as US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Amman Tuesday, for meetings with Arab diplomats about the peace process, Syria and Egypt.
Some sources said they were informed Monday that there was likely to be a three-way meeting of Israeli, Palestinian and US officials in Jordan while Kerry is there and a formal announcement of a re-launching of talks. U.S. officials however, tried vigorously to downplay the prospect of a big break-through. No trips to Jerusalem or meetings with Israeli officials were planned for this visit, Kerry's sixth to the region since becoming Secretary of State, State Department officials said.
Kerry met with Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh upon his arrival in Amman Tuesday before heading into what was billed as a private dinner with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
Meantime, in Jerusalem, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke harshly against the new EU directive.
"I expect those who want peace in the region to deal with settlements after they solve the Syria crisis and the Iranian threat," Netanyahu said in a statement Tuesday in response to the EU measure, Haaretz reported.
The EU directive, adopted June 30, and due to come into effect 1 January 2014, "will prohibit the issuing of grants, funding, prizes or scholarships unless a settlement exclusion clause is included," the Guardian newspaper reported.
The directive, which is non-binding on the EU's 28 member states, "is financially inconsequential," said Daniel Levy, head of Middle East programs at the European Council on Foreign Relations. "It matters because liberal Israel, liberal Zionists, one of the main crutches of their argument for the two state solution, is the world won't accept it otherwise."
Israeli politicians such as Justice Minister Tzipi Livni have warned that Israel could face boycotts if it doesn't curb settlements and the occupation of the West Bank, Levy said.
Israeli officials said the European move was unhelpful, however.
Posted in Politics, Security	| Tagged Abbas, Daniel Levy, ECFR, EU, Israel, Jordan, Kerry, Nasser Judeh, Netanyahu, Palestinian Authority, Tzipi Livni
Israeli lawmakers, in letter, throw support to Kerry peace efforts
The head of a coalition of some three dozen Israeli lawmakers has written U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry praising his Middle East peacemaking efforts and urging him to persevere, despite push-back from some members of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's governing coalition.
"We are writing to you to inform you of the formation of the Knesset Caucus for Ending the Israeli-Arab Conflict, and to convey our gratitude and support to you for your continuing diplomatic effort to revitalize the Arab-Israeli peace process," Israeli deputy speaker of the Knesset Hilik Bar wrote in the letter to Sec. Kerry, dated June 5th. The Caucus, formed last month, "stands ready as your willing and able partner in our shared mission to get to Two States for Two Peoples."
Kerry, in remarks to the American Jewish Committee (AJC) this week, "asked the audience there to 'seize the moment'…; we here in the Knesset aim to do just that," Bar's letter continued. "As you articulated so eloquently…Israel's survival as a secure, democratic and Jewish homeland depends on the realization of a final-status agreement that creates two-states for people between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea."
Bar's letter, published in full below the jump, comes as a counter-point to remarks by Israeli Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon Wednesday, warning that the Israeli government would vote to reject any two-state solution to the Israeli Palestinian conflict.
"If you will bring it [the two state solution] to a vote in the government…you will see the majority of Likud ministers, along with the Jewish Home [party], will be against it," Danon said in an interview with the Times of Israel Wednesday.
"What happens in the coming days will dictate what happens in the coming decades," Kerry told the AJC in a speech Monday (June 3rd). "If we do not succeed now, we may not get another chance."
The Knesset pro two-state coalition currently counts about 40 members, from the Labor, Hatenu'a, Shas, Yesh Atid, Hadash, Hatnua and Meretz parties, according to a list provided to Al-Monitor. It has the support of Israeli cabinet ministers Tzipi Livni, Yaakov Perry and opposition chair and Labor party leader Shelly Yechimovich.
The State Department did not immediately respond to a query about whether Kerry had received the letter, or his reaction to it.
Kerry is expected to travel to Israel, Ramallah and Jordan yet again next week – his fifth trip to the region since becoming Secretary of State. Kerry, in his remarks to the AJC, highlighted the Arab League's reissuing of the Arab Peace Initiative last month, and its new position endorsing possible land-swaps in an agreement on the borders for a Palestinian state.
Newly joining Frank Lowenstein in aiding Kerry's efforts in the State Department office of the Middle East peace envoy is former Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Pentagon Middle East advisor Ilan Goldenberg, sources tell the Back Channel.
Full letter from MK Hilik Bar to Sec. Kerry, not previously published, below the jump: Continue reading →
Posted in Culture & Society, Politics, Security	| Tagged American Jewish Committee, Danny Danon, Frank Lowenstein, Hilik Bar, Ilan Goldenberg, Israel, Israel Beitenu, John Kerry, Jordan, Knesset, Labor, Likud, Meretz, Netanyahu, Palestinian Authority, Shelly Yechimovich., State Department, Tzipi Livni, Yaakov Perry
State RUMINT: Malinowski for State DRL, Sewall for CT or PM
Updated: Two more Clinton administration alums may be tapped for senior State Department posts.
The Obama administration may name Human Rights Watch's Tom Malinowski to serve as Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL), sources tell the Back Channel. Harvard's Sarah Sewall is also rumored to be up for a top State Department job, with some sources saying the White House has picked her for Counterterrorism Coordinator, others hearing Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs.
Sewall, a lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School and expert in the field of protecting civilians in wartime, did not respond to queries from the Back Channel. The State Department and White House declined to comment on whether the appointment was in the works.
The Back Channel previously heard that the bureau's Deputy Coordinator Anne Witkowsky was also under consideration for the Counterterrorism Coordinator post, which was formerly held by Daniel Benjamin, who left in January to head Dartmouth's Dickey Center for International Understanding.
Sewall, a member of the Obama/Biden transition team, previously served in the Clinton administration as the first Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Peacekeeping and as the foreign policy advisor to then Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell.
Malinowski, the Washington director for Human Rights Watch, is expected to be nominated to succeed Michael Posner as Assistant Secretary of State for DRL. He did not respond to a query from the Back Channel Friday.
Malinowski previously served as a foreign policy speechwriter for President Bill Clinton and Secretaries of State Warren Christopher and Madeleine Albright, and as a member of the State Department policy planning staff. Continue reading →
Posted in Politics, Security	| Tagged Anne Witkowsky, Centcom, Clinton, counterterrorism, Dan Benjamin, Douglas Lute, DRL, Europe, Gen. John Allen, George Mitchell, Harvard, Human Rights Watch, Israel, Ivo Daalder, Kennedy School, Madeleine Albright, Michael Posner, NATO, Obama, Palestinian Authority, Sarah Sewall, State Department, Tom Malinowski, Victoria Nuland, Warren Christopher
Back story: Abbas rebuffed Ahmadinejad mediation offer
Al-Monitor's Andrew Parasiliti reports from New York:
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas got off to a chilly start in their first ever meeting at the summit of the Non Aligned Movement (NAM), hosted by Iran late last month (August 31, 2012).
According to a participant in the meeting, who spoke exclusively to Al-Monitor on condition of anonymity, Ahmadinejad was obligated to invite Abbas, as leader of Palestinian Authority, a member of the Non Aligned Movement, to the summit in Tehran.
Abbas had not planned to meet with Ahmadinejad during the summit, but agreed when the Iranian president requested a formal meeting after Abbas had arrived in Tehran.
After the ceremonial pleasantries, Abbas asked whether Ahmadinejad had invited Hamas leader Ismael Haniyeh to the NAM summit, as Hamas had claimed. Ahmadinejad said he personally had not extended an invitation, although the Iranian Foreign Ministry had in fact invited Haniyeh as a special guest. Haniyeh decided not to attend only after Abbas threatened not to participate in the summit if Haniyeh did.
Abbas told Ahmadinejad that his references to eliminating Israel hurt the Palestinian cause. Ahmadinejad was taken aback by the criticism, apparently having thought his aggressive language on Israel would be a boost to the Palestinians. Abbas said that was not the case, and that it would be more helpful to talk about putting Palestine on the map, rather than wiping Israel off the map.
Ahmadinejad offered to mediate reconciliation talks with Hamas, but the offer was politely deflected by Abbas.
Abbas also declined a subsequent invitation to visit Tehran, although he has not ruled out a future visit to Iran.
–Andrew Parasiliti is CEO & Editor at Large for Al-Monitor.
(Photo: Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Qatar's Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Egypt's President Mohamed Mursi and India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (L-R) prepare to take a group photo during the 16th summit of the Non-Aligned Movement in Tehran August 30, 2012. REUTERS/Ra'ouf Mohseni/Mehr News Agency.)
Posted in Politics, Security	| Tagged Fatah, Hamas, Iran; Ahmadinejad; Palestinians; Abbas; Hanaiyeh; NAM, Israel, Palestinian Authority


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Q: Django Coalesce returns null if no rows are found I'm using the Coalesce function to prevent an aggregate Sum from returning None
Coalesce(Sum('ext_price'), 0)

The problem is that if no rows are found it still returns null. Is there a way to modify the function so it returns zero if no rows are found?
class Coalesce(Func):
    """Return, from left to right, the first non-null expression."""
    function = 'COALESCE'

    def __init__(self, *expressions, **extra):
        if len(expressions) < 2:
            raise ValueError('Coalesce must take at least two expressions')
        super().__init__(*expressions, **extra)

By having no rows I mean
queryset = MyModel.objects.none()
total = queryset.aggregate(total=Coalesce(Sum('total'), Value(0)).get('total')
total == None  # True

A: You need to wrap the value in a Value object:
from django.db.models import Coalesce, Value

Coalesce(Sum('ext_price'), Value(0))
You can implement your own Coalesce function, for example:
from django.db.models import Value
from django.db.models.functions import Coalesce

class CoalesceZero(Coalesce):

    def __init__(self, *expressions, **extra):
        super().__init__(*expressions, Value(0), **extra)
In that case, you can thus use your CoalesceZero, and you no longer need to write Value(0) as last value.
EDIT: If you have an aggregation, that of course this is COALESCE will not be evaluated. You can then use a simple or 0 in your Python code:
queryset = MyModel.objects.none()
total = queryset.aggregate(total=Sum('total')).get('total') or 0

A: Willem's answer above on aggregations is great if you just have a few times; if you have to do that in a lot of places you can do something like this:
class AggregateCoalesceMixin:
    @staticmethod
    def aggregate_coalesce(
        aggregate: Dict[str, Any],
        default_from_value: Optional[Any] = None,
        default_to_value: Optional[Any] = 0,
        default_map: Optional[Dict[str, Tuple[Any, Any]]] = None,
    ) -> Dict[str, Any]:
        for k, v in aggregate.items():
            if default_map and k in default_map:
                if v == default_map[k][0]:
                    aggregate[k] = default_map[k][1]
                    continue
            elif v == default_from_value:
                aggregate[k] = default_to_value
        return aggregate

Which you can use like so:
aggregate_result = {"item_1": None, "item_2": 20}
aggregate_result = self.aggregate_coalesce(aggregate_result)
>> {"item_1": 0, "item_2": 20}

And if you need more control, can provide a map of coalescent values:
aggregate_result = {"item_1": None, "item_2": '', "item_3": 20}
map = {"item_1": (None, 0), "item_2": ('', 'NA'), "item_3": (None, 0)}
aggregate_result = self.aggregate_coalesce(aggregate_result, default_map=map)
>> {"item_1": 0, "item_2": 'NA', "item_3": 20}

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Gli acidi grassi a catena corta o SCFA, dall'inglese short chain fatty acids, sono una classe di acidi grassi saturi con una catena alifatica composta da meno di 6 atomi di carbonio. I SCFA univocamente citati sono acido acetico, acido propionico, e acido butirrico, tuttavia esistono altri acidi grassi con meno di 6 atomi di carbonio che in genere non vengono menzionati.

Digestione e assorbimento
Gli acidi grassi a corta catena, così come quelli a catena media (MCFA o MCT), vengono assorbiti come tali a livello intestinale e veicolati direttamente al fegato tramite la vena porta (sono infatti solubili in acqua), al contrario degli acidi grassi a catena lunga (LCFA), che sono inglobati nei chilomicroni ed accedono al circolo ematico tramite i capillari linfatici e l'arteria succlavia. Contrariamente agli altri acidi grassi superiori, gli SCFA non sono in grado di formare i gliceridi (mono, di e trigliceridi), composti da acidi grassi e glicerolo, o altre esterificazioni. Le fonti alimentari di acidi grassi a corta catena sono limitate; essi sono prodotti prevalentemente dalla fermentazione della fibra alimentare solubile (in particolare amido resistente, pectina, frutto-oligosaccaridi ) e di altri carboidrati non digeriti, ad opera dai batteri del colon. Tale fermentazione porta alla sintesi di acetato, butirrato, propionato, idrogeno (H) ed anidride carbonica (CO2); altri SCFA sono prodotti in quantità inferiori. Il butirrato, in particolare, assieme alla glutammina, rappresenta la maggiore fonte energetica per il colon, tanto che la sua carenza determina atrofia della mucosa. Si rivelano molto utili anche per il flusso ematico del colon, ed una loro carenza porta ad una sua parziale atrofia. Contribuiscono all'assorbimento del sodio (Na) e dell'acqua (H2O) a livello colico, hanno un'azione antinfiammatoria. Il propionato e l'acetato vengono facilmente assorbiti dalla mucosa colica ed entrano nel circolo sanguigno dove sono captati dal fegato (propionato) ed utilizzati come fonte energetica ausiliaria dai muscoli (acetato). Si stima che il contributo calorico di questi acidi grassi alla copertura del fabbisogno energetico sia pari al 10% circa.

Dibattiti
I lipidi sarebbero per definizione insolubili in acqua e solubili in solventi organici. Tuttavia gli acidi grassi a corta catena rappresentano un'eccezione, in quanto essi sono solubili in acqua a causa della loro ridotta catena carboniosa. Più la catena carboniosa è lunga, più l'acido grasso diventa insolubile nel liquido, così come aumenta proporzionalmente il loro punto di fusione. Queste caratteristiche possono far insorgere qualche contraddizione e problema di classificazione: alcuni SCFA spesso non vengono nemmeno citati come acidi grassi, ma più genericamente acidi carbossilici. Altri non riconoscono alcune molecole come acidi grassi quando sono composti da meno di 4 atomi di carbonio. Alcune molecole come l'acido lattico, acido acetico e acido succinico sono anch'esse considerate da alcuni come SCFA.

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Lipidi
Acidi grassi
Acidi grassi a catena media (MCFA)
Acidi grassi a catena lunga (LCFA)
Acidi grassi a catena molto lunga (VLCFA)
Acidi grassi essenziali (EFA)
Acidi grassi saturi (SFA)
Acidi grassi monoinsaturi (MUFA)
Acidi grassi polinsaturi (PUFA)
Acidi grassi trans
Acidi carbossilici
Gliceridi
Monogliceridi
Digliceridi
Trigliceridi
Trigliceridi intramuscolari
Metabolismo dei lipidi
Fibra alimentare

Acidi grassi
Biochimica
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Zoom theatre performance provides relief, inspiration for Westminster actors
By Melissa Reeves on	 October 30, 2020
Actors in "Fefu and Her Friends" exchange lines over Zoom during the Westminster College theatre performance Oct. 29. Stage director, Evan Leeds, said that the performance was expected to be virtual so "it meant that throughout the whole process we've been working under that assumption." (Melissa Reeves)
"Fefu and Her Friends": a story filled with such emotion, it seeped through the computer screen. Behind Zoom screens, actors recited lines not from a stage, but from the comfort of their own spaces.
Performing arts events may take on a different form amid the pandemic, but that didn't stop actors from putting on an elaborate show.
As a result, Westminster College Theatre Arts presented a digital staged reading of the play "Fefu and Her Friends" by María Irene Fornés. During the Thursday performance, members of the theatre program performed in their respective Zoom rectangles while viewers muted their own screens.
As the play moved into its second act, viewers transitioned into rotating breakout rooms to view actors perform different scenes.
It's an unconventional approach, but the method was taken to adapt to the unusual time. Using Zoom as a means to deliver the performance was a challenge, according to those involved with the play.
"It has been a challenge mostly because we are having to use previously existing applications which aren't necessarily constructed for this sort of event," said Evan Leeds, stage director. "I think we've been able to find a way to make the show work — even the more unconventional aspects — but it definitely took some mental gymnastics to figure out a solution."
In preparation for the debut of the virtual performance, the cast members rehearsed via Zoom rather than in person. Due to social distancing guidelines, Leeds decided all rehearsals would be online to mitigate risk.
"It is really difficult to replicate the almost palpable intimacy of live theatre over Zoom that makes it so special," Leeds said. "We've tried our best and I am super pleased with our production but it certainly hasn't been easy."
Other actors said they felt challenged by the difficult circumstances that were presented by the virtual performance.
Hannah Orr, a Westminster senior playing the role of Emma, said the technology for a virtual performance limited the cast and crew in several technical aspects.
"For the most part, the virtual format has been the biggest restriction," Orr said. "It prevents us from incorporating major blocking and can be limited by our lack of knowledge with the ins and outs of the platform."
Those difficulties did not present themselves in the show, though, as the performance moved gracefully between the actors' individual Zoom squares.
Izzy Neves, who took on the role of Sue, said although virtual performances are new to her, she still enjoyed the process of preparing for a performance.
"This play is very similar to my prior experiences in the sense that the cast is so loving and incredible and I'm still having so much fun," Neves said.
Kaitie Smith, who portrayed the role of Julia, echoed that sentiment.
"Since we had to cancel our performances in the spring, I wasn't able to do what I love," Smith said. "I'm still sad we couldn't do what we wanted to originally, but I'm glad we haven't had to stop completely."
As for the future of Zoom performances, some say they foresee the possibility of more virtual shows.
Orr said that as the COVID-19 pandemic continues, she can see virtual events sticking around.
"I think we'll keep expanding and exploring new ways to make theatre safely until we can all be in the same room again," she said.
Although the future remains uncertain for in-person shows, virtual performances have relieved the stress associated with the cancellation of large events.
"It has felt extraordinary to lean into creative expression again as an outlet for the anxiousness and loneliness of these times," said Leeds, director. "I've loved every rehearsal mostly because I get to interact with each of these amazing cast members and share in something we're passionate about again."
Melissa Reeves is a senior communication student. She is a Pacific Northwest native who moved to Utah to avoid the rain. She thoroughly enjoys overpriced coffee and long walks around her college housing. When she's not scouring Salt Lake City for gluten-free food, you can find her on the lacrosse field.
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Q: How to extract "parts" of a String according to some RegExp pattern? In JavaScript, given a regexp pattern and a string:
var pattern = '/this/[0-9a-zA-Z]+/that/[0-9a-zA-Z]+';
var str = '/this/12/that/34';

How to return an array containing:
['12', '34']

The following matches the whole input string and thus returns it as a whole.
var res1 = '/this/12/that/34'.match(/\/this\/[0-9a-zA-Z]+\/that\/[0-9a-zA-Z]+/));

The following matches all "parts" of the input string.
var res2 = '/this/12/that/34'.match(/[0-9a-zA-Z]+/g));

A: Use capture groups:
var res1 = '/this/12/that/34'.match(/\/this\/([0-9a-zA-Z]+)\/that\/([0-9a-zA-Z]+)/);

You will get an array containing 3 elements:

*

*The whole match;

*12

*34
And you can use .slice(1) to remove the first element:
var res1 = '/this/12/that/34'.match(/\/this\/([0-9a-zA-Z]+)\/that\/([0-9a-zA-Z]+)/).slice(1);

A: In Regex, you can use parentheses to delimit "capture groups". These can then be retrieved from your match. It should also be noted that regexes are literals in JavaScript, you must not put quotes around them (slashes are used instead) and you must escape properly.
For example, if you use this regex:
var pattern = /\/this\/([0-9a-z]+)\/that\/([0-9a-z]+)/i;
// that final "i" avoids the need to specify A-Z, it makes the regex ignore case

Now when you match it against your string:
var match = str.match(pattern);

Your result will look like:
["/this/12/that/34","12","34"]

Note that the first index of the array will always be your entire match. You can use .shift to slice it off:
match.shift();

Now match looks like:
["12","34"]


This thesis determines significant factors within the local food community in southwest Michigan. First, local food research literature was used to establish broad categories of local food consumption. A survey-based methodology was used to collect information from self-identified local food consumers in the study area. Factor analysis was used to establish ten components of Likert scale questions used in the survey. The ten categories were regrouped into five categories similar to those found in the literature. Statistical analysis was used to determine the local food consumption behaviors and factors that are significant within the five categories. The goal of this thesis was to determine unique identifiers within each category. While the initial goal of the research was not fulfilled, ten local food consumption factors were determined to be significant within the sample population. Food miles, specifically consumer knowledge of food miles, is a significant factor in all aspects of local food consumption. Additional factors found to be significant include: local food source type, last meal production, time spent at local food source, employment status, income, local food source, age, education and miles traveled to local food source.
Simms, Emily, "Local Food: Perceptions and Realities in Southwest Michigan" (2011). Master's Theses. 4047.


Submitted by Roldo on Fri, 03/07/2008 - 15:40.
Finally, someone tells the County Commissioners that they owe the public some answers on the increased sales tax for the proposed medical mart and convention center.
Cleveland City Council members Brian Cummins and Zach Reed, as you can read below, are asking for the repeal of the quarter percent sales tax increase that the Commissioners - at least Tim Hagan and Jimmy Dimora - placed upon County taxpayers without consultation of those who pay the tab.
The "Put It On the Ballot" committee wants more public consultation about whether the plans are feasible.
I would disagree with the group's call for some reinstatement of the Convention Facilities Authority since it wasn't really dedicated to finding out if there should be a new convention center but merely was the Power Elites' method of pretending there had been a process, study and responsible determination. That never happened.
We don't need a new convention center, unless private business wishes to finance one.
The numerous facilities - Cleveland Convention Center, the I-X complex, the Wolstein Center and many other facilities that can accommodate meetings and conventions are more than adequate for the business here.
Put It On The Ballot calls on the Cuyahoga County Commissioners to repeal the sales tax passed for the convention facility, reinstate the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Convention Facility Authority (CFA), and provide a more open, collaborative and competitive process for planning and implementing a strategy for creating a Medical Mart.
If the additional .25% tax would be repealed as of July 2008 (the next available quarter a repeal could take effect) the county is estimated to collect $32,000,000 for the 9-month period October 2007 – June 2008. The county should retain this funding in a restricted account for purposes of utilizing the funding if and when the convention facility/medical mart negotiations are finalized. The County Commissioners should charge a newly constituted CFA to set a date certain for negotiations to be concluded. The more regionally representative and transparent CFA should be utilized to manage the planning and implementation of a convention facility/medical mart.
The County Commissioners should also develop and approve a plan for the re-allocation of the tax in the event a convention facility/medical mart is deemed not feasible. Previously the Commissioners have estimated that approximately $20 - $25 million of the estimated annual tax receipts of $43 million would be needed for convention facility/medical mart. Such a reallocation plan should take into account the continuing use of the existing convention facility as well as the priority needs of the county and municipalities that have contributed to this funding through the tax.
The tax is being collected under the County's general fund and although the funding was intended and is earmarked for the convention facility/medical mart, the Commissioners decided to pass the .25% tax without a vote of the people. The commissioners used the State law that allows for a passage of a tax without a vote of the people as long as the additional revenue is used to provide funding for the County's general fund. The State law provides for such a tax to be levied for the express purposes of a convention facilities authority, but in doing so would require a vote of the people.
The County Commissioners are called to take these actions to rebuild the trust of Cuyahoga County residents and to provide a more transparent, accountable, collaborative and competitive process for which a convention facility/medical mart can be supported by the public, realized and achieve success in providing economic development benefits to the region.
 5739.026 County sales tax for specific purposes, sections A1 and A3.
Submitted by Norm Roulet on Fri, 03/07/2008 - 17:41.
Submitted by lmcshane on Sat, 03/08/2008 - 11:44.
Just want to make sure that we get the spelling right for some one who dares to stick his neck out for US. Thank you, Brian and Johanna for making change.


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The DC Five: Trump Admin Big Shots Most Likely to Shape Financial Markets
By Matt Grossman	April 4, 2018 1:00 pm
Photo illustration: Kaitlyn Flannagan
Just as 2017's hyper-zealous financing market had many of Commercial Observer's Power 50 honorees keeping one eye fixed on the competition, record-setting levels of executive branch turnover during the first full year of the Trump administration—and the media's insatiable appetite for palace intrigue—made it difficult for executive branch bigwigs to carve out a comfortable niche.
SEE ALSO: Frustrated With Trump, Starwood's Sternlicht Cheers Investments Abroad
That's one reason that Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin—last year's honoree in the No. 5 spot—missed out on a place in this year's power list. A constant stream of controversy on Pennsylvania Avenue—from President Donald Trump's dithering after a rally tinged with white supremacism in Charlottesville, Va., to the expansive investigation into connections between the Trump campaign and the Russian government—had the White House playing defense for much of the year. When it came to the biggest piece of landmark legislation, for example, the president's men largely took a back seat to Congress in crafting December's tax overhaul.
And although Mnuchin has been bumped from the rarified company of CO's list, at least he survived a year and a quarter on the job. That's more than you can say for Gary Cohn, the former Goldman Sachs executive who resigned last month as director of the National Economic Council, and Tom Price, who stepped back from overseeing a gigantic share of America's budget when he resigned from his job as secretary of Health and Human Services in September, embroiled in a brouhaha over his use of private jets.
Still, as the Trump White House embarks on a second year that will include congressional elections, new attention fixed on international tariffs, an economy absorbing a series of interest-rate hikes and even a planned summit with North Korea's Kim Jong-un, unpredictability remains the only sure bet. As the dust settles, these five government power players—in no particular order, mind you—could have the biggest impact on financial markets nationwide this year.
Director, National Economic Council
With Gary Cohn out of the picture, Trump has asked longtime CNBC host Larry Kudlow to the dance as his new director of the National Economic Council. The role won't be Kudlow's first foray into conservative politics—the 70-year-old New Jersey native served in the Office of Management and Budget in the Reagan administration—but his early 2015 endorsement of long-shot candidate Trump's tax plan couldn't have hurt his chances to join the administration.
As an economic prognosticator, Kudlow's prophecies have not always been the most prescient: take the embarrassing matter of his mid-2000s enthusiasm for Florida's housing market, or his bullish statements about the prospects of a recession as late as December 2007. But critics lamenting Cohn's loss as a force for stability in Trumpland can at least be grateful that Kudlow has asked the former director's staff to stay on for his tenure. A reliable free-trader, Kudlow has already criticized Trump's readiness to enact tariffs on aluminum and steel produced abroad—and given the sharp equity-market declines since those policies were announced, investors will be keen to track whether Kudlow can talk Trump down from the edge of a trade war.
The biggest economic policy news to hit the wires in 2018 hardly sprouted out of traditional executive branch policy-making. The White House mostly kept to the sidelines as Congressional committees hashed out last year's tax reform, and by all accounts, Trump's announcement of harsh new tariffs last month blindsided even his closest advisers. But through it all, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has been a dependable cheerleader for the president's blend of protectionism and free-marketeering, lending him impressive staying power in an administration marked by whiplash turnover. Within the capital, the Treasury Department's stone's throw proximity to the White House means that Mnuchin is "always on the scene," Politico has reported, attending meetings that are only tangentially related to Treasury business. As a result, he's weighed in on everything from denuclearization in Iran and North Korea to the administration's policy on affordable housing finance. Moreover, Mnuchin's ability to weather a controversy over his use of government airplanes—the exact scenario that brought down Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price—could be a sign of his relative strength in the administration. One of several Trumpland alumni of Goldman Sachs, the 55-year-old Yale University graduate brings deep Wall Street ties to Washington that continue to make him an important link between the White House and the financial industry.
Mick Mulvaney
Director of the Office of Management and Budget; Acting Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Mick Mulvaney, a former Republican congressman who represented South Carolina's fifth congressional district in the House of Representatives for six years, placed himself at the center of a bizarre Washington spectacle last November when Richard Cordray, the Obama appointee who served as the first director of the newfangled Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), stepped aside. Trump appointed Mulvaney—who was already serving as the chief of the Office of Management and Budget—to take Cordray's place, while Cordray's deputy, Democrat Leandra English, argued that the job was rightfully hers. For a few confusing days, both showed up to work, with each attempting to control the agency from competing offices, until a federal judge ruled that Mulvaney was the proper heir.
In the months since, Mulvaney has crusaded from within against what he sees as the CFPB's overbroad mandate, declining to submit a request for any congressional funding whatsoever for the agency. But don't mistake Mulvaney for a dogmatic spendthrift. In his budget office role, Mulvaney presided this February over a federal budget process that plans for a trillion-dollar deficit in 2019, with overall levels of U.S. debt planned to rise by $7.1 trillion over the next 10 years. And all that deficit spending is already having an effect on financial markets. In just one week in February, the government issued more than a quarter of a trillion dollars in new obligations, sending two-year yields tumbling as investors demanded compensation for absorbing a rapid ramp-up in supply.
Given Mulvaney's dual executive-branch roles at two separate control panels, few individuals have more concentrated leverage over U.S. financial markets.
As commerce secretary, Wilbur Ross has forged a less dynamic portfolio than some of his counterparts in Donald Trump's cabinet, but Ross' power to shape economic policy—especially in the area of international trade—should not be underestimated. Granted, the 80-year-old New Jersey native—once thought to be a billionaire but revealed in financial disclosures last year to land somewhat shy of that mark—generated embarrassing headlines this January, when Axios reported that Ross has a penchant for snoozing during high-level meetings.
But the Yale University and Harvard Business School graduate stands to play a crucial role overseeing tariffs on steel and aluminum that Trump announced in March, vested as he is with the power to adjudicate exclusions and exceptions to fees on foreign imports. Given that equity markets retreated sharply as fears of a trade war mounted in the weeks since, investors economy wide will stay keenly attuned to the details of how any new tariffs will be rolled out.
But Ross' most far-reaching influence may well come in the form of his responsibility for the U.S. Census Bureau, set to next conduct its all-important decennial survey in 2020. That project's results will have long-term implications for the shape of congressional districts and the disbursement of federal funds until at least 2030. It's a role that puts the Department of Commerce, and by extension Ross, at the center of key questions of how Americans are represented in Washington and how the U.S. government allocates its resources.
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
As documented in their tributes on our Power 50 list, the two big government-sponsored entities in the multifamily market, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, turned in record-breaking volumes in the housing sector in 2017. That's evidence that despite nostalgia for the American dream of home ownership, shared housing has an increasingly important place in the American landscape—and a sign that federal policy plays a crucial role in shaping where working Americans call home.
Ben Carson, the accomplished neurosurgeon at the center of that effort in the Trump era, was always going to be an unlikely candidate for the post, having previously worked neither in government nor in any capacity connected to real estate. In his first year and change on the job, his efforts to house needy Americans have proceeded with ambivalence, pairing a new $2 billion grant to fund nationwide homelessness programs with exhortations that public housing not provide too many perks, lest those who benefit grow too comfortable there. But with broad control over crucial housing initiatives like the Section 8 program for federal rent assistance and the low-income housing tax credit, Carson—if he is destined to remain in the job despite complaints of his mishandling of an office interior-design budget—stands to exert considerable power over the status of America's federally assisted multifamily stock.
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Q: Hibernate: Mapping result set of native query with @SqlResultSetMapping I'm trying the following:
MyResult.java :
import java.io.Serializable;

import javax.persistence.Column;
import javax.persistence.Entity;
import javax.persistence.EntityResult;
import javax.persistence.SqlResultSetMapping;

@Entity
@SqlResultSetMapping(name = "myResults", entities = {@EntityResult(entityClass = MyResult.class)})
public class MyResult implements Serializable
{

    /**
     *
     */
    private static final long   serialVersionUID    = -1934790337160508576L;

    @Column(name="X")
    private int x;

    @Column(name="Y")
    private double y;

    //
    // Getters and Setters...
    //
}

And in other java class:
Query q = ((org.hibernate.ejb.QueryImpl) this.entityManager.createNativeQuery (this.sql,
                        "myResults")).getHibernateQuery ( );
List<MyResult> result = q.list ( );

When I run this code I get:
[PersistenceUnit: MyHibernatePgSql] Unable to configure EntityManagerFactory
And when I remove the: "@Entity" part from the MyResult.java i get:
org.hibernate.MappingException: Unknown SqlResultSetMapping [myResults]
I know that I'm doing something wrong but I don't know what? Also I can't find good documentation about this.
Thanks in advance
edit: The query looks like this: SELECT X, AGG_FUNC(F) AS Y FROM...

A: Some remarks/questions:

*

*Do you really get only [PersistenceUnit: MyHibernatePgSql] Unable to configure EntityManagerFactory without any stack trace or log?

*Does your entity have an @Id annotation somewhere (required for an entity)?

*Why do you call getHibernateQuery? This seems unnecessary and so does the cast into o.h.e.QueryImpl.

*Why don't you use JPQL (in which case, you could use SELECT NEW assuming your entity does have the proper constructor)?


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A Birkanyírás 2. (eredeti cím: Barbershop 2: Back in Business) 2004-es amerikai filmvígjáték, amelyet Kevin Rodney Sullivan rendezett. A filmet 2004. február 6-án mutatta be a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. A 2002-es Birkanyírás című film folytatása és a Birkanyírás-filmsorozat második része.

Rövid történet
Egy chicagói fodrászüzlet tulajdonosát arra kényszerítik, hogy adja el az üzletet egy ingatlanfejlesztőnek, de szembe kell néznie azzal, hogy ez milyen hatással lenne összetartó közösségére.

Cselekmény

Szereplők

 Ice Cube: Calvin Palmer, Jr.
 Cedric the Entertainer: Eddie Walker
 Sean Patrick Thomas: Jimmy James
 Harry Lennix: Quentin Leroux
 Eve: Terri Jones
 Troy Garity: Isaac Rosenberg
 Michael Ealy: Ricky Nash
 Leonard Earl Howze: Dinka
 Kenan Thompson: Kenard
 DeRay Davis: Ray, a csaló fickó
 Queen Latifah: Gina Norris
 Robert Wisdom: Lalowe Brown
 Jazsmin Lewis: Jennifer Palmer
 Tom Wright Williams: nyomozó s
 Carl Wright: Checker Fred
 Garcelle Beauvais-Nilon: Loretta
 Keke Palmer: Gina unokahúga
 Marcia Wright-Tillman: Joyce
 Avant: Dexter

Folytatás

2014. március 26-án a Deadline Hollywood arról számolt be, hogy az MGM tárgyalásokat folytat Ice Cube-bal egy harmadik Birkanyírás-film elkészítéséről.

2015. március 19-én az MGM bejelentette, hogy a stúdió szerződést kötött Cedric the Entertainerrel, Queen Latifah-val és Nicki Minajjal, hogy szerepeljenek a filmben. Malcolm D. Lee rendezi a filmet, a forgalmazásért pedig a New Line Cinema (a Warner Bros. forgalmazásában) felel. A film 2016. április 15-én került a mozikba.

Jegyzetek

További információk

2004 filmjei
Amerikai filmvígjátékok
20th Century Fox-filmek


In a recent announcement by CommonwealthFirst, the first cohort of UK SME's have been selected to become ComonwealthFirst Export Champions. Laser Quantum has been chosen on the basis of its level of impact, innovation, ambition and ability to succeed across the Commonwealth markets. This recognition is a key achievement and highlights the growth of Laser Quantum. The commonwealth market includes 53 countries for trade and investment and represents one-third of the world's population. Building up this network is of critical importance to many industries and Laser Quantum has established strong links with many of these countries and intends to continue to build them. Laser Quantum, headquartered in Stockport UK, really appreciate being a CommonwealthFirst Export Champion, and we aim to continue our dedication to our products and customers to drive both relationships and scientific research forward.
To read the CommonwealthFirst press release, please click here.


This is a guide to selected sources of information about companies.
This is a guide to selected sources of information about companies. To locate books on companies, conduct a subject search in the catalog for the name of the company you are researching.
North American Industry Classification System, United States, 2012 by United States. Office of Management and Budget.
Published every five years, the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) is an indispensable volume of official industry codes used by businesses, libraries, and other establishments and individuals to complete tax returns, grant requests, and fill out other forms and to improve analyses and comparisons of different industries.
The Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) system classifies businesses by type of product or service. While this system has been replaced with the NAICS as of 1997, some directories still have SIC indexes.
This guide was originally created by Andree Rathemacher 8/97; rev. 9/98, 6/99, 9/03, 5/04.
Updated and reformatted by Madge Boldt 12/09, A. Rathemacher 5/2013.
Updated by Mark Matook 02/2018.


Bring the mobile game ranking charts back to Kotaku this week has taught me a lot about the various mobile platforms. The iPhone and Android players have similar tastes. Windows Phone players can't get many of the games from those other platforms, so they go insane. Oh, and everybody loves Flow Free exactly the same amount.
The Windows Phone charts are going to be a highlight of my week from here on out. At this point I can pretty much predict what's going to show up on the Android and iPhone charts. The Windows Phone chart is like stumbling into a cross-dimensional time machine. It's the Big Lots of mobile marketplaces.
That might all change with the coming of Windows Phone 8, but until then I'm going to cling to it so tight.
A top-down shooter released awhile back for iOS, the whole older iPhone game thing is a bit of a trend on the Windows Phone. Hey, it's new to them!
How is Angry Birds still charting so high on Windows Phone? Because Angry Birds Space and Bad Piggies don't exist on the platform.
Because slicing fruit with your finger never gets old no matter which phone you use.
The mobile version of the downloadable game is incredibly hard to play on a phone, not sure how it made it this high on the list.
So much better than fake soccer.
Such an amazing little game. This blocky side-view shooter deserves a higher spot.
Well now we know which mobile platform the old-school gamers prefer. Frogger on a current top game list; so lovely.
So this is where that mobile version of Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit got off to. The Windows Phone gamers do love their older racing games.
I'm sure that if Asphalt 7 was available on Windows Phone it would be right up here.
Possibly the best game available on the platform.
Not too many surprises in the paid category this week, but then the paid category isn't where the Windows Phone flavor is. Freedom is where it's at, and it's a little bit kooky.
It's the old pushing coins off a ledge arcade game, only instead of winning things you can spend real money to up your score. I am so confused.
A side-scrolling shooter featuring a helicopter, and helicopters always win.
Customizing your Xbox Live avatar totally counts as a game. I play it all the time. My score is awesome.
Get your motor running. Head out on the highway. Looking for adventure, and tilt-control.
Okay, now it's a conspiracy. Flow Free is also number five on this week's Android and iPhone charts. There is something fishy going on with this colorful puzzler, and I'm going to get to the bottom of it!
Contract Killer. Qu'est-ce que c'est? Fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa far better.
It's not the running and gunning that makes Dalton so appealing. It's the awesome.
Why settle for crappy regular pool? You deserve better. We all deserve better.
How could I have possibly missed Pandas Vs. Ninjas the first? I don't even know who I am anymore.
When you're a bubble-popper it doesn't matter if your name is overwhelmingly generic.
Will these charts move at all? What happens when Windows Phone 8 games start coming out? Will there be a Pandas Vs. Ninjas 3? Tune in next week, true believers!


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Steven Universe Ongoing (2017)
Melanie Gillman
Boom Studios Steven Universe Ongoing
Average 4.07/5 out of 41 total votes.
We're bringing Steven Universe back to comic books with more Steven, more gems, and more of the characters we all love in an all-new ongoing series! Writer Melanie Gillman (As the Crow Flies) and artist Katy Farina (The Amazing World of Gumball) are teaming up for the start of a new adventure for the entire gang. Based on Cartoon Network's Emmy Award-nominated animated series created by Rebecca Sugar about a boy with magical powers who goes on adventures with The Crystal Gems, a team of beings who safeguard the universe. The show is approaching its fourth season and has earned over 32 million fans of all ages worldwide.
Steven Universe Ongoing (2017) Chapters
Steven Universe Ongoing (2017) #35
Steven Universe Ongoing (2017) #9
© 2020 Read Comics Online


The Sales and Marketing teams have been very busy the past few months joining SalonCentric's L.I.V.E On Tour Events. We had the pleasure of meeting several of you in Atlanta, GA; Hershey, PA; Charlotte, NC; and Oak Brook, IL. During these events, participants get to watch exciting main stage events presented by your favorite professional brands and hear inspiring messages from industry icons like Guy Tang, Brayden Pelletier, Wayne Grund and Jen Planck.
Hello from our Technical Support Department! My name is Brandon, and I'm the Technical Support Manager. I started here at Ennoview as a technician before being promoted to a senior technician and then to the manager of the department. At every level, I have always been dedicated to making sure clients have the best possible experience with us here. As someone who started at the base of the department, I'm a manager who understands the type of questions or concerns our clients have.
When you purchase Envision, we want you to be confident that we are here to help you with your software every step of the way. That's why we have a dedicated training team here to ensure your success with Envision right from the start! Leading our virtual training sessions is our Certified Envision Trainer, Kim Mabry!
The Envision Online Access mobile application now includes Performance Tracking! This new feature allows you to quickly see how your business and staff are doing with a simple tap on your phone or tablet. Compare your current sales and key performance indicators to where they were last year, last month or even the previous day. No need to pull multiple reports – the information you need to see is in the palm of your hand!
Have you ever wanted your own app for your company? Well, now you can have it! Envision Software offers MyDash, a mobile app FREE to your clients!


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London Marathon runners continue record-breaking charity haul
Runners in the 2013 Virgin London Marathon set yet another record figure for charity fundraising with £53 million being raised for good causes at this year's race.
It is the seventh consecutive year that London Marathon entrants have broken the Guinness World Record for charity fundraising at a single annual event worldwide and brings the total raised for hundreds of charitable causes since the race began in 1981 to more than £663 million.
The average raised by every London Marathon Golden Bond charity runner increased to £2,535 – up from £2,345 in 2012 and the second highest amount in the history of the event.
There were 34,278 London Marathon finishers on Sunday 21 April 2013, with 75 per cent of these runners raising money for good causes and bringing the total to 888,873 runners who have now completed the race, since it started 32 years ago.
Virgin Money London Marathon race director Hugh Brasher said: "We are delighted that this year's amazing London Marathon runners have, once again, raised a record-breaking amount of money for charity.
"This impressive achievement is testament to the enthusiasm and dedication of our runners. To raise this record-breaking amount in the current economic environment, at the same time as achieving their own marathon goals, shows that London Marathon finishers are among the most committed runners in the world."
Virgin founder Sir Richard Branson said: "Our aim has always been to help Virgin Money London Marathon runners smash the £¼ billion fundraising target over five years and today's news shows we are in touching distance.
"Virgin Money Giving, our not-for-profit fundraising website, has made a big contribution towards hitting that target with over £60m raised for the London Marathon since its launch. It is fantastic that, despite challenging economic times, we've continued to see such phenomenal fundraiser commitment and generosity."
Seven record years of London Marathon charity fundraising:
2007 £46.5 million
The 2014 Virgin Money London Marathon is on Sunday 13 April 2014, and the official charity will be Anthony Nolan: www.milebymile.org.
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Wrong side of the planet for me. But beautiful coloring and lighting of the clouds. Thank you.
Here in the Bay area, we didn't need an eclipse, we had a blood moon all night long, curtesy of a thick layer of smoke.
I like that light, Ingrid.
Here in Brisbane, we had a really clear view of the eclipse , although the moon set shortly after totality began. With Mars as well, it was really something.
Couldn't see a damn thing.
Thanks Ingrid! (I'm going to let this be the photoblogging picture for the week).


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Q: Can be PersistentEntity state type a trait? All examples uses one case class as PersistentEntity state with some property for chech state and use different actions. Something like
override def behavior: Behavior = {
  case state if state.isEmpty  => initial
  case state if !state.isEmpty => postAdded
}

Can be used different case classes of one trait for different states? For example:
sealed trait OrderState
case object UnitializedOrder
case class OpenedOrder(items: List[String])
case object ClosedOrder

override def behavior: Behavior = {
  case UnitializedOrder  => initOrderActions
  case OpenedOrder => openedOrderActions
  case ClosedOrder => skipCommandsAction
}

I saw some problems like

*

*Handler types
CommandHandler = PartialFunction[(Command, CommandContext[Any], State), Persist]
EventHandler = PartialFunction[(Event, State), State]
uses State (trait), so needed class casting

*Serialization for every state subtype for snapshoting.

Or there is something more scary?


You just bought an unfinished wood floor and would like to add a protection on it to extend its lifetime? Your wood floor is worn out and you sanded it for a restoration but you now have to add a protection to it? Or, some scratches are visible on the floor's surface and you would like to make a quick restoration to get it back to the original luster?
Many protection options for your floor are available on the market, but how to find the most appropriate one? We will detail here each type of protection to help you make the right choice according to your needs and your project.
It is a urethane or acrylic resin in a waterborne formulation. So, when the base of the finish is evaporating, in this case, the water, there are only few or even chemical ingredients suspended in the air. Consequently, there is no danger for you and your family during the drying time; you can easily reintegrate your house by the end of the day. That's also for this reason that this type of finish is recognized for being odorless, low in VOC and its speed of drying. Some waterborne finishes, such as the Finitec ones, are conceived to be applied and adhere to any other type of finish.
This product is an emulsion of resin made of a combination of oil and water. We're talking of non-toxic water-soluble oil. With a slightly amber tint, this type of finish gives a lot of richness to the wood. As its name mentions, it's an hybrid solution between the eco-friendly aspect of the waterborne finishes and the overall looking offered by the oil based finishes, but without the inconvenience and the odor. With properties similar to the waterborne finishes, the choice of this finish is mainly a question of style regarding the amber tint of the hybrid waterborne finish. A weakness of this type of finish is that its drying time is a bit longer than the waterborne finishes (4-5 hours versus 2-3 hours for the waterborne finishes).
As the name of the product says, the oil-based finishes are mainly made of this ingredient. We are choosing it for its ease of application and affordability. However, it has a high VOC rate, a strong odor during the application and drying time, a tendency to yellow throughout the years and has a low abrasion resistance.
Also known under the name of crystal finishes, this type of finish is increasingly rare on the market but still available. This finish, with high toxic components rate, offers you an economic and durable solution. It's a solvent-based polyurethane finish. It tends to yellow throughout the time and emit a strong odor, up to the point that you need to spend few days out of your house when applying it.
This type of finish offers a neat finish and a quick drying time. The downside is that, as of the hygroreactive finish, the alcohol-based finish yellows a lot and emits a strong odor that forces you to spend a few days out of the house.
Even if available in many varieties, the one that we find the most on the market are the ones made of linseed or tung oil. Very popular in Europe, people who are choosing the impregnant oil are usually choosing it to keep the natural look of the wood and the ease to repair it locally in case of scratch. Some things to keep in mind regarding this type of protection is that the matte finish is the only luster available, that the cleaning process may be a little difficult and that the product application must be done on a yearly basis.
We hope that this information will now allow you to choose the best protection for your wood floors.
However, if you still have some question before starting your application or your project, contact our team of specialists who will be able to advise you.


The U.S. Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced that in 2015, there was a steep increase in traffic fatalities across the country after years of steady declines.
This recent spike in fatalities is tragic for many vulnerable families who are grieving their loss. Sadly, many insurance companies may take advantage of vulnerable people by working hard to settle claims quickly and for the lowest possible amount – all to boost profits.
Don't settle and don't sign away your rights without talking to an experienced personal injury law firm first.
An attorney will look out for your best interest and strive to get you the highest compensation possible. While settling your claim quickly with the insurance company might seem like a good plan, it's critical to take the time to fully assess the injuries sustained. You only have one opportunity to prove your injuries. Once you accept a settlement, that decision is final and you may lose your rights to ever file another claim again – even if you discover your injuries are worse than you originally thought.
He or she will know what questions to ask and can walk you through the claims process. Not only can an experienced attorney establish a timeline for each step in the process, they are familiar with the paperwork – saving you the hassle of having to navigate complex documents on your own.
An attorney will help protect you from unnecessary or harassing inquiries from the insurance company or other parties involved. Your attorney knows what questions are relevant and will help protect your rights. You don't want the insurance company to misconstrue your words and undermine your case.
Don't deal with the stress of fighting insurance companies when you should be focused on getting better. Navigating an accident claim can be complicated – if a motor vehicle accident happens, call Sokolove Law for a free legal consultation. There is no cost to speak to us. Time to take legal action is limited, so it is in your best interest to contact us as soon as you are able to do so.


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'He didn't ask too many questions' – This dad sold stolen rings to a jeweller (but gave them his address)
Geoffrey Bentley was offered cash to sell the items taken in a burglary
Dave Knapper
05:00, 5 AUG 2019
Geoffrey Bentley arrives at court
Heroin user Geoffrey Bentley flogged stolen rings to a jewellers – only to be tracked down by police after giving the shop his address.
The jewellery was stolen during a burglary in Stoke where the victim later went on to contact local businesses in an effort to track them down.
Magistrates heard how a man subsequently called at Bentley's home and offered to pay him £60 if he sold two 18 carat white gold rings for him.
The 49-year-old accepted the offer and sold the rings to a jewellers.
Leek man, 62, jailed following 'various offences'
Prosecutor Sara Beddow said: "The owner of the rings was the victim of a burglary on June 5. She made her own enquiries after the burglary and contacted local pawn shops and became aware that a jewellers had taken possession of two gold rings. It was reported to the police and the rings were recovered.
"The jewellers said on June 6 the defendant had come in and handed over the two rings and they paid him £363.93 and he gave them his name and address."
North Staffordshire Justice Centre in Newcastle (Image: Tom Burnett/StokeonTrentLive)
Bentley, of Orton Road, Newcastle, told officers he was thinking about the £60 offered and did not consider if they were stolen or not.
North Staffordshire Justice Centre heard that the rings were of great sentimental value to their owner.
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The defendant pleaded guilty to handling stolen goods.
Bentley told the probation service he planned to use some of the cash to take his children out for a meal. Magistrates also heard how Bentley was trying to to ditch his heroin habit and is on a methadone programme.
Peter Howland, mitigating, said: "A male came to his house with two rings and the defendant accepts he didn't ask too many questions and that person wanted him to sell the rings and wanted him to use his own ID.
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"The reason he got involved in this is he has been using heroin despite being on a methadone prescription."
Magistrates handed Bentley a 12-month community order. He must also pay a £60 fine, £135 in costs, an £85 victim surcharge along with £180 in compensation to the jewellers.


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Q: GIT For Windows - Failed to receive handshake, SSL/TLS connection failed There have been many questions asked on this subject but none of them have a definitive answer.
I am developing in Visual Studio 2017 (v15.8.5) on a company network, behind proxy with my Git repositories on Azure DevOps (formally VSTS).
When I try and do anything with the repo (Push/Pull/Sync etc) I am constantly getting errors SSL certificate problem: unable to get local issuer certificate. The error occurs both when using the Team Explorer inside V/Studio or Git commands in a CMD (Administrator) window.
To resolve that problem, most answers where to use Git Credential Manager For Windows, within Got For Windows, so I have now v2.19.1
Now I am getting Failed to receive handshake, SSL/TLS connection failed
If I disconnect from the company LAN and connect to an open WiFi (home, 4G) then everything works absolutely fine, so it is obviously something to do with how Git and my company proxy are communicating with each other.
This is the my global .gitconfig
[user]
    name = xxxxxxxxx
    email = xxxxxx@xxxxx.xxxx
[http]
    sslcapath = C:/Program Files/Git/usr/ssl/certs
    sslCAInfo = C:/Program Files/Git/usr/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt
    sslBackend = schannel

If I had hair, I'd pull it out ... Please someone help..

A: The solution for me was:
set http.schannelcheckrevoke=false (requires git >= 2.19, see https://stackoverflow.com/a/53090169/3813064)
Please note that schannel uses the "Native Windows Secure Channel library" (in which your IT department also stores your company SSL certificates) and not OpenSSL. Therefore setting sslCAInfo will have no effect AFAIk.
Related Question:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46472724/why-schannel-fails-to-receive-handshake-from-the-server
In general: Make sure the http.proxy settings are set correctly. Have you tested them?
Try to clone something with behind the proxy using http.sslVerify=False to rule out that the proxy has a problem.
Note also that VisualStudio uses it's own implemted Git binary. So test first with the command line and make sure that the correct git binary is used (where git and git --version)


This tidbit came my way this morning…not only did I learn a new word, but its meaning.
Where's there's a will, I want to be in it.
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit…wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
In filling out an application, where it says, 'In case of emergency, Notify:' I put DOCTOR.
And my own paraprosdokian is this…living is for learning; I want to learn how to live.
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Lavaluació o avaluació educativa és, dins el context educatiu, un procés complex que s'utilitza per a obtenir informació útil amb la finalitat de formular judicis de valor i al mateix temps servir de guia per tal de prendre decisions. Com a activitat que té com una de les seves característiques més visibles el formular un judici de valor, per tal cosa s'utilitzen una sèrie de tècniques de mesura. La finalitat última de l'avaluació és la de ser una ferramenta per a prendre decisions, i aquest motiu és el que li dona la seva importància.

La branca de la pedagogia que estudia els mètodes d'avaluació s'anomena docimologia.

Avaluació d'aprenentatges
L'avaluació dels aprenentatges és multidimensional, ja que té un mínim de set enfocs.
 Objecte d'avaluació: Què (objectius didàctics)
 Finalitat: Per a què (diagnòstica, formativa o avaluació sumativa)
 Moment: Quan (inicial, contínua, final o diferida)
 Model: Com (quantitativament o qualitativament)
 Instrumentalització: Amb què (instruments de recollida d'informació: examen, rúbrica d'avaluació, exercicis, ...)
 Avaluador: Qui (mestre, alumnes, tutors…)
 Referent: En funció de què (criteris: satisfactorietat, suficiència…)

El judici de valor a l'avaluació
Avaluar un aprenent implica emetre un judici de valor sobre quin és el criteri d'avaluació. Els judicis de valor en les avaluacions es troben a la selecció de criteris que distingiran el correcte de l'incorrecte, el ben fet del mal fet o l'èxit del no-èxit; en els indicadors quantitatius i qualitatius que han de mostrar aquests criteris; i en l'establiment d'estàndards o nivells dels indicadors i dels criteris per, per comparació, determinar si són vàlids o exitosos, i si s'escau quantificar en quin grau ho són.

Vegeu també
 Avaluació per competències

Bibliografia

 DOMENÉCH BETORET, Fernando. PSICOLOGÍA DE LA EDUCACIÓN E INSTRUCCIÓN: SU APLICACIÓN AL CONTEXTO DE LA CLASE. Manual para la docencia y la investigación. Castelló: Universitat Jaume I, Col·lecció "Psique". 2004.

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Q: CoTURN and PostgreSQL Setup I'm setting up CoTURN server for my WebRTC application. I want to use PostgreSQL as the user's database.
I'm started up turnserver with the option --psql-userdb. I'm getting an error below.
turnserver: unrecognized option `--psql-userdb=...`

When I'd tried to start the server without any options, I got these logs below.
RFC 3489/5389/5766/5780/6062/6156 STUN/TURN Server
Version Coturn-4.5.0.6 'dan Eider'
0:
Max number of open files/sockets allowed for this process: 8191
0:
Due to the open files/sockets limitation,
max supported number of TURN Sessions possible is: 4000 (approximately)
0:
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0: TLS supported
0: DTLS supported
0: DTLS 1.2 supported
0: TURN/STUN ALPN supported
0: Third-party authorization (oAuth) supported
0: GCM (AEAD) supported
0: OpenSSL compile-time version: OpenSSL 1.1.0f  25 May 2017 (0x1010006f)
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0: SQLite supported, default database location is /usr/local/var/db/turndb
0: Redis is not supported
0: PostgreSQL is not supported
0: MySQL supported
0: MongoDB is not supported
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0: Default Net Engine version: 1 (UDP listening socket per session)

It says that PostgreSQL is not supported, although I have installed PostgreSQL 9.3.
Is there any missing on my setting or is there a way to tell turnserver to enable support to a selected database?
Please help, thanks in advance.


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India need 162 runs in 102 balls.
England tour match downgraded with Archer, Broad, Leach still in doubt
3yESPNcricinfo staff
1dDeivarayan Muthu
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Tour match becomes three-day friendly with frontline bowlers at risk of no match practice before first Test
Jofra Archer and Stuart Broad endured a frustrating start to the third day • Getty Images
England's tour match against South Africa A starting on Friday has been downgraded from first-class status, due to the ongoing effects of illness in the touring party. Jofra Archer, Stuart Broad and Jack Leach all remain doubtful for the Benoni game, leaving England's plans for next week's Boxing Day Test in some disarray.
All three players were forced to sit out the low-key tour opener against a South Africa Invitational XI earlier this week, after a bug swept through the England camp, and according to an ECB spokesman, their fitness for this weekend's three-day fixture won't be confirmed until the morning of the match.
Unlike the opening match, the South Africa A game was due to be a first-class fixture, featuring a strong opposition including regular Test-squad members Temba Bavuma, Theunis de Bruyn and Andile Phehlukwayo. That would have meant England being unable to substitute the trio into the line-up should they recover later in the contest.
However, the game will now be classified as a three-day friendly, with only 11 batting or fielding at any point in time, giving all squad members the opportunity for match practice in South African conditions ahead of the first Test in Centurion.
Speaking at the conclusion of the two-day game on Wednesday, Chris Woakes acknowledged the sickness in the England camp.
"A few guys have gone down a little bit ill, so obviously they're back in the hotel trying to steer clear of everyone," he said. "Hopefully it's not too bad, hopefully it'll be a couple of days out and they'll be back on their feet."
While the timing of the illness is not ideal for the squad as a whole, it is particularly problematic for Leach, who was omitted from England's most recent Test, against New Zealand in Hamilton last month, and then suffered a bout of gastroenteritis that would have ruled him out for much of the game anyway.
In his absence, England gave an outing to the legspinner Matt Parkinson in their opening tour game in South Africa, but he endured some rough treatment as Joe Root emerged as the most economical spinner on the day.
With a range of allrounders in England's squad, including Ben Stokes, Sam Curran and Chris Woakes - all of whom are currently fit for selection - England could yet decide to take the field in Centurion without a frontline spinner for the second Test in a row, especially at a venue that has traditionally favoured seam bowling.
Assuming he is fit in time for the Centurion Test, Archer seems guaranteed to take his place in England's starting XI - even though he endured a tricky first taste of overseas Test cricket in New Zealand, claiming two wickets at 104.50 in the series.
Broad, however, would doubtless benefit from time in the middle as he seeks to build on a decent display in New Zealand, where he was England's most economical bowler on a flat deck in the first Test at Mount Maunganui. However, he had been omitted from three of England's previous six overseas Tests in Sri Lanka and West Indies, amid doubts about his penetration with the Kookaburra ball.
England also face a tricky decision over the fitness of James Anderson, who came through 11 overs unscathed in Benoni, but whose recent injury record invites caution at the start of a four-match series. He broke down after four overs of the first Test against Australia in August, and did not feature again in the series.
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