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L'Alabama fever est un mouvement de ruée vers les terres du nouveau territoire de l'Alabama, survenu en mars 1817 après la victoire contre les Anglais et les Indiens Creeks lors de la guerre de 1812. La population est passée de  en 1810 à  en 1820.

Historique

Le traité de Fort Jackson signé, le , après la victoire du général et futur président des États-Unis Andrew Jackson contre les Indiens Creek à Tohopeka, a lancé le mouvement. Tout s'est ensuite accéléré avec les ventes de terre de 1817. Jusqu'alors existait seulement un Territoire du Mississippi créé en 1798. Mais la loi du  a décidé de le couper en deux, en créant à l'est le Territoire de l'Alabama avec pour gouverneur William Wyatt Bibb, député venu de Géorgie.

Causes

Les colons blancs se sont vu octroyer des terres pour des sommes très faibles, entraînant une gigantesque spéculation immobilière qui ne s'arrêtera qu'avec la crise bancaire de 1837, étroitement liée cette spéculation, et dans laquelle des dizaines de milliers de déposants furent ruinés. La plupart de ces colons venaient de Virginie, Caroline et Géorgie.

Cette poussée démographique s'est traduite par une multiplication par vingt de la population en quinze ans et une ruée vers l'or blanc du coton, dont l'Alabama est devenu un grand producteur, tout le long de la rivière Tombigbee et de la Black belt de l'esclavage. La population de ce territoire, devenu le  État de l'Union en 1819, est ainsi passée de  en 1810 à  en 1820. Parmi les nouveaux venus figuraient dès 1817 les colons de la Vine and Olive Colony, des réfugiés français de Saint-Domingue en Amérique.

L'arrivée au statut d'État était une étape importante dans la lutte que menait alors au niveau fédéral les esclavagistes et les anti-esclavagistes, chaque État disposant du droit d'élire deux sénateurs à Washington. La population d'esclaves de l'État est passée ensuite de  en 1820 à  en 1860.

Fin
La culture du coton a rapidement épuisé la plupart des sols, entrainant une diminution de la production de coton en quelques décennies. À une époque antérieure aux engrais inorganiques, ceci a rendu nécessaire l'existence une frontière toujours en expansion de façon à permettre aux colons et à leurs esclaves de pouvoir se déplacer plus à l'ouest afin de maintenir une production aussi élevée que possible. Les magnats du coton ont même envisagé la possibilité de conquérir et d'annexer des territoires dans les Caraïbes ou en Amérique centrale pour cultiver le coton, en raison de la résistance accrue du Nord à l'expansion de l'esclavage aux États-Unis et dans les régions arides de l'Ouest, inadaptées à la production cotonnière.

Chronologie
 1798 : création d'un Territoire du Mississippi sur des terres non-américaines.
 1803 : spéculation immobilière sur des rumeurs voulant que l'Espagne ait vendu le Mississippi, et prévoie de vendre la Floride Occidentale.
 1810 : l'Alabama n'a que , essentiellement sur le littoral, à Mobile.
 1810 : République de Floride occidentale.
 septembre 1810 : début de la Guerre d'indépendance du Mexique
 1812 : début de la guerre de 1812.
 1813 : l'occupation de Mobile par l'armée américaine sécurise l'accès à l'océan.
 1814 : le traité de Fort Jackson met fin à la guerre de 1812.
 1814 : forte hausse des cours du coton;
 novembre 1815 à juin 1816 : s'installe à Galveston, d'où il chasse Louis-Michel Aury;
 1817 : création du Territoire de l'Alabama, début de la ruée.
 Scandale de l'île d'Amelia;
 mars 1817 : création de la Vine and Olive Colony;
 juin 1817 : Amelia Island voit arriver Gregor MacGregor;
 juin 1817 : Gregor MacGregor quitte Amelia Island;
 septembre 1817 :  Louis-Michel Aury succède à Gregor MacGregor à Amelia Island;
 22 novembre 1817  traité Angleterre-Espagne qui accorde un premier "droit de visite" contre une indemnité de 170.000 dollars.
 décembre 1817 : intervention américaine contre le Scandale de l'île d'Amelia;
 1818 : traités similaires" avec les Pays-Bas;
 1818 : flambée des cours du coton.
 20 avril 1818 : loi américaine contre le trafic d'esclaves, suscitée par Scandale de l'île d'Amelia;
 1818 : le Territoire de l'Alabama assouplit la législation sur le crédit, boom spéculatif.
 1819 : l'Alabama devient un État.
 1820 : l'Alabama a .
 1821 : le traité de Córdoba confirme l'indépendance au Mexique.

Références

Liens externes

Histoire coloniale des États-Unis
Histoire de la culture du coton
1817 aux États-Unis
Histoire de l'Alabama


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Chapter 16: I Thank You
It was almost nine thirty on Christmas Day when Cyrus opened his eyes to find Hayden already awake, though barely. He stretched, his shirt riding up and exposing a band of bare skin for a fraction of a second. Cyrus blamed whatever sudden butterflies he was feeling on sleepiness.
"Morning," Hayden said cheerily. "Merry Christmas."
"Merry Christmas," Cyrus replied with a soft smile, running a hand through his bedraggled hair and smoothing it down. He yawned and rubbed his eyes. "Want to go to breakfast?"
Hayden glanced at the window. "It's cold. We've got those cookies that Lee gave us, want to just eat those?"
"Sure," Cyrus said easily. "Breakfast of champions."
"Hey, on Christmas anything goes," Hayden said, getting up to find the food in the other room. Cyrus stretched, then followed, taking a seat next to Hayden on the couch and snatching a cookie from the tin.
"We should have a tree," Hayden said matter-of-factly.
Cyrus finished chewing, nodding seriously. "Well, there are butter knives in the dining hall, and trees down by the lake," he said, glancing at the clock on the wall. "If you start now, you might have one cut down by nightfall, and then you could hand fashion decorations, wire up some lights… by morning, you might have it up, but then it'd be after Christmas and we'd have to take it down, of course-"
Hayden punched him in the arm, interrupting his prattling and shaking loose the laugh that he'd been trying to hold back. "Shut up," said Hayden.
"Just kidding," Cyrus said, grinning. "Of course we can have a tree. Here, just let me… uh…" He shoved the rest of the cookie in his mouth, then got up, glancing around the room. Walking over to his desk, Cyrus picked up his sketchpad and pack of colored pencils. He balanced the pad on his forearm and started scribbling with quick, controlled strokes. In a few minutes, he had a rough, but artistic-looking tree, topped with an angel. He grinned and ripped it out, handing it to Hayden. "There."
Hayden took one look at the tree and burst out laughing. Cyrus had drawn the tree bending over under the weight of the angel, who was frantically flapping her wings and looking terrified. "It's perfect," he said, taking a thumbtack and pinning it to the center of blank white wall where the projector normally shone. "Now it feels like Christmas. Here, let me get your present," Hayden said, hopping up and hurrying into the bedroom.
While he was gone, Cyrus pulled the envelope out of his desk drawer, along with the small package wrapped in green paper. As he held the gifts in his hands, Cyrus worried that maybe he shouldn't have gotten the last-minute one. Would Hayden think it was out of pity? Would he be insulted?
Cyrus shook the thoughts from his mind. He was determined not to pity Hayden. It was true, Cyrus wished that he could make things right and give him the family that he deserved, but in all other respects he had decided to act the same as always. Hayden didn't want special treatment.
"Here," Hayden said, coming back into the room. he offered a slim blue box tied with a piece of string. "My wrapping kind of sucked, sorry."
"That's okay," Cyrus said earnestly. He handed his own gifts over. "I got you two things since one was kind of…last minute."
Cyrus thought he saw Hayden blush. "Thanks, man. You first." They sat back down on the couch as Cyrus struggled with the knot in the string. "Dude, just slide the box out," Hayden said, a laugh in his eyes.
Freeing the box from the string, Cyrus lifted the lid. Inside lay a gleaming silver triangle. Cyrus's face broke into a grin. "What's a trianglist without his triangle?"
"And what's a pianist without his trianglist?" Hayden added.
Laughing, Cyrus said sincerely, "Thank you, Hayden. I love it." It wasn't about the piece of metal sitting in the box; Cyrus knew he could get one of those at any music store. What he was really thanking Hayden for was the memories that came with this. Even if they parted at the end of the year, each going to separate colleges, this instrument would forever symbolize their friendship. The thought made him smile.
"You're welcome. But it's kind of a two-fold gift too… if you want it to be," Hayden said, fidgeting a bit.
"Well, I thought that, if you want, I could teach you how to play the piano." He added quickly, "I mean, I know I'm still learning myself, but I know music and-"
"That'd be awesome," Cyrus said, cutting him off. "I'd really like that."
"Yeah?" Hayden replied. "Awesome."
Cyrus gestured to the gifts he had given Hayden. "Your turn."
Hayden started with the box, ripping off the paper and turning it on its end so that the little record player device slid out. "No way!" Hayden said excitedly. "A record player like yours?"
"Yeah," Cyrus said, grinning. "I figured I won't always be around, so you ought to have your own."
"Wow, thanks, man," Hayden said, eyes sparkling. He allowed himself one last look at the shiny new toy before ripping into the envelope on his lap. Inside was a packet of papers, which he stared at for a moment before comprehension dawned. "Dude, a plane ticket to North Carolina?" he asked, looking up. "Are you serious?"
The look on Hayden's face was worth every penny and every minute of sleep lost last night. "Yep. Totally serious."
In a flash, Hayden surged forward and Cyrus was wrapped up in a spontaneous hug. "Thank you, Cy. You're the best." As soon as Hayden pulled back, Cyrus found himself missing the contact, which was unusual. He wasn't generally the touchy-feely type. Hayden grasped Cyrus's shoulders and held him at arm's length. "Really. I don't even have the words to… I can't thank you enough."
Cyrus smiled broadly. "You don't have to. It's what friends do, right?"
Hayden just about glowed. "Only the best ones. God, I can't wait 'til spring break now!" he said, looking down at the ticket again. Slowly, his brow furrowed, and his smile faded to a frown.
"What's wrong?" Cyrus asked. Had he not gotten the right airport? Had he mixed up the dates?
"Well, nothing… it's just there's only one ticket."
Cyrus was confused. "It's round-trip."
"I know that; that's not what I meant. It's only for one person. You're not coming?" Hayden asked, as if that was the logical assumption.
All Cyrus could do was blink at him. "Um… I didn't think… You actually want me to come?" he asked, as if the idea were entirely foreign to him. Which it was, really.
"Of course," replied Hayden. His tone was one that made it seem obvious that he would want Cyrus along. "If it weren't for you, I wouldn't be going at all. It would be fun."
"But wouldn't Will's family mind?" Cyrus asked. "I mean, they don't know you're coming, but I figured that'd be okay, but they don't know me at all, and uninvited-"
Hayden waved a hand. "They're really nice. They won't care at all. And I'm inviting you, okay? You can meet Will."
Cyrus was still having a hard time wrapping his head around this. Hayden actually wanted him to come along. In a million years, he would have never expected this. In all fairness, though, Hayden had a way of defying expectations. "You're sure?"
"I'm sure," Hayden said, rolling his eyes. "Now are you going to book another ticket or not?"
"Yeah- yeah, I'll book one," Cyrus said quickly. Hayden looked legitimately happy at this, and his eyes lit up.
"Great!" he said. "I'm gonna go see if Will's on Skype - tell him the good news!"
Cyrus stayed seated on the couch, staring at the Christmas tree picture hanging on the wall. Slowly, his lips formed into a smile, expressing the warm, bubbly feeling he felt in his chest. It wasn't a tangible gift, but Hayden's acceptance of Cyrus, his preference for him, was the greatest present he could possibly have received.
Nothing could ruin Cyrus's good mood, not even a call from his mother sometime in the afternoon. He and Hayden were in the middle of A Christmas Story when the phone rang. It was the land line that was hardly ever used, so they just stared at it for a minute before deciding someone should pick it up.
"I don't know who it could be," Cyrus said, hesitating.
"I guess we'll find out," Hayden said, reaching for the receiver. He pressed it to his ear and said, "Hello?"
There was a moment of silence before Hayden covered the mouthpiece and whispered, "It's your mom."
Luckily, Hayden was smooth in handling the situation. "Oh, hello, Mrs. Angeles. Merry Christmas!" he said. His easy tone was in direct contrast to the frantic motions he was making towards Cyrus. It was obvious that he was asking whether or not Cyrus wanted to talk, or to be conveniently unavailable. Reluctantly, Cyrus held out his hand for the phone. "Here, I'll put Cyrus on."
Hayden shot him a sympathetic look as he raised the phone to his ear. "Hello?" Cyrus asked.
"Hello, Cyrus."
"Hello, Mother."
There was a moment of silence. "Enjoying your Christmas?"
"Very much so," Cyrus said stiffly.
"It is a shame that you didn't come home this year," she replied.
Home? Cyrus wanted to ask. Where is home anymore? He had only been to his mother's apartment in Canada a few times. It hardly qualified. "I didn't want to leave Hayden without company on Christmas," Cyrus replied.
"Was that the young man on the phone just now?"
"He seemed nice." If it was possible to make a conversational compliment sound any stiffer, Cyrus's mother had yet to meet her match.
"Yes," Cyrus said again, tiredly.
There was another awkward silence. "Have you heard from Princeton?"
Of course she would bring that up today, of all days. "Not yet, Mother."
"Well, keep me informed. I expect to see a letter of acceptance."
"Alright," Cyrus replied. He waited a beat. "Well, Merry Christmas."
"Merry Christmas to you too, Cyrus."
"Okay. Bye."
Cyrus hung up and put the phone back on the cradle. Hayden was looking at him, his eyebrows raised. "Go ahead. Say it."
"That was the most awkward conversation…" Hayden trailed off, shaking his head in wonder.
"Yeah. Welcome to my life," Cyrus sighed.
Hayden gave a sympathetic smile. "Nah, she seemed like a perfectly lovely lady," he said. "Charming, warm, funny…"
Cyrus glared at him, but couldn't keep it up. "Ugh, let's just get back to the movie."
"Come on," Hayden said as they walked back to the couch, "I bet she's not all bad, is she? She's still your mom."
"Hardly," Cyrus replied. "I haven't spent Christmas with her since I was twelve. Come to think of it, I haven't spent more than a week with her since I was twelve either."
Hayden stared at him. "Really? That's awful."
Cyrus just shrugged, but Hayden looked genuinely disturbed. Trying to lighten the mood a bit, he said, "I guess there is one good thing, though."
"She sends me a card and a hundred bucks every year," Cyrus said. Suddenly, a though sprang to mind. "Hey, I have an idea. What if I give it to you and you go out and buy a whole bunch of records with it? I'll let you pick; get whatever you want. We can build up our collection and share them."
Hayden took a minute to think. "Okay. But on one condition."
"You're coming with me."
16. Chapter 16: I Thank You
1 Chapter 1: And So It Goes
2 Chapter 2: Tough Guys
3 Chapter 3: Play the Game
4 Chapter 4: If You Can't Beat Them
5 Chapter 5: Learning to Fly
6 Chapter 6: Touch and Go
7 Chapter 7: Breakthru
10 Chapter 10: Serious Business
11 Chapter 11: The Great Pretender
12 Chapter 12: To Find a Friend
13 Chapter 13: Snowblind
14 Chapter 14: The Show Must Go On
15 Chapter 15: Ten Years Gone
16 Chapter 16: I Thank You
17 Chapter 17: Big Ten Inch Record
18 Chapter 18: Nobody's Fault But Mine
19 Chapter 19: Scandal
20 Chapter 20: Used to Bad News
21 Chapter 21: Victim of Love
22 Chapter 22: Nothing Ever Goes As Planned
23 Chapter 23: Go For Broke
24 Chapter 24: Not Alone Any More
25 Chapter 25: A Day In the Life
26 Chapter 26: Photographs and Memories
27 Chapter 27: Under Pressure
28 Chapter 28: In Only Seven Days
29 Chapter 29: You Don't Fool Me
30 Chapter 30: Fool in the Rain
31 Chapter 31: Mother Dear
32 Chapter 32: You and I
33 Chapter 33: Steppin' Out
34 Chapter 34: Borrowed Time
35 Chapter 35: Another Last Goodbye
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Q: Unable to parse multiple files in a directory
*

*I have html files on my local harddrive that I am trying to open in a webpage by sending a http request.

*Once the http request is created, I am trying to parse the stored html file by passing the url:(parsing is successful when passing one file at a time but I want to do it dynamically for all the files in a directory so used for loop. This doesn't workout)

*once the parsing is done, I am saving the data to json file.(works fine)
I have pasted the code here:
import json
import os
from newspaper import Article
import newspaper

# initiating the server
server_start = os.system('start "HTTP Server on port 8000" cmd.exe /c {python -m http.server}')
http_server = 'http://localhost:8000/'
links = ''
path = "<path>"
for f in os.listdir(path):
    if f.endswith('.html'):
        links = http_server + path + f

    blog_post = newspaper.build(links)

    for article in blog_post.articles:
        print(article.url)

    article = Article(links)
    article.download('')
    article.parse()
    data = {"HTML": article.html, "author": article.authors, "title": article.title, "text": article.text, "date": str(article.publish_date)}

    json_data = json.dumps(data)
    with open('data.json', 'w') as outfile:
        json.dump(data, outfile)

Error message:

...\newspaper\Scripts\python.exe ".../parsing_newspaper/test1.py"
  [Source parse ERR] http://localhost:8000/.../cnnpolitics-russian.html
  Traceback (most recent call last):
File"...\newspaper\lib\site-packages\newspaper\parsers.py", line 68,
  in  fromstring cls.doc = lxml.html.fromstring(html)
File "...\newspaper\lib\site-packages\lxml\html__init__.py", line
  876, in  fromstring doc = document_fromstring(html, parser=parser,
  base_url=base_url, **kw)
File "...\newspaper\lib\site-packages\lxml\html__init__.py", line
  762, in  document_fromstring value = etree.fromstring(html, parser,
  **kw)
File "src\lxml\lxml.etree.pyx", line 3213, in lxml.etree.fromstring
  (src\lxml\lxml.etree.c:78994)
File "src\lxml\parser.pxi", line 1848,  in
  lxml.etree._parseMemoryDocument (src\lxml\lxml.etree.c:118325)
File "src\lxml\parser.pxi", line 1729, in lxml.etree._parseDoc
  (src\lxml\lxml.etree.c:116883)
File "src\lxml\parser.pxi", line 1063,  in
  lxml.etree._BaseParser._parseUnicodeDoc
  (src\lxml\lxml.etree.c:110870)
File "src\lxml\parser.pxi", line 595, in
  lxml.etree._ParserContext._handleParseResultDoc
  (src\lxml\lxml.etree.c:105093)
File "src\lxml\parser.pxi", line 706,  in
  lxml.etree._handleParseResult (src\lxml\lxml.etree.c:106801)
File "src\lxml\parser.pxi", line 646, in lxml.etree._raiseParseError
  (src\lxml\lxml.etree.c:105947)
File "", line 0 lxml.etree.XMLSyntaxError:
You must download()an article before calling parse() on it!
Traceback (most recent call last): File ".../test1.py", line 26, in
   article.parse()
File "...\newspaper\lib\site-packages\newspaper\article.py", line 168,
  in  parse raise ArticleException() newspaper.article.ArticleException

A: Don't know if this helps but try this:
import json
import os
from newspaper import Article
import newspaper

# initiating the server
server_start = os.system('start "HTTP Server on port 8000" cmd.exe /c {python -m http.server}')
http_server = 'http://localhost:8000/'
links = ''
path = "<path>"
for f in os.listdir(path):
    if f.endswith('.html'):
       links = http_server + path + f

       blog_post = newspaper.build(links)

       for article in blog_post.articles:
       print(article.url)

       article = Article(links)
       article.download('')
       article.parse()
       data = {"HTML": article.html, "author": article.authors, "title": article.title, "text": article.text, "date": str(article.publish_date)}

       json_data = json.dumps(data)
       with open('data.json', 'w') as outfile:
       json.dump(data, outfile)

Because otherwise if the first file is not a file with html extension, then you try to build an empty string.
or
if the first one is a file with html extension but second one is not than you are going to build the same file (at least) twice

A: A check list to follow before going deeper into debugging:

*

*Check if a html is not empty

*CHeck if ahtml is "well-formed"

*Check if an artical is not empty

*check if an artical is downloaded(that what the function parse() do, but that helps you to isolate "problematic" articles)

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'Try a Tri' in aid of National Suicide Research Foundation
Triathlons have experienced double digit growth in Ireland since 2007, with more than 140 events now taking place across the country each year. However, while 20,000 Irish people took part in Triathlons last year, the average age of participants is between 30 and 34.
A group of first and second years studying the Bachelor of Business in Recreation and Leisure organised a ' Try a Tri' event in order to promote the sport amongst third level students and to raise money for the National Suicide Research Foundation.
Teams were required to complete a 400m swim, a 10k bike ride and a 4k run, while individual entries completed a 200m swim, an 8k bike ride and a 3k run. The individual winner was Tomás Madden from Mayo, with a time of 36.17 while the IT Sligo team, which featured Kerry Larkin, Brian McMorrow and Bernadette Gilroy, came first in the team category with a time of 42.64.
Lecturer Paula Roddy says this is the first event of its kind at the Institute but there are plans to make it an annual event; "Participation in triathlons has exploded in Ireland in the last few years and organising an event like this gives the students a real taste of what's involved in the management of a multi-team event," she said. "We also hope that it will encourage more students to get involved in the sport. While we have a very strong sporting tradition at IT Sligo, we find that most students tend to focus on their chosen sport or activity and we hope that by 'Trying a Tri' they'll be encouraged to diversify their training and enjoy what is a very sociable and competitive sport."
The NSRF conducts research in the area of suicide prevention and is recognised by the Department of Health and Children and the World Health Organisation as the leading research unit in the field in Ireland. Irene O'Farrell, Research Officer at the NSRF acknowledged the efforts of the students by saying; "The National Suicide Research Foundation is delighted to be involved with this initiative by the Bachelor of Business in Recreation and Leisure students at IT Sligo. We thank them for choosing the National Suicide Research Foundation to be the beneficiary of the Try a Tri and for their hard work in organising and participating in the triathlon."
The Clarion Hotel was the main sponsors of the event and provided the event, prizes and sponsorship. Other sponsors included Seventh Wave surf School, Enniscrone, Voya Seaweed baths Strandhill, E.J's menswear Sligo, Jack and Jones, Eason's, Sligo, Wheats Catering, the Knocknarea Arena, IT Sligo Students' Union and Cactus and Ruby wear.
The results were as follows:
• 1st – Thomas Madden 36.17
• 2nd – Paul Little 37.39
• 3rd – Paul Logan 38.37
• Only female individual athlete – Lani Gregory 46.94
•1st – IT Sligo Staff – Kerry Larkin (swim) Brian McMorrow (bike) Bernadette Gilroy (run) 42.64
• 2nd – 4th Yr Recreation & Leisure- Thelma Keenan (Swim) Brendan Butler (Bike) Denise Ward (run) 46.11
• 3rd – Clarion Staff Team (2) – Mark Lewis (swim) Niall Walsh (run) 51.03
Student Tomás Madden from Mayo (centre) who came 1st in the Individual Category pictured with IT Sligo lecturer Paula Roddy and Mark Lewis, of The Clarion Hotel.
Lanni Gregory, 2nd Year Bachelor of Business in Recreation and Leisure student, was the only female competitor in the event. She's pictured with lecturer Paula Roddy and Mark Lewis, The Clarion Hotel.
From left to right, students Christy Highland, Tommy Gilroy and David Lynn take part in the 'Try a Tri' event organised by students of the Bachelor of Business in Recreation and Leisure at the Clarion Hotel.
The 'Try a Tri' organising committee - 1st and 2nd Year students in the Bachelor of Business in Recreation and Leisure – pictured with lecturer Paula Roddy and Mark Lewis of The Clarion Hotel.


On a wintry day moss makes a fine meal for a snow scorpionfly.
Dashing through the snow, Snow scorpionflies, Boreus sp.
day in the winter sun. Last winter we met the tiny snow fleas (February 27, 2006) cavorting on freshly fallen powder and the strange cankerworm moths (January 9, 2006) basking in the January sun on the bark of trees. Just a few weeks ago near the banks of an icy stream, one of my colleagues discovered snow scorpionflies, one of the rarest insects we will meet in Bug of the Week.
Not snow or ice can cool romance between male and female snow scorpionflies.
Snow scorpionflies are not scorpions nor are they flies. They belong to a small order of insects known as Mecoptera. The "scorpion" moniker derives from the fact that males in this group have unusually large and upward curving genitalia that resemble the stinger of a scorpion. The "fly" part of the name comes from the fact many species of Mecoptera have wings and can, well, fly. The tiny snow scorpionflies featured in this bug of the week do, in fact, lack functional wings, and cannot fly. Go figure. Most species of snow scorpionflies are boreal and live in chilly places such as Alaska and Canada or occupy high elevations in mountains. They are active during the colder months of the year and can be seen with some regularity hopping about in the snow.
However, in Maryland snow scorpionflies can be found in the dead of winter on snow, ice, or on mosses and liverworts that serve as food for both adults and their larvae. In one of the more curious mating rituals in the insect world, the male scorpionfly grasps the female and places her on his back for a nuptial ride. If you hope to glimpse these fascinating creatures, dress warmly and bring along your magnifying glass. Snow scorpionflies are tiny insects usually five or less millimeters long. Snow scorpionflies are believed to be the ancient relatives of one of our more well known and itchy insect friends, the fleas.
Many thanks to Jeff Shultz for sharing his snow scorpionflies for this Bug of the Week. To learn more about these interesting insects, please visit the following web sites.


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Q: Why can't I Import the math.js file? I tried to write binary search in my code but it seems that everytime I tried to run it. It shows an error message (Uncaught ReferenceError: math is not defined) eventhough I clearly wrote import math.js file. I'm pretty sure that something went wrong somewhere in my code. Can anyone please explain to me that would be really helpful!
By the way, here's the code:
import math.js

var num = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20];
bilnum = num.length,
target = 13;
mid = math.floor((left + right)/2);

function search(){
    left = 0;
    right = num.length - 1;
    while(left <= right){
        if(num[mid] == target){
            return mid;
        }
        else if(target > mid){
            right = num[mid] - 1;
        }
        else{
            left = num[mid] + 1;
        }
        if(target === null){
            document.write("Number doesn't exist")
        }
        document.write("The target index is" + num[target])
    }
}

A: Try Math.js (with uppercase M)

A: two issues:
bilnum = num.length,

to
bilnum = num.length;

and
mid = math.floor((left + right)/2);

to:
mid = Math.floor((left + right)/2);


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Activists gathered last Saturday at Nuclear Missile Silo N8, east of Fort Collins. It was a beautiful afternoon and a meaningful event for anti-nuclear activists from Fort Collins, Denver, Colorado Springs and Boulder. On our minds were a beloved activist who had died suddenly exactly one year before, and other m emorable activists in cluding the three Catholic nuns who had been arrested there in 2002.
Juxtapose that with the fact that 122 nations have voted at the U.N. to adopt a treaty for the complete prohibition of nuclear weapons, and that the International Campaign for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) won a Nobel Peace Prize for their many year effort to organize it. So far, 19 countries have voted to ratify the ban and when 50 countries have done so, it will be international law.
The contrast is mind boggling.
According to Alice Slater, New York director of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, none of the nuclear weapons states –US, Russia, UK, France, China, India, Pakistan, Israel, North Korea supports the new ban treaty. She goes on to say that this is the time for Russia and China to step forward, with whichever other nuclear weapons states would be willing to join them and call for a time out on any further nuclear weapons development.
And, according to Ralph Hutchinson, coordinator of the Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance, "The treaty grew out of the Soviet deployment, in 1977, of mobile-launched ballistic missiles with a range of just under 3,400 miles. Western European leaders raised concerns these weapons made them vulnerable to attack, and a strategy of negotiations backed up by the threat of deploying new NATO missile launchers across Europe was adopted." Ultimately, Gorbachev called for the elimination of all nuclear weapons, the U.S. wanted a phased reduction, and the two countries destroyed more than 2,500 between them.
There were promises, broken promises and accusations, many back and forth negotiations, with the U.S. bringing us up to the present with Donald Trump as U.S. president, John Bolton, a known right-wing hawk as U.S. National Security Adviser, telling Vladimir Putin, president of Russia that the U.S. is deciding to leave the treaty.
What a strange and tragic dance.
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We are prone to self-righteousness if we call ourselves peacemakers, and yet do not perceive how the peace issue cuts through all the economic and social issues that we often try to keep separate. If the race for nuclear arms is encouraged by our fear of losing the affluent ways of life that we have taken for granted, then we must see how our fears and desires have left so many other human beings naked and hungry.
A world free of the threat of nuclear weapons is necessarily a world devoid of nuclear weapons…. Nuclear weapons pose an intolerable threat to humanity and our habitat…. Others subscribe to Churchill's assertion 'Peace is the sturdy child of terror.' For me, such a peace is a wretched offspring, a peace that condemns us to live under a dark cloud of perpetual anxiety, a peace that codifies mankind's most murderous instincts….The beast must be chained, its soul expunged, its lair laid waste.
Mahatma Gandhi from The Essential Gandhi, Louis Fisher, ed.
Over the past 15 years, the goal of elimination of nuclear weapons has been so much on the back burner that it will take a true political breakthrough and a major intellectual effort to achieve success in this endeavor.
There are still thousands of warheads loaded on operational systems and standing on high states of alert on virtually hair-trigger posture. And you have to ask yourself: Why is that? Who is the enemy? What is the threat?
It is my fervent goal and hope…that we will some day no longer have to rely on nuclear weapons to deter aggression and assure world peace. To that end the United States is now engaged in a serious and sustained effort to negotiate major reductions in levels of offensive nuclear weapons with the ultimate goal of eliminating these weapons from the face of the earth.
We seek the elimination one day of nuclear weapons from the face of the Earth.
[T]he use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender. . . . [I]n being the first to use it, we . . . adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages. I was not taught to make war in that fashion, and wars cannot be won by destroying women and children.
Through the release of atomic energy, our generation has brought into the world the most revolutionary force since prehistoric man's discovery of fire. This basic force of the universe cannot be fitted into the outmoded concept of narrow nationalisms. For there is no secret and there is no defense; there is no possibility of control except through the aroused understanding and insistence of the peoples of the world. We scientists recognise our inescapable responsibility to carry to our fellow citizens an understanding of atomic energy and its implication for society. In this lies our only security and our only hope - we believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death.
Now, understand, this matters to people everywhere. One nuclear weapon exploded in one city -– be it New York or Moscow, Islamabad or Mumbai, Tokyo or Tel Aviv, Paris or Prague –- could kill hundreds of thousands of people. And no matter where it happens, there is no end to what the consequences might be -– for our global safety, our security, our society, our economy, to our ultimate survival.
Elimination of nuclear weapons, so naive, so simplistic, and so idealistic as to be quixotic? Some may think so. But as human beings, citizens of nations with power to influence events in the world, can we be at peace with ourselves if we strive for less? I think not.
It is my firm belief that the infinite and uncontrollable fury of nuclear weapons should never be held in the hands of any mere mortal ever again, for any reason.


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Q: How to use context without using application name? Previously, I used an AppController class extends from Application and in Manifest, that is added.  Now, I prepare a signupModel class. In this class, I need LayoutInflater because of context. But when debugging, context has AppController. However, I want context is not include AppController?
public class SignUpModel {
Context context ;
EditText signup_email;

public SignUpModel(Context context){
    this.context = context;
    LayoutInflater inflater = (LayoutInflater) context.getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
    View view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.activity_sign_up,null);
    signup_email = (EditText) view.findViewById(R.id.signup_email);
}

public String getEmail() {
    return signup_email.getText().toString();
}

}

A: I would do it like this, using the static class LayoutInflater eliminating the need for context and system service
public SignUpModel(){
        View view = LayoutInflater.inflate(R.layout.activity_sign_up,null);
        signup_email = (EditText) view.findViewById(R.id.signup_email);
    }


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Florida Residents
Parent Corner
About Student Employment
How to Cancel/Reduce Federal Work-Study
Determining Your Financial Aid Eligibility
Repeat Course Policy
Disbursement of Financial Aid Funds
Preparatory Coursework
Temporary Attendance at Another Institution
Bookstore Advance Purchase Program (BAPP)
Your Financial Aid Award
Accept, Modify, Decline Your Awards
Thank Your Benefactor
General Scholarship Profile
About Veterans Benefits
Before You Apply for VA Benefits
NSU VA Process
NSU Yellow Ribbon Scholarship
VA News and Announcements
Debt Squad
Financial Aid Documents
Entrance and Exit Interviews and Master Promissory Notes
Student Loan Borrowing History
NSU Scholarships
Financial Aid Brochures & Newsletters
Horvitz Admin. Bldg, 1st Flr.
Contact Student Financial Assistance
What are Title IV Funds?
Title IV Funds are federal financial aid grant, work study, and loan funds in the following programs:
Federal Direct Unsubsidized Loan
Federal Direct Subsidized Loan
Federal Perkins Loan
Federal Graduate Plus Loan
Federal Parent Plus Loan
Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant (FSEOG)
Iraq and Afghanistan Service Grant
Teacher Educational Assistance for College and Higher Education (TEACH) Grant
Federal Work-Study (Federal Work-Study earnings are not affected by Title IV regulations concerning the return of unearned federal financial aid)
The Office of Student Financial Assistance (OSFA) is required by the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended in 1998, to determine the amount of financial aid that a student earned for an academic semester when the student does not complete at least one course within that semester. When the earned aid is less than the disbursed aid, the institution and student are responsible for returning the "unearned" disbursed funds to the appropriate agency.
Who Needs to Know?
Any student who withdraws from all Title IV eligible courses within an academic semester may be required to return unearned financial aid funds. This includes students who drop, officially or unofficially withdraw, are dismissed, or take a leave of absence during a semester.
The U.S. Department of Education (ED) also requires NSU to perform a Return of Title IV Funds calculation for any student enrolled in multiple parts of a term who ceases attendance during the first part of the term, unless the student provides written confirmation of future attendance for the second part of the term courses.
What Students Need to Know About the Return of Title IV Funds
The Return of Title IV Funds is based on the premise that students earn financial aid for each calendar day that they attend classes. For example, if a student attends 32 days of a semester that is 80 calendar days in length, the student will have earned 40 percent of his or her aid.
Students who complete more than 60 percent of the semester are considered to have earned 100 percent of their financial aid.
The Return of Title IV Funds policy is separate from each college's refund policy and individual state refund policies. A student who withdraws from the semester may be required to return unearned Title IV financial aid funds and may still owe Nova Southeastern University for institutional charges. Please refer to your program's student handbook for your colleges' refund policy.
Return of Title IV Funds does not apply to federal work-study, scholarships, state grants such as the Effective Access to Student Education (EASE) Grant and the Florida Student Assistance Grant, or institutional awards. Please contact the Office of Student Financial Assistance for more information on the consequences of dropping classes if you receive these types of financial aid.
If a student is required to return Title IV funds as a result of his or her drop, withdrawal, or dismissal, or is eligible for a late disbursement, the student will receive a letter from the Office of Student Financial Assistance along with a copy of the Return of Title IV Funds Calculation. The student should follow the instructions in the letter carefully to repay any funds due or to accept a late disbursement. Students with unearned financial aid funds must repay these funds to NSU or set up a grants repayment agreement with NSU's collections department within 45 days of notification Students who fail to do so will lose eligibility for future Title IV aid until all unearned funds have been returned to the ED. NSU is required to report the overpayment to the ED after the 45-day time frame has elapsed.
Students who drop or withdraw from one or more of their classes may fail to maintain Satisfactory Academic Progress which may result in ineligibility for financial aid in the future. Please contact the OSFA and speak to a financial aid counselor before dropping a course.
All nonpassing grades will be reviewed to determine if the student completed the course or ceased attendance prior to the end of the course. If the course was not completed, the student will be considered unofficially withdrawn and the last date of participation in the class will be used to calculate "earned" financial aid. If the last date of participation is not known, the midpoint of the term will be used to calculate "earned" aid.
Any student who owes a balance after unearned financial aid is returned will have a hold placed on his or her account, which will prevent the student from receiving certain services offered by NSU.
Students whose financial aid was not disbursed prior to ceasing attendance may be eligible to receive a percentage of their financial aid after they have withdrawn. In order to be eligible for these funds, the student must have completed all requirements and been eligible for the disbursement prior to ceasing attendance.
Examples of Title IV Calculations
Jane Doe is a music major in the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences. Her semester begins on August 23 and ends December 12. On September 20 (28 days into the semester), she drops her classes.
Jane's institutional charges are as follows:
Tuition $16,755.00
Fees $580.00
Dormitory $4,940.00
Meals $1,595.00
Jane receives the following financial aid award:
Federal Direct Subsidized Loan $1,732.00
Federal Direct Unsubsidized Loan $990.00
Federal Pell Grant $3,248.00
Federal SEOG $750.00
Federal Direct Parent PLUS Loan $18,280.00
Amount refunded to Jane: $1,130.00.
As Jane has completed 28 days (25.89 percent) of her term, according to the federally mandated calculation, 74.11 percent of the unearned portion of her aid, equaling $17,687.67, must be returned.
NSU has to return all of the following aid applied toward Jane's institutional charges:
Federal Direct Subsidized Federal Direct Loan $1,732.00
Federal Direct Unsubsidized Federal Direct Loan $990.00
Total Jane Owes to NSU $17,687.67
Jane is not eligible to receive a tuition reversal because she dropped her classes after the refund period. A collections hold is placed on Jane's account at the time the funds are returned to the lender, which prevents Jane from registering for any additional classes, receiving transcripts, using the RecPlex in the Don Taft University Center, and accessing certain services available through SharkLink.
Bob Smith is a graduate student at the Abraham S. Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice. His term begins May 10 and ends August 15. On July 25 (77 days into the term), Bob accepts a full-time job and drops his classes.
Bob's institutional costs consist of the following:
Tuition $3,240.00
His financial aid package consists of:
Disbursed Federal Direct Unsubsidized Loan $10,141.00
Based on Bob's attendance (78.57 percent of the term), Bob has "earned" all of his financial aid for the term and will not have to return any funds.
Susan Thomas is a student in the M.S. in Computer Science program. Her term begins on May 9 and ends on June 26. Her federal student loan funds are credited to her student account on April 27. On the same day, the loan proceeds are applied to cover Susan's institutional charges, and the funds in excess of those charges are refunded to her. On April 28, Susan drops her classes due to unforeseen circumstances.
Because Susan dropped her classes prior to the first day of class, she is not subject to the Title IV calculation. A 100 percent reversal of tuition and fees will be made to her student account, creating a credit balance. When a course is dropped before the student attends the first class, NSU is required to return all funds that were applied to tuition and fees. Therefore, the credit balance will be returned to the appropriate Title IV account(s). In addition, Susan is required to return to the lender the refund that she received. It is recommended that students return their loan refunds directly to NSU's Office of the University Bursar. This return of funds to the lender will ensure that there is documentation on the student's NSU student account.
Example 4 (Part of Term Scenario)
The Halmos College of Arts and Sciences offers courses that span a standard semester as well as courses that span two half terms during a semester. Sara Miller is enrolled in two half terms during the fall (FALL 1 and FALL 2). On September 2, she drops all courses in Fall 1.
Undergraduate First Part of Term
Aug. 23 -Oct. 17
Undergraduate Second Part of Term
Oct. 18-Dec. 12
Enrolled No longer enrolled still registered
Sept. 2
On September 4, Sara receives a notification to her NSU email from the Office of Student Financial Assistance requesting she complete the Confirmation of Future Attendance Form within 5 business days.
The chart below summarizes the actions that Sara may take:
Student Action
If Sara selects "YES, I will attend course(s) during the second part of the semester"
The OSFA will not need to take further action and Sara may retain the federal financial aid funds advanced to her for the semester.
However, if she fails to attend courses as indicated, she will be considered withdrawn from the semester, and the OSFA will be required to perform the Return of Title IV Funds calculation which may result in an outstanding balance on Sara's student account.
If Sara selects "No, I will not attend course(s) during the second part of the semester"
Sara's Fall 2 courses will be dropped, and the OSFA will be required to perform a Return of Title IV calculation which will determine how much of her federal financial aid Sara will have to return as unearned. This choice may result in an outstanding balance on Sara's student account.
for 5 business days
If Sara does not complete and submit the Confirmation of Future Attendance Form
the OSFA must assume that Sara will NOT attend course(s) during the second part of term, and the OSFA will perform a Return of Title IV calculation. Sara's Fall 2 courses will be dropped. The calculation will determine how much of her federal financial aid funds will have to be returned as unearned. This may result in an outstanding balance on Sara's student account.
It is important to remember that students must return all unearned federal financial aid or set up a repayment agreement for grants with NSU's collections department within 45 days of notification or they will lose eligibility for future Title IV aid.
At NSU, the following colleges and centers offer courses in multiple parts of term:
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Travellers Return to Sholing Recreation Ground
By Ben Dolbear on	 August 29, 2019 News
Local residents have voiced their exasperation after travellers returned to the Veracity Recreation Ground site in Sholing for the fifth time in four months.
The Recreation Ground is part of the Park Lives group, which aims to provide free physical activities to local communities around the UK. There is a children's play area on the site, which is used by many local youth football clubs as well as for skateboarding, tennis and football.
Much of these facilities have now had their access limited after travellers returned to the site on Spring Road for the fifth time since April this year. Conservative MP for Southampton Itchen Royston Smith commented that, '[e]very time these illegal incursions happen the taxpayer is left out of pocket'. According to a Freedom of Information request submitted to Brighton and Hove City Council in 2011, the enforced removal of travellers from a site can cost in excess of £500.
According to the Southampton City Council in 2017, in the event of a traveller encampment on council land, Council authorities will visit the site to conduct a welfare check before considering whether the individuals should be moved on. But it is the perceived delay in taking action which has caused Sholing residents to express their anger. Councillor Eamonn Keogh acknowledged this, saying, 'I know local residents have had enough and feel considerable frustration and upset that we as a council have allowed this to happen again'.
Whilst the Council has begun installing permanent measures to 'protect the Veracity Ground from illegal encampments in the future', civic chiefs have again ordered the travellers to leave the public site immediately.
Despite the imposition of temporary concrete blocks designed to 'prevent further access' to the site, caravans are still on the field popular among locals.
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DVD-9 is a single sided dual layer DVD (SS-DL) which can fit up to 7.92 GB of data. A DVD-9 is basically two plastic DVD-5s pressed together, they are not burned. Video DVD, DVD-R/W and DVD+R/W supports this format.
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Traditional Turkish Buzbag… The Kayra Way
Kayra's Buzbag Öküzgözü-Bogazkere 2017 (pronounced Bush-bag Oh-cooz-goe-zue-Bow-aahz-keh-reh) is as rich in history as it is in vowels and consonants, and a whole lot easier to drink than pronounce!
'Buzbag' is a blend of two of Turkey's six main indigenous varietals, and dates back to 1944 and the early days of the Turkish Republic when Atatürk employed two French oenologists to explore ways of reviving the country's 6,000-year-old winemaking history. They blended two red grapes from Eastern Anatolia - Öküzgözü and Bogazkere - and this was the origin of the now legendary 'Buzbag', which is still today one of Turkey's top selling wines.
Kayra's long-standing winemaker Daniel O'Donnell (a native Californian who has notched up 20 years' worth of experience in Chile, Argentina, Italy and China) takes up the tale. "These two wonderful grapes complement each other perfectly," he explains. "The Turkish palate is all about tannins and Bogazkere has these in bucket loads. We can't dispense with them as this wine is a best-seller in Turkey, but we've used the soft tannins, generous acidity and elegance of Öküzgözü to balance them out and create this much softer example of Buzbag."
Kayra's Buzbag Öküzgözü-Bogazkere 2017 12.5% ABV
RRP £12.25, strictlywine.co.uk
Previous Vintages available at: Greatwinesdirect.co.uk (2015 & 2016 - RRP £11.56); corkingwines.co.uk (2015 - RRP £10.85)
"We've spent 15 years of trial and study trying to get this wine to a really high-quality level for its price point, and I think we're now there." Daniel O'Donnell
Daniel and the winemaking team at Kayra have spent the last 15 years nurturing the grapes in the vineyards and winery in order to understand what each varietal had to offer. "We wanted to find the true soul of each of these two grapes in the different areas they're grown," explains Daniel. "Vintage on vintage this then becomes a balancing act to overcome variational effects and coax out the true potential of each grape in the blending process."
Daniel is a vocal supporter of Öküzgözü, which Kayra grows in the mineral rich soils in Elazig in eastern Turkey. "After years of winemaking, I have never been so enchanted by a single grape," he enthuses. "The vineyards start at 1,000m and the old, low yielding vines grow on rocks with a very shallow level of topsoil in a hot, dry, continental climate which sees temperatures rise to 45oC during the day." The region has been organic for the last 5,000 years, as there is no need for chemical fungicides or herbicides. "Our soils see a bit of manure every four to five years, but that's about the extent of it," explains Daniel. The cold night temperatures allow the berries to retain a good level of activity, so the wines made from these grapes have mature tannins and developed red and dark fruit aromas and textures without being overripe. They are also juicy, and fresh."
Kayra blends 66% of this grape with 34% of the powerful Bogazkere from old vines in the Diyarbakir region in south-eastern Turkey. The climate here is similar, with vineyards starting at 1,200m altitude, but soil composition is a bit richer with maybe several feet of soil and decomposed granite as the vineyard is in a valley floor surrounded by a granite monolith structures several hundred feet high. The berries are very small and thick-skinned, and the varietal is one that is highly tannic with a low juice to skin ratio that tends to give the structure and framework to the Buzbag blend.
According to Daniel, the key is a short skin contact fermentation so this wine doesn't overwhelm the juiciness of the Öküzgözü but complements it by allowing architectural framework. This Bogazkere from this vineyard brings dark fruit and minty aromas to the finished blend, alongside some rustic aromas and flavours. "Bogazkere is a grape with an opinion and a voice for sure that wants - no, needs - to be heard. It brings richness and strength," says Daniel. "Now where is that Stilton? This is a terrific match for Stilton!"
Kayra's Buzbag Öküzgözü-Bogazkere 2017 also pairs well with meat dishes with sauces and traditional Turkish dishes.
Widely recognised as one of Turkey's leading producers, Kayra is on a mission to reintroduce the indigenous Anatolian varietals to the global wine world, and has put considerable investment into its research in the belief these varietals have the potential to produce great wines.
www.kayrawines.com
Date of issue: 13 November 2018
Further information: emma wellings pr 020 8996 5168 emma@ew-pr.co.uk


Attorney General Jefferson B. Sessions III announced today that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program created by Executive Action in June 2012 will be terminated in six months. DACA currently provides protection from deportation and employment authorization for approximately 800,000 individuals brought to the United States as children who otherwise lack legal status in the United States. In order to qualify for DACA, an applicant must show, among other requirements, that he or she came to the U.S. under the aged of sixteen, fulfills certain educational requirements, and does not have a criminal record. Under the DACA program, eligible applicants receive a two-year permit, which may be renewed as long as they continue to meet the requirements for the program.
DHS will generally continue to adjudicate properly filed pending DACA initial requests and associated applications for an employment authorization document (EAD) that have been accepted by United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) as of September 5, 2017.
DHS will generally continue to adjudicate properly filed DACA renewal requests and associated applications for an EAD that will expire before March 5, 2018. Under the memorandum, any application for a DACA and EAD renewal by these particular beneficiaries must be accepted by USCIS on or before October 5, 2017.
DHS will reject all new DACA requests and associated applications for EADs filed after September 5, 2017.
DHS will not approve any new Form I-131 Application for Travel Document (advance parole) based on DACA. However, DHS will generally honor the validity period for previously approved Forms I-131 Application for Travel Document. Individuals who have a valid advance parole travel document should consult with an immigration attorney before making travel plans.
DHS will administratively close all pending Forms I-131 Application for Travel Document filed under DACA, and will refund all associated fees.
Because DACA beneficiaries have been applying for DACA permits on different dates since its inception in June 2012, their two-year status has been expiring over rolling periods. The group eligible to renew their permits under the Attorney General's announcement – those whose DACA expires on or before March 5, 2018 - may renew one more time to receive a two-year approval. Those whose status expires after March 5, 2018 will not be allowed to extend their status. Many DACA recipients will soon be in the United States without any protection from deportation and will no longer be eligible for employment authorization under DACA. These individuals should consult with an experienced immigration attorney to understand whether there are other options available to them.
Prior to the announcement ending the program, individuals, business leaders, groups, and universities from across the country, as well as Members of Congress from both sides of the aisle, urged the President against termination of DACA. The hope now is that Congress will pass legislation to protect these individuals, many of whom do not remember any home other than the United States. Maggio Kattar is proud to represent many DACA recipients and stands in solidarity with these individuals during this difficult time.


No member of your baby's care team is more important than you. Your consistent presence is vital to your baby's welfare. Even if you cannot hold your baby for medical reasons, your voice, which he/she has known since before birth, is comforting. And your touch is very meaningful for both of you. We will help you learn ways to interact with your baby while he/she is ill.
We encourage you to cuddle and hold your baby as soon as it is possible. "Kangarooing" or providing Kangaroo Care is one way parents enjoy nurturing their babies. It involves holding the baby closely against your chest, skin-to-skin. It is healing and comforting to both parent and child, and we are careful to maintain your privacy by pulling a curtain around you and your baby.
We encourage you to take part in other family activities with your baby including talking and singing, changing diapers, bathing and feeding your baby. The more you handle and take care of your infant, the more confident you will be taking care of him/her when you get home.
Clothing and blankets should be freshly laundered, washed separately using a mild detergent.
Toys and mobiles should be soft, small and easy to clean. The NICU staff can help you decide if items are appropriate and will let you know when you can bring in a mobile for you baby's enjoyment. Avoid stuffed animals which can hold dust and are difficult to clean.
Cards and pictures are sweet additions to your baby's environment and may be placed at the bedside. Because siblings cannot be allowed to enter the NICU (due to the risk of infection), we encourage siblings to draw a picture for their new brother or sister.
Religious or other personal articles can be comforting and may be placed at the bedside.
Battery-operated tape players may be brought to the NICU so you can play recordings for your baby. Try taping yourself singing, speaking or reading stories. Feel free to bring tapes of lullabies and classical music also.


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Since June 21, after spending three weeks at the SOWER project at Camp Shoshanah in Keeseville, New York (about 90 minutes from Montreal), we have been staying at Ed's sister Mimi's house in Greenfield Park, Quebec, a south shore suburb of Montreal. Mimi is taking care of her and Ed's mother, and this stay in Montreal allowed her to take a long needed vacation to give her a break and see her daughters, as well as allowing us to spend some time with Mom.
We stayed until today, leaving about 10 a.m. for a long way around to Texas. The plan is stay on small roads (no Autoroutes or Interstates) to go through the Eastern Townships of Quebec to Maine, and then east to the Atlantic shore, then follow the shore south to somewhere in Massachusetts before taking the Interstate to turn toward Newark, Maryland to see friends on the Sept 14-16 weekend. We'd then turn south and west towards Texas.
Traveling east on Hwy 112, our first stop was in the resort town of Magog, on beautiful Lac Magog. We found a restaurant (Étoile du Lac, L'Ancorage) that had seats on an outside terrace overlooking the lake. Behind us were tall, new condos with balconies and, in front, part of the Route Verte (Green Route), a 1500-kilometer, 2-lane, paved bike path already constructed through much of eastern Canada.
Following 112 past Sherbrooke, we turned off on 214 to follow other roads towards the town of Lac Megantic, then north on a Quebec road through several towns on the Chaudière river, before turning east again to Armstrong and south to the Maine border.
Once here, we decided that we would take Maine Hwy 6 all the way across the state to where it joins Hwy 1 in Topsfield, then down coastal Hwy 1. Today, we went as far as Jackman, where we found a city park overlooking Big Wood Lake. This was as pretty as any RV park, so we decided to spend the night, right there in the parking lot. As we walked toward the lake, we heard a loon crying its mournful song.
A long drive today as well, traveling east on Hwy 6. We went through several interesting towns (including Greenville, which was getting ready for a sea plane fly-in weekend. The Moose River and Moose Lake were nearly constantly on our left. Patty actually saw a moose cow as we drove past! (Why else would they call the river and the lake after moose?).
Moose everywhere. Here we saw a statue of a "Flying Moose", actually an Abenaquis native american story about a moose that saved a brave because he once saved the moose from a pack of wolves.
At mid-day, somewhere near Howland, we stopped for nap along a small river that flowed into the Penobscot.
At Topsfield, we turned south on Hwy 1, and traveled until we arrived at Calais, but not before turning south just short of Calais to visit the Moosehorn National Wildlife Refuge. We were just 10 minutes late from seeing the Visitor Center! but still were able to take a walk through the refuge. On his way out, one of the park employees told us that there were frequent black bear and moose sightings. Actually, we wanted to see the "blueberry meadow" where a sign said "Limit: one peck per person", but blueberry season is just now over. By the way, black bear is hunted here in Maine, and somewhere down the road, we say a Hummer with a shot bear on top of it.
At Calais (pronounced "callous" in Maine), we found that we were again just 10 minutes late for the Maine Visitor Center. It was to open at 8 a.m. the next morning, so we again found a parking lot downtown overlooking the St. Croix River and the bridge to St Steven, New Brunswick. We stayed there overnight after taking a long walk through town.
After picking up maps and brochures at the Visitor Center, we were again off south on Hwy 1. Our first stop was the St. Croix Island site where the French (Samuel de Champlain among them) made their first settlement in the New World in 1604. They decided on a small island, so that it could be easily defended if necessary. The real problem, however, was scurvy which took half of the men that winter, so they moved elsewhere the following spring.
Interesting cottage along the way.
We took 190 south from Hwy 1 towards Eastport, and passed through Pleasant Point, home to the Passamaquoddy Indians. If you saw the movie "Pete's Dragon", you would remember Passamaquoddy.
As we approached Eastport, we stopped at a rest area and found out that the bay in front of us was close to/connected with the Bay of Fundy which has those tremendous swings in tide level: over here, about 18-25 feet! We were to see more of this in coming days. In Eastport, we took long walks through this place that calls itself the "Easternmost City in the U.S." The ferry to Deer Island stopped running on Labor Day.
We found that Eastport was having several festivals this coming weekend, among them a salmon festival, the Pirates festival, and a motorcycle rally. Tonight, there was to be a ball at the Chowder House in which prizes were to be given for the best "Pirate" and "Wench" costumes. Tomorrow, clambakes and Sunday for salmon; all the while the town was decorated with pirate things. We found a great restaurant called the Waco (but pronounced Wacko) for a haddock fish dinner on a terrace overlooking the bay (very low on water). While at the restaurant, we saw several porpoises swimming in the bay.
Back to Hwy 1, and a little south, we decided to spend the night at the Cobscook State Park for hot showers and a sewer dump (can't always stay in parking lots). Here, we got a great campsite on the bay where we could place our easy chairs and watch the tide coming in. It was dry when we came in, and the water was rising.
Later, on a walk through the day-use picnic area, we saw a bald eagle fly by! Exciting day.
Saw this bumper sticker along the way. Actually, we saw a lot of them. Looks like the province does not like the idea of these supertankers in their waters.
Decided to drive to Campobello Island in New Brunswick (across a bridge from Lubec, Maine). The island was the place where Franklin Roosevelt and his family kept a summer "cottage".
Some cottage! The grounds are now an international (Canada and USA) park with several interesting roads and walking trails. We were especially impressed by the long beach covered with rounded stones of many colors to a depth of several feet. No sand, no shells, just palm-sized stones!
We drove to the northern tip of the island (length about 10 miles) to see the East Quoddy lighthouse. You can only visit the lighthouse when the tide is down because you have to walk on the sea floor to get to it. The lighthouse was abandoned by the Coast Guard a few years ago, and left to decay, but a number of local residents have taken it over and are doing a facelift. Patty climbed the stairs to the top of the lighthouse for a better view. You can see her waving from the top.
Lots of sea gulls everywhere. We saw salmon ponds (Atlantic salmon farming) and a big fish weir (netting fish using the tides) near the lighthouse, as well as a gray seal (large, over 6 feet long) feeding near the weir. We found out later that the seals often are seen near the weirs for obvious reasons. In the distance, we could also see a whale spouting near some whale watching boats. Quite impressive.
We drove to the south side of the island. What a difference in temperature and wind. It was cold! The coast here is very rough with hugh boulders, some covered in seaweed, instead of stone or sand beaches. Pictures is sugar loaf rock at the southern tip of the island. We also first saw eider ducks here. As it was late in the afternoon, the fog was settling in and we could hear the fog warnings from several lighthouses.
The island also had a Provincial park with campground on it, so we decided to spend the night there.
A short walk from the campground, and we were on this beautiful beach...deserted.


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The Digital Transformers
Features Interviews Technology
William Martin and Matt Bomberger of Plano-based Bresatech on what it's like to take their clients on a digital transformation journey
Buzzwords like innovation and digital transformation get thrown around a lot these days. But what do they mean for real CEOs leading real organizations? And why do these concepts matter?
Bresatech, based in Plano but global in scope, isn't interested in offering a one-size-fits-all solution for digitally enhancing businesses. As CEO William Martin and senior VP of global sales and operations Matt Bomberger tell us in the conversation below, they prefer to start with where the client wants to go, then discover how optimizing the business digitally can get them there. That often involves upgrading legacy, manual systems to automated, digital processes that help the business move faster and smarter.
William Martin
Matt Bomberger
We asked Martin and Bomberger about the company's recent growth trajectory, the vision of Bresatech owner Jessey Lee (also a cast member on Netflix's recent reality show Bling Empire), and the strategic priorities that drove their recent expansion into Austin.
Texas CEO Magazine: Can you tell us how Bresatech got started?
William Martin: Sure. Our owner, Jessey Lee, has been involved in many different industries including furniture, real estate, and liquor. I've known Jessey for about seven years, and back in 2016, he came up with the idea of launching a tech company. But we wanted to find a niche we could excel in. We started thinking about digital transformation and intelligent automation and how these can really be the foundation of a company's strategy.
At the time, I was an executive at Pegasystems, a software company that's now one of our key partners. I came over to serve as president and CEO of Bresatech. Matt drives our sales and operations globally.
One of the things that's unique about Bresatech is that we're privately owned by one investor, Jessey. In a lot of cases, companies like us are owned by private equity firms or there's a conglomeration of ownership. In our case, Jessey made an investment of seed money, and we're driving to a point where we will be completely self-sustained.
Texas CEO Magazine: Let's talk more about digital transformation and intelligent automation. What exactly do those concepts mean?
Martin: Before they engaged with us, a lot of our clients were still running the business on legacy systems, many of them manual. We take them on a digital transformation journey. So we help them shift to a more automated, intelligent, and digitally enhanced way of running the business. That journey involves people, processes, and technology.
When we come into a client, we don't have a prescribed method for digital transformation. In that way, we're built differently from most implementation companies. Typically, they come in with their suitcase and say, "Here's the playbook for digital transformation." Instead, we listen to the client, find out where they want to take the business, then create a plan. And we don't use a bunch of IT-speak. Sometimes it's transforming rudimentary legacy workflows, sun-setting old systems, and getting on the cloud. Other times it's about moving into new markets or securing the right talent.
Matt Bomberger: We're really helping to modernize the entire business. The innovative technology we implement transforms how they operate.
Texas CEO Magazine: Has COVID-19 changed how people think about digital transformation?
Bomberger: It definitely has, especially around teams working virtually. Having strong digital business processes can help that situation tremendously. Before the pandemic, many businesses never dreamed they could be 100 percent remote. Now they're saying, "You know what? We don't need this expensive commercial space." That was already happening before the pandemic, but it's been accelerated. People are seeing they can take money saved by not having a big office footprint and put it back into the business. It's a great way to help our clients see into the future.
The other big benefit is that you open yourself to a lot of talent when you run a distributed business. One of our clients had previously never allowed people to work remotely. When we went to help them hire the right talent, we could only look in the Dallas-Fort Worth marketplace. Now that they have opened up to a more distributed or federated model, we can help them pull talent from anywhere to move their business forward.
Texas CEO Magazine: In your materials you talk about having a decentralized structure at Bresatech too. Why is that?
Bomberger: We have an office in Plano, and a new office in Austin, too, but our team members work everywhere from California to Connecticut, Florida to Washington. Currently, we have over 55 people supporting three different divisions—Pega, NetSuite, and our Innovation Solutions business—and we're massively distributed. Pre-pandemic, our team members were flying into client sites to do their work, and that was all well and good. Now they're not flying in, and that translates to a cost savings for the client.
Martin: We do a lot of work in public sector, especially at the state level in Texas and Vermont. We opened up an office in Austin a few months back because we wanted to be close to the state agencies there. Previously, our state clients were less open to distributed work. But when COVID happened, offices shut down and they had to adapt.
We were fortunate that our business is cloud-based. To say that is one thing, but to be good at working as a distributed team, with distributed clients, is another. We've really gotten crisp about how that model works. And our clients have really gotten comfortable with virtual delivery of our technical and business output. In fact, many still may want us to work on that model when COVID subsides.
We've worked hard on measuring the productivity of people and the resources while they're remote—for ourselves and for our clients. Our clients are very interested in how to measure the productivity of distributed teams. I think you're going to hear a lot more about that measurement piece over the next year. It's something we help our clients do with Pega.
Texas CEO Magazine: Can you talk about your partnerships with Pega and NetSuite?
Martin: When Jessey and I started the company, we had a first-mover advantage by becoming premier partners with both Pega and NetSuite. I came from Pega, so obviously I have relationships there. Pega is heading toward $5 billion in topline revenue by 2025, and we want to be with them on that journey. We think they're the market leader in business process management. They do financial services, insurance, healthcare—every vertical under the sun—but their public sector business was fairly new when we got into it. Now, it's grown like crazy. We feel that we are their go-to for public sector business at the state level, especially in Texas.
We're now a Pega Premier Consulting Partner and we're investing as much in them as they're investing in us. They have totally embraced the partner strategy, whether it's with big five firms like Accenture to Deloitte or boutique partners like us. I'm passionate about our Pega relationship. It's our largest revenue engine in the company right now. We've got some big expansions coming on that side of the business in the next three to six months, bringing on new states and new business, including within Texas.
Bomberger: When William and Jessey brought me on board, the first thing they asked me to do was help build a NetSuite practice. Pegasystems is an enterprise-wide solution usually leveraged by large organizations, while NetSuite is more of a small to mid-market business play, so that partnership is a great solution for our clients in that category. If a company is doing from $2 million to $200 million in revenue and is in hyper-growth mode, they may have started their business using spreadsheets or QuickBooks. NetSuite is a good ERP solution that lets them scale beyond those tools and have more transparency into their business.
A small business owner can use it and say, "Now I can now run my business like the big boys." NetSuite is owned by Oracle, so they have a much bigger enterprise behind them. It takes a lot of the risk out of digital transformation for a small to mid-market company
When we built this practice, we did what we'd done before by taking William from Pega to be our practice director. We pulled our NetSuite practice director straight from NetSuite where she continues to have strong relationships. We very quickly built a practice around her that now includes 18 people and more than 75 years of NetSuite experience. We went from making no money in that practice to roughly $2 million in year one, and we're going to double that this next year. That practice focuses heavily on retail. To have clients go through the transformation process and say, "Thank you, this is one of the best experiences we've had"—that's very satisfying. Now they can run their business from one place and get rid of all their smaller, separate systems.
Jessey Lee, Chairman & Founder of Bresatech
Texas CEO Magazine: What happens in the third area you talked about, Innovation Solutions?
Bomberger: The Pega and NetSuite practices are very specific to those platforms. But our Innovation Solutions practice isn't tied to a certain technology. It's completely agnostic. There, we help clients unlock the potential of their investment in any kind of software asset. A lot of companies have these software packages just sitting on the shelf, or they're only leveraging the asset 20 percent. We sit down and talk about their three- to five-year roadmap and what we can do to take their company forward. Essentially, we're helping them solve business problems from a technology standpoint.
We also do executive search through our Innovation Solutions practice. We've helped a lot of our clients find great people, especially in Texas. As you know, Texas is a magnet for people and companies on the East and West coasts. These companies can't get out of California and New York fast enough. So we do things like work with the Dallas Regional Chamber on talking to clients about why Dallas-Fort Worth is the place to be.
Texas CEO Magazine: It sounds like Bresatech was able to grow even through COVID-19. How did you manage that?
Martin: In the middle of the pandemic, we doubled down on our investment in growth. While everybody else was cutting, we went full force and hired a lot of great talent that was on the street. As I mentioned, we're lucky that our business is cloud-based and that our clients quickly acclimated to working with us on a distributed model.
We also really built out our own operations last year, despite the pandemic. We needed a chassis behind this thing, because we knew our business was going to take off. It's tough to hire talent and build a foundation when you're moving fast. When the race cars are going around the track, it's hard to change the tires. So we made those investments early, and I'm glad we did. Our Pega, NetSuite, and Innovation Solutions businesses are all exploding now—in a good way.
Texas CEO Magazine: What's next for Bresatech?
Martin: Well, our Austin office is now opened. We also have an office in Singapore as the foundation of our global business. We want to have everything set up so we can hit the ground running when we're ready to do more business in Asia-Pacific and Europe. Jessey's other businesses are global, so he spends a lot of time in Asia. That will be a natural progression for us.
We're going to continue to invest heavily in Texas. Texas is the epicenter of our state-level and Pega business. We're also going to move into Florida; Pega wants us to leverage the model we've worked out in Austin at the state capitol in Tallahassee. We're also being positioned by Pega for federal work—usually the domain of the big five firms—because of the excellent work we've done at the state level. We're looking at the VA. There's a lot of business process automation that could be done there. We're also looking at getting involved with the FDA, the IRS, and the census. The backend of the census online was all Pega, for example.
Bomberger: We're looking at Houston as another market to open within Texas. We've got a great relationship with [US Congresswoman] Lizzie Fletcher down there. There's just a tremendous amount of oil and gas now. We've got a huge group of folks in the Denver area too, so that's probably the next marketplace for us to put a banner up in.
Martin: I also think it's important to say that we're in this for the long haul. I wouldn't have come to Bresatech, and I don't think Matt would have either, if the goal was to get something up and running, show mass amounts of profitability, and then sell. This is a legacy business, which is a very different approach. Most of our competitors are looking to sell in three to five years.
Jessey is fully behind this thing, as are all the executives we work with at Pega and NetSuite. Pega is a billion-dollar company; they're not going to bet on a partner who's going to be gone in two years. They want a team with the right skills, the right leadership, the right strategy. Ours is not a short-term play. It's a long-term play, and that's different from many startups and other VC-owned or private-equity firms. Again, we're built differently – in a lot of ways.
Bomberger: Bresatech was founded on white-glove experience. That's how we treat our clients and each other. A lot of companies pay lip service to that, but really they're trying to sell, sell, sell, and they don't worry about what the delivery looks like. We want to build a long-term relationship with our clients and be part of their success. We want to be there for them in the good times and in the bad times, even if it's two o'clock in the morning when something's blown up.
When we won the contract with the State of Vermont, we had less than 10 people. It was a David-versus-Goliath type scenario. There were a lot of big players battling to win this five-year, $6 million contract, but this little 10-person company got it. And within six months, we had a very happy client. Because we turned it around for Vermont, we really got Pega's attention. Many of our large competitors are doing so many things, they can't focus as much as we do. Our approach is unique, and we take a lot of pride in that.
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