The Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation, whose Columbus headquarters are shown above, is proposing a 20-percent rate cut in the average premium paid by 242,000 private employers in the state.
COLUMBUS, Ohio--The Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation on Thursday is considering a 20-percent reduction in the average premium rate it charges private employers, which would be its largest rate cut in nearly six decades.
The BWC's actuarial staff and a consultant proposed the rate cuts, which would save 242,000 employers in the state a combined $244 million in the next fiscal year, according to BWC spokeswoman Melissa Vince. If the BWC board (as expected) approves the idea during its Feb. 22 meeting, the rate cut would take effect July 1.
While the average rate cut would be 20 percent, the actual savings would vary by company based on factors such as how many workers' comp claims the company filed in recent years and their participation in various rebate programs.
BWC Administrator/CEO Stephanie McCloud said in a statement that the cuts were proposed because of fewer workplace injuries and falling estimates of future medical costs. Since 2010, workers' comp claims have dropped 18 percent to 85,136 in 2018, according to a BWC release.
If approved, it would be the ninth time the BWC has slashed rates since 2008. Overall, average rate levels for private employers are already at their lowest in at least 40 years, the release stated.
Premiums paid to the BWC cover health care and wages for injured workers, as well as a state program to improve workplace safety.
Gov. Mike DeWine, in a statement, praised the proposed rate cuts.


In the figure, three subscribers have individual policies that allow P2P bandwidths of up to 4 Mbps each. The maximum bandwidth for all P2P traffic is limited to 10 Mbps (specified as the maximum rate in a static bandwidth controller). If all were sending P2P traffic, they would all get less bandwidth if you apply a global enforcement policy that enforces bandwidth control.
For this implementation, you create the bandwidth controller and the enforcement policy on the BIG-IP® system. In the enforcement policy, a rule applies bandwidth control to P2P traffic. From the listener, you apply the policy globally to all traffic.
VLANs represent a collection of hosts that can share network resources, regardless of their physical location on the network. For Policy Enforcement Manager™, you typically create VLANs for the subscriber traffic coming in to the BIG-IP® system, for traffic going out to the network, and if using w-steering with service chains, you need two VLANs for each value added service to be fully transparent.
In the Tag field, type a numeric tag, between 1-4094, for the VLAN, or leave the field blank if you want the BIG-IP system to automatically assign a VLAN tag.
The VLAN tag identifies the traffic from hosts in the associated VLAN.
From the Interface list, select an interface number or trunk name.
From the Tagging list, select Tagged or Untagged.
Select Tagged when you want traffic for that interface to be tagged with a VLAN ID.
If you specified a numeric value for the Customer Tag setting and from the Tagging list you selected Tagged, then from the Tag Mode list, select a value.
Repeat these steps for each interface or trunk that you want to assign to the VLAN.
On the VLAN coming in to the BIG-IP system (often called internal), select Source Address.
On VLANs going out (often called external), leave the value set to Default.
For traffic returning to the BIG-IP from the Internet, select Destination Address.
If using w-steering for value-added services, on the VLAN coming back to the BIG-IP system, select Source Address.
Create as many VLANs as needed for your configuration.
You can create a static bandwidth control policy to limit the bandwidth that traffic uses on the BIG-IP® system.
On the Main tab, click Acceleration > Bandwidth Controllers .
In the Name field, type a name for the bandwidth control policy.
In the Maximum Rate field, type a number and select the unit of measure to indicate the total throughput allowed for the resource you are managing.
The number must be in the range from 1 Mbps to 320 Gbps. This value is the amount of bandwidth available to all the connections going through this static policy.
For the bandwidth control policy to take effect, you must apply the policy to traffic, using a virtual server, packet filter, or route domain.
If you want to classify and intelligently steer traffic, you need to create an enforcement policy. The policy describes what to do with specific traffic, and how to treat the traffic.
On the Main tab, click Policy Enforcement > Policies .
The New Policy screen opens.
In the Name field, type a name for the policy.
Tip: When creating policies you plan to apply globally or to unknown subscribers, it is a good idea to include the word global or unknown in the policy name to distinguish these from other subscriber policies.
From the Transactional list, select Enabled if you want the BIG-IP system to allow policy enforcement on each HTTP transaction.
Important: The system performance is significantly affected, depending on complexity of the classification and the type of policy action.
The new enforcement policy is added to the policy list.
Now you must add rules to the enforcement policy to define traffic filters and actions.
If you want to use rate control, you need to have already created a bandwidth controller.
You can create a rule that provides bandwidth control. For example, the bandwidth controller might limit the total amount of bandwidth that can be used by application traffic, such as P2P.
Click the name of the enforcement policy you want to add rules to.
The properties screen for the policy opens.
In the Policy Rules area, click Add.
The New Rule screen opens.
In the Name field, type a name for the rule.
In the Precedence field, type an integer that indicates the precedence for the rule in relation to the other rules. Number 1 has the highest precedence. Rules with higher precedence are evaluated before other rules with lower precedence.
Tip: All rules in a policy are run concurrently. Precedence takes effect when there are conflicting rules. The conflict occurs when the traffic matches two rules and the policy actions from these rules differ. For example, if you have rule 1 with precedence 10 and Gate Status disabled for a search engine, and you have rule 2 with precedence 11 and Gate Status enabled, then rule 1 is processed first because it has higher precedence. Rules conflict if they have identical or overlapping classification criteria (for the traffic that matches more than one rule). In some cases, different policy actions are not conflicting, and hence, applied in parallel.
In the Classification setting, filter the application traffic to which you want to apply bandwidth control.
For Match Criteria, select Match.
For Category, select P2P (or other application traffic you want to limit on the network).
In the Forwarding area, ensure that Gate Status is set to Enabled.
In the Rate Control setting, for Bandwidth Controller, select the name of the bandwidth controller that you created to limit P2P (or other application) traffic.
You have created a rule to restrict the total bandwidth usage for all P2P traffic to the Maximum Rate specified in the static bandwidth control policy.
The enforcement policy needs to be associated with the virtual servers required for PEM. You can do this by creating a listener (recommended), or you can edit the virtual servers to specify the enforcement policy as a global policy, and enable classification.
You create a listener to complete the preliminary setup on the BIG-IP® system; in this case, to apply bandwidth management as a global enforcement policy.
On the Main tab, click Policy Enforcement > Data Plane Listeners .
The Date Plane Listeners screen opens.
For the Source setting, type the IP address or network from which the virtual server will accept traffic.
Subscriber provisioning using RADIUS is enabled by default. If your system is using RADIUS for snooping subscriber identity, you need to specify VLANs and tunnels. If you are not using RADIUS, you need to disable it.
For the VLANs and Tunnels setting, move the VLANs and tunnels that you want to monitor for RADIUS traffic from the Available list to the Selected list.
If you do not want to use RADIUS, from the Subscriber Identity Collection list, select Disabled.
In the Policy Provisioning area, for Global Policy, move the enforcement policy you created for bandwidth control to High Precedence.
The system applies the policy with bandwidth control to all traffic.
When you create a listener, the Policy Enforcement Manager™ also creates virtual servers for each type of traffic (TCP, UDP, or both), and a virtual server for HTTP traffic. The system sets up classification and assigns the appropriate policy enforcement profile to the virtual servers. If you are connecting to a RADIUS authentication server, a virtual server for RADIUS is also added.
Now you can send traffic through the network. All traffic classified as P2P traffic is limited to the Maximum Rate specified in the static bandwidth control policy. Once the maximum rate is reached, no additional P2P traffic is allowed on the network.


When my son, Jamie, was 5 years old, he came home from kindergarten one day with a request: Could I buy him a black Spider-Man backpack like the kind his buddy Max has? He no longer wanted to take his plain gray bag to school, even though he'd begged me to buy it a few months earlier. When I asked why he no longer liked his bag, the whole story came pouring out: Max had said that Jamie's backpack was boring and, in order to be his friend, he needed to have the much-cooler superhero one.
I was prepared for Jamie to have to deal with peer pressure in high school, middle school, maybe even third grade. But in kindergarten, no way. Could it be that kids who still need to hold their mom's hand to safely cross the street are telling other children how to think, what to wear, whom to like -- and threatening to end their friendship if they don't dutifully comply? "Once kids are in kindergarten or first grade, they become much freer with their opinions, and they may try to talk their friends into being interested in the same things they are," explains Cynthia Langtiw, Psy.D., assistant professor at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology.
The pushiness comes on two fronts: material things (the coolest backpacks, school clothes, notebooks) and social issues (the right game to play at recess, television show to watch, or way to wear their hair). How can you help your child stand up for her own preferences, and still have plenty of friends in class? Child-development experts offer these smart strategies for taking the pressure off right away, and for keeping it that way as your kid gets older.
Some kids don't even recognize peer pressure when it's happening, while others may be overly sensitive, says Fran Walfish, Ph.D., a child and family psychotherapist in Beverly Hills, California, and author of The Self-Aware Parent. Teach your child what peer pressure is and isn?t at this age so he knows how to react. For instance, explain that it's okay for a classmate to tell him about his Lego collection. But it's not acceptable for the classmate to say something like, "You can't play with us because you don't like Legos."
Or let your kid know that it's absolutely fine for a classmate to show off a snazzy new pencil case. But if he teases another student about her Hello Kitty pencil case being for preschoolers, that's plain wrong. "Explain that it's fun when friends share their new toys, games, and ideas with you, but it becomes peer pressure when they try to talk or tease you into changing what you like," says Dr. Walfish.
Children often give in to peer pressure because they feel they have no other choice if they want to have friends. But you can let your child know that it's not all or nothing and suggest a couple of ways to compromise. For example, she could say it's okay to say something like, "I'll play soccer with you at recess today if we can collect rocks together tomorrow" or "I don't want to wear a Hannah Montana T-shirt to school tomorrow. But Hannah wears headbands a lot on the show. Let's both wear our red sparkly headbands to school." Eventually, she might be able to come up with a solution on her own like my friend's 6-year-old daughter recently did. She was on a playdate at Build-A-Bear when her classmate picked out her hot-pink stuffed animal and said: "Make the same one. They could be twins!" Instead of getting a bear she didn't want, my friend's daughter replied, "If I make a different one, they could be BFFs." Problem solved.
Teasing isn't always part of peer pressure, but it usually is. If your kid is getting laughed at because he pulls Dora yogurt out of his lunch box or practices writing his letters in a kitten notebook, help him craft a clever (and kind) response and practice it through role-playing. "For instance, ask your child to pretend he's the one doing the teasing at the lunch table. When he recalls the zinger 'The Dora yogurt in your lunch box is for girls!,' say something back to him like, 'Maybe it is, but it's delicious! If I made the yogurt, I would put one of the superheroes on it instead,'" suggests Laurie Zelinger, Ph.D., a child psychologist and registered play therapist in Cedarhurst, New York. In addition, teach your child phrases that would work for any situation, such as, "I need to think about that" and "I'm not comfortable with that." Says Dr. Walfish, "These are ways for him to set boundaries without eliciting a harsh reaction."
Confident kids are much less likely to give in to their classmates' pushiness or second-guess their own opinions. Help your child feel good about her own preferences by frequently giving her opportunities to freely discuss her likes and dislikes with you, suggests Dr. Walfish. "Listening to her without judgment -- whether it's that pink is better than blue or broccoli is grosser than peas -- will also give her the confidence to speak her mind around friends and hold fast to what she likes," she says.
These picture books will help your kid understand why it's important to not give in to peer pressure.
A Bad Case of Stripes, by David Shannon - Kids will learn what happens when lima-bean-loving Camilla Cream allows others to change her rather than enjoy her favorite food.
Chrysanthemum, by Kevin Henkes - A little mouse is proud of her flowery name, until her classmates' mocking becomes a thorn in her side. Luckily, their favorite teacher has a secret that will return her self-confidence.
Riding the Tiger, by Eve Bunting - Danny thinks that he has gained the respect of his new town when he hitches a ride on the back of a tiger. But he realizes the truth in this allegory about following the wrong crowd.
One of Us, by Peggy Moss - Looking for a group to join, Roberta James thinks that unless she totally conforms she'll never belong. But then she encounters a group that values being individuals.


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Euro zone government bond yields fall, still near recent highs
LONDON — European government debt yields slipped on Friday but stayed near their recent highs as fears of conflict in the Middle East dissipated and investors re-focused on the Phase 1 trade deal between the United States and China.
The deal is expected to be signed next week and U.S. President Donald Trump has said preparations for the second phase of talks would start immediately afterward, although most analysts believe China would rather wait until the U.S. presidential election in November.
Appetite for risk reduces demand for safe assets such as government bonds, pushing their price lower and yields higher.
"We do not exclude warm words being said on that topic at the phase one signature ceremony next week, but we suspect a strong appetite to sweep the issue under the proverbial carpet until the U.S. election," ING analysts said in a note to clients.
The benchmark German Bund yield was down 1.2 basis points at -0.233%, close to the one-week high of -0.213% reached the day before.
Most other 10-year bond yields in the bloc were falling by around 1 bp as well. Italy was the outlier, with its 10-year bond yield down 3.1 bps at 1.347%, a four-day low.
The U.S. non-farm payrolls report is due later on Friday, and economists polled by Reuters expect the number to fall to 164,000 in December from 266,000 in November. That's still relatively strong, because November's rise was exceptional.
"Markets are primed for a decent reading," ING analysts said. "A slow drift higher in rates is the correct trade" unless the number of jobs added in the United States falls far more or tensions between the United States and Iran escalate.
Federal Reserve officials have been signaling that U.S. interest rates are likely to stay at current levels. Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari, for example, said on Thursday that last year's rate cuts helped to reduce recession risks, and he expected no change in rates for the foreseeable future. (Reporting by Olga Cotaga, editing by Larry King)
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Time of The Witches
The snow crunched underfoot like fishbones crunching on teeth. Crunch-crunch-crunch. Step by step – the farther into the forest, the deeper the snowdrifts. Behind Alrik his own footprints were buried in white, and ahead was a virgin expanse. If hunters have passed through here, their path has long been covered with snow.
According to the laws of the community, Alrik did not take a torch with him. The pale light of the moon wandered between the trees, turning into brisk shadows. They whispered as they told Alric of exploits, gray seas, and shining steel hardened by the blood of their enemies.
But not about the glorious battles Alrik dreamed under the shadow of the night forest, not the halls of Valhalla beckoned him, not allowing him to fall into the abyss of fear. Alric was clutching a log to his chest, the largest he had managed to get, making his way through the thicket in search of fire.
Suddenly, a firefly flared up and darted around from the side – a tiny ball, no more than a spark from a fire, but Alric made out it in the prickly darkness of the spruce forest. A moment later, a brother joined the firefly – the golden afterbirth of a wild flame, and then another and another.
Gradually gaining heat, they were filled with red, like apple sides in autumn. Warmth breathed into Alrik's face, ruddy from the cold and the long journey.
"You can stop, traveler, you can take a breath," the sleepy forest whispered, but Alrik knew he had to move on.
An invisible conflagration enveloped the thicket: it crackled, gurgled, clicked from all sides. Night predators, tawny owls, alarmed and frightened, began to bawl, as if someone was trumpeting for battle.
Elnik attacked with fire. Alric took a deep breath, hooted back three times as his brother had taught him, and suddenly realized that he was standing in the middle of a clearing that appeared out of nowhere. It lit up with orange heat, and immediately voices fell from the rowan branches.
Voiced and resonant, tender and rough, young and old, creaky and shrill – the coven came to the call.
"Who wanders around here in the long night?" — The old witch was walking through the snow. Her appearance was different from the human one: spruce paws grew on her head instead of hair – intertwining with each other, they looked like a wonderful crown.
From under a piece of sackcloth, designed to serve as a dress, bare arms and legs stuck out. They were covered with tree bark, smoldering right before our eyes – the smoke rose up and disappeared into the icy air. The upper lip barely covered the yellow animal fangs, and flames danced in the eyes.
Alric tightened his grip on the log and answered, swallowing a lump of fear of the unknown:
Alric, son of Klaus.
"Why did you come, Alric, son of Klaus?" the witch asked, coming quite close. So close that Alrik could feel her warmth and the smell of burnt wood.
"I came for living fire!"
The voice of the young warrior covered the glade, like a wave covers the water surface. The witch burst out laughing. Her laughter – exactly like a bird's call – was picked up by the others.
Their bodies separated from the forest, gathering in a flaming circle. Crimson sparks rose into the blackness of the sky. The witches croaked and grunted, closing the ring like a huge fire that could devour everything in its path.
"Do you know, Alric, son of Klaus," laughter fell to the ground with a last hoot, "how they pay for a living fire?"
Alric didn't know, but everything inside him went cold, as if it wasn't the fire of overheated bodies that approached him, but an icy wind blew from the sea.
"Life for life, life for life," was heard from all sides. The witches beat the rhythm of the sentence in a frenzied dance. – Life for life!
Alric grabbed the log with all his might. According to the laws of the community, he was unarmed. Every year, a unanimously elected husband went out in search of a log in the long night.
Every year he returned with fire, without saying a word about what happened in the forest. Had the witches changed their minds and Alric had to die?
Life for life, life for life. – Getting closer and closer. The coven filled the clearing with sparks and crackles.
Will the Valkyries take away a warrior who has fallen at the hands of a witch? Alrik could not imagine a worse death than to perish forever under a thick layer of snow in the forest, unknown, forgotten by everyone.
"Life for life! the chief witch proclaimed, retreating towards her sisters."
Alric closed his eyes.
"A life for a life," a voice came from very close. So beautiful, gentle and melodious that Alrik shuddered involuntarily and opened his eyes.
The girl stepped forward. She was not like the others: horns did not grow on her head, and her skin had not yet turned into a bark. Bright sparks played in her honey-colored hair. And only the eyes, shining with living fire, betrayed the true nature.
Alrik, fascinated and amazed, froze, his mouth gaping in amazement. He seemed to stop breathing, so beautiful was the witch.
She approached, continuing to repeat the sacred words, and … kissed the young warrior. In surprise, he dropped the log.
The witch's kiss swept through his entire being: his knees trembled and buckled, his lips burned, and his heart began to beat as if not a green spruce surrounded Alrik, but a battlefield.
The witch's caftan, embroidered with golden threads, fell at her feet with a soft rustle.
"A life for a life," she repeated again.
"I am old," said the chief witch. Her voice snapped Alric out of his daze for a moment. "I have to die, live young, and be born new. This is our time – the time of the witches! Do what you came for, Alric, son of Klaus!
The coven began its song again: it floated overhead, carried away into the starless sky, filling the taiga silence. Everything that happened next seemed to Alrik a dream.
The most wonderful dream he's ever had. Alrik had only been with a woman once, but that was a savage in the occupied land. Now the real element of nature lay before him, a power to be reckoned with.
All feelings were sharpened when the naked witch laid the warrior on her shoulder blades, climbing on horseback, like a Valkyrie on a winged stallion. The fur cape, thrown aside, seemed to the foggy mind a wild beast that came to stare at the triumph of the flesh.
Wet snow piled up behind the collar of his shirt, but Alrik did not feel the cold. His hands gripped the witch's hot thighs. The heat from his palms rose up to his throat.
Before my eyes, as if behind a veil of rain, the tops of centuries-old fir trees circled. They tore apart the blackness in the light of sparks flying in all directions from the long witch's hair.
Alric could smell the sweat, the sun, and the tight ears of wheat. The witch smelled of summer, and the warrior believed that there would be summer. The long night will end, day will come to replace it. The earth will warm up, and a new beginning will break through into the world from it.
The monotonous rumble of the witch's song and the howling of the wind began to pick up pace, accelerating along with the lovers. Alric, unable to contain the storm of passions, groaned as if from wounds. The witch bent down and, clinging, gave the warrior another kiss.
Alrik reached out for the elusive warmth and sweetness of his lips, but his eyes widened in horror. Instead of a beautiful face, Alrik suddenly saw an old, scab-covered witch.
Then another – with long crooked horns, a third, a fourth. The images changed like the wind in the sea. The whole coven was at that moment a single entity.
Alrik, wanting to dispel the confusion, picked up the hot body and turned over so that the witch was under him. Gasping in surprise, she still did not resist.
Power seethed in his blood, and the coven greeted that power, singing louder and louder. Alric tensed and trembled like a flag trembling at the mast. Datura left his body along with the seed.
The witch's pale skin suddenly shone as if a living flame had spread underneath it.
"What is your name?" Alrik whispered in a barely audible voice, leaning over the witch.
"Lita," she replied with a chuckle.
"Get up, Alric, son of Klaus!" – like a thunderstorm, the voice of the head witch rumbled. Alrik obediently got up, adjusting his clothes: the fur cape returned to his shoulders, and the log in his hands. You deserve your fire!
Lyta, still naked, stood in front of her and smiled triumphantly, as if it was her victory. She extended her hand in front of her and closed her eyes. The features of his face were sharpened in tension.
The coven froze, waiting for the blessing of the gods on this long night. Lita unclenched her fist and a second later a timid light flared up in her palm. At first it seemed to Alric not real, a golden beam of light, just a crumb, and then it began to grow, taking on form and essence.
The flame was drawing out Lita's radiance, absorbing her energy, her life. When it turned crimson, purple and blue, and firefly sparks flew in all directions, Lita went out.
She sent her gift through the air, blowing it from the palm of her hand, and a light, like a hungry barbarian pounced on a log. Alrik shuddered, but did not remove his hands – the live fire did not burn at all, warm rough tongues licked the skin.
Alrik watched the real miracle in rapture. Lita, like a sack stuffed with straw, collapsed into the snow.
"A life for a life," the coven began again.
Alrik, frightened, hurried to help, but the head witch stopped him with a gesture.
"Life for life!"
The two witches stepped out of the circle and knelt beside Lita. They joined their hands over her seemingly lifeless body, and began to whisper something in a language unknown to Alrik.
Time in the clearing in the middle of the spruce forest seemed to have ceased to exist. Only the trust of a flaming log reminded of the usual course of life. Alric did not want the gods to take the beautiful Lyta in exchange for the gift of fire.
Suddenly she inhaled noisily, as those rescued from the water inhale, and sat down, tearing the "dome" from the hands of her sisters. One of the older witches put her hand on Lita's stomach and said:
Let there be new life!
Alric closed his eyes in relief. He felt, just for a moment, the weightless touch of a whisper against his cheek.
Lyta's gentle voice lifted the veil between the worlds, visible and invisible, and a yellow meadow again appeared before Alrik's inner gaze, his nose caught the smell of hops and herbs, and his skin was warmed by the hot breath of summer.
"A life for a life," Lita said, giving the warrior a final kiss.
He did not remember how he got out of the forest. Fluffy snow fell from the sky, covering the way back. Clinging to the tops of the fir trees, somewhere far, far away, the sun of the new year was climbing. The horizon was still grey, but the tremulous flashes of dawn were already heralding the end of the long night.
Alrik clutched a flaming Yule log in his hands and confidently walked forward to his people to tell about the spring, which would certainly come true.
And then, in a fertile autumn, once again mooring to his native shores, he will return to the forest, and by all means find the treasured clearing, beloved Lita and their newborn child.
But Alrik will not tell a single living soul about this.
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A new bullet train service linking Xi"an and Chengdu went into operation on Wednesday, reducing travel time between the two historic cities by almost two-thirds.
The 658-kilometer high-speed line is the first to pass through the Qinling Mountains, the dividing line between China"s south and north, which boast a vast array of natural scenery and rare wildlife.
Thirty-eight trains will initially run along the railway, 19 each way, at speeds of up to 250 kilometers per hour, according to network operator China Railway Corp.
Travel by rail between Xi"an, capital of Shaanxi province, and Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province, is now just over four hours, down from 11 hours using the standard train services. This is expected to drop by another 30 minutes or so in coming weeks.
However, faster travel comes at a cost. The cheapest ticket for a seat on the high-speed train costs 263 yuan ($39.80), double the price of a slow train.
The new line expands transportation capacity north of the Sichuan-Chongqing region, linking the Yangtze River region and the Bohai Sea rim, said Zhang Zongwei, head of the Sichuan section of the railway"s construction team.
The region comprising Sichuan and Chongqing, called Shu in ancient China, is known for its challenging terrain. Li Bai, a poet of the Tang Dynasty (618-907), once wrote, "A journey to Shu is more difficult than a journey to climb to Heaven".
Yet the unique geography was seen as an advantage during World War II, and Chongqing was chosen as a wartime capital because it was seen as easy to defend and extremely hard to invade.
When the speed on the new line is increased, the travel time between Chengdu and Beijing will be cut to about eight hours, down from more than 14 hours, meaning the "journey to Shu" will no longer be so difficult.
The new line is an important part of China"s high-speed railway network, linking three high-speed lines-Xuzhou-Lanzhou, Datong-Xi"an and Chengdu-Chongqing-according to CRC.
The Xuzhou-Lanzhou line links eastern and western China, the Datong-Xi"an line connects central and western China and the Chengdu-Chongqing line links two major cities in southwestern China.
The new line also runs through poverty-stricken areas in the Qinling Mountains and the Dabashan Mountain region.
"The new line will boost the economy along the railroad and help carry out the regional development strategy, boosting economic and social development along the line and also improving local people"s well-being," said Song Ying, deputy head of the railway construction team"s Shaanxi section.
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The nation issued an updated national railway development plan in November envisioning 30,000 km of high-speed railways by the end of 2020.
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Not actually at night, but it might as well have been. Inside this cave near Vang Vieng was pitch black without our torches. Great fun, but having flip-flops and two torches between four wasn't exactly the best caving gear.
Going bowling at 1am because the bowling alley is the only place open that will sell beer? Must be in Luang Prabang! We went almost every night.
The single greatest market in all of S.E. Asia. Big, with hundreds of stalls selling paintings, clothes, drinks, carvings; anything you can think of. What put it ahead of the others in the region wasn't just the variety or low price though, it was the incredibly relaxed air about it. Walking down the street, you weren't hassled or pressured to buy anything, and the stall holders were happy to let you browse and not buy anything. A rare pleasure in Asia.
Down an alleyway off the Luang Prabang night market. Delicious foods for next to nothing.
A kid I got chatting to in the grounds of a temple in Vientiene, and a tiny kitten he found.
The main means of public transport around the city streets. Quite a bit bigger and sturdier than those in Thailand.
Drinking beers and 'Yellow Fevers' with friends in Utopia, the coolest bar in Luang Prabang. Those cocktails were lethal- half a liter of mostly alcohol. Delicious though.
The national symbol of Laos, beautifully lit up at night.
Two photos here, but they were taken seconds apart so I don't feel too bad about cheating and including both.
This was taken looking through the locked courtyard of Wat Chedi Luang in Vientiene.
It is no exaggeration to say that Beerlao is the best beer in all of Asia. Almost never found outside the Laotian borders, it's better than the Singaporean Tiger, better than the Philippine San Miguel, and way way better than the Thai Chang. Knowing Beerlao's reputation, the first thing I did after crossing the border was to buy one. I was convinced from the first sip, and made the most of it while I was there. The fuel for most evenings in Laos.
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Q: Hashmap object saved in Cloud Firestore with field names as letters insted of informed names I'm programming a android app in Kotlin and having troubles with document add to Cloud Firestore.
When testing the app in android studio AVD Emulator it goes alright and saves as expected, but when I'm testing from my phone, with the app installed from Google Play Store in beta mode, it changes the field names of maps to letters.
I'm creating a hashMap in kotlin as below:
            val mapeamento: HashMap<String, Any?>  = hashMapOf(
                "user_id" to userId,
                "data" to data,
                "hora" to hora,
                "local" to mapLocais,
                "sinal" to mapSinais,
                "companhia" to mapCompanhias,
                "contexto" to contexto,
                "soma" to mapSoma,
                "energossoma" to mapEnergossoma,
                "psicossoma" to mapPsicossoma,
                "mentalsoma" to mentalsoma,
                "hipotese" to mapHipotese,
                "informacoes" to mapInformacoes,
                "sincronicidades" to mapSincronicidades,
                "categoria" to mapCategoria,
                "hipotese_comprovada" to hipoteseComprovada,
                "explicacao_comprovacao" to explicacaoComprovacao
            )

And adding in Cloud Firestore this way:
                dbMapeamentoUser.add(mapeamento)
                    .addOnSuccessListener { documentReference ->
                        Log.d(TAG, "Mapeamento DocumentSnapshot added with ID: ${documentReference.id}")
                        Toast.makeText(this@CadastroMapeamentoActivity, "Mapeamento adicionado!", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show()
                        dbMapeamentoUser.addSnapshotListener { documentSnapshot, firebaseFirestoreException ->
                            // do nothing, just to make sure server will update local cache
                        }
                        finish()
                    }
                    .addOnFailureListener { e ->
                        Log.w(TAG, "Error adding Mapeamento document", e)
                        Toast.makeText(this@CadastroMapeamentoActivity, "Erro ao tentar adicionar o mapeamento: ${e.message}", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show()
                    }

The problem is, when I add a new document from android studio AVD Emulator it goes correct as below:

But when I add from the app instaled on my phone from beta test it changes fields names to letters:

I couldn't find anybody that may have the same problem, that's why I'm creating this question.
Any thoughts?

A: Issue:
Don't know, technically, what happens, but the issue is that:
When generate apk with "proguard minify" set to "true" it loses references of objects classes and saves fields names as letters.
When set to "false" it goes normally with correct object properties names.
Solution:
So, for now, the solution is:
Generate always the apk with proguard minify set to false in this particular app case.

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A consortium of eight technology companies last week called for the creation of a not-for-profit company to develop technology standards for a national health information database, the New York Times reports. In a report submitted to National Health Information Technology Coordinator David Brailer, the Interoperability Consortium -- which includes Accenture, Cisco, Computer Sciences, IBM, Intel, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft and Oracle -- recommended that the government provide initial funding and incentives to encourage doctors and hospitals to implement software and computers required to participate in the proposed database.
Patients decide whether personal information can be used in studies of drugs and treatments.
The eight companies are "often rivals," but they created an alliance "to hasten the development of a digital health network," the Times reports.
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One Saturday afternoon in Fall City, that all changed. I'm all but certain it was 1995 or 1996. All the clamor at the beer festival focused on a new (or newish) brewery that was serving a beer called IPA and it was blowing everyone's minds. Diamond Knot IPA was the buzz of the festival that year.
My crew hanging at the herb farm. Beer festival in 1995.
While that exact beer might taste dated by today's standards, back in those days, when were served a steady diet of Amber Ale, this was the craziest, hoppiest thing most people had ever tasted. Well, we all know what's happened in the world of beer since then. IPA is undoubtedly the most popular style of craft beer. It even has a day of its own: August 3rd, National IPA Day.
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Qutab Minar in New Delhi
Qutub Minar
Qutub Minar in Delhi is world heritage site. The tall minaret was constructed in 1192 by Qutab-ud-din Aibak, and later completed by his successor Iltutmish. The soaring conical tower is an exquisite example of Indo-Islamic Afghan architecture.
-Qutub Minar Height : 72.5 meteres or 237.8 feet
-Steps in minar : 379 steps
-Year Built : 1192
-Address : Aurobindo Marg, Mehrauli, New Delhi
-Built by :Qutab-ud-din Aibak
There are evidence that Qutub Minar was built much before by Hindu emperors. Later Kuttubuddin has replaced the writing on stones.
Qutub Minar is a World Heritage Site and has survived the ravages of time impressively. The Minar of Delhi is surrounded by a lush green garden, which is an ideal leisurely place for visitors. Qutab Minar is the favourite destination of tourists. It is India's most visited monument attracting around 3.9 million visitors every year.
Qutub minar, delhi Each of the 5 storeys and tower of Qutub Minar has unique designs.
It was hit by lightening couple of times and was damaged. The subsequent rulers repaired it. Thus it is standing mightily as it was before till date.
Qutub Minar -India
Qutab Minar is a great masterpiece of Mughal architecture. The base of the Qutub Minar measures 14.32 meters and the top of the structure measures 2.75 meters. The bird eye's view of Delhi city from the top is amazing. The base of first storey has alternate angular and circular flutings, the second one is round. The third storey of the Qutub Minar has angular flutings. The balconies projecting out heighten the beauty of the Minar.
The tower is so high that around 379 steps are needed to be climbed to reach the top. Another taller tower adjacent to Qutub Minar is named Alai Minar which is somewhat tilted in one direction.
Qutub-Minar
The verses from the holy Qur'an are carved on sandstone walls of Qutub Minar. This monument serves the purpose of calling people for prayer in the Quwwat-ul-Islam mosque. This is a tower of victory, a monument that signify the might of Islam, or a tower for keeping a check for defense.
There are claims and evidence that Qutubminar was built much before by Hindu emperors. Later Kuttubuddin has replaced the writing on stones. The stones has hindu God pictures on one side and arabic writing on other side.
Stones dislodged from the Minar have Hindu images on one side with Arabic lettering on the other. Those stones are now in Museum. These stone represent that invaders used to remove the stone- dressing of Hindu buildings, turn the stones inside out to hide the image facial and inscribe Arabic lettering on the new frontage.
Tourist attractions near Qutub Minar
Qutub Minar has some adjoining structures that lend shine of some of its fame. The Qutub complex houses the iron wonder nearby. The Iron Pillar is one of the metallurgical interests of the world. It is a thing to study as well as famous tourist destination. Traditionally people believe that if anyone standing in front of pillar with his back towards the column can encircle it with their arms, all his wishes will be fulfilled. Government has built a fence around it for safety.
An earthquake damaged top two floors of the minar during the rule of Firoz Shah; but was repaired by Firoz Shah himself. He built marble pavilions here. In the year 1505, earthquake again damaged it and was repaired by Sikandar Lodi. Once again the minar faced earthquake in the year 1794, then Major Smith refurbished the affected parts of the minar and replaced Firoz Shah's pavilion with his own pavilion. This pavilion was again removed in the year 1848 by Lord Hardinge. Now it can be seen lying between the Dak Bungalow and the Minar in the garden.
Many natural conditions weathered the minar but it is still standing with all the might owing to time to time renovations and reinstated and renovated by the respective rulers.
Sources:-http://www.qutubminar.org
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I took a twitter hiatus shortly after the start of the year. Part of my absence was driven by a change in jobs; restrictive IT policies, an outdated "smart"phone, and an overall need to focus on the task at hand. The break was needed. I spent my time acquiring new skills, doing some personal reflection, and enjoying watching the twins grow.
I had a couple false starts trying to get back to posting regularly. So I had to figure out what was so difficult about getting things going again. I first blamed the access challenges I had. It didn't take long to realize that was just an excuse. Even still, I simply couldn't force myself to start posting.
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(Nati Harnik/AP) Rep. Tim Ryan speaks at the Heartland Forum held in Storm Lake, Iowa, March 30, 2019.
Speculation began to ramp up around Ryan's 2020 plans last year after the eight-term representative started popping up in early key primary states including Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina. At the time, Ryan made it clear he wouldn't make a decision on whether to run in 2020 until after last year's midterm elections.
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Q: How does the question mark function in the SQL query? I'm attempting to edit an ETL package(SSIS) that queries a SQL table and outputs csv files for every StationID  and I'm having trouble understanding how the question mark is being used in the query definition below.   I understand ? is used a parameter but I don't understand how it's used in the date function below:
SELECT TimeSeriesIdentifier, StationID, ParameterID FROM dbo.EtlView WHERE
LastModified > DATEADD(hour, ?*-1, GETDATE())
AND StationID LIKE
CASE WHEN ? = 0 THEN
StationID
ELSE
?
END

A: The parameterization available in SSIS is dependent upon the connection manager used.
OLE DB and ODBC based connection managers use ? as the variable place holder, whereas ADO.NET uses a named parameter, @myVariable.
OLE DB begins counting at 0 whereas ODBC used a 1 based counting system. They are both however ordinal based systems so in your CASE expression the two ? are for the same variable. But, you'll have to list that SSIS Variable twice in the parameter mapping dialog because it's ordinal based - i.e. (param, name) => @HoursBack, 0;  @MyVar, 1; and @MyVar, 2;
A "dumb trick" I would employ if I had to deal with repeated ordinal based parameters or if I was troubleshooting packages is to make the supplied query use local variables in the query itself.
DECLARE
    @HoursBack int = ?
,   @MyVariable int = ?;

SELECT
    TimeSeriesIdentifier
,   StationID
,   ParameterID
FROM
    dbo.EtlView
WHERE
    LastModified > DATEADD(HOUR, @HoursBack * -1, GETDATE())
    AND StationID LIKE
        CASE
            WHEN @MyVariable = 0 THEN StationID
            ELSE @MyVariable
        END;

Now I only have to map the SSIS Variable @MyVar once into my script as the "normal" TSQL parameterization takes over. The other benefit is that I can copy and paste that into a query tool and sub in the ?s with actual values to inspect the results directly from the source. This can be helpful if you're running into situations where the strong typing in SSIS prevents you from getting the results into a data viewer.

A: SSIS is building a parameterized query.
You can get more information about this here (MySQL-specific):
What is the question mark's significance in MySQL at "WHERE column = ?"?
Or you can get a more generally-applicable response here: What does a question mark represent in SQL queries?

A: At a very "nuts and bolts" level, those are parameters being passed into the SQL statement by the package. With the Execute SQL task open, click on the tab that says Parameter Mapping. There will be a list of variables that are being sent into the query, and they are consumed in the order that they're listed.
Here's a logger for an archiving package I'm working on:

The query on the General tab just writes those five values to a table:
INSERT INTO dbo.ArchiveRowCounts (
  TableName,
  ServerName,
  ReportYear,
  BaseTblCnt,
  ArchiveTblCnt)
VALUES (?,?,?,?,?);


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The Secret Behind This New Bulletproof Shield? Origami
To design a better shield for police officers, researchers looked to a seemingly fragile art form.
By Katharine Schwab 3 minute Read
Origami, the Japanese art of folding paper, doesn't seem like it could help stop bullets. But mechanical engineers at Brigham Young University have developed a new ballistic shield design for law enforcement officers that incorporates origami folding structures–and can stop bullets from a .44 Magnum, one of the most powerful handguns.
Developed by Dr. Larry Howell and Terri Bateman of the Compliant Mechanisms Research Lab, the shield uses 12 layers of Kevlar–the same material used in bulletproof vests and body armor–in what is known as a Yoshimura folding pattern, which enables a flat material like paper to form a curved shape.
While typical ballistic shields are often flat, hard steel surfaces that don't cover the entire body, the lab's origami-inspired shield stands up on its own and can shield two or three officers from gunfire. It weighs 55 pounds, compared to some other folding shields which weigh more than 100 pounds. And unlike some models that require time for set up, or are unwieldy to transport, it takes only seconds to deploy. Locking mechanisms on the back of the shield snap into place with a few shakes of the shield prevent it from falling over, and it compactly folds when not in use, making it easy to store.
Howell has been working with origami as part of his research on "compliant mechanisms," or materials that fold or bend, for five years. "We noticed that this ancient art of origami, that these artists over the centuries have discovered some ways of achieving motion that we would not have discovered using traditional engineering approaches," he says. "There are some real advantages: increased precision, decreased cost, reduced weight."
". . .these artists over the centuries have discovered some ways of achieving motion that we would not have discovered using traditional engineering approaches."
For instance, Howell and his team are working with NASA on solar panels for space, and have also used origami-based design to create implements used in minimally invasive surgery. Since origami is a compliant mechanism, surgical tools based on the patterns tend to enter the body more naturally. "Most of your internal organs are compliant mechanisms: your heart is a pump that's continual," he says. "If you were to build [a valve] using traditional engineering, you would have all sorts of bearings and hinges–but that's not how nature does it."
The shield project began in the summer of 2016. "It doesn't seem like it would help in security," Bateman says of the design. "It seems flimsy." But their experience studying the mechanical properties of origami led them to believe that one of the patterns could enable a shield that was lighter, quicker to deploy, and more compact to store.
The two engineering professors and a team of students began by speaking with security personnel and police officers about the problems they had with many existing shields, which are cumbersome, heavy, and don't entirely protect officers. After modeling and experimenting with several different folding patterns, the team settled on the Yoshimura pattern because it creates a curving structure, which lets the shield stand up on its own while protecting officers' sides. During testing, the team observed as officers shot about 24 bullets from 9 mm, .357 Magnum, and .44 Magnum guns at the shield, aiming primarily at the folds and hinges in an attempt to knock it over. Not even one of the most powerful handguns on the market, the .44 Magnum, could tip the shield. Its layers of Kevlar–which cover 24 square feet when laid flat–absorbed the force of the bullet.
This Bulletproof Shield Is Inspired By Japanese Origami
Howell believes that the shield has applications outside of law enforcement. It could also be used to protect children in schools during active shooter situations, especially because it can be stored compactly in a closet and deployed quickly. He has filed for a patent and is actively looking for commercial partners, which will allow him to develop the shield further. It can only defend against handguns and pistols, though. The current prototype wouldn't be able to withstand an attack from the assault rifles often used in the military, which have smaller, sharper bullets. Integrating protection against those kinds of weapons is the next step, though doing so will increase the weight and cost of the shield.
Origami has inspired countless other products in recent years, including toothpaste tubes, suitcases, kayaks, and even a microscope. Integrating it into a ballistic shield proves that this seemingly dainty art form is far stronger than it appears.
[Photos: BYU Photo]
Katharine Schwab is the deputy editor of Fast Company's technology section. Email her at kschwab@fastcompany.com and follow her on Twitter @kschwabable
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Plans to build a DNA database in the British Overseas Territory of Bermuda were announced by Prince Andrew in 2005. The contract to establish and maintain a Bermuda criminal DNA database and a Bermudian general population database is with Florida-based firm Trinity DNA solutions. Bermuda has begun to implement a DNA database of arrested persons and to keep samples and DNA profiles indefinitely from innocent people, but it has not yet attempted to build the proposed general population database. In early March 2011 there were 2,500 people on Bermuda's DNA database.
Police and Criminal Evidence Act 2006: Codes of Practice
Police and Criminal Evidence Act 2006
Bermuda Sun: Shadow AG sets record straight on police powers (19th February 2013)
The Royal Gazette: Where the parties stand on crime (10th December 2012)
Bermuda Sun: Government Contracts Awarded For The Month Ended March 31, 2012 (27th June 2012)
Contract Awarded To Trinity DNA Solutions. Total Value of Contract USD550,000.00 (March 27, 2012).
Bermuda Sun: Forensic experts detail tests helping cops win the war against gun crime (3rd February 2011)
Reports that there are about 2,500 DNA profiles on the database.
The Royal Gazette: DNA database links 10 suspects to past crimes (30th August 2010)
Reports that between January 1 and July 31 2010, a total of 1,190 DNA samples have been received by the Forensic Support Unit of the Bermuda Police Service from 1,155 people detained under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 2006. Starting in September 2008, everyone detained by Police for a recordable offence is required to provide a DNA sample.
Royal Gazette: Island courts are set to use newly created Bermuda DNA database (13th February 2010)
Royal Gazette: DNA expert gives presentation on local statistics (18th September 2009)
The Royal Gazette: DNA samples to stay on Police database, says Burch (4th June 2009)
Royal Gazette: People line up in the rain for DNA swab, $40 (2nd June 2009)
Royal Gazette: Crime-fighting DNA database is to be set up in Bermuda (7th May 2009)
Reports that last week, the Police signed a 987,000 dollar three-year contract with Florida-based firm, Trinity DNA Solutions, to set up the project and do the profiling work.
Royal Gazette: Unsolved murder cases could be cracked, detectives hope (7th May 2009)
Royal Gazette: GlobalHue to get $28m to promote Island (2nd May 2009)
Reports that the Ministry of Labour, Home Affairs and Housing handed out a $987,000 contract to Trinity DNA Solutions to establish and maintain a Bermuda criminal DNA database and a Bermudian general population database.
Royal Gazette: Police get increase in fingerprint and DNA powers (9th September 2008)
Royal Gazette: Police: DNA database ready as early as next year (21st April 2008)
Royal Gazette: At a glance - bringing in the Police and Criminal Evidence Act (21st April 2008)
Royal Gazette: PACE: A long time coming? (13th December 2005)
Reports Cole Simons, Shadow Minister of the Environment, asking what happens when an accused person is found innocent: is that person's DNA profile removed from the database?
Royal Gazette: A Bermuda for everyone (5th November 2005)
The Duke of York's speech at the Cabinet Office includes: "Throughout Bermuda's history, crime detection and evidence analysis has faced numerous challenges.To ameliorate current conditions, the Government will bring forward legislation to establish a DNA database in Bermuda."
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Known for their purple color, trademark almond shape and fruity flavor, Castella Kalamatas are hand-picked gems from Greece. Seasoned with the perfect blend of herbs, pitted and marinated in brine.
Jazz up a Greek salad or any other salad that needs a pick-me-up. A healthy alternative to snacktime.


There are a few different ways to bet on hockey, and we will go over them.
The one that will be easiest for the general public to understand is the MONEY LINE, which essentially allows the bettor to place a wager on the outright winner of a game, with a price on the favorite and a price on the underdog.
You will find these prices expressed in odds that are referred to as "American," and not fractional. So as the hockey bettor, you are analyzing the "value" that appears in the line on either side, as you perceive it.
In this example, which uses something called the "20-cent line," the home team is listed at the bottom. The team with the minus (-) sign is the favorite, while the team with the plus sign (+) next to it is the underdog. As you can see, the road team is the underdog, which can be rather common in hockey games.
If you place a wager on the favored "Team B" you are betting $1.25 for every $1 you hope to win (profit). If you bet on "Team B," you will profit $1.05 on a winning wager of $1. It is as simple as that.
Remember something – since the overtime and shootout process is designed to rid the NHL of tie games, the result by which the money gets returned to all bettors since there is no winner or loser no longer exists.
If you are familiar with baseball wagering at all, there is generally not going to be anything foreign to what you have to do to place a hockey money line bet. These bets also exists in the NFL.
There is yet another bet in hockey that also exists in baseball, and it is known in this sport as a "PUCK LINE" or a "SPLIT LINE." What this does is create a combination of a pointspread-type situation and a money line. What it amounts to is that the money line part of it is relative to the puck (or goal) spread.
Again, as we mentioned, the home team is on the bottom and the road team is on top. And it has become more or less the standard that the goal "spread' for this kind of proposition is a goal and a half. Consequently, if you want to wager on the favorite here, that team has to win by at least two goals. If you are on the underdog, they have to either win outright or come to within a single goal for you to win.
Obviously in a game like hockey, where there is not a lot of scoring, that is quite a luxury. And you will pay for it, as you can see from the above model, ,where if you want to take the goal and a half you will have to wager $3.20 for every $1 in winnings. On the other side, if you lay the 1.5 goals you are able to take a price. Here you can win $2.60 on a $1 wager.


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Rural Kansas Fights to Save Grocery Shops
By Tracy Moran
Because everyone needs access to fruit and veg, even in the Wheat State.
Loren Lance was less than impressed when he pulled up to Charlie Brown's Market, his community grocery store in Mildred, Kansas, to find the doors locked and the shelves bare a few years back. After fretting about it for a few days, the farmer's wife, Regena, said: "I think we should see about buying it." So they did just that, reopening it as Mildred Store, much to the community's delight, two months later. Keeping the 102-year-old shop viable is tricky, Lance admits, but he gets at least one person every day thanking him for being there.
"If I get within 10 miles, I stop by," a passerby says, strolling past the deli counter. "That's why it's here," Lance nods, "as a community service." To generate business, Lance hosts live country music nights each month, drawing in 80–160 people for concerts and dances in an adjacent room.
People are getting creative and, I think, realizing that they have to do it themselves.
Yvonne Scott, AmeriCorps VISTA healthy food access coordinator
"When the grocery store in a small town dies, the town dies," says Yvonne Scott, AmeriCorps VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) healthy food access coordinator, noting how the government estimates that 55 million Americans live in food deserts — more than 10 miles away from a grocery store. In Kansas, part of at least a third of the state's 105 counties suffer from food deserts, affecting roughly 800,000 people, according to David Procter, director of Kansas State University's Center for Engagement and Community Development, which tracks the closure of small-town groceries and works to equip communities and shop owners with access to savvy business plans, marketing analysis tips and ways to assess their town for store viability. By making Mildred Store known not only for its meaty Charlie Brown sandwich but also as a communal meeting space, Lance is among a cadre of individuals and communities that have begun fighting back to ensure access to healthy food in rural parts of the Wheat State — drawing on civic-minded locals and community-minded organizations to keep their stores alive.
Since 2007, when there were about 213 rural grocery stores in Kansas, says Procter, 45 communities have lost their stores. His work and that of community members and organizations like the Sunflower Foundation, Thrive, Live Well and the Kansas Health Foundation have helped save or restore many stores; today there are an estimated 193 rural shops. "There are lots of innovative things that people are doing to try to either start or sustain their local stores," he says.
Some communities are pooling resources, making stores "community-owned," Procter says. In other towns, communities are banding together to turn stores into cooperatives. In Moran, Kansas, for example, the local Stub's Market is at risk of closing because its owners are looking to retire. Locals, hoping to save it, are working to convert the store into a food cooperative called Marmaton Market. Thrive Allen County asked AmeriCorps VISTA for help, and it sent Scott. So far, almost 100 members have signed on with the $100 membership fee. While the membership fees won't generate operating capital, they do reflect community buy-in, which helps cooperatives secure grants and loans.
Stub's Market offers much-need fruit and veg to rural Kansans.
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Some communities are striking a private-public partnership to keep their stores alive — meaning local officials declare food access a public good and use public dollars to support the grocery store. This approach is keeping the St. Paul Supermarket in St. Paul, Kansas, afloat. The city council paid to build the market, Procter says. He explains that a couple runs the shop, paying off the debt and drawing a salary, but that the city will always own the enterprise. By ensuring that the store is community-owned, no board or owner can turn around and say, "Your bottom line isn't working." In Kiowa, Kansas, the community has created a cooperative, and in Little River, the city government and a community foundation have invested together to ensure their store survives. Tax credits and grants are being used more than ever before. And in Plains, in the southwest part of Kansas, the community is taking the nonprofit route to open a store next year. "People are getting creative and, I think, realizing that they have to do it themselves," says Scott.
Scores gather each month for live music nights at Mildred Store.
After the supercenter Walmart moved in on the north side of Iola, most small grocers went out of business — not unusual when shops with bigger overheads like Walmart or Dollar General open nearby. Since then, the townspeople have struggled to get a grocery store back in the center of town that's walkable for elderly residents. "This was a unique opportunity to bring the county and city together, along with a local group called Iola Industries," says Bill Maness, Thrive's economic development program manager, whose organization supported the effort by providing data, like the fact that Iola was losing $7 million a year as people left the town to shop elsewhere. Alongside grassroots support, this helped push local authorities to work harder to bring a store to town. The new G&W, a regional grocery chain, is set to open there this month.
Procter isn't comfortable concluding yet that the reopening or sustainability rate for rural Kansas groceries is better than it was in the early 2000s, but he's happy his work is beginning to make a difference.
Over at Mildred Store, old-fashioned Christmas candy — a trademark sales item there — fills shelves this time of year. And owner Lance, who's busy farming and preparing to sell some cattle in the morning, is planning his upcoming music night, where locals dance amid the store's antiques as he and other musicians take to their fiddles and guitars. There's no guarantee that Mildred Store will survive. Nor is it assured that the Marmaton Market co-op will take off to replace Stub's. But, says Carole Hamilton, a cashier at Stub's who lives right across the street, "I believe people will fight to keep it open."
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Ever been skiing and noticed your toenail had turned black and incredibly painful at the end of the day? Was the entire nail black or only the base? "Skier's toe" is a common and often very frustrating injury from skiing.
The medical term is a subungual hematoma, which simply means bleeding under the nail. This can occur from a single instance of trauma like dropping something on your toe, or from small, repetitive trauma like a too-small or too-big (so your foot slams back and forth) ski boot.
If this happens to you- do NOT wait to go in to a clinic, because the success rate in fixing this problem is much higher the earlier it is treated. The treatment procedure involves burning a tiny hole through the nail, which allows the trapped blood to drain. There is typically only a few drops, but the pain that small amount of blood causes underneath the nail (if not removed) is fairly intense.
As with so many medical problems, PREVENTION is key! Make sure your ski boots fit properly- don't cram your foot into a friend's boots- and be sure your socks are not bunched up. Using the newer thin ski socks, rather than old school super thick ones, also helps. (Don't worry, the new fabrics keep your toes warmer, despite what it might appear.) This painful injury should NOT occur if your shoes/boots fit correctly.
BOTTOM LINE: Make sure your ski boots and socks fit properly, and avoid getting skier's toe!
PS. In prior blog posts regarding this injury, people have commented about home remedies. While in experienced hands, the red-hot tip of a flame-sterilized paperclip may be used to swiftly burn a tiny hole through the nail, I would definitely NOT recommend trying this on your own. Among other challenges, people have been known to pass out from simply watching this procedure done on another person's toe..


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Q: Final assertion not passing in C //drivercode
#include "team.h"
#include "team.h"
#include <limits.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <assert.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <time.h>
#define TEAM_SIZE 10
#define DRAFT_SIZE TEAM_SIZE*TEAM_SIZE
#define PARTA 1
#define PARTB 1
int main(){
    srand(time(0));
#if PARTA
    ///////// PART A Tests /////////
    printf("\n\t======= Verifying Player Struct...\n\n");
    int player_num = 0;
    struct Player p1 = {rand()%TEAM_SIZE+1, rand()%TEAM_SIZE+1, player_num++};
    struct Player p2 = {rand()%TEAM_SIZE+1, rand()%TEAM_SIZE+1, player_num++};
    if(p1.offense > p2.defense){
        printf("\nPlayer%d wins with %d offense", p1.number, p1.offense);
        printf(" over Player%d's %d defense.\n", p2.number, p2.defense);
    }else if(p2.offense > p1.defense){
        printf("Player%d wins with %d offense", p2.number, p2.offense);
        printf(" over Player%d's %d defense.\n", p1.number, p1.defense);
    }else{
        printf("Player%d and Player%d tie the match.\n", p1.number, p2.number);
    }
    printf("\n\t...Passed =======\n\n");
    printf("\n\t======= Verifying Team Struct...");
    struct Team t1;
    for(int j = 0; j < 80; j++)  {
        t1.name[j] = '\0';
    }
    for(int i = 0; i < TEAM_SIZE; i++){
        //this tests that you have player objects inside your team players array.
        //'total' is a nonsensical throwaway value.
        t1.players[i].offense = t1.players[i].defense = t1.players[i].number = rand() % TEAM_SIZE;
        int total = t1.players[i].offense + t1.players[i].defense + t1.players[i].number;
        printf("%d, ", total);
    }
    printf("\nPassed =======\n\n");
#endif
#if PARTB
    ///////// PART B TESTS /////////
    printf("\n\t======= Single League Team Initialization...");

    struct Player draft[DRAFT_SIZE];
    initPlayers(draft, DRAFT_SIZE);
    struct Team league[TEAM_SIZE];
    league[0] = draftTeam("Prime", draft, TEAM_SIZE);
    int last_total = 0, counter = 0;
    for(int i = 0; i < TEAM_SIZE; i++){
        int total = league[0].players[i].offense + league[0].players[i].defense + league[0].players[i].number;
        if(total == last_total){
            counter++;
        }
        last_total = total;
    }

    printf("Passed =======\n\n");
    printf("\n\t======= Multiple League Team Initialization...");

    for(int i = 1; i < TEAM_SIZE; i++){
        league[i] = draftTeam("Prime", draft, TEAM_SIZE);
        int last_total = 0, counter = 0;
        for(int j = 0; j < TEAM_SIZE; j++){
            int total = league[i].players[j].offense + league[i].players[j].defense + league[i].players[j].number;
            if(total == last_total){
                counter++;
            }
            last_total = total;
        }
        assert(counter <= 3);
    }

    printf("Passed =======\n\n");
    printf("\n\t======= Verifying all players were drafted...");

        int t = -1;
        for(int j = 0; j < DRAFT_SIZE; j++){
            assert(draft[j].number == -1);
            if(j % 10 == 0) t++;
            assert(league[t].players[j%10].number != -1);
        }

    printf("Passed =======\n\n");
    printf("\n\tAll Tests Passed! \nMake sure to push to Github and submit your hash on MyCourses!\n\n");
#endif
}

//team.c file
#include <limits.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <assert.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <time.h>
#include "team.h"

void initPlayers(struct Player players[], int size){
     for(int i=0;i<=size;i++){
         players[i].offense = rand();
         players[i].defense = rand();
         players[i].number = rand();
     }
}
struct Team draftTeam(char name[], struct Player draft[],int team_size){
     struct Team bestteam;
     bestteam.name = name[];
     bestteam.players = draft[];
     for(int i=0; i<team_size;i++){
         bestteam.players[i] = draft[i];
         draft[i].number = -1;
     }
     return bestteam;
}

//team.h file
#ifndef JG_TEAM_H
#define JG_TEAM_H

struct Player{
     int offense;
     int defense;
     int number;
};
struct Team{
     struct Player players[10];
     char name[80];
};

void initPlayers(struct Player players[], int size);

struct Team draftTeam(char name[], struct Player draft[],int team_size);

#endif

When running the code "team.c" with the driver code I am able to pass every test except for the final test. When it gets to the final test I get the error "a.out: main.c:83: main: Assertion draft[j].number == -1 failed. Aborted" Is there something that I should be changing in my code so that I am able to pass this test?