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Federal data shows 3.9 million students dropped out of college with debt in 2015 and 2016
For-profit sector produced a disproportionate share of indebted dropouts
by Jill Barshay November 6, 2017 March 30, 2020
ITT Technical Institute, a for-profit university, produced more than 64,000 dropouts with student loan debt in fiscal years 2015 and 2016 before it went bankrupt and shut down in September 2016. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File) Credit: AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File
The saddest stories among those who owe some of the $1.3 trillion in student loan debt are those of college dropouts. They took out loans to go to school, hoping for a better life. But without college degrees, many don't find good jobs to help pay back these loans. It not only ruins their lives, it's terrible for the nation's budget. The loans are financed by the federal government, ultimately leaving taxpayers on the hook.
This story also appeared in U.S. News & World Report
Which schools are leaving taxpayers and students in the lurch most often? I ran some calculations, using the latest data, released in September.
The U.S. Department of Education's College Scorecard tracks the number of students who dropped out with debt for each college and university in the nation. My figures show a total of 3.9 million undergraduates with federal student loan debt dropped out during fiscal years 2015 and 2016 (from mid-2014 through mid-2016). I found that more than 900,000 of these students dropped out of for-profit universities. That's 23 percent of all the indebted dropouts, even though only 10 percent of all undergraduate students attend for-profit schools. Many more indebted dropouts, almost 2.5 million of them, had attended public institutions, such as two-year community colleges and four-year state schools. But the public sector's share of dropouts exactly matches its share of the student population: 64 percent. As a whole, private nonprofit colleges seem to be doing a better job, accounting for 13 percent of the dropouts while educating a quarter of all U.S. undergraduates. However, the size of the debts of dropouts is the largest at private nonprofit colleges, with each person owing almost $10,000 on average.
"It's a significant problem," said Sandy Baum, an expert on higher education finance at the Urban Institute, a research organization in Washington, D.C.. "We want to know who is creating these people and putting people in this untenable situation."
"The federal government provides these loans, and the students interpret that as a stamp of approval. They assume that the federal government wouldn't give them money to go to an institution that doesn't graduate its students," added Baum, the author of the 2016 book Student Debt: Rhetoric and Realities of Higher Education Financing.
It's a credit to the Department of Education that it continues releasing this data that isn't flattering to the for-profit sector even as the Trump Administration has delayed and sought to ease regulations of for-profit universities. The Obama Administration first released this loan data last year and this is the second release. (Many thanks to Kim Clark of the Education Writers Association who downloaded the raw data into a spreadsheet for reporters to analyze and helped me understand the variables.)
One shortcoming of the data is that it doesn't tell us exactly what percentage of students who took out student loans are dropping out each year and eventually defaulting. Instead, all we are given is how many students with loans dropped out over two years from fiscal 2015 to 2016. We don't know, at first glance, if they represent a lot or a little of the student body. It's possible to see a surge in dropouts during good economic times when employers are hiring and students are quitting school to enter the workforce. Some may have initially started school recently; some may have started 10 years ago.
Not every student who withdraws from college is a dropout for life. Some transfer to other colleges and eventually obtain degrees. This is particularly true for many community college students, and this data doesn't reveal which students eventually get degrees.
For some institutions, which have high tuition and cater to a low-income population, students with loans make up a large percentage of the student body. For these colleges, this data gives a good overall picture of how many people are failing and succeeding in graduating. For more elite institutions, where the proportion of people who take out loans is small, it's important to remember that the number of dropouts covers only students who take out loans. The college might have a better track record graduating wealthier students. That also explains why private, nonprofit schools produced a smaller number of indebted dropouts than for-profit or public institutions; they tend to cater to a wealthier student population.
I decided to focus on sheer numbers of people, as opposed to dollar amounts of debt, because previous research has shown that small debts can be the biggest problem. Over 65 percent of defaulters had student loan debt under $10,000 and the default rate is highest for people with the smallest loans, those of less than $5,000, according to the College Board.
Out of curiosity, I ranked colleges by the numbers of students with debt who had withdrawn from school prior to graduation. The top five were all for-profit institutions. Collectively, the five produced more than 330,000 indebted dropouts over two years. The largest, the University of Phoenix, produced almost 140,000 of them. The College Scorecard data also shows that these dropouts are likely to have trouble repaying the loans. Among students who dropped out of the University of Phoenix three years earlier, 79 percent were unable to repay a single dollar of principal on their federal student loans.
A big problem with this approach is that it points the finger at large institutions. The University of Phoenix has more than 160,000 undergraduates in 38 campuses across the United States. You'd expect the school to have a large number of dropouts. There are many smaller schools that have fewer dropouts but a higher percentage of their student body drops out.
To put these large numbers into perspective, I created a "dropouts as a proportion of student enrollment" ratio in the tables below. It attempts to adjust the two-year dropout figures for school size. The lower the number, the better. A number of 1 for this ratio means that roughly half the student population drops out with debt each year. Of the top five, the University of Phoenix had the best record, with only 40 percent of its population dropping out with debt each year. At ITT Technical Institute, which closed down last year, 70 percent of its population dropped out with debt annually.
The downside to this ratio is that it penalizes schools that cater to low-income students. The poorer the student population, the larger the ratio of dropouts to student body will be. It also overstates the dropout problem for schools whose enrollments are declining, which is happening throughout higher education, but particularly at for-profit schools.
Another approach is to compare how many dropouts with debt a college produces for each successful graduate with debt. "It's important to highlight colleges who have a lot of students who drop out with debt relative to those who graduate — particularly for low-income students," said Robert Kelchen, a professor at Seton Hall University who researches higher education finance.
Through this lens, the University of Phoenix had the best record among the top five producers of dropouts. It generated 2.4 dropouts for each person who successfully graduated during 2015 and 2016. By contrast, DeVry University, another large for-profit chain, produced double that number, or 4.8 dropouts for each successful graduate.
Again out of curiosity, I created top five lists for both public and private, non-profit institutions, identifying which colleges and universities produced the largest numbers of people who dropped out with debt. Collectively, the top five public institutions produced over 100,000 of these students over two years. Four of the five are community colleges, where graduation rates are notoriously low. However, many students use community colleges to start their college educations and purposely withdraw before graduation to transfer to a four-year school. The only four-year school on the top five public list is Arizona State University, a very large school with more than 70,000 undergraduates. It also admits many low-income students. It was startling to see how much better its ratios are than in the for-profit sector. It produces more graduates than dropouts and only 10 percent of its population drops out with debt each year.
"Within these big colleges with lots of dropouts, they have much different numbers of students who succeed," said Seton Hall's Kelchen. "Yes, a lot of students drop out with debt from those schools. But, at some, a lot more end up graduating."
My top-five tables:
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Tagged: Betsy Devos, Data and research, Funding, Graduation and dropouts, Higher education completion, Proof Points
Jill Barshay
barshay@hechingerreport.org
Jill Barshay is a staff writer and editor who writes the weekly "Proof Points" column about education research and data. She taught algebra to ninth graders for the 2013-14 school year. In school,...	More by Jill Barshay


I've shot actor headshots. I've shot author headshots. It was high time I added another "a_____ headshot" to my resumé, so here's an artist headshot of friend Stephanie!
Stephanie's work appears on wood and paper (which, of course, is really thin wood), and can be seen at the Queen Alexandra Children's Hospital or, if you have a time machine, the Royal BC Museum's Dinosaurs: Dragon Bones in China exhibit.
She needed a professional headshot for some upcoming shows, so we headed out to shoot at the funnest place ever: Hotel Zed.
Our search for locations took us to an apparent school bus graveyard of questionable odours, but hey, this ain't smellovision, so you just get to see how cool it looked.
I've been waiting for an opportunity to use this amazing wall, and it did not disappoint as a background.
We ended up in some pretty interesting areas with pretty interesting colours . . .
Helping out on this shoot was friend Tyson, who took this backstage shot of me directing Stephanie. Please note, I'm not doing that make-a-frame-with-your-hands director thing. I'm not quite that cool.
And, since we had Tyson, and since we had that wall . . . BONUS TYSON HEADSHOT!
Do you need a professional headshot? I can help you. Let's chat!
Prettiest girl! Love these shots! The door way one is fully my favourite! Shows off the signature dress!
Really like the sketchy graveyard shot too. Super intense and I hope that gets used for something.


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French Team Links Certain Antibodies to Improved Survival of PAH Patients with Lupus
by Jose Marques Lopes PhD
In News, PAH News.
French scientists have identified antibodies that appear to increase the risk of a poor outcome in pulmonary arterial hypertension patients with lupus and others they believe improve patients' survival.
Anti-SSA/SSB antibodies are a risk factor in PAH patients with systemic lupus erythematosus, or SLE, while anti-U1-RNP antibodies are associated with a better survival rate.
The research, "Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Associated with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Results From the French Pulmonary Hypertension Registry," was published in the journal Chest.
PAH associated with connective tissue disease (PAH-CTD) is the second most prevalent cause of pulmonary hypertension after idiopathic/heritable PAH. Conversely, lupus is the second most common cause of PAH-CTD after systemic sclerosis.
PAH occurs in less than 4 percent of SLE patients, with PAH being diagnosed by the gold standard — right heart catheterization (RHC). In using echocardiography to diagnose PAH in SLE patients, different studies found no cases of SLE-PAH. Due to this low prevalence, systematic screening for PAH in SLE patients is currently not recommended by the European Society of Cardiology and the European Respiratory Society.
Study of the SLE-PAH association is hampered by few case series (a descriptive type of study that samples patients with a specific disease) in medical research. Moreover, SLE-PAH series with PAH diagnosed by RHC are even rarer.
Researchers decided to assess all SLE-PAH patients enrolled in the French Pulmonary Hypertension Registry between June 2003 and June 2013. PAH diagnosis was confirmed by RHC. A group of 101 SLE patients without known PAH, but who had undergone echocardiography, were used as controls. The analysis focused on characteristics and survival rates of patients.
From a total of 69 SLE-PAH patients, 51 met the inclusion criteria. These patients did not differ from the control group in age, sex, or duration of SLE at the time of data collection.
Results showed that the mean delay between diagnoses of SLE and PAH was 4.9 years, with the range being 2.8-12.9 years. In half of the patients, PAH was diagnosed within the first five years after SLE diagnosis. In seven cases, the diagnosis was done within one year.
The three- and five-year overall survival rates after PAH diagnosis were 89.4% and 83.9%, respectively.
Cyclophosphamide was the most common treatment for PAH in the cohort analyzed. Furthermore, a trend for better survival was observed in patients receiving the anti-SLE drug hydroxychloroquine at or in the months following PAH diagnosis.
Interestingly, SLE-PAH patients were found to have a higher frequency of the anti-SSA and anti-SSB antibodies associated with autoimmune diseases such as SLE. Other identified risk factors for PAH development were kidney involvement and higher pulmonary vascular resistance.
In contrast, anti-U1-RNP antibodies were found to be associated with an improved survival rate. The presence of these antibodies is known in patients with SLE and also in those with CTD.
A total of 11 patients died during the 10-year follow-up period. Nine died of cardiopulmonary complications, whereas two of infection. No patients out of 14 with anti-U1-RNP antibodies died during the 10-year follow-up. In contrast, six deaths were reported out of 24 patients in the group without anti-U1-RNP.
"Anti-SSA/SSB antibodies may be a risk factor for PAH, and the presence of anti-U1-RNP antibodies appears to be a protective factor regarding survival," the researchers wrote.
Nonetheless, the team emphasized that further studies are needed to confirm the results.
Jose Marques Lopes PhD
José is a science news writer with a PhD in Neuroscience from Universidade of Porto, in Portugal. He has also studied Biochemistry at Universidade do Porto and was a postdoctoral associate at Weill Cornell Medicine, in New York, and at The University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada. His work has ranged from the association of central cardiovascular and pain control to the neurobiological basis of hypertension, and the molecular pathways driving Alzheimer's disease.
Tagged anti-ssa/ssb, anti-U1 RNP, antibodies, Lupus, right heart catheterization, Risk Factors, SLE, survival.
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The memories burned along with Eminem's childhood memories in the Detroit home he grew up in after a fire damaged the crib Thursday night (Nov. 7). It's the same boarded-up house photographed in Em's recently released album Marshall Mathers LP 2 above.
According to USA Today, a firefighter on the scene said fire was coming out of a window on the second floor of the two-story bungalow. The Detroit Fire Department was able to put out the blaze that damaged portions of the top floor. No word on what caused the fire.
The 767-square-foot home, which first made its appearance on the cover of Eminem's 2000 effort The Marshall Mathers LP, was most recently owned by the Michigan Land Bank and currently on the auction block, with minimum bids starting at $1.
Public records show that Deborah Mathers copped the house, reportedly worth an estimated $32,885, in 1987 for $19,900. The property changed owners about 10 times before it foreclosed for non-payment of taxes in 2001. It was turned over to Land Bank when the house failed to sell for $500 at a Wayne County Treasurer's Office auction.


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"A Genial Hack," Part 2: The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
Posted on June 3, 2010 by Jim LaneSeptember 2, 2016
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine is a movie many people think they've heard of, even when they haven't. "Oh yeah, isn't that a Laurel and Hardy movie?" No, you're thinking of Way Out West, where The Boys sang a song by that name ("In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia…"). The 1913 song, like Henry Hathaway's 1936 movie, was inspired by a novel by John Fox Jr. published in 1908.
The book was a phenomenal success. Records being what they were in those days, it's hard to know exactly how many copies it sold. Surely in the hundreds of thousands, probably more; one source I found said 1.3 million, at a time when a million-selling book was something to write home about. In any case, here's what Fox's novel looks like. It may look familiar; if you've spent any time at all in a used bookstore, you've probably seen several copies. They're not uncommon, even after 102 years, and they're not expensive; no telling how many times used copies like this one have been sold, resold, and resold again since 1908.
The novel has gone in and out of print (it's currently in), but its popularity has never really gone away. In the wake of the 1936 movie, there was a stage adaptation that is still performed every summer ("official outdoor drama of the Commonwealth of Virginia") in Big Stone Gap, Va., where Fox died in 1919. Fox managed somehow to come up with one of those perfect titles. Even if you've never heard of him or his books (and these days, most people outside Virginia and Kentucky haven't), you feel as if you know what the story's about the minute you hear it. The Trail of the Lonesome Pine — all by themselves, the words conjure up a time, a place, and a heart-on-the-sleeve sentimental romanticism.
The movie Hathaway and writer Grover Jones made for producer Walter Wanger in the late summer and early autumn of 1935 was the last, but not the first from Fox's book; there had been three silent ones, in 1914, 1916 and 1923. There hasn't been a movie from Fox's novel since then. The reason could mainly be changes in public taste — romantic backwoods melodramas aren't the surefire thing they were at the turn of the 20th century. But it could also be simply that the amazing success of Hathaway's version — reinforced by numerous reissues over the next 20-plus years — made it an indelible act to follow.
The movie was a smash. It was only the second feature in Herbert Kalmus's newly perfected three-strip Technicolor, and the first shot outdoors, in scenery made for Technicolor — Big Bear, in California's San Bernardino Mountains. My mother saw The Trail of the Lonesome Pine as an 11-year-old girl, and she said her most vivid memory of it was Sylvia Sidney's blue eyes. I know what she meant; I saw Lonesome Pine on a theatrical reissue when I was eight, and I remember Sylvia Sidney's eyes just as clearly as my mother did. This frame from the Universal Home Video DVD release shows (to those of us who remember it in theaters) that it doesn't do full justice to the IB Tech. But even to those who don't remember it that way, it gives a powerful hint, and it's a beautiful shot in its own right. It's easy to believe that audiences in 1936 weren't accustomed to seeing things like this on their movie screens.
Or this. Here's the first sight that greeted audiences after the opening credits, and it suggests a canny calculation in the movie's color scheme. Blue was one color that the old two-color system simply couldn't handle; the closest it could come was a sort of turquoise. Even oceans and skies came out a sort of yellowish green. And the credit sequence to Lonesome Pine — names carved into tree trunks in a thick forest — seems almost deliberately weighted toward the red range that had been the old Tech's long suit. It's as if the credits are designed to invoke Your Father's Technicolor, to remind you of what Technicolor couldn't do just before showing you what it can do now. The effect, even now, is spectacular.
The first full-Technicolor feature, Rouben Mamoulian's Becky Sharp, also made experiments with color, but it was setbound and stagy where Lonesome Pine was sun-splashed and outdoor-crisp. More to the point, Becky Sharp was a financial disappointment, if not a flop. People began to wonder if Technicolor could justify the extra expense. By the end of Lonesome Pine's second week in New York, the jury was back on that question. The Trail of the Lonesome Pine belongs in the history books for having gone far to prove the viability of color in commercial moviemaking.
And Lonesome Pine outdoes Becky artistically, too. The plain truth is, the subtleties and nuances of Thackeray's Vanity Fair resist compression to the length of a single feature (in Becky Sharp's case, only 83 minutes), while a broad-stroke melodramatist like John Fox is tailor-made for it. Hathaway's movie may not have the reach of Mamoulian's, but it has a surer grasp. And audiences still respond to it emotionally, just as they did in 1936 (and '49, and '56). For that reason, though it's 16 minutes longer than Becky Sharp, it feels half an hour shorter.
The raw emotionality of the story, set against the mountain feud between the Tolliver and Falin clans, makes the movie powerful. Even if it looked like outmoded hokum to the sophisticated critics of the day, audiences ate it up, and they still do. The emotion is close to the surface, whether full-bore in Sylvia Sidney's screaming for blood or in the quiet moment here (Hathaway's favorite shot in the entire picture). I won't explain what's happening, you'll have to discover that for yourself. But if it doesn't bring tears to your eyes, as they say, check your pulse. John Ford and Jean Renoir at their best could never have bettered the poetry of this heartbreaking shot.
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Watch: Vernon athlete looking forward to competing at his first provincial games.
Hundreds of athletes are getting ready to converge in Vernon for the Special Olympics BC Winter Games.
Thanks to the recent snowfall, organizers are feeling confident they are ready for the large-scale event.
At the games, athletes with intellectual disabilities from around the province will compete for a chance to represent British Columbia at the national games.
The competition is getting a lot of support from the local community.
More than 900 people have signed up to volunteer at the event, more than the organizers had originally hoped for.
Around 600 competitors are expected in a variety of sports, ranging from bowling to figure skating.
Thanks to some recent help from Mother Nature, though, the B.C. games won't have the same problem.
"We were a little worried," Benischek said.
Now all that is left is getting fans in the stands.
Organizers are hoping the public will come out to Kal Tire Place to watch the opening ceremonies on Thursday February 21 from 7:30 to 9 p.m. and the sporting events held around the community on February 22 and 23.


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Stuart Rendell (Canberra, 30 juni 1972) is een voormalige Australische atleet, die was gespecialiseerd in het kogelslingeren. Hij nam tweemaal deel aan de Olympische Spelen, maar bleef medailleloos. Hij werd tien keer Australisch kampioen kogelslingeren.

Biografie
In zijn jeugd was Rendell een veelzijdige sporter: hij maakte deel uit van het team van de Australian Capital Territory bij de Teal Cup, een nationale Australian footballwedstrijd voor spelers van maximaal achttien jaar. Ook was hij lid van het nationale jeugdteam (U17) bij volleybal. Daarnaast werd hij eenmaal tweede bij de nationale juniorenkampioenschappen discuswerpen. Uiteindelijk verkoos hij toch het kogelslingeren.

Het internationale veld betrad Rendell in 1997, bij de wereldkampioenschappen in Athene. Hij werd daar in een veld van 43 deelnemers zeventiende, wat niet genoeg was voor de finale. In 1998 won Rendell met een beste worp van 74,71 m goud op de Gemenebestspelen.

Op de Olympische Spelen van 2000 in Sydney kwam Rendell met een beste worp van 72,78 niet door de kwalificatieronde.Ook vier jaar later, op de Olympische Spelen van 2004 in Athene, geraakte Rendell niet door de kwalificatieronde, dit keer met een beste worp van 72,61.

In 2006 was Rendell opnieuw de beste op de Gemenebestspelen in Melbourne. In december 2006 besloot Rendell te stoppen met kogelslingeren.Hij werkt als leraar en is woonachtig in Canberra.

Titels
Gemenebestkampioen kogelslingeren - 1998, 2006
Australisch kampioen kogelslingeren – 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006

Persoonlijke records
Outdoor

Palmares

kogelslingeren
1997: 17e WK – 74,28 m
1998:  Gemenebestspelen – 74,71 m
1999: 36e WK – 67,55 m
2000: 28e OS – 72,78 m
2001: 19e WK – 75,00 m
2002: 4e Gemenebestspelen – 67,51 m
2003: 10e WK – 75,72 m
2004: 25e OS – 72,61 m
2006:  Gemenebestspelen – 77,53 m
2006: 8e World Cup – 71,99 m

Australisch atleet
Australisch olympisch deelnemer
Kogelslingeraar

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The TL is a low cost high speed JFET input operational amplifier with an internally trimmed input offset voltage. (BI-FET IITM technology) The device requires. TL Operational Amplifiers – Op Amps are available at Mouser Electronics. Mouser offers inventory, pricing, & datasheets for TL Operational Amplifiers. TL Series Operational Amplifiers – Op Amps are available at Mouser Electronics. Mouser offers inventory, pricing, & datasheets for TL Series Operational.
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Q: How to fix 'net::ERR_CLEARTEXT_NOT_PERMITTED' in flutter I have implemented webView in flutter but it is not opening my php website which is on server what I'm doing wrong.
I am new to flutter and tried webview to integrate my website webpage in my application but no luck.
Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    // TODO: implement build
    return WebviewScaffold(
      appBar: AppBar(iconTheme:IconThemeData(color: Colors.white),title: Text("Intake Form",style:new TextStyle(color: Colors.white,fontWeight: FontWeight.bold)),backgroundColor:Colors.indigoAccent,automaticallyImplyLeading: false),
     url: url,
      //url: "http://xxxxxxxx/",
       withJavascript: true,
       supportMultipleWindows: true,
      withLocalStorage: true,
      allowFileURLs: true,
      enableAppScheme: true,
      appCacheEnabled: true,
      hidden: false,
      scrollBar: true,
      geolocationEnabled: false,
      clearCookies: true,
       // usesCleartextTraffic="true"

    );
  }

I expect the output as running webview but error is thrown.

A: set usesCleartextTraffic property to true in your AndroidManifest file, like below.
<application
....
android:usesCleartextTraffic="true"
....>

A: For ios modify info.plist ./ios/Runner/info.plist
Add the following:
<key>NSAppTransportSecurity</key>
<dict>
    <key>NSAllowsArbitraryLoads</key>
    <true/>
</dict>

and run flutter clean before spinning up the app again

A: Android:
In flutter_project/android/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml
Add
<application
....
android:usesCleartextTraffic="true"
....>

IOS:
In flutter_project/ios/Runner/info.plist
Add
<key>NSAppTransportSecurity</key>
<dict>
    <key>NSAllowsArbitraryLoads</key>
    <true/>
</dict>

Run flutter clean.Then, run the app.

A: In main directory of your Flutter project you have three main folders:
- lib         =  your Dart code
- ios         =  generated structure for iOS platform
- android     =  generated structure for Android platform

We are interested in android directory.
When you open it, you will see "typical Android app structure".
So you have to do 2 things:
1) Add new file in res
Go to directory:
my_flutter_project/android/app/src/main/res/

Create xml directory (in res!)
And inside xml add new file with name: network_security_config.xml and content:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<network-security-config>
    <base-config cleartextTrafficPermitted="true">
        <trust-anchors>
            <certificates src="system" />
            <certificates src="user" />
        </trust-anchors>
    </base-config>
</network-security-config>

network_security_config.xml should be located in path:
my_flutter_project/android/app/src/main/res/xml/network_security_config.xml

Here you can find more information about this file:
https://developer.android.com/training/articles/security-config

2) Modify AndroidManifest.xml
Go to:
flutter_project/android/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml

AndroidManifest.xml is XML file, with structure:
<manifest>
    <application>
        <activity>
            ...
        </activity>
        <meta-data >
    </application>
</manifest>

So for <application> PROPERTIES you have to add 1 line:
android:networkSecurityConfig="@xml/network_security_config"

Remember that you have to add it as property (inside application opening tag):
<application

    SOMEWHERE HERE IS OK

>

Not as a tag:
<application>           <--- opening tag

    HERE IS WRONG!!!!

<application/>          <--- closing tag

A: *

*make network_security_config.xml file.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
        <network-security-config>
            <base-config cleartextTrafficPermitted="true">
                <trust-anchors>
                    <certificates src="system" />
                </trust-anchors>
            </base-config>
        </network-security-config>

*

*add this two line in Manifest file in  Application tag.

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TBI investigates officer-involved shooting at Regal Inn
bwilson@dnj.com
MURFREESBORO — State investigators are trying to determine what led to an officer-involved shooting at a motel along South Church Street in Murfreesboro on Sunday night.
At least one Murfreesboro police officer opened fire at a male suspect while responding to a domestic violence call involving children in the parking lot at the Regal Inn at 7:11 p.m., said Josh DeVine, public information officer with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, the agency examining the situation.
According to information provided to the TBI by the Murfreesboro Police Department, the unidentified suspect had threatened violence against three children with a weapon while they were all in a car outside the motel, DeVine said. In an email to media Sunday night, MPD spokesman Kyle Evans said the suspect threatened the children with a firearm.
"When Murfreesboro PD got involved in the scene, the situation escalated," DeVine said.
The suspect tried to ram officers with the car before shots were fired at the vehicle, DeVine said.
Preliminary information indicates those shots were apparently fired at the car while the children were inside, DeVine said.
"We're trying to piece things together and trying to figure out who was where," DeVine said.
The suspect then tried to flee the scene in the car and sparked a miles-long pursuit that ended when the suspect surrendered on National Drive south of Interstate 24, DeVine said.
The man told police he had been shot and was taken to Vanderbilt University Medical Center via LifeFlight, according to a release from the Murfreesboro Police Department. His condition there is unknown.
The person shot is not expected to be publicly identified until Monday morning, DeVine said.
None of the children were injured, and Tennessee Department of Children's Services officials were called to the scene to assist in the case, DeVine said.
Evans said he expected the TBI to release the suspect's name and condition Monday.
"I will release the officer's name later today along with a photo and personnel file," he said Monday morning.


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Creating Her Own Legacy: Meet Dope Saint Jude
Meet Dope Saint Jude, the ridiculously cool, motorbike-wielding superstar of our new film.
She's a style-icon, musician, but most importantly a family-first girl at heart. You might recognize her from her outspoken, hip-hop tracks that have been circulating the net lately, yep, we were in awe too. Or her tongue-in-cheek music videos that have had the whole of South Africa talking.
Hailing from the flats of Cape Town, she travelled with us to Maputo, Mozambique to host our glorious fiesta celebrating the spirit of our unique PERi-PERi chillies.
We caught up with her on set to discuss everything from making it in the music biz, to her childhood dream of riding a motorbike.
Being cool isn't top of her to-do list, Dope has bigger plans… to inspire a generation of confident women. "It's time for them to take on the lead role and be powerful," she says. Too true, Dope!
On whether she sees herself as a role model or not (she has after all lectured at a number of universities in South Africa on the social effects of hip-hop), she says: "What's really important for me is to create a legacy… I'm actually studying right now, and using my music money to fund my studies." Well, a South African music idol and a student?
But who are Dope's role models, considering that she's becoming a bit of a role model herself? "I mean I always think about my grandmother and my mother, they both passed away and they both struggled in their lives, but they had this 'keep going' spirit that I always come back to when I'm looking for inspiration. I just think about the women that came before me, and it inspires me like crazy." Even in the face of such loss, it's admirable to find out where the high-energy star gets her endless positivity.
She's a true original as well, with a fiery spirit, and, she lets us know, just like us, she always makes sure she does everything with authenticity. "I couldn't imagine being inauthentic." She believes "success" will always come naturally "if you're sincere in what you're doing." A girl after our own heart…
And what exactly does being sincere in her work mean to her?
"I think making music with pure intent, making music for the sake of making it, because you enjoy it, because you want it to move people… because you want to be moved."
Dope's music is also purposefully intersectional. "I make different kinds of music but mostly I focus on hip-hop, or intersections of hip-hop." Dope states, "but I listen to lots of different kinds. Right now I'm listening to a Brazilian rapper named Karol Konka. People in the UK should definitely check her out."
And how did she take the South African music scene by storm so suddenly?
Well, she never, ever gave up. "For me, it was just really being persistent. I'm not a trained musician, and I didn't have any connections. It was just about not giving up until I eventually made a breakthrough."
She's much more carefree with her style though. "I just wear what I like," she says. "I know it isn't overly feminine. I know that it isn't overly masculine… I feel like it's a mixture of a lot of different things." Her dress sense is open and fun, not to mention the funky nail-art she dons in our latest film: "Sometimes my style can be glamorous, too. Like today, oh my god, I love the jewellery! It makes me feel like a bit of a queen… a gangsta queen!"
Sun, Soil & Spirit
Can't get enough of PERi-PERi? That's because of its fiery Southern African spirit. What makes it so fiery? Sit back, we'll show you…
Allow us to introduce the sounds, style and stories of our film's local cast…
First Heat
We took radio and TV presenter Maya Jama and actor Allan 'Seapa' Mustafa to see all that makes up our fiery little chilli...


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Open air, open-air or openair may refer to:
Open Air, a BBC television program
Open-air cinema or outdoor cinema
Open-air concert, a concert taking place outside
Open-air museum, a distinct type of museum exhibiting its collections out-of-doors
Open-air preaching, the act of publicly proclaiming a religious message
Open-air treatment, therapeutic exposure to fresh air and sunshine
Open air school, an outdoor school designed to combat the spread of disease
OpenAIR, a message routing and communication protocol for artificial intelligence systems
Openair Cinemas, an Australasian brand of outdoor cinema events, owned by Pedestrian (company)

See also
Open Air Suit, a studio album by Air
Open Air PM, a defunct daily newspaper in New York City
OpenAIRE, a network of Open Access repositories, archives and journals


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import React from 'react';
import PropTypes from 'prop-types';

import './Modal.css';

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					onClick={closeModal}
				>
					<i className="mdi mdi-close" />
				</div>
				<div className={`modalInner ${innerFullWidth ? 'modalInnerFullWidth' : ''}`}>
					{children}
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		);
	}
	return null;
};

Modal.propTypes = {
	children: PropTypes.element.isRequired,
	closeModal: PropTypes.func.isRequired,
	classes: PropTypes.arrayOf(PropTypes.string),
	show: PropTypes.bool,
};

Modal.defaultProps = {
	show: false,
	classes: [],
};

export default Modal;

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Obama's Man in China Now Beijing's Man in Washington
Yuichiro Kakutani
Biden Admin Funnels Another $1.6 Million to Beijing-Backed Green Energy Company Over Senate Objections
Collin Anderson
Beijing Tightens Grip on Hong Kong Legislature
The Hong Kong and Chinese flags / Getty Images
Alana Goodman
The Chinese Communist Party cemented its control over Hong Kong's elections on Tuesday, approving rules that will effectively ban pro-democracy candidates from running for public office.
Under the law, any candidate will have to seek approval from a Beijing-controlled qualification review board in order to seek election. The board will reportedly work with China's Ministry of State Security to vet prospective candidates and determine if they are sufficiently "patriotic" for public office.
Chinese officials have clarified that "patriotism" in this context is defined by devotion to the CCP.
"When we talk about patriotism, we are not talking about the abstraction of loving a cultural or historical China, but rather loving the currently existing People's Republic of China under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party," Song Ru'an, deputy commissioner of China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Hong Kong, said last week, according to CNN.
The new laws also expand the number of seats on Hong Kong's legislature from 70 to 90, while significantly reducing the ratio of publicly elected spots. The public will be permitted to elect just 20 members; another 30 will be elected by pro-Beijing trade and industry groups, and 40 will be chosen by a Beijing-dominated "Election Committee."
The electoral changes were approved unanimously by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress. The new rules were expected to go into effect as part of China's ongoing crackdown on Hong Kong's relative autonomy and individual freedoms. Beijing's violent suppression of speech rights—under the guise of "national security" laws—prompted widespread protests in 2020.
"All candidates in the Hong Kong Legislative Council elections now have to be vetted by the National Security Bureau," wrote Nathan Law, a London-based Hong Kong democracy activist, on Twitter. "There will be no opposition voice in the council hereafter. The freedoms in Hong Kong are dead, and now the elections."
Published under: China , Hong Kong


The trailer of the new disney animation Big Hero 6 is out. Hybrid, does it contain Henry's music?
Henry Jackman making a score for a movie about videogames, infallible combination, with good and very funny results, a seriously good score for a movie like this. Henry in the animation, moves like fish in water, regrettably that don't happen on the real action movies. I hope this year Henry Jackman take back and make score like this and "Puss in Boots"
Here is the "who did what" for the OST.
Here's the complete score :D i got this one!
The Promo Score is only 45 tracks by henry jackman, that's fan edit Ost + VA songs, Great work !!
Fun score, much more creative than Abraham Lincoln or Man on a Ledge IMO. Nice to hear Jackman back on an animation, I think he's done his best scores for kid movies. Although you can hear a lot of Puss in Boots in "Sugar Rush Showdown", but maybe that's just because it was a replacement score. And I just love the 8-bit sounds ("Life in the Arcade" is too fun) and the way they're integrated into the orchestra. Some of the middle section gets a little slow but the first four and last three tracks are fantastic. Jackman is probably my favorite "new" guy to come out of RCP in the last 5 years or so.
Just saw the film. Awesome score! "Rocket Fiasco" is cool as hell!
I wonder if Michael Giacchino wrote or co-wrote "Broken-Karted". Heh-heh, just joking!
This could be very good, though. Henry Jackman has shown a lot of promise in some of his previous scores, especially Puss in Boots.


The A/P Processing Menu includes options to add (or change) invoices in the TEMPORARY INVOICE file, print a Temporary Invoice Report, and post temporary invoices to the OPEN PAYABLES file. Also included on this menu are options to add (or change) recurring invoices in the RECURRING INVOICE file, print a Recurring Invoice Report, and post recurring invoices to temporary invoices. There are options for selecting (or deselecting) invoices (from the OPEN PAYABLES file) for which you wish the computer to print checks, assigning manual check numbers to existing unpaid invoices, printing a Check Register, and posting checks to the MONTHLY CHECK file (and CHECK RECONCILIATION file).


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New Years' Eve exclusive: Maria Menounos talks FOX NYE with Steve Harvey, Gronk and more
Mon Dec 23, 2019 at 8:30pm ET
By April Neale
One half of FOX's ace team to ring in the New Year: Maria Menounos. Pic credit: FOX
This coming New Year's Eve on FOX rings in year three of the dynamic duo of Steve Harvey and Maria Menounos, the only NYE host who has ever wed on TV during the festivities going down in Times Square in New York City.
She and her husband Keven rang in 2018 in big style, and Steve Harvey officiated!
The next New Year's Eve special in Times Square, hosted by Steve Harvey and co-hosted by Maria Menounos and NFL Ex-Patriot Rob Gronkowski is going to bring the house down, you don't want to miss it.
This year is the third annual FOX New Year's Eve With Steve Harvey: Live from Times Square special and will feature a performance by Village People as they attempt to set a world record for the largest YMCA dance.
Rapper LL Cool J and DJ Z-Trip will headline the performances, including the Chainsmokers, the Lumineers, Florida Georgia Line, Backstreet Boys, Tyga, and The Killers, with celeb pals like chef Gordon Ramsay, Will Arnett, and Jenna Dewan.
Fans of the WWE can enjoy a match with a wrestler we cover extensively, Roman Reigns.
The three-and-a-half-hour primetime celebration begins at 8 p.m. live from Manhattan, with a tape-delayed edition for the Mountain and Pacific time zones.
Menounos is a multi-hyphenate with drop-dead looks and a lucky star. The TV personality (Access Hollywood and Extra!) has diversified her vocational portfolio from on-camera beauty to the brains behind the content and programming.
On NBC, she completed her third year as a spokesperson for Purina's #DogThanking initiative.
As an entertainment entrepreneur and CEO, her online podcast series network AfterBuzz TV, where niche TV is dissected and analyzed by devoted fans in fun after-show podcasts, is growing by leaps and bounds.
As we learned in our chat with Maria, her Los Angeles-based company is home to women and minorities, with over 70% of her 300+ hosts delivering programming weekly from five studios are taking center stage.
The lucky star part of her story involves a health scare in 2017 for a non-cancerous brain tumor diagnosis that, thankfully, she overcame.
We spoke to Maria ahead of the live event and got some insight as what is to come on FOX:
Monsters and Critics: Gronk will be your wing-man, I hear. Any other guests you would like to mention?
Maria Menounos: Yes! We have the Chainsmokers, Florida Georgia Line, Tyga, and The Lumineers, plus as you mentioned, we have Gronk, who I'm so giddy about … I pitched them so many ideas for us. I really hope that we get to do some mischievous fun stuff together…
We get married on the show, we do crazy things and every year I want to get crazier. We'll see as it comes together in this next week what we're going to officially go with.
M&C: Well, 2019 was an interesting year, to say the least. What are you looking forward to saying goodbye to, and what are you looking forward to saying hello to in 2020?
Maria Menounos: Well, I never thought about it like that. I guess, 2020 has a really cool ring to it, so I'm excited to actually remember what the date is because — 2018, is it 2019, I can't — it's hard sometimes, but 20 you're not going to forget.
I can't think of anything else, to be honest. I haven't thought about it like that. I'm just excited for 2020 in general,
M&C: You're not just a TV personality. You're a producer, and you're an entrepreneur, and your AfterBuzz TV is really taking off. Is there anything you can talk about in regards to that? Do you think you might grow it into an actual network?
Maria Menounos: Yeah, We are a digital broadcast network. We have over 350 hosts at this point. We've produced 150 hours of after-show content, but we've also just become, in this last few months, Google news accredited.
So we break our own news and our news division, we created a bunch of different niche news shows around some of our favorite brands, like 90 Day Fiance. And those are killing it.
And so we're really seeing the switch-over because with entertainment news it's really hard to be able to capture everyone's interest in one show.
And so what's great is we're really attacking the niches, and they're doing really well for us. So that's been really cool.
We have a 50/50 mission to create the content, and the other 50% is to help nurture and grow and support the careers of the talent there. And so what we've been really working hard on in these last nine years, along with creating the content, is building a new Hollywood model that supports talent.
I'm really proud of that. And our company is the most diverse company you'll ever see. We have every race, religion, age, sex, size, gender, everything. We are the most diverse, and we really love helping people, and we get to do that there.
M&C: That's really exciting. I love that the traditional gatekeepers in the entertainment world are stripped away, offering new opportunities for women too.
Maria Menounos: Yes. Well, and our company ironically is 70% female and minority. So we've really enjoyed helping those individuals, especially. And we've launched an international division, so we're doing the first Spanish-speaking after shows, and German.
So, we're expanding, and in 2020 we have really big plans we're going out for investors, and we're really going to try to build this new space out.
M&C: What, when you do a show like the New Year's Eve special, are there unforeseen moments, spontaneous things that just occur, or is everything pretty close to the script or no surprises?
Maria Menounos: This is what I love about New Year's Eve, and working with this team is they are willing to have spontaneous moments. And that's what makes it fun.
So last minute I could say, "Guys, oh my gosh, no, no, you've got to come to me over here, I just found someone that has the largest diaper." I don't know; whatever it is, they'll go with it.
They'll throw things away and just, and run with the fun and in the moment. That's what I love, and I love live for that reason. It's kind of just whatever you want, kind of goes. They've always just let me be me and do my thing. So it's a lot of fun like that!
FOX'S New Year's Eve With Steve Harvey: Live From Times Square is a star-studded three-and-a-half-hour primetime celebration.
Co-hosted by Maria Menounos, part one airs Tuesday, Dec. 31 (8:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m. ET live CT/MT/PT tape-delayed), and part two airs Tuesday, Dec. 31 (11:00 p.m.-12:30 a.m. ET live CT/MT/PT tape-delayed) on FOX.
April Neale
April is an accredited entertainment writer, interviewer and...read more
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Sarkisian said he hasn't received much feedback from what kind of reception his staff is receiving. However, he figures the Huskies' 4-1 start can only help: "I would imagine so. I haven't heard that yet. They probably don't want to talk to me either. It gives us a chance to kind of get away and recharge the batteries too."
He also said the Pacific-12 Conference expansion into Colorado and Utah also could help the Huskies' recruiting efforts in the Rocky Mountain states.
"It can," he said. "We've been there already before. I think it's helpful that if you're going to recruit the Rocky Mountain region that if we're playing there that's only helpful, that a kid knows that there's a chance to be playing in front of his home fans."
The demands of running the scrimmage without much help made it difficult for Sarkisian to give much of an instant report card on the day's work.
"It's hard to identify specific players when you're trying to manage the whole thing," he said. "Obviously, Bishop (Sankey) has an early fumble there but then bounced back with a nice long run. I'm assuming some of the O- and D-linemen did some good things. I'm going to have to look at the film.
"What I appreciated was the spirit of the vets, the one's who weren't playing. They were into it. They were coaching. They wanted the guys in their position groups to do well, and that's the sign of a close team."
INJURY UPDATESSarkisian reported that tailback Johri Fogerson has had surgery on his injured knee, and said it went well. Meanwhile, he said defensive end Hau'oli Jamora's knee surgery scheduled for Friday. James Sample, he said, "is getting healthy, which is good." Wide receiver Kasen Williams watched practice from a walking boot, which was called a precautionary thing to protect the ankle he hurt in Utah.
Browning beat Gaskin in basketball? Gaskin can't stop arguing? UW's senior pillars let in on their secrets
Huskies ink apparel deal with Adidas
What you need to know about the new sports-only digital subscription
By Dale Phelps
The News Tribune offers a sports-only digital subscription for $30 a year with all the reporting from sports writers Gregg Bell, TJ Cotterill, Lauren Kirschman and Lauren Smith on the Mariners, Seahawks, Huskies and high schools.
MORE HUSKIES INSIDER BLOG
What to expect for UW-Auburn? Maybe the Huskies' biggest season opener ever
UW's coordinators will make play-calling debuts in SEC country. 'Talk about getting your feet wet'
Matchup to watch: Battle of NFL prospects in the trenches for UW, Auburn
UW's Jake Browning, Myles Gaskin haven't always seen eye to eye. That only fueled their relationship
UW releases depth chart ahead of Auburn opener ... and look who's listed at left tackle
Huskies Insider Blog
UW's challenge: contain touted Auburn QB Jarrett Stidham ... and the many dual-threat QBs to come


United Kingdom, UK as it is called is the world's first industrialized nation. Also, UK is one of the developed nations with one of the largest economies. On the cyber security front also UK has taken commendable initiatives to ensure security to its businesses and individuals.
The year 2016 starts on a brighter note for UK on the cyber security front. The United Kingdom has seen the dawn of its second National Cyber Security Strategy in 2016 which aims to build the cyber security capability of UK along with developing skill in the domain. Also, the strategy focuses on developing resilient systems and networks which can reverse an attack. With IoT, the number of connected devices has increased exponentially. In their latest cyber security strategy, the UK government promises to increase the investment on cyber security from GBP 869 million to GBP 1.9 billion. However, it is matter of apprehension that the cyber security human resource is still far from the current requirement.
UK is one of the top countries which severe cybercrime perpetration. Some very common attacks which UK is stifled with include phishing, social media attack, spear phishing attacks and ransomware attacks. Businesses are harnessing all avenues for a digital transformation. Working towards creating secure seamless networks connecting, people, businesses and governments EC-Council is making giant strides in fueling the cyber security ecosystem with ethical hacking courses UK like CEH certification UK.
EC-Councils globally recognized Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) online ethical hacking course provides a real world experience and hands on training about understanding of cyber and network threats, determining hacker motives, fixing system and application vulnerabilities, vulnerability assessments, intrusion detection and deflects attacks. Learn ethical hacking online through the Certified Ethical Hacking Training, where the candidate will be immersed in an environment that helps in evaluating not just logical, but the physical security aspect of the system. The course provides insight into the hackers mind and helps the candidate in grasping the concepts of vulnerability assessment and intrusion detection much clearly.
'Black Hat Hackers' target workers who tend to be helpful and trusting, hence execute attack strategies that exploit human vulnerabilities and thus basic knowledge about internet security and system security has also become essential in today's scenario. Online ethical hacking training such as Certified Secure Computer User, Certified Secure Programmer etc provide knowledge on these aspects of security. All information security courses provided by EC-Council are available through classroom trainings and online trainings.
EC-Council organizes sessions on various topics of information security pertaining to ethical hacking, pen testing, basic system security, internet security etc across various locations. To find out more about Certified Ethical Hacker UK and register for a class at your nearest location, Click here.


You could get 11-to-1 odds for an Oldham victory over Liverpool Sunday before their FA Cup tie.
Turns out that would have been a pretty good bet.
Oldham bounced the Reds, 3-2, at Boundary Park to cap a weekend full of surprises in cup play.
Non-league side Luton Town and MK Dons also wound up in the win column after taking down Norwich and QPR, respectively. Here's the draw for the next round.
Cape Verde, playing in its first-ever African Cup of Nations, advanced to the knockout round with a 2-1 win over Angola. I read on Twitter that there is not a single grass soccer field in Cape Verde.
Needless to say, I'm rooting hard for them going forward.


Use of the Muskegon County GIS Partner Applications assumes agreement with the Muskegon County GIS Disclaimer, which can be viewed HERE. To open an application, click the application name to the right of the image.
Pictometry ConnectExplorer allows users to view aerial photography from both ortho (top down) and oblique (side angle) views. The viewer currently features 2014 and 2007 imagery with selected areas covered by 2006 imagery.
The ECF Neighborhood Viewer provides property tax assessors the ability to view the assigned ECF Neighborhoods assigned per parcel.
The Property Survey Viewer is designed to give access to scanned property surveys on file at Muskegon County GIS to assessors and equalization staff.
The Tax Map Printing Application is for use by Muskegon County Equalization staff in support of customer requests for printed tax parcel maps.
The Land Bank Property Reviewer is used by Land Bank staff and the Land Bank Committee for review of potential properties that may be added to the Land Bank portfolio of properties.
The Rental Property Inspections Viewer is in BETA RELEASE . This application is for inspections departments who perform rental property inspections to review when and where inspections have occured.
The Zoning Notification App is designed for Zoning Administrators and staff to develop the mandatory 300 foot buffer notifications for zoning variance applications.
The Environmental Quality Site Viewer provides Environmental Health staff a viewing tool for identification of wells, septic systems, and contamination sites.
The Water System Viewer is desiged for County and Municipal DPW Staff to visualize adn review the water system contained within the GIS system.
The Wastewater Facility Asset Viewer is designed for Wastewater System and municipal DPW staff to review the wastewater system assets contained within the GIS System.
The Fire Hydrant Viewer provides fire department personnel and DPW employees the ability to view locations of fire hydrants.


Aaaaagh. Beat stress before it beats you. Quick and easy ways to stop stress now.
One of the many things that can be encountered from being at a regular job is stress. There are many demands placed upon employees on a daily basis and if not dealt with properly, it can impact your health.
Further complications can ensue if stress is not dealt with. This is why it is of utmost importance that you learn how to handle stress at work.
Having an awareness of options for how to handle stress at work is a good starting point. Know that there are things that can be done in order to handle stress at work. This can help reduce the anxiety one may have about dealing with stress. Once awareness of available options is realized, the next step is to take action on how to handle stress at work.
Consult with fellow coworkers when possible on ideas dealing with how to handle stress at work.
Take a break when allowed by your company so that you can give yourself time to rest and relax.
Getting adequate sleep and a proper diet can help your body be more readily suited to handle stress at work.
Ask your supervisor questions any time you are unsure of what is being expected of you. This way you will feel more confident that you are doing a good job at work.
Whenever the performance of a job task causes you to experience higher stress levels, stop to evaluate and see if there is a way that the task can be performed in a more efficient manner. Less frustration will arise when you know that things are being performed more efficiently.
Ask yourself if the situation is worth you feeling any stress that you may experience. If the instance is something in which you have no influence on how it proceeds, try to accept the event for what it is and move on. This may take practice on your part but using this technique will become easier.
Whenever you are encountering a stressful situation in the workplace, allow yourself the time to analyze what is happening and see what can be done to deal with the situation.
Talk with your supervisors and coworkers and see if they have any suggestions on how to deal with whatever it is that is causing the stress. This will place you in a feeling of greater self control and giving yourself that feeling is an excellent way of how to handle stress at work.


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Home News and Editorial 1Password adds fingerprint support and Material Design in the latest update.
1Password adds fingerprint support and Material Design in the latest update.
Password manager 1Password from developer AgileBits has today announced a long awaited update for their Android app, adding a new Material Design layout, as well as fingerprint sensor support as the headline features.
The Material Design update to 1Password is pretty decent with a lot of attention to detail to bring the app up to date with the latest in Google's Android design guidelines. The update includes changes to the layout which is cleaner and more spacious, as well as more convenient. The updates touch all aspects of the interface including updates to the navigation drawer, toolbars, and you can relax, there's also a Floating Action Button (it's blue).
The fingerprint sensor support is only available for devices using Google's new Nexus Imprint, which obviously means you'll need a Nexus 5X or Nexus 6P and you're going to need Android 6.0 (Marshmallow).
That's pretty good, but AgileBits has also announced that the app will have improved Wi-Fi Sync between internal and external databases. Need more? You can check out the complete changelog on their site.
If you're interested in 1Password, you can grab it from Google Play, but to unlock the premium features it will cost you $14.23, payable through an in-app purchase.
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Although confined to a bed in a skilled nursing home under 24 hour care, Craig did not let Multiple Sclerosis stop him from spreading God's word. This study of Proverbs was written while he still had some use of his hands. When that skill diminished, he changed to a voice activated computer program. Total immobility was not going stop him from finishing the work he felt that God had directed him to start. This book contains Craig's thoughts regarding God's wisdom and instruction of justice, judgment and equity as shown in the book of Proverbs.
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https://www.barrons.com/articles/bond-funds-why-bill-gross-and-active-managers-beat-indexing-1430997468
Bond Funds: Why Bill Gross, and Active Managers, Beat Indexing
Randall W. Forsyth
Three score and 10 is a number that sits better with some than others. As the Psalmist reminds us, that is the number of years we are allotted, unless we are strong and we get 80 years. But, he adds, even the best of those years are filled with struggle and sorrow, and they pass quickly and we fly away.
Not all septuagenarians view life like that. If you can believe it, guitar virtuoso Eric Clapton marked his 70th birthday a couple of days ago, doing what he does best, performing to a packed Madison Square Garden audience. According to Rolling Stone's review, Clapton told the crowd, "Thank you very much for helping celebrate the wonderful gift with these wonderful friends."
Another septuagenarian, Bill Gross, contemplates his time in life and his mortality in rather darker hues in his latest monthly essay, which is shared with Barron's readers in Wall Street's Best Minds series.
In it, this august member of the Barron's Roundtable contemplates a "sense of ending" of the 35-year bull market in stocks and bonds, which he says is twice as long in human years. That is, three score and 10.
The implication is that financial assets offer, if not years of struggle and sorrow, then low future returns. After all, a 2% 10-year bond would be expected to deliver 2% over the next decade. Stocks that are priced at a low discount rate essentially pull future returns forward, leaving less for the future. So, is that all there is, to quote the Leiber and Stoller song of the same name?
Gross's melancholy about the inevitable end of the credit cycle coincides with news that Pimco Total Return fund (ticker: PTTAX )—formerly the world's biggest bond fund, which he guided before his abrupt departure to Janus Capital and from whence his title as Bond King derives—has been topped by Vanguard Total Bond Market fund ( VBMFX ).
What that means is the erstwhile maestro has been superseded by an iPod. After taking into account the hefty costs of a conductor and full orchestra, the cheap electronic version has provided a better performance. But, as Peter Lynch, the legendary ex-manager of Fidelity Magellan fund ( FMAGX), famously commented, buying a government bond fund is like paying to hear Yo-Yo Ma on the radio. And investors (and investment advisors) would rather not pay up, especially for bond managers less talented than Gross.
This marks another triumph for indexing—the passive portfolio construction to match the market, no more, no less. The cost advantage of indexing is obvious but so is the logic, at least when it comes to equities.
Nobody can possibly know enough to have an edge about a stock. Since all knowledge about a stock is known and instantaneously discounted, stock picking is futile, according to efficient-market theory. That most active managers lag the indexes after costs are taken into consideration is sufficient proof for the superiority of indexing.
If it works for stocks, why wouldn't it work for bonds? Both markets are efficient, the theory goes, so indexing should be the way to go for bonds. That's especially true given historically low interest rates, which means a basis point saved in expenses is a basis point earned.
Except that, in simplest terms, stock indexing rewards success while, in a sense, bond indexing rewards failure.
In typical indexed portfolio, in which security selection is determined by a stock's market capitalization, the biggest stocks have the biggest weights. So, Apple ( AAPL ) became the biggest component of the Standard & Poor's 500, the benchmark for most professional equity investors, because of its extraordinary success that has vaulted its stock-market value past $700 billion and possibly on to becoming the first $1 trillion company.
In like fashion, the bonds with the biggest capitalization become the biggest weights in bond indexes. How does that happen? By issuing the most bonds; in other words, by going deepest into hock.
By that criterion, the biggest weight in the Barclays Aggregate Bond Index, which is the template for Vanguard Total Bond index fund, is in U.S. Treasuries—because of the trillion-dollar deficits that the federal government ran during the recent recession. In the corporate sphere, companies that go deepest in hock similarly have the greatest weight, as in the case of Verizon Communications' ( VZ ) massive borrowing to buy out Vodafone's ( VOD ) stake in Verizon Wireless. The more bonds an issuer sells, the more bonds an index investor has to buy.
I should cite Research Affiliates' Rob Arnott, who elucidated some of the inchoate thoughts I had on this matter. The notion that an indexed investor should buy more bonds of the biggest borrower would seem to fly in the face of common sense. But that is what bond indexers are forced to do and what fixed-income managers tend to do.
So does active bond management work? Vanguard's own bond funds show value. Over the past five years, Vanguard Intermediate-Term Investment-Grade Bond fund ( VFICX ) returned 5.6% annually, well ahead of the 3.9% annual return from the Total Bond fund.
Another thing that is typically ignored in the indexation debate—municipal bonds. Their tax-exempt status makes them less interesting to institutions such as pension funds. But for most individual investors' taxable accounts, munis should be the focus given their after-tax yield advantage. In the case of the giant Vanguard Intermediate-Term Tax-Exempt fund ( VWITX), about as plain vanilla muni fund as you can get, its five-year annual total return of 4.2% was better than the index fund—even before taxes.
Whether Gross can prove his mettle at 70 at the helm of the Janus Global Unconstrained Bond fund ( JUCTX ) remains to be seen. If that is defined by beating the market, as defined by the indexes, he should be up to it. We all should look to Slowhand Clapton as an example to appreciate the years we've had and the ones we still have.
Comments? E-mail us at editors@barrons.com
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Canelo would have helped Ryan Garcia says Eddie Hearn
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Eddie Hearn believes Canelo Alvarez would have helped unbeaten lightweight contender Ryan Garcia with his development if he'd shown some effort and stuck it out when the two trained at the same gym with coach Eddy Reynoso.
Canelo, a workaholic, was disappointed with the way Ryan wasn't putting in the effort to train in 2021. The superstar Canelo felt that the 23-year-old Ryan was wasting his potential by coming to the gym, and he let the media know what he thought of him.
Canelo's decision to go public with his thoughts about Ryan was likely a move to help encourage him to work harder, but it worked in reverse.
Perhaps feeling betrayed, Ryan (22-0, 18 KOs) chose to leave the gym, saying he wasn't getting enough time with Reynoso. Joe Goosen now coaches him.
"I know that Canelo and Eddy [Reynoso] always felt that Ryan didn't put the work in that a slot in that gym should behold," said Matchroom Boxing promoter Hearn to the Dazn Boxing Show.
"The thing you have to understand about Eddy Reynoso's gym; It's not easy to get in there and get the time of Eddy Reynoso, and it kind of comes with the blessing of Canelo Alvarez as well because those guys are so close."
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Canelo is Reynoso's #1 priority, so anyone who trains at that gym will need to understand that they will have to work around the schedule those two have.
If the unproven Ryan Garcia thought he would get the same red carpet treatment that Reynoso gives Canelo at his gym, he was sadly mistaken.
At this juncture, it's questionable whether Ryan will ever win a world title. To be sure, he's popular on social media. Still, he's not fought anyone elite level, and it appears to some that he's just looking for a quick cash-out fight against WBA 'regular' lightweight champion Gervonta 'Tank' Davis before he disappears from boxing.
"What I've learned about Canelo is he really wants to help people, and I feel like he would have helped Ryan," said Hearn. "He would have been around in training sessions, and I think they felt he [Ryan] didn't put the time back in. He had his own problems," said Hearn.
Last year, Ryan was dealing with anxiety issues, which caused him to pull out of his scheduled July 9th headliner against Javier Fortuna.
Ryan has now taken care of that problem and is facing Fortuna this month on July 16th on DAZN at the Crypto Arena in Los Angeles.
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Bobby Mccook Sr.
1936 - January 11, 2023
MR. BOBBY McCOOK, SR., age 86, of Eastman, GA, died Wednesday, January 11, 2023, at Pine Pointe Hospice in Macon, GA.
Obituary for Bobby Mccook Sr.
A celebration of life service will be held at 2:00PM Monday, January 16, in Southerland Funeral Chapel, with Pastor Todd Crosby officiating.
Bobby was born and raised in Lee County, GA and was the youngest of 15 children. He was a veteran of the U.S. Navy for six years and attended Ocmulgee Baptist Church in Eastman. He farmed and drove a log truck for a few years and was a former carpenter and construction worker for several construction firms over the years. He later retired as a project manager for Massee Builders in Fitzgerald. He loved hunting, fishing, and spending time with his family. Bobby was the son of the late Fannie Mae Howell McCook and Madison McCook and was preceded in death by his Former Wife, Ellen Marie Pickett McCook and his 14 Siblings.
He is survived by his Daughter – Sylvia M. Turner (Jeffrey) of Eastman; 2 Sons – Bobby L. McCook (Julie) of Fort Valley and Michael McCook of Eastman; 5 Grandchildren – Kyle Turner (Millie), Walt Turner, Nikki McCook, Halston Quick, and Ryan Quick (Krista); 6 Great-Grandchildren – Jordan Bass, Jaydan McCook, Jayse Turner, Hayden Quick, Kingston Quick, and Oakland Quick; Numerous Nieces and Nephews.
The family may be contacted at the residence of Sylvia and Jeffrey Turner, 525 Bell Line Rd., Eastman, and will receive friends in Southerland Funeral Chapel from 1:00PM-2:00PM Monday, January 16.


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Attorney General vs. Chibaya and Others (Appeal No. 70/2011) [2015] ZMSC 27(10 June 2015)
Commentary by Nicholas Khan-Fogel
Full Case Can be Found HERE
Respondents were employees of the Department of National Parks and Wildlife Services, which became the Zambia Wildlife Authority (ZAWA). When the Department of National Parks and Wildlife Services became defunct, the respondents were declared redundant, but they were later engaged by ZAWA, the Appellant in this case. On December 12th, 2007, following their retrenchment, Respondents commenced an action seeking an award of terminal benefits. Pursuant to the terms of consent judgment, after the parties failed to agree on the sum to be paid, Respondents applied to the Deputy Registrar for assessment of the sums. The Deputy Registrar awarded respondents a total of K2, 501, 381, 500.98, and ZAWA appealed to the Supreme Court.
THE LEGAL ISSUES
Did respondents offer sufficient proof of their salaries while employed by ZAWA and the Department of National Parks and Wildlife Services to support the registrar's award?
Did the Deputy Registrar err in concluding that respondent 3 was entitled to retirement benefits as a classified daily employee (CDE) for the period between 1971 and 1996, and that respondent 3 was entitled to redundancy benefits following the termination of his second term of employment between 1997 and December, 1999?
Did the deputy registrar err by granting Respondents interests from the date of termination of employment instead of the date of commencement of the action?
THE HOLDING
Respondents' proof of their salaries while employed by ZAWA and its predecessor, through the use of circulars and pay slips for other employees, was insufficient to support the deputy Registrars award.
The Deputy Registrar erred in concluding that Respondent 3 was a classified daily employee (CDE) between 1971 and 1996 and entitled to benefits based on that classification. Instead, because Respondent 3 was an established civil servant from 1971 to 1996, he should collect a pension under the Pensions Act for that Period of employment.
The Deputy Registrar also erred in concluding that Respondent 3 was entitled to Redundancy benefits following the termination of his second term of employment between 1997 and 1999.
The Deputy Registrar should have calculated interest from the date the action was commenced instead of the date of termination.
The Rationale of the Holding
Although Respondents noted that they had presented unchallenged evidence that ZAWA had taken their pay slips, and although Respondents offered to pay slips of other employees and pay scales reflected in various circulars to establish their salaries, the court deemed this evidence inadequate. The court noted that the circulars in question established only a range of pay, with the several grades available at each designated level. The court also stated that the pay slips of other employees were irrelevant to the salaries of the Respondents. Finally, although the Appellant's witnesses disagreed about the salary of one Respondent and admitted they had no documentary evidence regarding the salaries of any Respondents, the court stated that the Deputy registrar should have credited the inside knowledge of Appellant's witnesses over the Respondents' witness.
Because ZAWA issued letters to Respondent 3 in 2000 and 2002 formalizing his previous employment, the Appellant's evidence showed that Respondent 3was an established civil service officer for the period between 1971 and 1996. As an established civil service officer, Respondent 3 was entitled to benefits under the Pensions Act, rather than to retirement benefits as a CDE.
Because Respondent 3's second term of employment was a fixed-term contract, Respondent 3 was entitled to neither pension benefits nor redundancy pay for the termination of the contract. At most, Respondent 3 would have been entitled to damages for breach of contract. However, because respondent 3 was given three months' notice of termination, and because there was no evidence the termination was wrongful, Respondent 3 was entitled to no damages for dismissal after his second term of employment. The High Court rules and the Judgment Act make clear that interest should be awarded from the date of commencement of an action by a writ of summons. Therefore, the Deputy registrar erred by awarding judgment from the date of termination.
THE SIGNIFICANCE
Uncertainty regarding the calculation of terminal benefits is of importance to all Zambian workers. Therefore, it would have been useful if the court had offered detailed guidance on the issue. Although the court aptly noted the inadequacy of various circulars adduced in evidence to establish the respondents' salaries (given that the circulars established a range of salaries rather than a precise number for each respondent), the court failed to give significant guidance on how the Deputy Registrar should calculate the award on remand. The Court's focus on the inadequacy of the respondents' evidence in the absence of their own pay slips raise troubling concerns for several reasons. First, much like these employees, many workers will have difficulty producing pay slips years after the relevant period of employment. Second, the court acknowledged unchallenged evidence that ZAWA officers had taken the Respondents Pay slips. Finally, in its conclusory dismissal of the argument that Respondents' proffered pay slips from other employees could be relevant to Respondents' claims, the court failed to address the possibility that evidence of other employees' salaries could be probative if those employees had positions and experience similar to Respondents.
The court's statement that the Deputy registrar should have credited the Appellant's witnesses, who had insider knowledge of the system, over the respondents' witness, who did not, seem superficially unremarkable. Nonetheless the Appellant's own witnesses disagreed with each other about one of the Respondents salaries, and both of appellant's witnesses admitted they had no pay slips or other documentary proof to support their assertions about any of the Respondents' salaries. Given that ZAWA had taken the respondents pay slips and that the court refused to give any weight to the pay slips of employees who may have had similar positions, it is unclear, under the circumstances, what Respondents could have done to establish with precision the terminal benefits awards to which they are entitled. This leaves considerable uncertainty for many Zambian workers in the future.
Additionally, the court's reliance on ZAWA letters to Respondent 3 in 2000 and 2002 respectively, to establish Respondent 3's employment status for the years between 1971 and 1996, raises troubling concerns for workers hoping for predictability in the formation of employment relationships. The holding suggests that a government employer has the power to establish retroactively an employee's status for work done many years in the past. The court did not address the issue of whether the expectations of respondent 3 and ZAWA's predecessor during the years between 1971 and 1996 might have been inconsistent with ZAWA's later characterization of that relationship.
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Gabriel and Xavier had a tae kwon do tournament in Dallas this year. The first day of our trip was certainly exciting. We spent all day in the car listening to The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien. Ah, what bliss. Of course, it's a long book, and lasted us almost all week in Dallas driving to and from the tournament.
If you want to eat gluten free at Subway, get a salad with everything you want on your sandwich. Put it on a gluten free bun and there you go. Just remember that place is caked in gluten, so you'll probably get some cross contamination if that's a problem for you.
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From 172 to 174, the religious leader Xu Chang led a major uprising against the Han dynasty of China in the Kuaiji Commandery. Having proclaimed himself emperor while restoring the ancient state of Yue, Xu and his followers initially proved successful and overran much of Kuaiji. The Han central government consequently appointed Zhang Min as commander of the local pro-government forces and mobilized soldiers from across Yang Province. In late 174, the insurgents were finally destroyed.

Primary sources
Xu Chang's rebellion is mentioned in several primary sources, namely the "Annals of the Later Han", the "Records of the Three Kingdoms", the Zizhi Tongjian, and the Dongguan Hanji. These sources do not give detailed descriptions of the rebellion, and differ on several aspects, including the names and titles of the uprising's leaders. Some differences can be reconciled, while the most likely name of the head of the insurgency is "Xu Chang", as the name is associated with a prophecy about dynastic change in the Zuo zhuan. By the late 2nd century, many believed that the prophecy claimed that someone named or connected with "xuchang" would overthrow the Han dynasty. Sinologist Rafe de Crespigny argued that the rebel leader probably based his uprising on his name, perhaps even adopting the name "Xu Chang" to fit the prophecy.

Background

The Han dynasty of China faced growing difficulties in the 160s and 170s, as its central government became ever more factionalised and corrupt, while its regional authority suffered from defeats along the northern frontier as well as tensions with the local gentry across the empire. Despite these difficulties, the Han empire remained relatively stable, although religious movements spread as many people sought salvation from plagues and famines. The lower Yangtze region was one of the centers for unorthodox cults opposed to the state ideology of Confucianism. Many heterodox cults promised to provide healing as well as secret knowledge. One of the local sects was led by a man named Xu Chang who claimed to have supernatural powers. His followers probably included both Han Chinese as well as Yue tribespeople.

Rebellion

Xu Chang launched his uprising at Juzhang (Ningbo) in 172, declaring himself "Emperor of the Brightness of Yang", while appointing his father Xu Sheng "King of Yue", formally reviving the ancient state of the same name that had been destroyed in the 4th or 3rd century BC. According to some of the primary sources, Xu Chang had a brother or son named Xu Zhao and/or Xu Shao () who also received titles. However, it is possible that Xu Zhao / Xu Shao were actually alternate names for Xu Cheng. Besides the Xu family, a local tribal chieftain named Ju Kang served as rebel leader. The rebellion is believed to have been religiously motivated, although sinologist Werner Eichhorn has speculated that the uprising might also have been a nationalist Yue revolt against the Han Chinese. In contrast, de Crespigny considers it unlikely that nationalist motives played a role.

The local armed forces of Kuaiji Administrator Yin Duan failed to defeat the insurgents, allowing them to overrun large parts of the commandery. A member of the local gentry, Sun Jian, was among those ordered to press-gang troops for the government cause. Appointed acting major, he managed to raise a militia of about 1,000 men. He and his force served with distinction while fighting the rebels.

Despite the efforts of Kuaiji Commandery's loyalists, the insurgents were already so successful that they even invaded other commanderies. As result, the government appointed the official Zhang Min as Inspector of Yang Province to deal with the issue. Troops from the entire province were mobilized, with Chen Yi, Administrator of Danyang, becoming Zhang's most important co-commander. In 173, the provincial authorities reported Administrator Yin Duan for his failure to defeat the rebels, but his registrar Zhu Jun successfully bribed officials in the capital of Luoyang so that Yin was only received a convict sentence instead of being executed.

The troops of Zhang Min and Chen Yi finally suppressed the uprising in late 174, killing Xu Chang, Xu Sheng, and Ju Kang.

Aftermath

Zhang Min was rewarded for his success by being appointed Administrator of Danyang. He also recommended Sun Jian for his good service, whereupon the latter got a post as assistant magistrate in Guangling Commandery, and later in two counties in Xiapi. Sun Jian consequently expanded his following which helped him to rise to great promince.

Zhu Jun's involvement in the bribery to save Yin Duan's life initially remained unknown. He went on to have a distinguished career, faithfully serving the central government until the collapse of the Han dynasty into civil war.

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Tel Aviv University expresses its profound sadness and offers its sincerest condolences to the family of Lt. (res.) Boris Yarmolnik (pictured below), 28, of Netanya, who was killed in the line of duty in Operation Pillar of Defense last week.
Boris, a talented TAU physics student who was called up for reserve duties when hostilities broke out, was mortally wounded by rocket fire from the Gaza Strip into the Eshkol Regional Council. He was pronounced dead on Thursday, 22.11.12, at Soroka Hospital in Beersheba.


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