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Students: If you are having trouble logging in or have forgotten your password,
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NEW USERS: Parent Portal accounts will be sent in September to the parent/guardian email address we have on file. There is no need to complete additional paperwork. For students who enroll after the start of the school year, account information will be sent to parents/guardians via email within 1-7 business days of your student enrolling. Please note the Parent Portal is not currently used for Pre-K students.
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CAMPUS MOBILE APP: Once Parents/Guardians have created an account for the Campus Portal from a browser, the mobile app can be downloaded to a mobile device from the app store. Search for 'Campus Portal' and download it. Enter 'North St' in the District Name and select Minnesota as the State. Select North St Paul-Maplewood and enter your Username and Password.
UPDATE INFORMATION: Parents/guardians have the ability to update household information (phone number, address, cell phone, work phone, and email) through the Parent Portal. This information will be applied to all of your students enrolled in ISD 622 schools. Simply click on the Household Information or Family Members sections to update your information. You will be contacted if more information is needed.
NOTE: Parents of elementary students who do not also have children in a middle or high school should notify their school directly with any of these changes.
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Parent Portal User Guidelines and System Requirements
North St Paul-Maplewood-Oakdale Schools uses the Campus Student Information System for students grades K-12 to collect student data while also allowing parents to view the records of their children, including grades, schedule, and attendance. Rights to the Parent Portal will be granted to parents or guardians of currently enrolled elementary, middle and high school students.
Access to the Parent Portal is a privilege, not a right. The District reserves the right to deny access to anyone and to add or delete functions from the Portal at any time. Users of the Parent Portal are required to adhere to the following:
Portal users will act in a responsible, ethical and legal manner.
Portal users will not attempt to harm or destroy the school or the district's data or networks.
Portal users will not attempt to access data or any account owned by another user.
Portal users will not use the Parent Portal for any illegal activity, including violation of Data Privacy laws. Anyone found to be in violation of these laws may be subject to Civil and/or Criminal prosecution.
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Discuss the issue with the Administrator in your child's building.
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Any curious observer can easily identify that our country is infatuated with its past leaders. What we have gained in the ongoing socio-political transformation may be lost, since this generation is proving to be no different from the previous in forgetting its own potential and simply singing praises for individuals in power.
We live in a world where positive role models are overlooked and forgotten. Instead, it is leaders in the upper echelons of power that are credited for bringing positive change to society, although they have often been far removed from the public they are tasked with governing. Inappropriately, the great human characteristics of generosity and diligence have become lost in the noise.
When a society is not anchored to a set of values, it becomes difficult for it to operate effectively. Lack of role models can result in this polarisation. As people within one society become less and less alike in what they believe in and strive for, subdivisions unwilling to tolerate each other begin to form.
Undeniably, this is not the way people have always lived and fought for freedom. Heroes such as Nelson Mandela were able to provoke social development by serving as constant, persistent leaders that people could depend on.
Last week I attended an event to celebrate the life and achievements of my hero, Mandela, on the 100th anniversary of his birth at the South African Embassy in Addis Abeba.
I met great young minds and heroes from the continent who are fighting to uphold human rights, equality and the equitable distribution of wealth. Unlike other events, this one made an impression. It recognised and highlighted the achievements of the people of South Africa.
It is unfair to the many South Africans who died in the name of freedom to claim that, had it not been for Mandela, apartheid would still prevail in that country. Apartheid was lifted because of the resistance of the people, under the guidance and leadership of Mandela.
We should recognise the heroes of our country and continent who are not mentioned in the history books. It is a multitude of remarkable feats that bring freedom and pave a path for others to follow.
But when we begin to rely on individuals, we become less cognizant of other people's significant accomplishments. We become more comfortable with individuals we believe hold all the solutions to our socio-political ills.
Mandela was instantly elevated by the people to lead a great cause, and he did not disappoint. But we must realise that many other men and women also languished in prisons and died. Many unsung heroes of the freedom struggle achieved liberty in the shadow of the great men and women whose names we know.
That is why it is essential for us as a society to recognise the people as well. If there is a need for more heroes, we need to focus on the people. It is encouraging to remember what people of courage, nobility and genius have collectively contributed to the world.
A person who considers Martin Luther King Jr and Mandela as great leaders has a vastly different sense of what human excellence entails than someone who puts, say, the famous Ethiopian musician Teddy Afro, in the same basket.
The heroes to which we aspire do much to determine how we behave and set our life goals. Although society contributes to this, the greater part of the problem is the individual. We should never forget to remind ourselves who our heroes are and what they represent.
Mandela had his share of critics. Nor was he a perfect human being. I heard moving tales about him from people very close to Mandela such as Nicholas Haysom, former advisor, now serving as the United Nations Secretary-General's Special Envoy to Sudan and South Sudan.
Mandela was down to earth. He respectfully shook hands and personally appreciated guards, attendants and chefs. I also read that during his presidency, Mandela stopped at a supermarket to buy chocolate for a woman he was courting at the moment, breaching presidential security protocol.
Heroes achieve, stumble and, at times, fall. They are like us. What was possible for heroes is possible for us if we are determined enough to fight for our causes. Leaders that see the potential in the transformative power of society are the true leaders that can get people to follow them.


God bless our good and holy priests who had nothing to do with abuse or scandal and who are faithfully acting "in persona Christi." We need the graces received through the sacraments they administer to us. We must pray for them and continue to pray for them. Ask for Mary's intercession. She loves her shepherds. Ask God to bless and protect them from all evil, both spiritual and physical. Ask God to console them with his Holy Spirit. Yes, we must tell them that we appreciate them so much, that we need them, we love them, and that we keep them in our prayers. This is such a hard time for them.


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For years women have taken the lead responsibility in teaching kids at church. And for that I say, "Praise God." However, God's plan for influencing the lives of boys and girls has always been to include a balance in the gender of role models … MEN and WOMEN. In addition to the excellent work that women have done and will continue to do, children need the influence in their lives of real men who love God and Jesus.
In most cases there will be fewer discipline issues in a classroom that includes a male influence.
Watch for dads and granddads who interact with their kids/grandkids in a positive way. Verbalize to them what you see in their behavior that kids need in the church classroom.
Men like to be given a vision and a challenge. Most will not respond to a "y'all come" approach and will need to be asked individually and personally.
Promise men training and then follow through. Invite them to observe in a classroom. They will need simple reminders: be on the level of the kids; talk with kids and really listen to them; reminders that to teach is to learn twice … once when you prepare and once when you teach.
Observe men in the classroom and then give them verbal affirmation of what you see.
Jerry Vogel serves as an Editorial Ministry Specialist for LifeWay Kids. He is married to Janie and has four children and thirteen grand kids. Jerry is committed to enriching the lives of those who teach kids as well as making eternal investments in the lives of children. Jerry teaches preschoolers at his church each Sunday.


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max_input_time can also cause the same error.
It means PHP was unable to access the resource http://localhost/sample_pie.php, and thus the operation timed out. Try to access it through the browser.
The error means that PHP is not able to open http://localhost/sample_pie.php to read the contents of the file. See if you are able to open the http://localhost/sample_pie.php file in browser.
Also is the page very large?
Just increase the max_execution_time in php.ini. Set it to 1800 and restart your apache or any other server you are using.
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It's Thursday and that can only mean one thing around these parts... it's Theater Thursday! This week's featured move is, Eye See You.
I'm pretty for sure Sylvester Stallone wishes that people would forget he made this movie. That being said, I'm here to make sure you don't!
Sylvester Stallone stars as Jack Malloy, an FBI agent who's on the hunt for a serial killers who's already killed nine police officers. When Malloy arrives to the scene of a killing to find that it's one of his best friends he's deeply upset. Sadly for Malloy it only gets worse. The killer isn't only out there killing cops, he's got a major grudge against Malloy for pursing him a few years prior on another killing. The killer decides to really punish Malloy and kills his fiance Mary.
Malloy is so upset by the death of Mary that he falls of the deep end and turns to alcohol. He falls of the wagon so hard that he can't continue to do his job. Doing the only thing he knows to do, his friend and colleague Detective Hendricks (Charles Dutton) decides to check him into a rehab/treatment facility. Luckily for Malloy the treatment center is dedicated to cater towards law enforcement officers who have problems with substance abuse. What's not great about it, is that it's located in a remote part of Wyoming and it's the middle of winter.
Malloy realizes that he needs the help and heads to Wyoming to get help. When he gets there he meets other law enforcement officers who are dealing with similar problems. The catch... one of them isn't who he says he is and he's there to complete his final kill... Malloy.
I am not a Stallone fan but Scotty is. He has had me watching Rocky movies all week.
We just watched #3
Dude YES. This movie is awesome.
Wow, I have never heard of this movie :) I love your dedication to not letting actors forget some of their films :)
A Life Un-Styled said...
I'm with Deidre, haven't heard of this one (but I bet you're totally used to me saying that! which is part of the reason why I read but don't always comment!)
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Q: pandas.DataFrame.apply() failing after pandas.to_datetime() The following code
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd

df1 = pd.DataFrame({'col1': ['a'], 'col2': ['b'], 'col3': ['15/12/2001']})

df2 = pd.DataFrame()
df2['col1'] = df1.col1
df2['col2'] = df1.col2
df2['col3'] = df1.col3

def convert(r):
    return 'a', 'b'

df2.apply(convert, axis=1)

outputs
    0    (a, b)
    dtype: object
In contrast, the following code
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd

df1 = pd.DataFrame({'col1': ['a'], 'col2': ['b'], 'col3': ['15/12/2001']})

df2 = pd.DataFrame()
df2['col1'] = df1.col1
df2['col2'] = df1.col2
df2['col3'] = pd.to_datetime(df1['col3'], dayfirst=True)

def convert(r):
    return 'a', 'b'

df2.apply(convert, axis=1)

raises an error :
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ValueError                                Traceback (most recent call last)
/home/michel/.virtualenvs/stsisi/lib/python3.4/site-packages/pandas/core/internals.py in create_block_manager_from_arrays(arrays, names, axes)
   3928         blocks = form_blocks(arrays, names, axes)
-> 3929         mgr = BlockManager(blocks, axes)
   3930         mgr._consolidate_inplace()

/home/michel/.virtualenvs/stsisi/lib/python3.4/site-packages/pandas/core/internals.py in __init__(self, blocks, axes, do_integrity_check, fastpath)
   2536         if do_integrity_check:
-> 2537             self._verify_integrity()
   2538

/home/michel/.virtualenvs/stsisi/lib/python3.4/site-packages/pandas/core/internals.py in _verify_integrity(self)
   2746             if block._verify_integrity and block.shape[1:] != mgr_shape[1:]:
-> 2747                 construction_error(tot_items, block.shape[1:], self.axes)
   2748         if len(self.items) != tot_items:

/home/michel/.virtualenvs/stsisi/lib/python3.4/site-packages/pandas/core/internals.py in construction_error(tot_items, block_shape, axes, e)
   3898     raise ValueError("Shape of passed values is {0}, indices imply {1}".format(
-> 3899         passed, implied))
   3900

ValueError: Shape of passed values is (1, 2), indices imply (1, 3)

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

ValueError                                Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-93-e8fcbf9d6e00> in <module>()
     12     return 'a', 'b'
     13
---> 14 df2.apply(convert, axis=1)

/home/michel/.virtualenvs/stsisi/lib/python3.4/site-packages/pandas/core/frame.py in apply(self, func, axis, broadcast, raw, reduce, args, **kwds)
   4040                     if reduce is None:
   4041                         reduce = True
-> 4042                     return self._apply_standard(f, axis, reduce=reduce)
   4043             else:
   4044                 return self._apply_broadcast(f, axis)

/home/michel/.virtualenvs/stsisi/lib/python3.4/site-packages/pandas/core/frame.py in _apply_standard(self, func, axis, ignore_failures, reduce)
   4153                 index = None
   4154
-> 4155             result = self._constructor(data=results, index=index)
   4156             result.columns = res_index
   4157

/home/michel/.virtualenvs/stsisi/lib/python3.4/site-packages/pandas/core/frame.py in __init__(self, data, index, columns, dtype, copy)
    221                                  dtype=dtype, copy=copy)
    222         elif isinstance(data, dict):
--> 223             mgr = self._init_dict(data, index, columns, dtype=dtype)
    224         elif isinstance(data, ma.MaskedArray):
    225             import numpy.ma.mrecords as mrecords

/home/michel/.virtualenvs/stsisi/lib/python3.4/site-packages/pandas/core/frame.py in _init_dict(self, data, index, columns, dtype)
    357             arrays = [data[k] for k in keys]
    358
--> 359         return _arrays_to_mgr(arrays, data_names, index, columns, dtype=dtype)
    360
    361     def _init_ndarray(self, values, index, columns, dtype=None, copy=False):

/home/michel/.virtualenvs/stsisi/lib/python3.4/site-packages/pandas/core/frame.py in _arrays_to_mgr(arrays, arr_names, index, columns, dtype)
   5248     axes = [_ensure_index(columns), _ensure_index(index)]
   5249
-> 5250     return create_block_manager_from_arrays(arrays, arr_names, axes)
   5251
   5252

/home/michel/.virtualenvs/stsisi/lib/python3.4/site-packages/pandas/core/internals.py in create_block_manager_from_arrays(arrays, names, axes)
   3931         return mgr
   3932     except ValueError as e:
-> 3933         construction_error(len(arrays), arrays[0].shape, axes, e)
   3934
   3935

/home/michel/.virtualenvs/stsisi/lib/python3.4/site-packages/pandas/core/internals.py in construction_error(tot_items, block_shape, axes, e)
   3897         raise ValueError("Empty data passed with indices specified.")
   3898     raise ValueError("Shape of passed values is {0}, indices imply {1}".format(
-> 3899         passed, implied))
   3900
   3901

ValueError: Shape of passed values is (1, 2), indices imply (1, 3)

It looks to me like a bug involving pandas.to_datetime() and pandas.DataFrame.apply(). Am I missing something ?
I ran it with python 3.4.3 and pandas 0.18.0

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Simply interacting with art can free it from high-minded irrelevance, and bring it into the lives of everyday people -- the very people who consider it hilarious to pose for photos positioned as though they're cupping David's tiny wang. For art you can interact with daily, grab some kicks from ALIVESHOES. A project from a worldwide coterie of shoe-loving artists/designers, ALIVE enlists a melange of global art-makers to use their monochromatic hi-tops as the medium for their work (sculptures, large gallery installations, etc.), then dismantles said projects and sells the component sneaks to the public, like pieces of the True Cross(trainers). Each pair's expertly constructed by "master craftsmen" in Italy using only sustainable materials, including cork/leather/natural cotton uppers, and soles of foam rubber & biodegradable polyurethane, elements so environmentally conscious they claim it's "like wearing nature itself", though it must be even better than that, 'cause Ric's looking pretty wrinkly these days. Each shoe's also hand-colored using environmentally sound dyes (in 11 options, from bright yellow to neon blue), printed with a unique ID number, and features a sketch of the installation it came from stitched under the tongue, increasing the likelihood that Jesse James will bang your shoes instead of his wife. ALIVE even lets you determine your kicks' final price, which starts at a base covering only material costs, but can be built up with contributions to charitable partners & future art projects, though if said project is sneakering David, key indicators suggest he'll need them as small as they come.


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Q: AS3: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference at $iinit while loading external swf I have two swfs, that works perfect separately, but when i try to load one to other, it shows me "Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference at Creator$iinit".
First SWF is login screen, second is register screen. I load them in this way:
var requestA:URLRequest = new URLRequest("Creator.swf");
var loader:Loader = new Loader();
loader.load(requestA);
addChild(loader);

I have no idea whats wrong. Please, help.

A: Most likely you're trying to access something that is not available immediately on load and init - you'll need to add some code in the Creator.swf like:
// Somewhere in the first lines of code
addEventListener(Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE, this.ready);

function ready(e:Event) {
    removeEventListener(Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE, this.ready);

    // ** Do other initialization stuff here

}

What's happening is that you're trying to access the stage or objects before things are ready to accept them.


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Кулун:
 Кулун — озеро в Ошской области Киргизии.
 Кулун — река, впадающая в озеро Кулун.
 Кулун малый — озеро, подпитываемое водой, просачивающейся из озера Кулун.
 Кулун — село в Ужурском районе Красноярского края.
 Кулун - название жеребёнка на якутском языке.

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Top US Poker Tournaments in 2022
Published by: PokerOrg Staff
Posted on: April 6, 2022 11:44 am EDT
The United States poker scene is alive and well. Some fans and players even claim 2022 is delivering a new poker boom. There are a multitude of new and evergreen tournament options for poker players across the country and throughout the year.
The current poker landscape revolves around major series like the World Series of Poker and World Poker Tour. But series in the mid-majors category, with buy-ins ranging from $1K to $5K, have carved out their own places in the market in the years since the poker boom. Entire tours offer mid-major buy-ins, while high-stakes players still find action with the PokerGO Tour.
Many casinos and cardrooms in America also provide daily and weekly tournaments.
What are the top 5 poker tournaments in the US?
1. World Series of Poker (WSOP)
2. WSOP Circuit (WSOP-C)
3. World Poker Tour (WPT)
4. WPTDeepStacks and WPT Prime
5. Mid-States Poker Tour (MSPT)
Other Major U.S. Poker Tournaments in 2022
The PokerGo Tour
The RunGood Poker Series
Local poker tournaments
The World Series of Poker is the longest running poker tournament series in the world.
The WSOP began running in 1970 when a handful of poker players gathered at the Binion's Horseshoe in Las Vegas, Nevada to determine the best all-around player.
Over time, more players competed in different tournament formats. TV coverage and WSOP player personalities generated increased attention. Satellite tournaments gave a growing player pool the opportunity to compete starting in 1983.
The Moneymaker effect
In 2003, Chris Moneymaker catapulted the WSOP's popularity to a new level. His WSOP Main Event victory showcased him as an average recreational player who won an online poker satellite for less than $100 and turned that into $2.5M in Las Vegas. That victory launched what became the 2003 poker boom.
Growth of the WSOP
The WSOP grew from 36 events in 2003 to 55 in 2007 and up to 90 in 2019. The global popularity of poker prompted World Series organizers to add a WSOP Europe series in 2007 that continues today.
A new online poker market in the U.S. added several tournaments during the 2015 summer WSOP and more each year. Partners in the online poker world then helped the WSOP weather the pandemic storm in 2020, when the WSOP had to cancel its live tournaments for the first time in more than 50 years.
The WSOP today
The World Series of Poker remains a strong brand, and the gold WSOP winner's bracelet is still the most coveted prize in all of poker.
The 2022 WSOP is scheduled to present 88 tournaments at the Bally's and Paris Las Vegas casinos and more than a dozen events online. It runs May 31 to July 29, with some events livestreamed and others filmed for televised broadcasts.
One of the many results of the poker boom was the implementation of the World Series of Poker Circuit. Starting in 2005, the WSOP started offering events for a lower price point. With the new offering, more players could compete in more locations around the United States.
Instead of awarding WSOP gold bracelets, organizers crafted a WSOP-C gold ring for Circuit event winners.
Those WSOP Circuit events took place at Caesars Entertainment casinos around the U.S. The first year saw Circuit events starting in January and running monthly in locations like Atlantic City, San Diego, Lake Tahoe, Tunica, and Las Vegas. Over time, it made more sense to schedule a WSOP Circuit season from the end of the summer WSOP to the beginning of the next one.
WSOP-C tournament popularity
The WSOP Circuit is more popular than ever. More players can afford to compete, and the locations around the country are more convenient for recreational players. The WSOP-C has expanded beyond Caesars properties to include stops at prestigious venues like Turning Stone in Verona, N.Y. There are even international WSOP-C stops from Europe to Africa and South America to Australia.
Online players can get in on the action, too. U.S. Circuit Online events run year-round for players in states like Nevada, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Michigan. International players can compete on the GGPoker network for Circuit rings.
The 2021-2022 WSOP-C season started in November 2021, which was later than usual due to the pandemic. The Circuit runs through May 2022. Each casino stop will offer at least 12 gold ring events and a $1,700 buy-in Main Event. All ring winners then win a seat at the 2022 Tournament of Champions (TOC) — a freeroll with a $1M prize pool.
The World Poker Tour began as the brainchild of documentary producer Steve Lipscomb. He teamed up with poker pros Mike Sexton and Linda Johnson to host a series of poker tournaments around the world, with each filmed for a television series on the Travel Channel.
WPT history
The WPT set out on its first tour in 2002. It started at the Bellagio in Las Vegas and continued to Aruba, Costa Rica, several locations in the United States, and France. There was even a PartyPoker Million cruise. TV broadcasts featured Sexton and actor Vince Van Patten in the commentary booth.
This is where Sexton dubbed his signature phrase: "May all your cards be live and your pots be monsters!"
The World Poker Tour went from a private to public company within just a few years of its launch. PartyGaming bought the company for more than $12M in 2009, then sold it to Ourgame International in 2015 for $35M. In 2021, a private investment group bought the WPT for $105M.
The WPT tournament today
In 2022, the WPT is celebrating its 20th anniversary. Among its many accomplishments, the popular poker tournament has been broadcast in more than 150 countries and territories and translated into numerous languages. It also highlighted some of poker's greatest personalities, including Doyle Brunson, Gus Hansen, and Mike Sexton himself. In a testament to its popularity, the WPT spawned offshoots like WPT Alpha8, and the Professional Poker Tour.
The current WPT season hosted two tournaments at the Seminole Hard Rock in Florida and the WPT Choctaw in Oklahoma. More events will join the schedule as the year progresses.
One of the many ways the World Poker Tour expanded in the past two decades was by acquiring another brand. The WPT bought a mid-majors poker tour called DeepStacks in 2014 and rebranded it as WPTDeepStacks (WPTDS).
More poker tournaments around the world
The new tour offered prestige, more stops with lower buy-ins, and a chance for more players to compete in events with WPT structures. It also traveled to more countries around the world, with events in Australia, Russia, Belgium, South Africa, Amsterdam, Korea, Taiwan, and Vietnam.
WPTDeepStacks and WPT Prime 2022
The 2022 WPTDS season began with scheduled stops in Amsterdam, Sydney, and California. Those are in process and running through the Thunder Valley stop in Northern California in late April.
In February 2022, though, the WPT announced that it was retiring the WPTDeepStacks brand after the California stop. It will launch WPT Prime in its place.
WPT Prime
WPT Prime will be more intertwined with the WPT main tour, using the same leaderboard to determine a single Player of the Year. Each WPT Prime stop will consist of a festival culminating in a Main Event. The player who earns the most points during each festival will win a trophy.
The only stops on the WPT Prime tour in 2022 thus far are in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Taiwan. However, organizers may add more stops as the year progresses, possibly in the United States.
The MSPT started in 2009 as a tour dedicated to players in Minnesota. The Minnesota State Poker Tour (MSPT) quickly developed a following, though, and responded to pleas from poker players throughout the United States.
By 2011, the tournament developed into a mid-majors tour for Middle America, for players at casinos and card rooms often overlooked by larger tours. It kept the same abbreviation — MSPT — but changed its name to the Mid-States Poker Tour.
The goal was to offer affordable No Limit Hold'em tournaments with deep stacks. The Main Events ran on weekends in a move helpful to recreational and part-time players.
MSPT 2022
Season 13 of the MSPT tour began in 2022, running from January through December. Several regional events are on the schedule, but the primary stops offer 15 Main Events with room for the MSPT to add more in the last few months of the year.
MSPT events have now become the highlighted portions of statewide series like the Ohio State and South Dakota State Poker Championships, Iowa and Michigan State Poker Championships, and even the US Poker Championship. It also serves as the largest draw for the Venetian DeepStack Poker Series in Las Vegas.
With the Mid-States Poker Tour now serving as the primary competitor for the WSOP Circuit, more people will follow the MSPT in 2022 than ever before.
Here are a few of the other top U.S. poker tournaments in 2022.
As tours in the U.S. began to focus more on mid-majors buy-ins in the past few years, high-stakes poker players had fewer options for $10K buy-ins and higher. Enter the PokerGO Tour.
The PokerGo Tour started as a way for Poker Central to offer several big events per year, like the Super High Roller Bowl. However, the tour's popularity quickly created grassroots demand for a more robust roster of events.
The tour now hosts a year-round series of tournaments like the US Poker Open and Heads-Up Poker Showdown. These tourneys mostly take place in Las Vegas at the Aria Resort & Casino but add occasional stops in places like Prague and Cyprus. Most buy-ins start at $10K and increase to $100K and even $250K.
Back at a more comfortable level for the poker masses, the RunGood Poker Series (RGPS) is a mid-majors tour with the lowest buy-in Main Events at a price point of approximately $600. Known for its fun atmosphere and for appearing at casinos left off other tours, RGPS developed a strong following that continues to grow.
While there was some speculation that the Heartland Poker Tour may return this year, the event organizers have been silent since July 2020.
Some poker rooms across America have created tournament series that stand out from the rest. Even with no affiliation with the WPT, these series and events offer huge attractions on their own. Players like the variety of local tournaments that go beyond Texas Hold'em into Omaha and mixed games. Plus, they add formats like a monster stack or reentry.
Here are a few of the best local poker tournaments players love:
The Wynn Las Vegas hosts four seasonal Poker Classic tours throughout the year. The largest is the Wynn Millions with its $10M guarantee.
The Venetian offers DeepStack series throughout the calendar year.
The Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown contains numerous must-play tournaments in Hollywood, Florida.
Poker rooms like the Commerce and Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles continue to draw players to their series as well.
New card rooms like Prime Social in Houston are also ready to compete for live event players in the coming years.
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A Busy Year of Activities for SSG!
2018 has been a very busy year for us here at SSG. Many of our team walked, ran and swam their way through the year at several events, including: The Great North Run, the Plymouth, Ivybridge and Totnes 10k, Plymouth Half Marathon and the Plymouth Breakwater Swim. For many of our team, this was their first attempts as such distances, so huge congratulations to all.
Along with the team activities, we have supported many local individuals and charities with their fundraising efforts. Donations were made to Callum Naish and Tim Whittle; Callum Naish embarked on a great adventure during the Summer to Bangladesh as part of his International Citizen Service placement with Volunteer Service Overseas, and Tim Whittle will be walking from John O' Groats to Land's End in May 2019 to raise awareness of Men's Mental Health.
Sponsorship was provided to James Rowe, U15 cricketer for Devon Cricket Club, and support to the whole team on their tour of South Africa, as well as the sponsorship of Manager's coats for Ivybridge Football Club. Our annual donation of Easter Eggs was also collected for children's charity 'CHICKS'; this year beating our previous record with 100 Easter Eggs!
Other support this year has included a variety of charities and efforts close to home, including Armed Forces Day in May, the 'Pledge Less Plastic' campaign in June, and continual support for the 'Take 10 Together' campaign through Mental Health training and infographics.
We also participated in teambuilding activities, including 'Last Team Standing' held at Oddicombe beach in September. With two teams competing, we were successful in achieving 4th and 5th place – next year we're aiming to fill 1st, 2nd and 3rd place!
To round off the year, we sold raffle tickets and took part in the BBC's Annual Duck Race and raised over £150 for Children in Need!
We would like to give a huge thanks for all of our team's efforts this year, and we hope that 2019 will be just as successful.
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Shining a light on communication
By Special World on	 29th November 2016 Speech, Language & Communications Needs, World News
The Communication Trust and Pearson have joined forces to launch the fifth Shine a Light Awards.
The Awards seek to recognise the contributions of teams, settings and individuals across England who support children and young people's speech, language and communication.
The flagship Shine a Light Awards will return by popular demand in 2017 with a range of award categories. This includes a brand new award for SEN School or Group of the Year highlighting the exceptional work carried out in SEND schools and colleges across the country.
The Shine a Light Awards will feature the following categories:
Early Years Setting of the Year Award.
Primary School of the Year Award.
Secondary School or College of the Year Award.
The Communication Commitment School of the Year Award.
SEN School or Group of the Year Award.
Young Person of the Year Award.
SLCN Innovation Award.
Communication Champion Award.
Augmentative and Alternative Communication Award.
Pearson Outstanding Achievement Award.
Octavia Holland, Director of The Communication Trust, said:
All children and young people deserve the opportunity to develop good speech, language and communication skills so they can thrive and make friends. The Shine a Light Awards gives individuals, teams, settings and young people a unique opportunity to shout about their achievements and for this best practice to be recognised across the sector.
Last year's applications were outstanding. The Shine a Light Awards shows how lives can be enriched with dedication and commitment, particularly for the one million children and young people with long-term speech, language and communication needs (SLCN). If it is your time to shine, we look forward to receiving your application.
Chris Hall, Director of Clinical Assessment at Pearson, said:
The continued popularity of the Shine a Light Awards proves how much is being achieved across the country to support young people with speech, language and communication, and this work is too often unrecognised. It is an honour to be part of these exceptional awards and it is so important to share and celebrate these achievements so that we can continue to innovate and raise awareness of best practice.
The Shine a Light Awards have grown in popularity since their launch during the National Year of Communication in 2011. To date, the awards have celebrated the work of over 98 teams and a wide range of individuals, including young people with severe and complex speech, language and SLCN.
The awards website is now open for applications and further details on how to apply can be found at www.shinealightawards.co.uk. Applications close at 11:59 pm on 12 January 2017.
The Shine a Light Awards Ceremony will take place with a secret celebrity host on 23 March 2017 in London.


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If you're not after a teaching job but have a background in Science education, there's a great opportunity for you at Digital Explorer.
I've worked with Jamie and the gang at Digital Explorer on several projects over the years. We even won a GA Silver Award for one of them.
The job, details here, is for Curriculum Director (Science) and there's plenty to keep you occupied.


Good Stuff Pet Truck Tours U.S.
An unusual looking truck called the Good Stuff Pet Truck is touring the U.S. carrying free dog treats. The retro designed truck features an oversized dog bone. The truck is stopping in American cities this summer.
In addition to treats, the truck also offers free dog-training demos and Q&A sessions with a god trainer. It also offers a backdrop for a photo opp in its doggy lounge which includes "grass" and a picket fence.
Veterinarian Dr. Ruth MacPete (Dr. Ruth the Pet Vet) says in a statement, "Positively reinforced, fit dogs are happy dogs. Overweight or obese dogs have an increased risk of developing osteoarthritis, type 2 diabetes, heart and respiratory disease, and even cancer – and more than half of dogs in the United States are carrying extra pounds."
The Good Stuff Pet Truck is sponsored by American Pet Nutrition, the makers of Vita Bone Dog Biscuits and Supreme Source grain-free dog food. You can follow the truck's progress at GoodStuffPetTruck.com.


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Tracking Construction Worker Safety a Group Effort
By Denise Johnson | November 26, 2018
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Maintaining the safety of workers on a six-story job that spans 60,000 square feet is a daunting task, and a concern for not only the construction firm but also its insurer. A recently announced collaboration between Travelers, Gilbane, a large contractor working in the U.S. and Canada, and Triax Technologies aims to explore whether wearable devices can improve safety on construction sites.
More than 130 employees will use the Spot-r Clip, a device worn on a worker's belt, while at the New York job site.
According to Bob Kreuzer, vice president of construction risk control for Travelers, following the development of the Early Severity Predictor and ZoneCheck, the insurer wanted to assist its construction clients in improving outcomes and employee safety.
"We are constantly game planning against ourselves around how can we leverage different technologies out in the marketplace to connect them with our customers and help them, whether it's understanding their risks better or helping them improve loss outcomes," said Kreuzer.
He said the insurer looked at several technology options before settling on the Triax Spot-r. Travelers long standing relationship with Gilbane and the construction firm's interest in using the product aided in making the partnership happen.
Tracking Data on the Job Site
The IoT device offers the potential for quicker response to potential injuries by automatically detecting worker falls and providing supervisors with real-time notification of the worker's location, along with other details. A push button alert gives workers the ability to send their names and locations to the safety supervisor on site.
"If there's an unsafe work condition and you're injured, you push that button and folks know where you are and they get an alert on their cell phone and can get to you quickly," said Pete Schermerhorn, president and CEO of Conn.-based Triax Technologies.
Triax Spot-R. Photo credit. Gilbane.
Worn as a belt clip, the technology contains a gyroscope and an accelerometer to measure impact and orientation of the device.
"It can tell you did the person roll over after they fell, did they spring back up right away, did they start walking immediately after fall, that type of information," Schermerhorn explained.
In addition, after an event, it can provide details on all coworkers that were near the injured worker, as well as the temperature and humidity. Valuable information that can be difficult to gather when doing an accident investigation or dealing with a claim, said Schermerhorn.
"It can be very helpful from a loss standpoint in terms of trying to piece together what happened," he said.
Because there is no access to Wi-Fi on a new job site, a mesh network is created so that wearables and tags connect as soon as a worker arrives.
"Imagine walking into a construction project, and they'd installed different antennas around the job so once you cross that plane, it knows when that person is on the job site and also knows where you are generally," Kreuzer explained. "When you're on the fifth floor, third floor, what quadrant of the building you're in. When there's an event, it'll trigger a signal…and it sends it out to whatever supervisor you have on that list."
The mesh network is continually updated as construction is completed. Another valuable aspect of the data are the worker profiles that outline their role on the jobsite.
The clip is rugged, said Schermerhorn. It has a six-month battery life between charges and no on/off switch.
Another data option is an evacuation tag that allows a supervisor to alert all workers via high decibel alarm if there is an emergency on the job site.
"It also tells the contractor that everybody is off the site. You don't have to count people as they come to the job site trailer," Kreuzer said. "You know by looking at your app that's on your phone or on your computer, you know whether people have left the building."
An optional equipment tag, known as a Spot-r EquipTag, offers the location of every forklift, excavator and any other equipment on the jobsite. It can also provide information on who is operating a piece of machinery.
Schermerhorn added that permissions can be set to identify who can operate certain types of equipment. An alert will be sent to a supervisor if an unauthorized user is identified. Equipment certification information can be uploaded as well.
Another key aspect of the data collected is the ability to review a construction site history to evaluate claims reported after a project has been completed.
"Safety is one of the key statistics the construction industry measures, yet there hasn't been an easy way to quantify safety behaviors on-site, until now," said Schermerhorn. "With real-time data and notifications, and visibility into what is happening on the site, wearable technology has the potential to transform safety and risk management practices in one of the most dangerous professions."
Photo credit: Gilbane construction site.
Evaluate Problem Before Tech Options
There's no shortage of data tracking options, Kreuzer said, adding that it's important to identify the problem that needs to be solved before shopping for technology.
"If you go the other way, just pick a technology without a problem, it could be like this never-ending test that might not produce anything," Kreuzer said.
Another issue involves resources, he said. There must be dedicated staff to monitor the roll out, determine the data that's collected and how it will be protected.
"You might not accomplish what you set out to if you don't have a dedicated person or resource pushing it along," Kreuzer said.
Technology isn't a silver bullet, he added.
"You're going to collect data, and if you don't act on the data you could potentially produce unintentional liability," said Kreuzer. "Let's say you get some alerts where you could have influenced worker behavior, there is a potential for expanding your liability. Just like telematics, if you're not going to act on somebody driving too fast, and you have a policy against that and you don't act on it, you could actually produce additional liability there."
The testing phase on the technology began in 2017, said Schermerhorn, and it's being used on job sites across the country. This construction project is expected to last about 20 months.
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The first time I ever ran at altitude was this past winter in Mammoth Lakes, California with the Mammoth Track Club—home to incredible athletes, including one of my role models, Deena Kastor. Mammoth is a special place filled with special people, all of whom I look up to for their athletic prowess and also their sense of joy in life. Also, as many of the runners here are marathoners, I feel lucky to learn about the more distance-side of the sport.
I remember my first day at practice, I watched as all the athletes dropped their pop-top-style water bottles into a bucket for Coach Kastor to distribute at various stages in the training run. I had never seen this before. I remember looking at my own regular screw-top water bottle and feeling I'd missed the pop-top memo. The concept of refueling while running was new to me— the truth was, I'd never taken any fluids during a run before.
I learned the importance of hydration while training at altitude. During our workous and runs, I learned to take fluids every couple of miles just like the others around me. And it's not just about taking in water, but also electrolytes—this is why I relied on (and continue to rely on) EnduroPacks electrolyte spray.
I found that I was able to run faster and longer by taking fluids during the run—hydration not only to helps sustain the run but also to aid in recovery afterwards—to fuel the next run! Even back in my home training grounds in Eugene, I carry my electrolyte spray with me on longer runs.
I returned to Mammoth this September prepared with my pop-top water bottle and EnduroPacks kit. I ran my longest and fastest long run ever—18 miles. It was crucial for me to be properly hydrated before, during, and after the run. I remember one particular segment of the run, at about 16 miles in—I was running uphill, against the wind, and on soft dirt surface. This was further than my body's comfort zone was familiar with. I wanted to stop! Suddenly, the team van came into view. Sure enough, there was coach with a water bottle in his hand with my name on it—a sip of electrolytes never tasted so good. I made it through the run with a smile on my face and know that it will fuel me, mentally and physically, for many miles ahead.
I am grateful for all that I have learned training up here. I believe in the work we are doing and also have a greater appreciation for the "details" in running—hydration is one of these details. I believe hydration is a choice, and one I am happily committed to before, during, and after my training.
This article was written and contributed by elite runner and olympic hopeful with the Nike Oregon Track Club Elite Team, Alexi Pappas.


The founder of the popular messaging app Telegram, Pavel Durov, is recruiting lawyers to fight a court ruling requiring the company to turn over encryption keys to some of its users' communications.
Earlier on Monday, a Moscow court fined Telegram 800,000 rubles ($14,000) for not providing to security services decoding data targeting six phone numbers.
In a VK social network post on Monday, Durov issued a call for attorneys to contact Telegram to appeal the magistrate court's ruling. The company reportedly has 10 days to appeal the verdict, or it faces a Nov. 27 ban.
"Over the next couple of days, we will gather a team that has the most experience in these kinds of cases," he wrote.
Durov said the FSB's demands contradict article 23 of the Russian constitution, which guarantees private correspondence.
"Today's court decision can be appealed until the FSB's claim is heard by a judge familiar with the basic Russian law — its Constitution."
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said earlier in the day that Telegram is not yet under threat of being blocked, but declined to comment further on the court case.


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Grandrieux, Adachi, and documentary portraiture as a meeting of minds
by Leo Goldsmith posted January 7, 2012
To start the New Year, the Museum introduces First Look, a new annual showcase curated by Dennis Lim, Rachael Rakes, and David Schwartz. This two-weekend program—which brings together some of the most invigorating and inventive voices in contemporary world cinema, including established and emerging filmmakers—affirms our belief in cinema as a flourishing art form. To supplement the program, Moving Image Source is running a series of essays on all the feature films that are being shown. Check back daily from now through next weekend for new articles.
In 2000, after nearly three decades in self-imposed exile, Masao Adachi was arrested in Lebanon and extradited to his native Japan. Since 1971, Adachi had served as a member of the militant-communist Japanese Red Army in the Middle East, but prior to that he was better known for his work in film. An important figure in 1960s Japanese experimental cinema for provocative, surrealistic short films like Closed Vagina and Galaxy, he was also a screenwriter for Nagisa Oshima and especially Koji Wakamatsu. For Wakamatsu Productions, Adachi scripted dozens of films, many of them of the adult pinku-eiga genre (with titles like Violated Angels, Go, Go Second Time Virgin, Gushing Prayer, and Ecstasy of the Angels), but soon his work took on a more political bent. High School Guerrilla (1969) marries sexploitation with radical politics, while subsequent work became increasingly polemical, like the experimental true-crime landscape film AKA Serial Killer (1969), which seems to anticipate Chantal Akerman's News From Home and the work of James Benning, and his 1971 disquisition on propaganda and the Palestinian struggle, Red Army/PFLP: Declaration of World War.
Adachi didn't return to filmmaking until 2007's Prisoner/Terrorist, a fictionalized account of fellow JRA member Kozo Okamato. His own life could probably be the subject of such a biopic, but French filmmaker Philippe Grandrieux has chosen to make his film about Adachi more of an encounter than a portrait, an intimate meeting of minds and artistic and political sensibilities. Cinematic re-creations of the 1970s radical left are very much en vogue nowadays, but rather than offer up the stylish, gossipy pleasures of Olivier Assayas's Carlos, Uli Edel's The Baader-Meinhof Complex, or even Wakamatsu's own United Red Army, Grandrieux opts for something more mysterious, an almost ghostly mood piece that privileges impressionism and doubt over the forced coherence of history.
Masao Adachi in It May Be That Beauty Has Strengthened Our Resolve: Masao Adachi
This pursuit of the vagaries of perception is of a piece with Grandrieux's other work, which remains too little seen in North America. Aside from a number of experimental essay films, video-art pieces, and a Marilyn Manson video, Grandrieux's career comprises three features, often shot and edited by the director himself: a gut-wrenching, largely sonic horror movie (Sombre), a scabrous and off-kilter Eastern European sex-trafficking story (La Vie nouvelle), and a hushed, wintry fairy tale (Un Lac). Eschewing narrative, characterization, and all other means of convention and certitude, each of these films pushes the boundaries of cinema's purely photographic capabilities, with images that seem to shudder and swoon, perched precipitously at the limits of the visible. (Rumor has it that Grandrieux even tried to have the exit signs covered up at festival screenings of Un Lac, the better to envelop the audience in that film's exquisitely sustained form of sensory deprivation.) Overexposed to the point of blown-out indistinctness, thrown wildly out of focus, or stopped down to almost complete blackness, the images in Grandrieux's work testify to a kind of ecstasy of perception, a groping, epileptic vision that finds some correlate in the work of Stan Brakhage and David Lynch.
In It May Be That Beauty Has Strengthened Our Resolve: Masao Adachi, winner of the New:Vision Award at last year's CPH:DOX festival in Copenhagen, Grandrieux brings this rapturous gaze to documentary, opening his film with an extended take of Adachi playing on swings with his granddaughter, their faces barely discernible, with only tiny glimpses of traffic lights, the child's pink coat, and Adachi's mop of white hair to pierce the fuzzy blue-black twilight. In voiceover, Adachi whispers of desires, intentions, hungers, points of origin, impressions: of his mother, who indoctrinated him with resistance to the American occupation of Japan when he was a child; of language and its deceptions; of Marxist dialectic; of incomprehensible images and memories. "One only uses memories to imagine," he murmurs. "Revolution, that's an image, too. The problem is how to make the image real."
Through many such enshrouded images of Adachi, Grandrieux forms a fragmentary image of Adachi's worldview—what Adachi himself calls "a collection of thoughts [that] superimpose themselves ... juxtapose themselves or coalesce to establish an idea of the world." But the film also sketches a pointillist image of the city of Tokyo as Grandrieux's camera wanders amid floods of people and neon light. Much like Adachi's AKA Serial Killer, which narrates the story of the notorious Norio Nagayama's killing spree minimalistically through after-the-fact images of the crime-scenes, Grandrieux's film operates under Adachi's application of fukei-ron, or Japanese Landscape Theory, which evokes the ways in which identity and environment are bound together with forms of social control. And just as Adachi's film contrasted its images with free-jazz improvisations, Grandrieux's finds counterpoint in a diverse ambient soundtrack of chiming electronic keyboards, skittering shards of noise, and unexpected bursts of guitar.
It May Be That Beauty Has Strengthened Our Resolve: Masao Adachi
As Grandrieux ruminates on Adachi and the city of Tokyo, he channels other filmmakers and artists, as well. Adachi's recollection of reading André Breton at an impressionable age spurs his neo-Dadaist assertion that "It was enough to broach the subject of reality, even if I didn't understand it"; his anecdote about encountering Jean Genet in Beirut in the 1970s calls up the memory of reading Genet's The Thief's Journal aloud with Oshima while writing The Diary of a Shinjuku Thief; Grandrieux's drive through Tokyo's expressways leads him back to Tarkovsky's Solaris, but also tacitly invokes Chris Marker's Sans soleil, another collage of tourist visions siphoned through a kind of Marxist surrealism. In this way, the film becomes as much a transference of ideas and energies between artists as it is an attempt to capture a particular artist's worldview in any stable or coherent way: "Cinema moves from one film to another through time, above and beyond those who make it."
Ultimately, as the film's aphoristic title suggests, It May Be That Beauty Has Strengthened Our Resolve is less interested in biography than in the problem of integrating politics and art, or more precisely of finding new ways of looking at the world that will alter it both socially and aesthetically. For Grandrieux, Adachi becomes a heroic figure not merely as a provocateur and outlaw, but also as one for whom the border between the physical and mental world, the realms of life and art, must always remain productively ambiguous. "Making movies seemed contradictory to guerrilla warfare," Adachi recalls. "But I told myself that it was for me to resolve this issue." Through his own transformative vision, Grandrieux similarly blurs distinctions and revels in the gray, nebulous middle zones. For both filmmakers, as Adachi puts it, "Revolution means 'I don't understand.'"
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This is slightly off-topic, but I'd like to recommend the Sher System for facial skin care if you suffer from rosacea or acne (middle-aged or the usual!). I've been using it for a few years now, and I really do think it helps.
The first few days are tricky, and your skin may feel very dry and tight as it gets used to the new regime, but after that it is great. The system is basically a two stage cleanse, a facial oil (multi-action serum) and then a moisturiser. They have a wonderful concealer/healer cream which hides the blemishes while healing them, and they also offer makeup and suncream as well as a few other products. I like the fact that the system is based on water, and I love the facial oil.
It is expensive, I think, but is well worth it, and the bottles do seem to last a long time.
Bizarrely, the short video link on their site seems to be about the ACCA accounting courses, rather than about the skincare product, and the explanatory video I was sent when I started using the skincare system was of poor quality – but don't be put off. I expect they have a brand new explanatory video/dvd now, and the instructions are straightforward.
Marat's bath – did he have DH?
I used the sher system for many years and it cleared my rosacea. The have closed down and the products are no longer available and my rosacea is back with a vengeance. I so wish I could find a suitable alternative or persuade Helen Sher to share her formulas.
Yes, it's a shame, because her products were great. I did get a list from her of suggested alternatives when she closed down, have you seen it?
COLLOIDAL SILVER – can be purchased from health stores.
FOAMING FACE WASH 1 & FOAMING FACE WASH 2 – Avène Soapless Cleanser for blemish prone skin (www.avene.co.uk).
(can be purchased at department stores or online).
NORMALIZING CRYSTALS – no comparable product.
PRE-WASH 1 – Jojoba Oil or any natural oils such as Argan Oil.
PRE-WASH 2 – Cetaphil (can be purchased from Boots) or Seba Med (www.Seba-med.co.uk).
(can be purchased from Boots).
UNDER COVER CREAM – Camouflage Cream (www.keromask.com).
I hope that's of some help – do let me know if you find something good!


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Rogue landlord ordered to pay £4,500 for breaching a prohibition order
By Marc Da Silva
A landlord in Stevenage who allowed his tenant to live in an excessively cold attic with a serious fire safety hazard has been ordered to pay just over £4,500 for breaching a prohibition order.
Stevenage Borough Council decided to make a prohibition order in November 2014 under the Housing Act 2004, prohibiting the occupation of the attic room at a property in The Noke, Stevenage due to the poor standard of works to convert the attic to habitable accommodation.
The substandard conditions meant that there was a major fire safety hazard and one of excess cold, amounting to Category 1 hazards under the Housing Act 2004.
When environmental health officers carried out an inspection of the property in July last year, they found that the attic room, which was deemed a serious safety risk, was occupied – in contravention of the prohibition order. Officers also discovered poor heating and insulation within the attic room.
The landlord, Nasif Botros, has been prosecuted under Section 32 of the Housing Act 2004, for contravening the prohibition order.
At a hearing at Luton Magistrates' Court he was found guilty in his absence and fined £1,760. He was also ordered to pay SBC's full legal costs of £2,571.45 and a victim surcharge of £170.
Cllr Jeannette Thomas, Stevenage Borough Council's executive member for housing, said: "The majority of landlords in Stevenage provide a good standard of accommodation and much-needed housing. These are the landlords we want to keep and encourage.
"We will not tolerate the few landlords who provide substandard accommodation and have a disregard for the health and safety of tenants.
"The council will continue to use enforcement action such as prosecution, civil penalty notices, banning orders and rent repayment orders to deal with unscrupulous landlords."
The Noke
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Navy faces IT training, support woes
By Bob Brewin
(This is the fourth in a series of articles looking at DOD efforts to bring new technology into the battlefield.)
The Navy has hit a few bumps in translating the grand vision of network-centric warfare embodied in its Information Technology for the 21st Century project into gritty operational reality.
The Navy believes commercial networking technology and PCs will improve the ability of its personnel to carry out operations by giving them fast access to critical data and applications.
But Navy information technology professionals among carrier battle groups and amphibious ready groups operating "at the tip of spear" in the Persian Gulf and the Western Pacific have reported great frustration with early shipboard installations of IT-21 commercial off-the-shelf hardware and software. Lack of training and a compressed installation schedule further compounded these problems, according to the forward-deployed Navy and Marine IT professionals.
And once broken in, the shipboard networks have delivered such a torrent of information that operational commanders have been struggling with a steep information management learning curve.
Top Navy officials candidly acknowledged the sharp birth pangs of IT-21, which has moved from concept to reality in warships engaged in real-world operations in just three years, and vowed to improve the installation, training and knowledge management processes this year.
An IT Nightmare
Any improvement, however slight, would outdistance the "nightmare," as one sailor put it, that the command, control, communications and intelligence (C3I) and automated data proc-essing staff on the USS Kitty Hawk experienced during its IT-21 shakedown cruise last year. Interviewed in April 1999 during "Operation Tandem Thrust," Lt. Mark Bibeau vividly recalled the Kitty Hawk's initial experience with IT-21 a year earlier.
The Kitty Hawk, which is now deployed to the Persian Gulf, departed Bremerton, Wash., for its new home port in Japan on April 15, 1998, Bibeau said, and the IT-21 network was not up until July 17.
"It took us three months of tweaking to get it operating. The solutions were just not there prior to the ship being deployed," he said.
The ship left Bremerton with what Navy officials describe as one of the most advanced networks ever installed afloat, including an OC-12 622 megabits/sec fiber-optic backbone serving classified and unclassified networks. Switching was provided by three Xylan Corp. "backbone" Asynchronous Transfer Mode devices and 10 "edge" devices on the unclassified network. The classified network featured three Xylan backbone switches and eight edge devices.
The edge switches in turn relayed data at 155 megabits/sec to a vast network of PCs and servers, including 685 drops on the Non-Classified Internet Protocol Router Network, according to Bibeau. The ship's Secret
Internet Protocol Router Network served 450 drops, Bibeau said, including 150 ATM-to-the-desktop PCs for power users who needed the extra bandwidth to manipulate large files.
The switches were powerful, but the Kitty Hawk found keeping them up and operational a challenge because of a number of factors, including key environmental considerations that they believe were not understood by the installation team, which was managed by the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (Spawar).
Chief Radioman Darrell Miller wondered "if anyone who designed [the switch installation] had ever been on an aircraft carrier before." He had his doubts because "they installed one switch in the jet engine shop," which filled with jet blast during testing. Miller said the COTS Xylan switches also had to deal with power surges and vibrations from the movement of the ship through rough seas and the landing of aircraft. The installation planners put one switch directly below the flight deck.
The Kitty Hawk ADP shop also suffered break-in problems with the Spawar-modified Microsoft Corp. Windows NT operating system software, which Bibeau described as "leaving us with an off-the-shelf system that really is not COTS."
He said Spawar worked with a contractor to tailor a system for IT-21 but did not provide the Kitty Hawk with a list of the changes made. As a result "it took us six days" just to set the system clock, Bibeau said.
Bibeau said most of the IT-21 problems have been worked out. His biggest concern is to get adequate technical assistance to do repairs locally, he said. IT staff aboard other ships have similar concerns.
Senior Chief Leon Slack, who runs the ADP section on the USS Belleau Wood, a Marine amphibious carrier, said he derived valuable "lessons learned" from the Kitty Hawk's problems. He had the contractors lay out and connect all the components of his ship's IT-21 local-area network on the pier before installation. Slack, interviewed on the Belleau Wood in the Persian Gulf in February, said this procedure helped isolate faults in network equipment, saving his crew from "trouble-shooting two miles of wire."
But while the Belleau Wood had a smoother experience with its IT-21 installation than the Kitty Hawk, Slack worries about the day-to-day maintenance and operation of the ship's complex networks because of a lack of training. The setup includes 10 classified networks and eight unclassified systems serving the Navy staff and the embarked Marines. "Dropping a $3 million project in my lap does not amount to a hill of beans without training," Slack said.
Despite the Navy's shift to Windows NT-powered networks, Slack said Navy schools had not, to his knowledge, added Windows NT to their curricula: The newly minted network sailors reporting on board had just completed training on Novell Inc. networks. Radioman 2nd Class Wayne Katz said he believed the training problems reflected a lack of commitment to build training costs into the IT-21 budget. "When it comes to training, there is very little funding available for IT-21 funding," Katz said.
Katz believes the Navy needs to set up dedicated "IT-21 training teams. Meanwhile, to keep up with the technology until he can receive Navy training, Katz has funded his technical education himself. "I've probably spent about $1,000 out of my own pocket on [technical training] CD-ROMs," Katz said.
Adm. Archie Clemins, commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet and the originator of IT-21, acknowledged that the IT-21 installation process has not been smooth, but said, "We've had successful growing pains with each installation."
Rear Adm. John Gauss, commenting on the problems detailed by the ADP crew on the Kitty Hawk, said that "we got ahead of our headlights" on that IT-21 installation due to the short time Spawar and its contractors, primarily Electronic Data Systems Corp., were given to outfit the ship before it deployed to the Far East. "The Kitty Hawk was problematic. It was a late install, and the Xylan switches did not [at that time] perform as advertised."
Spawar, Gauss said, put the Kitty Hawk "through pain we should have never put the ship through."
Gauss added that Spawar is establishing procedures to ensure that future IT-21 network installations will be completed well before a ship deploys. He also expressed confidence in the work Xylan had done to correct switch problems, adding that Spawar would work to ensure that switches were not installed in areas where poor environmental factors stressed them.
New Solutions, New Problems
The Navy expects it will be able to address installation and training problems and that IT-21 will have a dramatic impact on operations by providing Navy operational staff with quick access to valuable information. But even that information itself is a problem, some Navy personnel said.
Operational staffs, which use networks and computers, do not have to worry about the IT-21 network plumbing, but once the networks are up and running, operators face their own series of challenges, starting with "Web information overload," according to Capt. Michael Felmly, the assistant chief of staff for the U.S. 7th Fleet, interviewed aboard the USS Blue Ridge, the 7th Fleet flagship.
While describing the growth of specialized World Wide Web pages on SIPRNET as an interoperable and innovative way to manage information, Felmly said this proliferation of information stymies users who do not know how to locate the information they need.
This has led to Web one-upmanship, Felmly said, when one staff member asks another for information, only to "have him to say to your boss, 'It's on the home page,' then it becomes your problem.... My five least favorite words have become 'it's on the Web page.' "
Cmdr. Larry "Dobie" Gillis, assistant chief of staff for command, control, communications and computers on the Kitty Hawk, said that to manage the IT-21 information glut, the Navy needs to establish protocols to keep information under control.
"My biggest peeve is people who push gigantic data files" onto a network serving multiple ships in a task force and then expect smaller ships with less powerful satellite connections to easily grab the information, Gillis said. Bandwidth constraints mean small ships can take three hours to download the gigabyte-size files that pass over Navy networks, he said.
Gillis believes bandwidth has emerged as a vital combat resource that needs to be managed in the same way as ammunition or fuel. He said the Navy needs to institute strict information management procedures to ensure that staffers transfer the minimum amount of data needed to get the job done and not "the War and Peace version of it."
Vice Adm. Walt Doran, the 7th Fleet's commander, agreed, saying the Navy needs a "central discipline" to manage information. "We've made the investment [in the technology]," Doran said, "now we have to take a look at the process of how we manage information.... If we are going to do business this way, Web pages have to be standardized, and we're not quite there yet."
Rear Adm. (select) Charles Munns, the chief financial officer and chief information officer for the commander in chief of the Navy's Pacific Fleet, said that information management policies need to be established by commanders.
"Battle group commanders can define what is important," Munns said in an interview at the Pacific Fleet headquarters in Hawaii. By doing that, commanders can help the various functional areas within their commands focus on the most important information needed to be distributed at any given time and situation.
Despite the growing pains associated with IT-21, the network already has started to reach out and grab commanders, with e-mail and Web pages replacing phone calls and face-to-face meetings, the 7th Fleet's Doran said.
He said that on a recent deployment, "I'd been out for two months and I could count on one hand the number of phone calls I'd received."


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package at.ac.tuwien.inso.integration_tests;

import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
import static org.springframework.security.test.web.servlet.request.SecurityMockMvcRequestPostProcessors.csrf;
import static org.springframework.security.test.web.servlet.request.SecurityMockMvcRequestPostProcessors.user;
import static org.springframework.test.web.servlet.request.MockMvcRequestBuilders.get;
import static org.springframework.test.web.servlet.request.MockMvcRequestBuilders.post;
import static org.springframework.test.web.servlet.result.MockMvcResultMatchers.flash;
import static org.springframework.test.web.servlet.result.MockMvcResultMatchers.model;
import static org.springframework.test.web.servlet.result.MockMvcResultMatchers.redirectedUrl;

import at.ac.tuwien.inso.entity.*;

import org.junit.Ignore;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.boot.test.autoconfigure.web.servlet.AutoConfigureMockMvc;
import org.springframework.boot.test.context.SpringBootTest;
import org.springframework.test.context.ActiveProfiles;
import org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringRunner;
import org.springframework.transaction.annotation.Transactional;

import at.ac.tuwien.inso.controller.lecturer.forms.AddCourseForm;
import at.ac.tuwien.inso.repository.GradeRepository;
import at.ac.tuwien.inso.repository.LecturerRepository;

import java.math.BigDecimal;

@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
@SpringBootTest
@AutoConfigureMockMvc
@ActiveProfiles("test")
@Transactional
public class LecturerEditCourseTests extends AbstractCoursesTests {

    @Autowired
    private GradeRepository gradeRepository;

    @Autowired
    private LecturerRepository lecturerRepository;

    @Test
    public void testRemoveCourseWithoutStudentsOrGradesByIdSuccessfullyRemovesCourse() throws Exception{
        Course c = aseWS2016;
        assertTrue(courseRepository.exists(c.getId()));

        //lecturerRepository.save(new Lecturer("testLec3", "lecturer3", "lecturer3@uis.at", new UserAccount("lecturer3", "pass", Role.LECTURER)));

        mockMvc.perform(
                post("/lecturer/editCourse/remove?courseId="+c.getId())
                        .with(user("lecturer3").roles(Role.LECTURER.name()))
                        .with(csrf())
        ).andExpect(
                redirectedUrl("/lecturer/courses")
        );
        assertTrue(!courseRepository.exists(c.getId()));
    }

    @Test
    public void testRemoveCourseWithNoIdGetsError() throws Exception{

        mockMvc.perform(
                get("/lecturer/editCourse/remove?courseId=")
                        .with(user("lecturer3").roles(Role.LECTURER.name()))
        ).andExpect(
                redirectedUrl(null)
        );
    }

    @Test
    public void testRemoveCourseWithStudentsDoesNotWork() throws Exception{

        Course c = calculusWS2016;
        assertTrue(courseRepository.exists(c.getId()));
        mockMvc.perform(
                post("/lecturer/editCourse/remove?courseId="+c.getId())
                        .with(user("lecturer3").roles(Role.LECTURER.name()))
                        .with(csrf())
        ).andExpect(
                redirectedUrl("/lecturer/courses")
        );
        assertTrue(courseRepository.exists(c.getId()));
    }

    @Test
    public void testRemoveCourseWithGradesDoesNotWork() throws Exception{
        Course c = aseWS2016;
        Grade grade = new Grade(c, lecturer3, student, Mark.GOOD);
        gradeRepository.save(grade);
        assertTrue(courseRepository.exists(c.getId()));
        assertTrue(!gradeRepository.findByCourseId(c.getId()).isEmpty());
        mockMvc.perform(
                post("/lecturer/editCourse/remove?courseId="+c.getId())
                        .with(user("lecturer3").roles(Role.LECTURER.name()))
                        .with(csrf())
        ).andExpect(
                redirectedUrl("/lecturer/courses")
        );
        assertTrue(courseRepository.exists(c.getId()));
    }

    @Test
    public void testRemoveCourseWithGradesAndStudentsDoesNotWork() throws Exception{
        Course c = calculusWS2016;
        Grade grade = new Grade(c, lecturer3, student, Mark.GOOD);
        gradeRepository.save(grade);
        assertTrue(courseRepository.exists(c.getId()));
        assertTrue(!gradeRepository.findByCourseId(c.getId()).isEmpty());
        mockMvc.perform(
                post("/lecturer/editCourse/remove?courseId="+c.getId())
                        .with(user("lecturer3").roles(Role.LECTURER.name()))
                        .with(csrf())
        ).andExpect(
                redirectedUrl("/lecturer/courses")
        );
        assertTrue(courseRepository.exists(c.getId()));
    }

    @Test
    public void itEditsCourse() throws Exception {
        AddCourseForm form = new AddCourseForm(sepmWS2016);
        form.setInitialTags(tagRepository.findAll());
        form.setInitialActiveTags(sepmWS2016.getTags());
        String testDescription = "TEST DESCRIPTION";
        form.getCourse().setDescription(testDescription);
        form.getCourse().setStudentLimits(20);

        lecturerRepository.save(new Lecturer("testLec", "lecturerTest", "lecturerTest@uis.at", new UserAccount("lecturerTest", "pass", Role.LECTURER)));

        mockMvc.perform(
                post("/lecturer/editCourse").with(user("lecturerTest").roles(Role.LECTURER.name()))
                        .content(form.toString())
                        .param("courseId", form.getCourse().getId().toString())
                        .with(csrf())
        ).andExpect(
                redirectedUrl("/lecturer/courses")
        ).andExpect(
                flash().attributeExists("flashMessageNotLocalized")
        );

        // check the changes were updated
        Course actualCourse = courseRepository.findOne(sepmWS2016.getId());
        assertEquals(sepmWS2016, actualCourse);
    }

    @Test
    public void itEditsCourseFail() throws Exception {
        AddCourseForm form = new AddCourseForm(sepmWS2016);
        form.setInitialTags(tagRepository.findAll());
        form.setInitialActiveTags(sepmWS2016.getTags());
        String testDescription = "TEST DESCRIPTION";
        form.getCourse().setDescription(testDescription);
        form.getCourse().setStudentLimits(-20);
        String expected = "The student limit of the course needs to be at least 0";
        mockMvc.perform(
                post("/lecturer/editCourse").with(user("lecturer").roles(Role.LECTURER.name()))
                        .content(form.toString())
                        .param("courseId", form.getCourse().getId().toString())
                        .with(csrf())
        ).andExpect(
                redirectedUrl("/lecturer/courses")
        ).andExpect(
                flash().attributeExists("flashMessageNotLocalized")
        ).andExpect(
                flash().attribute("flashMessageNotLocalized", expected)
        );
    }

    @Test
    public void getEditCoursePageTest() throws Exception {

        // given lecturer having subject "maths" and a course for it
        Subject maths = subjectRepository.save(new Subject("maths", new BigDecimal(6.0)));
        maths.addLecturers(lecturer1);
        Course course = new Course(maths, ws2016);
        course.setStudentLimits(20);
        Course mathsCourse = courseRepository.save(course);

        // when navigation to the edit course page
        mockMvc.perform(
                get("/lecturer/editCourse").with(user(user1))
                        .param("courseId", mathsCourse.getId().toString())
        ).andExpect(
                model().attribute("course", mathsCourse)
        );
    }
}

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The words "happy hour" tend to get people excited. It's that time of the day after work when folks can unwind and forget about their stress at bargain rates. Conjuring visions of discount cocktails and half-priced appetizers, happy hour helps people make it through the grueling office day with a gastronomic treat at the end. Take all of that excitement and pleasure and bottle it up and it turns into Happy Hour Wine Co.
Launched by Kristin Jolley and her husband Stephen, Happy Hour Wine Co. is a range of approachable, easy-drinking wines for under $10 that fit perfectly into the delicious reward for a bargain scenario. How did they acquire such a popular name? After a bit of interesting negotiation with the previous owner of the "Happy Hour" trademark, Kristin and Stephen got the name and set off on their journey of affordable wine for the enjoyment of everyone. They currently offer a Happy Hour White made with chardonnay, and a Happy Hour Red, crafted with a blend cabernet sauvignon, syrah, and petit verdot.
PACIFIC: What is the inspiration behind the retro label, with the man flanked on either side by women?
Kristin Jolly: (The term) happy hour has been around for so long, so we wanted the label to have a retro feel to it. It's all about people out, having fun, enjoying happy hour. The circle around (the logo) is an analog clock and we added a colon in between happy:hour to symbolize a digital clock, making it happy hour, any hour.
What was it like to get accepted into prestigious chains like Whole Foods?
It's an honor. The first time you see the product you've worked so hard to create in such beloved locations, it takes your breath away. And it never gets old, no matter how many new places we launch in.
Where can San Diegans find your wine in restaurants and bars?
You can buy Happy Hour at Whole Foods, select Vons, Mission Hills Wine Cellar, Valley Farms Market, Sprouts in Chula Vista and Eastlake, Stump's, Keil's, Iowa Meat Farms, Primo Foods and growing every day.
Chardonnay. The reason it's my favorite is that you can end up with so many different versions of it. Oaky, buttery, crisp, refreshing - it's all up to the winemaker on how they treat the wine, and it can turn out to be completely different because of it. I personally like chardonnay crisp and refreshing which is what Happy Hour is - easy to drink on its own and doesn't overpower food. That's the best combo to me.
What's your message to wine drinkers - the new and the experienced?
Explore. If you've been buying the same wine for years, change it up. You may find you surprisingly like something completely different. Also, don't let the price or a label fool you as you never know the quality inside until you try it. Wine is subjective, which is much of its beauty and it's all about finding the wine that suits you and the occasion in which you may be serving it.
If someone is starting out with Happy Hour, which one should they pick?
For me, it's all about weather and any food I might be pairing with it. If it's hot out, I want a cold Happy Hour Chardonnay and I'll pair it with seafood, chicken or a salad. If it's cooler out, I want Happy Hour Red blend and pair it with tomato based pasta dishes, red meat or even just have it with some chocolate!
What's up next for Happy Hour?
We are distributed in 23 states now and growing. It's been a crazy, fun year growing Happy Hour and we want to see it continue to thrive across the country with expanded distribution.
Find out more about Happy Hour Wine Co. at drinkhappyhour.com and follow them on Instagram at @happyhourwine.


Sound the trumpets. . . it's time for my second installment of SUPER HERO SUNDAY.
Super Hero 1 is one of my favorite first grade blogs. Reagan from Tunstall's Teaching Tidbits is fantastic. She not only shares great ideas with tons of pictures but she also shares her lesson plans with us every week. I've pinned so many great math, reading and writing ideas from her blog. This year I would really love to do her classroom pet idea with my kiddos.
Super Hero 2 is Nicole from Rowdy in Room 300. This is one of my go to kindergarten blogs. This week my kinders used Nicole's Fall Ten Frames worksheet and it was perfect. Not only does Nicole share great ideas but she also creates and shares her own fonts for FREE. Yes, you heard me right font-a-holics. . . FREE FONTS that are super cute.
Super Hero 3 is Lori from Teaching With Love and Laughter. I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE reading Lori's blog. She is soooooooo incredibly talented and is seriously one of my ALL TIME favorite blogs. When I see a new post from her pop up on my blog roll I immediately head on over to her blog. If you are looking for blogging tips, common core ideas, reading, writing and math ideas, be sure to check out Lori's blog.
Well there you have it, in random order three of my blogging Super Heros. If you haven't started following them yet. . . what are you waiting for?? Well I'm off to spend some more time with my real life Super Hero, my MOM. SHINE on everyone!
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