(Cancun) With the UN climate talks in Cancun set to wrap up on Friday, political representatives and civil society organizations came together to call on the federal government to support a second phase of the Kyoto Protocol. Labour, First Nations, environmental, youth, development, and faith groups called on the Government of Canada to back away from its current position on Kyoto, which threatens to derail the Cancun talks.
Canada has been named as one of a handful of countries at this conference blocking agreement on the continuation of the Kyoto Protocol. More than 180 countries are calling for the continuation of this critical international treaty, the only legally-binding international instrument that requires cuts to greenhouse gas pollution.
-Karen Hawley, National Representative for the NUPGE, the National Union of Public and General Employees.
-Elizabeth May, Leader, Federal Green Party of Canada, O.C.
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New York City and California, but business interests have objected.
At a recent hearing on the New York City bill, Dena Adams testified that she lost her job at a nonprofit organization when she was switched from a regular day shift to irregular night hours, couldn't get nighttime child care and didn't want to leave her 11-year-old daughter alone.
She offered to work weekends and holidays, then requested a consistent night schedule and finally asked if she could bring her 11-year-old daughter to work with her. She was turned down every time, she said, though other workers were given hours that allowed them to go to school.
But there was no law against it, and Adams had to look for another job.
Proponents say various demographic trends have fed the problem and created the need for new laws: more single-parent households, more households with both parents working and more elderly people who need family care.
Only a few states and a few dozen localities have laws that go beyond the federal Family Medical Leave Act. That law is limited to serious health conditions, employers with 50 or more workers and employees with a year on the job.
Connecticut and the District of Columbia protect all workers with "caregiver responsibilities," while Alaska, New Jersey and Oregon protect workers with child care but not elder care responsibilities.
The New York City bill would add "caregiver status" to race, religion, disability and other forbidden reasons for employers to discriminate. It defines a caregiver as someone who provides ongoing care to children or to others "in a dependent relationship" who suffer from a disability.
It calls on employers to make "reasonable accommodation" to caregivers.
"It could be as simple as the need to take a few phone calls during the day," said Councilwoman Deborah Rose, whose committee is considering the bill.
Backers say the city's previous administration opposed the bill as bad for job growth and they're hoping for more support from Mayor Bill de Blasio. Gale Brewer, who was the main backer of the bill in the City Council and is now Manhattan borough president, said she plans to reintroduce it.
This article appeared in print on page 1 of the February 5th, 2014 edition of Hamodia.


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Boehner Lawsuit Targets Obamacare's Employer Mandate
REUTERS/Joshua Roberts
By Brianna Ehley, The Fiscal Times
House Speaker John Boehner just hurled Obamacare's employer mandate back into the spotlight by making it the centerpiece of his lawsuit against the president.
Boehner released a draft resolution Thursday evening authorizing the litigation which challenges President Obama's decision to unilaterally delay the employer mandate--a key Obamacare provision requiring companies with more than 50 full-time employees to offer health coverage to their workers or pay a penalty.
Related: New Winners and Losers in Obamacare Delay
The administration infuriated Republicans last summer when it bypassed Congress to delay the employer mandate for all companies until January 2015. Earlier this year, HHS officials announced they would push back the mandate for mid-sized companies with between 50 and 99 workers until January 2016.
"The president changed the health care law without a vote of Congress, effectively creating his own law by literally waiving the employer mandate and the penalties for failing to comply with it," Boehner said. "That's not the way our system of government was designed to work. No president should have the power to make laws on his or her own."
Boehner announced last week that he would be suing President Obama for the president's executive overreach, but until Thursday he had not specified what specifically he planned to challenge. Though many were speculating it would revolve around president's recent use of executive orders, a leadership aide said the president's actions to delay the employer mandate went further than issuing an executive order.
"The president likes to create straw men. We aren't arguing that the president shouldn't be able to issue executive orders; all presidents can and should be able to do that," a leadership aide said. "We're arguing that the president shouldn't be able to make his own laws, as he did in the case of the suspension of the employer mandate. It's a very important distinction, a point that Boehner made today."
Related: Obamacare Mandate: My Whim Is My Command
The decision for Republicans to target the delay of the employer mandate is interesting since overturning the delay would speed up implementation of a major provision of Obamacare—the law the GOP has worked so hard to try to undermine.
Still, Boehner said the lawsuit was "borne out of "an obligation to stand up for the Legislative Branch."
After the administration announced the first delay to the mandate last summer, House Republicans held their own vote to delay the mandate as a political stunt to show their displeasure with the administration for going around Congress.
"The idea that the president can merely go out there and make a decision about what he's going to enforce and he isn't going to enforce is fundamentally wrong," Boehner said at the time.
Related: Drop Obamacare's Employer Mandate, Lose $149 Billion
President Obama laughed off Boehner's lawsuit.
"You're going to sue me for doing my job?" Obama asked during a speech in Austin, Texas. "OK. I mean, think about that. You're going to use taxpayer money to sue me for doing my job — while you don't do your job."
Democrats are parroting Obama's remarks—accusing Boehner and Republicans of wasting tax dollars on the lawsuit.
"They've wasted billions of taxpayer dollars forcing a downgrade of the U.S. economy and a shutdown of the federal government, and now, after wasting millions defending discrimination in the federal courts, the resolution unveiled tonight would authorize hiring more partisan lawyers for yet another legal boondoggle doomed to fail," Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said.
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Brianna Ehley is the former Washington Correspondent for The Fiscal Times. She is currently a reporter on Politico's health care team in Washington, D.C.

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Q: How to use SLF4J in Wildfly JMS client? I wrote a simple JMS 2.0 client that is based on the Wildfly 10 JMS client libraries. When using SLF4J I get the following well-known error message:
SLF4J: Failed to load class "org.slf4j.impl.StaticLoggerBinder".
SLF4J: Defaulting to no-operation (NOP) logger implementation
SLF4J: See http://www.slf4j.org/codes.html#StaticLoggerBinder for further details.

This usually indicates that a SLF4J bridge is missing. I observed that the maven dependency wilfly-jms-client-bom:10.0.0.0.Final also includes the dependencies slf4j-api:1.7.7.jbossorg-1 and jcl-over-slf4j:1.7.7.jbossorg-1. Although these dependencies should find their way to the classpath I get the before mentioned error.
SLFJ is also used by Wildfly components. My problem originated in a JNDI lookup for the remote JMS connection factory
ConnectionFactory connectionFactory =
  (ConnectionFactory) namingContext.lookup("jms/RemoteConnectionFactory");

The described behavior can also be observed in the Wildfly quick starter example helloworld-jms.
Below you can find the program and the corresponding pom.xml that reproduces the error (the complete maven project can be downloaded from here).
public class JmsClient {

  public static void main(String[] args) {
    org.slf4j.Logger logger = org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.getLogger(JmsClient.class);
    logger.trace("Hello");
  }
}

pom.xml:
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">

    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <groupId>samples-jms</groupId>
    <artifactId>hello-jms</artifactId>
    <version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <packaging>jar</packaging>

    <properties>
        <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
        <version.wildfly>10.0.0.Final</version.wildfly>
        <version.wildfly.maven.plugin>1.0.2.Final</version.wildfly.maven.plugin>
        <version.jar.plugin>2.2</version.jar.plugin>
        <version.exec.plugin>1.2.1</version.exec.plugin>

        <maven.compiler.target>1.8</maven.compiler.target>
        <maven.compiler.source>1.8</maven.compiler.source>
    </properties>

    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.wildfly</groupId>
            <artifactId>wildfly-jms-client-bom</artifactId>
            <version>${version.wildfly}</version>
            <type>pom</type>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>

    <build>
        <finalName>${project.artifactId}</finalName>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
                <artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>${version.exec.plugin}</version>
                <configuration>
                    <mainClass>samples.jms.JmsClient</mainClass>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>${version.jar.plugin}</version>
                <configuration>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.wildfly.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>wildfly-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>${version.wildfly.maven.plugin}</version>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>
</project>

A: Well there is just the slf4j-api on the classpath, but no implementation.
jcl-over-slf4j:1.7.7.jbossorg-1 does not help you as it is a replacement for Jakarta Commons Logging. Just add a binding, such as logback (and use logger.info(), not trace)
    <dependency>
        <groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId>
        <artifactId>logback-classic</artifactId>
        <version>1.1.6</version>
    </dependency>

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Stripes are always in fashion, just in different styles. As I talked about back in October, stripes this SS17 season should be in the shape of color blocking. Color blocking is favorably done in contrasting shades to get the maximum effect. It's also a plus to go for the color blocking print for clothing pieces with a bigger "surface". With that said, the blocks will pop better if you go for an oversized sweater, a maxi dress, midi dress, maxi skirt or any surface where the stripes be highly visible. Red, black and white feels like the ultimate combination as the three have been trending for quite some time now.
I should really have an Oscar for not mentioning the 1980s trend these past weeks. We know it was The Fashion Folks middle name for a while. Anyways. The 1980s is still fetch happening and it's staying the summer too. Bold, kind of awkward, colors in one look. Comfortably done in a jumpsuit or a maxi dress to keep things simple. Lavender purple, Klein blue, blush pink and mint green are few of those going strong. If you want to top the 1980s feeling go for an oversized blazer and embrace the empowered look. Read more about the 1980s fashion here.
What else is a summer without some flower power power? The floral prints are not groundbreaking but a matter of stripes, they are constant but change continuously. This summer, the floral prints feels quite retro and comes with a touch of history. Spanning from the Arts & Crafts Movement to the 70s, the prints are heavy, dark and dramatic. I must say I'm fond of this contrast as floral prints for summer are usually lightweight and sophisticated, but here we're talking dark colors as black, navy, forest green and brown. These are often the base of the print and are contrasted with poppin' colors as bold orange, pink, yellow and red.
I know, the definition of a statement is something that differs from the ordinary. The definition of bold is also something that differs from the ordinary. So, writing "bold statement lips" might be confusing as it's basically the same thing twice. BUT, the lip statement this summer is really a bold one. The colors are not your regular red, but your metallic, lavender, mint blue or dark burgundy. It's a statement and it's bold. As the regular beauty rule goes: keep the rest of the makeup rather basic if you want to stay on the safe side. There's also something peculiarly striking with a neutral makeup look and forceful painted lips. The contrast is pretty magical if I may say so.
I wrote about the smudgy eyes the first time back in October. Then I wrote about them again in this post. Then I mentioned them a third time in this post. Every time, I did so with the intention of wanting to work the look more often. Well, I haven't. I've mainly gone for it in the regular "my eyeliner is falling down and I'm going for a refined raccoon look". Right, end of story. For summer 2017, the look trending is mainly about a smokey eyeshadow framing the eyes. Not as in completely black, but a more faded black, grey, brown or midnight blue. So just take that eyeshadow of yours and blend it favorably around the eyes.
Folks! I should really begin talking more about nails and nail design, as I'm obsessed. Just take a look at my Pinterest board, how fun and artsy aren't all of them? Artsy nails are in fact what's trending this summer. Splashes of colors that looks like a water brush stroke or anything similar. Go for a one-colored base and paint small, random and irregular strokes over the nails. You can also stick to the safe side and do a french manicure but in a statement color. Another working, foolproof, way of going for the splash of color is to do a stripe pattern or dots. Just make them pop!
Yes to Bold Statement Lips for the summer and Splash of color. I love those nails and nail design; how cool are they?
These trends are amazing. Thanks for sharing!
Cheers to smudgy eyes – I can never get enough!
I think I love the flower power and stripes on stripes trends the most.
Statement lips is definitely one of my favourite trends!
You're right about this being an exciting one, looking at present and upcoming trends can be SO much fun! I'm all for stripes and I'm definitely on board for flower power throughout this season; it always matches the weather beautifully, y'know?!
I definitely want to give the bold monochromatic trend a go. I think it would be perfect to try on vacation and have been wanting to try something in yellow. Yellow is definitely not a colour I would typically wear but I'm feeling bold =P. I've seen the smudgy eye trend and I don't think I could pull it off. I feel like it will look like I just fell asleep and forgot to properly remove my makeup lol.
Elie Saab designs are flawless!
So many gorgeous trends! Loving the splash of color for summer!
It's like you're in my head. I've had oversized blazers on the brain for a couple of weeks now. It's my current favorite detail. Bring on the 80's.
I hope you have a lovely week Mia!
I love the way you describe how stripes and florals trend each season. They are indeed classics that will never go out of style, yet every season, we see a fresh take on both. That said, you've gotten me so excited about trying to find a bold striped maxi dress! I'm thinking something with all the primary colors that will reflect the 80s and early 90s, wish me luck with that, lol. I also love monochromatic looks and their 90s vibe, too. They're so easy to create, yet they give off such a powerful vibe. Thanks so much for sharing, beautiful, and I hope you're having the best start to your week so far!
Yay, I always love your trend recaps for the season!
I love all the of the fun colors and color combos I am seeing on the runways! It a nice break from black!
I love stripes on strips and mixing prints. And colorblocking is so much fun too. Great trends for summer. i really need water brushed nails!


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Q: Python + Selenium -- Print out text In Selenium I want to print out a span element called:

    23,849,000

I need to print out "23,849,000".
I have tried this, but it doesn't seem to work:
print driver.find_element_by_xpath('''//*[@id="Col1-1-Financials-Proxy"]''').text

If you know a solution that might help, I would really appreciate your help as I don't know the answer.

A: Required value generated dynamically, so you need to wait until it appeared in DOM:
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait as wait

print(wait(driver, 10).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//span[@data-reactid='61']"))).text)

A: try with :
driver.find_element_by_xpath('.//div[@class="Fw(b) Fz(s) Ta(end) Pb(20px)"]')

You need to specify the correct path to reach the text inside span

A: To print the span element as per the given HTML you can use the following line of code :
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
# code block
print(WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//*[@id='Col1-1-Financials-Proxy']//td[@class='Fw(b) Fz(s) Ta(end) Pb(20px)']//following::span[1]"))).get_attribute("innerHTML"))


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Understanding Transport Economics
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Transport economics is one of the most interesting courses I underwent as a university undergraduate in the department of Transport Planning and Management. It is a comprehensive economic knowledge that focuses on efficient transport operation with less expenditure in order to strengthen the nation's economy. Transport history reveals that transport, as it were, is as old as the existence of man's creation on earth. Then, the personal and biological responsibility of man to search for his needs, mostly his daily food, could not be fully realized without an element of transport for his mobility; and the only relevant means of transport then was walking. Till now, walking still remains an indispensable and unique means of mobility. Truly speaking, it is difficult, if not impossible, to see a man who would engage in any activity without walking or without the use of any transport element. 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However, it is noteworthy that transport economics is that branch of economics that provides strategic solution to these problems. In order to gain maximum benefits from the transport sector and its operations, transport economics provide optimal economic management techniques to transport operations, organizational decision making, freight and passenger transportation, scientific organization of labour and wages, economic methods for measuring expenditures and economic impact or results in transport operation, etc. to the operation of all transport modes. These include rail transport, air transport, maritime transport, river transport, road transport and pipelines transport. Transport economics is the area of economic knowledge designed to improve transportation. Transport economics experts develop scientific transport recommendations that can be extensively used to solve important transport problems and also help to relieve the transport system or sector of excessive work with little impact. Importance of Transport Economics and Skills
Transport economics experts acquire the ability to collect, analyze, organize and critically evaluate information pertaining to the transport industry.
Experts in transport economics also acquire the ability to identify and solve transport issues through creative thinking.
Transport economics experts are trained to evaluate economic policies that affect the transport sector.
Transport economics helps to understand political barriers that can inhibit transport operations.
Transport economics also contribute to economic development of a nation through job creation.
Transport economics makes economic activities possible through the efficient use of transport and also serves as a branch of economic knowledge to boost transport operations.
Transport economics can be used to support full multimodal transport operations and to also enhance transport capital development projects such as ports, rail track network, railway stations, among others.
Transport economics experts are equipped with training, skills and experience which enable them to identify the best measures to achieve certain transport goals or targets.
Transport economics ensures that the comprehensive benefits of transport investment accrues to all transport users rather than only direct users which has been the common practice in some transport sectors with a limited focus that ignores many potential benefits for transport users or transport service consumers at large.
It is important to stress that transport economics as a branch of knowledge in the field of economics is also designed to provide transport support to other economic branches of knowledge like Industrial Economics, Agricultural Economics, Health Economics, Labour Economics, etc. Hence the saying, 'The thumb is a little finger that touches the other fingers'. Indeed, transport economics is a thumb that touches other areas of economic knowledge for efficiency.
Transport economics unit in any organization may also be concerned with providing reliable measures supported by quality data gathered to provide a sound basis for decision-making.
Transport economics unit can also undertake the task of combining and comparing results from different economic evaluation and estimation techniques so as to use as a tool for proper transport operation planning and management.
Transport economics unit can be saddled with the responsibility of conducting economic analysis of transport impacts and cost benefits assessment from types of investments made on transportation as well as measuring the effects on transport users.
In conclusion, transport infrastructure and transport providers are two key important factors for the transport sector to function. However, due to the increase in demand for transport services, there is also an increase in problems associated with transport services such as congestion, pollution, road accident, rail collision, rail derailment, cargo delay, etc. Therefore, the need to understand and to satisfy the high demand for transport services while reducing the expenditures and its associated risks to the barest minimum makes transport economics to remain most crucial.
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YouTube has announced they will be bringing the untold story of one of Hip-Hop's iconic and influential sub-genres G-Funk.
The popular video streaming platform acquired the highly-anticipated music documentary G-Funk: The Untold Story of Warren G and How Hip-Hop's Most Iconic Sub-Genre Came To Be. It will be told through the eyes of Warren G who is the pioneer of the sub-genre. The film focuses on Warren G, Snoop Dogg and the late Nate Dogg's rise to international fame in the Early 90's.
It will feature never-before-seen footage and interviews with Snoop Dogg, Chuck D, Ice Cube, Ice T, Too Short, The D.O.C., Wiz Khalifa, and more as they talk about Warren G's story and G-Funk's cultural impact.
Earlier in the month, Warren G recently held an advanced screening of the G-Funk at the American Black Film Festival in Miami Beach, Florida. G-Funk marks the directorial debut for 24-year-old filmmaker Karam Gill, and the "Regulate" rapper serves as a producer on the film. G-Funk premiers under the YouTube Originals banner on July 11, 2018, exclusively on YouTube Premium.


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Liberal student groups should have shown support for YAF after anti-Muslim poster incident
By Henry Bartman Sep 28, 2017 2:23 AM
The liberal bias of GW has long been a topic of contention and debate on campus. The overwhelming liberalness of student organizations and faculty members creates an uncomfortable environment for students who don't subscribe to the same beliefs. Although the political and activist atmosphere of the University is why many students — including someone like me who identifies with the center-left — decided to come to the nation's capital, GW has a long way to go to ensure diversity of thought among the student body. The division was exacerbated earlier this month when disgusting, Islamophobic posters depicting Muslims as having "lasers in their eyes" and "Peg legs for smuggling children" were placed around campus.
These posters attempted to frame the conservative student group, Young America's Foundation, for creating and hanging them. This act is yet another example of the ostracization of conservatives on campus. The same posters were also posted on campus and pinned to YAF in 2007. YAF should feel as accepted and included on campus as the plethora of pro-choice, progressive and liberal campus organizations. Liberal groups need to stand with conservatives when they are unfairly attacked by sending messages of support and solidarity, and the University must make it clear through actions and strongly worded statements that they do not tolerate attempts of any kind to silence political groups for their legitimate views.
Demonstrations, statements and articles from liberals would have all been welcome pathways to reaching out.
After an incident like this, words matter. YAF's GW chapter asked the administration to "finally take a stand for conservative students who are continually the targets of acts of harassment, vandalism and defamation from liberal students." National YAF forcefully condemned the denigration of a religion to make a political point in a statement on their social media accounts, noting that "once again, the only hate on GW's campus is coming from the left."
This, of course, is not the whole truth. Hate exists on all sides of the political spectrum and this was certainly not the moment for political attacks. But the statement condemning the islamophobic posters highlighting the lack of conservative empowerment on campus and asking University administrators to more forcefully advocate their interests does have a less overtly political tone. But an even more effective message following this incident would have been a joint statement between liberal and conservative groups condemning the posters and standing up for political expression without expressing hate against the other side.
Administrators had searing words of condemnation for the vandals, saying in a statement that students should work to make others feel safe on campus and should respect others regardless of their political opinions. But no such words can be attributed to College Democrats, Progressive Student Union, the Feminist Student Union or any other left-leaning group on campus. The silence from groups that pride themselves on standing up for minorities against attacks from President Donald Trump have suddenly fell silent when the same attacks are levied against conservatives.
This silence is deafening. I cannot think of a more powerful symbol of unity and cohesion than if liberals had stood up as strongly as YAF did and condemned these posters as strongly as their conservative adversaries. Demonstrations, statements and articles from liberals would have all been welcome pathways to reaching out, regardless of whether these groups were directly responsible, but instead what we got was nothing. This lack of response can be seen in no other way than complicit support for attacks on conservatives. Simply reaching out with messages of support would have gone a long way in mending the divide and showing right-leaning students that they are welcome.
Despite our ideological divides, incidents such as religious attacks on fellow students certainly merit a unified and coherent response.
Administrators also have a critical role to play in this regard. The lack of concrete action, outside of a simple statement, to foster a more open and comfortable campus culture for all students after these posters were removed demonstrates the intrinsic foreignness of conservatives on campus. One statement posted online does little to ensure students that the University will never stand for attacks against others. GW should have focused more on the overtly political nature of these attacks and reached out to conservative groups for input on how to move forward. There could have been panels with students from all sides to discuss ways to create a more welcoming environment, in addition to the bipartisan panels the school already hosts. This would also be a way to ensure that professors, who should attend these panels as well, are more receptive to new ideologies, which would truly create a new kind of campus culture.
Despite our ideological divides, incidents such as religious attacks on fellow students certainly merit a unified and coherent response. The national YAF shouldn't have used this instance to attack liberals to score political points. At the same time, liberal students should have remembered what a truly liberal society looks like: a world in which everyone is free to profess beliefs and be safe from violent retribution for doing so.
Henry Bartman, a freshman majoring in political science, is a Hatchet opinions writer.
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This article appeared in the September 28, 2017 issue of the Hatchet.


Located within a stroll of the waters of Toowoon Bay, The Bay Café is a favourite with locals for serving fresh seafood from their welcoming venue on Bay Road. Enter to discover a contemporary vibe styled with polished wood floors, a vibrant red feature wall, high back leather chairs and black and white photography hung on the walls, creating a modern dining space, ideal for celebrating any occasion; which sees the café at capacity most weekends, making bookings essential. Offering a Mod Oz menu with tastes of outback Australia, perhaps try a platter of kangaroo fillet, barramundi, emu fillet, crocodile and char-grilled scampi; or prawn fantasia with six different styles of prawns and fresh fruit. Indulge in a divine dessert of death by chocolate mud cake, mousse and ice cream to finish.
Christmas Parties at The Bay Café are a fun way to celebrate with friends and family. The restaurant is decorated for Christmas to help you relax and enjoy the festive season with great food and friendly staff to look after you and your guests.
Peter Mortimer has been the owner chef at The Bay Cafe for more than 16 years. Over the years this restaurant has become a local favourite and is also very popular with visitors to the area. Specialising in Fresh Seafood, including Seafood Platters for 2, Prawn Fantasia and Outback food. As well as offering a large al a carte menu and childrens menu. Set Menus are also available, corkage charge is only $2.00 per person which makes it a simple way to organise a group booking with no fuss. We also have a 2 course or 3 course set menu available anytime except Saturday nights that is excellent value and very popular. The Bay Cafe is Open for Lunch from Thursday through to Sunday offering a relaxed atmosphere to enjoy a lunch with friends and family. Open 7 nights from 6pm. Please phone for a reservation anytime as we are are always available to take your call.
The Bay offers a choice of Set Menus catering for small functions, special occassions and intimate wedding receptions. Saturday and Sunday Lunch functions are popular for family get togethers marking special events like Birthdays and Anniversaries.


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Odessa's history is nothing if not rich; its initial founding was in 1881, though it was only incorporated in 1927. Another one of the main factors that draw people toward Odessa is the fact that former president George H. W. Bush and former first lady Barbara Bush made it their home.
A combination of the interesting designs and the incredible natural landscape make Odessa truly a beautiful place to live and work. You can even find a replica of Stonehenge at the University of Texas in Odessa. No matter what you're hoping to use it for, Odessa is certainly a treasure of Texas.
Legally, Odessa is not yet 100 years old, but its first post office opened way back in 1885. That means it has dramatically more than 100 years of history behind it and more than 100 years of architecture to draw on.
Of course, regardless of how old a building is, every building is going to need a certain amount of upkeep. Don't think that you'll be able to avoid upkeep entirely just because you're planning to move your business into a modern building.
You should definitely put more thought into the structural stability of a historic building than a modern building. It's much more common for historical buildings to have structural concerns, but if you manage those, you can put a lot of emphasis on the external beauty.
Don't assume that modern buildings have no structural problems, however. Modern buildings can still have pretty significant issues with structural concerns. As long as you're maintaining any potential structural problems, you can focus your attention on the outside of the building with no problem.
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Garmin forerunner 220 vs Polar M600 - Compare fitness trackers.
The Garmin forerunner 220 is in the high-price range whereas the Polar M600 is in the -price range and the Garmin forerunner 220 was released in 2013; the Polar M600 arrived in the market in 2016.
Both trackers measure the calories you burn every day.The Polar M600 is made for cycling but the Garmin forerunner 220 is not, and both watches measure the distance you run or walk, and both trackers can measure your heart rate.


Does the United Kingdom favour a specific constituent country?
Do England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland all get their fair share? Unlike in sporting events such as Football and Rugby, the countries are all represented as the United Kingdom by the BBC at Eurovision. So, what are the statistics for the UK constituent countries when it comes to being represented at the contest?
The United Kingdom is one of the most populous countries in Europe, with a population of over 65 million. It is made up of four constituent countries: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. These countries have contributed to the success of the UK's ever-expanding music business and has made it the second largest exporter of music (per capita) in the world.
Consequently, it is no surprise that the United Kingdom has had a very successful relationship with the Eurovision Song Contest, in which they have finished in the Top 3 on no less than twenty three occasions.
The Island Nation was always a force to be reckoned with when it came to sending big artists and/or chart worthy music. Now, in recent years, we may wonder if this is the same country, as they have not been able to emulate their success from the 60's to the late 90's. But does it matter if you were born in a specific UK country? Would that help you achieve a better result on the Eurovision stage, and does the United Kingdom favour one nationality over the others?
To make this an accurate report, population is set at 60.35 million (the average of 1971 and 2011 populations according to census data).
In a perfect world, we would expect that each country's population percentage would correspond with it representation in Eurovision. But further analysis of this suggests that it is not as straightforward as that, and not all participants were even born or raised in the UK with singers from Australia, USA and Germany representing the country over the years.
To those mathematicians out there, it may seem as if the chart doesn't add up to 100%, and you would be right. This is because many of the acts that have represented the United Kingdom have been duets or groups, consisting of more than one Nationality, for example New Seekers in 1972 and Joe & Jake in 2016. Therefore we have had to accommodate for that.
There are many noteworthy conclusions we can make from this chart. England as a country is under represented at Eurovision when it comes to singers. While both Wales and Northern Ireland have sent more than their fair share of performers to the contest. Scotland is slightly under-represented in the contest, but in comparison to that of England, they are more evenly represented.
What is interesting is that most of UK's victories come from English and Scottish singers, the two countries under represented. No Northern Irish representative has ever reached the top three, yet, both Ronnie Carroll and Clodagh Rogers finished fourth on all three occasions.
Does United Kingdom favour a specific country? Yes! Wales has been better represented in the contest in comparison to the other three countries. Is this a surprise for many living in the UK? Not really. For many years, Welsh people have been known for their amazing singing ability, with fantastic local talent, such as Shirley Bassey, Tom Jones cementing this belief. Even 2013 representative, Bonnie Tyler, became an international sensation in the early 1980s with her power ballad Total Eclipse of the Heart.
Although it isn't a sure-fire guarantee that a Welsh performer will provide United Kingdom with a good result, and Wales can only lay claim to one victory in 1976 (Nicky Stevens providing vocals as part of Brotherhood of May), it does seem that UK like to provide more opportunity for this principality to show their musical credentials. How apt it is then, that this year's contest saw Cardiff, the Welsh capital, born Lucie Jones perform her emotive ballad, Never Give Up On You in Kyiv, giving United Kingdom its best placing in 6 years.
Is their next winner going to be a Welsh singer? Who knows, but the odds are in their favour.


Sometimes it is difficult to learn new techniques or to enjoy the dance, because of problems with posture or basic techniques. A private class can really make a difference here. You will work together intensely with one teacher and learn a lot in a short time.
We also can investigate special topics, such as: 'dancing to the music'; 'freedom in leading and following'; 'dancing without effort'; 'connection with yourself and the other'.
Both Paras and Paul offer private classes at both leaders and followers, single or as couple. We always ask you what you want from the private class and will stimulate you to practice.
Next to incidental private classes we, also offer longer series of classes, Tango Coaching, to help you really develop your dancing and take it to the next level.
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PRACE aisbl and its Members collaborate in PRACE-4IP, the Fourth PRACE Implementation Phase project co-ordinated by Forschungzentrum Jülich (JUELICH) on behalf of PRACE aisbl. PRACE-4IP is designed to build on and seamlessly continue the successes of the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) and start new innovative and collaborative activities. These include: assisting the transition to PRACE 2; strengthening the internationally recognised PRACE brand; preparing strategies and best practices towards exascale computing, coordinating and enhancing the operation of the multi-tier HPC systems and services, and supporting and educating users to exploit massively parallel systems and novel architectures.
Ensure long-term sustainability of the infrastructure. The project will assist the PRACE Research Infrastructure (PRACE RI) in managing the transition from the business model used in the Initial Period (2010-2015), where it demonstrated the case for a European HPC research infrastructure relying on the strong engagement of four hosting partners (BSC representing Spain, CINECA representing Italy, GCS representing Germany and GENCI representing France) who funded and deployed the petaflop/s systems used by PRACE RI.
Promote Europe's leadership in HPC applications. Scientific and engineering modelling and simulation require capabilities of supercomputers. The project will enable application codes for PRACE leadership platforms and prepare for future systems, notably those with architectural innovation embodied in accelerators or co-processors, by investigating new programming tools and developing suitable benchmarks.
Increase European human resources skilled in HPC and HPC applications. The project will contribute by organizing highly visible events, enhancing the state of the art training provided by the PRACE Advanced Training Centres (PATCs), targeting both the academic and industrial domains. On-line training will be improved and a pilot will assess a Massively open online Course (MooC).
Support a balanced eco-system of HPC resources for Europe's researchers. The project will contribute to this objective through tasks addressing: a) the improvement of PRACE operations; b) the prototyping of new services including "urgent computing", the visualization of extreme size computational data, and the provision of repositories for open source scientific libraries. Links will be established with other e-infrastructures and the Centres of Excellence which will be created in Horizon 2020. The existing international collaborations will be extended.
Evaluate new technologies and support Europe's path for using ExaFlop/s resources. The project will extend its market watch and evaluation based on user requirements, study best practices for energy-efficiency and lower environmental impact throughout the life cycle of large HPC infrastructures and define best practices for prototype planning and evaluation. This will contribute to solve a wide range of technological, architectural and programming challenges for the exaflop/s area.
Disseminate effectively the PRACE results. This targets engaging European scientists and engineers in the wider utilisation of high end HPC. The project will continue to organise well known events like PRACEdays, Summer of HPC and the International HPC Summer School in order to promote and support innovative scientific approaches in modelling, simulation and data-analysis. With the extended presence at conferences (e.g. SC, ISC or ICT) the project is seeking wider support of the general public for HPC, in particular by illustrating success stories.


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Discover Grande Saline
The Great Saltwork of Salins-les-Bains
1200 years of salt history
From the 8th century to 1962, the Great Saltowrks of Salins-les-Bains has used natural salty waters as raw material to make salt. The presence of salty waters in Salins-les-Bains is explained by the existence of a sea, which covered Jura 210 millions years ago. The salt remaining after the evaporation of this prehistoric sea became a rock, called rock salt, lying today at 246 meters depth. The rainwaters infiltrating the underground became salty through contact with rock salt and the, by pressure, rose up naturally on surface to give birth to salty springs.
The salt, called "white gold", was obtained by evaporation, using an artificial source of heat (wood, and from the 19th century coal).
Salins-les-Bains owned its reputation and its power from the Middle Ages on the salt exploitation which lasted during 1200 years. The city represented the half of the region's income et even became the second town of the region Franche-Comté.
In 1775, the Royal Saltwork of Arc-et-Senans were built by the architect Claude Nicolas Ledoux, at the edge of the Chaux Forest (3rd largest hardwood forest in France) to increase the local production. It worked as complementary to the saltwork of Salins-les-Bains, being supplied by wooden pipes 21 kilometers long in which circulated the less salty waters of Salins. Due to the lack of profitabily, the saltwork of Arc-et-Senans closed in 1895.
In 1962, the Saltworks of Salins-les-Bains closed, after 1200 years of production because of a lack of profitability and modernisation, an evolution of the food preservation technics and especially, because of the competition with mines and salt marshes.
Since 1966, the Great Saltwork is the property of Salins-les-Bains's municipality.
Its history, its technicals installations still functionning, its incredible subterranean architecture, make of the Great Saltwork of Salins-les-Bains a site unique in Europe and one of the jewels of the heritage in Franche-Comté.
Awards and Accolades.
The Saltworks of Salins-les-Bains played a crucial part in the history of the city and its region. This major site of industrial heritage in Franche-Comté also benefits from several national and international recognitions.
In 1971, the Great Saltwork obtained its first recognition with the inscription of the subterranean gallery to the Historical Monument. It became one of the first industrial site recognized in France.In 1984, it get the "Grand Prix" of Heritage.
The Great Saltwork of Salins-les-Bains was registered on the 27th of June, 2009, on the Unesco World Heritage list, in extension to the Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans (registered in 1982). You can access the webpage of both saltworks by clicking on the Unesco website here : http://whc.unesco.org/fr/list/203.
Since the 8th of December, 2009, and to ensure consistency, all the buildings belonging to the Great Saltwork of Salins-les-Bains have been listed as Historical Monument.
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The findings of a survey released today (Tuesday) by the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) shows that businesses, smaller firms in particular, need more support to trade with high-growth markets. The survey of more than 8,000 businesses suggests that UK exports are held back by a focus on traditional or mature markets at the expense of larger, faster-growing economies. The EU remains the most popular destination for exports. When asked where they export to, 88% of respondents sell their products or services to the EU. This compares to 47% of businesses that export to BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China), and 55% to other Asian and Middle-Eastern markets such as Thailand and Saudi Arabia. However, while nearly three-quarters (73%) of large firms trade with BRIC countries, only a third (32%) of micro firms do business in these fast-growing markets.
The survey also asked exporters where they see the greatest opportunities for growth in the next twelve months. Two-thirds (67%) of large exporters see the BRIC economies as providing the most export growth, but this falls to around half (49%) among medium-sized firms, and a third (33%) of micros. More smaller businesses believed that the EU offers the greatest opportunities for export growth (56%).
The results showed businesses that belong to an international group or supply chain are 50% more likely to see growth opportunities in the fastest-growing, emerging economies, than those that don't. The transport, manufacturing and education sectors are the most enthusiastic about opportunities for growth in developing economies.
Export sales among UK firms are hindered by several barriers, from languages and cultural differences to overseas public sector procurement rules. Overall, regulation and export tariffs top the list of barriers for exporters. Those trading in Africa quote political risk as the biggest concern.
Better targeted support for exporters to access the fastest-growing markets: Businesses that export to the fastest-growing markets are the most likely to encounter barriers that hold back sales. This partly explains why there is a size divide in these markets – smaller businesses have fewer resources to overcome these obstacles. As it seeks to expand its reach from 25,000 to 50,000 SMEs over the coming months, UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) and its partners must work to address the reticence of some sectors and size groups to consider trading in new markets. Targeted support, such as sharing practice on foreign bureaucracy and introductions into new markets, is crucial in helping companies access high-growth BRIC countries.
Open up new markets through free trade agreements: There is a clear relationship between the volume of UK exports to overseas markets, and the formal legal agreements that underpin trade. SMEs in particular, which lack the resources of larger companies, would benefit from breaking down the tariffs and bureaucracy of markets that are not currently covered by free trade agreements with the EU. The government should look to create bilateral free trade agreements with India and Japan and further liberalise trade with the United States.
Re-establish foreign languages as core subjects within the UK national curriculum and in workplace training: Differences in language and culture are seen as important barriers to entering fast-growing markets like the BRICs, Asia and the Middle East. The National Curriculum must be revised so that studying a foreign language is compulsory until AS level, and incentives such as tax credits for small and medium-sized businesses introduced for those firms that make a significant investment in language training.
"More and more UK businesses are taking their goods and services overseas, but many still face obstacles when trading internationally. Smaller firms in particular can find it difficult to break into newer, emerging markets, such as Brazil, India and China. These countries are growing more than traditional export partners like those in the eurozone, and so present real opportunities for businesses. However, small firms often lack the resource of larger firms, which is why they need more support to break into new markets. The government must provide more targeted help and advice for smaller firms to help them take their first step in trading with these fast-growing economies.


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Bill O'Reilly Compares #BlackLivesMatter to Nazis, Cuts Microphone of Supporter
"Would you be comfortable with the Republican party bringing in the Stormfront, the Nazi people, and saying we'd like our candidates to talk to you guys?" Fox News host asks
Jordan Chariton | October 23, 2015 @ 5:40 AM	Last Updated: October 23, 2015 @ 6:32 AM
Bill O'Reilly continued his crusade against the #BlackLivesMatter movement on Thursday, cutting the microphone of one of its supporters and invoking the Nazis in comparison to the civil rights group.
O'Reilly expressed his dismay that the Democratic Party would host a candidates forum sponsored by Black Lives Matter. Keith Boykin, an advocate for the group, disputed O'Reilly's notion that members of the group want cops targeted and killed.
The two started talking over one another, causing O'Reilly to threaten him. "You're either going to stop talking or I'm going to cut your mic off," he said.
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O'Reilly then followed through, cutting his microphone and moving on to another guest, saying #BlackLivesMatter is a radical group on the same level as Nazis.
"Would you be comfortable with the Republican party bringing in the Stormfront, the Nazi people, and saying we'd like our candidates to talk to you guys?… They're an extreme group, the Nazi party. #BlackLivesMatter is also an extreme group."
Also Read: TV One's Roland Martin Tells Bill O'Reilly to 'Shut The Hell Up' About #BlackLivesMatter (Video)
Boykin called O'Reilly's comparison offensive; O'Reilly concluded that the movement is a "radical group that calls for violence against police officers — we have proven that."
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Hammon is the NBA's first female assistant coach and now will be the first woman to interview for a head-coaching job in the league.
Hammon isn't considered a frontline candidate on a Bucks list that includes at least 10 possible candidates, but Milwaukee ownership and general manager Jon Horst were intrigued enough to ask the Spurs for permission to speak with her.
An assistant spot under Popovich is about as strong a resumé highlight as you can find in basketball coaching. In fact, the favorite for the Bucks job—Mike Budenholzer, who is set to move on from the Atlanta Hawks—is another candidate from out of the Popovich coaching tree; Ettore Messina, another current San Antonio assistant and the man who helmed the Spurs during Popovich's absence in these playoffs, will reportedly also interview for the Bucks job.
Plenty of assistant coaches get onto this path and never reach the end (just ask Patrick Ewing), but Hammon's pedigree in basketball and coaching is unimpeachable, and she's acing the same apprenticeship that once made Budenholzer—who never played professional basketball and started his coaching career as a video coordinator—a hot commodity as a rising head coach candidate. That she's gotten this interview means the question of her someday becoming an NBA head coach should be framed in terms of when, and not if.


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Gómez, Jorge Marx and Tran Duc. "A Personalized Portal on the Basis of Semantic Models and Rules." Emerging Topics and Technologies in Information Systems. IGI Global, 2009. 153-164. Web. 15 Jul. 2019. doi:10.4018/978-1-60566-222-0.ch008
Gómez, J. M., & Duc, T. (2009). A Personalized Portal on the Basis of Semantic Models and Rules. In M. Lytras, & P. Ordóñez de Pablos (Eds.), Emerging Topics and Technologies in Information Systems (pp. 153-164). Hershey, PA: IGI Global. doi:10.4018/978-1-60566-222-0.ch008
Gómez, Jorge Marx and Tran Duc. "A Personalized Portal on the Basis of Semantic Models and Rules." In Emerging Topics and Technologies in Information Systems, ed. Miltiadis D. Lytras and Patricia Ordóñez de Pablos, 153-164 (2009), accessed July 15, 2019. doi:10.4018/978-1-60566-222-0.ch008
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A Personalized Portal on the Basis of Semantic Models and Rules
Jorge Marx Gómez (Oldenburg University, Germany) and Tran Duc (Karlsruhe University, Germany)
Source Title: Emerging Topics and Technologies in Information Systems
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-222-0.ch008
A portal is a Web-based single point of access that delivers information and applications to a user on its own and by the integration of external services. With most portals, various users in the role of customer, supplier, employee, and so forth, can configure the available content and the functionalities in their own way and access them over multitude of devices—mobile phone, PDA, and PC to name a few (Priebe; Pernul, 2003). Whereas this type of portal can be seen as an adaptable system, adaptive portals shall adapt themselves to the individual user.
In general, portal implementations resemble a multi-tier architecture. Figure 1 shows such an architecture that has been adopted from (Sun Microsystems, 2005a) and slightly modified to represent the extension with semantic data sources. Apparently, the respective tiers are the client, the data sources, and the server that can be further decomposed into a web and a domain layer.
A generic portal architecture, Source: Sun Microsystems, 2005a
The Domain Layer
In fact, the web-tier controller could implement the entire logic for model processing. However, in complex enterprise portal solution, the actual processing is rather delegated to domain components, which run on an application server. In a J2EE platform, these components are referred to as business objects that encapsulate the business logic. They are implemented as beans, e.g. entity beans, session beans and message-driven beans, which are supported by platform services such as naming, security, persistence and transaction. That is, while the components realize the specific functionalities, tasks common to all component such as the persistent storage of data, are provided by the EJB container (Sun Microsystems, 2005d).


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