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Officials shoot down claim that UC buffaloes black athletes
Will Rierson North Carolina Campus Correspondent @RiersonNC on Jul 18, 2016 at 4:35 PM EDT
The CU-Boulder athletic department is battling a growing story that black football players may have called their athletic training center "the plantation" in recent years.
The nickname was allegedly a reference to the belief of some black athletes that the men's football and basketball teams effectively subsidize athletics for "young white female[s]."
The University of Colorado at Boulder athletic department is battling a growing story that black football players may have called their athletic training center "the plantation" in recent years.
CU-Boulder Chancellor Philip DiStefano told the university system's board of regents a story Wednesday recently related to him by a black athletic department employee, Boulder's Daily Camera reports.
"I hang out with all the black people on the team and white people on the team and I've never, ever heard that."
The staff member told DiStefano that "even though the black football players and men's basketball players are getting a free education and a free ride, everything they do pays for the young white female playing tennis or on the golf team or track and field."
DiStefano said that players recently believed they were part of a plantation system—even calling the Dal Ward Athletic Center "The Plantation"—and were upset that "their sweat and tears are really for other people, not for them."
A Daily Camera reporter present at the board of regents meeting tweeted out DiStefano's story, Colorado's 9News reports, and Colorado news outlets began reporting the story and seeking comment from school officials.
When asked for comment, an athletic department spokesperson said the plantation comment was five to 10 years old and has been blown out of proportion.
As news spread that black student athletes at CU-Boulder felt they were being used, athletic department officials strongly refuted the idea. Rick George, the university athletic director, also told CU-Boulder fan site Buff Zone that the plantation comment was old news.
"I had not heard that before, and immediately when I heard that, I talked to my staff and talked to our team and talked to the staff member that those comments came from," George said. "These were comments that were made by a couple of players three or more years ago."
CU-Boulder Buffaloes football players said no one on the current team thought of their program as a plantation complex.
"I've never heard it until it was brought to my attention (Wednesday)," senior Chidobe Awuzie, who is black, told Buff Zone. "I hang out with all the black people on the team and white people on the team and I've never, ever heard that."
DiStefano said the story had been troubling him recently.
"It's one of the reasons our black athletes don't come back to campus," he said. "Whether we agree, disagree, somewhat agree, somewhat disagree, it's how they feel. To me, in all my years, it's the first time I'd heard that. And it just sticks with me, and I'm thinking, 'We gotta change something.'"
Records obtained by ABC 7 show that football and men's basketball are the only profitable sports teams at CU-Boulder. During the 2014-2015 fiscal year, the football program made $11,274,066 in profits, and the men's basketball program made $383,344.
Women's basketball, volleyball, soccer, and track & field, as well as the men's track & field team, each lost over $1 million during the year. As a whole though, the CU-Boulder athletics program record a $2.58 million profit in the 2014-2015 year.
A recent expansion and renovation project to the athletic facilities at CU-Boulder cost over $150 million, though the school's athletic department was reportedly responsible for the full cost.
DiStefano said he had been meeting with students and staff to better understand a 2014 campus climate survey that said up to 48 percent of African-American students felt undervalued. According to the survey, less than two percent of the CU-Boulder undergraduate student population is black or African-American.
Awuzie shared that he enjoyed Boulder, which embraces diversity, even if it is mostly white.
"It's just a different culture that you get used to," Awuzie stated. "It's not that there is racism or anything. We know [Boulder] is a predominately white town, and they've accepted us with open arms. We have fun there; we have a lot of friends of different colors. It's a very diversity-inclusive place, so I really like it there."
George said a diversity and inclusion plan for the university will roll out by the end of the summer.
"We talk to our student athletes about that all the time," George said. "We engage in conversation about those subjects because we do want to make sure that all of our students and student athletes have a great experience."
DiStefano released a statement the day after he told the plantation story, calling on the CU-Boulder community to "keep these conversations happening."
"I shared this story at yesterday's meeting not because I want to make people uncomfortable," the chancellor wrote. "I brought it up because we need to bring awareness to these feelings and take these issues head-on. It is important that these previously unspoken feelings be brought forward so that we can truly advance our campus to the inclusive environment we all aspire to create."
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Will Rierson is a North Carolina Campus Correspondent, and reports liberal bias and abuse on campus for Campus Reform. He currently attends the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and writes for the conservative publication, The Carolina Review.
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Students angry over Donald Trump's election took to the streets of Chapel Hill Friday, chanting "pussy grabs back" while blocking a major intersection.
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The NCAA is cancelling all post-season championship games scheduled for play in North Carolina in response to the state's controversial transgender bathroom law.
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At least 10 college football coaches reportedly admitted that they ban their players from legally owning handguns, citing university policies against campus carry and arguing that there is no need for student-athletes to own them.
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"It made me feel unsettled and unsure about the longevity and security of in my position and my job."
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Administrators at a West Virginia university are planning a wide-sweeping campus gun ban this semester, despite a recent state law making concealed carry a constitutional right.
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A Wayne State University professor who blamed the Flint, Michigan water crisis on "structural racism" and cuts in state revenue apparently based his research on faulty data.
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But how do we make these initiatives go mainstream?
Clearly, key to any large-scale transformation of one of the world's most polluting industries is getting the industry itself onboard. According to Business Green, there are encouraging signs of just such buy-in. The World Cement Association is launching a major push to ensure that, in keeping with the Paris Climate Accord, makers of cement and cement products—which currently account for about 5% of global emissions—do their part to keep climate change to "well below" two degrees of warming.
Exactly how they will do this remains to be seen, but encouragingly the effort doesn't seem to rely solely on any one "silver bullet" or yet-to-be-proven technological breakthrough. Instead, there are five key pillars to the effort which include transparency, optimal use of cement products, adoption of waste co-processing practices, new technologies and rewarding best practices. That said, the launch of the effort did stipulate that as much as 50% of the technology needed to meet this daunting challenge has yet to be fully developed—but it's encouraging to see a focus on both technological development and better optimization of technologies and techniques already in use today.


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Berg demonstrates her approach in two therapy sessions with a family. Judy is at wits end with her husband, Lou, who won't help out at home and with her daughter, Sarah, who prefers to hang out with her boyfriend instead of going to school. Sarah is sick of her mother nagging her and of the tense atmosphere at home. Lou is struggling with unemployment and admits that the family doesn't laugh anymore. Berg uses techniques to reconnect this family so that they can build on what has brought them together in the past and hear laughter in the home again.
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Horned Frogs At War
Fort Worth Baby Camp
Skiff Article From May 25, 1917
During World War I, women were an unstoppable force on the home front, proving their involvement was vital to success. This force was clear as ever in Fort Worth, Texas, where women collaborated to provide a place for sick and uncared for children. They created a Baby Camp near Texas Christian University, which originally functioned as a free hospital that eventually developed into one of the biggest children's hospitals in the area.
Two narratives about the Baby Camp's origination both involve a young Ida M. Turner and her desire to help her community. Having graduated from the Cooper Art Institute in New York, Turner taught art at Texas Wesleyan College when she changed life paths to commit herself to the Fort Worth Free Baby Hospital. She was inspired by a baby left without a family in November 1917 to establish a hospital for children just prior to the U.S. entry into World War I.[1]
The Fort Worth Free Baby Hospital officially opened on March 21, 1918, between Park Hill and TCU.[2] It accepted all children regardless of race, religion, or nationality; and no child was denied care due to lack of funds.[3] From the day the first child arrived to the hospital, children have been constantly been cared for in the Fort Worth community.
Examples of Tag Day sales to raise money for the hospital
The success of this so-called "Baby Camp" would not have been possible without the Fort Worth Federation of Women's Clubs. This group served as the primary fundraisers and organizers of the hospital's development and owned the land on which the hospital was built.[4] Elite women across the country engaged in similar programs to help the children impacted by war. For example, the Woman's Committee of the Council of National Defense established a Children's Year program in 1918 that sponsored child welfare and infant mortality measures to ensure the development of the population despite war-related deaths.[5] The TCU and Fort Worth community internalized this focus in their work at the Baby Camp, caring for future generations of citizens.
The creation of the Fort Worth Free Baby Hospital was a community effort, whose success hinged on the generosity of the people. After its original conception, Turner turned to hundreds of local individuals and companies to donate everything from stone to brick and lumber, beds and showers.[6] Monetary donations occurred most frequently through cash subscriptions and Tag Day sales, both of which helped the Baby Camp be debt free and self-sustaining after its first year.[7] TCU students helped foster this community by participating in many fundraising events and volunteering at the hospital.[8]
Original Baby Camp Building at 2400 Winton Terrace West
From its humble beginnings with just thirty beds, the Fort Worth Free Baby Hospital continuously developed to meet the demands of growing populations. Throughout the years, it added beds, floors, and relocated until it found its final home in 1985 as Cook Children's Hospital, where it still stands today.
Curator: Allie Strehle
[1] "Love, Work and Knowledge Make Baby Hospital Possible," circa 1920, unidentified newspaper, Special Collections, Cook Children's Medical Center Collection, Fort Worth Public Library, Fort Worth, Texas.
[2] "Arranging Carnival for Baby Hospital," The Skiff, October 26, 1917, Special Collections, Mary Couts Burnett Library, Texas Christian University.
[3] Virginia Salva, The Culmination of a Community's Dream: Cook-Fort Worth Children's Medical Center (Fort Worth: Texas Christian University, 1997) 3.
[4] "Children's Hospital Event Recalls History," The Fort Worth Star Telegram, October 11, 1959.
[5] Lynn Dumenil, The Second Line of Defense (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017), 73.
[6] "Fort Worth Baby Camp: Merchandise Subscriptions"; "Fort Worth Baby Camp Beds Donated", Series 2 Historical Manuscripts and Pamphlets, Box 6, Folder 22 Tarrant County Historical Society Records, Special Collections, Fort Worth Public Library, Fort Worth, Texas.
[7] "Tag Day Nets Baby Hospital $5,016, Wipes Out its Debt," undated clipping from unidentified newspaper, Cook Children's Medical Center Scrapbook, Special Collections, Fort Worth Public Library, Fort Worth, Texas.
[8] "TCU Band and Quartete Assist in Hospital Opening," The Skiff, March 22, 1918, Special Collections, Mary Couts Burnett Library, Texas Christian University.
Kimberly Jensen, Mobilizing Minerva (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2008)
This book explores how women were mobilized into military roles such as nurses and physicians and how this mobilization expedited their fight for suffrage.
Theda Skocpol, Protecting Soldiers and Mothers (Cambridge: First Harvard University Press, 1995)
This book provides a broad background of women's involvement in social welfare. Specifically, it discusses the development of a maternalist welfare state in which children are a central focus.
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HALIFAX -- For the second day in a row, hundreds turned out to be tested at a pop-up rapid testing site in Halifax on Wednesday.
On Tuesday, 600 people were screened in just six hours at the site and public health officials say they are encouraged by the response.
On Wednesday, the queue started early. By early afternoon, the lineup stretched a full city block, and then some.
"It will let us know what's actually out there hopefully, and how prolifically it's spreading around the city and hopefully give them an idea of the actual age group and who's spreading it," said Michael MacKenzie.
Earlier this week, Nova Scotia Public Health confirmed the majority of the Central Zone's new COVID-19 cases are in the 18-35 age group. For the most part, that's who was showing up to get tested.
"As much as they've gotten some bad media, people should be very grateful that this age group is actually out, standing up, waiting in line in the cold to get tested," said infectious disease specialist Dr. Lisa Barrett.
From beginning to end, the rapid test takes about 20 minutes. If positive, the person must then take the more standard COVID-19 test to confirm the result. Tuesday, one case was identified out of more than 600 tests.
Health officials are checking about 100 people an hour. They're also training volunteers to administer the test with the hope of expanding the service.
Public health reminds people who are planning on coming down to any rapid testing site to not do so if they are experiencing any COVID-19 symptoms. If you are, stay home and call 811.
The public is also encouraged to install the COVID-19 app on their phones.
"To get people updated, we have the app which will alert you if you've been to any exposure sites when there's been a case of COVID," said Jake Hatchette.
As of late Wednesday afternoon, no positive cases of COVID-19 were detected at the rapid testing site.
The queue for rapid COVID-19 testing in Halifax started early on Wednesday morning. By early afternoon, the lineup stretched a full city block and then some.
Nova Scotia reports 16 new COVID-19 cases, bumping active cases to 102


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African-American Culture, Past and Present: Some of Maryville's Favorites
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This month celebrates the rich history and culture that African-Americans have developed over the years, from music to film, to literature to politics and everything in between.
Many figures have made an impact on African-Americans and therefore, American-history, and many continue to leave their mark on the world today. With this in mind, seeing who people admire reveals much about the individual person and what they value.
By exploring this topic, we can get a true sense of the ways in which African-American figures of the past or present resonate today.
Ashley Stroman, program coordinator, Office of Diversity and Inclusion
Favorite African-American cultural figures:
Harriet Tubman (past)
Michelle Obama (present)
To Stroman, they are "role models" whose example she seeks to follow in her own life. Additionally, they are people who "give my culture hope" to keep having the characteristics they have displayed.
They also represent "to keep being resilient", as women are underrepresented. Tubman, she noted, was "a change agent", helped start the Underground Railroad to free slaves, "went against the norm of the slave mentality", and was ultimately a fearless person.
Her qualities as a leader are all ones Ms. Stroman aspires to have. Obama, meanwhile, is, to Ms. Storman, "poised" and professional when she needs to be, while also being true to herself. As she said about the former First Lady, "I don't feel like she's a person who code-switches." Obama is also a mother, African-American and leader, which Ms. Stroman can relate to and aspire to be like.
2. Kyle Conston, freshman
Barack Obama (present)
Dave Chappelle (present)
Martin Luther King, Jr. (past)
Obama is "my hero", said Conston, because he broke a barrier regarding having an African-American president and being an African-American presidential candidate. In so doing, he helped others understand, said Constant, that "I, too, can be a part of so many great things within society and the world".
Tubman, to him, had an "impactful" story as she led slaves from hardships to freedom, earning the nickname "'Moses' in her time". Constant noted that people he knows are figuratively in bondage, and so, as Tubman did, he would like to lead them out of that state.
Conston chose Chappelle because he has been able to produce humor from serious issues and is "a great public speaker." King, to Conston, "was young, but he led a movement through love that would cause nations to understand that we, as a people, deserve to have rights."
For him, the success of all these individuals means that "even in the face of oppression and adversity, I still have a chance to rise up and not only be successful, but be impactful." He added that while it is one thing to be in society and do great things, it is another to break barriers and open doors others can then walk through.
3. Kirby Cooper, junior
Jackie Robinson (past)
Cooper, a history major, said that she picked Robinson (her "all-time favorite") because of his pioneering efforts to desegregate baseball in spite of ridicule and setbacks, which allowed him to "do what he loved".
King, to her, "is a really cool figure with what he has done and the impact that he has continued to have on society even today", five decades after his death. Obama's accomplishments in office, meanwhile, are something Cooper admitted she admires.
For her, her figures and their accomplishments "opened doors for me that I wouldn't have been able to have" by fighting for their beliefs and values. She added, "Without them, who knows where we'd be?"
There are many icons of African-American culture, and while some are frequently mentioned by many, others reveal something about the character of the person who picked them. The legacy of African-Americans culturally is vast and complex, and will hopefully keep growing so that the next generation has its own models to look forward to.
Not all African-American leaders now revered were always so, as evidenced by this Gallup article explaining the evolution of public opinion about Martin Luther King, Jr.
Kyle Conston, freshman, chose Martin Luther King, Jr., Dave Chappelle, Barack Obama and Harriet Tubman as his favorite African-American cultural figures. Photo courtesy of Dylan Farmer.
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It's a whole new ride from master of fright and bestselling author R.L. Stine--with a story so fiendish that it can't be contained in just one book! Abby and Peter are staying with Uncle Jonathan in an eerie old village. Their uncle knows a lot about Egyptian pyramids, and his living room even looks like an ancient tomb. Do other secrets lurk inside Uncle Jonathan's house? MUM's the word! Next, Abby and Peter will get all WRAPPED up in a terrifying mystery. Slappy the Dummy and other villains have been sighted in HorrorLand theme park. A monster named Byron might offer help . . . if they can find him.
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Abby and Peter pay a visit to their Uncle Jonathan who seems very knowledgeable about Egyptian mummies, but they become suspicious at the strange sounds coming from a room inside his house, and their fears continue as they are invited to Horrorland.


Opens doors to employment and carries UCAS points to support progression to higher education.
The OCR Cambridge Technicals Extended Certificate in Engineering is one of a new generation of vocational courses developed through the exam board OCR's links with the University of Cambridge. It is a demanding alternative to A Level Physics which could lead to success in securing an apprenticeship, direct employment in the engineering sector or a place to study an engineering-related degree course at university (if studied alongside Maths A Level).
Students who follow this course will enjoy 'hands on' approach to their learning, undertaking a series of projects designed to help them discover how skills and knowledge link together in a working environment. Academic rigor is applied throughout the course which develops the mathematical techniques commonly used to solve engineering problems and explores the supporting science.
The qualification has support from a range of employers including Jaguar Land Rover, Siemens, National Grid, Tata Steel, The Royal Academy of Engineering and The Society of Operational Engineers. Higher education endorsement includes Coventry, Northampton and Manchester Metropolitan universities; a list that will grow as more industrial partnerships are established.


DevOps is a buzz word in 2017 and for coming years as per Market trends by various research firms.
Continuous Integration is a significant part of DevOps culture and hence the trend to use Jenkins will go upwards in coming years. If Continuous Integration is the base then Continuous Delivery is like topping.
Visual Studio Online (VSO) is confusing term for many and seems like something related to development or IDE, but it's not.
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/*
 * TIFF Library.
 *
 * JBIG Compression Algorithm Support.
 * Contributed by Lee Howard <faxguy@deanox.com>
 *
 */

#include "tiffiop.h"

#ifdef JBIG_SUPPORT
#include "jbig.h"

static int JBIGSetupDecode(TIFF* tif)
{
	if (TIFFNumberOfStrips(tif) != 1)
	{
		TIFFErrorExt(tif->tif_clientdata, "JBIG", "Multistrip images not supported in decoder");
		return 0;
	}

	return 1;
}

static int JBIGDecode(TIFF* tif, uint8_t* buffer, tmsize_t size, uint16_t s)
{
	struct jbg_dec_state decoder;
	int decodeStatus = 0;
	unsigned char* pImage = NULL;
	unsigned long decodedSize;
	(void) s;

	if (isFillOrder(tif, tif->tif_dir.td_fillorder))
	{
		TIFFReverseBits(tif->tif_rawcp, tif->tif_rawcc);
	}

	jbg_dec_init(&decoder);

#if defined(HAVE_JBG_NEWLEN)
	jbg_newlen(tif->tif_rawcp, (size_t)tif->tif_rawcc);
	/*
	 * I do not check the return status of jbg_newlen because even if this
	 * function fails it does not necessarily mean that decoding the image
	 * will fail.  It is generally only needed for received fax images
	 * that do not contain the actual length of the image in the BIE
	 * header.  I do not log when an error occurs because that will cause
	 * problems when converting JBIG encoded TIFF's to
	 * PostScript.  As long as the actual image length is contained in the
	 * BIE header jbg_dec_in should succeed.
	 */
#endif /* HAVE_JBG_NEWLEN */

	decodeStatus = jbg_dec_in(&decoder, (unsigned char*)tif->tif_rawcp,
				  (size_t)tif->tif_rawcc, NULL);
	if (JBG_EOK != decodeStatus)
	{
		/*
		 * XXX: JBG_EN constant was defined in pre-2.0 releases of the
		 * JBIG-KIT. Since the 2.0 the error reporting functions were
		 * changed. We will handle both cases here.
		 */
		TIFFErrorExt(tif->tif_clientdata,
			     "JBIG", "Error (%d) decoding: %s",
			     decodeStatus,
#if defined(JBG_EN)
			     jbg_strerror(decodeStatus, JBG_EN)
#else
			     jbg_strerror(decodeStatus)
#endif
			     );
		jbg_dec_free(&decoder);
		return 0;
	}

	decodedSize = jbg_dec_getsize(&decoder);
	if( (tmsize_t)decodedSize < size )
	{
	    TIFFWarningExt(tif->tif_clientdata, "JBIG",
	                   "Only decoded %lu bytes, whereas %"TIFF_SSIZE_FORMAT" requested",
	                   decodedSize, size);
	}
	else if( (tmsize_t)decodedSize > size )
	{
	    TIFFErrorExt(tif->tif_clientdata, "JBIG",
	                 "Decoded %lu bytes, whereas %"TIFF_SSIZE_FORMAT" were requested",
	                 decodedSize, size);
	    jbg_dec_free(&decoder);
	    return 0;
	}
	pImage = jbg_dec_getimage(&decoder, 0);
	_TIFFmemcpy(buffer, pImage, decodedSize);
	jbg_dec_free(&decoder);

        tif->tif_rawcp += tif->tif_rawcc;
        tif->tif_rawcc = 0;

	return 1;
}

static int JBIGSetupEncode(TIFF* tif)
{
	if (TIFFNumberOfStrips(tif) != 1)
	{
		TIFFErrorExt(tif->tif_clientdata, "JBIG", "Multistrip images not supported in encoder");
		return 0;
	}

	return 1;
}

static int JBIGCopyEncodedData(TIFF* tif, unsigned char* pp, size_t cc, uint16_t s)
{
	(void) s;
	while (cc > 0)
	{
		tmsize_t n = (tmsize_t)cc;

		if (tif->tif_rawcc + n > tif->tif_rawdatasize)
		{
			n = tif->tif_rawdatasize - tif->tif_rawcc;
		}

		assert(n > 0);
		_TIFFmemcpy(tif->tif_rawcp, pp, n);
		tif->tif_rawcp += n;
		tif->tif_rawcc += n;
		pp += n;
		cc -= (size_t)n;
		if (tif->tif_rawcc >= tif->tif_rawdatasize &&
		    !TIFFFlushData1(tif))
		{
			return (-1);
		}
	}

	return (1);
}

static void JBIGOutputBie(unsigned char* buffer, size_t len, void* userData)
{
	TIFF* tif = (TIFF*)userData;

	if (isFillOrder(tif, tif->tif_dir.td_fillorder))
	{
		TIFFReverseBits(buffer, (tmsize_t)len);
	}

	JBIGCopyEncodedData(tif, buffer, len, 0);
}

static int JBIGEncode(TIFF* tif, uint8_t* buffer, tmsize_t size, uint16_t s)
{
	TIFFDirectory* dir = &tif->tif_dir;
	struct jbg_enc_state encoder;

	(void) size, (void) s;

	jbg_enc_init(&encoder,
		     dir->td_imagewidth,
		     dir->td_imagelength,
		     1,
		     &buffer,
		     JBIGOutputBie,
		     tif);
	/*
	 * jbg_enc_out does the "real" encoding.  As data is encoded,
	 * JBIGOutputBie is called, which writes the data to the directory.
	 */
	jbg_enc_out(&encoder);
	jbg_enc_free(&encoder);

	return 1;
}

int TIFFInitJBIG(TIFF* tif, int scheme)
{
        (void)scheme;
	assert(scheme == COMPRESSION_JBIG);

	/*
	 * These flags are set so the JBIG Codec can control when to reverse
	 * bits and when not to and to allow the jbig decoder and bit reverser
	 * to write to memory when necessary.
	 */
	tif->tif_flags |= TIFF_NOBITREV;
	tif->tif_flags &= ~TIFF_MAPPED;
	/* We may have read from a previous IFD and thus set TIFF_BUFFERMMAP and
	 * cleared TIFF_MYBUFFER. It is necessary to restore them to their initial
	 * value to be consistent with the state of a non-memory mapped file.
	 */
	if (tif->tif_flags&TIFF_BUFFERMMAP) {
		tif->tif_rawdata = NULL;
		tif->tif_rawdatasize = 0;
		tif->tif_flags &= ~TIFF_BUFFERMMAP;
		tif->tif_flags |= TIFF_MYBUFFER;
	}

	/* Setup the function pointers for encode, decode, and cleanup. */
	tif->tif_setupdecode = JBIGSetupDecode;
	tif->tif_decodestrip = JBIGDecode;

	tif->tif_setupencode = JBIGSetupEncode;
	tif->tif_encodestrip = JBIGEncode;

	return 1;
}

#endif /* JBIG_SUPPORT */

/* vim: set ts=8 sts=8 sw=8 noet: */

/*
 * Local Variables:
 * mode: c
 * c-basic-offset: 8
 * fill-column: 78
 * End:
 */

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PITTSBURGH, PA, Nov. 8, 2021 – PNC Bank today announced that Cathy Niederberger, director of Community Development Banking, will retire in early 2022, after a 25-year career with the bank. Reymundo "Rey" Ocañas, who currently serves as the Southwest Territory executive for PNC's Community Development Banking, will assume leadership of the Community Development Banking function for PNC in January 2022. Before joining PNC, Ocañas served as director of communications and responsible business at BBVA USA.
"Our Community Development Banking team is dedicated to improving low- and moderate-income communities and the residents and businesses within them," said Richard Bynum, chief corporate responsibility officer for PNC. "Under Cathy's leadership over the last 14 years, the team has been highly successful in providing lending, investing and financial education services in support of affordable housing, small businesses, community services and neighborhood revitalization."
Niederberger played an integral role in developing PNC's four-year, $88 billion Community Benefits Plan announced in March 2021, in connection with the acquisition of BBVA USA. Through that plan, PNC will provide $47 billion in residential mortgage and home equity loans; $26.5 billion in loans to small businesses; $14.5 billion in community development loans, including at least $400 million for community development financial institutions; and $500 million in charitable giving, sponsorships and philanthropic grants. This plan was developed after PNC held community listening sessions with the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, the National Diversity Coalition, the Greenlining Coalition, the California Reinvestment Coalition, Faith and Community Empowerment and members of their respective organizations.
"I am thankful to PNC for the opportunity to lead our Community Development Banking team and for its commitment to boosting the quality of life in low- and moderate-income neighborhoods through financial education, consumer programs, and community development lending and investing," said Niederberger. "From small, high-impact efforts to major real estate developments we have helped to transform how some neighborhoods look and feel. I have the utmost confidence that Rey will continue in this tradition, including focusing on initiatives that support our commitment to racial equity."
When Ocañas assumes leadership of Community Development Banking, he will be responsible for ensuring that PNC is ready to launch the Community Benefits Plan, which begins in January 2022, and continues for four years. "Rey will provide critical leadership in leading Community Development Banking, in collaboration with tax credit solutions, public finance and other business teams, to increase our engagement with local communities across all of our markets and to identify impactful development initiatives in support of our economic empowerment efforts," Bynum said.
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Was a Dog Elected Mayor of Rabbit Hash, Kentucky?
An unincorporated community in Kentucky has elected a dog as its mayor for the fourth time in a row.
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A dog was elected as mayor of a small Kentucky town.
Mostly True
In June 2017, multiple news outlets reported that a small Kentucky town called Rabbit Hash had elected a dog as its mayor. As straightforward as this reporting may seem, there are multiple layers to the story.
We'll start with the most obvious question.
Yes. Although this is more of a title-only sort of position that doesn't come with any mayoral powers. In November 2016, the town elected a two-year-old American pit bull terrier named Brynn (who also goes by the name Brynneth Pawltro) as its "unofficial" mayor:
With barks and tail-wagging aplenty, the fourth canine mayor of Rabbit Hash surveys the city she will soon take charge of.
In a landslide victory Brynn was chosen to guard the steps of the General Store. The 2-year-old pit bull won the election by more than 1,000 votes.
Brynn will govern Rabbit Hash, a quaint historical district nestled on the shores of the Ohio River. She will take office after the "i-dog-uration" in February 2017, a year after a fire destroyed most of the Rabbit Hash General Store.
How does a dog become mayor?
Rabbit Hash is a small unincorporated area in Boone County, Kentucky. As such, it doesn't have much of a need for a formal mayor.
There is a longstanding tradition of electing nonhuman mascots as the town's mayor, which started in 1998 when the Rabbit Hash Historical Society held an "election" in order to raise funds to restore a church. The Historical Society charged a dollar to vote in the election, which resulted in the election of a dog named "Goofy Borneman" as the town's very first mayor:
Mayor Goofy Borneman was the first elected mayor of Rabbit Hash. Born of unknown parentage and adopted in 1985 by the Borneman/Calhoun family of Rabbit Hash, Goofy was raised as any local dog-resident of the town. His early years were happy ones, playing with the Bornemans' son, Mike Calhoun.
According to Mike, it was the standard boy-dog relationship with Goofy a constant companion for Mike as they traveled up and down Lower River Road. While Mike was in school, Goofy would still take the familiar path between his home and the Rabbit Hash General Store visiting neighbors and eating any scraps along the way. In his adolescence, Goofy ran into trouble. Lounging in the road proved to be a dangerous past-time as he was hit by cars more than once. He also had a stinky reputation and fell into trouble with his owner, Ed Borneman, when Goofy was allegedly found to be poaching town chickens.
In his older years, Goofy settled down and was content to remain on the straight and narrow. In June 1998, upon Boone County, Kentucky's bicentennial celebration, the Rabbit Hash mayor's race was announced. Although initially open to anyone in the area, only humans entered the race. After Jane and Randy Cochran entered their black Labrador Retriever, Herb, in the race, the Borneman family, finding that everyone in the town already held a relationship with their aging dog, Goofy, decided to enter him. The charisma of the Borneman family and the notorious reputation of Goofy led to a triumphant result as Goofy beat out famed woodcarver "Crazy Clifford" Pottorf and fellow four-legger Herb Cochran.
Goofy died in office, and was succeeded by a black lab named Junior. When Junior died, the town elected a red and white border collie named Lucy Lou, who left office in 2015 to "embark" on a tongue-in-cheek run for United States President:
The question Mayor Lucy Lou is most asked is, "How does a DOG become mayor"?
Her answer: "As with politics in every corner of the earth, the candidate with the most money wins. In Rabbit Hash, we're just honest about it. Anyone of any age can vote, you can vote as many times as you like, and we encourage drinking at the polls." Lucy Lou's executive staff have been heard to say on more than one occasion, "We bought that election fair and square!"
Does Rabbit Hash elect other animals?
The election in Rabbit Hash is largely a fundraiser for the Rabbit Hash Historical Society. Although the town has only elected canine mayors since its first election in 1998, it is not exclusive to dogs. Other animals, including humans, have entered the race:
The competition was stiff.
"There was a cat, the chicken, a donkey, a little boy," Bamforth said.
Brynneth took them all down without much more than a bark. Believe it or not, the pooch is the fourth dog mayor to be unleashed on the city.
Does Mayor Brynneth Pawltro have a staff?
Although previous mayors of Rabbit Hash were the sole figures within their administrations, the Rabbit Hash Historical Society announced that two of this year's runner-ups, Bourbon and Lady, would serve as ambassadors for the town:
BRYNN is the new Mayor of Rabbit Hash Kentucky!!! In an unprecedented move, the Rabbit Hash Historical Society has given official positions to the 1st and 2nd runner ups, Bourbon and Lady, as Ambassadors to Rabbit Hash. In the case that the official mayor is unavailable for an event or obligation, the Ambassadors will fill in.
Here is the official tally:
Brynn: 3367
Bourbon: 2336
Lady: 1621
Higgins: 495
Stella: 400
Walter: 397
Bossy: 216
Louis: 76
Izacc: 53
Mayor Lucy Lou said that she has has been honored to serve for the past 8 years. Through the course of a tense evening of voting she sniffed the butts of all the candidates and has given her approval to the Mayor elect, Brynn. She looks forward to working with the new mayor and the Ambassadors as Rabbit Hash strives to restore the General Store.
Brynn also has an owner. 23-year-old Jordie Bamforth, who is studying to be a veterinarian, adopted Brynn as a puppy. She said that one of the reasons she wanted to enter to the race was to dispel rumors about pit bulls being aggressive:
Bamforth told reporters:
Brynn has declared to be peaceful with any human or animal that comes through Rabbit Hash, especially the cats. Brynn does like to chase the cats around here, but has pledged to refrain from it as much as possible.
How much money was raised during the election?
The mayoral race in Rabbit Hash is used to raise funds for the town's Historical Society, which then uses the money on various projects around the town. This year, the money will be used to help rebuild and restock the town's general store, which was destroyed in a fire:
Bobbi Kayser, secretary of the Rabbit Hash Historical Society and mom of current Mayor Lucy Lou, said the election raised more than $8,900 for the historical society.
"The money will go toward the restoration of the Rabbit Hash General Store. Although we are so blessed to have had so many corporate donations and benefits in our name, we still have not reached the original estimated goal to complete the project," Kayser said.
The General Store is looking nearly perfect, but that comes at a cost of nearly $400,000. The store should be open by September 2017.
Brynneth Pawltro could not be immediately reached for comment.
Rabbit Hash Historical Society. "Current Mayor – Brynn."
Retrieved 28 June 2017.
Sutter, Chris. "For the Fourth Time, Small Kentucky Town Elects a Dog as Mayor."
WDRB. 23 June 2017.
Hadley, Greg. "A Dog is Now the Mayor of a Small Kentucky Town. And She's Not Even the First One."
Brandenton. 24 June 2017.
Brookbank, Sarah. "Rabbit Hash Mayor-Elect Preaches Peace and Love."
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Porsche Classic offering upgraded infotainment for older Boxsters, Cayennes, 911s
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January 19 in Motoring News
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While Porsche isn't necessarily known for segment-leading infotainment systems, it has recognised that owners of older models may want to keep up with the times.
Porsche Classic has released new editions of its Porsche Classic Communication Management (PCCM) and Porsche Classic Communication Management Plus (PCCM Plus) systems for a wider range of vintage and modern models – after a successful 2020 launch prompted further demand.
The PCCM infotainment systems will now be available for owners who want 2023-era technology in the sixth-generation 911 997 (2005-2008) and the early 987 Boxster and Cayman (2005-2008), as well as the first-generation Cayenne (2003-2008).
The retrofitted devices bring these older models up-to-date with a 7.0-inch touchscreen display (for the wider PCCM Plus) supporting features such as Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, smarter navigation with 2D and 3D maps, and further media playback and bluetooth connectivity.
Porsche is taking the restomod revenue, which is normally capitalised on by a third party, into its own hands. It will enable the infotainment upgrade with a seamlessly fitting device which still uses the existing amplifiers, speakers, and antenna.
"There is huge demand for contemporary networking of our timeless classics. And soon after the successful launch of the infotainment systems for retrofitting, we received corresponding queries from owners of early 911 generation 997, this is why we're now significantly extending our range," said Porsche Classic director Ulrike Lutz.
Porsche Classic Communication Management Plus 997, 987, Cayenne E1
Porsche Classic assures that the devices are made to be imperceptible from the components already installed in the car, with the design style and materials matching elements such as the climate control panel.
The American and European devices will be equipped with region-specific features such as embedded local radio stations and onboard navigation with Porsche 'points of interest'. We have reached out to Porsche Classic for clarification on any potential Australia-specific features.
The new PCCM Plus will naturally be the most expensive of the two devices, starting at EUR 1520 (A$2383), with extra costs for navigation maps.
The devices can be ordered at any Porsche centre from today, and fitting is recommended at an allocated Porsche Centre or Porsche Classic partner.
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Made following the discovery of amateur footage shot in China in 1966 during the first and most radical stage of the Cultural Revolution, IN THE INTENSE NOW speaks to the fleeting nature of moments of great intensity. Scenes of China are set alongside archival images of the events of 1968 in France, Czechoslovakia, and, to a lesser extent, Brazil. In keeping with the tradition of the film-essay, they serve to investigate how the people who took part in those events continued onward after passions had cooled. The footage, all of it archival, not only reveals the state of mind of those filmed—joy, enchantment, fear, disappointment, dismay—but also sheds light on the relationship between a document and its political context. What can one say of Paris, Prague, Rio de Janeiro, or Beijing by looking at the images of the period? Why did each of these cities produce a specific sort of record?
Narrated in first person, the film reflects on that which is revealed by four sets of images: footage of the French students' uprising in May of 1968; the images captured by amateurs during the invasion of Czechoslovakia in August of the same year, when forces led by the Soviet Union put an end to the Prague Spring; shots of the funerals of students, workers, and police officers killed during the events of 1968 in the cities of Paris, Lyon, Prague, and Rio de Janeiro; and the scenes that a tourist—the director's mother—filmed in China in 1966, the year of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution.
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CODIGO COLOR, MEMORIAS (COLOR CODE, MEMORIES), explores the complex issue of racism through the memories of the picturesque city of Santiago de Cuba.
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This is the nice design that I used on page 2 of the book.
Annoyingly, rather a lot of other people discovered it before me: it's indexed on Wikipedia as the Apollonian Net, after Apollonius of Perga (~262 BC – ~190 BC), and it's also referred to elsewhere as the Leibniz Packing diagram, after Gottfried Leibniz (1646-1716), Newton's rival for the invention of calculus. I've even seen it credited to the design of the floor of a Greek temple. But frankly, it's such a nice shape that I'm sure that people have been discovering and rediscovering it for millennia. Draw three touching circles, fill in the inviting gap in the middle with more circles, and when you're feeling pleased with yourself and wondering what to do next, step back and look at the whole thing, draw in a bigger circle to enclose everything (facing away from you), and repeat. That's how I got there, anyway.
There's some rather interesting geometry here to do with tangents, but I got impatient trying to get a complete derivational method, and generated the figures using a vector graphics program (CorelDraw10), driven by an automating script, using a mix of partial derivations, testing, and brute force. If you're calculating a chain of circles that might be twenty or thirty stages long, successive rounding errors tend to screw up these diagrams when you calculate them "properly"(look at the overlap of the smaller circles in the Wikipedia vector graphics version), and my priority was to make sure that the circles really did fit, so I used a hybrid approach where I used trig to get each circle into the ballpark of its proper destination w.r.t. its parents, and then a successive approximation method with error correction to tweek and nudge and jiggle everything snugly into place.
The Apollonian Net makes more sense when you stretch it over the surface of a sphere, so that the four largest "primary" circles are all the same size, and are explicitly equivalent. They then form the intersection of the sphere with the four faces of a tetrahedron, giving the fractal-faceted solid that I used as a vignette on page 378.
1: Start with a sphere and grind four flat circular faces into it that correspond to the four faces of an intersecting tetrahedron, then keep grinding maximum-sized circular facets into the remaining curved parts, ad infinitum.
2: Start with a tetrahedron, and lop off the four points to give a shape with four regular hexagonal faces, and four new triangular faces where the tips used to be. Then continue lopping off the remaining points, ad infinitum. Each wave of cutting creates a new face at each cut, and doubles the number of sides on all the existing faces. If we cut at a depth that'll keep these polygons regular, then with an arbitrarily-high number of cuts, the faces converge toward perfect circles, and the point-mesh of the resulting peaks converges downwards to settle onto the surface of the sphere used in method 1.
This sort of duality is common when we construct standard polyhedra – the network of relationships in a regular polyhedron tends to be another regular polyhedron, so we can usually get to a regular shape by starting from either of its two relatives. Four of the five Platonic solids pair up nicely like this, and the last – the tetrahedron – is a special case whose "dual solid" partner is another tetrahedron. But we normally only consider these sorts of dualities when considering combinations of regular polygons with finite numbers of rectilinear sides with each other, and don't include the infinite-sided fractal shapes that show up when one of the parent solids is an infinitely-faceted sphere (which, in some ways, almost counts a a sixth Platonic solid).
We don't have to start with a tetrahedron, we can make these fractal solids from any regular polygon (cube, etc). But the tetrahedral and icosahedral versions probably look the nicest. I find the cube-based version a bit disappointing, but I grew up with rounded-cornered dice with circular faces, so perhaps I'm just a bit blasé about the solid that corresponds to the "six-circle" version of the Apollonian net.
(3) we can vary how the cutting is done. If we make our cuts too shallow, then the facets are distorted away from circularity, and the overall shape isn't a sphere, but has flat-topped bulges where the original polyhedral points used to be. If we cut too deep, we get bulges in the shape of the original solid's "dual" sibling, with each bulge tipped by an edge.
Another cool thing about these nets is their topological transformability. With the "closed" version, every circle has three parents of the same size of larger, including the four primary circles (who count as each other's parents). You can transform between the different versions of the net by warping and resizing, while still keeping everything as circles.
This lets us get to tilings that don't automatically suggest standard polyhedra, such as the "two-large-enclosed-circles" version that I used for the "fractal Yin-Yang" symbol on page 145, and the asymmetrical versions on page 224. And once I'd written the scripts and code to generate these figures, I had a few more blank bits in the book to fill, so I knocked up the "triangular boundary" version on page 370 which, actually, has some other interesting proportions. The "triangle" version includes parts that represent the limiting case of the edge of the Apollonian Gasket when we zoom in so far that the outer circle tends toward a straight line. Filling these voids then gives the special-case Ford Circles tiling.
Some serious people have worked on this subject. You can also Google Descartes' Theorem (after René Descartes (1596-1650), and Soddy Circles. Lester Ford and Frederick Soddy only produced their papers in 1936 and 1938, so the Apollonian Net involves math research that extends across more than two thousand years, and isn't finished yet.
It would have been nice to meet the person who designed that floor, though.


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The fifth instalment of GEO Business that took place in London last week, will surely be remembered as the busiest show to date, in fact, the exhibition hall was so packed, at times it was hard to make yourself heard! Anyone who is anyone in the geospatial industry was there including the Government's appointed head of the newly established Geospatial Commission whose keynote address was extremely well received.
The two day show provided a veritable feast of strategy combined with technology to an incredible 2602 attendees from 53 countries who flocked into the show to discover for themselves the vast range of technologies and services now available to them in this burgeoning sector. This rise in numbers equates to an amazing 9% increase in visitors since the last show and a 61% increase since the show was launched in 2014.
The GEO Business organisers certainly pulled out all the stops this year. From a brand new website; to a brand new app to help guide visitors around the show and schedule their time effectively when choosing from close to 200 presentations to attend; and finally a newly launched and cutting edge seminar programme, designed to demonstrate the remarkable impact geospatial technologies and solutions are having on our global environment.
The exhibition was bustling from the minute the doors opened until the close of show announcement on the second day proving that GEO Business is THE place to do business. The likes of Survey Solutions Scotland, Ordnance Survey, Topcon, GAP Group, Bentley Systems, Trimble, Viametris, Phoenix, CHC Navigation and Leica Geosystems (to name but a few) were amongst the 200 exhibitor strong exhibition. Once again exhibitors took advantage of hosting commercial workshop sessions, many of which experienced standing room only in each of the allotted lecture theatres.
The core mission of GEO Business is to connect communities of specialists – surveyors, engineers, GIS analysts (and many more) with wider business and industry. Following the introduction of the newly formed diverse and intensive seminar programme, this mission was most certainly met.
With topics ranging from Smart Cities; GIS and Big Data; UAVs (drones and the array of sensors they can now carry); Architecture, Engineering & Construction; Railways & Tunnelling (where data captured by drone can be positionally accurate to 5 mm and high resolution imagery can reveal detail as fine as serial numbers on trackside assets); Building Information Modelling; Earth Observation (data from satellites); Floods; Heritage; Environmental; to the all too prosaic Equipment Theft (a major problem for surveyors and engineers in urban areas). Particular key sessions focused around VR and AR – virtual reality and augmented reality, technologies which are increasingly used to visualise and understand projects or to assist construction management and personnel on applications such as buried utilities.
Many industry leaders, opinion formers and experts argue that we are in the middle of massive technological change and fuelling this fourth industrial revolution is geospatial data. This was the focus of a provocative and thought-provoking conference programme overseen by Ordnance Survey's Simon Navin. The programme provided a platform for leading experts and opinion formers drawn from across industry and government.
William Priest, the aforementioned Government's appointed head of the newly established Geospatial Commission, argues that their mission is about the "connectivity of people, places and things". Priest is responsible to the Cabinet Office and will have a Treasury approved budget of £40 million a year to kick-start productivity gains across the economy.
The conference heard from the Government's first appointed Head of Geography, David Wood. His mission is to provide a professional focus for the over 250 geographers working across the civil service and he will begin by appointing a series of Geography Ambassadors to raise awareness of the profession across government.
The Government's recent release of a series of reports: Industrial Strategy; Transforming Infrastructure Performance; and Data for the Public Good (a visionary statement which includes the concept of the "digital twin") was the focus of the final keynote of the conference by Mark Enzer, chief technology officer for engineers Mott MacDonald UK. He is to be the chair of the National Digital Task Group to drive forward these reports' implementation. Information is the "golden thread" explained Enzer. Technologies like BIM and GIS, are foundational to the economy. Critical is the "common data environment", Smart Infrastructure and the prospect of the "Digital Twin", a novel way that seeks to replicate in full detail physical assets. The approach offers a rich layering of data and is equal or potentially of more value to managers and planners than existing systems.
There were outside displays too. Several exhibitors took advantage of the venue's external space to show off vehicle-mounted dynamic data capture systems equipped with laser scanners and video cameras. These systems are increasingly used in the UK and around the world to rapidly gather the data needed for 3D mapping, highway asset management, smart city navigation, planning and development.
GEO Business is renowned for its social events, where newcomers and older hands can get together to reminisce or quite simply, do business after hours. Pre-show drinks hosted by the industry's professional bodies (TSA, RICS, ICES, AGI and ICE) brought exhibitors and conference delegates together, while the first day of the show ended with the extremely popular "Ale Trail" on the show floor where visitors sampled a selection of some of the best ales the UK has to offer. There followed the annual GEO Business dinner, an evening of fine dining, this year held at Arsenal's Emirates Stadium where even the FA cup made an appearance.


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Q: Set up App Registration (Azure AD) through code? I'm working for a company that uses an SSO solution (Auth0) to allow client companies to access our application using their existing logins. Many of our clients are using Azure AD as their authorization server.
We have everything working properly through the azure portal. We set up an App Registration and then use that in our SSO solution (the domain, client id and a generated secret) to connect. That all works well.
However, we have several clients and its become a problem that some of our clients aren't easily able to follow our guidance to set up the app registration, and so we're looking at what steps we might be able to do to automate the process of setting up app registration for them.
We have a couple of scripts already using node to setup other authorization servers (Okta...). We've written those in node, so ideally we'd like to continue that and write a solution to create an app registration (with permissions and generating a key) through javascript.
We are open to using another language (C#?) if required though.
We could easily work from a curl (or other restful interface) example if there is a rest api. Actually if there is a pointer to a rest api that would probably work well.
Anyone have any experience or tutorials in doing this sort of thing? Would love to see a working example.
TLDR looking for tutorial to create app registrations (with permissions and generating a secret key) in node (curl, or maybe C#)

A: You can use Microsoft Graph API: Create application to create Azure AD application.
See the C# sample code here.
Here is a rest sample for your reference:
POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/applications
Content-type: application/json
Content-length: 67

{
  "displayName": "allentestapp003",
  "requiredResourceAccess": [
        {
            "resourceAppId": "00000003-0000-0000-c000-000000000000",
            "resourceAccess": [
                {
                    "id": "465a38f9-76ea-45b9-9f34-9e8b0d4b0b42",
                    "type": "Scope"
                },
                {
                    "id": "e1fe6dd8-ba31-4d61-89e7-88639da4683d",
                    "type": "Scope"
                },
                {
                    "id": "798ee544-9d2d-430c-a058-570e29e34338",
                    "type": "Role"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}

You should specify the requiredResourceAccess as the permissions of the Azure AD application. (In this sample, the permissions are for Microsoft Graph, 00000003-0000-0000-c000-000000000000 is the app id of Microsoft Graph app)
For generating a secret key, you need to use application: addPassword. See the C# sample code here.

A: I know this post is old, but I am doing the same thing.  But I don't know how to create the authProvider.  What I am looking for if even possible.  Is The click a Register App button in my web app.  That with prompt them to log into the Azure AD and request permissions to generate the Azure AD App and then create the secret key.
If anyone has a code sample showing how to do this, it would be great.  Thank you.

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The PACE trial, which was fully funded by a grant of approximately $5 million from the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health ("NIH"), enrolled 73 subjects with moderate to severe OSA who met all inclusion and exclusion criteria for the study. At baseline, overall apnea/hypopnea index (AHI) was 25.9±11.3, Epworth Sleepiness Scale score (ESS) was 11.45±3.8, maintenance of wakefulness test (MWT) mean latency was 19.2±11.8 min, body mass index (BMI) was 33.4±5.4 kg/m2 and age was 53.6±9.0 years. Subjects were randomized to receive placebo, 2.5 mg or 10 mg dronabinol. Randomized subjects completed daily self-administration of study drug for 6 weeks, and returned to the laboratory every 2 weeks for overnight polysomnography (PSG), physical examination, and completion of clinical study procedures.
Subjects receiving 10mg/day of dronabinol expressed the highest overall satisfaction with treatment (p=0.04). In comparison to placebo, dronabinol dose-dependently reduced AHI by 10.7±4.4 (p=0.02) and 12.9±4.3 (p=0.003) events/hour at doses of 2.5 and 10 mg/day, respectively. Dronabinol at 10 mg/day reduced ESS score by -3.8±0.8 points from baseline (p<0.0001) and by -2.3±1.2 points in comparison to placebo (p=0.05). Body weights, MWT sleep latencies, gross sleep architecture and overnight oxygenation parameters were unchanged from baseline in any treatment group. The number and severity of adverse events, and treatment adherence (0.3±0.6 missed doses/week) were equivalent among all treatment groups.
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Dronabinol is synthetic ∆9-THC (delta 9-tetrahydrocannabinol), one of the active cannabinoids found in marijuana. Dronabinol is approved in the United States in 2.5mg, 5mg and 10mg capsules for the treatment of anorexia associated with AIDS and chemo-therapy induced nausea and vomiting. It is a schedule III drug, meaning there is a low abuse potential, but it is monitored by the United States DEA (drug enforcement agency). It is Medicare part B reimbursed for its current approved indications. Use of dronabinol for the treatment of OSA is novel.
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Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney trilogy is coming to Switch
By Kevin Cortez September 22, 2018
Capcom has announced that the first three Ace Attorney games will be headed to all current platforms and PC. The announcement was made by the publisher at today's the Tokyo Game Show. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy will release early next year.
The collection is said to include Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney — Justice for All and Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney — Trials and Tribulations. All three games were originally released on the Game Boy Advance, but the trilogy has seen digital collection ports on the Nintendo 3DS and iOS. Capcom's announcement marks the first time the series will debut on a Microsoft or Sony console. Nintendo fans who once held the series near and dear can no longer claim this once-exclusive portable franchise.
Introduced in 2001, the Ace Attorney series follows defense attorney Phoenix Wright as he takes on various cases and ensues in courtroom drama. The franchise is in the style of a visual novel, in which players must search for clues to help each legal case presented to Wright. The bold, red-texted "OBJECTION!" became synonymous with the series, as the games grant players the ability is to interrupt testimonials with the word, and provide proof of fabrication.
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Initially, the games were only available in Japanese, but a 2005 port by way of Nintendo DS gave North American audiences the opportunity to experience the games in English. A manga series on Phoenix Wright debuted in 2006, followed by a live action film and anime series in 2016. There are currently six games in the series, and four spinoff titles.
Nintendo Switch owners will find a new way to shout "OBJECTION!" – both on the go, and on a television at home. This will be an excellent opportunity for newcomers of the series to view one of Capcom's most beloved characters. HD images of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy can be viewed down below. No word on how much the collection will be, or if it will see a physical release.
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Genome of World's Largest Shark to Be Sequenced
By Stephanie Pappas 16 March 2011
The whale shark's mouth can be up to 5 feet (1.5 m) wide, lots of room for scooping up ocean snacks.
(Image: © Mote Marine Laboratory)
The whale shark is a creature of many mysteries. Now, researchers hope to answer a few by sequencing the complete genome of the world's largest fish.
Researchers at Emory University and the Georgia Aquarium are working to create a complete library of whale shark DNA, sequencing the genomes of the aquarium's captive sharks, which come from Taiwan, and comparing them with wild whale sharks in Mexico.
"Mapping the genome is like an encyclopedia of life — it gives scientists the ability to ask questions," study leader Tim Read of Emory said in a statement. "In the architecture of the genome, it's a bit like archeology. We can see the history of the whale shark in its tissue."
The genome sequencing project will take months to complete, but when it's done, researchers hope it will help them answer questions about the whale sharks' little-understood lifestyle. No one knows, for example, what genes are responsible for the whale shark's enormous size, which can top out at 40 feet (12 meters) long. The study may also help researchers understand where the giant filter feeders fit into the entire family of sharks, according to the Georgia Aquarium.
In addition to sequencing the animal's genome, other groups of scientists hope to study some odd behaviors to find answers to whale-shark questions. An odd feeding frenzy in the waters off the Yucatan Peninsula has long puzzled marine scientists. Every year for the past few years, the blue, plankton-rich waters have become an all-you-can-eat haven for hundreds of giant whale sharks, an annual event known as "afuera."
Observations there have already shed light on the sharks' eating habits: The afuera occurs where a type of tuna called the little tunny spawns. The whale sharks scoop up the eggs that rise to the water's surface, researchers say.
You can follow LiveScience senior writer Stephanie Pappas on Twitter @sipappas.


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Колі́брі-ма́нго смарагдовий (Anthracothorax viridis) — вид серпокрильцеподібних птахів родини колібрієвих (Trochilidae). Ендемік Пуерто-Рико.

Опис

Довжина птаха становить 11—14 см, вага 7 г. Верхня частина тіла смарагдово-зелена, нижня частина тіла синьо-зелена з металевим відблиском. Хвіст округлий, синювато-чорний з металевим відблиском, стернові пера мають білі кінчики. Дзьоб дещо вигнутий, чорний. Виду загалом не притаманний статевий диморфізм, однак у самиць за очима є невеликі білі плямки, відсутні у самців. У молодих птахів пера на голові і спині мають коричнюваті краї.

Поширення і екологія
Смарагдові колібрі-манго мешкають переважно в горах у центрі й на заході острова, в прибережних районах зустрічаються рідко. Вони живуть у вологих тропічних лісах і на плантаціях, переважно на висоті від 800 до 1200 м над рівнем моря. Живляться нектаром різноманітних квітучих дерев. чагарників і ліан, а також комахами і павуками, яких ловлять в польоті або збирають з рослинності. Шукають їжу в усіх ярусах лісу. Самці захищають кормові території. Сезон розмноження триває з жовтня по травень. Гніздо невелике, чашоподібне, зовні покривається лишайниками, прикріплюється вертикальних гілок високих дерев, на висоті понад 8 м над землею. В кладці 2 білих яйця.

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Колібрієві
Птахи, описані 1801
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