Ipswich Town will travel to Braintree Town for a pre-season friendly on Saturday, July 14.
The Iron are back in the National League for next season and released their pre-season schedule today, which includes a game against the Blues on Saturday, July 14. The Essex club say Ipswich have confirmed they will be bringing their first team for the game.
Links between the two clubs have seen a number of youngsters head to Cressing Road on loan, most recently with youngsters Conor McKendry and Pat Webber spending time at the club during the closing months of last season.
Monty Patterson and Michael Crowe, both released by the Blues yesterday, have also previously spent temporary spells with the Iron previously.
It is the second pre-season game to be announced by the Blues this week, with a visit to MK Dons in place on July 24.
Ipswich are also set to spend a week in Ireland once again, with the trip already in place prior to the departure of former boss Mick McCarthy.


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Vermont just banned food waste in trash. Here's how it works
Vermonters can no longer simply toss their food into trash cans. Under a new law that went into effect at the start of the month, residents are now required to compost any unfinished food—including inedible scraps like peels, egg shells, and pits—in their yard or through a professional compost facility. While other states have taken steps to curb food waste, particularly at the business level, Vermont is the first to implement a statewide ban on food waste that also affects individuals.
It's an ambitious policy, but one that Vermont lawmakers believe the state must take to achieve its goal of diverting 50% of all waste from landfills to facilities where it can be composted, recycled, or reused. That target has been in place for more than a decade, says Josh Kelly, materials management section chief with the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources, yet the best they'd been able to do was reduce waste by about 36%. "The only way you can really bring that down is by focusing on the food waste issue," he says.
Every five years, Vermont officials dig through the state's trash to see what residents are tossing, and they've consistently found that 20% is food waste. Food waste has also been shown to be a significant source of methane, a greenhouse gas that is about 25 times more powerful than carbon dioxide when it comes to warming the Earth.
Officials won't be digging through curbside cans to bust composting delinquents, though. "People say, 'What does this mean with a food waste ban? [Are] people going to be out there looking in my garbage for my apple cores?'" Kelly says. "That's not the intent of this." The state doesn't have the resources or desire, he explains, to enforce the ban at the residential level. Instead, officials are asking for voluntary compliance—and they expect to get it, based on how seriously Vermonters take their environmentalism.
Even before the ban went into effect, 72% of Vermonters were composting at home or fed their food scraps to livestock, according to a study from the University of Vermont. "The Vermont story is that we have been working at composting and reducing food waste for nearly a decade before the law came into effect," Kelly says. Many people live in Vermont because they love the rural landscape, so it's part of their ethics to keep that landscape pristine and to use food waste to nurture their soil.
The state did invest in composting infrastructure to make compliance easier. Officials set aside about $970,000 dollars in grants for compost facilities to purchase equipment, expand their curbside pick-up or drop-off services, and build anaerobic digesters that turn compost into energy. Vermont has both publicly owned and private compost facilities; even if not every area has curbside collection, Kelly says that there are more than 100 drop-off stations that offer food scrap collection, and almost every town has one within 10 miles.
The new law, known as the Food Scrap Ban, addresses food waste from a few angles, by providing different options for drop-off and curbside collection, along with resources to help residents compost at home (if you do compost at home, the law allows you to toss bones and meat in the trash). It also provides more support for food rescue and donation efforts, to divert edible food from the trash to those in need.
There are potential downsides. Some professional facilities are worried that, without strict enforcement, compost may become contaminated by people who don't properly sort out plastics or paper products. (Many Vermont composting facilities are food scrap-only, meaning they don't accept napkins or compostable cups.) That means their compost may not be able to be used by farmers as a soil nutrient. "If people are taking this material and making a lot of compost, but the compost is full of plastic contamination, you're essentially just taking one waste and converting it to another waste," says Kurt Erickson, general manager at Vermont Compost Company.
To Erickson, the success of this law hinges on both sides of that equation—the input and output of the compost. "If the simple objective is to divert material from the landfill, I think the success there is really limited," he says. "To me, what success would look like is, yes, we're diverting this material from landfill, but we're managing it well, keeping contamination as close to zero as we can, and we're returning these nutrients back to farmland to grow food."
Still, he agrees that Vermont is already a step ahead of most states when it comes to handling things in an environmentally responsible way. Even if this law isn't 100% perfect at its start, Kelly hopes Vermont can be a model for other states looking to address their food waste.
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Q: ISC exam - cheating or not Background:
I read this article on "hackaday" about alleged "large-scale cheating" on the ISC exam.  It gives this as source.
Here is one of the images from the site:

The hack-a-day asks for speculation about the nature of the "cheating" that the data indicates.
My challenge is: determine the actual (non-cheat) distribution from this tampered result and justify your answer with strong and appropriate use of statistics.

A: Maybe there has been no cheating?
Here's a (incomplete) data generation proposal:
Imagine the exam has 99/100 questions worth 2 points, and 1 really difficult question with 1 point. The smartest students, near the right tail, will probably get the hard question, and have some variation in the other 99 questions. This might explain the right tail's smoothness.

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{I have been having a discussion with a scholar who is writing a book about whether religious syncretism is a good thing or not. It's a great question, since most religions are essentially syncretistic blends of elements from other religions and cultures. Syncretism, says the scholar, usually helps a religion grow stronger, by bringing in healthy new elements. Theologian John Cobb Jr. would say that is generally true, judging from this timeless piece I am reposting here.}
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Is Jesus Christ the one Lord and Savior?
It's a question that challenges millions of people, especially those who wonder whether they should be going to church.
The question pinpoints a theological dilemma that's become more intense as the globe shrinks and we become more pluralistic, forced to see that truth may come from many sources.
In a spiritual profile that appeared earlier this month on these pages, well-known cartoonist Lynn Johnston, creator of For Better of For Worse, said she believes in the teachings of Jesus, but doesn't think Jesus is the one-and-only son of God.
Johnston thinks the teachings of Jesus, who was titled the Christ, point to the existence of a loving God. But she thinks Jesus was not the only divine person who's walked the earth; other saint-like people, including some alive today, may also be divine.
Although Johnston's beliefs may bother traditionalist Christians, public opinion polls suggest she's far from alone in her worldview. Many see the claim that Jesus is the one Lord and Savior, the only person with a claim to divinity, as a stumbling block to Christian faith.
In an era in which many people admire Hindus such as Gandhi and Buddhist monks such as the Dalai Lama, one prominent philosophical theologian who has dealt head-on with the question of whether Christ is the only Lord and Savior is John Cobb Jr., 69, professor emeritus at the School of Theology at Claremont in California and author of 19 books.
Cobb was raised by American Christian missionaries in Japan, where he attended a Canadian-run school. He was a highly devout Christian, the kind of boy who, instead of spending his money on candy, sent it to a mission for lepers in the Sudan.
Cobb was also bright. He ended up at the University of Chicago where, with a handful of young scholars that included Robert Pirsig, who would later write Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, he entered a graduate program through which he was determined to expose himself to all the objections to Christianity produced by the modern world.
Led by acclaimed philosopher RIchard McKeon, it must have been some program. It caused Cobb to lose his faith within six months. It also may have contributed to a psychological breakdown in Pirsig.
While Pirsig took decades to recover before writing his famous novel based on Greek and Eastern philosophy, Cobb began slowly reconstructing a new Christology, an understanding of Jesus's religious significance, that would stand up to scrutiny in a pluralistic, multifaith world.
By systematically mapping out a theology that has similarities to the intuitive spiritual worldview of Lynn Johnston, Cobb has come to be ranked among the world's leading Christian thinkers. The only living theologians whom religious historian Martin Marty profiles in his definitive book A Handbook of Christian Theologians are Jurgen Moltmann, Wolfhart Pannenberg, Hans Kung, David Tracy and Cobb.
Cobb, who continues to regularly attend Methodist church, is determined to show that televangelists such as Jerry Falwell (who say those who don't believe in Christ will go to hell) have not cornered the market on Christianity.
So what does it mean to be the Christ?
The short answer, for Cobb, is that Christ is creative transformation, which is the essence of God.
Jesus embodied the idea of creative transformation by being open to all. He hung out with the outcasts of ancient society — low-class women, tax collectors for the Roman occupiers, children — and challenged the social and religious hierarchy. He blended and improved on ideas from Jewish and Greek tradition.
"I believe that it is precisely in Jesus that we see the transforming work of Christ most vividly manifest. The scholarship of the last generation has demonstrated that what is distinctive about Jesus's teaching is not so much a particular content as it is the way he challenged and broke open the deep-seated habits in the minds of his listeners," says Cobb, who frequently teaches at mainline seminaries in Vancouver and other Canadian cities.
"The end Jesus sought was neither to leave the listeners shattered nor to replace with a new content all that they had previously believed. It was instead to transform the whole of their understanding and belief through the shock of new recognition."
Cobb says Jesus deserves the title Christ because he acted as a unique conduit for God, who is the source of all creative transformation: all novelty, freedom, beauty, truth and goodness.
God, Cobb says, calls all of the universe to creative transformation, to health and wholeness. God lures everything, from the tiniest plant cell to the most complex human mind, to growth.
For today's Christians to follow in the transforming path of Christ, Cobb believes they should welcome the chance to learn from scientists, feminists, Buddhists, environmentalists, Muslims — whomever.
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However, this shouldn't lead to Christians just caving in and blindly accepting everyone else's ideas.
It means, for example, offering the insights and truth of Christ to a Buddhist while being eager to learn from Buddhism.
It may mean coming to realize that religions offer different truths, different goals. For example, Buddhists seek escape from suffering through enlightenment while Christians strive to serve Christ by improving this earthly realm.
Unlike many Christians, Cobb does not think the truth of Christianity lies in believing that Jesus rose bodily from the dead. Resurrection stories are relatively common in Indian religion, where they suggest only that an individual is holy, not that he is supernaturally superior.
Cobb ends up challenging many Christians when he says he doesn't believe Jesus was actually God.
Or, to use traditional theological language, Cobb doesn't think Jesus was God incarnate.
Instead, he says Jesus was a special incarnation of God. God's presence in Jesus seemed to be one with Jesus's very selfhood. Jesus was not perfect, since he was a human, but Jesus embodied God in a uniquely complete manner.
In this way, Jesus was divine.
But other people are capable of embodying divinity too. Nevertheless, Cobb affirms that Jesus Christ is Lord and Savior for him.
That belief doesn't give Cobb an automatic ticket to heaven. It simply commits Cobb to being a follower of Jesus.
It means Cobb tries to shape his life in the way Jesus taught — he tries to live a life of creative transformation (including putting others before himself).
What follows is the revelation arrived at by a fictional character named Thomas, a conservative seminary student, in Cobb's book Doubting Thomas: Christology in Story Form.
After months of struggling with new ways of understanding Christ, Thomas finally tells his wife:
"Now I see that Jesus saves me from the need to cling to a particular theology, that he frees me to be open to new ideas — to truth whatever it is. I'm excited by that. I think I understand why his yoke is easy and his burden is light, how he is truly life and light and the way for me to follow. "I feel that the spirit he gave is with me as I've never felt it before. I feel free to love everyone, whatever they believe. I don't need to defend Christianity any more. Its truth will win the day and the chaff, of which there has been so much, will blow away."
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Q: how to use a custom signal with QStateMachine addtransition 'm trying to figure out how to use my own custom signals in combination with QStateMachine.  I started with a simple example from here. Now I'm trying to create a new signal mysignal and trigger a transition off of it. But I can't figure out how to structure the call to addtransition, or how to use the SIGNAL("clicked()") syntax to refer to mysignal.
from PyQt4.QtGui import *
from PyQt4.QtCore import *

if __name__ == '__main__':
    import sys
    app = QApplication(sys.argv)
    button = QPushButton()
    machine = QStateMachine()

    off = QState()
    off.assignProperty(button, 'text', 'Off')
    off.setObjectName('off')

    on = QState()
    on.setObjectName('on')
    on.assignProperty(button, 'text', 'On')

    mysignal = pyqtSignal()

    off.addTransition(mysignal, on)
    # Let's use the new style signals just for the kicks.
    on.addTransition(button.clicked, off)

    machine.addState(off)
    machine.addState(on)
    machine.setInitialState(off)
    machine.start()
    mysignal.emit()
    button.resize(100, 50)
    button.show()
    sys.exit(app.exec_())

A: A custom signal must be defined as a class attribute (see New-style Signal and Slot Support in the PyQt docs). So the code in your example needs to be refactored so that all the setup happens in the __init__ of a widget subclass.
Below is a demo that does that (in order to trigger the custom signal and its state transition, you must type "foo" in the line-edit whenever the button text shows "Foo"):
from PyQt4 import QtCore, QtGui

class Window(QtGui.QWidget):
    customSignal = QtCore.pyqtSignal()

    def __init__(self):
        QtGui.QWidget.__init__(self)
        self.edit = QtGui.QLineEdit(self)
        self.edit.textChanged.connect(self.handleTextChanged)
        self.button = QtGui.QPushButton(self)
        layout = QtGui.QVBoxLayout(self)
        layout.addWidget(self.edit)
        layout.addWidget(self.button)
        self.machine = QtCore.QStateMachine()
        self.off = QtCore.QState()
        self.off.assignProperty(self.button, 'text', 'Off')
        self.on = QtCore.QState()
        self.on.assignProperty(self.button, 'text', 'On')
        self.foo = QtCore.QState()
        self.foo.assignProperty(self.button, 'text', 'Foo')
        self.off.addTransition(self.button.clicked, self.on)
        self.on.addTransition(self.button.clicked, self.foo)
        self.foo.addTransition(self.customSignal, self.off)
        self.machine.addState(self.off)
        self.machine.addState(self.on)
        self.machine.addState(self.foo)
        self.machine.setInitialState(self.off)
        self.machine.start()

    def handleTextChanged(self, text):
        if text == 'foo':
            self.edit.clear()
            self.customSignal.emit()

if __name__ == '__main__':

    import sys
    app = QtGui.QApplication(sys.argv)
    window = Window()
    window.show()
    window.setGeometry(500, 300, 100, 100)
    sys.exit(app.exec_())


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Woolmer Green facts for kids
Woolmer Green is a village in Hertfordshire, England.
Woolmer Green independence
The railway through Woolmer Green
Woolmer Green Village Hall
Situated between the villages of Welwyn and Knebworth, Woolmer Green was first settled in the Iron Age. The Belgae colonised the area in the 1st century BC, and later it was settled by the Romans. Many Roman artefacts have been found in the surrounding area with a Roman bath house existing at nearby Welwyn. The village was at the junction of two thoroughfares, the Great North Road and another road called Stane Street (or Stone Street) from St Albans. The route of this road runs across the parish along the path of Robbery Bottom Lane, continuing on as a public bridleway to Datchworth and then Braughing, on its eventual way to another major Roman town, Colchester.
Thomas de Wolvesmere is recorded as having lived in a dwelling here in 1297, and his name is considered to have led to the current name of the village.
Woolmer Green has always been one of those places which is "neither here nor there". In the Middle Ages part of the village was in Mardleybury Manor, part in Rectory Manor, with the northern part owing allegiance to Broadwater Manor or Knebworth. Things have not changed; the village is still at the point where the Districts of North Hertfordshire, East Hertfordshire and Welwyn Hatfield meet.
Apart from the trade generated by travellers, life in Woolmer Green was agricultural and feudal until the middle of the nineteenth century. Things started to change, however, when the railway arrived in 1850 (although the nearby station in Knebworth was not opened until 1884 after intervention from Viscount Knebworth). The village school, which was opened a few years after this, obtained much funding from the railway.
In 1863, only a gunsmith and a shoemaker were listed in the trade directory. By 1898, when the population of Woolmer Green stood at 363 and that of Knebworth at 382, there were five shops including two beer retailers; no mention in the trade directory of the many 'front room shops'! This level of service persisted until recent years with a general store and Post Office, a baker, a small supermarket and a butcher. These have all now closed.
The main road through the centre of the village was still the Great North Road down which thousands of cattle and sheep were driven 'on the hoof' to London markets each year. The area around Knebworth and Woolmer Green provided what was probably the last overnight stop for the animals and their drovers before they reached London.
During the 20th century the village became a popular destination for tourists travelling to and from London as it lies on the old Great North Road from London to Edinburgh. Many who passed along the road would have visited the cottage inhabited by the late Harry McDonald, who for many years adorned both the cottage and garden with intricate carvings of animals and other objects. He became famous as the Woodcarver of Woolmer Green. The Woodcarvers Cottage, as it came to be known, was demolished after his death.
Prior to the millennium year, 2000, Woolmer Green was part of the parish of Welwyn for local government purposes. In that year, however, the parish gained its independence from its neighbour, and the inaugural meeting of the Parish Council was held in May 2000. The first chairman of the new Woolmer Green Parish Council, Judith Watson, was instrumental in achieving the separation.
The boundary between Woolmer Green and Welwyn parishes is formed by the path of the East Coast Mainline railway. The small viaduct to the south of the Parish, at the end of Robbery Bottom Lane, follows the same basic design as the long Digswell Viaduct. It was designed by William Cubitt and built by Thomas Brassey between 1848 and 1850 for the sum of £4,643. There are seven arches with a height above the roadway of 17m and a length of 60m. The viaduct and the bridges over London Road and Heath Road are all original, dating from when the railway was first built, although they have been strengthened and the parapets raised.
Immediately to the south of the viaduct the railway enters the first of two tunnels (with a very short open section in the middle) between Woolmer Green and the station at Welwyn North. The first tunnel heading south was the site of a notorious accident in 1866.
There was a temporary railway halt at Woolmer Green during the war which was used by soldiers, but nowadays the nearest station is just down the road at Knebworth.
The parish has an excellent modern Village Hall and adjoining sports field which are very actively used by the community. The hall was opened in November 1990 by local celebrity Barry Norman and is licensed for wedding ceremonies.
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Ching, Larry. Till the End of Time. Forbidden City, 2003. CD.
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Forbidden City. Dir. Arthur Dong. Perf. Larry Ching, Frances Chun, Charlie Low. Deep Focus Productions, 1989. Film.
Gorman, Amy. Aging Artfully: 12 Profiles: Visual & Performing Women Artists Aged 85-105. 2006. Berkeley: Pal Publishing, 2009. Print.
Hollywood Chinese: The Chinese in American Feature Films. Dir. Arthur Dong. Perf. Turhan Bey, Joan Chen, Tsai Chin. Deep Focus Productions, 2007. Film.
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Waggoner, Susan. Nightclub Nights: Art, Legend, and Style, 1920-1960. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 2001. Print.
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Q: C# How to use one click event handler for multiple buttons
Possible Duplicate:
C# Sending buttonclicks to same Object

I have a lot of buttons in my project. To make the program I shorter have made every click of a button to the same "Button_click" method by editing the Designer.cs file and pointing every click to my method.
 this.button1.Click += new System.EventHandler(this.Mymethod);

How can I identify which button that has been pressed in the Mymethod method?
Thanks!

A: MyMethod must be declared this way:
void Mymethod (object sender, EventArgs e)
{
   if (sender == btn1)
      MessageBox.Show ("Button1");
}

Use the sender argument.  This is your button (the object that raised the event).

A: The click handler is usually structured like this:
protected void MyButton_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)

In this, what you're looking for is object sender.  That will be a reference to the control which sent the click event.  It's boxed as an object but if you know the type (in your case you say they're all buttons) then you can cast it:
var myButton = (Button)sender;

A: You will probably find that a much cleaner approach to this problem is to set the CommandName and CommandArgument of each button and instead of using OnClick use a shared OnCommand handler.
That handler will accept a CommandEventArgs parameter instead of an EventArgs parameter, and you'll be able to interrogate it directly to see the CommandName and CommandArgument of the button clicked.

A: set tag property of all buttons that wanna  to have same click handle to a number like  1
and call this in form constructor to set all buttons click event handler
 public void SetButtonClick(Control parent)
    {
        if (parent is Button)
        {
                (parent as Button).Click += new EventHandler(this.Mymethod);
        }
        foreach (Control item in parent.Controls)
        {
            SetButtonClick(item);
        }
    }

for checking which button pressed check button Tag


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Being national is the condition of our times, yet never before has the idea of the nation been under such scrutiny. With the collapse of the bi-polar world of the Cold War, there has also been a parallel rise in the subnational--the claims of local, regional, and ethnic minorities--economic globalization, American cultural hegemony, international migration, and diasporization. In Becoming National Eley and Suny, two of the foremost authorities on nationalism, acknowledge these changes by combinging a diverse selection of readings with a unifying introduction and instructive headnotes, creating a text that moves the discussion of nationalism onto a new and contemporary level. Each group of readings is introduced by a brief historical essay, and the readings are fully annotated. Emphasizing the recent intellectual advances and influential ideas of Miroslav Hroch, Benedict Anderson, Paul Gilroy, Stuart Hall, Lauren Berlant, and a host of others, this book underscores the nineteenth and twentieth century nationalist theories to show not only where scholars of nationalism have been but where they are going. Drawing on the strengths of recent cultural studies, including race and gender identities, the editors show that though politics is the ground upon which nationalism is constructed, culture is the terrain on which it is elaborated and fought over.


War of the Rebellion: Serial 039 Page 1012 N. VA., W. VA., MD., AND PA. Chapter XXXVII.
From here I proceeded some 300 or 400 yards outside of our extreme left, to within about 100 yards of the enemy's skirmishers, and about 100 yards from the edge of the woods. The position enabled me to see that an attack on our present front (which had not yet been changed) was wholly impracticable, involving a large loss of life in a division already decimated, and without any certainty of gaining possession of their works, which looked extensive and certainly very formidable. I found their skirmishers, as above stated, about 100 yards distant, drawn across the open field in front of their works, except on the extreme left, where none appeared. They had a triple line of works, however, which faced at right angles to our front. From this triple line two heavy lines of infantry were drawn, with artillery in front, about 50 to 75 yards in rear of their skirmishers, on a line parallel to our advance, and reaching to the woods on their right, or our left. By this arrangement the enemy overlapped our division by from 400 to 500 yards. Having gained all the information I deemed necessary, I returned to General Colston. In going to him, however, and in passing in rear of the Fourth Brigade, I found them breaking badly, and assisted in rallying them; then reported to General Colston, and found he had withdrawn the division from its position and was returning to the Plank road. Thence it was transferred into a line of trenches made by the enemy, but abandoned by them, running at about right angles to the Plank road. The division remained here until next morning. Thus ended May 3.
From what I have subsequently seen of the position last held or occupied by the enemy, I am only confirmed in my previous impression that our division was entirely inadequate for the purpose of attacking in reality the enemy in a position selected by him, and strengthened immensely by the erection of works for both infantry and artillery. That no other division made the attempt proves that it was so thought by the general commanding. The attack, if any at all, should have been made from a position more to the right of us, ranging from half to three-fourths of a mile, from whence the enemy's works might perhaps have been taken in flank, and thus compelled their evacuation.
There may be some inaccuracies in the narrative now submitted, but I believe it to be correct in the main points. It is drawn entirely from memory, and hence liable to mistake. I have confined myself strictly to what I have seen.
First Lieutenant, Corps Engrs., P. A. C. S., and Chief Engr. Trimble's Div.
Numbers 399. Report of Colonel J. H. S. Funk, Fifth Virginia Infantry, commanding Paxton's brigade.
HEADQUARTERS PAXTON'S BRIGADE, May 26, 1863.


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It seems commonsense to say that the government should not spend public funds to support one particular candidate or cause in a public election, yet that is exactly what the government of Montgomery County, Maryland has done. In an ongoing case against the county, CIR has filed an amicus brief to convince the courts that government electioneering is always bad for democracy.
Like most jurisdictions across the country, Montgomery County allows its citizens the opportunity to overturn any legislation through a public referendum. So as long as citizens collect the requisite number of petitions, they are free to launch a campaign to overturn any locally enacted statute.
On August 1, 2011, Montgomery County passed a law that stripped junior police officers of the right of "effects bargaining." Effects bargaining, previously enshrined in Montgomery County law, required changes in budgets and agency restructuring to be subject to collective bargaining based on the effects those changes have on police officers.
Pursuant to county law, the Fraternal Order of Police collected enough signatures to hold a referendum and began to wage a campaign to restore the rights of junior police officers.
Instead of allowing a public debate to take its course in the free market of ideas, the county government began waging a thoroughly political campaign in support of the law. Using public funds, the county government purchased signs, conducted email campaigns, and instructed county employees on county time to design and distribute posters, yard signs, and flyers. By the end of the campaign, the county had spent over $122,000 of public funds – over ten percent of the Public Information budget – on political messaging in support of their law.
Because direct democracy allows the people to bypass elected officials, governments composed of those officials should not interfere in the referendum process. Government electioneering in direct democracy weakens, in a particularly perverse way, the vital corrective role that referendum play in self-government.
Essentially, the County Executive authorized the use of political funds to benefit the campaign of his own party and to benefit his own party's elected officials. When government officials are permitted to spend public funds on partisan campaigns, it is the people that suffer. When a question has been put on the ballot for the people to consider, it is usually because the organs of elected government have failed to consider the people's voice on that issue.
When the Court of Appeals of Maryland agreed to hear the case, CIR filed an amicus brief in support of the Fraternal Order of Police. Our brief argues that democracy suffers when the government is allowed to engage in partisan electioneering. CIR believes elected officials should not be allowed to spend public funds in support of their own partisan campaigns.


I'm looking forward to tomorrow's "Who Do You Think You Are?" because actor Chris O'Donnell stops in St. Louis, my stomping grounds during college and briefly thereafter.
Although I wasn't researching genealogy in earnest at that time, I did have an appreciation for St. Louis' rich history and I loved to visit the Missouri History Museum. I wonder what St. Louis sites will make an appearance in the show?
On Tuesday's episode, O'Donnell also visits Fort McHenry in Baltimore (I'm predicting a War of 1812 connection), the National Archives in Washington, DC, and the Smithsonian Institution.
"Who Do You Think You Are?" (the US version) airs at 9/8 Central on TLC. If you miss it, episodes are being posted to the show's website after they air. With getting ready for the FGS conference in Fort Wayne, Ind., this week, I might have to avail myself of that option.
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Help your child develop socially; through group-oriented activities. Children learn to cooperate, collaborate, negotiate and develop an understanding and respect for others.
Help your child develop intelligence and imagination, children learn by doing! Through touching, investigating and exploring. Children will become well rounded in mathematics, sensory, music, art, language, science and practical life.
Help your child develop a high sense of self-esteem; each new step is built on the skills that the child has already mastered, so failure is eliminated.
Fostering curiosity in a child; children have a natural desire to know. Curiosity is a prerequisite for creative learning.
Developing in your child a positive attitude towards school and learning; children should have a balance of learning and fun, structure and choice, group and individual exploration, along with uninterrupted time to explore, inquire and grow.
Developing your child's habits of initiative and persistence; through choice, children become accustomed to choose their own work, which encourages leadership skills, and initiative which inspires individual growth. Trial and error.
Assisting your child in building good listening and concentration skills; through these experiences, your child will form positive listening, attention and concentration skills.
Initiating inner security, self-discipline and a sense of order; an atmosphere with a sense of order to explore, learn and have fun.
Helping your child develop sensory motor skills; through the activities the children gain control over their muscles and movement.
Encouraging your child's senses through stimulation and sharpening his/hers ability to discriminate and judge; providing challenging sorting and matching activities which distinguishes differences and similarities in size, shape, colours, textures, smells and sounds etc.
These exercises are exciting to children because they allow them to imitate adults. They learn to respect themselves and their environment.
Helps the children to distinguish, categorize and relate to new information in a way they already know. They learn through touching, smelling, seeing, tasting and exploring.
If children are exposed to mathematics material in earlier years, they can easily assimilate many facts and skills of arithmetic. They learn through operations with concrete materials – blocks, number rods and beads instead of memorizing addition, subtraction and multiplication tables.
Children learn phonetic sounds before they learn alphabetical names. Reading instruction begins on the day a child wants to know what a word says or when he shows interest in a Montessori activity using sandpaper letters.
Large wooden puzzle maps are the most popular activities. Gradually they learn names of provinces, countries, climate and products and animals of different countries.
Time lines are used to introduce history.
Children gain an awareness of the world around them by exploring other countries, their customs, foods, music, climate, language and animals.
Children study the basic food groups and learn what their bodies need to be healthy.
Children have the freedom to explore their imaginations with a variety of materials and crafts used for expression.
Children's natural curiosity is stimulated through discovery projects and experiments, helping children draw their own conclusions. Plants and animals are studied to foster a love and appreciation for living things.
French is part of the weekly program. This program gives an introduction to the French language, learning simple vocabulary and basic pronunciation of French words. They are introduced to numbers, colours and simple songs.
We encourage punctuality; arriving and picking up on time helps the child develop a routine. No student will be released from the school until an authorized adult picks them up. If arrangements have been made for another adult to pick up your child, the school must be notified in advance.


Heat charcoal, preferably natural chunk, until grey ash appears. In a blender, put in oil, soy sauce, scallions, garlic, lime juice, red pepper, cumin, and sugar and puree. In a large heavy duty, zip top bag, put pieces of skirt steak and pour in marinade. Seal bag, removing as much air as possible. Allow steak to marinate for 1 hour in refrigerator.
Remove steak from bag and pat dry with paper towels. Using a blow dryer, blow charcoal clean of ash. Once clean of ash lay steaks directly onto hot coals for 1 minute per side. When finished cooking, place meat in double thickness of aluminum foil, wrap, and allow to sit for 15 minutes.
Remove meat from foil, reserving foil and juices. Slice thinly across the grain of the meat. Return to foil pouch and toss with juice. Serve with grilled peppers and onions, if desired.


3 Reason to Add a Patio Cover to Your Home - Canopy Concepts, Inc.
1. Expand your living space – Next time you visit a friend's home and they are entertaining outdoors, observe where people gather. If there is an umbrella, gazebo or some type of awning people will always seek a shaded area. A patio cover will create a large shaded area that will attract people and enhance their enjoyment. Remember-the area you cover is the area you use.
2. Protect your home and outdoor furnishings – When we do our in-home estimates we frequently meet homeowners who want protection from direct sun and rain. Weather can damage and eventually ruin exposed doors and windows. Another common problem is decks and balconies that leak. The answer to these problems is a full shade patio cover.
Outdoor kitchens have become very popular backyard remodeling projects. Why spend thousands of dollars on expensive barbecue equipment and outdoor furniture and leave it exposed to the sun and rain? A lattice patio cover will provide 70% shade and still allow light and ventilation on the covered area.
3. Add value to your home – A majority of our customers hire us to replace their old patio cover (once they have one they can't live without it). After we remove the old patio cover it is always striking how bare and unfinished the backyard patio area looks. Homes are usually built with a porch or some type of landing at the front entrance. This provides a warm, inviting look to the house. The same applies to the rear of the house. A patio cover will not only add living space but makes the back of you house look completed.


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Using LabVIEW to Create FDA 21 CFR 11 Compliant Applications
This document describes how to use the LabVIEW Datalogging and Supervisory Control (DSC) module to develop an application that is compliant with the FDA 21 CFR Part 11 regulation, which covers electronic signatures and electronic records. In the past, most data gathering was done by hand, and the FDA required that these documents contain the written signature of the person that generated it. Now, almost all data is recorded on computers. The 21 CFR Part 11 regulation delineates how data should be stored electronically and how electronic signatures should be applied to this data. The complete regulation is available to view at www.fda.gov.
In addition, you can download from the NI Developer Zone detailed instructions on programming a 21 CFR Part 11-compliant application and a complete LabVIEW example, 21 CFR Part 11 Application Example that complies with the 21 CFR Part 11 requirements.
11.10 Controls for Closed Systems
11.50 Signature Manifestations
11.100 General Requirements
11.200 Electronic Signature and Components and Controls
11.300 Controls for Identification Codes/Passwords
With LabVIEW and the DSC module, you can easily create applications that are compliant with FDA regulation 21 CFR Part 11. LabVIEW is a graphical development environment with built-in functionality for data acquisition, instrument control, measurement analysis, and data presentation. LabVIEW provides the flexibility of a powerful programming language without the complexity of traditional development environments. The DSC module is an add-on module for the LabVIEW development environment that offers data management tools, such as easy-to-use I/O configuration for high-channel-count applications, automatic data logging, full alarm management, event logging, and real-time and historical trending. Also, with easy networking, a networked real-time database for distributed logging, built-in security, and OPC connectivity, you can use the DSC module to get your application up and running easily and quickly.
LabVIEW and the DSC module are not 21 CFR Part 11-compliant applications but are design tools you can use to create 21 CFR Part 11-compliant applications. This document discusses how you use the DSC module to create an application that is compliant with the 21 CFR Part 11 regulation. Each relevant section of the 21 CFR Part 11 regulation is listed below, followed by a detailed description on how to meet this requirement using the DSC module.
(a) The ability to generate accurate and complete copies of records in both human readable and electronic form suitable for inspection, review, and copying by the agency. Persons should contact the agency if there are questions regarding the ability of the agency to perform such review and copying of the electronic records.
The DSC module writes all its records to an SQL-compliant historical database. You can make SQL queries from various software applications, such as Access and Excel, and present the data from these applications. Refer to the tutorial, "Accessing Citadel Data from Other Software," from the NI Developer Zone on ni.com/devzone for information about how to query the database. In addition to presenting the data from one of these applications, you can use Measurement & Automation Explorer (MAX) to view the historical data.
(b) Protection of records to enable their accurate and ready retrieval throughout the records retention period.
The DSC module historical database protects the records from being altered or modified. You can make SQL queries to view the data, but you cannot change the data. In addition, to prevent data loss, you must ensure that the file directory in which the database resides is kept intact by using a variety of security software, including the native security available with most Windows operating systems.
(c) Limiting system access to authorized individuals.
The DSC module is password protected. You can limit system actions to individuals with specified user names and passwords. Also, a user with administrator access must log in to be able to access the User Account Manager, which controls the access of all users. You also can programmatically restrict use of the applications to users who are logged into the system.
(d) Use of secure, computer-generated, time-stamped audit trails to independently record the date and time of operator entries and actions that create, modify, or delete electronic records. Record changes shall not obscure previously recorded information. Such audit trail documentation shall be retained for a period at least as long as that required for the subject electronic records and shall be available for agency review and copy.
With the DSC module, you specify which information you want to log to the database. Data you write to the database includes a timestamp. Changes to the value you log to the database do not overwrite previous values. The database records the new value as a change in the value, to ensure the integrity of the audit trail. You can keep the historical data and its corresponding audit trail as long as you want, limited only by disk space.
(e) Use of authority checks to ensure that only authorized individuals can use the system, electronically sign a record, access the operation or computer system input or output device, alter a record, or perform the operation at hand.
The DSC module has a login feature that developers can use to limit access to any feature of the application. The login can cover anything inside the DSC module application. The operating system or another security program needs to protect anything outside of the LabVIEW environment. For example, you can use the Windows login to protect your files.
(a) Signed electronic records shall contain information associated with the signing that clearly indicates all of the following:
(1) The printed name of the signer.
You can programmatically get the printed name of the signer and log this information to the database.
(2) The date and time the signature was executed.
The date and time is attached to all data logged to the database.
(3) The meaning (such as review, approval, responsibility, or authorship) associated with the signature.
You can design the application so that when a user applies an electronic signature, he/she must choose the meaning of the signature from a list, such as review, approval, responsibility, or authorship. The DSC module can write these meanings to the database with the signature.
(b) The items identified in paragraphs (a)(1), (a)(2), and (a)(3) of this section shall be subject to the same controls as for electronic records and shall be included as part of any human readable form of the electronic record (such as electronic or printout).
All the information in part (a) of this section is written to the database. Therefore, you can use SQL queries or MAX to retrieve it in the same way you can retrieve all other data written to the database.
(a) Each electronic signature shall be unique to one individual and shall not be reused by, or reassigned to, anyone else.
The DSC module currently permits only unique logins. If you disable all accounts after they expire, you can ensure no duplication or reuse of the account names.
(a) Electronic signatures that are not based upon biometrics shall:
(1) Employ at least two distinct identification components such as an identification code and password.
The DSC module has a sign-in that requires a user name and password. You can invoke the sign-in programmatically in your application.
(i) When an individual executes a series of signings during a single, continuous period of controlled system access, the first signing shall be executed using all electronic signature components; subsequent signings shall be executed using at least one electronic signature component that is only executable by, and designed to be used by, the individual.
You can programmatically invoke the DSC module login to require a user to provide user name and password before granting access to the system. You also can get the user name programmatically, so you can require a user name for a subsequent signing.
(ii) When an individual executes one or more signings not performed during a single, continuous period of controlled system access, each signing shall be executed using all of the electronic signature components.
The DSC module includes a function to programmatically log out a user. In addition, you can design your application so that a user clicks a button to log out if he/she needs to leave the system. The DSC module also has an automatic logout feature. You can configure a time period of inactivity after which the user is automatically signed out to ensure that the system is vulnerable only for the amount of time you set. Once users sign out, they must provide their user name and password to access the system again.
(3) Be administered and executed to ensure that attempted use of an individual's electronic signature by anyone other than its genuine owner requires collaboration of two or more individuals.
Along with unique login names, the DSC module includes a feature to disable a user account after a specified number of consecutive failed login attempts. The administrator can specify how many consecutive failed login attempts will lock out a user name. Once the account is disabled, users cannot use that account to access the system until an administrator enables the account again.
Persons who use electronic signatures based upon use of identification codes in combination with passwords shall employ controls to ensure their security and integrity. Such controls shall include:
(a) Maintaining the uniqueness of each combined identification code and password, such that no two individuals have the same combination of identification code and password.
The DSC module requires unique user names.
(b) Ensuring that identification code and password issuances are periodically checked, recalled, or revised.
With the DSC module, the administrator sets the amount of time a password is valid. After this time period, the user account is disabled until the administrator changes the password.
(c) Following loss management procedures to electronically deauthorize lost, stolen, missing, or otherwise potentially compromised tokens, cards or password information, and to issue temporary or permanent replacements using suitable, rigorous controls.
Although it is ultimately the responsibility of the developer to implement procedures to ensure that this regulation is met, the DSC module provides you with some tools to help. The locking out of user names that fail consecutive logins can help to identify a compromised user name. Also, the administrator can deactivate any user name and can add a new temporary user name and password if necessary.
(d) Use of transaction safeguards to prevent unauthorized use of passwords and/or identification codes, and to detect and report in an immediate and urgent manner any attempts at their unauthorized use to the system security unit, and, as appropriate, to organizational management.
The user lockout feature after a specified number of consecutive failed logins is a safeguard against unauthorized access to the system. In addition to this feature, you can log any failed login in a system file that the administrator can monitor to be notified of the failed events.
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For thousands of years, humans have been using Tattoos as a way to show their affinity for text, symbols (7 images to represent themselves and decorate their body. In ancient times tattoos were believed to be used as shields to protect them from the unknown. One such belief from ancient Egypt was during pregnancy, women would tattoo a figure of a deity on their thighs which was believed to protect them during childbirth. Even today people use tattoo as a way to express their spirituality and religious beliefs. Tattoos with a meaning attached to a person can be expressed as a road sign signifying the spiritual journey of a person. One such way of wearing your faith as fashion can be done through God tattoos in Hindu religion. An interesting fact is that Hindu religion is believed to have over 33 Million Gods and each God is believed to have a unique power or blessing to provide the deity.
Ganesha known as the remover of obstacles is one of the most worshipped by Hindu. He has a head of an elephant which symbolises wisdom and a potbelly which symbolises he can digest all pleasant and unpleasant things in life. Ganesha playing the flute in this tattoo lilse Krishna reminds us to enjoy life through music.
Lord Krishna is believed to be the creator and maintainer of the universe. With childlike innocence on the face, he is the one who attracts all and provides them bliss. The tattoo symbolises his love for the world through his eyes and wearing a morphine which contains all seven colours and is regarded as a blissful bird.
Tattoo with a view of Krishna and the universe just created, as according to Bhagavad-Gita the creator of the universe is Lord Krishna. A good reminder of the universe being created as Krishna is playing his flute for us to enjoy the life given to us.
A powerful looking Ganesha tattoo with his trunks turned to the right which denotes siddhi. This is the reason Ganesha is also called as Sidhdhi Vinayals. The tattoo symbolizes positivity, power, and lot of strength to overcome all the obstacles in our life.
This tattoo is a mixture of the National emblem of India with a portrait of Vishnu Cr Krishna.


My 2003 Pleasureway Ford XLTS interior is holding up nicely, except the fabric on the entrance wall (see pic). I want to recover the wall, probably with a solid veneer to match the cabinetry, but I don't know how to disassemble this thing without damaging the trim or other parts. I like to do stuff myself, but not sure if this is too dangerous to tackle.
Does anyone have experience with this? Or should I just take it in to the professionals?
I called Pleasureway and talked to Mike on the technical help desk. (I love that they have a help desk.) He couldn't offer any specific instructions, but did suggest that I carefully remove the screws and caulking and see if it comes apart. He recommended re-upholstering with vinyl instead of the original woven fabric, for better durability.
I guess this will be an "exploratory". I'll take pictures, and if successful, I'll post them here.
In case you feel inhibited by having to remove the existing panel and therewith running into problems you may not appreciate, another work around is to make a panel that is wrapped in Vinyl, and screw (or glue) that against the existing panel.
You can use thin plywood as a base. so that it doesnt make the addition too thick.
Make a template of the shape first in cardboard, then transfer that shape to the plywood and cut the shape. Wrap it in vinyl that you can glue on and wrap the edges of the vinyl around the plywood. Depending on the thickness of the plywood you could staple, but glueing should work also. Then either screw the panel over the old and voila, a new pretty look.
Some inspiration for the project here.
Thanks Henk. That would be a good alternative if this removal gets complicated. Now that I think of it, I could even cut a piece of formica or similar hard material and apply that onto the wall. The trick would be to cut it neatly and accurately for a good fit. Your idea for a vinyl-wrapped surface might be a little more "forgiving".
you could run a rubber bead around the edge of a hard surface to hide imperfections, or some other flexible type molding that has a bulb type contour.
I pulled a panel by the door to install an assist handle on the outside on my Roadtrek. It was easy to get it off and as easy to get it back on. I doubt your unit is much different in its application. There are many fabrics that are as easy to maintain as vinyl. Just discourage white! Pop the screw covers off, unscrew, cover panel (not too heavy a fabric as will bunch up at corners and clip your corners with v shaped cut) and rescrew panel back on. Have fun!
I forgot. A hot glue gun REALLY helps to secure fabric to panel on back. I used to recover chair cushions, etc using staple gun. Now I use glue gun and never had a failure and that with folk sitting constantly on them. On your wall I can't imagine failure of application. BTW, find glue gun great way to secure electric wires to counteract constant movement of RV. Used to have problems with running lights failing. Started hot gluing wires securely and no more problems.
1. Removed the lightswitch, handrail and fire extinguisher.
2. Started with a bunch of cardboard, pieced together with masking tape, to get the rough shape.
3. Traced that shape onto some thick paper, and carefully cut it to the correct shape to fit precisely. Cutouts for the lightswitch and fire extinguisher.
4. Traced the finished shape onto thin MDF, which I cut with a jigsaw.
6. Now I just need to place 3 or 4 extra screws to firmly hold the MDF in place.
7. While I had my template, I cut another MDF copy, which my wife has plans to upholster, but for now I think it looks pretty good just "naked".
Good job. Was easier for me to just take off. Why? I always mess up the measurements! LOL It often surprises me when I see how others attack a problem. I LEARN A LOT!


Amongst other signs of an upsurge in interest in woodlands has been the appearance of a number of programmes about them, of which I was reminded by a recent rerun. Woodlands of course have been a staple of wildlife TV for years, but what made these new programmes different was their focus on people as a part of the woodland habitat.
It could be argued that such a focus actually began with the 'Woodland House' episode of Grand Designs featuring Ben Law, ten years ago now, but in truth there has been little in the intervening years (apart from occasional 'revisits' to Prickly Nut Wood). Until last autumn, that is, when in quick succession we had 'Jimmy's Forest', with Jimmy Doherty; 'Kevin McCloud's Man Made Home', and 'Tales from the Wildwood' with Rob Penn. Just for fun, I thought I'd give my personal take on all four series.
Grand Design's 'Woodland House' set the standard, showing the general public that building attractive and comfortable homes from locally-sourced materials was not just possible, but affordable too. Ben Law's wider philosophy towards his woodland came over well, and Kevin McCloud was clearly deeply struck by the project.
Jimmy Doherty is a lovely guy and has done great things in the field of food production. However, for me, 'Jimmy's Forest' felt a bit contrived; many of the activities shown gave the impression of being set-up for the cameras rather than 'fly on the wall' footage of what was happening anyway. Indeed, I wondered how much time Jimmy actually spent in his wood when the cameras weren't there.
'Tales from the Wild Wood' not only had a slightly off-putting title, but a bit of a shaky start: who can forget Pablo (was it Pablo?), the Spanish forestry 'expert', and his extremely dodgy approach to freeing a hung-up ash. However, after this things settled down and the programme became a thoughtful exploration of many pertinent woodland issues (worth a second series, BBC 4).
So for me, Grand Designs & Tales from the Wild Wood jointly take the 'Woodland BAFTA'. I'd like perhaps to see something a bit more 'edgy' in future programmes if we get them – examining why, for example, there is so little diversity in our approach to woodland management, which apart from anything else leaves us dangerously exposed to future uncertainties.
Of the 7000 species native to the uk around 4,000 are edible,and some enter the category of superfood,given the high incidence of omega 's and anti oxidants .
Could be a good series in this?


Do you ever wonder how the PTA money that is raised is actually put into action? Funding Teacher Grants is just one of the many important line items in our budget. Each grant cycle (Fall, Winter, Spring) we award up to $2,000 in grant money. Teachers and staff submit grant applications with a maximum request of $500, and the PTA Executive Board reviews the applications with a goal of funding as many projects as possible within the allotted budget. This cycle, we were able to award grants for all of the applications received!
Becky Sporrer – Explicit Vocabulary in Color!
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Corporations Are Abusing anti-SLAPP Laws to Screw Over Workers
by Ted Rall
"It's a sadly familiar sight in courthouses around the country: A deep-pocketed corporation, developer or government official files a lawsuit whose real purpose is to silence a critic, punish a whistleblower or win a commercial dispute."
Sounds awful, right?
Fortunately, according to The Los Angeles Times editorial board, "That's why California enacted a law in 1992 to give people a preemptive legal strike against frivolous lawsuits that seek to muzzle them on public issues." According to the Digital Media Law Project, 28 states, D.C., and one U.S. territory have enacted these so-called "anti-SLAPP statutes." (SLAPP stands for "strategic lawsuit against public participation." A classic example was when the cattle industry sued Oprah for dissing beef.)
At first glance, anti-SLAPP seems like a good solution to a serious problem.
In the real world, however, well-meaning legislators have created a monster. In the hands of clever corporate lawyers, anti-SLAPP laws have become a loophole to libel laws and a catchall defense for disgusting behavior. What started as a good idea has become a menace to free speech, the ability to protect one's reputation, and the right to redress in a court of law.
As I've discovered personally over the last year, California's anti-SLAPP statute is at least as likely to be used by "a deep-pocketed corporation" against a "critic" as the way the legislature originally intended, which is to say the other way around.
In July 2015 The Los Angeles Times — yes, the same paper that published the above editorial — fired me as its staff editorial cartoonist. It has since come out that they did so as a favor to Charlie Beck, the $297,000-a-year chief of the Los Angeles Police Department. Beck's feelings were hurt because of the cartoons that I drew about him.
The cops weren't satisfied with merely having me fired. They wanted me destroyed. So the Times also published a pair of articles that falsely portrayed me as a liar and a fabulist — death to a journalist's reputation.
So I sued the Times for wrongful termination, blacklisting, retaliation and defamation, as well as other claims.
Initially I had trouble finding a lawyer willing to represent me on the defamation claim. California's anti-SLAPP statute, attorneys told me, have gutted the practice of defamation law in the Golden State. Fortunately for me, as several of the state's leading experts on defamation law told me, Times management's behavior was so outrageous, reprehensible and ongoing that I stood a better chance of getting over the anti-SLAPP hurdle than most plaintiffs.
As most of the attorneys I consulted had predicted, one of the first things that the Times did was file an anti-SLAPP motion against me. So much for anti-SLAPP being used against "a deep-pocketed corporation…whose real purpose is to silence a critic." The Times is owned by Tronc (formerly Tribune Publishing), a $499 million mega-corporation. The Times paid me $300 a week.
Until that pretrial anti-SLAPP motion is decided, I can't engage in "discovery," the process of gathering information through subpoenas and depositions essential to forming a case. As Vikram David Amar writes, "oftentimes a plaintiff who may have a valid claim will not be able to prevail because s/he will not have had enough of an opportunity to gather the evidence (through legal discovery devices like depositions and document requests) needed to prove the case."
Because of anti-SLAPP, I must convince a judge that I am likely to prevail at an eventual trial — before the first juror has been chosen or any evidence has been discovered.
If the judge decides that I will probably lose my case, I will have to pay all of the Times' legal fees. According to papers that the defendants filed, they expect that to amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars. The case would be dismissed. I would go bankrupt.
Even if I convince the judge that I'll win, my tormentors at the Times then get a second shot at destroying my financial well-being: they can go to the Court of Appeals. By that time, of course, their legal bills will be even higher. And it's not much of a stretch to imagine that those fees will be highly padded. Many judges take defendants at their word when it comes to the validity of legal invoices.
We're not done.
I live in New York. As an out-of-state plaintiff, California Code 1030 provides a defendant the right to move that I be required to post a bond in order to guarantee the payment of the Times' attorney fees should they prevail on their anti-SLAPP motion. "The Times will defend itself vigorously against Mr. Rall's claims," a Times spokesperson said when I sued. They sure are. They filed a motion asking the judge to require me to post a whopping $300,000 bond.
The judge knocked it down to $75,000. Unlike criminal bonds that can be purchased for 10%, however, this civil bond must be 100% collateralized. In other words, I have to come up with $75,000 in "pay to play" money by Thursday, August 18, or my case will automatically be dismissed.
And you thought this was a free country.
Happily, there are signs that anti-SLAPP madness is finally coming to an end. Setting an important precedent, Justice Vance Raye of the Third District Court of Appeal in Sacramento denied an anti-SLAPP motion filed by UC Davis against a former employee who claims she was fired for whistleblowing.
"The cure [anti-SLAPP] has become the disease," wrote Raye. UC's argument was " at odds with the purpose of the anti-SLAPP law, which was designed to ferret out meritless lawsuits intended to quell the free exercise of First Amendment rights, not to burden victims of discrimination and retaliation with an earlier and heavier burden of proof than other civil litigants and dissuade the exercise of their right to petition for fear of an onerous attorney fee award."
Raye's ruling is a good start. But what's needed is for the 28 state legislatures in anti-SLAPP states to reform the law.
More articles by:Ted Rall
Ted Rall, syndicated writer and the cartoonist for ANewDomain.net, is the author of the book "Snowden," the biography of the NSA whistleblower.


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Q: yii2 Swift_TransportException Expected response code 250 but got code "550" i'm using the framwork yii2  and i have a problem in the contact page when i try to send an email i got this error "yii2 Swift_TransportException Expected response code 250 but got code "550" " even though the configuration of the mailer is correct
'mailer' => [
    'class' => 'yii\swiftmailer\Mailer',
    'useFileTransport' => false,
    'transport' => [
       'class' => 'Swift_SmtpTransport',
       'host' => 'my host',
       'username' => ' my email ',
       'password' => 'my password',
       'port' => '587',
        'encryption' => 'tls',
     ],
]

-the website is live not in the localhost
-the mailer works fine when i send an email from my email to another but not the opposite
please help me

A: The essence of the problem is that the mail server returned an error code 550 in response to a request from the swiftmailer library to "send a mail".
Therefore, you should look at the logs of your mail server.
If access to the mail server log is difficult, then pay attention to the connection settings that you specify in the config.
Often, this 550 error occurs due to incorrectly specified encryption / port settings or incorrect configuration smtp-system of your mail server (if you use your own custom configured mail-server).
For testing, try connecting with the same settings via a desktop mail client (like Thunderbird, Outlook, etc) and send testing mail.

A: For contact forms, the better way to send mail from your own email to your own email (it may even be the same email).
And in addition to this add "return address" - the Reply-To header (exactly the email that the user entered into the contact form).
As a result, you will have a set of headers like this:
From: your@domain.com
To: your@domain.com
Reply-To: client@gmail.com

The security policy of most mail systems prohibits sending letters on behalf of third-party email.
Even if you succeed, then with a very high probability such a mail will be rejected by the receiving party - because the sender's email does not match the sending server (simply put).
Most likely for these reasons, you have this error.
If you are interested, you may enable logging in swiftmailer - perhaps you will see interesting details in the logs:
https://www.yiiframework.com/extension/yiisoft/yii2-swiftmailer/doc/api/2.1/yii-swiftmailer-logger


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Cancelation fees for the all-inclusive holidays over several days : - less than 48 hours before collection = cancelation fees corresponding to 20% of the total amount for the service, all taxes included. - less than 24 hours before = cancelation fees corresponding to 40% of the total amount for the service, all taxes included. - the same day = cancelation fees corresponding to 100% of the total amount for the service, all taxes included. - If a medical certificate can be provided 100% refund. Claims should be addressed by post to : sarl driver bc chemin de la Teppe 84480 lacoste - responsabilites - The schedules, programmes and durations of tours / transfers are susceptible to modifications : the price includes all of the offerings indicated in the description of each service. Driver bc cannot be held responsible for the restitution of personal effects and bags forgotten and left in cars, minibuses, or any other place. 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passthrusvr.exe may be a dangerous application, according to an automatic analysis of the program's operation. This program triggers too many of the "possible danger" flags described in this document. It is yet unknown if passthrusvr.exe is malware or not which doesn't cause harm your PC. We recommend you to be careful with it.
This application is normally stored in C:\Program Files\HTC\Internet Pass-Through\PassThruSvr.exe.
The MD5 fingerprint for this program is 3cae2bbc86fcf7f94c9696994af30386.
This program is a Windows service. This means it operates on your system in background, usually without displaying any user interface to you. Most Windows services are ok programs, which provide useful functions to other applications or to the Windows Operating System.
This exe runs as a 32-bit program. It does not benefit of the full power of current computer CPUs. This ordinarily happens because the publishers did not bother to upgrade it to 64-bit code.
The description extracted from the program is PassThruSvr Application.


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Cinema, Music
Kazakhstan's Shal movie is worth an Oscar: Boretskiy 01 марта 2013, 13:05
Boretskiy is sure that Kazakhstan would have had more chances to get the Oscar if the country had submitted Shal movie of Yermek Tursunov.
Oleg Boretskiy. ©Yaroslav Radlovskiy
Kazakhstan film critic Oleg Boretskiy is sure that Zhauzhurek Myn Bala (1000 Brave Boys) directed by Akan Satayev had little chances of getting an Oscar in the Best Foreign Film category. He said this in an interview to Tengrinews.kz. "I don't think that Myn Bala movie could have made it into the short-list, say nothing of the Film Academy Prize. (…) I don't think Myn Bala is an outstanding piece of art at all. The film is excellent in terms of fulfilling our domestic sovereign goals of raising patriotic awareness and promoting national identity. But in terms of cinema art, the movie is quite artificial, it has a lineal dramatic composition, to say the least," the critic said. "One should realize that there is a certain format in the Oscar's Best Foreign Film category. Usually, it is a drama. Look at the history of the category. A comedy has never won the award. But there is no drama in Myn Bala movie. Myn Bala is rather an average Asian blockbuster. It is evident from both the budget and the general plot of the movie," the film expert said. Boretskiy is sure that Kazakhstan would have had more chances to get an Oscar if the country had submitted a movie directed by Yermek Tursunov for the award. This filmmaker is already well known in the West. "I think that if we are guided by the format of the category, Yermek Tursunov's Shal movie is the best fitting movie for the nomination. He reminded that Kelin, the previous movie made by Tursunov, reached the semifinal of the award. "I don't expect Myn Bala to produce similar results. (…) Shal movie is more interested in terms of identity and its messages that are not as naive as those in Myn Bala," he continued. Nevertheless, Boretskiy believe that Satayev's movie has achieved a lot yet. "Tens of thousands of movies are released in the world every year. And being admitted into the list of the 71 movies that the Academy was going to consider for the Best Foreign Film award Myn Bala achieved a lot," he summarized.


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