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I can still hear my mother saying 'eat all the food on your plate, there are starving kids in Africa who would appreciate the food more' …. Luckily you are now an adult and you can make your own eating decisions (high-five) – portion control is extremely important to losing weight. One thing mom was right about is that veggies are good for you, and the part that eating carrots can make you see in the dark is a bit farfetched.
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Arlington ISD > Lighting and sound upgrades coming for theater programs
Bond 2019 upgrading lighting and sound
When Micah Green, Arlington ISD's fine arts coordinator of theatre and dance, set out to improve lighting and sound for the district's junior high and high school theater programs – as called for in the 2019 Bond program – he visited each campus to assess what they had and what they needed. When it came to the 10 junior high schools, he quickly realized they were starting from scratch.
"What I realized very quickly is that junior highs don't have anything," Green said, "and the teachers are working crazy amounts of magic doing what they're doing now."
Even at Workman Junior High, where they have a real auditorium – the other junior highs just have a stage in their cafeteria – they have little to work with.
"In our auditorium, there are breakers that they can turn on and off for lights, and that's about all they can do," said Joy Hatcher, Workman's theater teacher.
But that's about to change.
Junior Highs
In addition to simply lacking adequate sound and lighting equipment at the junior high level, Arlington ISD's new junior high one act festival – started last year – also served as an impetus to invest in lights and sound.
A part of the festival – and theater in general – is a technical element. If there is no technical equipment on the campus, it's hard to include it in the curriculum and instruct the students. Basic theater calls for lights that can go up and down and can light certain portions of the stage.
"It's a theater necessity," Green said. "Junior highs need to get to a place where they can have a functioning lighting system and functioning sound system."
But getting there isn't as simple as just buying some lights and a sound system for the junior highs.
"Any new equipment could not be at all dependent upon the infrastructure because the infrastructure is not in place," Green said.
The solution Green and his team came up with is a self-contained portable system that includes lighting and sound.
"Junior highs can set up shop and put on shows on the cafeteria stage" using the new portable systems, he said.
The new systems aren't just going to make performances better. They're going to improve curriculum and prepare students on a whole new level.
"The new sound and lighting equipment will help prepare our students for participation in the high school theater programs, as well as acclimate them to the tech that they will use at competition," Hatcher said. "With the new lights, they can experiment with colors as an expression of emotions in the scene and can create a focus for our audience. With the new sound equipment, our technicians can communicate with each other better, as well as create a more balanced sound."
The benefits extend to the actors as well.
"For actors, being able to do things like finding your light, or getting that extra feeling of the mood can really help in a performance," Hatcher said.
The theater teachers are "pumped" about what this means for their students and programs.
"I am so excited that every junior high in the district will be able to house their own lighting and sound equipment," said Katy Wells, theater teacher at Bailey Junior High, where they sold out both performances of the school's musical last year. Wells has been at Bailey for 21 years and has never had professional lighting or sound.
"With new equipment, it is going to be such a game changer and a wonderful experience for our audience," she said.
Each high school is getting the same portable lighting and sound package that junior highs are getting, but they will serve a somewhat different purpose.
For junior highs, the portable package is their main system in their only performance venue. At the high schools, their primary performance venues – the auditoriums – already have great lighting and sound because they were all renovated during the 2014 Bond program.
But the high schools have other venues as well – like small theaters, courtyards and cafeterias. The new portable systems can be used for all of them.
With the portable systems, "there's a lot more flexibility," Green said, "so that when you go see the shows outside the auditorium, it's going to look and sound and feel much more professional, much more theatrical than anything we've been used to."
The high school packages also include a set of intel lights, now an industry standard. These are highly sophisticated lights that can be programmed to move automatically in any direction or pattern.
Like the junior high packages, these are a huge step up for the high school theater curriculum. The students will get industry-level experience that prepares them for the next level.
"The idea is the kids are on the soundboard and the kids are on the lightboard running them," Green said.
Most junior high and high schools have recently received the new light and sound packages, and the others will get them in the coming months. Then, theater teachers will receive training on the new equipment so they are prepared to instruct the students and start using it for theater productions next school year.
"The best part about getting new sound and lighting is that ALL theater students in AISD have the same opportunity to learn how to use the sound (mics) and lighting," Wells said.
Thank you to the Arlington community for making this possible through your support for the 2019 Bond program.

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Pakistan's Parliament Passes Bill to Allow Electronic Voting
Wednesday, 17 November 2021 11:01 AM
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan's parliament on Wednesday passed a controversial bill allowing the use of electronic machines for voting. The opposition said the policy is an attempt to rig the next elections.
Lawmakers also passed a bill to grant the right to vote to expats. The bills still must be signed into law by President Arif Alvi, a formality.
The opposition wants elections to continue under a decades-old system that features paper ballots and manual vote-counting.
In his speech before the bills were passed, the opposition leader Shahbaz Sharif said Prime Minister Imran Khan was trying to manipulate results of the next parliamentary elections, in 2023. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, who leads the opposition Pakistan People's Party, warned of a boycott of the next elections if electronic counting machines were used.
Khan, who was present in the parliament, has defended the legislation, saying he wanted to ensure free and fair elections. Khan says millions of Pakistanis overseas should be given the right to vote for the candidates of their choice.
Khan came to power in 2018 parliamentary elections.
The latest legislation comes amid increasing Khan's increasing unpopularity amid a sudden hike in food prices.
Pakistan's parliament on Wednesday passed a controversial bill allowing the use of electronic machines for voting. The opposition said the policy is an attempt to rig the next elections. Lawmakers also passed a bill to grant the right to vote to expats. The bills still must...
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Perry Praises Russia, Saudi Arabia for Increasing Oil Production in Order to Stabilize Prices
September 13, 2018 Focus Washington Foreign Policy
Energy Secretary Rick Perry on Thursday praised Russia for its decision to increase crude oil production as the U.S. reimposed tariffs against Iran.
According to Reuters, Perry was in Moscow to meet with Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak to discuss world oil markets. The Trump administration is concerned that reimposing tariffs on Iran in November, stemming from President Donald Trump's decision to scrap the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, could cause a spike in oil prices since Iran's output would be diminished.
"The Kingdom [of Saudi Arabia], the members of OPEC that are opting their production to be able to make sure that the citizenry of the world does not see a spike in oil price … are to be admired and appreciated, and Russia is one of them," Perry told reporters on Thursday after the meeting with Novak.
The former Texas governor also used the meeting to reiterate the Trump administration's objections to the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, a planned natural gas project to connect Russia and Germany.
"We support our European institutions to lower their dependence on a single supplier," Perry said, according to S&P Global Platts. "We oppose Nord Stream 2, which would concentrate two-thirds of the imports of Russian gas in a single [route], creating a choke point [vulnerable to] disruption."
The two energy officials discussed how their countries, some of the world's top oil and natural gas producers, "can work together to ensure world energy market stability, transparency, and sustainability," Department of Energy spokeswoman Shaylyn Hynes said in a statement after the meeting.
She said the topic of Russia's recent cyber attacks on electric infrastructure also came up, and that Perry "expressed his disappointment and concern about Russia's continued attempts to infiltrate the American electric grid."
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The Defense panel wants the Navy to maintain 12 instead of 11 aircraft carriers and acquire the vessels at a more rapid pace, committee aides said Tuesday. The Subcommittee on Seapower and Projection Forces calls for […]
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Uber founder Travis Kalanick has resigned as chief executive after pressure from shareholders. His resignation comes following a review of practices at the company and scandals including complaints of sexual harassment. Last week he said […]
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Doubt gets in my mind. Fear holds me back. I guess you could call it 'perfectionism paralysis'.
I don't however, have the same problem with client work. For example, I can fret over a blog post of my own (like this one) for ages. Yet I can confidently write an article for someone else which I am extremely proud.
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And then there is of course the elephant in the room – the newly discovered voice of the players – the refrain of social justice.
It started with a single player, corrupted by his radical social justice warrior girlfriend, who decided to sit in protest of our national anthem. Since then it has grown into some dopey "awareness" movement, where players sit, kneel, or raise their fist in the air, a la the 1960s black power movement, during the pre-game anthem.
And as all things of the left, it wasn't about to end there. Social justice warriors must continue to push the envelope of normalcy and reason until it becomes ridiculous. Well, we're there.
As a (soon not to be) die-hard NFL fan, I watch the game because I love football. Do what you want off the field. I couldn't care less. Just leave your racial politics and division in the tunnel. In other words, while you're in uniform, shut up and play.
-- Brent Smith, Sept. 22 WorldNetDaily column
Trump is pro-America, not a racial demagogue.
The Big Media appears unable or unwilling to distinguish the difference.
The NFL is committing suicide by allowing its games to be turned into political events. Few care about the political opinions of the sports stars. The public watches to see them perform feats of athletic prowess. That's how the players get paid – and paid well.
Not one media commentary has made this point: Don't squash the hand that feeds you by kneeling down on it during the national anthem.
It's just that simple. It's not about race. It's about holding up the greatest country on Earth with a couple minutes of respect – no matter what color you are.
And that's why I had to write this simple refutation today. I didn't watch any NFL games today. Instead, I watched baseball games where players – black, white and Hispanic – all stood reverentially and with dignity during the national anthem.
Trump is not the one dividing America over racial lines. Those who attack America – and the president – as racist are.
Trump never mentioned race. The media did. The players have.
-- Joseph Farah, Sept. 24 WND column
Apparently, the question, "Who started it?" means nothing to the journalists, politicians and NFL players, coaches and owners who call the president "divisive."
So, before discussing Trump's reaction, our fellow Americans on the left need to answer some pretty simple questions: Has the behavior of those athletes been divisive? Is kneeling while tens of thousands of people are standing divisive? Is publicly showing contempt for the American flag for which innumerable Americans risked their lives, were terribly injured, or died divisive?
-- Dennis Prager, Sept. 25 WND column
But football has more problems than players and owners who hate our country. It is a dying sport. In my judgment, it was once the most American of all our sports, emblematic of our motto: E Pluribus Unum. You have a group of people of diverse talents joined by merit, not race or privilege, united as a team for one goal. It epitomized the toughness, diversity, ingenuity, fortitude and togetherness that made our country great. Alas, the limp-wristed liberals are ruining it.
What is happening in football is happening to sports in general and is a reflection of how wimpy we are as a people.
I have heard all the medical stuff and understand. But the bottom line is wimpiness. If we don't turn it around sooner or later, anti-wimps, who are not as comfortable as we are, will eat our lunch. I have never met a more dedicated sports fan than myself, but for the first time I switched channels when I saw millionaires disrespecting our country. (Tragically, many of these anti-patriots are blacks egged on by liberal Democrats who enslaved their ancestors and sponsored Jim Crow and segregation.)
-- Patrick Brady, Sept. 25 WND column
Have you ever considered just how much of the national anthem protests occurring around the National Football League (NFL) come from millennial guilt, which I contend is a byproduct of white guilt? NFL players aren't kneeling because they're being oppressed; they're kneeling because they aren't. They've been spoiled. They have it so good in America, they had to invent their own set of injustices to fight so their lives would feel meaningful. I blame the media and many of their college professors for these players' sense of entitlement.
The fact that so many blacks are in the NFL in the first place is proof positive that the great American experiment has worked despite their skin color and our nation's history concerning slavery and civil rights. White Democrats that run the media and our institutions of higher learning have done blacks a huge disservice by promulgating the lie that America is inherently racist, while ignoring the progress that has been made due to an adherence to our Constitution. NFL players who choose to kneel during our national anthem lack historical perspective.
They feel guilty that they have it so good in America, so they had to invent their generation's own set of grievances. Yelling "racism" even it doesn't exist is easy – cop shootings in America is the perfect example. Let me be clear: I'm not saying there aren't racist or crooked cops, but the number is miniscule. More "unarmed" whites are killed by cops than blacks. However, you wouldn't know this by listening to the evening news. Reporting whites killed by cops isn't an interesting headline because whites tend not to riot and destroy their own cities. There's no ratings bump there! Sad, but true.
-- Carl Jackson, Sept. 25 WND column
Behind the scenes, the NFL had already been pandering to the radical left for years. Entirely dependent on the liberal media for profits, the NFL cares more about maintaining its massive revenues than it does about American values.
-- Andy Schlafly, Sept. 26 WND column
What is the mark of a real man?
First of all, a real man is grateful – to God, family and country.
Are we seeing appreciation among major sports figures right now? No, too many of these beneficiaries of American opportunity have decided their country is not worthy of respect or gratitude.
In heated campus discussions these days about "toxic masculinity," we should first look at Exhibit A – these spoiled little boys playing major league sports.
No respect for our flag and anthem? Feel free to immigrate to another country. Trump rightly rebukes these selfish athletes. Representing the father figures many of them never had, he's telling them to go to their rooms until they can act better.
-- Linda Harvey, Sept. 26 WND column
True, the number of "bodies in the streets" was climbing in the year proceeding Kaepernick's delusional protest. Three thousand more Americans were murdered in 2016 than in 2014, but it was not the police or the Trump supporters who had caused the spike in black homicides.
If there was any one person responsible for that spike, it was the same person most responsible for the slow-motion homicide of the NFL – sports fan Barack Obama.
-- Jack Cashill, Sept. 27 WND column
So, now we are seeing many on the periphery of this issue who, in their ignorance, are "taking a knee" in solidarity with the NFL's Kaepernick. They believe that they are protesting racism in the abstract (and who could object to that, right?) rather than playing into the hands of organized radical groups dedicated to fomenting racial tension and neutralizing the effectiveness of law enforcement. Here, it does bear mentioning that this strategy truly came into its own during the administration of Barack Obama, our first post-racial president, who dedicatedly empowered such groups through his rhetoric and policies.
-- Erik Rush, Sept. 27 WND column
You guys are just entertainers and not performing surgery on me, sending my child to war or affecting my income. You don't raise my taxes, run my schools or regulate my life. You are entertainers, only! Your skill level, dedication and hard work has elevated you to the heights of your industry. But that industry is merely for "Entertainment Purposes Only!"
I don't care if you see a "right" to give your opinion. I don't have to speculate on your oppression. I just have to decide if I am entertained by you when I turn on the show. If I am entertained enough, I will keep my eyeballs on your program. Your advertisers will get to show me their products, and you will get more endorsements.
-- Mason Weaver, Sept. 28 WND column
The tribalism of "kneelism" sums up the state of the progressive project. Like the Antifa Idiocracy, NFLers are generally not the smartest. Bereft of the faculty of logic or reason, these excitable, histrionic hulks can't debate or argue effectively. Lacking words or wisdom, the kneelers resort to inappropriate displays and gestures aimed at the self, at self-aggrandizement.
Kneeling is the ultimate selfie, beamed to the country and blasted by the president himself.
In more ways than one, "taking the knee" is like taking a pee. It's a waste. It speaks to the inward-looking, ego-driven, vain posturing of the left and its perpetually seething, predatory racial coalition. They're bent on extracting something from innocent, ordinary Americans who owe them nothing.
-- Ilana Mercer, Sept. 28 WND column
So, here's my simple proposal. Please hear me out before saying yes or no.
From here on, make it a rule that everyone on the team stands for the national anthem. You're sending a message to America that you respect the flag and the sacrifices made for it. You are not being anti-American.
That will regain many fans you have lost, that will put the focus back on football, and that will take the pressure off. No big decisions to make. No questions that will divide the teams. Just a focus on playing the game you love.
But that's just step one (and, to be candid, I don't think people who support you will think you are selling out or compromising).
Next, you choose a few players to represent you, and you ask respectfully to meet with the president. He will see you standing for the anthem, and that will speak to him: "Mr. President, we're as patriotic as you are, and we want to make America great. Can we have an hour of your time?"
I actually believe he'll meet with you. That's when you can tell him about all the things you do for your communities. (He's a good PR person. He'll let the whole world know about it.)
And that's when you can raise your concerns about unequal justice and when you can tell him some of his comments stung you personally, as if they were even racial attacks. (I don't believe they were, but I know some of you felt the sting.)
-- Michael Brown, Sept. 29 WND column
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Sri Lanka In October: 5 Best Places To Visit in 2021
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Planning to Sri Lanka in October? October is without any doubt the rainiest month in Sri Lanka. While in most parts of the world rainy weather means steel gray skies and cold wind, on Sri Lanka it means short and warm showers.
In this tropical paradise, October is known for the late afternoon and evening showers which end almost as soon as they start.
Especially in the south of the country, where for the large parts of the day the sun does shine. Also, these rains bring welcoming moisture into many parts of the island, and nature takes the most beautiful green color.
And this lush nature is one of the reasons why Sri Lanka is often called the Jewel of the Indian Ocean.
We would like to present to you five best places to visit in October.
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Nuwara Eliya is probably the single most important city for tea production in Sri Lanka. Being situated at more than 1,800 meters of altitude, it is characterized by a very mild climate compared to the rest of the island. And October is the tea harvest month in this region.
Throughout the whole year, here you can have some of the best tea in the world, but during October you can have arguably the best tea in the world before it gets shipped around the globe.
Especially the black tea for which this region is famous. Because of the often rainy afternoons, trekking is not recommended during October.
But, this city was in colonial-era very popular among British colonists and its architecture does show the fact and it could be said that it poses a charm similar to the English countryside.
So exploring this charming city is a must. Most of the activities popular in Nuwara Eliya also sound as more common in the British island, golfing, fly fishing, bird watching at Galway's Bird Sanctuary, boating on Lake Gregory, or having a walk through the gardens of Victoria Park, are things you will enjoy here.
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Since the 1960s and rise of popularity Sri Lanka's beaches were favored by aficionados of this sport. And the waters of Arugam Bay are without any doubt the best surfing spot on the island.
Furthermore, Arugam is by many considered as one of the best 10 places for surfing in the world. If you are a surfer you should definitely consider visiting Arugam.
Surfing season lasts throughout November when conditions are not ideal, so missing out in October means waiting till late May of the next year to come here.
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One of the two oldest national parks in Sri Lanka, Yala is a very popular safari destination. Though most people associate safaris and large cats with Africa, this park is known as being a location with the highest concentration of leopards in the world.
But despite that, the endemic Sri Lankan leopard is an endangered species with less than 1,000 individuals spread across this island.
Yala National Park is home to many other species endemic to Sri Lanka. Sri Lankan elephants, sloth bear, wild water buffalo, are just some of those you can see here.
The city of Dambulla is best known for the Golden Temple of Dambulla, a cave temple complex dating from the first century BC.
Today it is a Unesco World Heritage Site and is still a functioning Buddhist temple. Consisting of five caves, with more than 150 statues of Buddha, and more than 1,500 murals covering an area of 2,100 square meters, it is considered as by far the best-preserved and most impressive cave temple, of which there is many around Sri Lanka.
Though the cave temple complex was founded in the 1st century BC, it was much expanded over subsequent centuries, and the artwork inside of it is characteristic for various parts of the history of Sri Lanka.
The significance of these caves, and their history, go far before the founding of the temple. Near the caves is Ibbankatuwa prehistoric burial site, where several hundreds of tombs made of cut stone slabs were found.
Human remains in these tombs were dated between the 7th and 4th century BC, and with the presence of the gemstones not found on the island, they are evidence of the existence of highly developed indigenous civilization long before the arrival of Indian influence on the island.
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Unawatuna is one of the most beautiful beaches in Sri Lanka. Though during October swimming is not advised on most of the beaches of the western and southwestern shores of the island.
Being protected by reefs makes this beach one of the few exceptions. But, Unawatuna is not famous only because of its beaches. With coral reef and numerous historic shipwrecks in the vicinity, it is a very popular diving spot.
Even if you are not an experienced or even basic certified diver, you should not worry as at Unawatuna you can take diving classes and acquire a range of PADI diving certificates.
In October, most of Sri Lanka is often showered by short evening rain. And during it, the nature of the island is in bloom, showing in its most majestic glory for which it has long ago become a favorite tourist destination.
Though October is not the most popular month of the year, it is a month when the island is at its most beautiful.
To visit Sri Lanka in October, green jewel of the Indian Ocean, book Sri Lanka tours with T2 Travels Sri Lanka and get to know the most beautiful side of this island.
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On behalf of The Law Offices of René Korper posted in consumer fraud on Monday, April 22, 2019.
A necessary part of buying a used car is checking to see if the vehicle been involved in accidents or damaged in some way. Taking the time do this can mean the difference between buying a reliable used car and one that is not reliable. Doing this may bring to light the fact that the car was involved in a wreck, and it was then salvaged and rebuilt.
On behalf of The Law Offices of René Korper posted in lemon law on Thursday, March 7, 2019.
There are a variety of laws that protect buyers and sellers during a business transaction. Some of these laws cover issues that are spelled out in a contract, while others are more implied. The Implied Warranty of Merchantability (IWM) falls into the latter category. While many have never heard the term used, they have a general understanding of how an IWM works – a common example is a buyer who returns a product they just bought because it does not work. This happens regardless of contract or receipt.
An IWM guarantees that cars or anything else bought was in safe condition, essentially free from defect and performs within the expected parameters unless the seller makes it clear that item purchased is an "as-is" situation. It is also worth noting that the IWM also falls under California's Lemon Law.
On behalf of The Law Offices of René Korper posted in lemon law on Friday, March 1, 2019.
The word "crashworthiness" may sound like a word made up by a clever car salesperson, but it is actually one of the most important term used in vehicle defect cases. The term describes the ability of the vehicle to prevent injury to occupants in the event that there is a crash.
The idea is to measure the design of a vehicle to accommodate the rapid acceleration or deceleration due to a crash, focusing on protecting the occupants' safety once the event begins and the secondary impact occurs, such as occupants slammed together or against the interior of the vehicle after the initial contact. Common examples of crashworthiness features are seatbelts, crumple zones as well as airbags and side impact protection.
On behalf of The Law Offices of René Korper posted in lemon law on Wednesday, February 20, 2019.
The Center for Auto Safety is a consumer advocacy group that has supported Lemon Laws since Connecticut drafted the first one 37 years ago. It has now looked at the laws in all 50 states as well as the District of Columbia and ranked them. California did pretty well in taking the 12th spot (more on that in a minute), but it was New Jersey that took the top spot, while Illinois was at the bottom.


This growth is due to DATEV's customer base. The majority of new jobs are generated in medium-sized enterprises, most of them outsourcing their payroll accounting to their tax consultant. More than 1.4 million enterprises in Germany are using this service.
This trend is strengthened by two developments: Due to constant new legal regulations the complexity of payroll accounting increases. For enterprises it is getting difficult to find highly specialized staff.
The number of employees whose payroll accounting is carried out with DATEV software is growing strongly. Over the past two years it increased by one million. In June 2016, the IT service provider passed the 12 million mark for the first time.
DATEV is pleased with growth rates in the portal DATEV Arbeitnehmer online – Online Collaboration for Employees. In June there were more than 500,000 users, thus doubling within only one year. Behind half a million of employees there are about 27,000 enterprises using Arbeitnehmer online for distributing payslips to their staff.
For further details see DATEV's annual report summary 2017 .


New York Lawmaker Calling for Review of Secret Service after uninvited couple crashes presidential dinner.
HomeNational SecurityNew York Lawmaker Calling for Review of Secret Service after uninvited couple crashes presidential dinner.
Democratic Rep. Edolphus Towns is calling for an investigation of the Secret Service after a couple Michaele and Tareq Salahi, who were not invited to the Presidential dinner were able to get passed the secret service at all the checkpoints that were setup for the event.
Towns says the party crashing "compromised the safety and security of the president" and undermined the nation's confidence in the agency. Yeah, but it makes great reality television.
Anyone else notice every time the CIA, FBI, A Republican, or the Secret Service make a mistake there's a Democrat asking for an investigation, but if a Democrat makes a mistake the only ones calling for an investigation are the Republicans.


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Quieted Storm
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The Cassini spacecraft examines Saturn and the planet's northern hemisphere, which was ravaged by a huge storm for much of 2011.
See Chronicling Saturn's Northern Storm and Encircling a Giant to learn more about the storm.
Four of Saturn's moons join the planet here. Two of these -- Janus and Epimetheus -- are almost lost in this view due to their small size. Mimas (246 miles, or 396 kilometers across) appears as a bright dot below the rings just to the right of the center of the image. Enceladus (313 miles, or 504 kilometers across) is visible below the rings on the far right of the image. Janus (111 miles, or 179 kilometers across) can just barely be discerned as a tiny speck past Enceladus on the right edge of the image. Epimetheus (70 miles, or 113 kilometers across) is likewise tiny, and can be detected on the extreme left of the image above the rings.
This view looks toward the southern, unilluminated side of the rings from just below the ringplane.
Relative to Saturn and other objects in this view, Janus and Epimetheus have been brightened by a factor 1.5 and 1.4 respectively.
The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on Feb. 11, 2012 using a spectral filter sensitive to wavelengths of near-infrared light centered at 752 nanometers. The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 1.7 million miles (2.8 million kilometers) from Saturn and at a Sun-Saturn-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 60 degrees. Image scale on Saturn is 105 miles (170 kilometers) per pixel.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov . The Cassini imaging team homepage is at http://ciclops.org .
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
This image of Ceres is part of a sequence taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft on May 22, 2015, from a distance of 3,200 miles (5,100 kilometers) with a resolution of 1,600 feet (480 meters) per pixel.
Dawn OpNav9 Image 4
This perspective view of Cornelia crater on the giant asteroid Vesta shows an example of 'pitted terrain,' an unexpected discovery in data returned by NASA's Dawn mission.
Cornelia is the Pits
This high-resolution still image is part of a video taken by several cameras as NASA's Perseverance rover touched down on Mars on Feb. 18, 2021. A camera aboard the descent stage captured this shot.
High-Resolution Still Image of Perseverance's Landing
Saturn and its rings manifest a rich interplay between shadow and light. The rings shine on their unilluminated side by virtue of scattered sunlight emerging from its passage through the ringplane...
Tricks of Light
This video describes Cassini measurements of high speed streams of tiny dust particles emanating from the vicinity of Saturn. It presents actual dust measurements and displays Cassini measurements ...
Cosmic Messengers From Saturn
This collage of images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows Saturn's northern hemisphere and rings as viewed with four different spectral filters. Each filter is sensitive to different wavelengths ...
Saturnian Hexagon Collage
What appear to be spiders scampering across the martian landscape are actually cracks in the surface of the southern polar region on Mars, seen by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on August 23, 2009.
South Pole Spiders
Comparing Jupiter's moons Io and Europa with Saturn's moons Enceladus and Titan.
Moons: Active Worlds
This image was taken on 2013-08-18 04:59 (PDT) and received on Earth 2013-08-19 07:47 (PDT).
Image of Sun
The right-hand image shows a dramatically improved view of heat radiation from a warm fissure near the south pole of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus. It was obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft during...
Zooming in on Heat at Baghdad Sulcus
An avalanche near the north pole of Mars, as observed by the HiRISE instrument aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Avalanche Season
Blanket Protection
The famed wispy terrain on Saturn's moon Dione is front and center in this recent Cassini spacecraft image.
Wispy Terrain on Dione
NASA's Dawn spacecraft spotted this pair of craters on Ceres on January 25, 2016. The crater at left is named Jaja, after the Abkhazian harvest goddess. Jaja Crater is 13 miles (21 kilometers) in d...
Dawn LAMO Image 74
Views like this one from Cassini are helping scientists unravel some of the mysteries of Saturn's complex atmosphere. The turbulent, wavy pattern at the bottom of the image has the appearance of a...
Storm Factory?
This view from NASA's Dawn spacecraft captures the northern rim of Toharu Crater on Ceres. Dawn captured the scene on Dec. 24, 2015 from its low-altitude mapping orbit (LAMO), at an approximate alt...
The shadow of Saturn's rings grows wider on the planet as the planet moves away from its August 2009 equinox, when the rings cast a pencil-thin shadow. See The Rite of Spring for a view of Saturn ...
Wider Shadow
Io Color Eclipse
As it glanced around the Saturn system one final time, NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this view of the planet's giant moon Titan.
A Last Look at Titan
The clouds of Saturn swirl, billow and merge. These bands are layered into stratified cloud decks consisting of droplets of ammonia, ammonium hydrosulfide and water set aloft in a sea of hydrogen a...
World of Swirl
+ Xanadu's Channels and Dunes + Related image In a sweeping mosaic of the low latitudes of Saturn's moon Titan, the bright landmass of the enigmatic region known as Xanadu stands ou...
Xanadu's channels and dunes (Annotated)
These are two raw, or unprocessed, images taken by the Cassini spacecraft during its close flyby of Saturn's moon Iapetus on September 10. For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission vi...
Iapetus flyby -- two raw images
The Cassini spacecraft looks toward a crescent of Saturn's moon Iapetus and glimpses a bit of that moon's yin-yang appearance. Scientists continue to investigate the nature of this moon's dark and...
Sliver of Iapetus
A collection of Apollo flight crew patches.
Apollo Mission Patches
With Saturn's terminator as a backdrop, this view of the unlit face of the rings makes it easy to distinguish between areas that are actual gaps, where light passes through essentially unimpeded, a...
Seeing the Difference


And the 4 credit unions who joined the BSA more recently.
Looking around the room, I am delighted see so many of you with us.
Together we are part of a wider customer-owned, mutual sector. It is a sector where we co-operate where it is appropriate to do.
We also tend to know each other pretty well, which makes it doubly sad when we lose someone who was a colleague and luminary in the sector for many years.
Last weekend, John Goodfellow, who many of you knew and worked with, passed away.
It seems appropriate to spend a moment to reflect on the significant contribution that he made.
John joined the Skipton back in 1984 in charge of IT. He became Chief Executive in 1991, a position he held for the next 17 years.
He made a huge contribution to the Skipton, including the acquisition and growth of Connells and founding Callcredit, the UK's third credit reference agency.
He took on the role of BSA Chairman, not once, but twice. The second time during the heat of the financial crisis. During this period, he was effectively an Executive Chairman given how much of his time he gave.
John was a dedicated and larger than life character who is already sadly missed. Our thoughts are with his family.
Today I had hoped to introduce the Housing Minister to you.
Unfortunately, this is the day that the EU Withdrawal Bill is being debated again in the House of Commons.
As this is probably the single most important piece of legislation in Parliament right now, it is not surprising that Alok Sharma is under a three-line whip to be in the House this lunchtime.
On a more positive note, the BSA is arranging a round-table with him for the New Year.
We will be involving a cross section of BSA members in this opportunity.
Before lunch, I am going to spend a few minutes reflecting on my first half-year as Chairman of the BSA.
When I took over back in May, a journalist asked me what would make up my agenda.
The interview then ranged far more widely over some of the operational challenges we all face from ever-changing regulation to cyber-crime.
For those of you whose stomachs are already rumbling, you will be pleased to hear that I am restricting myself to an amalgam of that top three – for today at least.
Right now, the building society sector as a whole is growing and most importantly, it is growing sustainably.
Between us, we have over 23 million members – our customers.
That's about a third of the UK population and both numbers are rising.
For every one borrower we have, there are six savers. These people have had a tough time in our still very low interest rate environment.
Yet in relative terms, they have done better saving with a building society - £380 million better in the first half of this year alone.
After the increase in the Bank Rate, building societies led the way in passing the benefit on to savers.
The media saw and reported on the positive contrast.
Together we lend billions of pounds to homebuyers across every part of the UK.
Between January and June 2017, that meant the approval of more than 8,300 new building society mortgages every week.
We should be proud that our very diversity means that we not only help people with straightforward borrowing needs, but also individuals and families whose needs, for all sorts of reasons are more complicated.
That means young professionals buying into shared ownership in one of our big cities.
Custom builders fulfilling their dream, possibly more cheaply than they can by buying a standard new build.
Helping those employed in the gig-economy.
And individuals who by the end of their mortgage are 'older borrowers'.
Now, in times past, we may have translated this to mean those approaching retirement. In fact older means 80 plus.
It is important to make it clear that contrary to some recent press reports, there is no intent to saddle older people, or anyone else for that matter, with debt.
The general rule of thumb of 'pay off your mortgage over the shortest time you can afford' holds good.
And of course, all lending must be affordable and for the regulators amongst you properly risk assessed.
However, the fact is that we live in an ageing population and the demographics of our society are inexorably changing.
The traditional first time buyer market we recognise, where young people tend to buy a home in their late 20's is steadily shifting up the age range.
On this occasion two years ago, my predecessor as Chairman launched an interim report from the BSA entitled Lending into Retirement.
At the time, a couple of the figures he used really struck home.
That by 2034, almost a quarter of our population will be over the age of 65 – that means over 17 million of us.
And at the other end of the home owning journey, half of our 25-34 year olds thought they would need a mortgage that lasted into retirement.
Then, as now, this is at least in part due to house prices. In 2015, the average house price in the UK was £200,000; today it is almost £226,000.
A lot has happened in this market in two years – in our sector at least.
Back then, 18 building societies would lend into a borrower's older years. Today it is 34, with limits of 80, 85 or none at all.
In the first half of 2017, building societies provided almost 60,000 mortgages, which will mature when the borrower is 65 or older.
That is 45% higher than the same time in 2015.
At the same time, albeit from a small base, there has been a 162% rise in mortgages that will mature when the borrower is somewhere between 79 and 84.
For some customers their need comes from buying later for the first time; for others it is about funding a more active lifestyle for longer.
Some are choosing to borrow to help the younger generation of their family, secured on the equity that it has been their good fortune to see grow.
We predict that the peak of this demographic trend is yet to come.
By 2030 we project that the over 65's will hold around £40 billion of mortgage debt. This is not bad, but it is different.
As a sector, we are proud to have led the way so far, but this country needs a whole of market solution.
For these older borrowers, recognition by the FCA of the value of retirement interest-only mortgages was welcome.
These mortgages are not the same as lifetime mortgages. That is because they do not feature the roll-up of interest, so consumers are not at risk of rapidly eroding equity or reduced funds for a bequest.
Already offered by a few building societies, these mortgages give older borrowers alternatives.
More generally, we all know the issues faced by consumers of any age looking for a decent home to buy or rent.
All of us know that solving this housing crisis is hard.
Indeed, none of us believes that there is a single solution.
It is a complicated challenge. One outlined in the Housing White Paper this February.
I welcome that Government attention has come back to action in this area.
Amongst a number of initiatives, I will pick out the Home Building Fund that will provide a total of £3 billion.
Of this, £1 billion is earmarked for loans for SME builders, custom builders and offsite construction.
The BSA's attention is most actively on the development of offsite construction and other new housebuilding technologies.
It is here that we believe that building societies can contribute most to increasing the supply of new housing.
Perversely, because these technologies are new in the UK, we have a challenge.
To do this we must improve knowledge and understanding.
The Government can bring all the relevant sectors to the table to get things moving.
We welcome the new cross-industry working group, which meets for the first time in December and commit to playing a full and active role in it.
We can also learn from Europe.
Way back in the 1970s, homes built using a variety of modern methods of construction started to appear in the Netherlands.
Today they are accepted and common – with an established track record.
On a recent visit to a town near Amsterdam, called Almere (Almera); a party of building societies and valuers, led by the BSA, saw this for themselves.
They came home knowing that these homes are strong, environmentally sustainable, cheap to run and easy to improve.
That they have passed the test of time and that it was obvious that people enjoyed living in them.
With a lack of skilled labour and traditional building materials, these additional forms of building must be backed if housing supply is to increase.
We all have to be a little bit brave and be prepared think differently.
To do this we need an environment in which building societies and our credit unions can continue to thrive.
Innovating whilst putting out constant fires just does not work.
The state of the economy is of some concern. Indicators show a mixed picture in the near term, but the outlook remains weak.
Consumers are feeling this, through increased prices that are a consequence of the weaker pound.
Research by Ipsos Mori for the BSA shows that most borrowers can cope with a 1% rise in their mortgage rate, but over a third say they have no cash savings.
More generally, I am looking forward to a real boost for the economy in the Budget next week and further strong steps taken to address this housing need.
As an example of the steps that could be taken, and make a real difference, allowing Local Authorities more flexibility to borrow to build is essential.
The £10 billion for Help to Buy is welcome as it gives developers confidence to secure land for building over the next 5 years.
BUT it is clear that substantial and sustained investment is needed to build the numbers of homes that we need.
We can argue about tenure later - let's just get them built.
It is also time for a more nuanced debate about the use of Green Belt Land for homes. Not all of it is green and pleasant and I am thinking more about the likes of redundant railway sidings.
Until now, I have more or less avoided the Brexit word.
That is because building societies are UK domestic players, and we are not going anywhere.
We are staying right here and we will continue to do what we do best in society – providing a home for savings and savings for a home.
Finally, in closing, I would like to thank Dignity, our sponsors today. This event would not have happened without their continued support.
Thank you and enjoy your lunch.


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The kings and queens of BHS: students to perform in drag ball
Georgia Wool and Julia Keeton • October 15, 2021
BHS' Gender Sexuality Alliance (GSA) is working hard to create their own LGBTQ+ community at BHS. This year, the club is starting by running BHS' first ever drag ball at the school's homecoming football...
2021 Fall Sports Preview: BHS Captains' Outlook
Rebecca Cunningham, Staff Writer • September 13, 2021
Girls Soccer Previous season record: 4-5; lost to Essex in Division I playdowns Goals for this season? "Our number one goal is to bring 100% to every practice and game. We are also working to...
A Dangerous Game: BHS Sports Teams Adapt Under Covid Regulations
Lea Mihok • October 9, 2020
The BHS fields are overcast. The bleachers are wet and rain beats down onto the turf, but clouds are not the only thing hanging over this match. A small crowd of parents and fans wait, using their phones...
What do BHS students think of the Seawolf?
Ayden Flanigan and Hazel Wasmund • October 5, 2018
Burlington High School (BHS), Winooski High School (WHS), and South Burlington High School (SBHS) joined forces this year to create a combined football team: the Seawolves. One of the many tasks that...
Fight sparks conversation about game supervision
Emma Chaffee • November 24, 2017
A fight between a Burlington High School (BHS) student and a Champlain Valley Union High School (CVU) student at a recent soccer game sparked conversation among students, teachers, and administration about...
Senior Alex Cate Named to Shrine Bowl Team
Theo Davis • March 27, 2017
Senior Alex Cate, a captain on the Burlington High School Varsity Football team, has been selected to the 2017 Shrine Maple Sugar Bowl, the all-star game of Vermont football. The Shrine Bowl is an annual...


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package com.facebook.presto.hive;

import com.facebook.presto.Session;
import com.facebook.presto.hive.metastore.InMemoryHiveMetastore;
import com.facebook.presto.testing.QueryRunner;
import com.facebook.presto.tests.DistributedQueryRunner;
import com.facebook.presto.tpch.TpchPlugin;
import com.facebook.presto.tpch.testing.SampledTpchPlugin;
import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableList;
import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableMap;
import io.airlift.tpch.TpchTable;
import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.Database;
import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.PrincipalType;
import org.jetbrains.annotations.NotNull;
import org.joda.time.DateTimeZone;

import java.io.File;
import java.util.Map;

import static com.facebook.presto.testing.TestingSession.testSessionBuilder;
import static com.facebook.presto.tests.QueryAssertions.copyTpchTables;
import static com.facebook.presto.tpch.TpchMetadata.TINY_SCHEMA_NAME;
import static org.testng.Assert.assertEquals;

public final class HiveQueryRunner
{
    private HiveQueryRunner()
    {
    }

    public static final String HIVE_CATALOG = "hive";
    public static final String TPCH_SCHEMA = "tpch";
    private static final String TPCH_SAMPLED_SCHEMA = "tpch_sampled";
    private static final DateTimeZone TIME_ZONE = DateTimeZone.forID("Asia/Kathmandu");

    public static QueryRunner createQueryRunner(TpchTable<?>... tables)
            throws Exception
    {
        return createQueryRunner(ImmutableList.copyOf(tables));
    }

    public static QueryRunner createQueryRunner(Iterable<TpchTable<?>> tables)
            throws Exception
    {
        assertEquals(DateTimeZone.getDefault(), TIME_ZONE, "Timezone not configured correctly. Add -Duser.timezone=Asia/Katmandu to your JVM arguments");

        DistributedQueryRunner queryRunner = new DistributedQueryRunner(createSession(), 4);

        try {
            queryRunner.installPlugin(new TpchPlugin());
            queryRunner.createCatalog("tpch", "tpch");

            queryRunner.installPlugin(new SampledTpchPlugin());
            queryRunner.createCatalog("tpch_sampled", "tpch_sampled");

            File baseDir = queryRunner.getCoordinator().getBaseDataDir().resolve("hive_data").toFile();
            InMemoryHiveMetastore metastore = new InMemoryHiveMetastore(baseDir);
            metastore.createDatabase(createDatabaseMetastoreObject(baseDir, "tpch"));
            metastore.createDatabase(createDatabaseMetastoreObject(baseDir, "tpch_sampled"));

            queryRunner.installPlugin(new HivePlugin(HIVE_CATALOG, metastore));
            Map<String, String> hiveProperties = ImmutableMap.<String, String>builder()
                    .put("hive.metastore.uri", "thrift://localhost:8080")
                    .put("hive.allow-add-column", "true")
                    .put("hive.allow-drop-table", "true")
                    .put("hive.allow-rename-table", "true")
                    .put("hive.allow-rename-column", "true")
                    .put("hive.time-zone", TIME_ZONE.getID())
                    .put("hive.security", "sql-standard")
                    .build();
            queryRunner.createCatalog(HIVE_CATALOG, HIVE_CATALOG, hiveProperties);

            copyTpchTables(queryRunner, "tpch", TINY_SCHEMA_NAME, createSession(), tables);
            copyTpchTables(queryRunner, "tpch_sampled", TINY_SCHEMA_NAME, createSampledSession(), tables);

            return queryRunner;
        }
        catch (Exception e) {
            queryRunner.close();
            throw e;
        }
    }

    @NotNull
    private static Database createDatabaseMetastoreObject(File baseDir, String name)
    {
        Database database = new Database(name, null, new File(baseDir, name).toURI().toString(), null);
        database.setOwnerName("public");
        database.setOwnerType(PrincipalType.ROLE);
        return database;
    }

    public static Session createSession()
    {
        return createHiveSession(TPCH_SCHEMA);
    }

    public static Session createSampledSession()
    {
        return createHiveSession(TPCH_SAMPLED_SCHEMA);
    }

    private static Session createHiveSession(String schema)
    {
        return testSessionBuilder()
                .setCatalog(HIVE_CATALOG)
                .setSchema(schema)
                .build();
    }
}


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Kenya athletes angry at Rio shanty accommodation
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Image caption Wesley Korir tweeted images of the area where the athletes were staying
Kenyan athletes have expressed anger after being stranded in a Rio shanty town where gunshots could be heard, after the Olympic village closed.
Officials delayed their return home as they looked for a "cheap flight", complained Wesley Korir, team captain, marathon runner and independent MP.
After the team finally left for home, he tweeted he had "never felt so much happiness leaving a place".
Team Kenya has been dogged by allegations of mismanagement at Rio.
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Mr Korir said athletes had experienced "hell" and he would demand action when he returned home.
He had posted images on Twitter of dilapidated buildings in the area where he said they were forced to stay.
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The team won 13 medals, the biggest haul by an African country, and this "is how they treat us", he added.
The men's marathon team was among the athletes stuck in the shanty town, except for gold medallist Eliud Kipchoge, who bought his own ticket to leave, Mr Korir said.
Athletes had been ordered to stay indoors as gunshots were heard all night, he tweeted.
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The House approved eliminate 900 series cadastral documents that are kept in the Central Administrative Archive (30/12/2015)
The Full Council of Totana last night approved unanimously eliminate 900 series cadastral documents that are kept in the Central Administrative Archive of Totana, in compliance with authorizations received from the Regional Office of the Register of Murcia, dated April 25 and June 19, 2015.
Corporate accepted unanimously donation of numerous historical documents by the totanero writer Ginés Rosa Lopez, the Historical Archive of the City of Totana, as was clear from the proposal of the councilor of Finance and Heritage, Ana Maria Canovas .
The recovered documents are a copy made by a notary public in 1548 of a privilege of King Alfonso X "The Wise", written on parchment, filed in the Convento de Velez, whereby Totana and Aledo is transferred to the Order of Santiago Cavalry the April 14, 1295.
The letter from King Henry II's neighbors recognizing exemption from Aledo pay "and other currencies twelve" is also recovered as the coming enjoying, Toledo dated November 3, 1412.
The donation includes the privilege letter confirming an earlier (1331) granting the village of Aledo the same privileges, habits, customs and freedoms enjoyed by Lorca and making other concessions of social and economic interest.
Similarly, it is donated to the Municipal Archives privilege letter confirming an earlier (1338) authorizing work the estates of the order of chivalry of Santiago and determining the rights on them can be purchased.
The documents also incorporate a charter confirming previous ones (1419 and 1444) on the meadow of Aledo and reconstruction and furnace use the Commendation of this villa.
Other documents with parchment covers, are privileged to the village of Aledo and Totana enjoy large exemptions, liberties and customs and enjoy the city of Lorca (1560);
the privilege granted by Felipe V to the Leal Villa de Totana can intitularse "Noble" (1709)
In addition, this grant the privilege of confirmations Noble, Loyal and Faithful Villa of Totana giving confirmation of the charters and customs enjoyed by the city of Lorca, in which document is added the aid provided by the Villa relate Totana in 1709 the Bourbon and confirmation thereof by Carlos III (1769) because, among other various documents.
Moreover, the green light was given unanimously to the initial approval of the Municipal Ordinance on implementation of activities in this municipality.
On another issues, it approved unanimously the joint motion of the PSOE Totana groups and Win-IU to ask the Ministry of Education and Universities to proceed to develop a record of the schools in the municipality of presenting Toatna asbestos among building elements, including the status of asbestos in these infrastructures.
In the same proposal are encouraged, likewise, to the Ministry to carry out a plan for phasing out asbestos, starting urgently by those schools in the same situation is not stable.
It was also agreed, with the votes of the PSOE and Earn Totana and against the PP and C's, the amendment of the Mayor of leave on the table with a commitment to address the session in January, the motion of PP for order the drafters of the General Municipal Management Plan urgently work modifications made to the document requested in the report of July 25 the region.
Finally, it was approved, also with the support of the 12 councilors and municipal government against opposition groups, the amendment to the whole by the Socialist Group on the motion of the PP to allocate the collection of a street Totana blue area for social purposes (solidarity ORA).
In this regard, the proposal of the PSOE proposed a study to analyze whether the City can take that expense if you can create a budget line for this purpose, taking into account the difficult economic situation presented.
Similarly, it was suggested to draw up regulations which regulate the bases to qualify for such subsidies, opening the possibility that it may participate and any association of the municipality where the project and the trajectory of the company is valued, preventing it from being an indiscriminate distribution the budget for that purpose, depending on the characteristics of each project presented.
See report:
http://www.totana.com/reportajes/2015/12/pleno-ordinario-diciembre-2015/
Source: Ayuntamiento de Totana / Foto: Totana.com


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Ring of changes is een studioalbum van Gary Wright en Wonderwheel. Het was de beoogde opvolger van Footprint.

Alhoewel de verkoopcijfers van Footprint tegenvielen, kreeg Wright het advies van Jerry Moss van A&M Records een muziekgroep te vormen om dat album en haar voorganger Gary Wright's Extraction te promoten. Wright schakelde bevriende musici in waaronder Mick Jones, die in 1976 aan de basis stond van Foreigner. De muziekgroep dook ook de Apple Studio in om een album op te nemen onder de titel Ring of changes met single I know. Toen de heren, inclusief geluidtechnici Andy Johns en Chris Kimsey klaar waren, zag A&M Records niets in uitgave van het album. Het album verdween in de la. De wegen van Wonderwheel en Wright scheidden en het album verdween in de vergetelheid. Wright keerde terug naar Spooky Tooth met meenemen van Jones en Graham.

Mark Powell, baas van Esoteric Recordings dat gespecialiseerd is in heruitgaven van rockmuziek uit de jaren zeventig, had het album al die tijd in zijn hoofd zitten. Om tot een mogelijke uitgave te komen nam hij contact op met Universal Music; het hoofdlabel van A&M Records en kreeg in 2016 toestemming het album alsnog uit te brengen. Wright had al zijn toestemming gegeven, want hij was van mening dat het goede muziek bevatte. Het album werd bijna veertig jaar na de opname alsnog uitgebracht in een tijdperk dat de succesperiode van Wright al weer lang achter de rug is.

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Gary Wright – zang, toetsinstrumenten, gitaar
Mike Jones – gitaar, zang
Tom Duffey – basgitaar, zang
Bryson Graham – drumstel
Met
George Harrison – slidegitaar op Goodbye sunday

Muziek

De laatste drie tracks zouden oorspronkelijk niet op het originele album verschijnen. I know werd vermoedelijk in drie landen (Duitsland, Italië, Verenigd Koninkrijk) als single uitgebracht; verkoopcijfers zijn onbekend, een hitparadenotering is niet te vinden.

Muziekalbum uit 2016
Muziekalbum van Gary Wright
Muziekalbum uitgegeven door Esoteric Recordings

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Baseball team looks to improve on best season since 2002
Sophomore Brandon Bohning watches as the pitcher warms up before he goes to bat in a scrimmage at the Matador Baseball Field on Feb. 8. Bohning is coming off a true freshman season in which he started 57 games, hitting .260 with 40 runs and 26 RBIs. Photo credit: Clare Calzada
A year after finishing third in the Big West, their best finish since 2002, the baseball team wants to build on its success and compete for a Big West title this season.
Despite losing five players that earned All-Conference honors for their play last year, including Johnny Bench award semifinalist Trevor Castanova, and being picked to finish seventh in the preseason coaches' poll, head coach Greg Moore believes that they can outperform the expectations they have been given.
"We work every year to be as good as we can be," Moore said. "The polling at the beginning of the year is not very indicative of where teams finish traditionally anywhere in any conference. In the Big West, it's all about playing good baseball consistently. The teams that do that finish in the top third of our conference. If you don't do that, then that's not going to happen."
Going beyond what others say they will do is something this team is used to, having finished above their predicted finish each of the last two years.
"I think those rankings don't mean anything in the preseason," sophomore Brandon Bohning said. "It all matters what you do at the end of the year. None of the rankings, none of that stuff matters. It's all about what you can do through the year and I think that, you know, we're going to play our best every single day, every single pitch, every single inning."
Bohning, a middle infielder, started 57 games last season as a true freshman, hitting .260 and scoring 40 runs before winning the Exhibition League championship with the Western Nebraska Pioneers over the summer.
"I think it helped a lot playing a bunch of guys all over the country and just growing with each other and, you know, winning it all was key," said Bohning. "I've got that special chip on my shoulder now that I've done it. I can win a championship with a team that's all focused on the same goal and I really want to bring that here."
Returning alongside Bohning are senior starting pitchers Walker Armstrong and Isaiah Nunez, as well as senior two-way player Jayson Newman, though the key to a successful season could be the ability of the incoming freshmen and transfers to acclimate themselves to a new environment.
This year's recruiting class was recognized as one of the nation's best by Collegiate Baseball Newspaper, the second straight year CSUN has been recognized in this regard.
"Our coaches do a great job of sharing our message. We do things differently here," Moore said about how his team is able to recruit so well. "It's not about coming and being baseball players only. It's about learning that our engagement off the field is related to becoming a complete person and a great baseball player. So when we recruit somebody, we share with them, early on, that coming to CSUN, this is going to be a different experience."
This year's crop includes a couple of players picked in last year's MLB First Year Player Draft: Toronto Blue Jays' 35th round pick Damiano Palmegiani and New York Mets' 36th round pick Denzel Clarke.
The two were teammates on the Canada 18U team that went to the Dominican Summer League in 2018, where they played with and against a number of professional players.
"The teams we got to face and the teammates we got to play with, the people we got to meet, it was just an incredible experience," said Clarke, who has two cousins currently playing professional baseball. "We got to play some professional guys, so instruction league, extended spring, sometimes even some big league players like Marcus Stroman and Russell Martin, so just having that all together in one combination was just an awesome experience."
Despite having the option to go straight to professional baseball, neither player felt as if it was the right option and instead chose to attend CSUN with the intent to try again after two or three years, though Palmegiani's choice was especially hard due to his affinity for the Blue Jays.
"It was extremely hard just because obviously it was the team I grew up watching and really cheering for my whole life," Palmegiani said. "But I knew that the best decision for me was to go to college and to really, kind of mold myself into the best version of myself I can be."
Led by Bohning, Clarke and Palmegiani, Moore believes that his team has gotten better since last year and can continue to do so throughout the season.
"I think we're getting better in every facet of our program," said Moore. "Our players are bigger, stronger, faster. They're doing more and more in the community and we're better in the classroom than we've ever been. I want everything to get better, whether it's how we sweep the floor to how we hit the ball through the six hole. It all needs to get better every day."
The Matadors first game is on Friday, Feb. 15 at 2 p.m., the beginning of a four-game homestand against Kansas State, with the other three starting on Saturday, Feb. 16 at 1 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 17 at 1 p.m., and Monday, Feb. 18 at 2 p.m.


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Q: PayUmoney integration in android sdk 28 error occured while adding dependency, gradle sync failed
dependencies

dependencies {
        implementation fileTree(include: ['*.jar'], dir: 'libs')
        implementation 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:28.0.0'
         implementation 'com.android.support.constraint:constraint-layout:1.1.3'
         testImplementation 'junit:junit:4.12'
       androidTestImplementation 'com.android.support.test:runner:1.0.2'
         androidTestImplementation 'com.android.support.test.espresso:espresso-core:3.0.2'
        implementation 'com.payumoney.sdkui:plug-n-play:1.4.4'
        }

error

This is the error generated while gradle sync.
If sdk version is 27 the only gradle sync is succesfull.
Android resource compilation failed
Output:  C:\Users\gagan\AndroidPayment\app\build\intermediates\incremental\mergeDebugResources\merged.dir\values\values.xml:1114: error: duplicate value for resource 'attr/layout_anchorGravity' with config ''.
C:\Users\gagan\AndroidPayment\app\build\intermediates\incremental\mergeDebugResources\merged.dir\values\values.xml:1114: error: resource previously defined here.

Command: C:\Users\gagan\.gradle\caches\transforms-1\files-1.1\aapt2-3.2.1-4818971-windows.jar\ae5ba3713e4c882dbabd6f009a856f88\aapt2-3.2.1-4818971-windows\aapt2.exe compile --legacy \
        -o \
        C:\Users\gagan\AndroidPayment\app\build\intermediates\res\merged\debug \
        C:\Users\gagan\AndroidPayment\app\build\intermediates\incremental\mergeDebugResources\merged.dir\values\values.xml
Daemon:  AAPT2 aapt2-3.2.1-4818971-windows Daemon #0

A:
duplicate value for resource 'attr/layout_anchorGravity'
resource previously defined here.

Sometimes IDE might get confused because of duplicate defined resources. So, go to values.xml and find:
layout_anchorGravity

And remove the other one. If this didn't solve the issue and you are sure that that's not duplicate, try to clean your project.

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Reminder: Detours at 23rd Avenue and East Cherry Street intersection during Closure This Weekend
January 27, 2016 by Norm Mah
SDOT is advising travelers of weekend construction, detours, and a full closure of the East Cherry Street and 23rd Avenue intersection while crews complete work as part of the 23rd Avenue Corridor Improvements Project. The intersection will be closed on Jan. Jan. 30 and will reopen no later than 2 a.m. on Feb. 1. Local access will be provided to residences and businesses. This schedule is weather dependent and subject to change.
From 7 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 30 to 2 a.m. on Monday, Feb. 1, travelers can expect the following:
The intersection of East Cherry Street and 23rd Avenue will be closed to traffic in all directions.
East Cherry Street will be open only for local access from 21st Avenue to Martin Luther King Jr Way.
Southbound 23rd Avenue will be open only for local access between East Union Street and East Cherry Street; regular southbound access will resume at East Jefferson Street.
Northbound 23rd Avenue remains closed between South Jackson and East Union streets.
Detours around the intersection of East Cherry Street and 23rd Avenue include:
o For northbound 23rd Avenue traffic, drivers will follow the regular construction detour from South Jackson Street to Martin Luther King Jr Way to East Union Street, where they can return to 23rd Avenue.
o For southbound 23rd Avenue traffic, drivers will follow a detour via East Union Street to 14th Avenue, with a left on East Jefferson Street to return to 23rd Avenue.
o For westbound East Cherry Street traffic, drivers will take Martin Luther King Jr Way to East Union Street. To return to East Cherry Street, use 14th Avenue.
o For eastbound East Cherry Street traffic, drivers will take 21st Avenue to East Jefferson Street, following 23rd Avenue south to East Yesler Way.
For information about bus service, look for Rider Alert notices at bus stops, visit Metro Online at www.kingcounty.gov/metro, or call 206-553-3000.
Pedestrian crossings will be maintained and businesses will remain open and accessible. SDOT would like to thank the public for its patience while this work is completed.
Please visit the website for more information and to view a map of the detour routes: http://www.seattle.gov/transportation/23rd_Ave.htm.
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UNIQUE, SPACIOUS AND BEAUTIFUL NEW HOME now being built in the Sunbrook Subdivision. This large home has been specially designed for the view lot it sits on to assure no detail or view will be missed. You will appreciate the unobstructed views of the valley and a spacious lot which can all be observed from the maintenance free deck. Multiple ceiling heights offers volume throughout with 9' main floor height and an 18' Great Room Ceiling along with a 10' basement and 12' high Theater Media Room all sound proofed. Granite counter tops and custom cabinets with decorative hood and gas cooktop as well as a hidden walk-in pantry make the kitchen shine. The master bedroom boasts decorative trimwork and large view windows. Walk-in shower and soaker tub together with the spacious walk-in closet complete the master bathroom. Main floor living with a front formal room that could also be used as an office if desired. Finished storage area under the garage can be accessed from the yard to store all the yard toys. Cold storage under the front porch. Retaining Walls will terrace the back yard to assure the views provided by this lot. Don't let this one get away.


Tag those memories with these Soft Spoken 3-D Stickers featuring Basketball.
They are perfect for many craft projects such as scrapbook pages, greeting cards, tags, collages, gift bags or boxes, stationery and photo albums.
There are about 12 stickers in a package; the largest sticker measures approximately 4 1/8" x 7/8" and the smallest is 3/8".


There is not much more 'federal' about the "Federal Reserve" than there is about Federal Express. Except, the Fed is a private company for whom the US government is the "Legal Tender"; literally and figuratively.
We could analyze this cozy relationship or we can realize that the value of any currency is a social agreement among people who trade it for goods and services. There is nothing keeping each and every one of us from "legally tending" a currency in communities to exchange for goods and services – as long as there is a social agreement.
The word "currency" has several meanings. It can mean a "medium of exchange" such as "bank currency"; or it can mean a placement in time such as a "current edition"; or it can mean the flow of something such as the "river's current". Money is, in fact, all three; it is exchanged, it changes with time, and it moves things. Therefore, anything that does these three things can be used as currency.
Social Media space has awarded civilization with an extraordinary capacity to create, maintain, and design social agreements. Social agreements are founded on conversations between people. Conversation is the medium of exchange for the trade of goods and services long before the money is distributed (or not).
The value of the dollar is not changing, but the value of the social agreement is. Conversations about Land, Labor, and Capital are transcended by conversations about environment, health care, social justice, human rights, and global freedom. The social agreement that once supported the value of a dollar is now supporting something else. The value that the dollar once contained is being transferred someplace else. The people that once controlled the value of currency are being replaced other people. The social agreement is being replaced by another one.
To understand the new social agreement is to understand the currency of currency. To support the conversations that define the new social agreement is to support the value of social currency. To support the value of social currency is to support the value of money.
In order to intersect the flow of money people need to be trading a conversational currency. In today's economy, in order to find value, we need to ask someone else where it is. In order to create value, we need to tell someone else where it is. In order to stay "current" we must engage with others. In order to preserve value, we need to preserve the value in others.
Most importantly, especially for those who want to hold a great deal of money or power or control: in order to hold value, they must give it away. In order to hold power, they must empower others. In order to hold control, they must give up control to others.
Conversely, Humility is the new gold standard and the bad guys will always try to steal it. Does this sound familiar?


Polish class Ty2 is the old German War locomotive, Kriegslok Baureihe 52. Here one of the old war locomotives is pulling a train consisting of purely pre-WWII German coaches. This was a historic special train. Picture from Krakow Glowny 7.7.2007 by Ilkka Siissalo.
Same train as in the picture above. Picture at Krakow Glowny 7.7.2007 by Ilkka Siissalo.
Another Ty2 alias German Br52 Kriegslok. The design of the cabin shows that this is one of those war locomotives built late during the war which were intended for the extremely cold temperatures of the Russian winter. The cabin is closed at the back and coupled with the "Wannentender" (bath tub tender) in such a way that the cold air would not freeze the drivers. This individual was built by F. Schichau GmbH, Maschinen- und Lokomotivfabrik, Elbing in 1943 and it used to be the German DRB Br52 no.2277. It went to MAV in Hungary as MAV 52 2277 in 1945 and then to Romanian CFR in 1948 and was then taken over by the Russians in October 1950. Russians called it TE 2277. Polish PKP got it in 1963 and used it among other places in Gdynia, Gdansk and Chojnice until 1990 until some kind of an explosion damaged it. It was listed as excess inventory in 1992. Picture at the train scrapyard of Chojnice 5.4.2017 by Ilkka Siissalo.
Another PKP Ty2 or formerly German war locomotive Br 52 stands beautifully restored on the campus of AGH, the university of science and technology in Krakow. PKP Cargo had financially supported the restoration of the engine. Picture at AGH campus in Krakow 7.3.2015 by Ilkka Siissalo.
The Wannentender (bath tub tender) of the war locomotive at AGH campus in Krakow. Picture 7.3.2015 by Ilkka Siissalo.
This old class Ol49 steam locomotive has been kept as a monument of old times in Korsze, along the line of the famous German "Ostbahn", east railroad, which used to link Berlin with Königsberg. Now when the Königsberg area is annexed by the Russians as their Kaliningrad enclave, the main line is fairly quiet. The class Ol49 was developed by Fablok in Chrzanów in 1949 based on earlier German designs. Fablok built 115 of them during the years 1951-54. Top speed of the machine was 100 km/h. Picture at Korsze station 3.4.2017 by Ilkka Siissalo.
Another view of the same Ol49. Picture at Korsze station 3.4.2017 by Ilkka Siissalo.
This old class TKt48 shunter locomotive has been left as a monument at the Szczecin glowny (Stettin main station). It was built in Poznan in 1951 and it was in use in Szczecin until 1991. Picture at Szczecin glowny 6.4.2017 by Ilkka Siissalo.
This picture is from the railway museum in Warsaw. The large steam engine on the right is a German Baureihe 03 machine with aerodynamic coating plates. In the 1930s before the war German railways tried their best in improving the speed of fast trains. Some machines of the express train steam engines of classes 01 and 03 got totally covering aerodynamic platings. But soon it was discovered that coatings covering the machines' wheels were a problem since the wheels of that time engines had to be oiled often and the cover plates made this very difficult. This is one of those few class 03 machines that got new, modified aerodynamic coating plates which left the wheels uncovered. It had been left behind by the Germans when German army had to retreat from Poland and it had been taken over by the Polish state railways which gave it a new class designation Pm3 instead of the original Baureihe 03 or Br 03.
The machine in the middle resembles very closely pre-war German machines, but it is actually a Polish construction called class Pt47. They were built 1948-1951 by Fablok and Cegielski in Poland. A total of 180 machines were built. It was a 110 km/h fast 2-8-2 construction with an axle load of only 18,7 tons. It very closely resembled the German Br 03.
The machine on the left in the picture is unidentified.
Picture by Timo Varshukov 28.12.2017.
Another view of the German Deutsche Reichsbahn Gesellschaft DRG Baureihe 03 with a modified aerodynamic coating, alias Polish PKP Pm3.
The Polish class Ty51 was built by Cegielski in Poland 1953-58. It was a copy of a US locomotive named Ty246 or ALCO 75500 "Truman". 232 copy machines were built in Poland and the last ones were in use in Silesia (Schlesien) until 1993.
In the background Oi1 no 29, a German or actually Prussian old locomotive, originally a Prussian class P 6 machine from sometime between 1902 to 1910. It was known in pre-war Germany as the Deutsche Reichsbahn Gesellschaft Baureihe 37.0.
This one is a real rarity. Cegielski in Poland built in 1931 only three copies of this passenger express train locomotive type PU29. When war broke out and Russians invaded half of Poland and Germans the other half, one machine ended up in Germany where the Germans redesignated it as DRG Br 12.2. Two others were stolen by the Russians, but then when the German-Russian war broke out, the Germans soon captured both from the Russians. At the end of the war one ended up on the western zone of Germany, where it was soon scrapped. The Germans scrapped no. 2 already during the war, but this no.3 ended first up in Czechoslovakia where it served at the state railways ČSD, but the Czechs gave it back to the Polish in 1949. It was in use until 1970 and has been a museum exhibit ever since.
This machine is a Prussian local train engine. In Poland, after Poland took over part of the former German East Prussia this was designated as the PKP class TKi3, but originally it was a Prussian class T9.3. It was once a common machine. 2052 copies were built for the Prussian state railways 1901-14. Even after the war in 1945 in their first Polish inventory, PKP counted they had 236 of these machines. Many more were left on the East Prussian territory now occupied by the Russians and some served in the Baltic states during their Russian communist rule. Deutsche Reichsbahn Gesellschaft called this type their Baureihe 91 and in Austria it was known as their Baureihe 691. Most examples were taken out of service by the beginning of the 1970s. It was a 65 km/h fast tank engine intended both for cargo and passenger trains.


Within a month of the Sunningdale Agreement's demise, the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) released a policy statement which made clear that there would be no departure from the party's essential political programme. The post-Sunningdale period saw the SDLP hold to its immediate political aims; the party was still convinced of the essential rectitude of its programme. The SDLP appeared to confirm Ian McAllister's opinion that the party was trying to demonstrate an open-mindedness – a willingness to consider any agreement which allowed some form of power-sharing and an Irish dimension. It is noted that John Hume had reverted to the revisionist nationalism of his early political career. The SDLP called upon the British government to assume proper responsibility for Northern Ireland, to take decisive political action to bring about a just settlement and to show that it was prepared to face down the unionist veto over the implementation of such a settlement.