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Q: Get default button text/background colours in CSS/JavaScript? I saw an existing question, but the suggested answer was just hard-coded values for three different browsers. That may work on Windows/macOS, but I know from experience that FireFox on Linux uses GTK themes. So, some webpages that assumed that the background colour of an Input field was white, showed invisible text, because they had set the text colour black (black text on black background).
So, my question is, is there any way to get dynamic colour values for the default background/text of button? In Windows, there are ways to get such values. I am trying to add a button into a web page using a Chrome Extension (JavaScript), but possibly because of existing styles in the web page, if I do not specify the background colour with .style, the button's backround is white.


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This 12-day trip will take you on a journey from Pretoria to the coast of Namibia. You'll first travel to Kimberley, where activities include a visit to the Big Hole. The train will then head to Upington and travel to the Fish River Canyon, where you'll visit Lüderitz, Kolmanskop and Keetmanshoop. Other destinations include the Namib-Naukluft Park, Etosha National Park, Swakopmund and Walvis Bay.
Upington Wine/Brandy Tasting
Kolmanskop and Luderitz tour
Sossusvlei Lodge
Namib Naukluft Park
Windhoek Tour
Itinerary (12 Days)
Highlights on the journey include the Kalahari Desert, a visit to the Fish River Canyon and a tour in Windhoek. On this journey, you'll enjoy game-viewing activities at Etosha National Park, as well as a stay at the Namib-Naukluft Park. Other highlights on the journey include wine tasting in Upington and tours in Lüderitz, Kolmanskop and Keetmanshoop. This journey is available in reverse as the Dune Express Eastbound journey.
► The train departs pretoria.
► Kimberley tour. ► Visit the Big Hole and Diamond Mine Museum in Kimberley.
► Upington tour and wine/brandy tasting. ► Morning tour of Upington and wine tasting at Belazel Brandy & Wine Cellar.
► Fish River Canyon visit. ► Morning visit to the Fish River Canyon, the largest in the southern hemisphere.
► Kolmanskop and Lüderitz tour. ► Full-day tour of the ghost town Kolmanskop and Lüderitz, well known for its colonial architecture and wildlife.
► Keetmanshoop tour. ► Morning tour of Keetmanshoop. See the Giant's Playground with its 20km-long dolerite dykes as well as Quiver Tree Forest, home to 300 species of the Aloe dichotomy.
► Overnight Sossusvlei Lodge with a visit to Sesriem Canyon. ► Transfer to a Sossusvlei lodge in the Namib-Naukluft Park. ► Visit the Sesriem Canyon, shaped over millions of years by the Tsauchab River. Overnight at lodge.
► Sunrise from dune 45 and scenic drive across Namib Naukluft Park. ► Enjoy sunrise from Dune 45 followed by brunch at the lodge. ► Take a scenic drive through the Namib-Naukluft Park.
►City tour of Windhoek. ► See the Trans-Namib Transport Museum, the Alte Feste (Old Fortress), the Evangelical Lutheran Church – a striking landmark – and the Namibia Craft Centre in the old Breweries Building.
► Overnight Etosha National Park with game drive. ► Transfer to a lodge in Etosha National Park. ► Enjoy game-viewing activities. Overnight at lodge.
► Etosha National Park game drive and return to train. ► Enjoy a morning game drive before checking out and returning to the train.
End Of Journey
► Arrive at Walvis Bay Station where your tour ends. Check out of the train. (Journey ends in Pretoria if done in reverse.)
Accommodation on a dinner, bed and breakfast basis.
Entrance fees to places of interest.
Excursions accompanied by a qualified tour guide.
Meals at lodges/hotels/clubs/resorts.
Government tax.
Limited laundry service.
Lunches off the train.
All beverages.
Gratuities.
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066: Simon Hughes – The new king of comedy
Simon Hughes runs Kings of Comedy, a comedy room in the heart of Melbourne. He's also an up and coming stand-up comedian.
A class clown at school, Simon was naturally drawn to entertainment – until drug addiction turned his world upside down. But Simon has bounced back, and even turned his traumatic experience into a Melbourne International Comedy Festival (MICF) and Sydney Fringe show, Man vs Meth
In this School of Hard Knock Knocks podcast we talk drug abuse, mental health, the Messiah Complex, and bringing light to dark topics. We also talk comedy, like how to promote yourself as a new comedian.
What did you think of this episode? Leave a voice mail message and we'll include your comments in our future podcasts!
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This experiment compared the spaceflight transcriptomes of four commonly used natural variants (ecotypes) of Arabidopsis thaliana using RNAseq. In nature Arabidopsis is a native of Europe/Asia/Northwestern Africa and is found across the globe growing in a wide range of environments. The geographical spread of these various populations has led to a slow divergence leading to distinct ecotypes. Understanding the impact of this ecotypic variability is an important factor when using Arabidopsis as a model. Seeds of the ecotypes Col_0 Ler-2 Ws-2 and Cvi-0 were flown to the International Space Station as part of CRS-4 mission in the Biological Research in Canister (BRIC) hardware. The seeds were germinated on orbit grown for 8 days and then fixed in RNAlater and frozen in the MELFI freezer for return to Earth. Once returned RNA was isolated and RNAseq performed to catalog the transcriptional patterns of the plants grown in space. An identical set of samples were grown in parallel on the ground to provide controls to allow assessment of transcriptional changes specifically associated with the spaceflight environment. This data release includes 48 out of 56 sample expression files with the remaining 8 files to be released at a later date.


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The world of Watchmen collides with the DC Universe in the most shocking story in DC history! Written by master storytellers Geoff Johns and Gary Frank--As the Doomsday Clock ticks toward midnight, the DC Universe will encounter with its greatest threat: Dr. Manhattan. But nothing is hidden from Manhattan, and the secrets of the past, present and future will leave ramifications on our heroes lives forever.
Something is amiss in the DC Universe. Following the events of DC Universe: Rebirth and Batman/The Flash: The Button, Geoff Johns (Flashpoint, Justice League, DC Universe: Rebirth) and Gary Frank (Batman: Earth One, Shazam!, DC Universe: Rebirth) reunite to rewrite the past and future of the DC Universe in a story hailed as a masterpiece!
Seven years after the events of Watchmen, Adrian Veidt has been exposed as the murderer of millions. Now a fugitive, he has come up with a new plan to save his once-adoring world: find Dr. Manhattan. Alongside a new Rorschach and the deadly Mime and Marionette, he arrives in the DC Universe and finds it on the brink of collapse. International tensions are running rampant with The Supermen Theory implicating the U.S. government in creating superhumans to maintain global dominance! But what is Dr. Manhattan doing in the DC Universe? And how is he related to the events of DC Universe: Rebirth and Batman/The Flash: The Button?
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Operation Rekstok was a series of South African raids into southern Angola on 7 March 1979 during the South African Border War. The operation lasted six days. Operating from Ovamboland, SADF forces entered Angola and attacked SWAPO bases at Mongua, Oncocua, Henhombe and Heque. During the operation, a SAAF bomber was shot down, killing Lieutenant Wally Marais and Second Lieutenant O. J. Doyle. The SADF conducted Rekstok concurrently with Operation Safraan and later performed Operation Sceptic.

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Amazing effort. Incredible results. Count us inspired!
What do water wells in Sierra Leone, senior projects, spaghetti dinners, an auction, a day spa and an inspirational fundraising effort have in common? Olivia Coury!
Olivia is a senior at Daniel High School and has been working on her Senior Project since early in the fall of 2010. Olivia's passion for Africa and knowledge of the need for clean, safe water inspired her to fundraise for water projects in communities in Sierra Leone. To date, Olivia has raised nearly $12,000.
In her research to find an organization to work with, Olivia said, "I wanted to hear stories of struggle, hope, and redemption–of real people with thoughts and feelings and ambitions. I guess what I'm saying is that The Water Project showed me, in a tangible way, the people behind the numbers that I wanted to help." And help she did.
"Under the guidance of my mentor, Dayle Stewart," Olivia writes to us, "I started small, setting up what I call an "awareness booth" at a local spa where the patrons, if they chose, listened to my great big plans for a well that would serve an entire village."
Olivia showed pictures, shared the facts about water, and even filled a water bottle with simulated dirty water to illustrate what folks have to drink in many of the locations where The Water Project works.
Next, Olivia collaborated with her Biology teacher and started to raise funds by selling 'Biology Gone Wrong' donation tickets; the cost of which went directly to the well fund. Olivia involved her classmates, and to encourage competition for the most sold, rewarded the highest group with a pizza party, generously donated by Papa John's Pizza.
But, Olivia wasn't done yet… she had more fund raisers ahead including letters to family and friends inviting them to donate to the project. Olivia worked to build an ever expanding community who would become a part of these water projects with her.
The latest event was a spaghetti dinner and silent auction. Olivia canvassed her community inviting area businesses, family and friends to donate items that would be included in the silent auction. Olivia's basement quickly began filling with donated items to auction off. 80 hungry and generous guests attended the spaghetti dinner. It was a resounding success and raised over $8,500.
If that wasn't enough, in the true sense of collaboration Olivia is further sharing her energy and inspiration. She recently partnered with another senior, Sinead Haughey, who is also working on a senior project. Sinead will be hosting a 5K race on March 12th called, 'Go to the Well 5K'. Proceeds from this race will add to the ever growing fundraising total.
Check out their progress at http://thewaterproject.org/community/profile/olivia-coury
Olivia's final words of wisdom for all of us fellow fundraisers…, "I guess the best advice I can really give is to keep at it. It will take loads of time and effort, but it's so worth it." "I have learned so much….God has taught me that when a little bit of our faith in Him intersects His endless faithfulness, God shows up BIG- two wells big! "
Olivia, we couldn't agree more! Count us inspired!!


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Beyond delicious. Full of vitamin B12 and 100% vegan. Yes, you can actually make a dairy-free, highly nutritious vegan cheese at home within less than 10 minutes, and consequently, have one of the yummiest vegan pizzas ever. The secret ingredient, as some of you may guess, is the long-hailed nutritional yeast. For one thing, you can tell how rich in B-complex vitamins it is from its deep yellow color. Nutritional yeast also boasts a chockful of selenium and potassium, and is considered a complete protein, providing all 9 essential amino acids.
I'll be providing the dough recipe and the cheese recipe, and you can choose whatever toppings you like for the pizza (I used fresh oregano leaves, onions, bell pepper, olives, and mushrooms).
1. Mix the dry ingredients in a saucepan. Whisk in 1 cup of water & cook over medium heat, whisking constantly until it thickens & bubbles (it goes really quick, so don't walk away).
2. Remove from heat & whip in 1/2 cup oil & mustard (I use my Braun hand mixer for this, it works much better & faster & makes a smoother cheese).
3. Put back on the heat & slowly add the remaining water. Cook until thick and bubbly.
1. Put all the dry ingredients together.
2. Gradually add the water. If you feel that you will not need the entire amount, then stop when you think the mixture is almost at the right consistency.
3. Add the olive oil, and knead well for around 5 minutes. Shape into a ball, and smooth a bit more olive oil onto its surface. Cover with a damp cloth and leave for 2-3 hours (or overnight for best results).
1.Grease a large, deep-dish pizza pan with some olive oil.
2. Roll the dough on a floured surface, and then spread it into the pan (remove any excess dough).
3. Spoon any pizza sauce of your choice, and place the pizza pan in the oven for around 15-20 minutes, or until the dough has been slightly more than cooked through.
4. Remove the pizza pan from the oven and spoon a smooth surface of "cheese" onto it. Add the toppings, and put the pan back into the oven, baking again for another 15-20 minutes.
Believe me, you'll just love this!
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GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Dangerous winter storms have pushed nearly all school districts in Kent and Ottawa counties beyond their six-day state allotment of "forgiven time'' - meaning the school year could get longer.
With snow days piling up, school superintendents are monitoring the weather for freezing rain that could close schools Wednesday, Feb. 6. A winter storm advisory is in effect from 10 p.m. to 1 p.m.
Most districts were closed all last week because of severe conditions from widespread lake-effect snow showers and subzero wind chills.
School districts can apply for leniency to the state -- or add on days in the summer.
Michigan law allows districts to be forgiven for six days of closures due to conditions beyond their control such as weather and power outages before having to make up loss instructional days. An additional three days may be granted with the approval of the state superintendent.
But many districts have or are close to maxing out the additional three days. Only one district is at 6 days, most have between seven and 10 days this school year.
Last week, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer declared a state of emergency due to subzero temperatures. However, the Michigan Department of Education has not said whether it will automatically grant waivers for the three additional days.
10 Days: Lowell, Rockford and Caledonia (One of the 10 days for Rockford and Caledonia was due to a power outage).
9 Days: Zeeland, Northview, Cedar Springs, Kent City, Sparta, and Thornapple-Kellogg (One day due to a power outage. The two-day mid-winter break has been reduced to one).
8 Days: – Forest Hills, Grandville, Allendale, Kenowa Hills, Coopersville, Wyoming, Comstock Park, Godfrey-Lee (including one day for an employee's funeral), and Saugatuck.
7 Days: – Grand Rapids, Hudsonville, Holland, Jenison, Kelloggsville, Godwin Heights, Byron Center, Kentwood, West Ottawa, Spring Lake, Grand Haven, and Hamilton.
6 Days: - East Grand Rapids.
Rockford Public Schools Superintendent Michael Shibler said he has already reached out to a few West Michigan lawmakers to discuss future legislative help for districts if they continue to pile up snow days.
"School districts will need some legislative relief because of the unusual circumstances,'' said Shibler, who said the district has 10 closures, including for a power outage.
During the 2012-13 school year, the Legislature agreed to allow districts to make up snow days by lengthening school days even if they didn't meet the mandated number of days.
The governor can also grant a waiver to schools that request one. But that waiver only would cover days taken for inclement weather after April 1.
Cedar Springs Superintendent Scott Smith said their district has used nine days and has already sought approval for the three extra days.
"If it is dangerous, closing Wednesday will be an easy call,'' he said.
Kenowa Hills Superintendent Gerald Hopkins said school leaders worry about icy conditions, including road conditions, sidewalks and parking lots. He said they have used eight days but decisions are always about safety.
Thousands of students are currently slated to end the school year June 7.
At the end of the year, students have to be in the classroom at least 1,098 hours during at least 180 days -- or a school district is at risk of receiving less money, per state law.


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The over 400 members of the Canadian Propane Association (CPA) say it's no laughing matter that the federal government has decided to favour carbon-intensive fuels such as gasoline and diesel over low-emission propane with the new federal carbon levy that came into force on April 1.
The over 400 members of the Canadian Propane Association (CPA) say it's no laughing matter that the federal government has decided to favour carbon-intensive fuels such as gasoline and diesel over low-emission propane with the new federal carbon levy that came into force on April 1.
As of April 1, in provinces affected by the carbon levy under the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act (GGPPA) – Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario and New Brunswick – consumers, including farmers, will see an increase in the price of propane of over 3 cents per litre because of the levy. But no special tax is applied for agricultural uses of gasoline or diesel.
As stated in the GGPPA, a registered distributor can generally deliver gasoline or diesel to a farmer without the fuel charge applying. There is no such allowance for propane, which emits about 26 per cent less GHGs than gasoline and 98 per cent less dangerous toxins (particulate matter) than diesel.
"The net effect is that fuels with higher carbon intensity like gasoline and diesel will be subsidized and farmers will see their efforts to reducing GHG emissions seriously challenged as they still have to make ends meet," said Nathalie St-Pierre, President of the Canadian Propane Association.
The CPA will continue to press the federal government, including the Office of the Minister of Finance, to include an exemption from the fuel charge for low-emission propane in agricultural applications.


Closed: The N.C. Department of Health and Human Services has suspended abortion clinic FemCare Inc.'s license after finding multiple safety violations. The facility is the only clinic in the state currently qualified to give abortions under a new law signed July 29.
After a recent inspection revealed multiple violations, the state Department of Health and Human Services has suspended the medical license of Asheville abortion clinic FemCare Inc. — the only clinic in the state that would currently meet the new requirements of an abortion bill signed into law on July 29.
"Inspectors from [the] Division of Health Service Regulation (DHSR) found the facility failed to comply with 23 separate rules," said Drexdal Patt, director of DHSR. "We take rule violations very seriously and, when necessary, take firm action to prevent harm to patients and clients in the facilities that we license regulate and inspect."
The statement sent from DHHS on July 31 called the violations "egregious" and said they "revealed an imminent threat to the health and safety of patients."
• Failed to ensure emergency equipment had weekly checks to ensure it was suitable for use in patient care.
• Failed to ensure that emergency medicine wasn't expired.
• Failed to have a resuscitator available.
• Failed to sweep and mop the operating room floor and failed to properly clean operating room beds.
• Failed to have a director of nursing responsible and accountable for all nursing services.
• Failed to have an agreement/contract with an anesthetist or anesthesiologist.
• Failed to have an agreement/contract with a registered pharmacist to assure appropriate methods, procedures and controls for obtaining, dispensing and administering drugs.
The survey conducted on July 18 and 19 found that the facility failed to keep anesthesia delivery systems in good working conditions, specifically citing torn masks and tubing that were found "held together with tape" — putting patients at risk for pain and physical harm due to inadequate sedation dosages during surgical procedures. The 49-page report found several other infractions (see: "Other Violations" in sidebar).
According to the DHHS, the medical center will now have 10 days to prove that it complies with the relevant rules and 60 days to file an appeal. The last time the medical facility was inspected, the clinic was found in violation of personnel and quality assurance rules.
Cummings reiterated in her statement that FemCare has never had any problems maintaining patient safety. "We have had no patient infections using our former protocols. We expect to be in compliance soon with the required standards and will return to serving our patients as soon as possible."
FemCare's shuttering has prompted some critics to blame political maneuvering by the state, a charge denied by DHHS Communications Director Ricky Diaz.
Despite campaign promises that he would not sign any bills into law that would further restrict access to abortion, Gov. Pat McCrory signed one into law July 29 that will require abortion clinics to meet the same standards of outpatient surgical centers. In a July 3 article, investigations by Xpress found that the only abortion clinic in the state that would meet those new requirements was FemCare. It also requires that a physician be physically present in the room with a woman taking the first dose of an abortion-inducing drug. However, it does not require that a physician be present beyond the initial dose.
Critics say the legislation, entitled "Health and Safety Law Changes," will effectively shut down abortion clinics across the state. However, McCrory said the intention of the law is safety not clinic closures.
"This law does not further limit access and those who contend it does are more interested in politics than the health and safety of our citizens," McCrory said of the newly adopted law. "These higher standards will result in safer conditions for North Carolina women."


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Central Saanich History
The Tsawout and Tsartlip First Nations, located within Central Saanich, have a rich cultural and spiritual connection extending back in time thousands of years to the lands now known as the Saanich Peninsula. The Brentwood Bay and Saanichton Bay areas were, and continue to be, integral to the economic, cultural, and spiritual life of the First Nations. The beliefs of the Tsartlip and Tsawout people are inextricably linked to the land and surrounding natural systems; the four winds, the trees, the birds, the animals, and the fish were all people, long ago. Nature, animals, fish, fire and water are imbued with spiritual values that are honoured for their power to heal, give life, provide bounty, and provide guidance through life. The Tsartlip and Tsawout First Nations have a strong, distinct sense of community. The common focus of the Nations is to maintain and restore their rich cultural heritage.
The first European settlers arrived in what is now Central Saanich in 1855. The first three families were the Lidgates, the McPhails and the Thomsons.The Lidgates' cabin (1858) and Bannockburn (1869) are still standing today. In fact, their construction at the base on Mt. Newton led to a roadway connecting East and West Saanich roads. The early settlers were mostly farmers who appreciated the land's fertile soil and grew hops, fruit, hap, grains and berries. There was also some logging and fishing. In the early days of settlement, the journey to Victoria was a four-day canoe trip around the Peninsula.
Robert Pim and Jennie Butchart opened a large limestone quarry and cement plant in 1904 (where Butchart Gardens is located today). The BC Cement factory supplied international markets with cement by way of a barge from Tod Inlet around the Saanich Peninsula and into Victoria's Inner Harbour. The factory closed in 1916, but tiles and pots continued to be manufactured on the site until 1950. Mrs. Butchart started her ambitious beautification of the property with the Sunken Garden (originally the limestone quarry) and the gardens bloomed from there and were soon an international destination. Today, it's a National Historic Site of Canada.
The Corporation of the District of Central Saanich was incorporated on December 12, 1950, and the Central Saanich Fire Department and Municipal Police Department (consisting of one Chief Constable equipped with a pair of handcuffs, a blackjack, and a 38 calibre revolver) were added in 1951.
Today, thanks to the efforts of Central Saanich residents including the Tsawout and Tsartlip First Nations, the history of Central Saanich lives on.
For more history, visit our Heritage page, or visit the Saanich Pioneer Society Archives and Museum and Heritage Acres Museum.
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Phoenix - The Brewers made official Monday what had been obvious for a few days by announcing they had requested waivers on Juan Francisco for the purpose of giving him his unconditional release.
It had been obvious that Francisco was out of the picture when the Brewers cleaned out his locker Saturday and the first baseman/third baseman left camp. On Sunday, the Brewers advised non-roster veterans Mark Reynolds and Lyle Overbay they would make the team and share first-base duties.
The Brewers tried to trade Francisco, 26, without any luck before asking for release waivers on him. He was having a strong camp (.346 batting average) but he was considered a defensive liability at both third base and first base, so the Brewers opted to keep Reynolds and Overbay.
"If we had the DH in our league, Juan would probably be on our team," said general manager Doug Melvin. "There's no doubt he's got potential to hit for power. We tried him at first base to see what he could do. American League teams can make room for a bat like that. We can't.
"We asked outright waivers on him and nobody claimed him, so we put him on release waivers. I made a lot of calls to other teams but this is a tough time to make a trade. There's not a lot of trades in spring training unless a team has an injury (and has to replace a player).
"We made a decision to keep Reynolds and Overbay, so we'll just move on. This gives Juan a chance to hook up with somebody else."
The Brewers will be responsible for one-fourth of Francisco's $1.35 million salary, which comes to $337,500.


(HARTFORD, CT) – Governor Dannel P. Malloy today announced that $3.6 million in state funding is being awarded to eleven projects in eight Connecticut municipalities to assess, remediate and revitalize blighted properties in their communities – also known as "brownfields" – and put them back into productive use. These projects encompass 59 acres of redevelopment.
Under today's round of funding announcements, a total of $2.95 million will be awarded to seven remediation and redevelopment projects. An additional $625,000 will be awarded for four assessment projects for future revitalization. All funds will be awarded through the Department of Economic and Community Development (DECD).
Since Governor Malloy took office in 2011, state investments of approximately $206 million have supported over 234 brownfield projects across 72 municipalities, remediating 3,062 acres and leveraging approximately $3.2 billion in non-DECD funds. In addition, these investments are helping create more than 3,000 permanent and 15,000 construction jobs.
Berlin: $325,000 to the Town of Berlin for remediation of the CONRAIL spur and to address groundwater contamination on 873 Farmington from an adjacent site.
Bridgeport: $725,000 to the City of Bridgeport for the remediation of the "Civic Block"located at 1162-1216 Stratford Avenue, 618-648 Newfield Avenue, and 25-55 RevereStreet to prepare the site for redevelopment into a 35,000 sq. ft. of commercial space including a grocery store.
Bridgeport: $600,000 to Park City Communities for the abatement, demolition, and remediation of Marina Village located at 400 Iranistan Avenue to prepare the site for creation of 150 mixed-income residential units as part of Phase 3 of the Marina Village project.
Groton: $150,000 to the Town of Groton for abatement work of the former GrotonHeights School property located at 244 Monument Street.
New Britain: $300,000 to the City of New Britain for the environmental assessment, demolition, and remediation of the abandoned coal and oil storage facility located at 24 Dwight Court.
Shelton: $750,000 to the City of Shelton for the remediation of hazardous building materials at 267 Canal Street, site of the former Star Pin Company.
New Britain: $100,000 to the Capitol Region Council of Governments for environmental assessment of the former automotive dealership and junkyard use at 1411 East Street.
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You enter a new universe when you become a parent of a cancer patient: A new vocabulary of medications and diagnoses, names of nurses and doctors and support staff, friends for life because you share something you'd never want to share with anyone.
Years later, some of that has faded away. I can't rattle off the two-dozen regular drugs Dominic was on at the time of his death, nor the first names of half the folks we knew from the hospital.
But we still have those friends. And this week we get to have a big reunion with dozens of them, plus make many more.
Extra Life is the charity we found out about shortly after Dom wound up in hospital with leukemia. Play games, heal kids is the slogan, and that worked perfectly as we aimed to give back to the Alberta Children's Hospital where he received the most amazing care.
At first it seemed like the commitment would be once a year; a 24-hour gaming marathon with friends where we ask folks to sponsor us.
Then I decided to up the ante by shaving my head. When Dominic died in 2015 so did Trish, plus an entire family of friends (including their kids). Dozens of others joined us for the marathon and our entire community came together to support us.
Now there's an annual online auction, a mini-golf tournament and a special night with a local college-level baseball team. We've helped raised more than $175,000 through #Dominicstrong and consider it how we parent a son who's not physically here.
Extra Life is more than just that once-a-year marathon for many people. We have friends across North America who are involved in one event or another 365 days a year for their respective hospitals, and Extra Life itself puts on a special event every year in Orlando, Florida called Extra Life United.
We went to the second edition of ELU in 2016, barely five months after Dom passed. Because he died during his wish trip to Florida it was particularly emotional to return, but the love we experienced there - both from fellow Extra Lifers, Children's Miracle Network employees and champion children representing its 170-plus member hospitals - was unbelievable. The thumbs-up - Dominic's favourite piece of sign language - is now part of the special bond we share with that group.
When our daughter Samantha was born a year later, I was the only one able to go back to Extra Life United. In 2018 Trish was recently back to work as an accountant - tax season is usually a no-go for vacations.
But her work and mine know how much Extra Life means to us, and so we are back this year.
The big draw for ELU is a gaming tournament with more than US$150,000 to be won by attendees. They don't pocket the money, their respective children's hospitals do. We would love to earn a small portion of that for the Alberta Children's.
But those who have been know it's about so much more than that. Meeting up with friends new and old, another group of inspirational champion children and their families, and Extra Life and Children's Miracle Network staff whose work is so important and whose hearts are equally big.
A new journey begins and we can't wait.
Look for daily updates on our Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/groups/dominicstrong) with how things are going, plus Sean's Twitter feed (@seanrooney). If you'd like to help our cause directly, visit either of our Extra Life fundraising pages (http://www.extra-life.org/participant/sean or http://www.extra-life.org/participant/trish).
Thanks for being part of our journey, now and always.


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OTTAWA — The Ottawa Senators scored three consecutive goals in the third period, and Craig Anderson made 45 saves in a 6-3 win against the Tampa Bay Lightning at Canadian Tire Centre on Saturday.
Ryan Dzingel scored twice, and Matt Duchene, Zack Smith, Mark Stone and Jean-Gabriel Pageau scored for the Senators (14-17-9), who have won consecutive games for the first time since Dec. 13-16.
Ottawa was coming off a comeback victory against the San Jose Sharks at home on Friday, when it scored three third-period goals to tie the game 5-5, then won it seven seconds into overtime on a goal by Duchene.
The Lightning, who have the NHL's best record (29-9-3), have lost consecutive games for the second time this season (Nov. 24-25). Victor Hedman, Slater Koekkoek and Yanni Gourde scored, and Andrei Vasilevskiy made 27 saves for Tampa Bay.
Stone scored his 17th of the season off a rebound to put the Senators ahead 4-3 at 10:44 of the third after the Lightning, who trailed 3-0 after the first period, had tied the game.
Pageau made it 5-3 at 14:57 of the third, and Dzingel scored his second of the game and fourth in three games to make it 6-3 at 17:08.
Tampa Bay captain Steven Stamkos said the Lightning are making it easy for opponents by turning the puck over.
Lightning coach Jon Cooper challenged Tampa Bay's leaders to address their defense.
"I think there is a little bit of entitlement running through our team right now," Cooper said. "What is a little discouraging is our goaltender, who in my opinion has been our MVP this year, for us to let him down like that … those goals going in at the start of the [first] period were men's-league goals. That's just a noncommitment to play in your own end.
The Senators scored the first three goals of the game. Dzingel scored his 12th of the season to make it 1-0 at 4:48 of the first after Stone intercepted a pass by Jake Dotchin deep in the Tampa Bay zone.
Duchene, with his third goal in two games, scored at 5:51 to make it 2-0. Smith deflected a pass by Karlsson at 17:04 to make it 3-0.
Hedman (26 seconds into the second period), Koekkoek (1:41) and Gourde (on the power play at 15:57) scored for the Lightning to tie the game 3-3.


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One-Handed Linebacker Shaquem Griffin Drafted By The Seahawks, Who Employ His Twin Brother
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Central Florida linebacker Shaquem Griffin, a one-handed player who runs like the wind and conquered the bench press, has been selected by the Seattle Seahawks in the fifth round of the 2018 NFL Draft. I urge you to watch these two videos of his selection, because they're great:
Shaquem's twin brother Shaquill was a third-round selection of the Seahawks in last year's draft, and started 11 games for the Seahawks last season. The brothers were teammates at UCF before Shaquill entered the 2017 NFL draft. Per ESPN:
"I would wait all over again for the opportunity to be back with my brother," Shaquem told ESPN, referring to the time he had to wait to be picked in the 2018 draft.
That Griffin has made it to the NFL at all is an accomplishment; that he did it despite the disadvantage of having only one hand is incredible; that he will now get to start his professional career as a teammate of his twin brother is just so fucking cool.
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Shaquem Griffin, UCF's One-Handed Linebacker, Is The Man
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Though hardly a household name, Harun Farocki was one of the boldest and most influential film theorists of the last 40 years—a prolific writer and documentary filmmaker whose work focused on creating and deconstructing complex, clear-eyed arguments about society, work, media, and war. From the mid-1980s on, his main focus was on how simulations affect a person's sense of place in the real world, a topic he explored in projects that ranged from How To Live In The Federal Republic Of Germany—a brilliant documentary composed of scenes from dozens of instructional workshops and training exercises, on topics ranging from driving to striptease—to the recent installation Serious Games, which tackled combat training simulators.
Der Spiegel is reporting that Farocki passed away yesterday near Berlin. He was 70.
Farocki was born in 1944 in German-occupied Czechoslovakia to an Indian father and a German mother. In 1966, he enrolled in West Germany's first dedicated film school, the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB), where he would later become a teacher. That year he made his debut; working mostly in short films, he would remain incredibly prolific over the coming decades. (IMDb only lists 79 titles, though the number is closer to 100.) A year after leaving the DFFB, Farocki made what would become his best-known early work, The Inextinguishable Fire (1969), about the use of napalm in the Vietnam War. In the film's most famous moment, the camera dollies in on Farocki—who has just finished reading a napalm victim's report out loud—as he puts out his cigarette on his arm, explaining that napalm burns at seven times the temperature.
By the mid-1970s, Farocki's work began to attract attention from critics and academics, and for many years, his work was known chiefly by reputation. (The first major article about him, published in 1975 in Cahiers Du Cinéma, began with the question: "Who is Farocki?") From 1974 to 1984, he served as the editor of the German magazine Filmkritik.
Farocki was also an installation artist, using multiple screens to create even more complex arguments and more intricate relationships between rhetoric and footage. And he was a tireless teacher, with stints at Berkeley and, more recently, the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. One of his final credits was for working on the screenplay for Barbara, directed by his onetime student Christian Petzold.


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LeBron James produces a monster night; Celtics down Thunder; Sixers win again
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CAVALIERS (4-5) 130; WIZARDS (4-4) 122
LeBron James (57/11/7) put the home team to the sword by producing the second highest-scoring game of his career. The King was unstoppable all night and shot an incredible 23-of-34, which is the most field goals he's put up in his career. Derrick Rose (20/1/2) also made a huge contribution to the victory as the Cavs snap a four-game losing streak.
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PACERS (5-4) 110; SIXERS (5-4) 121
J.J. Redick (31/3/6) had a red-hot night in Philadelphia as he hit eight three-pointers. Rookie Ben Simmons (14/11/11) posted his second triple-double of the year as the 76ers moved above .500 for the first time in almost four years with the win.
Victor Oladipo (31/5/7) continued his brilliant start to the season as he led the visitors in scoring. Bojan Bogdanovic (21/4/2) also shot the ball well as he went an efficient 8-of-12 from the field.
BUCKS (4-5) 96; PISTONS (6-3) 105
Andre Drummond (24/15/0) produced a huge double-double and poured in 14 of his points in the third quarter. The big man also impressively went 14-of-16 from the free-throw line which is the most he's hit in a game in his career. Avery Bradley (22/2/3) also put on a good display.
As usual, Giannis Antetokounmpo (29/4/3) put up big numbers for Milwaukee and Malcolm Brogdon (21/2/10) added a season-high but they now drop below .500.
BULLS (2-5) 105; MAGIC (6-3) 83
Chicago secured their first road win of the season behind a strong second half. Justin Holiday (19/2/1) David Nwaba (16/5/1) and Robin Lopez (11/10/2) were their best performers.
Evan Fournier (21/5/3) led Orlando in scoring as they suffered a surprising loss following a strong start to the campaign.
PELICANS (4-5) 99; MAVERICKS (1-8) 94
The New Orleans big man duo of Anthony Davis (30/13/4) and DeMarcus Cousins (20/22/7) both put up huge double-doubles to lead their team to a win.
The Mavs were led in scoring by Harrison Barnes (26/6/3) and had a strong game from rookie Dennis Smith Jr. (16/3/4) but continue to have the worst record in the league.
HORNETS (5-4) 101; SPURS (5-4) 108
San Antonio snapped a four-game losing streak after getting some quality production off their bench from Bryn Forbes (22/3/2) and Rudy Gay (20/7/3). Patty Mills (17/2/4) also contributed to the win.
Jeremy Lamb (27/9/6) put up good numbers and led Charlotte in the loss and Dwight Howard (20/13/1) had a double-double.
HEAT (3-5) 94; NUGGETS (5-4) 95
Paul Millsap (27/9/5) had his best game since joining Denver and helped them secure a narrow win at home with some clutch free throws down the stretch. Frontcourt partner Nikola Jokic (19/14/2) posted a big double-double.
Goran Dragic (23/3/7) had a team-high for Miami who also had good contributions from Dion Waiters (15/3/3) and James Johnson (15/10/4). Waiters almost won it with a three-pointer that rattled in and out in the final second.
RAPTORS (5-3) 109; JAZZ (5-4) 100
Toronto came away with an impressive road win behind a terrific offensive display by DeMar DeRozan (37/6/2). Kyle Lowry (15/4/10) dropped a double-double and Norman Powell (15/2/2) also came up big.
Rookie Donovan Mitchell (25/3/0) led Utah in scoring off the bench and Rodney Hood (17/3/1) was the highest scoring starter but had a rough shooting night going 6-of-19.
CELTICS (7-2) 101; THUNDER (4-4) 94
Kyrie Irving (25/5/6) dropped 22 of his points in the second half and proved too much for OKC to handle as he helped his team overcome an 18-point deficit to win a seventh straight game. Al Horford (20/8/4) also came up big.
The Thunder's big three of Paul George (25/10/1) Russell Westbrook (19/6/11) and Carmelo Anthony (10/14/3) all had double-doubles but they didn't have the best of nights shooting the ball. Melo, in particular, struggled badly going 3-of-17 and 0-of-5 from downtown.
NETS (3-6) 112; LAKERS (4-5) 124
Los Angeles bounced back from a tough last-second loss to the Trail Blazers the previous night by beating Brooklyn in resounding fashion. Brook Lopez (34/10/2) had a monster game against his former team hitting 6-of-9 threes. Rookie Kyle Kuzma (21/13/1) posted a double-double in his first NBA start.
Unlike Lopez, D'Angelo Russell (17/7/3) failed to shine against his old team as he shot just 8-of-24. The visitors were led by Allen Crabbe (25/6/1) who had a strong performance off the bench.
ROCKETS (7-3) 119; HAWKS (1-8) 104
Houston condemned Atlanta to another defeat behind a strong double-double by James Harden (29/3/11) who dropped 21 in the first half. Eric Gordon (20/2/5) and Luc Mbah a Moute (20/4/2) also put in strong performances for the visitors who now own the best record in the Western Conference.
The Hawks had six players in double figures but were never really in the game. They were led by Kent Bazemore (18/4/2). Denis Schroder (16/2/4) and Taurean Prince (16/3/2) also put up decent numbers but it wasn't enough to prevent an eighth loss.
SUNS (4-5) 107; KNICKS (4-4) 120
Kristaps Porzingis (37/7/0) continued his brilliant start to the campaign by torching Phoenix as he shot an efficient 13-of-22 from the field. Tim Hardaway Jr. (21/3/3) and Enes Kanter (16/15/3) also played a big role in the win.
Devin Booker (34/2/1) had another big scoring night for the road team as he shot 10-of-19 from the floor and a perfect 12-of-12 at the charity stripe but it wasn't enough.
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Hector Elementary School
104 Sycamore St
Hector, AR 72843
Hector Elementary School serves 327 students in grades Kindergarten-6.
Hector Elementary School placed in the bottom 50% of all schools in Arkansas for overall test scores (math proficiency is top 50%, and reading proficiency is bottom 50%) for the 2018-19 school year.
The percentage of students achieving proficiency in math is 40-44% (which is higher than the Arkansas state average of 36%) for the 2020-21 school year. The percentage of students achieving proficiency in reading/language arts is 30-34% (which is lower than the Arkansas state average of 37%) for the 2020-21 school year.
The student:teacher ratio of 13:1 is equal to the Arkansas state level of 13:1.
Minority enrollment is 9% of the student body (majority Hispanic), which is lower than the Arkansas state average of 40% (majority Black).
Hector Elementary School ranks among the top 20% of public schools in Arkansas for:
Hector Elementary School's student population of 327 students has stayed relatively flat over five school years.
The teacher population of 26 teachers has grown by 8% over five school years.
Hector Elementary School is ranked within the bottom 50% of all 998 schools in Arkansas (based off of combined math and reading proficiency testing data) for the 2018-19 school year.
The diversity score of Hector Elementary School is 0.17, which is less than the diversity score at state average of 0.59. The school's diversity has stayed relatively flat over five school years.
Hector School District
What is Hector Elementary School's ranking?
Hector Elementary School ranks among the top 20% of public schools in Arkansas for: Largest percent of students eligible for free lunch (Top 1%).
How many students attend Hector Elementary School?
327 students attend Hector Elementary School.
91% of Hector Elementary School students are White, 5% of students are Hispanic, 2% of students are American Indian, 1% of students are Black, and 1% of students are Two or more races.
What is the student:teacher ratio of Hector Elementary School?
Hector Elementary School has a student ration of 13:1, which is equal to the Arkansas state average of 13:1.
What grades does Hector Elementary School offer ?
Hector Elementary School offers enrollment in grades Kindergarten-6
What school district is Hector Elementary School part of?
Hector Elementary School is part of Hector School District.
The nearest high school and middle school to Hector Elementary School is Hector High School (2.3 miles away)
The nearest elementary school is Dover Elementary School (8.5 miles away)
Hector High School
Grades: 7-12 | 296 students 2.3 miles 11601 Sr 27
Dover Elementary School
Grades: PK-4 | 470 students 8.5 miles 75 Pine Hill Rd
Dover, AR 72837
Dover Middle School
Grades: 5-8 | 400 students 9.5 miles 203 College St
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Grades: 9-12 | 372 students 9.6 miles 101 Pirates Loop
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Grades: PK-4 | 374 students 11.6 miles 5401 Sr 124
Russellville, AR 72801
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Analysis: China's bubble Olympics kept reality at a distance
By TED ANTHONY - Feb. 21, 2022 08:37 PM EST
An Olympic shuttle bus approaches the main media center at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
BEIJING (AP) — They did it — that much seems obvious. But what, exactly, was the "it" that they did?
China pulled off a logistically adept Olympics with very few mechanical glitches — no small affair in the pandemic era. It made that happen primarily by creating what it called, in inimitable Chinese government style, a "closed-loop system" — the now-renowned Olympic "bubble" designed to corral anyone affiliated with the Olympics and, just as important, keep them from infecting the rest of the country.
For these Games, the government made sure to put out the nice China. Inside the loop, all was amiable — fronted by young and enthusiastic volunteers, embodied by a cheerful fat panda mascot named Bing Dwen Dwen. The earnest men and women in hazmat suits were friendly, at least as far as one could tell underneath the masks and goggles and full-body plastic. Even the relatively few police encountered inside the bubble were, by Chinese law-enforcement standards, downright chatty.
The closed-loop bubble removed a sizable portion of heart and soul from the 2022 Olympics — a global moment that in the best of circumstances is supposed to be overflowing with both. And here's what it also did: created some convenient side effects that surely didn't displease the Chinese authorities.
First, some background. For decades, the country's Communist Party and government have honed a multipronged system of keeping visitors from seeing — and reporting on — what's really going on across the astonishingly multifaceted nation that is China.
Since the bloody 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Beijing's Tiananmen Square in particular, those who try to peer behind the curtain — be they journalists, activists or sometimes just curious tourists — are often blocked, slapped back or redirected to more innocuous locations and pursuits.
Today, international journalists living and working in China — if they're not among those getting kicked out — have a challenging time piercing the official narrative and have to fashion innovative end runs to get at the more contentious topics.
For many years, "foreign affairs offices" in different Chinese cities, ostensibly designed to facilitate things for visitors, have in fact become official impediments in many cases. Many foreigners trying to travel solo to one of the places the central government considers restive — the western regions of Xinjiang and Tibet in particular — might well be thwarted.
And Chinese journalists? In a society where propaganda is positioned as patriotic rather than repugnant, they face perils and pressures that would be hard for anyone who grew up in a democracy to imagine.
So in a way, the Olympic bubble was the perfect microcosm of hide-all-the-blemishes business as usual, set against a globalized, mascot-saturated, winter-wonderland backdrop.
Regular international spectators weren't permitted to come, which eliminated one random element. More saliently, thousands of visiting international Olympics journalists with prying eyes and rollicking story ideas were effectively prevented from any encounters with regular Chinese people other than a carefully vetted, inside-the-loop cadre of pre-approved representatives.
The reason, obviously, was COVID interdiction. But the outcomes are more than aligned with the goals and practices of Xi Jinping's government.
This is not to imply that the bubble was created for anything other than COVID-19 interdiction. Certainly Tokyo had a system last year for its Summer Games that shared some characteristics with Beijing's, though was much less hardcore, reflecting the differing types of governments that Japan and China have.
And as China readily points out, the bubble system worked. As of Saturday, the segregated system that effectively turned Beijing into two cities — one sequestered, one proceeding very much as normal — had produced only 463 positive results out of 1.85 million tests among thousands of visitors entering the bubble since Jan. 23.
"The success in insulating the event from the virus and keeping disruption to sports events to a minimum also reflected the effectiveness and flexibility of China's overall zero-COVID policies," the Global Times newspaper, which is pro-government even by Chinese standards, enthused.
So those "authoritarian Olympics" that human rights groups criticized and that some Western governments boycotted (even as they sent their athletes)? The bubble created to host them was, in some ways, not unlike the bubble town that the Marvel character Wanda Maximoff created in last year's popular TV series "WandaVision."
Like the fictional Westview, Bubble Beijing definitely had some things in common with reality, and sometimes you could glimpse the real world from inside. But it was shiny and closely calibrated and — unless you did some serious digging to find the seams — you couldn't really leave until the story played out.
Ultimately, the 2022 Winter Olympics enter the books with two dominant storylines. One is the sports story — a narrative dotted with the triumphs of Eileen Gu and Nathan Chen and Su Yiming, the sadness of Mikaela Shiffrin and the mess that is Russian figure skating.
The other, though, captured from inside that bubble, is the story of the Olympic host country. That one is a pandemic-era tale of apparent medical and logistical triumph on the surface, with a different reality floating below, sanitized for the government's protection and viewed, inevitably, through the COVID-flavored prism of our era — as if through a mask, goggles and a full-body plastic hazmat suit.
Ted Anthony, director of new storytelling and newsroom innovation for The Associated Press, is the AP's former director of Asia-Pacific news and is covering his seventh Olympics. He lived in Beijing as a child in 1979-80 and as a journalist from 2001-2004. Follow him on Twitter at (http://twitter.com/anthonyted)


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Progressive activists in S.C. to launch 'Truthful Tuesday' at State House
by Corey Hutchins January 6, 2014
[image-1]Progressive activists across South Carolina will gather at the State House in Columbia next week for 'Truthful Tuesday' — an event styled after a series of protests at North Carolina's capital dubbed Moral Mondays.
"It's to really put lawmakers on notice regarding the need to expand Medicaid and protect voting rights and to fully fund public education," says George Hopkins, a College of Charleston history professor and Charleston chapter president of the S.C. Progressive Network. "Hopefully on Wednesday the 15th the headlines across the state will read 'Citizens Descend on Columbia' to demand legislators take action on these issues."
Legislators will return to Columbia on Jan. 14 to begin the second of a two-year legislative session. During the week the Legislature is in session Tuesday through Thursday. Last session, South Carolina became one of several states that chose not to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act healthcare law. Lawmakers have also passed a Voter ID bill, and the last session saw efforts to curb early voting.
Members of the Truthful Tuesday coalition are meeting tonight at the International Longshoreman's Association hall on East Bay Street at 7 p.m. to finalize their plans. Members plan to charter buses from the Lowcountry for the one-day event.
Organizations affiliated with the effort are the state chapters of the AFL-CIO, NAACP, National Association of Social Workers, Education Association and the Christian Action Council, according to a website TruthfulTuesday.net.
The Democratic Women's Labor Council, Medical University of South Carolina health workers and other Charleston-based groups kicked in more than $2,000 for transportation, according to Mt. Pleasant attorney and Progressive Network member William Hamilton.
"I've never seen them dig that much money up so fast and throw it at something so hard before," he says. "I think they're angry. It looks like we'll have at least three busses running from Charleston, maybe more, which is a lot more than we've ever done before."
In North Carolina, the Moral Mondays rallies were ongoing events. Hopkins says the Palmetto State groups are planning for additional Truthful Tuesday rallies throughout the legislative session.
"We're going to start slow and see how it goes," he says.
Similar efforts have spread to Georgia and begin on Jan. 13.
Tagged: georgia, Medicaid expansion, Moral Mondays, North Carolina, Progressives, south carolina


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German language classes for migrants insufficient, researchers say
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Mannheim (dpa) – Language classes for migrants in Germany are setting unrealistic goals, leading to a too high failure rate and frustration for the participants, researchers said on Thursday, demanding a revamp.
The classes are intended to make it possible for migrants to enter the work environment. Currently language learners need to reach a level of B2 on a six-tier grading scale starting at A1 for beginners.
This was too ambitious, the study authors from the Goethe-Institute in Mannheim and the Leibnitz-Institute for the German Language (IDS) said. "Only a fraction of the participants finishes the courses," said IDS head Henning Lobin
Currently only a minority passed the B1 level, they said, calling for Germany to shift to A2, which is also more common in other European countries.
The responsible authority, Germany's Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF), is critical of the study and its methods, saying 60 per cent of language class participants passed the required B1 level.
Germany's chamber for trade and industry, however, said that the language skills of the migrant language course graduates were often still insufficient for them to receive job training.
According to BAMF, 203,000 people started a so-called integration class in 2018.
The study looked at the educational backgrounds of 600 language class participants from 2016. In a second step, 500 graduates were tested and only 5.5 per cent achieved level B1, one third A2.
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As the days of summer are getting shorter, I look over my plein air paintings of Cape Cod. I remember the feel of soft sand at my feet, salty breezes bending the grasses, the fragrance of beach roses, white sails against the blue sky, and the taste of seafood brought to local harbors on fishing boats. I have set up my easel stocked with pastels on sandy beaches in Yarmouthport, Dennis, and Wellfleet; at the end of a dirt lane by a Chatham harbor, and by parking spaces in Rock Harbor, Orleans and the pier at Wellfleet Harbor.
Here are a few of my memories of summer captured in soft pastel.


Who says you can't have a barn wedding in winter?
Breathtaking woodsy elements and a bold burgundy palette are what brought this barn wedding theme to life. With twinkling lights overhead and greenery growing up the walls, one can't deny the scene instills a sense of warmth in the middle of winter. In addition to the bright red and burgundy florals and laser cut invitations, elegant gold details were incorporated throughout the rustic scene.


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Q: Decision tree for numeric dependent variable? I have data on commute times over a specified route over different days during different conditions. Some of the conditions are categorical (e.g., weather, traffic), and some of them are numeric (e.g., time departing from origin). I'd like to find out which of these conditions most strongly correlate with the shortest commute times on any given day of the week (M-F).
Is there a decision tree-like algorithm that would discover the conditions most strongly correlated with the shortest commute times?

A: How about recursive partioning regression trees?
There is a example from R-package rpart, which has numeric target vector with several categorical and numeric IV's.
library(rpart)
fit = rpart(Price ~ Mileage + Type + Country, data = cu.summary)

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"I knew I would donate."
On what started out as a standard Thursday night, Joe and his buddy went to see a new band at a popular New York concert hall.
What happened next is something he will never forget.
"We heard someone yell out 'Do you guys want to save a life?'" explained Joe. "That caught my attention."
Joe and his friend stopped to chat with the man. "He was running a bone marrow donor drive at the show, and asked us if we would consider donating," said Joe.
Three months after he swabbed his cheeks at the concert, Joe got some surprising news: He was a bone marrow match for a patient with blood cancer.
When he thought about the significance of being a match, Joe felt a sense of purpose. "I couldn't decide whether it was one simple choice I made at a concert or a series of life events that led me to that table on that Thursday night," he said. "But I knew I would donate."
In summer 2015, Joe donated his stem cells to help a woman battling leukemia get a second chance at life.
I had the opportunity to give her hope," he said. "It's the driving force behind the majority of our actions. It's all people want in life, especially people who face adversity.
In January 2016, Joe visited the New York City office of DKMS to ring the "Bell of Hope." The bell rings every day when someone like Joe donates marrow or stem cells to a patient.
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Abp. Makgoba's Christmas Sermon
From the Archbishop of Cape Town's website
This is the full text of Archbishop Thabo Makgoba's Christmas sermon, preached at Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve at St. George's Cathedral, Cape Town.
Isaiah 62:6-12, Psalm 97, Titus 3:4-7, Luke 2:(1-7), 8-20 or John 1:1-14
May I speak in the name of God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen.
Welcome. I'm so glad that you are here. What a challenging time of the year it is for us, here in South Africa, in 2017! It feels as if we are suffering from perpetual attacks of vertigo, but vertigo of the emotions, a feeling of dizziness where the ground under our feet seems to be rolling, shaking and moving. It's like a daily emotional earthquake.
I cannot look at the traditional manger scene against the backdrop of our current situation in South Africa and not be deeply challenged. Consider the scene: a birthing place amidst animals, outside of the inn with its security and convenience; parents worn out by a long journey undertaken at the command of political powers; a land under occupation; shepherds who were ritually unclean and excluded from worship; swaddling bands as the poor were wont to use. I cannot look at this tableaux with its multiple symbols of exclusion and vulnerability and not be challenged by the harsh truth that the message of Christmas — the message of coming to new life in God, of fresh beginnings, of our growth in holiness — that the message of Christmas is not about having more but about being more.
The crib, no matter how one looks at it, is always the place where Jesus takes on human misery. It is the place where the poor and marginalized find the possibility of hope that things might be different, that Emmanuel — "God with us" — is located in a stable, outside the spaces of power, amidst the clothes of the poor. Although this message of Christmas is never totally absent from our consciousness, so dangerous is it to the powerful and the comfortable that the Church often hides or stifles it. But Christmas is about breaking the yoke of oppression, allowing justice and peace to embrace us and enabling hope to shine in dark places, as the Advent readings have stubbornly reminded us.
Bob Snyder unpacks this further and writes: "The first Christmas is a miraculous story of the eternal God's Son, becoming of no reputation and then humbling himself to accept a cruel death on a cross. Sure, there were angel choirs. Kings came from far away to worship him. But the true Christmas story is about smallness, humility and servanthood." Christmas redirects our thoughts, and challenges us to think differently, to dream bigger and to imagine more comprehensively.
The poor and the broken, the people on the peripheries, look to us to help them realize their Bethlehem, their place of dreams, to put to flight the things that cheat them out of their true destinies and help keep alive the vision that Isaiah prophesied so tellingly, to bring about a new world. That is why Christmas is the appropriate moment to remind ourselves that anything that robs the poor of their dignity, that prevents them from realizing their potential, that any act of corruption, no matter by whom it is carried out, is an act of theft from the poor, and that any infraction of the principles of good governance perpetuates the enslavement of the marginalized. Such acts make Christ's new birth, and decent living, impossible.
All through Advent the prophets have reminded us that the Coming Child challenges us to imagine the near impossible and, in the face of dire realities, to choose life. That is precisely why in recent weeks I have been challenging the leaders of our country to put the common good above all else. I have told the new ANC leadership that the faith community will support their efforts — but only on the strict condition that they must work together to re-establish values-based, ethical, and moral leadership.
A few nights ago, I watched the ANC's new leader, Cyril Ramaphosa, promise us that his party will be more responsive and more accountable to us, and that it will reach out to community organizations and other organs of civil society. Moreover, he told us that the ANC will act against corruption, collusion, and other economic crimes, whether they be in the private or public sector. Most importantly, he told us that the people of South Africa want action, not words.
Whether he acknowledges it or not, he knows and we know that means he has to act in the matter of President Zuma. He knows and we know that President Zuma and his cohorts of corruption have been behaving as if they own the South African Treasury. But they don't: the resources of the Treasury are the common property of all South Africans, to be deployed for the common good, not for the interests of a few. Shame on Mr. Zuma for allowing people with dirty feet to walk through his mind and heart. And shame on his fellow leaders in the ANC for allowing him to get away with it until now.
Christmas gives us a lens through which we can see each other, through which can see our neighbor and see God. Just as the birth of the Christ Child brings new life and the hope of new beginnings to our personal lives, it can bring hope to our corporate lives, even to the lives of political parties. But bringing new life into the world means cutting the umbilical cord immediately after birth.
If Mr. Ramaphosa wants the ANC to get a new lease of life, he and the new leadership will need to cut the umbilical cord which ties them to the Zuma era, quickly and decisively. Our economy is floundering, unemployment is rising and those cohorts of corruption who see they are losing influence are making ever more desperate attempts to loot what they can before their party is over. On top of that, the divisions in the ANC have led to a paralysis in decision-making and the implementation of policy. It is time to say, "Enough is enough."
I cannot see how two centers of power — one centered on the party and the other on the State — can collaborate when their values seem diametrically opposed to one another. I cannot see how the ANC will make a clean break with the past and set us on a new course unless the new leaders elected at Nasrec last week, supported by their MPs in Parliament, act boldly and quickly to replace Mr. Zuma as President of the country, and to follow that up with a carefully targeted Cabinet reshuffle. If they don't, we can see their fate written in the histories of other liberation movements in the world who have failed to adapt: they will lose power.
No matter how bad things are in South Africa, each of us, each of you, have a choice. You can make things worse, or you can make things better. Paraphrasing what someone once said, you can't outwit fate by standing on the sidelines and placing little side bets on the outcome of life. You have to play the game — if you don't play there is no way you can win. One way in which we can join the game is to join the debate on land and economic reform: the ANC's resolution supporting the expropriation of land without compensation cries out for the establishment — which I suggested from this pulpit last Christmas — of a kind of CODESA [Convention for a Democratic South Africa] process to negotiate just, rational, and broadly accepted reforms on the ownership of land.
Christmas remains the story of recognizing God in unexpected places and naming God in the faces of those who occupy those places. A fortnight or so ago in an emotional meeting with Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, Pope Francis told them that "the presence of God today is also called Rohingya." In these words, he recaptured the ancient spiritual insight that the very act of "naming" challenges a culture of indifference. It gives to the poor and marginalized visibility and agency. He reminds us that for those who have had their rights trampled upon, and who have been denied the fruits of the earth — that for them, naming is indeed a touch of new life. It is the Incarnation.
Can we dare tonight to see South Africa through the eyes of the poor, and to name our country accordingly? On this holy night let us frame the Christmas story in the greater narrative of God's presence in the poor, in those outside of the norm, in the discarded. Matthew, in the genealogy that prefaces the Nativity story, lists the generation of men who carried forward Israel's checkered history, but in Matthew 1:16 there is a startling rupture of this male lineage, when he records that "Jacob was the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, of whom Jesus was born, who is called the Messiah." Matthew shows that it is Mary who provides the locus for God's promises to be manifest, for Israel's hope to be restored. In that genealogy Mary is listed alongside Tamar, Rahab, Ruth and the wife of Uriah, women who are not the norm, who take risks, who love in the most unconventional ways.
We often miss the place where God is birthing something new because, like the Three Wise Men, we instinctively go looking for God in the places of power, in the Courts of Herod, when all the while God is stirring to life in a borrowed stable. But God names the unconventional, recognizes them, and honors them. God reminds us that it is those who shape history. Insignificant, illegitimate, defenseless, tabooed people are loved by God and God's grace is in them. That is where God's love is being born. That is where the Christmas story continues.
Joseph moved beyond his momentary confusion and fear and took Mary into his home, giving space for the nurture of this new initiative of God. The shepherds found tongues with which to worship and give testimony to God's presence in the world. We too are called to leave this manger with its symbols of exclusion and vulnerability and give witness through our service to the Lord's presence in ways that allow the poor and excluded to find words and deeds of hope. When we do this, then Christmas will have found a lasting echo in our world.
Let me return to South Africa and what I have repeated over many years from this pulpit and cathedral. After our liberation, too many of us folded our arms and waited for the government to fulfill our dreams. We didn't take lessons from other democracies; we didn't realize that good governments are there to create the environment in which we are guaranteed equality of opportunity, guaranteed the space in which we can get our hands dirty, do things for ourselves. God expects us to stand up, to speak up, to fight corruption and maladministration. We need a revolution in our thinking and our being, a revolution in which we use our numbers to promote moral and ethical values and to bring about the flourishing of all South Africans.
We should all commit to ensuring lives for equality for all:
Who doesn't deserve equality in education?
Who doesn't deserve equality in service delivery?
Who doesn't deserve equality of access to clean water?
Who doesn't deserve the equality of excellent healthcare?
Who doesn't deserve the equality of opportunity?
South Africa needs you. South Africa needs your voice. And most importantly, South Africa needs your collective action.
We are fighting a New Struggle.
The struggle for the equality of equality.
A struggle for the equality of opportunity.
We are in this fight together. We dream of a better South Africa. To dream by night is to escape from your life. To dream by day is to make it happen.
Allow me to leave you with a blessing penned by Wilda English:
"God grant you the light of Christmas which is faith, the warmth of Christmas which is love, the radiance of Christmas which purity, the righteousness of Christmas which is justice, the belief in Christmas which is truth and the all of Christmas which is Christ."
God bless you. God bless your family. And God bless South Africa.
God loves you, and so do I. Amen.
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