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Following a Long Line negotiates themes of lineage, identity, family and migration in both spatial and temporal terms. As a series incorporating drawing, sculpture and photo-based installation, it explores movements of people and things and the broader social and cultural implications of these movements. Upheaval. Displacement. Relocation. People take immense risks to be in a better place, to break away from poverty and oppression, war and famine. This work pulls from current and historical sites of debate, but also chronicles aspects of my own heritage. It is not an objective inquiry. Rather, it registers between the political and the personal, the scientific and the poetic. It represents more an embodied knowledge drawing upon associated memories, stories and perceptions, which impact our shared experience and how we live together.
Scattering Plot: A Temple
(Kodalith images, brass shim, linen thread, fabric, grommets, aluminum tent poles)
A scatter plot is a type of mathematical diagram using coordinates to display data and possible correlations. The notion of 'scattering plot' suggests something more attuned to literature, a narrative device to open up a storyline or write an alternative scenario. Moving from a place. This photo-based work is made up of retractable aluminium tent poles suspending over 100 4x5 inch high contrast Kodalith images in the structure of a mobile. One tent pole is shaped as the peak of a tent or temple, bisected by another.
The images, small translucent fragments of faces and hands, gestures and glances, engage with a narrative of change and protection between mother and child. Within systems of categorization that limit agency to women and children, each image becomes a cell of information, of traceable data point. What would be standardized symbols of processing and flowcharting, Logie randomly places onto, cuts out of, or loosely renders with thread and fabric. Instead of a labelling, these markings lose their authorship, encompassing something of personhood. The women face us, interact, turn away. Working with these long considered images, Logie looks for ways to understand the social and historical processes that dictates how we treat one another.
My mother's mother's mother
(Stonehenge paper, black gesso, linen tape, thread, graphite, pins)
My mother's mother's mother is composed of three mural-sized drawings on black coated Stonehenge paper, hung edge-to-edge. The images are in two parts. Large black and white portrait-like faces dominate the upper halves, drawn partly from photographs of the women of Logie's matrilineal ancestry. These personalized faces are transplanted over outlines of historical and cultural references – the statue of Demeter, a Victorian figurine, and a late Neolithic stone female idol. Each drawing, made up of four vertical segments, is pinned and stitched together with red and black thread. Stories Logie's grandmother dictated to her mother are printed in graphite over lower segments of each drawing. One story tells of Logie's great great grandmother, a Romani traveller living in the midlands of England in the mid 19th Century. Logie's maternal grandparents left England in what is referred to as the third wave of immigration to Canada between 1890 and 1920. Logie acknowledges her family as immigrants, stemming from a long line of settlers occupying First Nations unceded territories in what is now called Canada. We took, uprooted, displaced.
Partly created in the mid 1990s, these drawings were cut and layered with other materials into a sculptural installation. Editing and reworking is an ongoing process for Logie, an act of recycling and a means of bringing relevant imagery back into her present practice.
(Vintage Chinese shadowbox, toy train track, wood frame, mirror plexiglass, text)
The main feature of this small wall hanging sculpture is a vintage Chinese glass shadowbox, a diorama of a classic pagoda garden intricately carved in cork. Suspended upside down, the lacquered base becomes part of a bridge, the gap spanned by a piece of toy train track. Reflected in a supporting mirror, the track carries on into the void. Text written on the glass tells the story of the thousands of Chinese migrants recruited, often by forced movements, to work on the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The ship journey was arduous as were the subsequent working conditions. Landing in the artist's hometown of Port Moody between 1880 and 1885, many succumbed to Beriberi disease. Buried on the hillside overlooking the town, their bodies were later exhumed and returned to their homeland for a proper burial.


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The McDowells Australian Brumby Challenge
The hugely popular Australian Brumby Challenge will be returning to EQUITANA in 2018 and will be welcoming a brand new naming rights partner in McDowells Herbal Treatment. The event will also be supporting Dolly's Dream Foundation in the development of a Youth Award in memory of Dolly Everett.
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The McDowells Australian Brumby Challenge was developed by the Victorian Brumby Association and launched at EQUITANA Melbourne in 2016. The Challenge follows the journey of 20 trainers as they transform untamed brumbies passively captured from Victoria's high country, from wild to willing in 150 days. The Final is held across four days of EQUITANA, with trainers showcasing the transformation of their Brumby in front of the crowd and an expert panel of judges.
There are two categories of the Challenge – Ridden and Youth. In the Ridden Challenge, brumbies aged four and older are saddle trained. In the Youth Challenge, yearling aged brumbies are trained and presented in hand only, not to be started under saddle or sat on.
In 2018, the Youth Challenge will be age restricted and only open to trainers aged from ten to 17 years.
The competition is proud to be aligning with Dolly's Dream Charity, and the Youth Yearling Award will be presented to the winner. Dolly's Dream Foundation was launched in early 2018 as a result of the passing of bullying victim, 14-year-old Dolly Everett. The foundation aims to facilitate positive change in young lives and to provide support to charity groups in the fundraising and promotion of anti-bullying campaigns in school aged youth.
The Challenge is proud to be welcoming "McDowells Herbal Treatments" as the official naming rights partner in 2018. McDowells are specialists in natural heath treatments and will be supporting all brumbies involved in the Challenge through a generous supplement program across the 150 days.
The finale of the McDowells Australian Brumby Challenge will be held at EQUITANA Melbourne 2018. Over the four days of the event, you can come along, meet the brumbies and their trainers and watch as the Brumbies are taken through their paces in several classes which are designed to showcase their trainer's ability and the trainability and versatility of our Australian Brumbies.
Of special interest is the Freestyle class, held to music, where the trainer has free choice of how to present the brumby they have trained – Western to English, Knights in Armour to Rockstars, this is a really fun class where you can see each brumby's special talents!
Our Champions for 2018 will be announced after the Freestyle class and all brumbies will then be auctioned to approved and registered bidders on the final day of EQUITANA.This is your chance to learn about, and maybe even take home, a special part of our Australian Heritage!
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Very cool! I've never tried to make vegan meringue although I knw that there are a few recipes out there. How did you make it and how did it turn out?
To be honest, most of my cooking attempts are pretty disastrous, but these were really easy, they came out really well , and I'll definitely make them again!
Later on i went to my local organic shop and got some yummy goodies: CoYo coconut yoghurt, vegan schnitzels, mint chocolate, carrot - ginger - apple juice.. mmmm. needless to say i was having a snack day :undecided: but it was all delicious!
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Nice! :) Do you carry Vegusto meat around with you when you known that you mighy have to go to Subway? You are very organised!
No:-). I bought a Sub on the way home from shopping, then added Vegusto, mayo & relish.


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Multisample anti-aliasing (MSAA) is a type of spatial anti-aliasing, a technique used in computer graphics to remove jaggies.

Definition
The term generally refers to a special case of supersampling. Initial implementations of full-scene anti-aliasing (FSAA) worked conceptually by simply rendering a scene at a higher resolution, and then downsampling to a lower-resolution output. Most modern GPUs are capable of this form of anti-aliasing, but it greatly taxes resources such as texture, bandwidth, and fillrate. (If a program is highly TCL-bound or CPU-bound, supersampling can be used without much performance hit.)

According to the OpenGL GL_ARB_multisample specification, "multisampling" refers to a specific optimization of supersampling. The specification dictates that the renderer evaluate the fragment program once per pixel, and only "truly" supersample the depth and stencil values. (This is not the same as supersampling but, by the OpenGL 1.5 specification, the definition had been updated to include fully supersampling implementations as well.)

In graphics literature in general, "multisampling" refers to any special case of supersampling where some components of the final image are not fully supersampled. The lists below refer specifically to the ARB_multisample definition.

Description
In supersample anti-aliasing, multiple locations are sampled within every pixel, and each of those samples is fully rendered and combined with the others to produce the pixel that is ultimately displayed. This is computationally expensive, because the entire rendering process must be repeated for each sample location. It is also inefficient, as aliasing is typically only noticed in some parts of the image, such as the edges, whereas supersampling is performed for every single pixel.

In multisample anti-aliasing, if any of the multi sample locations in a pixel is covered by the triangle being rendered, a shading computation must be performed for that triangle. However this calculation only needs to be performed once for the whole pixel regardless of how many sample positions are covered; the result of the shading calculation is simply applied to all of the relevant multi sample locations.

In the case where only one triangle covers every multi sample location within the pixel, only one shading computation is performed, and these pixels are little more expensive (and the result is no different) than in the non-anti-aliased image. This is true of the middle of triangles, where aliasing is not an issue. (Edge detection can reduce this further by explicitly limiting the MSAA calculation to pixels whose samples involve multiple triangles, or triangles at multiple depths.) In the extreme case where each of the multi sample locations is covered by a different triangle, a different shading computation will be performed for each location and the results then combined to give the final pixel, and the result and computational expense are the same as in the equivalent supersampled image.

The shading calculation is not the only operation that must be performed on a given pixel; multisampling implementations may variously sample other operations such as visibility at different sampling levels.

Advantages
 The pixel shader usually only needs to be evaluated once per pixel for every triangle covering at least one sample point.
 The edges of polygons (the most obvious source of aliasing in 3D graphics) are anti-aliased.
 Since multiple subpixels per pixel are sampled, polygonal details smaller than one pixel that might have been missed without MSAA can be captured and made a part of the final rendered image if enough samples are taken.

Disadvantages

Alpha testing
Alpha testing is a technique common to older video games used to render translucent objects by rejecting pixels from being written to the framebuffer.
If the alpha value of a translucent fragment (pixel) is below a specified threshold, it will be discarded. Because this is performed on a pixel by pixel basis, the image does not receive the benefits of multi-sampling (all of the multisamples in a pixel are discarded based on the alpha test) for these pixels.  The resulting image may contain aliasing along the edges of transparent objects or edges within textures, although the image quality will be no worse than it would be without any anti-aliasing.
Translucent objects that are modelled using alpha-test textures will also be aliased due to alpha testing.  This effect can be minimized by rendering objects with transparent textures multiple times, although this would result in a high performance reduction for scenes containing many transparent objects.

Aliasing
Because multi-sampling calculates interior polygon fragments only once per pixel, aliasing and other artifacts will still be visible inside rendered polygons where fragment shader output contains high frequency components.

Performance
While less performance-intensive than SSAA (supersampling), it is possible in certain scenarios (scenes heavy in complex fragments) for MSAA to be multiple times more intensive for a given frame than post processing anti-aliasing techniques such as FXAA, SMAA and MLAA. Early techniques in this category tend towards a lower performance impact, but suffer from accuracy problems. More recent post-processing based anti-aliasing techniques such as temporal anti-aliasing (TAA), which reduces aliasing by combining data from previously rendered frames, have seen the reversal of this trend, as post-processing AA becomes both more versatile and more expensive than MSAA, which cannot antialias an entire frame alone.

Sampling methods

Point sampling
In a point-sampled mask, the coverage bit for each multisample is only set if the multisample is located inside the rendered primitive. Samples are never taken from outside a rendered primitive, so images produced using point-sampling will be geometrically correct, but filtering quality may be low because the proportion of bits set in the pixel's coverage mask may not be equal to the proportion of the pixel that is actually covered by the fragment in question.

Area sampling
Filtering quality can be improved by using area sampled masks.  In this method, the number of bits set in a coverage mask for a pixel should be proportionate to the actual area coverage of the fragment.  This will result in some coverage bits being set for multisamples that are not actually located within the rendered primitive, and can cause aliasing and other artifacts.

Sample patterns

Regular grid
A regular grid sample pattern, where multisample locations form an evenly spaced grid throughout the pixel, is easy to implement and simplifies attribute evaluation (i.e. setting subpixel masks, sampling color and depth).  This method is computationally expensive due to the large number of samples.  Edge optimization is poor for screen-aligned edges, but image quality is good when the number of multisamples is large.

Sparse regular grid
A sparse regular grid sample pattern is a subset of samples that are chosen from the regular grid sample pattern.  As with the regular grid, attribute evaluation is simplified due to regular spacing.  The method is less computationally expensive due to having a fewer samples.  Edge optimization is good for screen aligned edges, and image quality is good for a moderate number of multisamples.

Stochastic sample patterns
A stochastic sample pattern is a random distribution of multisamples throughout the pixel.  The irregular spacing of samples makes attribute evaluation complicated.  The method is cost efficient due to low sample count (compared to regular grid patterns).  Edge optimization with this method, although sub-optimal for screen aligned edges.  Image quality is excellent for a moderate number of samples.

Quality
Compared to supersampling, multisample anti-aliasing can provide similar quality at higher performance, or better quality for the same performance.  Further improved results can be achieved by using rotated grid subpixel masks.  The additional bandwidth required by multi-sampling is reasonably low if Z and colour compression are available.

Most modern GPUs support 2×, 4×, and 8× MSAA samples. Higher values result in better quality, but are slower.

See also
 Alpha to coverage
 Morphological antialiasing

References

Image processing
Anti-aliasing algorithms

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An editor, a dealer, and an analyst weigh in.
I test several dozen cars a year, and no nameplate has come close to attracting as much attention on the road as the Audi RS 3. Even a passing glance at the high-performance version of Audi's A3 compact sedan – especially when bedecked in flashy Catalunya Red – conjures vitality, hinting at the 400 horsepower lurking beneath the hood.
The five-passenger sport sedan is powered by a 2.5-liter, five-cylinder engine paired with a seven-speed, dual-clutch transmission and Audi's quattro all-wheel-drive system. Any way you cut it, the numbers foreshadow fun: 0 to 60 mph in a shade under 4 seconds, a top track speed of 155 mph (or 174 mph with the optional Dynamic plus package), and a quartet of drive modes — comfort, auto, dynamic, and individual — that help adjust steering and throttle response to the road.
Inside, three adults sitting in the back row may need to jockey for space, but occupants in the front seat benefit from generous head- and legroom. Apple CarPlay and Android Auto come standard, and buyers can upgrade to the range of features that have helped the German brand build a reputation in recent years for cutting-edge interiors: the Audi virtual cockpit digital instrument cluster with a 12.3-inch display, the MMI infotainment interface with handwriting-recognition technology, and a 14-speaker Bang & Olufsen sound system, among them. The optional Audi connect system provides online traffic info, weather updates, fuel prices, picture navigation, read-aloud personalized news headlines and Twitter alerts.
The Audi RS 3 has not been rated by either of the two federal safety agencies, but the Audi A3 from which it is derived received top scores from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The RS 3 comes with Audi pre sense basic, which closes the windows and sunroof and tightens the seatbelts if it detects an impending collision. Blind-spot monitoring is newly standard for 2018.
The sport sedan delivers a combined 22 mpg city/highway.
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Q: Ошибка CSRF token missing при загрузке фото в CKEditor Всем привет. Подскажите, настроил Django CKEditor для flatpages. Редактор работает, а фото загружать не хочет.  Ругается на CSRF токен. Ошибка происходит при попытке загрузить файл.
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A: Вам в форму в  шаблоне где вы загружаете картинку надо добавить
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Это сделано для безопасности от самого Django чтобы никто не смог кроме вас и вашего сайта добавить к вам данные
Всё это должно выглядеть так:
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by Robert Novak, CNSNews Commentary : Speaking at his $1,000-a-ticket fund-raiser at the J.W. Marriott hotel in downtown Washington Monday night, Fred Thompson began by introducing "my campaign manager -- oh, I mean my wife." That little joke about Jeri Thompson reveals how the prospective Republican presidential candidate regards the attack on his intelligent, beautiful wife. . . . That Thompson made light of this at his fund-raiser reflects the cool reaction to crisis he has displayed as GOP counsel of the Watergate investigation, U.S. senator from Tennessee and many dramatic roles (most recently district attorney of Manhattan). That he is in a commanding position for the nomination may explain the extraordinary attention paid to his wife.
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How sensable to see that there would be no staff to be grousing around were it not for Jeri. So glad you made that point. Let them eat cake if they don't appreciate the wind underneath Fred's wings.
I never have seen such a pagmatic no nonsense man, who is cool and calculating under pressure, as Fred Thompson.
The naysayers either have their own agenda or just cannot recognize how close these two fine people really are.
Don't tread on Fred. Treading on Jeri is treading on Fred.


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Sildavia Rugby Federation
• Sildavia
Rugby League and Eight-States Cup. Tibicenas, team from the Dominion of Jorgenland, wins the trophy for second consecutive time. Rugby League and Eight States Cup 1778
Sildavia Football Association (SFA)
His Majesty the Emperor's Football Cup 1778. Kiralyvaros wins again the Cup and leads the League. League and Cup 1778
Costume Institute Gala - the Met Gala, 2019
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Gisela Stuart and Peter Montfort "Oh God, it's Waterman," said Montfort, pointing out Pete Waterman's distinctive tuxedo. "Why is he here?" asked Gisela. "I think it's because of the whole Nuke the ECoJ thing. Also they couldn't get anyone else from Angleter." "I don't underst-... why... what's that message about? We haven't even got an ECoJ?" "I don't... Oh God, what's he doing?" Pete Waterman As he walked past Heidi, Tyra, and Irene, Pete couldn't help but notice the extraordinary amount of press attention they were getting. He slowed down slightly and meandered a little as he walked forward. He stopped. He started again, hesitantly. And then he did a complete 180 and walked straight towards them. "HI GIRLS," said Pete as he barged between Tyra and Irene. "Here's the REAL pose of the night." Pete jumped around, hunching forward as he did so, narrowly avoiding elbowing the Queen of Red Croatia in the side as he did so. "IT SAYS: ECOJ REPENT OR GO TO HELL!" exclaimed Pete, pointing to the Tipp-Exed message on the back of his tuxedo. "What do you think of that then, girls?"
Traditions and folklore of Sildavia
Eurovoice 34 // Halibon, Angleter
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Kacey Musgraves came up onto the stage, draped in the flag of Icholasen, on the verge of tears. "Wow." Kacey declared out to the audience. She was so proud of the tiny glimmers of orange Nicoleizian flags glimmering in the audience. "I'm going to keep this short, but thank you so much Europe! I'd like to thank my backing vocalists, the writers and composers who helped me craft this wonderful song and Angleter for hosting this fantastic show. It really has been a wonderful night, and it truly is a credit to how great a nation Angleter is, with amazing presenting talent, vocal talent, and talent for crafting an amazing show. I'd like to dedicate my win to all the horses out there, yeehaw! I really did not expect this overwhelming endorsement for my song, and it is amazing to even have been selected to represent my country. I cannot wait for the 35th Eurovoice in Saint Regina, or wherever! Remember, there's always been a rainbow hanging over your head. Yeehaw!"
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Welcome back, readers – it's been a while! But now that summer is drawing to a close, and we're starting to stock up for the long winter ahead (wouldn't want to be THIS guy ), it's time to start Filling In again. For our first discussion, let's revisit Aldi. When we last wrote about it, Mike was advocating for getting good design, and I was putting forward a couple ideas about how the store might improve its relationship with the neighborhood . "Fine," you say, "where is this going?" Well I'm glad you asked.
And if we're being honest, it wasn't very good. Not only is being a pedestrian along a fenced in parking lot lousy, but the actual parking behind the fence posed serious logistical issues for actually parking there. Well I'm happy to report that in the July ZBA hearing, new and improved plans were submitted for approval (a decision was not made at this hearing).
Let's take a look at the new plans, spend a few minutes fawning over them, and then make a couple additional suggestions for improvements.
We'll start with the new site plan. As we can see, the store has been shifted to Winton Road. There is almost no parking along Winton, and the parking that is there is no longer a trap for people in cars. Additionally, while this might be hard to make out, all trucks enter and exit the site from Blossom. In thinking about it, I believe this to be a better option than any trucks using Winton, as my revised plans did previously. Additionally, there is a bike rack along Winton (also hard to see). If there were the only changes, I'd already suggest that the improvements were large and positive. In fact, there appears to be one additional change, which is only obvious from the perspective renderings.
That's right – look at all the transparency along the street. The entire face of the building along Winton now has eye level glass. This will make the building pleasant to walk by and fit much better with the existing construction in the neighborhood.
All in all, I'm incredibly pleased, but I still think that a few small tweaks could be made to further improve the site.
First, as you can see in the perspective rendering, there is a bench shown in front of the store. I would like to reiterate what a good opportunity this is to work with RGRTA to re-locate (or add) a bus stop here to better serve the community and the store. Dare I say add some cover or a shelter then too?
Second, there is a large piece of blank wall facing the parking lot. This in and of itself isn't bad (it's not like I care what my car is staring at while I shop), but this is another good opportunity to work with the community. The blank space could be used for a rotating outdoor art installation along the lines of Wall Therapy. I think there might need to be some curatorial oversight by the store, but this seems like it could combine outreach with beautification all in one shot.
Even though there's always room for improvement, if this is the plan going forward, I applaud the store's willingness to alter plans, and I hope that they are willing to continue working with the neighborhood in addressing any operational issues that might arise if they go forward with construction.
To me, this is also a big win for civic involvement, and I am doubly proud all of the readers and community members who worked hard to push for these changes.
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I'm pretty happy with the changes Aldi made. Its just annoying that we have to push so hard for a company to follow the zoning code. It's a shame the CVS across the street was built so poorly, but I wasn't in the neighborhood when it was designed.
If they really wanted to knock it out of the park, they'd put a small diner for Jim's to move into on the Blossom St side where there is only grass.
Maybe other developers are finally learning, there's several Family Dollars being proposed throughout the city and all the ones I've seen are very similar to the final Aldi design.
I still think having an Aldi at that corner will direct North and East bound traffic back through the residential area to the Northwest which could be detrimental to the character of that neighborhood. While the design changes are nice to see, a big box store is not what that corner needs.
Thank you for your opinion. Although I have been wondering where I could find you guys in all of this (Mike I am looking at you). We had hoped you would get involved somehow. Its not like we are not visible. Perhaps you have seen the Stop Aldi signs all over the east side?
However, its not about the final design. Perhaps you may have been following the efforts of the core group that has been fighting this development all along. We are really concerned with what we see as an abuse of the Variance process and that suspicion has its origins in NYS land use law. Asking for 10k additional square feet of building space has the impact of a rezone and NOT something that the ZHA should be deciding.
So a few things, I guess.
John – I don't think leaning on the zoning is a good idea. For every place there is something you'd like developers to do that seems like a good idea and follows zoning, there is something awful that developers are being forced into because of the code. Take a property like 719 Plymouth Ave South. There should be a building next to it. There is a parking lot, though, because zoning says a bar needs 10 parking spaces per 1,000 sqft.
Scott – I don't understand the situation you are talking about traffic-wise. The next block to the west is quite long to get to. I can't imagine most people driving that way. Also, I always like to hear what someone's ideas are for a corner if a given plan isn't it. I have to assume a variety of abandoned buildings held down by a diner also aren't right for the corner? Further, This is, unfortunately, not at the corner. That's occupied by an extant, and depressing, gas station.
Anthony – Thank you for the comment. A few things. First, for better or worse, it's not my neighborhood (meaning it has little effect on me directly, and my friends in the neighborhood are also pro-Aldi), so I'm not going to weigh in on there being an Aldi there or not, just the design. Personally, I have no problem with it, although I must admit to not shopping at Aldi (or Tops across the street, really). Second, Like my note above, I can't, personally, support any arguments that involve zoning or variances or the like. It's a system that is arbitrary, and in many cases, capricious. It was not passed down by some higher power, but it is the last bastion of the weak. All of Mt. Hope was rezoned to R-1, destroying the value of the land for current owners, and basically leading to an ever growing string of abandoned buildings. Building single family homes on a major road like that is a joke, and won't happen. But once a guy the neighborhood liked (in Swiftwater), came along, they forced the issue and got a variance for the guy. This swings both ways. I can't build my high-density residential house in high-density residential zoning of right because of a variety of questionable zoning choices. I'm also not sure you want to take the variance out of the ZBA and give it to elected officials (as I believe it'd be city council voting on a rezone). That's a recipe for buying the vote, as opposed to having to just work with the Board, which (I'd like to think) is harder to do that with. Anyway, final thing – I don't feel like this is a secret, but I don't actually live in Rochester, so I'm not going to see signs in anyone's yards for anything unless someone sends me photos of them. I will be in Rochester in November for my semi-annual stoning, though, if you care to get involved then.
Matthew, You do have a good point about the zoning. It is arbitrary and often times lots are downzoned to R-1 just so the city has veto power over what does and doesn't go in.
I'm not even sure why R-1 even exists in the city to be honest. Almost every residential street that is zoned R-1 is denser than the code allows. I know my house is zoned R-1, but if you look at how the street was built it is more likely R-2 or even R-3. It ensures that lots on which houses/buildings were demo'd will never see another structure again (although complaints about this could also be directed at the city's demo program which I'm not a huge fan of).
Truth be told, I'm pretty indifferent to Aldi. I'm not thrilled a 3rd grocery store is being built in as many blocks, but I do realize it'd be hard for anything else to finance the acquisition/demo of so many vacant parcels. I'm not thrilled on the box store either. I think those buildings are incredibly hard to repurpose if the tenant goes under.
Well, they're hard to attract another big box store that would want its own layout to. I actually think that this building would be easy to repurpose, since it can be chopped up into a 'strip' layout running front to back. You could cut it into 5 pieces and just reface the portion of the building facing the parking lot. All in all, if you had to get a building and did want to repurpose it, this is the one.
Back to the zoning thing, for a moment. You're right, there are massive amounts of R-1 in the city, but even R-3 has a 5,000 sqft minimum lot size, which is conveniently larger than the 40×100 tenth-of-an-acre standard city lot. As you might guess, the origins of this are intentional, and were designed to push people out of the city (and leave 'those people' in it). You can't replace torn down houses, and there's no reason to invest in a house because at any time, you could trigger it no longer being legal without jumping through all kinds of hoops. And here we are. Anyway, there are a couple interesting loopholes in the zoning, as a well as a few incredibly depressing bits, but I'm thinking one of the next things I post will be a big overview of zoning and some conceptual renders of what it all means. It'll be incredibly boring, so look forward to it!
I'd be interested in it. The more I look at the history of urban renewal, sprawl, zoning, etc the weirder the whole thing seems. It just doesn't make sense to me why the city has a zoning code in place that ensures a lot will remain empty after a house is torn down. The whole thing doesn't make sense.
It depends on what you mean by "the city." If you read the supporting documents for the 2003 rezoning, outside planning consultants and city staff planners sometimes recommended higher density/more flexible zoning for certain areas only for neighborhoods to strenuously object.
So it's sometimes (often?) the citizens, or rather the self-selected group of largely white, middle class, vocal citizens who show up at meetings and speak to their councilperson, that make the down zoning happen.
Chris – this is exactly the case. The city, from what I can tell, only cares what gets built where in as much as it draws complaints from the local citizenry (who are always richer and whiter than the actual locals a given development might actually benefit). It is very much an avoidance tactic more than anything else.
Chris its not oboat rich and poor . Some people just care about better kept stores like Wegmans , Aldis , Tops rather than the dollar stores in the area that have trash all over there parking lots.We who live here are not rich white people . Most of us work in local hospitals , schools, stores, nursing homes. So a lot of us have dogs and we walk a lot. We have a huge community of parteners and familys. Most of us work if we can.
Filling In: Aldi Aldi Store Hailed as Model of 21st-Century Urban Planning Filling In: Wegmans Plaza Filling In: 19-23 Berlin St. Filling In: Tops Plaza Filling In: 446 Genesee St.


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Students express emotions with poetry
Katherine Burgess
Words about love, hate, parents, heartbreak and joy came alive as their authors read aloud Saturday.
The authors were teenagers from Keep My Hood Good, an afterschool program that had an eight-month writing class called "Poetically Speaking."
On Saturday, the class culminated in a book signing and reading at ComeUnity Café.
"I liked the engaging stuff to express your feelings," said Shi-Juan Jarrett, 17. "It's like something new, a new experience. It gets you thinking."
James Cherry, artist in residence for the writing program, compiled the students' work into a book called "Words for Life."
Jarrett took time to sign copies of the book for children after reading her poems to the group Saturday. Signing an actual book containing her work made her feel like she had accomplished something, she said.
"They are crossing boundaries that they never knew they could even touch," said Juanita Jones, founder and director of Keep My Hood Good. "Just to see them smile, and expressions at this moment that they actually get to read their work, it just thrills me."
Jones said the writing class was initially a challenge, since the students did not know their own strength. Eventually, they learned how to write, expressing their emotions in a way that was therapeutic mentally and socially, Jones said.
Cherry taught the students about the elements of poetry as well as how to write. Their work includes haikus and acrostics as well as poems based on thematic elements such as "I just thought you should know" or "three questions for God."
"It's important because it gives you a perspective about who you are," Cherry said. "Writing is a wonderful way to get in touch with those emotions and feelings. It can lead you to dealing with not only yourself better but people around you as well."
The class was supported with a grant from the Tennessee Arts Commission with support from the West Tennessee Healthcare Foundation and ComeUnity Café.
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Micah Kinney, 18, said his favorite piece of writing was his "love and hate" poem. In it, Kinney writes about his hatred of green peas, racism, jealousy and more — as well as his love for God, basketball and making people laugh.
"It was straight," Kinney said about reading his poems before an audience. "It was kind of scary a little bit."
Jenesis Rogers, 14, said her poems started off silly. As she learned how to write, her poems developed, she said.
"I learned how to write down my feelings in a poem," she said.
Reach Katherine at (731) 425-9748. Follow her on Twitter: @kathsburgess


Shame i am so used to colorful tabs in Firefox that i really miss that now. OHHHH yes please, would love it :-) Hmmm so to color the drop down tabs in the fav bar it would have to be done by a skin?
Any chance of having a color fav folder option? and maybe even a color tab option? Id love that, it help to see folders and tabs quicker Or does anyone know of a plugin or addon for this? I couldn't find one.


Police came to the Martin Luther King Jr. Family Outreach Center Nov. 15 and saw the "N" word scrawled in red spray paint on the side of one of the buildings. They called it a hate crime.
Freda Gandy standing in the Martin Luther King Jr, Center playground.
"This type of hatred will not be tolerated in our community," said Freda Gandy, director of the center for 16 years, at a gathering later that day to paint out the word. "Children of all races come here in the spirit of Martin Luther King Jr.
"The hatred someone intended to unleash on this organization and this community will not be tolerated," she said, asking the community to stand against hate and report bigotry.
Freda called people to stand against such racism now before it continues to spread.
She invited those not familiar with the center to visit on Saturday, Nov. 19, or go to mlkspokane.org to learn about the programs, learn how to be involved and support the center's work and capital campaign for a new building on the same site at 845 S. Sherman.
The week after the incident, Freda said the center raised $20,000 for the building and also funds for security cameras. Many have volunteered.
Children who came on Nov. 15 to the before school program saw the graffiti before going to school. Staff kept the other children inside, when they normally would have been on the playground and would have seen the graffiti.
Freda asked the faith community to pray for the center, for the person who did this and for the community.
Leaders in the faith community who were there Nov. 15 included Episcopal Bishop Jim Waggoner, Jr., Joe Wittwer of Life Center, and Walter Kendricks of Morning Star Baptist Church.
Joe asked people to hold hands and pray for overcoming the "us-them" mindset.
The crowd of nearly 200, including city officials, the religious community and supporters were invited to take a paintbrush and share in painting over the words with paint that repels graffiti.
The next day Freda was inspired and heartened by the outpouring of support from city officials, the community, donations, people dropping off food and people calling to ask what they could do and how they could help.
She is preparing a list of ways to support the organization that embodies the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
She said one of the children asked her if the President-elect would close the center because he does not like black people.
Phil Tyler, president of the Spokane NAACP, stopped the people before they painted out the words and called for people to step aside so they could see the graffiti.
Phil reminded that this is not new, and it's not just because a new President was elected.
"This has been going on for years. The community and country need to wake up," he said. "Racism is here in Spokane. It is not a relic of the past or the South.
"It's not about raising paint brushes one day or for one incident. We need to open up our minds. When we see misbehavior, we need to speak to it. I love freedom. This community has poured out money and time for many nonprofits," he said, inviting people to support the center's capital fund drive to build a new building to support local children.
"I'm mad. To the individual or individuals who did this, I want you to know you did not break us or change us. You strengthened our resolve," Phil said.
The Interfaith Council is connecting with the Institute of Hate Studies at Gonzaga University, the Spokane County Human Rights Task Force and Spokane FAVS to hold an event on "How to Be a Good Neighbor" from 6 to 9 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 3, in Jepson Center at Gonzaga University.
Skyler has also connected with such advocacy groups as the Council on American Islamic Relations to lead a workshop on addressing Islamophobia and the Anti-Defamation league on addressing anti-Semitism.
"The institute is committed to care for the whole person and for all people. Higher education can offer teaching, research and service to better understand what is happening in our communities and to focus our energy on becoming our better selves," she said.
"We are looking for our role when there are incidents such as the racial slur at the Martin Luther King Jr. Family Outreach Center, the graffiti in the Logan neighborhood or anti-Semitic words written in the dust of a car windshield," Kristine said.
"We need to ask how we can coordinate our efforts with the good work of others to have the greatest positive impact to move forward," she said.
Speaking on behalf of the Spokane County Human Rights Task Force, Dean Lynch, president, said that the recent hate activities will not be ignored. The task force will coordinate efforts so all residents feel safe, honest disagreement can be shared and everyone can improve their lives physically, emotionally, intellectually and economically.
"We will overcome this act of hate and prove that the foundation of love that the MLK Center has created in our city will not waver," they said.


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Digital Transformation with KBA 4.0. expands customer service
The fourth industrial revolution, or Industry 4.0, is on everyone's lips. It stands for the entire digital process and supply chains involved in production and business transactions between supplier and customer, and vice versa. Under the umbrella brand KBA 4.0. using digital transformation for data-based business models and more customer service is a key topic for the Koenig & Bauer Group. KBA-Sheetfed in Radebeul has already expanded its services in its comprehensive programme "Service Select", intends to keep following this path and will inform users on this topic also at the upcoming Drupa.
KBA 4.0. is more than just digital remote access to a press. KBA-Sheetfed has carried out remote press access since 1994, back then via a modem as part of remote maintenance and for about the last ten years faster via a secure internet connection. Intelligent encryption modules in the consoles only enable KBA service technicians and certified KBA suppliers to communicate with a large number of the some 7,000 presses on the market worldwide 24/7. A virtual tunnel protects the presses from unauthorized third parties accessing its data.
Data sharing for proactive service
For the last two years KBA-Sheetfed has been working on analysing available data automatically and using this for new services relating to the presses. In the beginning it was mainly designed for performance evaluation, but it later resulted in more and more ideas for proactive and preventative service applications. One goal is a 360° user perspective enabling sales, service and marketing to offer relevant information and added-value services on the basis of this data.
Every Rapida press features extensive control and sensor technology which captures and stores data on press activity. This includes press data, such as status and error notifications, time-stamped operating actions and other information on the day-to-day use of the press. KBA loads these log files automatically during each remote maintenance connection. Job, person and company-related data is naturally disregarded, also as this information is not included in the press log files.
Monthly performance reports
Currently a growing number of KBA users participate voluntarily in a data-exchange programme. This means that their presses are permanently online. KBA-Service accesses these presses daily to evaluate data and in return these participants receive a monthly performance report.
The performance reports are an optional part of remote maintenance contracts, but this feature can also be ordered separately. The reports which are set out clearly with graphics provide information on a user's press output, maximum and average press speeds, production availability, run lengths as well as printing, washing and job changing times.
By networking customers and their presses with KBA and the service data available KBA is able to unlock potential for optimisation for its customers and make them more successful on the basis of this data. Milestones, such as exceeding a certain number of printed sheets, are recognised at an early stage and communicated automatically as an email notification. Just like the on-board computers found in modern vehicles users receive information on expired service intervals and inspection, maintenance or update recommendations. These are aimed at maintaining a high level of press availability and production security throughout the press' entire service life.
PressCall: Service at the touch of a button
PressCall is a new automatic press error notification tool. Users now no longer have to call the KBA hotline. All data relevant for remote maintenance is transferred immediately and directly to KBA's service department. This offers many advantages for users and KBA-Service, such as:
Shorter reaction times
Optimisation of error notifications and registering
Clear identification of press
Prompt analysis of press data
Proactive and faster feedback from KBA
Fewer incorrect entries
PressCall activates a dialogue window on the console. Error notification and maintenance is done via a menu. In the future KBA subsidiaries throughout the world will receive real-time information on hotline requests and are informed promptly about possible errors and maintenance requests in their region.
Benchmarking: using optimisation potential
The press is a key part of the process chain to the finished print product. Whether packaging or ad flyers, every minute saved through short makeready times or a higher production speed delivers cash benefits. KBA as a press manufacturer can support the optimisation process with international benchmarking. It is important to compare identical technology used for the same applications, which is why KBA is currently classifying technology according the various criteria. In the future users, sales staff or even service technicians are expected to be able to retrieve possible, untapped potential transparently and anonymously at the touch of a button.
Predictive Service: avoiding potential press downtime
When a motor overheats, the error notification often comes too late. The cause, e.g. a faulty bearing, can normally already be determined in advance. So, there is a chance to proactively counteract. Along with proactive service, predictive maintenance is the future. This involves real big-data applications. Rapida press' sensor and logic systems deliver high volumes of data. This is in addition to service, quality and process data from the plant. Patterns can be derived from these data streams with intelligent software. Each component's probability of default can be determined in advance. KBA offers maintenance services before this happens.
Much has already become reality today. The map of worldwide service requests and service operations facilitates the technicians' operational planning. Digital networking offers the customer an additional advantage by automatically alerting the closest available technician to take over the service job.


PrepAhead and Dine In: Lasagna Soup...A MUST TRY!!!
I love the smell of a giant pot of soup simmering on the stove on a Sunday afternoon! I often make a pot of soup on the weekend to have a few days later on a busy weeknight. Sometimes I get stuck, rotating the same soup recipes from week to week. It's easy, familiar and I already know what my critics have to say. I branched out a couple weeks ago and made this Paula Dean soup and was NOT disappointed! The taste of lasagna without having to assemble the layers and create lots of dirty dishes. Genius!!! Simple, delicious and a hit for sure! Broiling the cheese on top is a MUST.
Prep Ahead Plan: As with most soups, this soup only gets better as it sits in the fridge. Make over the weekend and have during the week for dinner (and probably a few lunches as it makes a ton).
1. Combine beef, onion, bell pepper and garlic in a soup pot. Cook until beef is browned. Drain well.
2. Stir in brown sugar, broth, diced tomatoes, tomato sauce and seasonings. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat; reduce heat and simmer 20 minutes.
3. Add noodles, and simmer until noodles are tender. Stir in Parmesan cheese.
4. When ready to serve, preheat broiler. Ladle soup into until cheese is browned and bubbly. Enjoy!!!!
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An implementation of the JCR QueryObjectModelFactory. Note that this implementation constructs the query components but does not validate any of the parameters or the resulting query definition. All validation is performed when the query is executed.
Create an arithmetic dynamic operand that adds the numeric value of the two supplied operand(s).
Tests that the value (or values) defined by the supplied dynamic operand are within a specified range.
Create an arithmetic dynamic operand that divides the numeric value of the first operand by the numeric value of the second.
Creates a query command that returns all rows that are in the result of the left-hand query but not in the result of the right-hand query.
Tests that the value (or values) defined by the supplied dynamic operand are found within the specified set of values.
Creates a query command that returns all rows that are both in the result of the left-hand query and in the result of the right-hand query.
Evaluates to a limit on the maximum number of tuples in the results and the number of rows that are skipped before the first tuple in the results.
Create an arithmetic dynamic operand that multplies the numeric value of the first operand by the numeric value of the second.
Evaluates to a LONG value equal to the depth of a node in the specified selector.
Evaluates to a PATH value equal to the prefix-qualified path of a node in the specified selector.
Creates a dynamic operand that evaluates to the REFERENCE value of the any property on the specified selector.
Creates a dynamic operand that evaluates to the REFERENCE value of the specified property on the specified selector.
Creates a subquery that can be used as a StaticOperand in another query.
Create an arithmetic dynamic operand that subtracts the numeric value of the second operand from the numeric value of the first.
Creates a query command that effectively appends the results of the right-hand query to those of the left-hand query.
The query is invalid if selector is not the name of a selector in the query.
Tests that the value (or values) defined by the supplied dynamic operand are within a specified range. The range is specified by a lower and upper bound, and whether each of the boundary values is included in the range.
property is not a syntactically valid JCR name.


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Deutsche Bank Represents Trump's Biggest Remaining Conflict of Interest
Deutsche Bank is President Donald Trump's largest lender. While the troubled bank has settled several of the charges against it, it's still undergoing scrutiny by the Department of Justice and other federal regulators, and is being overseen by six independent monitors, making conflicts of interest inescapable.
By Jesse Eisinger
(Photo: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
If you measure President Donald Trump's conflicts of interest by the amount of money at stake, or the variety of dicey interactions with government regulators, one dwarfs any other: his relationship with Deutsche Bank.
In recent weeks, Deutsche Bank has scrambled to reach agreements with American regulators over a host of alleged misdeeds. But because the president has not sold his company, the bank remains a central arena for potential conflicts between his family's business interests and the actions of officials in his administration.
"Deutsche poses the biggest conflict that we know about in terms of dollar amounts and the scale of legal exposures," says Brandon Garrett, a University of Virginia law professor and author of Too Big To Fail: How Prosecutors Compromise With Corporations. In trying to clear up its outstanding regulatory troubles, the bank "may have tried to do its best to avoid the appearance of impropriety but it may be impossible for them to do so."
Deutsche is Trump's major creditor, having lentbillions to the president since the late 1990s even as other American banks abandoned Trump, who frequently bankrupted his businesses. While the president hasn't released his tax returns, he has made public some information about his debts. According to these incomplete disclosures and reports, the Trump Organization has roughly $300 million in loans outstanding from the bank. Trump continues to own the business, although he has turned over day-to-day management to his sons.
At the same time that it is Trump's biggest known creditor, Deutsche is in frequent contact with multiple federal regulators. While the bank agreed last week to pay $630 million to settle charges by New York state's top financial regulator as well as the United Kingdom's Financial Conduct Authority that it had aided Russian money laundering, it's still undergoing a related federal investigation into those activities, which it is also trying to settle. That will be an early big test of the Department of Justice under Attorney General Jeff Sessions. The Department of Justice also has an ongoing probe of foreign exchange manipulation by several banks, including Deutsche Bank.
Even if the bank clears up the ongoing federal cases, it will remain weighed down by past transgressions. During the housing bubble, Deutsche Bank misled buyers about the quality of its mortgage securities and omitted important information. In 2015, its London subsidiary pleaded guilty in connection with the multi-bank conspiracy to manipulate global interest rates and paid $775 million in criminal penalties.
Deutsche will soon have an astonishing six independent monitors monitoring its conduct — the most ever for one company, according to Garrett. Drawn from the ranks of consultancies and law firms, these overseers make sure Deutsche complies with previous state and federal settlements and regulations relating to its foreign exchange manipulations, global interest rate fraud, sales of dodgy mortgage securities, derivatives trading, and sanctions evasion.
Indeed, the independent monitor of Deutsche's derivatives reporting, Paul Atkins from Patomak Partners, has his own conflict of interest. Atkins served on Trump's transition team and played a role in appointing federal financial regulators. He is now monitoring whether Trump's business partner complies with the terms of a settlement with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission on derivatives reporting.
A Patomak spokeswoman declined to comment.
"Just about everything that every branch, every type of enforcement, every action from every agency could touch on Trump's conflicts. There is no end to the ethics concerns."
Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve has regulators sitting in Deutsche's offices, as it does with every big bank, keeping a watchful eye on the firm's safety and soundness. Last year, the Fed failed Deutsche Bank during its annual stress test, finding that it had insufficient capital and could not withstand another financial crisis. And the Securities and Exchange Commission and the CFTC regulate its investment banking and trading activities.
A Deutsche Bank spokeswoman declined to comment. The White House did not return an email seeking comment.
The Trump Organization's wide-ranging business dealings could raise quandaries for an array of government agencies, from the Department of Labor, which regulates the company's employment practices, to the General Services Administration, which leases Trump his hotel in Washington, D.C. "Just about everything that every branch, every type of enforcement, every action from every agency could touch on Trump's conflicts. There is no end to the corruption and ethics concerns," Garrett says.
But the potential conflicts may be most acute at the Department of Justice. Whether the Department of Justice walks away from an investigation or takes a hard line against Deutsche Bank, its every move will be scrutinized as either too tough or too weak.
With new management, Deutsche Bank has embarked on an effort to rebuild its reputation. Deutsche CEO John Cyran has conducted an apology tour for the bank's multiple and serial misdeeds. The money-laundering settlement isn't Deutsche's only recent move to close out government probes. In January, it agreed to pay $95 million to end a tax fraud investigation by the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. And in December, it became one of the last of the global banks to resolve civil charges over the creation and sale of misleading mortgages investments, agreeing to pay a penalty of $3.1 billion.
In these agreements, Deutsche capitalized on Barack Obama's Department of Justice's eagerness to settle, according to defense attorneys who don't represent the bank but are familiar with the cases. Outgoing administrations desire to wrap investigations up so departing prosecutors may shine their resumes on the way out the door.
The Obama administration had an added incentive to reach settlements because it worried Trump's Department of Justice might seek smaller penalties or otherwise go soft on corporations. That helps explain why Deutsche Bank's mortgage securities settlement, which included $4.1 billion in credit for consumer aid in addition to the penalty, was far below the $14 billion figure reported in the fall as Justice's opening bid. While most observers expected that figure to come down sharply, Deutsche's terms were still widely considered favorable.
Even so, Deutsche's share price remains depressed as investors worry about the bank's future payouts and ongoing fragility. The bank faces class action suits alleging efforts to manipulate interest rates and the currency markets.
Given the government's responsibilities, Trump's regulators face a fraught and sensitive task of proving their independence and fair-mindedness when it comes to Deutsche Bank. Prior White Houses have taken great care to avoid interfering in Department of Justice investigations and prosecutions. Despite his early support for Trump's campaign and their personal friendship, Sessions has said he will not recuse himself from any Department of Justice probe into the president, the Trump family, or any of his political advisors.
The relationship Deutsche Bank has with the president cuts two ways, defense lawyers and former prosecutors say. It might be advantageous to be in business with a president who appears to regard the office as an opportunity for brand enhancement and enrichment. The bank might hope for leniency from the president's regulators because of its business ties to him.
There are signs that Deutsche's new management is not eager to continue serving as Trump's financier. Trump sued the bank in 2008 to avoid paying a loan for a Trump hotel in Chicago. The parties settled, but lawsuits have a way of fraying friendships. A former top executive at Deutsche Bank says the current top management does not like the real estate developer. "They don't want to do business with him anymore," he says.
Given the tension, Deutsche may worry about the mercurial president. The bank's concern is that the Trump administration could use its regulatory powers to secure better business terms. Nationalist strains course through his inner circle. A top Trump economic advisor recently accused Germany of currency manipulation. Trump, some observers fear, may seek to boost American financial institutions over foreign ones like Deutsche.
In recent months, Deutsche has also sought to renegotiate its loans with Trump, according to a Bloomberg report, in an effort to reduce its exposure to the president. The bank hoped to eliminate the president's personal guarantee on loans. But such a move would not eliminate the conflict of interest, since the president's company, which Trump still owns, would remain on the hook to pay back the loans.
This story originally appeared on ProPublica as "Deutsche Bank Remains Trump's Biggest Conflict of Interest Despite Settlements" and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.
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using namespace Microsoft::VisualStudio::CppUnitTestFramework;
using namespace LeetCode;

namespace LeetCodeTest
{
    TEST_CLASS(_006_ZigZagConversion_Test)
    {
    public:

        TEST_METHOD(ConvertTest_General)
        {
            string input = "PAYPALISHIRING";
            _006_ZigZagConversion solution;

            string result = solution.convert(input, 3);
            Assert::AreEqual((string) "PAHNAPLSIIGYIR", result);

            result = solution.convert(input, 4);
            Assert::AreEqual((string) "PINALSIGYAHRPI", result);

            result = solution.convert(input, 5);
            Assert::AreEqual((string) "PHASIYIRPLIGAN", result);
        }

        TEST_METHOD(ConvertTest_RowNumberEqualOne)
        {
            string input = "PAYPALISHIRING";
            _006_ZigZagConversion solution;

            string result = solution.convert(input, 1);
            Assert::AreEqual(input, result);
        }

        TEST_METHOD( ConvertTest_RowNumberEqualZero)
        {
            string input = "PAYPALISHIRING";
            _006_ZigZagConversion solution;

            string result = solution.convert(input, 0);
            Assert::AreEqual(input, result);
        }

        TEST_METHOD( ConvertTest_EmptyString)
        {
            string input = "";
            _006_ZigZagConversion solution;

            string result = solution.convert(input, 0);
            Assert::AreEqual(input, result);
        }
    };
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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Coal India Invites Bids for 4 MW of Rooftop Solar Systems
The bid submission deadline is December 31, 2022
South Eastern Coalfields (SECL), the largest coal-producing subsidiary of Coal India, has invited bids for installing and commissioning 4 MW of grid-connected rooftop solar systems at 14 different locations under its jurisdiction in Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh.
The successful bidder must undertake the project's operation and maintenance for five years.
The estimated cost of the project is ₹195.57 million (~$2.41 million)
The last date to submit the bids is December 31, 2022. Bids will be opened on January 2, 2023.
Bidders will have to submit ₹2.445 million (~$30,021) as an earnest money deposit.
The project must be completed within 180 days from the date of issuance of the letter of award.
To participate in the process, bidders should possess experience in completing three similar works, each costing not less than 20% of the project's estimated cost, or two similar works, each costing not less than 25% of the estimated cost of the project.
Alternatively, they should have executed one similar job, costing not less than 40% of the estimated cost put to tender during the last seven years.
Joint ventures would be allowed to participate only if they were to bid for a project with an estimated cost above ₹50 million.
The average annual financial turnover of bidders during the last three years should be at least 30% of the project's estimated cost.
Bidders must submit the certificate of possessing adequate working capital of at least 20% of the annualized value or the estimated value of the work, whichever is less, including access to lines of credit and availability of other financial resources to meet the requirement.
According to the tender documents, only 'Class-I local suppliers' and 'Class-II local suppliers' are eligible to participate in the bidding process.
Purchase preference will be given to 'Class-I local suppliers.' A 'Class-I local supplier' means a supplier or service provider whose goods, services, or works offered for procurement, have local content equal to or more than 50%.
SECL has specified that 25% of the tendered quantity had been earmarked for micro and small enterprise (MSE) suppliers.
Of this quantity, 4% has been allocated for MSEs owned by Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe entrepreneurs and 3% for MSEs owned by women entrepreneurs.
If the MSE vendor quotes within the price band of L1+15%, the vendor will be allowed to supply 25% of the requirement subject to acceptance of the L1 price.
In May this year, Coal India issued a tender to empanel owner's engineers-cum-project management consultants for solar projects by Coal India and its subsidiaries.
Earlier, CIL Navikarniya Urja, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Coal India, had invited bids for the design, engineering, procurement, construction (EPC), and commissioning of a 15 MW solar power project along with the associated transmission system in the Pench area of Western Coalfields in Madhya Pradesh.
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Extreme weather events linked to climate change impact on the jet stream
On the is an image of the global circulation pattern on a normal day. On the right is the image of the global circulation pattern when extreme weather occurs. The pattern on the right shows extreme patterns of wind speeds going north and south, while the normal pattern on the left shows moderate speed winds in both the north and south directions. Credit: Michael Mann, Penn State
Unprecedented summer warmth and flooding, forest fires, drought and torrential rain—extreme weather events are occurring more and more often, but now an international team of climate scientists has found a connection between many extreme weather events and the impact climate change is having on the jet stream.
https://phys.org/news/2017-03-extreme-weather-events-linked-climate.html
"We came as close as one can to demonstrating a direct link between climate change and a large family of extreme recent weather events," said Michael Mann, distinguished professor of atmospheric science and director, Earth System Science Center, Penn State. "Short of actually identifying the events in the climate models."
The unusual weather events that piqued the researchers' interest are things such as the 2003 European heat wave, the 2010 Pakistan flood and Russian heatwave, the 2011 Texas and Oklahoma heat wave and drought and the 2015 California wildfires.
The researchers looked at a combination of roughly 50 climate models from around the world that are part of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5), which is part of the World Climate Research Programme. These models are run using specific scenarios and producing simulated data that can be evaluated across the different models. However, while the models are useful for examining large-scale climate patterns and how they are likely to evolve over time, they cannot be relied on for an accurate depiction of extreme weather events. That is where actual observations prove critical.
The researchers looked at the historical atmospheric observations to document the conditions under which extreme weather patterns form and persist. These conditions occur when the jet stream, a global atmospheric wave of air that encompasses the Earth, becomes stationary and the peaks and troughs remain locked in place.
"Most stationary jet stream disturbances, however, will dissipate over time," said Mann. "Under certain circumstances the wave disturbance is effectively constrained by an atmospheric wave guide, something similar to the way a coaxial cable guides a television signal. Disturbances then cannot easily dissipate, and very large amplitude swings in the jet stream north and south can remain in place as it rounds the globe."
This constrained configuration of the jet stream is like a rollercoaster with high peaks and valleys, but only forms when there are six, seven or eight pairs of peaks and valleys surrounding the globe. The jet stream can then behave as if there is a waveguide—uncrossable barriers in the north and south—and a wave with large peaks and valleys can occur.
"If the same weather persists for weeks on end in one region, then sunny days can turn into a serious heat wave and drought, and lasting rains can lead to flooding," said Stefan Rahmstorf, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Germany.
The structure of the jet stream relates to its latitude and the temperature gradient from north to south.
Temperatures typically have the steepest gradients in mid-latitudes and a strong circumpolar jet stream arises. However, when these temperature gradients decrease in just the right way, a weakened "double peak" jet stream arises with the strongest jet stream winds located to the north and south of the mid-latitudes.
"The warming of the Arctic, the polar amplification of warming, plays a key role here," said Mann. "The surface and lower atmosphere are warming more in the Arctic than anywhere else on the globe. That pattern projects onto the very temperature gradient profile that we identify as supporting atmospheric waveguide conditions."
Theoretically, standing jet stream waves with large amplitude north/south undulations should cause unusual weather events.
"We don't trust climate models yet to predict specific episodes of extreme weather because the models are too coarse," said study co-author Dim Coumou of PIK.
"However, the models do faithfully reproduce large scale patterns of temperature change," added co-author Kai Kornhuber of PIK.
The researchers looked at real-world observations and confirmed that this temperature pattern does correspond with the double-peaked jet stream and waveguide patter associated with persistent extreme weather events in the late spring and summer such as droughts, floods and heat waves. They found the pattern has become more prominent in both observations and climate model simulations.
"Using the simulations, we demonstrate that rising greenhouse gases are responsible for the increase," said Mann. The researchers noted in today's (Mar. 27) issue of Scientific Reports that "Both the models and observations suggest this signal has only recently emerged from the background noise of natural variability."
"We are now able to connect the dots when it comes to human-caused global warming and an array of extreme recent weather events," said Mann.
While the models do not reliably track individual extreme weather events, they do reproduce the jet stream patterns and temperature scenarios that in the real world lead to torrential rain for days, weeks of broiling sun and absence of precipitation.
"Currently we have only looked at historical simulations," said Mann. "What's up next is to examine the model projections of the future and see what they imply about what might be in store as far as further increases in extreme weather are concerned."
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Wisconsin cold-case suspect led life of crime
Edward Wayne Edwards was to appear in court Thursday on two counts of first-degree murder in a case dating to 1980.David Harpe / Courier Journal via AP
Aug. 13, 2009, 4:32 PM UTC / Source: The Associated Press
Edward Wayne Edwards' days of hitchhiking across the country, stealing cars, robbing gas stations and forging checks were behind him when he was released early from the federal prison in Lewisburg, Pa., in 1967.
The self-described ladies man, who appeared on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, had turned his life around on the inside and planned to spend his time saving others from following the criminal path, he wrote in the 1972 cautionary tale of his life, "Metamorphosis of a Criminal."
Edwards gave a few speeches, but his new career fizzled and he slipped into obscurity — until last month, when prosecutors charged the 76-year-old in the 1980 slayings of a young couple who vanished from a wedding reception and whose scattered remains were found two months later.
"He was kind of a con person his whole life," said Jefferson County sheriff's detective Sgt. Larry Lee, the lead investigator in the slayings of Tim Hack and Kelly Drew. Edwards is a "relatively intelligent person (who) could get things and do things because of his intelligence and cunning," Lee said.
'I'm gonna be a crook'
Edwards was returned to Wisconsin on Wednesday from Kentucky, where he'd been living quietly for the last decade in a Louisville trailer park. He is charged with two counts of first-degree murder and made his first Wisconsin court appearance on Thursday.
Handcuffed to his wheelchair and breathing oxygen through a tube, Edwards didn't say a word during the 15-minute hearing in which bond was set at $2 million and his preliminary hearing was scheduled for Aug. 27. He is being represented by a public defender. Friends and family of the victims sat in the first two rows of the courtroom and went directly to the district attorney's office after the hearing without commenting.
Born in Akron, Ohio, in 1933, Edwards spent his early years in a Catholic orphanage. A chronic bed-wetter, Edwards wrote in his autobiography that he was beaten by nuns and other children. After getting caught stealing another boy's birthday cake, a nun asked him what he wanted to be when he grew up.
"I looked her straight in the eyes and answered, `Sister, I'm gonna be a crook, and I'm gonna be a good one,'" Edwards wrote.
In his book, Edwards portrays himself as a cross between Don Juan and John Dillinger. He traveled the country in the 1950s, hitchhiking, stealing cars, forging checks and picking up women, whom he used for sex and money. He said he got one woman to travel with him by telling her he was a government agent hunting communists.
"I couldn't control my impulse to check out my attractiveness to the opposite sex at every turn," he wrote.
Crimes and capture
Edwards escaped from a jail in Akron in 1955 by pushing past a guard. Desperate for money as he fled across the country, he turned to holding up gas stations in Nevada, California and Oregon. He refused to wear a mask.
"I was Ed Edwards, master crook! And I wanted the world to know it," he wrote.
The master was caught in Billings, Mont., sent to prison and paroled in 1959. Authorities took him back to Portland, Ore., to face robbery charges there. He was given probation, but detectives questioned him about the 1960 double slayings of two 19-year-old college students.
Convinced he was going to be convicted of a crime he didn't commit, he persuaded a friend to pose as a bail bondsman and trick jail officials into letting him go.
Two others were eventually convicted in those slayings. Investigators reopened the case in 2002 when they learned another person might have been involved, but Multnomah County deputy district attorney Norman Frink said that probe went nowhere and Edwards was never a suspect.
Most wanted fugitive
Edwards landed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list in November 1961. After robbing an Akron bank, he fled to Atlanta, where FBI agents captured him in January 1962.
Edwards wrote that a guard at the federal prison in Leavenworth, Kan., got him to turn his life around. When he was paroled in 1967 after being transferred to Lewisburg, he decided to give speeches and write the autobiography in hopes of saving others from a life of crime.
By 1980 he was working as a handyman at the Concord House, a reception hall in Sullivan, about 40 miles west of Milwaukee, according to a criminal complaint.
Hack and Drew vanished from a wedding reception at the hall that August.
DNA matches
The bodies of Hack and Drew were later discovered in the woods. Hack had been stabbed and Drew had been tied up and strangled. Investigators found semen on her pants, which they would later use to link Edwards to the killings.
Investigators questioned Edwards around the time of the killings, but he left Wisconsin the next month. He later surfaced in Pennsylvania, where he rented a house, sold the furniture and then burned down the place, said Richard McBane, a former Akron Beacon Journal reporter who helped Edwards write his book. Pennsylvania Department of Corrections records indicate he was sentenced in 1982 to two years and 3 months for arson in Butler County.
Edwards' whereabouts in the 1990s remain largely a mystery. He moved into a trailer park on the edge of Louisville around 2000, police there said, and stayed out of trouble.
Messages left for Edwards' wife, Kay, at his trailer weren't returned. No one answered the door when a reporter visited recently.
Wisconsin investigators submitted DNA evidence in the Hack-Drew killings to the state crime lab in 2007, and analysts developed a profile of the suspect. After a Madison television station profiled the case in March, investigators got what Lee characterized only as a "lead."
They obtained DNA from Edwards in Louisville in June and arrested him in July after making a positive match.
'He robbed me of my daughter'
Drew's mother, Norma Walker, said after the arrest she was shocked to hear of the break in the case after so many years. Instead of giving her closure, though, the 70-year-old said the arrest has ripped open old wounds.
"You hope this day would come, but now that it's here, it's really hard. Everything starts all over again. All the memories come back," she said. "He robbed me of my daughter, robbed me of Christmases, birthdays, weddings, everything families do together."
Hack's father, David Hack, said all he wants to know now is why his son and his son's girlfriend were chosen.
"I'm glad it's over," he said. "I don't know how you can't admit to it if the DNA matches."


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Roudný je malá vesnice, část obce Frýdštejn v okrese Jablonec nad Nisou. Nachází se asi 2 km na jih od Frýdštejna. Je zde evidováno 42 adres. Trvale zde žije 113 obyvatel.

Roudný leží v katastrálním území Frýdštejn o výměře 7,1 km2.

Pamětihodnosti
 Přírodní památka Ondříkovický pseudokrasový systém

Reference

Externí odkazy

Vesnice v okrese Jablonec nad Nisou
Sídla v Jičínské pahorkatině
Frýdštejn


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Q: Square a number but preserve the sign (in c) Is there a simple way to preserve the sign after squaring a value.
I currently have:
float signed_square(float x) {
    if (x > 0) {
        return x * x;
    } else {
        return -(x * x);
    }
}

A: C99 supplies double copysign(double x, double y)

The copysign functions produce a value with the magnitude of x and the sign of y.

float signed_square(float x) {
  return copysignf(x*x, x);
}

A: As I said in the comments:
float signed_square(float x){
    return x * fabs(x);
}


Election (1999) Watch Election (1999) Full Movie Online Tracy Flick is running unopposed for this year's high school student election. But school civics teacher Jim McAllister has a different plan. Partly to establish a more democratic election, and partly to satisfy some deep personal anger toward Tracy, Jim talks popular varsity football player Paul Metzler to run for president as well. Chaos ensues.