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Mr. Colbert — Wanna Help Us Make a Better Tomorrow, Today?
Hey Stephen Colbert. There's an existential challenge to your shadowy Colbert Super PAC S.H.H. and I've been trying to give you a heads up. But you're not making it easy.
Whenever you and your Fat Cat Moneybag buddies like Karl Rove and the Koch Brothers feel like lying to the rest of us in all those political attack ads you buy, you're allowed to disguise yourselves. The only way we learn that you're behind the smears is when groups like The Center for Media and Democracy, the Sunlight Foundation, OpenSecrets.org and Followthemoney.org dig through financial records, link those donations to you and alert us previously duped Americans.
Your mischief-making is about to end, thanks to the California Clean Money Campaign (CCMC). CCMC is spearheading a bill that will drive you and your crony capitalist cohort out from under your metaphorical rocks by requiring primary funders of political commercials in California to state their real names and company affiliations in the ads themselves, as candidates for national office already do.
Julia Brownley
The bill is the California DISCLOSE Act, AB 1148, modeled on the 2010 federal DISCLOSE Act (HR 5175) that passed the House of Representatives, but fell short by one lousy vote in the Senate. Heroic Assemblywoman Julia Brownley (D-41) wrote AB 1148 and is scheduled to bring it to the Assembly Elections Committee in just over a month.
Most Californians have her back on this. A new CA Field Poll finds that "an overwhelming majority of voters (84 percent) would like to increase public disclosure requirements of initiative sponsors to more clearly identify who are its major funders." CCMC volunteers are turning in thousands of signed petitions and endorsement forms to show state lawmakers how enthusiastically their constituents support DISCLOSE. We're gonna occupy the Assembly every time it gets heard.
When the bill passes that house and goes to the California Senate under Clean Money champion Senator Loni Hancock's (D -09) authorship, we'll be there. If Californians have to pass it as a ballot measure, we'll occupy that campaign too. Then we'll crowd into Governor Brown's office to watch him sign AB 1148 into the law that will finally start to curb your and your fellow oligarchic overlords' power over the rest of us, at least in this state.
Why, you may wonder, would a Clean Elections devotee like me want to warn you about what will surely be your undoing? Because CCMC knows the only way to start fixing our wreck of a country — to make a better tomorrow, tomorrow — wait, shouldn't it be make a better tomorrow, today? Anyway — is to drain the big money poison from our political system and turn elections into fair contests, where everyone — including you — gets an equal chance to lead.
That's not really why I'm reaching out to you. We do believe in stuff like leveling the political playing field and getting big money out of campaigns (like HuffPost and Dylan Ratigan's ongoing Get Money Out project); and our ultimate goal is to establish full voluntary public funding of campaigns, so that electeds will represent the voters, rather than the 1% who currently buy their offices and their souls.
But Stephen, my basic motivation for telling you about DISCLOSE is because when you oppose things, you lavish them with criticism on your show for the benefit of the entire Colbert Nation, which pretty much means the entire universe. I bet your opposition could – no, will — clinch our victory.
That's why I've been trying to alert you. I clicked on every link at The Colbert Report and Comedy Central, and on your Facebook page, looking in vain for contact info. I emailed Colbert Super PAC S.H.H. Communications Director Alberto Rèalnamè. He replied — for some reason verbatim, twice — that unless I was "the Wall Street Journal or something like that," I shouldn't expect a personal response any time soon. I may be like many things, but none of them is the Wall Street Journal, so on I trudged.
State Senator Loni Hancock (D-Berkeley)
Couldn't find a phone number for you online, so I called directory assistance, which gave me a number that led to a few more numbers, and finally to a voice that said "Colbert Report." "Is this a human?" I started to ask, expecting "no one's available… " to interrupt before I finished the question. But whoa. A guy answered and let me know that, to his knowledge, he was human.
Here's an approximation of the rest of the conversation: "What's the best way to contact you with an idea for the show?" "We can't accept any outside material." "Ok. How can I let you know about an organization?" "We can't accept any outside information." "Ok. It's about the Colbert Super PAC." Silence. "Is there a better way to ask you?" "Hey, all I do is answer the phone." "So is there any way I can get material to the Colbert Report?" "You can mail it to our address." "Will someone read it?" "It'll get here, anyway." "Thanks." (I said that nicely. It's not his fault — unless you were the guy answering your own show's phone. Right.)
And Stephen, there's one more reason I keep trying to reach you. We'll need all the money we can get to counter the lies the Chamber of Commerce, Big Pharma, Big Oil and Big Everything else will surely throw at Californians and our elected representatives in ads against DISCLOSE, ads where the corpocrats won't ID themselves honestly. We sure would love a big donation from Colbert Super PAC S.H.H. You won't have to tell anybody. But we will.
Wendy Block
Republished with the author's permission from the Huffington Post.
By Wendy Block posted on December 11, 2011
About Wendy Block
Wendy Block is an elected rep of the 42nd AD on the DSCC and DPSFV. She's Recording Secretary of Valley Democrats United, a member of the Kitchen Cabinet of Kitchen Table Democracy, and speaks and advocates to pass the California Fair Elections Act, on our ballots in June.


EU AMO ROSETTA STONE! Yes, you too can learn to say I LOVE ROSETTA STONE in Portuguese and many more languages simply by learning through the use of this wonderful immersion program. Now anyone who knows me will attest that I am a language afficianado. And I am not talking "menu lingo" either!
I first discovered Rosetta Stone shortly after visiting the real "rosetta stone" in England. The concept of learning language by using a multi-modal method interested me. As a psychologist, I know that languages are best learned when the student can "live" the language. Words and phrases come alive when a person experiences the language up close and personal. Rosetta Stone, which in my opinion is the platinum standard program for language acquisition, painstakingly has prepared a program that is visual, audio, oral and interactive. Proof in point- my 18 year old son, Seth. He hated language classes throughout his middle school and high school career. However, when he opened the Rosetta Stone- Portuguese Totale program- we was fascinated and engaged! Within minutes he was walking around with my laptop repeating words and phrases. He also worked through the steps for hours. I never saw Seth work HOURS on any language exercise, let alone voluntarily!
Here is my interview with Duane Sider, Director of Language Development, for Rosetta Stone. Learn and Laugh along with us!


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Stress is part of our everyday lives. How do we minimize its effects? What simple, easy things can we do each day and each week to keep the 'bad stress' away? Here are a few basic Stress Management Techniques and fundamentals that you can incorporate into a regular routine. Make these 7 basics a part of your life and stress-free living will be your reward. Practice them whenever you need them and even when you don't.
It has been said before, it will be said again, "when you are too busy to take a break, that is when you most need to take a break." Keep this in mind when you are at your worst. The most successful and happy people in life ALWAYS KNOW when to take a break! They also know how to become a champion by simply establishing good habits in a regular routine.
For each of the 7 tips, we will have a complete and thorough treatment for you in our Stress Relief Guide and future articles, but the basics are enough to find relief right now. Here goes.
Get the right light and you will have lots of energy. The value of light to the human body is great. We all feel better when the sun is shining -- so take advantage of it to get those feel good hormones going in the body. Get outside as early as possible during the day. Invest in a light therapy box for your home and your work if you are stuck inside all day. For those in the northern latitudes and those who get the Winter Blues, a little light therapy every day can go a long way. So, put a little more light into your life: your energy will go up and your stress levels go down. The best part? It is low effort with high impact.
Stress is all about the fight or flight response in the body. So, if you are stressed, your body is ready for action.
So put it in action!
Get into action and cure emotion. If you are feeling angry, depressed or stress of any kind, just simple exercise will put the forces of human nature to work for you to release your troubles. You can choose any form of activity as long as you keep going for a few minutes to produce a response in your body. If you are fit, you know what to do. If you have aren't normally very active, you will be amazed at how good just few minutes of some kind of effort will make you feel. Start easy, try some light stretching, a walk around the block or some simple exercises. In just 5 or 10 minutes you can have the flow of your body working for you to relieve your muscle tension, release anger, pump up your endorphins and start feeling good.
Remember. Any exercise, any effort is good effort. You will be amazed at how just a simple few minutes a day at the right time will ease your stresses and bring you benefits in many areas of your life.
Think about stress as a mental type of clutter, lets call it 'sludge'. This mental sludge builds up in your mind until it slows the flow of thoughts to a trickle. Now, you have more stress created because "I am so frustrated, I cannot think straight". Stop! Think about that statement.
What if you could protect yourself from ever getting that frustrated? What if it took you only 5 minutes per day to do that? 5 Minutes? I would certainly pay 5 minutes a day to keep myself thinking straight.
It is simple. Find a time every morning to write in a journal. The simple task of writing about your life issues, even if it is a depressing subject has been proven to have positive results. Write down 3-7 goals in your life that you can attain. Read these every day. Then write about what is good, what is bad, and what you are going to do about it. Done. Limit yourself to 5-10 minutes. It doesn't matter the quality of what you write, or what you write about, or if you save it or ever read it again. Just write.
In a crunch for time? Stressed out because you don't have enough time?
Great!-- it is a signal to take a break. You can find renewed alertness, energy and a relaxed mind in as little as 3 minutes. How? Take a 'Mind-Break' for a quick de-stress tuneup.
Clutter and disorganization not only impedes our performance, but it has been proven to create stress. Not just stress from having to waste time searching for a misplaced item in a time of need, but just the general clutter in an office or bedroom can cause stress or poor sleep. Give yourself a well needed 'quick clean up' break of 3-5 minutes to clear out and clean up some space around you. Your mind's eye will thank you. Just trying it and see! And, you will benefit from a few minutes of getting yourself in action as well as that feeling of accomplishment. It will be a 3 way win when you take a break to de-clutter.
We are a sleep deprived society. It is the norm that we all brag about how little sleep we get as it is a socially respected thing to sleep less so that we can do more. This is a false proposition. The majority of us sleep less than 7 hours per night, but over 90% of us need to sleep at least 7 hours to be at our best. Sleeping less creates stress.
Make these 3 things a part of your life and you will turn your fatigue and chronic stress into energy you never had before.
Schedule 7 hours of sleep time, minimum.
Get up and go to bed at the same time, each day of the week.
Create a routine that gets you ready for a good nights sleep; make sure it is at least 30 minutes.


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2018 Nebraska Character Award Winner: Grace Ellis
Congratulations to Grace Ellis of Waverly High School for winning the 2018 Youth Frontiers Character Award! An unprecedented four educators nominated Grace for the Character Award. They commended her for leading by example and using her voice to foster an environment where all can be heard. Learn more about Grace by watching her video and reading the story below.READ MORE
April 12, 2018 In Character
The benefits of moving from autopilot to mindfulness
What is your autopilot?
It may look like getting your kids up and fed and ready for school while eating the leftovers from their plates, calling it "breakfast," then rushing out the door and speeding to work while worrying about whether or not you are going to be late for your 8 a.m. meeting.
It may look like showing up to an appointment having no recollection of driving there because you were preoccupied with thinking, "I have so much to do."
My autopilot was committing to things, doing them in the least amount of time possible and then committing to new things the moment I had a second to spare. I made coffee my fuel and convinced myself that sleep was overrated. I spent my time doing; this was my autopilot.READ MORE
April 5, 2018 In Character, Leaders, Leadership, Youth Frontiers
YCorps Spotlight: Dahlia Jones
We are so grateful for our wonderful staff at Youth Frontiers (YF), from our full-time and part-time employees to our YCorps. The Youth Frontiers YCorps (Youth Corps) is a seven-month internship program that gives emerging leaders the opportunity to facilitate, along with our full-time staff, life-changing retreats for schools all over the upper Midwest. The YCorps do a lot to further our mission, so we want to celebrate their skills and stories on our blog in a five-part spotlight Q&A series. Our third YCorps member in the spotlight is Dahlia Jones. READ MORE
March 29, 2018 In Character, Parenting
Seven Civil Conversation Skills to Use When You Disagree
Everyone wants to be heard, from kids, to grown-ups, to long-lost relatives across the holiday table. But too often, we steer clear of the issues we really care about, hovering instead on weather patterns and sports news.
These days, even those issues can feel risky.
Every topic worth discussing carries the risk of conflict, and we, as a society, seem to be losing our knack for disagreement.
March 22, 2018 In Character, Youth Frontiers
Laughter is the greatest equalizer
When is the last time you took time to play? To make space for spontaneity, to let goofiness be your guide and to laugh — freely, openly and in your own signature way. Remember how that laughter felt? The boisterous bubbling sensation as your lungs filled with oxygen. The lightness of it. The clean, bright clarity it left in its wake. And the openness, the newfound space in your heart and in your mind. When was the last time?
March 19, 2018 In Character, Community, Youth Frontiers
Educator reveals Youth Frontiers' long-term impact
Our retreats help inspire students to act with character and build community within schools. We can say this with confidence because we see it every day — kids apologizing to those they've left out or persistently teased, friends thanking friends for their steadfast support, students connecting with classmates they've never interacted with, and shy kids speaking from their hearts in front of everyone. What we don't often see is how these students remember their retreats 10 or 15 years later. A few months ago, we did.READ MORE
Comfort zones can keep us from building community
Courage is curious. It looks different to each of us, and we require its company often and sometimes unexpectedly. We wish it would just come to us whenever we call it. It doesn't. Instead, we find it waiting for us in an inconvenient place — right outside of our comfort zones.READ MORE
March 8, 2018 In Character, Community, Leadership, Parenting, Youth Frontiers
Smartphones — It's time to put them down.
Youth Frontiers builds community and connection with young people. We inspire and help kids see the importance of critical values like respect and kindness.
Two things that I am increasingly concerned about that counter our efforts are the unrestrained use of smartphones and the prolific use of social media.READ MORE
March 1, 2018 In Character, Leadership, Youth Frontiers
More than Minnesota Nice
By Tim Welsh, Vice Chairman of Consumer Banking Sales and Support for U.S. Bank
The following content is adapted from Tim's keynote at Youth Frontiers' 2017 Ethical Leadership Luncheon.
Let me start by thanking all of you for being here today to discuss ethical leadership and to support the amazing work of Youth Frontiers. It is a very busy time of year, and I know that all of you have many demands on your time. I suspect some of you were like me when you looked at your calendar this morning. You had more work to do then you had realized, and you asked yourself if you could really spare the time to go off to a luncheon. I am very grateful that you chose to focus on such an important topic and to help an organization that has touched the lives of literally millions of young people in this community and around the Midwest, including my own kids. READ MORE
February 22, 2018 In Advice for Educators, Character, Children
Show Students Who They Could Become by Accepting Their Full Selves
By Justin Minkel
My mom is a play therapist and a miracle worker. Her secret power sounds simple: She absolutely accepts children as they are. Not as their teachers, classmates or parents wish they would be. As they actually are — in all their turbulent, disruptive, exasperating glory.
The children she works with throw rocks, scream in class and bite the other kids. When they throw rocks at her, she says, "You are really strong to be able to throw those rocks so far!" When they scream as loud as they can, she says, "That's amazing that you can get out all your anger like that. I wish I could do that!"

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Q: Magento 2 wrong base url on ajax call on checkout page I have upgraded the Magento version to 2.3.7. After that, I have a strange issue on the checkout page that when it calls ajax function the URL is been wrongly generated. Previously it was like
/rest/default/V1/guest-carts/AC72N37Vmo3uGMIXEVQfIDt1ubuZLJws/estimate-shipping-methods
but after upgrading Magento version now it's
/checkout/undefinedrest/default/V1/guest-carts/AC72N37Vmo3uGMIXEVQfIDt1ubuZLJws/estimate-shipping-methods
Not sure from where this undefined gets added within the url ??
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The secure & unsecure base url are correctly setup. I checked it again
Also i navigated to the file from where this ajax call is generated , the file is
vendor/magento/module-checkout/view/frontend/web/js/model/shipping-rate-processor/new-address.js

Here the storage.post is from the ajax call is generated and it has
serviceurl & payload as arguments.
in getRates function - if we console.log "serviceUrl" then it shows the below url
rest/default/V1/guest-carts/FsS4QvllSq1vpuxZuC8ycQa0VRMOcQCy/estimate-shipping-methods
which seem to be correct, storage.post() function takes this as an argument and ajax request is called which then gets into the .fail() function
so what i think is that the problem is where the front part of the url gets added to it for making the ajax call that is
http://sitename.local/checkout/undefined ---> and here somehow the undefined gets added which breaks the whole url
The same issue is encountered by other users also but no solution is available yet.
https://magento.stackexchange.com/questions/256273/undefined-rest-api-checkout-cart
https://community.magento.com/t5/Magento-2-x-Programming/Magento2-Wrong-base-url-on-ajax-call/td-p/435435
Can anyone help me out from this?

A: I am answering my own question as i was able to fix the issue myself.
I am not sure if this solution would be a general solution to everyone facing similar issue but as in my case it helped me fix the issue , so it may guide others facing similar issue , if the solution isn`t 100% accurate in their scenario.
So in my project i had a file as
app/design/frontend/Birdbrain/default/Magento_Theme/templates/page/js/require_js.phtml

which had the following code inside it
<?php
/**
 * Copyright © 2013-2017 Magento, Inc. All rights reserved.
 * See COPYING.txt for license details.
 */
?>
<script>
    var require = {
        "baseUrl": "<?php /* @escapeNotVerified */ echo $block->getViewFileUrl('/') ?>"
    };
</script>

After removing this file from the source, the issue explained in the question above was fixed and no other issues arised by removing it.
Thoughts :-
As i checked in my version control system , i found that this file was added in 2017 and since then no changes were done in it, so after upgrading the magento version to 2.3.x , it somehow conflicted with some latest code and was no longer meaningful and so removing it fixed the issue , atleast for me.

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At Clayton Public Storage, our goal is to make sure all of our customers throughout the greater Raleigh area and northern Johnston County have plenty of options when it comes to tackling their self storage needs.
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The service is friendly and the ability to pay online is convenient. That being said, I had only two issues but one was a pretty big one in my estimation. First, they do jack the rate up substantially, and it's not an annual increase, it just seems to be when they feel like it. Secondly, I had to pay extra for a "climate controlled unit" because they said that's all they had at the time. It was far from climate controlled. I should have known when I looked at it before taking it, but I was desperate at the time. The threshold in to the unit was rotted out and not attached in any way. Spray foam insulation they had applied around the door frame was loose and just hanging there. There were leaves, dirt and empty rodent baits in the unit. I just moved out and while I appreciated them pro-rating my final payment so I wouldn't have to pay a full month, I didn't appreciate the mold and mildew on some of my items in their "climate controlled unit". I told the person on duty who was un-interested. I will not be using Public Storage again.


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Syria Recovers Lebanon not by War, But Diplomacy: TrendNews Commentator
Politics Materials 26 August 2008 13:35 (UTC +04:00)
Ulviyya Sadigova, commentator of Near East Service of Trend
The voluntary cooperation of the Lebanese government with the pro-Syrian Hezbollah and restoration of relations with Damascus are probably results of the Beirut's surrender of its positions in the long-lasting struggle for the independent political life.
In 2005, Lebanon, while enjoying full support of its friends from Old World, openly accused Syria of the murder of the Lebanese Premier Rafik Hariri. Damascus had to do nothing, but pull out its forces from Lebanon and gave up getting interfering in the political life of this country. At that time it was imminent for Syria as it also suffered from international isolation for decades.
Lebanon, once small province of Syria, feeling the long-expected freedom from the importunate neighbor, openly demonstrated its commitment to the western policy.
However, the current events in the Syrian-Lebanon frontier show that Damascus only granted a respite to Beirut by demonstrating its power over it.
Seeing US's seizing Near East regions one by one, Syria understands that the US forces will soon be quite near Lebanon.
Damascus once again fall back into its old ways and there was fierce fighting between the week pro-western government and well-armed Shiite groupings led by Hezbollah, right hand man of Syria in the region who established a government within a government.
Following Doha agreement in May and signing of ceasefire agreement within the Lebanon, Michel Suleiman became president of Lebanon. He understood that even if West was weaker than Hezbollah, he changed his attitude toward Damascus. Though earlier the ceasefire agreement between the parties was expected to be simple, the Syrian government felt the weakness and uncertainty of the Lebanese leader and began to take steps immediately. But this time Syria acted more accurate and not abruptly. The Mediterranean Union, which turned out to be favorable for Syria served as a good pretext for the new political game in Lebanon. Later, Presidents of Lebanon and Syria Michel Suleiman and Bashar Asad held a meeting. The Lebanese leader who could not find a reason to openly express his sympathy for Damascus, at last could find one to call Bashar Asad "his brother" and to accept truce plan offered by Syria and he could also mention that only diplomatic relations were restored.
Syria also took appropriate steps. With the help of its main leverage in Lebanon - Hezbollah it demonstrated pro-western Lebanese politicians that only "the party of Allah" can win over the common enemy in the region, that is Israel. The proof is the exchange of captives of war in unequal numbers between Hezbollah and Israel in July 2008. Lebanon marked a holiday, but not in honor of President of Prime Minister, but in honor of Hezbollah.
The fragile Lebanese government understands the correlation of powers and gives Hezbollah a right to get armed. In fact, it means shift of the armed forces in the country to the pro-Syrian groupings. In other words, Hezbollah can independently carry out military policy in the region where the presence of Damascus is not ruled out.
At the same time Syria understands that the open actions can frighten Lebanese politicians who strongly relied on West after 2005, therefore it acts carefully. Earlier Asad invited Suleiman to Damascus and offered to exchange ambassadors. The Lebanese President did not want to repeat the mistake of his predecessors and accepted this offer. The other reason for this can serve the fact that the government of Suleiman can be easily overthrown which will lead to the civil within the country. Therefore, the Lebanese President was obliged to accept truce with Damascus and to retain his post.
One can say that Syria gained the upper hand. But not with the help of arms and clashes, but by means of diplomacy in conformance with the current international policy.
On the other hand, the restoration of relations with Syria is favorable for Lebanon as well. Only in this case it can be sure that its security is in reliable hands, even if in not that of local government. Beirut made sure that it is weaker than Syria who has strong allies as Iran and Russia which can be proved by the last visit of Asad to Moscow and purchase of arms from Russia.
Moreover, if three years ago Syria did not have any relations with West, not it establishes relations with Europe even successfully. Therefore, one can not say that in case of truce with Syria, Lebanon will loss ties with West. On the contrary, Europe will wish Syrian presence in Lebanon where access was blocked earlier.
Therefore, Beirut has only two ways out: truce with Syria and calm life or constant political destabilization.
Now Damascus is not likely to openly interfere with the internal affairs of Lebanon.
Now Syria has gained a chance to repair an omission in its relations with West while not surrendering its positions in Near East.
The correspondent can be contacted at: [email protected]
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What are Coronavirus Contact Tracing Apps?
by Robert Siciliano April 28, 2020
Two of the biggest tech companies, Google and Apple, are pairing up to build software that could tell people if they were recently in contact with someone with coronavirus. This tool is due out in a couple of months, and it will be built into iPhones and Androids. People would have to opt in to use the tool, and if they become infected, they must voluntarily report it.
It is pretty unusual to see these tech giants partnering up, since they are generally rivals who are constantly working to outperform the other. This shows us that the coronavirus is a pretty serious thing.
This software could be highly significant in regard to slowing down the spread of the virus. In fact, public health authorities have implied that better tracking of those stricken with coronavirus could absolutely slow the pandemic.
This all sounds well and good, but think about this, too. We can now see that two of the largest tech companies on the face of the Earth have a huge impact on our lives. A tool like this could raise some privacy issues, of course, and it won't be the only solution, but it could help in the long run.
Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, confirms that the goal of this software is to track the virus, but he also says that they are focused on respecting "transparency & consent." The CEO of Google, Sundar Pichai said that the software has "strong controls and protections" in place for the privacy of the users.
With this tool, a person who has been infected with coronavirus would send a notification to an app, which would then send an alert to the phones of people who had been close to that person's device. Sounds cool, but there is a catch; Google and Apple have to get public health authorities to agree to letting this information get accessed.
There are also a number of third-party tools already out there for contact tracing. This is why Apple and Google are stepping up and trying to reach more people. The companies also said that they would offer up the technology they were using to other apps, in order to make them even more reliable.
The goal, here, of course is to make us safer…we just have to make sure that our privacy isn't being compromised in the process.


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Measuring Up at the News Urinal
Brooke Shelby Biggs
In the new-media world, you have to be freakishly exceptional to stand out in the infinite crowd.
I just discovered that I hate journalists. I see this as a problem, since I am one.
There's something innately arrogant and self-important about nearly every journalist I meet. And that does not exclude me. I see it in myself sometimes, and it's nauseating. I move away from other journalists at parties; I flash secret signals to friends when one or (gah!) a pack of them corners me at some flesh-pressing confab and I feel a wave of glad-handing coming on. Journalism is alluring and tempting, as power always is.
This is one club still clearly defined by the old-boys office-politics machine: The puffing up of chests, the "my paper can beat up your paper" rhetoric, and the ever-dominant Peter Principle are all clearly still at the controls of traditional media. And it seems they've mutated to invade the new media.
I recall my young idealist heart shuddering when I realized that there was no such thing as objectivity in the journalism business. I struggled to find some other, greater point to the craft; some means of keeping intact the ethic of information provider and empowerer of the people - the core of this business in which I had grown up and invested so much faith.
So I fell back on the belief that people - and perhaps especially journalists - had only the best intentions and were essentially good, well-meaning souls. As a budding journalist, I considered myself an obedient civil servant employed by both the Founding Fathers and the public; I had a nearly holy mission to do my best to deliver the information the public needed. Now I can see that it wouldn't take much tweaking to turn that sense of mission into an inflated sense of self-worth.
Holding the First Amendment in front of us like a shield against the slings and arrows of an outraged and deceived public, we journalists have come to think of ourselves as the embattled martyrs of the Republic, the last battalion standing in the fight to preserve truth, justice, and the populist way - not just in America, but around the globe.
It has always been my conviction that people don't get defensive unless they have something to hide, or at least uncertainties about their deeds that they'd rather not investigate. So the biting defensiveness these days of the press - both mainstream and way-new - makes me suspicious ... and a little unnerved.
Here's the fundamental hypocrisy at the core of the business: Journalists are theoretically fighting for the little guy. We stand up for the downtrodden, the disenfranchised, the meek. We represent the people's interests against the threat of government abuse of its sacred trust to serve the public's interest rather than its own.
And yet, we are dealt the power to decide what the public knows and what it doesn't, and even what it should think and feel about what it knows. Not surprisingly, members of the press often act as if they are the Chosen Ones, somehow on a higher plane and subject to different rules than their subjects. It's a de facto information aristocracy parading as a democratic institution.
The truth is, most of us journalists are not unlike aspiring politicians or movie stars, scrabbling to make a name for ourselves, to make a big splash in an even bigger pond, and then to protect our positions of power. Kiss the right asses, piss off the right assholes, and we've got social currency and celebrity status. Nevermind our skills, or what we've done for the people we purportedly serve.
Here's a perfect example of how skewed the press' sense of purpose is. The Holy Grail of journalism - the scoop - is really just the product of a chest-pounding, male-dominated news business. John DeGroot, an old-hand writing coach in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, calls the scoop phenom a metaphorical "pissing contest." If women dominated the business, scoops would be recognized as irrelevant and a waste of time and energy, he said. "It's obviously a penis thing," he added.
Problem is, women are now just as bad about it. Look at Cokie Roberts. She's about as self-important as they come.
Audiences rarely care which newspaper or TV station breaks a story first, has the best camera angle at the news conference, or managed to get a reporter live on the scene for the 11 o'clock feed or late edition. They only care that they hear or read a well-rounded and thoroughly reported story. But many - maybe even most - reporters don't respect their readers enough to believe that they can tell the difference between a good story and a self-serving, rewritten press release. The value of a story in the average reporter's mind is measured in the amount of time by which they beat their competitors to the punch, how good their hair looks on camera, or how high on the page their story runs. It ought to be about how much they improve their communities, educate and engage their readership, or right civic wrongs.
And this is a relatively new phenomenon among the old-media elite. There was a time when the posturing was all about breaking a story of massive civic proportions - like Teapot Dome or Watergate. Now it's about who gets the scoop on Tom Cruise's newest costar. And has anyone other than me noticed in recent years how often camera operators turn their cameras off the subject of an interview - whether it be the Queen of England or the mother of a murder victim - onto the reporter or commentator? Why do I want to look at the reporter? Isn't the reporter supposed to be a virtually invisible conduit for information and context for me, the audience? I swear there is an inverse correlation between the flashiness and self-consciousness of the presentation and the meatiness of the content.
I know a woman who, whenever she sees a middle-aged man in a muscle car or some teenager blasting his car stereo and peeling out, shouts in their direction: "Sorry about your penis!" I confess, I say the same thing when I watch Sam Donaldson on ABC, read David Shaw in the Los Angeles Times, or read pretty much anything by Rebecca Eisenberg.
Among the new media's own jet set, this shows signs of becoming even worse, because suddenly everybody - including the audience - is on this side of the camera, the microphone, the news desk. In the new-media world, you have to be freakishly exceptional to stand out in the infinite crowd. Everyone on the Net has the same delusions of grandeur that so corrupt the traditional media. Alas, the old and new aren't all that different after all; like father like son.
Measuring up in the new media means out-flashing the competition. The quality of the content is less important than the number of toys used to produce it or needed to operate it. A cool idea for an animation or design can be "demo'd," while a truly well-written story doesn't have the flash to hold an audience. It's the bigger-better-faster-more complex that drives American culture and is bleeding well beyond our borders on the international Internet. The Peter Principle on a global scale. Everyone duck!
Unfortunately, this leaves actual news, actual useful information, out in the cold. No one in new media is trying to break a Watergate story. Nothing about cold, hard facts is sexy or remotely interactive. Opinions, however, are interactive. Argument is a participatory sport. So we have outrageous assertions and enraged debates in chat rooms and message boards, and this becomes our information medium for the next century.
Now members of the old and new media are so busy eyeing each other's endowments to see how they measure up, so busy declaring their importance and influence to themselves and the world, that they forget their reason for being - to find and impart information as efficiently as possible for the audience.
This article appeared originally in HotWired.
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Logistics and supply chain management are partners in the business world. Together they help businesses to simplify and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of its operations. Without logistics and supply chains, manufacturing and distribution would not exist.
Now more than ever, logistics and supply chain professionals are needed to support our growing global economy. An associates degree in logistics and supply chain management is a great foundation if you plan to earn a bachelor's degree (or higher) in the future. You'll take a series of courses designed to prepare students for entry into employment.
There are plenty of online, campus, and hybrid programs available for those interested in pursuing a associates degree in logistics and supply chain management. Use the links below to navigate our list of degrees.
An associates degree program in logistics and supply chain management program can be completed in about two years, depending on the school. Some online programs can be completed in less time. The option listed below offers students an opportunitie to earn a two-year degree that positions them for an entry-level logistics position or further study within a bachelor's degree-level program.
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Home Entertainment Hit indie band The Family Dog are heading to Chelmsford!
Hit indie band The Family Dog are heading to Chelmsford!
Meet 'The Family Dog' – a miracle band of 5 brothers, by the surname of 'Dogliani', hailing from North London with Irish/Italian heritage.
The band have unveiled six new live dates as they work towards their debut single and yes they will be heading to Chelmsford too!
Fronted by the youngest, Hector (Aged 12), these incredible musicians and song writers are destined to change the face of music as we know it. Having grown up listening to a vast array of iconic influencers from Miles Davis to Steely Dan , The Family Dog have a sound and energy not dissimilar to the power of The Rolling Stones , that could and would captivate the crowds at the main stage at Glastonbury. They have an incredible catalogue of original songs with a classic, yet modern and raucous (and sometimes early Kings Of Leon ) sound.
At the back of their sometimes chaotic, although always loving family home, the 5 brothers have spent years in their rehearsal-come-studio space known as 'the box', where they have written some of the finest music in decades. They have already received great press, and been heralded as the 'the British Jackson 5', and have just made their amazing radio debut on BBC Radio London.
They have received a large number of offers from top producers and labels across the world, which is astonishing considering they have only just recently started performing live and haven't released one single song.


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El Sobrante Indian-style pizzeria to celebrate grand opening Monday
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A family-owned restaurant that serves pizza (with a twist) opened last year in El Sobrante, and on Monday it is inviting the community to a grand opening and ribbon cutting celebration. Chicago's Pizza With a...
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By Kathy Chouteau The Bay Area's NFL teams may not have made it to the Super Bowl this year, but you can still get your game day party on in Richmond. With California's Los Angeles...
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By Kathy Chouteau It's been a Richmond institution for more than 40 years, and soon it will have new owners. Pup Hut, identifiable far and wide by its fab retro design and touch-the-sky sign of a...
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Disney announced Monday that Black Panther will return to the big screen from Feb. 1-7 – with tickets free for everyone – in celebration of Black History Month. The film, directed by Ryan Coogler, who...
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by Kathy Chouteau The first-of-its-kind "All Included Fashion Show" drew a rousing crowd of about 200 to Richmond's Bridge Storage and ArtSpace Saturday afternoon, hosted by onsite business R&R Coffee. In a departure from the prototypical...
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Black Panther, directed by Richmond and Oakland-raised Ryan Coogler, has become the first comic book movie to earn a best picture Oscar nomination on Tuesday. To view all Oscar nominees for 2019, go here. "While comic...
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Richmond museum to hold 'Day of Learning' about Holocaust
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We reported last month how the Richmond Museum of History is launching an exhibit on Jewish history this weekend as part of a national project by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C. The...
Richmond venues let you 'do-it-yourself' in 2019
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DJ Mustard has released the video for his Nicki Minaj and Jeremih featuring track "Don't Hurt Me." The Felix Colgrave directed clip is an animated one and it's pretty wild. Mustard appears as the sole human for the duration of the video while a number of different animals engage in cross-species coitus. If you've been dying to see a cartoon whale and giant squid hook up, Mustard's got it covered. Watch the video above via TIDAL.
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This 90 Second Bread Keto Baked Bagels Recipe is so exciting to me! I'm excited to share this brand new recipe with you today. If you are part of the Low Carb Inspirations group on Facebook, you've probably had already seen it. Kris D. was kind enough to share this winning recipe in the group! She tweaked this recipe to PERFECTION! She took a very popular recipe and tweaked it just enough to make Keto Baked Bagels and guess what?! They taste amazing!!
There is a secret ingredient to this recipe that makes it much better than any other Keto bagel recipe out there. She uses butter and Coconut Butter too! She uses 100% Organic Artisana Coconut Butter and it makes a world of difference. It gives this recipe a richness that you will love. Now, I do have to tell you that you can make this recipe with or without the coconut butter but once you try it with it, you won't want it any other way. It really does make a difference. On the other hand, if you want to make this recipe today and you don't have the coconut butter on hand, go ahead and make it. It's still delicious but next time try it with the coconut butter. It's worth it!
Best Keto Bagels recipe you will ever try!
Melt the butter in a large mixing bowl.
Melt the coconut butter in a separate cup or bowl.
Add the rest of ingredients and coconut butter, mix well.
Pour 1/4 c. Batter into each well of pan.
Bake for 20 mins. Let cool slightly before removing from pan.
-You can omit the coconut butter, but I think it gives it more richness from the fat. It is included in the nutritional value.
-After cooled, eat as is or toast on a pan with fat for crispness.
Pour 1/4 c. Batter into each well of the pan.
You can omit the coconut butter, but I think it gives it more richness from the fat. It is included in the nutritional value.
After cooled, eat as is or toast on a pan with fat for crispness.
Kris is on her own Keto Journey and loving every minute of it. She loves to cook and bake! She makes many different Keto recipes with her very own twist. You can join her very own Facebook group here!
By Jennifer on August 4, 2018 Breads, Keto Friendly Recipes, Low Carb Recipes, Recipes.
Want to make a loaf…how would I adjust?
I halved the recipe and made these this morning. These are fabulous! The breakfast sandwich has returned!
Do you think coconut flour would work as a substitute for almond flour?
Coconut and almond flour act very differently depending on the recipe and I wouldn't suggest it.


If you're like most people, you don't think about auto theft often. But trust us, if your car is ever stolen, that will change.
Rest assured that there are measures you can take to make sure your vehicle is protected.
By taking a proactive approach and being prepared for anything, you can significantly reduce the chance that you will be a victim of grand theft auto.
Keep the windows shut tight. With sweltering weather just around the corner, it can be tempting to leave the windows rolled down just a crack while your car is empty and parked. Though this may keep heat from getting trapped inside the car, it also makes it easy for thieves to unlock your door.
Your spare key should stay under-wraps. Hiding a spare key in your car is a bad move. If you think your key is well-hidden, you're probably wrong. Thieves know where to look. Plus, if an intruder finds a key inside the car and drives away with it, they are technically only committing a misdemeanor: joy riding.
Lock your car! It may sound like a no-brainer, but 50 percent of all stolen vehicles were unlocked when taken. And don't even dream of leaving your car running. Why make things easy for criminals?
Park smart. Criminals hate lights, security cameras, and nosy onlookers. Try and find a parking space that features these three things, and you're golden.
If you like it, put your VIN on it. Engrave your vehicle identification number (VIN) into expensive parts. This makes it much more difficult to scrap your car and sell the parts, the fate of most stolen vehicles.
As the weather gets warmer, we hope our customers are playing it safe and making life harder for auto thieves.


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30 Minute Money Machine is a three-part video course that promises to teach you how to make money by creating video reviews of affiliate products.
This product sheds some light on a method that might be good for beginners with no budget and a little time to invest in making it work. It's a good idea, but its returns aren't going to add up to very much.
30 Minute Money Machine is very similar to another product I reviewed recently. That product is called Affiliate Jackpot Cash.
There's not much difference between the two, except that Affiliate Jackpot Cash goes into much more detail about the whole process. For example, you will learn more about importance of, and how to find good products to promote, as well as learning more about YouTube and Google Hangouts.
Both products are the same price, but 30 Minute Money Machine is definitely the inferior product. It combines three videos for a total of nineteen minutes, whereas, Affiliate Jackpot Cash is almost two hours long.
If this tactic is something you would like to try out, I would definitely recommend Affiliate Jackpot Cash over 30 Minute Money Method. Sorry Mark.
If there's one thing that I really like about 30 Minute Money Machine, it's that it's a truly beginner friendly strategy. What this product suggests is quick and easy to do, and it doesn't cost anything, except for a little bit of time.
30 Minute Money Machine suggests using Google hangouts to create video reviews for affiliate products. The idea is that by setting up a live Google hangout your video will get placed on the first page of the search results whenever someone searches for a review of that product ("product 'x' review").
All you have to do is create a video review and hope for enough search engine traffic to make a few sales.
These video reviews are really easy to do and most of them only take a few minutes. If you're new to affiliate marketing, or thinking of getting started in it, this is definitely an easy way to get started.
Using Google hangouts allows you to create free videos. If you have a webcam then you can create a combination of screen recordings and webcam videos. This saves you from having to buy expensive screen recording software. And if you don't have a webcam you can just use Google hangouts screen recording feature.
The benefits Mark says you get in the search results aren't necessarily true, but I'll get to that in the minute. For now, I'll just sum this up by saying that I think this is a good idea for most beginners who are looking for an inexpensive way to get started in affiliate marketing quickly.
Alternatively you could use free screencasting software like screencast-o-matic.
Although I liked the idea, I see two very big problems with this product.
In his first video, Mark suggest that creating Google hangouts will give you some sort of boost in the search results. As you might already know, being on the first page of the search results, for just about any searched term, can mean that you receive a lot of traffic. Obviously, you can turn some of that traffic into sales with a little work.
Unfortunately, you don't necessarily receive a boost in search results, simply for creating a live Google hangout. What Mark, and many others don't understand, is that Google serves up personalized search results based on each person's previous searches.
You have the option to turn this feature on and off as you want. However, what Mark shows in his videos (and what he suggest to you) is based on his personalized results. That essentially means that what he sees in his search results is what he wants to see.
What this all boils down to, is that unless somebody else out there has almost-identical searching habits to Mark's, they might not see his video on the first page of the search results.
In order to get anything, including a video, on the first page of search results it takes a little time. Unless you're looking at personalized results.
YouTube does offer some advantages just because videos rank and there's no other service as popular or trusted as YouTube. Videos do get preference, but there's no indication that a YT vid will get better rankings if it's created in Google Hangouts (they are uploaded to YouTube automatically after finishing the recording).
One of the key problems I noticed with this product is the lack of support. If you have ever read any of my other reviews you will know that I place a high amount of importance on support, especially for products aimed at newbies. However, this is one area where a lot of products fall short.
30 Minute Money Machine is no different.
Once you're taken to the page where you can access your purchase, all you get is three videos — that's it.
There is no support link, email addresses, or any other way to communicate with Mark or anyone else. All you get is the videos.
He could have easily included a link to a Facebook page, his email address or some other way to contact help. But Mark chose not to do that, probably because of the effort it would take on his part. Bad move Mark, you should always be willing to put in time and effort for those who have trusted you and invested in you.
Despite search engines being the most ideal source of traffic for new reviewers with little or no budget, they take time and you have to build up trust.
I don't want to turn this review into an advanced SEO (search engine optimization) tutorial, so I won't explain everything here. Just understand that search engines, especially Google, don't allow just anything on their first page results. Those results are typically given to content that is deemed fresh and trustworthy.
That's why blogs are so popular: they're constantly creating new content and they tend to have loyal audiences. You can't simply create a few videos and receive instant first page results. That is even more true for more popular phrases/products.
If you're going to create review videos that receive lots of search engine traffic then you're going to have to create a lot of them. It will take some time before you start seeing traffic, and a little more before you start seeing sales from your efforts.
What I'm getting at is: This isn't going to happen overnight, and it certainly isn't going to happen in thirty minutes.
Though this is a negative review of 30 Minute Money Machine, I do write some positive reviews. Sometimes I even create YouTube videos for those reviews. They make the occasional sale, but they simply do not convert as well as the written reviews. People love to watch videos, then skip to the next video. It takes a lot of (relative) effort to scroll down below the video and look in the description box to click a "buy now" link.
Plus, fake reviews will be obvious since there are so many others doing it. In fact, A LOT guys base their entire business model on launch jacking. They write reviews weeks before the products come out, just providing fake information based on what the sales page says.
So you've got a flooded market with scammers, lots of low quality products to sift though in order to find good ones, and a low conversion rate. I really don't think that 30 Minute Money Machine generates profits as easily as suggested.
It's important that you understand that 30 Minute Money Machine covers just one aspect of online business. However, it's only one tactic — not a full business plan! It is one small piece of a much bigger picture. Without an existing business, website, or sales funnel, you can't actually profit from learning what they are trying to teach.
If you want to actually build a real business online from ground zero, join this online community where you can get step by step training and personal support from professional internet marketers, including myself. It's an environment that has produced many success stories for almost a decade now.
Thanx for reviewing the product.
i really liked your review here….
to many products promise the moon and the stars….
Yes, way too many products!
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import os

from pants.base.cmd_line_spec_parser import CmdLineSpecParser
from pants.base.specs import DescendantAddresses, SiblingAddresses, SingleAddress
from pants_test.test_base import TestBase

def single(directory, name=None):
  name = name if name is not None else os.path.basename(directory)
  return SingleAddress(directory, name)

def desc(directory):
  return DescendantAddresses(directory)

def sib(directory):
  return SiblingAddresses(directory)

class CmdLineSpecParserTest(TestBase):

  def setUp(self):
    super(CmdLineSpecParserTest, self).setUp()
    self._spec_parser = CmdLineSpecParser(self.build_root)

  def test_normal(self):
    self.assert_parsed(':root', single('', 'root'))
    self.assert_parsed('//:root', single('', 'root'))

    self.assert_parsed('a', single('a'))
    self.assert_parsed('a:a', single('a', 'a'))

    self.assert_parsed('a/b', single('a/b'))
    self.assert_parsed('a/b:b', single('a/b', 'b'))
    self.assert_parsed('a/b:c', single('a/b', 'c'))

  def test_sibling(self):
    self.assert_parsed(':', sib(''))
    self.assert_parsed('//:', sib(''))

    self.assert_parsed('a:', sib('a'))
    self.assert_parsed('//a:', sib('a'))

    self.assert_parsed('a/b:', sib('a/b'))
    self.assert_parsed('//a/b:', sib('a/b'))

  def test_sibling_or_descendents(self):
    self.assert_parsed('::', desc(''))
    self.assert_parsed('//::', desc(''))

    self.assert_parsed('a::', desc('a'))
    self.assert_parsed('//a::', desc('a'))

    self.assert_parsed('a/b::', desc('a/b'))
    self.assert_parsed('//a/b::', desc('a/b'))

  def test_absolute(self):
    self.assert_parsed(os.path.join(self.build_root, 'a'), single('a'))
    self.assert_parsed(os.path.join(self.build_root, 'a:a'), single('a', 'a'))
    self.assert_parsed(os.path.join(self.build_root, 'a:'), sib('a'))
    self.assert_parsed(os.path.join(self.build_root, 'a::'), desc('a'))

    with self.assertRaises(CmdLineSpecParser.BadSpecError):
      self.assert_parsed('/not/the/buildroot/a', sib('a'))

  def test_absolute_double_slashed(self):
    # By adding a double slash, we are insisting that this absolute path is actually
    # relative to the buildroot. Thus, it should parse correctly.
    double_absolute = '/' + os.path.join(self.build_root, 'a')
    self.assertEqual('//', double_absolute[:2],
                      'A sanity check we have a leading-// absolute spec')
    self.assert_parsed(double_absolute, single(double_absolute[2:]))

  def test_cmd_line_affordances(self):
    self.assert_parsed('./:root', single('', 'root'))
    self.assert_parsed('//./:root', single('', 'root'))
    self.assert_parsed('//./a/../:root', single('', 'root'))
    self.assert_parsed(os.path.join(self.build_root, './a/../:root'), single('', 'root'))

    self.assert_parsed('a/', single('a'))
    self.assert_parsed('./a/', single('a'))
    self.assert_parsed(os.path.join(self.build_root, './a/'), single('a'))

    self.assert_parsed('a/b/:b', single('a/b', 'b'))
    self.assert_parsed('./a/b/:b', single('a/b', 'b'))
    self.assert_parsed(os.path.join(self.build_root, './a/b/:b'), single('a/b', 'b'))

  def assert_parsed(self, spec_str, expected_spec):
    self.assertEqual(self._spec_parser.parse_spec(spec_str), expected_spec)


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Q: Csv file not displaying french character even in utf-8 I have a csv file where the name (Francôis) is displayed as FRANÇOIS when I open in Excel 2016. What can I do to correctly display the French character?
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Proactive erosion control can reduce the load on sediment control and pairing erosion and sediment control is a wise way to design stormwater management plans.
In our previous post we defined erosion, and shared some principles for effective erosion control. We noted that proactive erosion control can reduce the load on sediment control and pairing erosion and sediment control is a wise way to design stormwater management plans. To continue the discussion, we'll highlight some common erosion control methods used at construction sites, including a few ideas for evaluating the quality of their installation and effectiveness.
Rather than describe each of these in detail, we'll focus on the common ground (sorry for the pun) and identify factors that apply to most of these control measures (Best Management Practices).
The first key is to have consistent coverage with enough material to absorb raindrop impacts and to eliminate bare spots or thin cover. Where straw is blown over the soil and crimped into the soil it is common for the coverage to vary due to the nature of the application. Given that some variation is expected, the thing to look for is that the thinner areas at least meet the minimum expectations. In the case of erosion control blanket, they key is to avoid gaps where the blankets meet. To help avoid gaps, most erosion control blanket manufacturers recommend a 6-inch overlap at seams. Hydromulching is another control measure where consistent application will improve effectiveness. The mulch material should be thick enough to absorb raindrop impact and consistent enough that all disturbed areas are properly treated.
A second key to effective erosion control is to have good ground contact so that sheet flow cannot develop under the control measure. With erosion control blankets specifically, and because they are often installed on slopes or channels, it is important to have the edges or the top of slope area keyed into the soil. This helps avoid shifting of the blanket, and also prevents surface flows from developing under it.
A third key is to install erosion control measures in a way that allows for infiltration of precipitation into the soil. Take for example the very basic, but very effective use of surface roughening. By removing compaction and loosening soil, more surface water will initially be absorbed rather than moving down gradient and causing erosion on its way. Note in the picture below that the ripping that was done to roughen the surface is on the contour so surface flows are interrupted. The result is that water flowing from upgradient that encounters effective surface roughening will be slowed down and this loss of velocity will reduce its erosive potential. So even something as simple as surface roughening works on multiple levels by both reducing the quantity of runoff and the speed of the runoff.
Before moving on from our discussion of surface roughening we should point out that when it is done as a standalone measure it is seen as a temporary application to provide minimal protection until other erosion control methods can be installed. In those cases, it is also good preparation for the erosion control measures to follow, especially when the next method will involve seeding the area. The surface roughening and the associated infiltration of water will create better conditions for seed germination and root growth. One more reason to appreciate the lowly surface roughening method.
So, the key takeaways for our clients and readers are the principles of taking action to prevent erosion by reducing raindrop impact and surface flow velocity. Using these ideas as a lens you can evaluate the effectiveness of an erosion control measure and the quality of the installation. By choosing wisely and ensuring that you are getting what you paid for, you can increase your stormwater program effectiveness and get the most bang for your buck.


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Metropolia Liverpoolu − metropolia Kościoła rzymskokatolickiego w Wielkiej Brytanii, obejmująca całą północną Anglię. Powstała 28 października 1911. W jej skład wchodzi jedna archidiecezja i sześć diecezji. Najważniejszą świątynią jest Katedra Metropolitarna w Liverpoolu.

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And… Face Off is back!
On Face Off Season 8 Episode 1, fifteen artists gathered to compete for the title of next show champion, with hopefuls hailing from across the country; from Supply, North Caroline to Fremont, California.
Season 8 also opened with three returning champions joining the competition as coaches, while Oscar winner Rick Baker introduced the artists to their first Spotlight Challenge.
Who seems worthy of the grand prize? Of being honored as Hollywood's next great effects artist?
The competition is underway! Go ahead and follow the prompts of the above video to watch Face Off online and get an idea of who is the early favorite.


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Obtaining Medical Records
Health Product Safety
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS)
Home MEDICAL TREATMENT AND RELATED ISSUES
Access to documents held by public health services can be gained by the patient under the Freedom of Information Act 1991 (SA). To apply, the patient will need to fill in a form, stating what documents he or she wants. Fees may apply. Public health services must provide access to personal records [s 12] unless the disclosure of the information would have an adverse effect on the physical or mental health or the emotional state of the applicant [s 26(4)].
Medical records held by private health services are accessible under the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). For more information about the APPs, see the website of the Australian Information Commissioner.
Under APPs a person has the right to access and even correct medical records where that information was acquired after 21 December 2001 or where information acquired before that date has been used or disclosed by the health service since 21 December 2001. The health service can charge a reasonable cost for providing this information. Access may be denied on several grounds including if provision of the information would pose a serious threat to the life or health of any individual. Access may also be denied to information acquired before 21 December 2001 and used or disclosed since that date if providing access would place an unreasonable administrative burden or cause unreasonable expense [Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) s 16C(3)]. Use of information includes amongst other things, compiling information for statistics and research.
APP 12 deals with access to personal information, under that principle:
health services are able to charge a fee for access to information, as long as it is not excessive; and
that access may be denied on several grounds, including if the request is unreasonable, or releasing the information would pose a serious threat to health or safety of an individual or the public.
If the information was acquired before the 21 December 2001 and has not been used or disclosed since then, it may be necessary to get a court order. This is because information collected before 21 December 2001 that has not been used or disclosed since that date is not subject to the Australian Privacy Principles and is actually the property of the health service that holds the records [Breen v Williams (1996) 186 CLR 71; [1996] HCA 57]. Such discovery proceedings are usually complex and require the assistance of a solicitor experienced in medical negligence claims, see PRIVACY AND ACCESS TO INFORMATION.
Obtaining Medical Records : Last Revised: Thu Jan 5th 2017


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'use strict';

const yargs = require('yargs');
const chalk = require('chalk');

const lint = require('./lint');
const start = require('./start');
const docs = require('./docs');
const build = require('./build');

yargs
  .usage(`Usage: ${chalk.yellow('$0')} ${chalk.green('<command>')} ${chalk.magenta('[options]')}`)

  .command('start', `${chalk.dim('Start the development server')}`, () => { start() })
  .command('lint', `${chalk.dim('Lint you source files using ESLint')}`, () => { lint() })
  .command('docs', `${chalk.dim('Builds documentation examples')}`, () => { docs() })
  .command('build', `${chalk.dim('Builds UMD and NPM versions of the library')}`, () => { build() })

  .demand(1, chalk.red('Must provide a valid command'))

  .help('help')
  .alias('h', 'help')
  .showHelpOnFail(true, 'Specify --help for available options')

  .example(chalk.yellow('$0 start'))
  .example(chalk.yellow('$0 lint'))

  .argv;


Elite M.A. Centers offer a variety of camps for children ages five through thirteen. Ranging from Teacher Workday Camps, Spring Break / Winter Break Camps, to the popular Summer Camp, we provide an excellent alternative to day care or child care centers.
Our Spring / Winter / Summer Camp Programs offer students a variety of martial arts training, field trips, and character building drills. Each day begins as early as 7:15am and ends at 6:15pm.
Along with a daily martial arts lesson, campers are treated to a variety of fun-filled trips. Whether they are spending the day swimming in an outdoor pool, visiting local nature centers, going to the movie theater, bowling, or simply just playing on the playground, our campers are exposed to a variety of activities that are not only fun but also educational.
Our dedicated and caring staff focus on ensuring the physical and emotional safety of the campers, while allowing them to have a fun and inspiring summer camp experience. Many of our senior staff members are teachers and health care professionals who have had extensive experience in working with children.


Welcome to Elizabeth's Dance Dimensions, a premier dance training and enrichment facility in the Pacific Northwest since 1992.
Each class is assigned to a specific performance which will be determined by the instructors.
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We recently upgraded to TCMS.
I added a new section tag in CMS and altered the block where i want to pull stuff into.However, that tag is not in TCMS. I have tried creating it in TCMS in hopes that it would go to CMS but it isn't there.
Please help! How do I get section tags to sync.
You have to just created them in both admin interfaces, named exactly the same, separately.
My workflow is to create it in Hosted CMS first, then create it in TCMS. This way when the newsroom creates or updates assets in TCMS those tags already exist on the website.
Syncing is an interesting idea, but I wouldn't want it on here. I have a lot of section tags that exist on the website but don't exist in TCMS and I wouldn't want them to.
Thanks for the quick response. I want to futher break down our high school sports so it is going to a general high school sports page but then a sport-specific one. It is easier for our team to choose two tags in TCMS then it would be for them to choose one in TCMS and then go to CMS.
TotalCMS just sends sections over to the CMS, so you just want to get them to match. There are different panels in each that control what exists in each place. Normally you want them to be the same - but, maybe sometimes you don't! (Section tags from AP or other syndicated content that goes directly to the hosted platform may not need to be created in TotalCMS, for example).
If you have the TotalCMS user guide information, it is described in the "tags" section.
Also, as a side note, you can export your section tags from one platform (or one BLOX site!) and import them into another.
Sorry I could have been more clear.
I have other sections in Hosted CMS only that I use for organizing things like forms, contact pages, special sections, etc. that are only touched by the web staff. Having them show up in TCMS would just clutter things and lead to confusion in the newsroom.


On my last visit to Cameroon (May 13-22) SunErgy entered into an agreement to the tune of an estimated 23 million USD with the Bororo Fulani (tribe). The plan is that SunErgy shall provide 100 Bororo villages or 33 000 families with solar electricity, Cable TV and Internet.
The project is fully financed by the Republic of Cameroon and the Islamic Development Bank. Banja will serve as the pilot and when successfully up and running we will move to the other villages.
The Bororo people, who used to be nomadic herdsmen, occupy many parts of Central and West Africa. Today they mostly live in smaller villages such as Banja, still active in agriculture and cattle rearing.
The picture shows (right to left) Managing Director of SunErgy Cameroon Mr. Mike Fohba, initiator and manager of the project Professor Alfred Ndi and Managing Director of SunErgy AS Dr. Stein Skjørshammer standing on a future solar plant site.


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Q: solr join use case (not in instead of in) Solr has implemented from version 4 the !join query.
I'd like to know if the following  case is possible.
For example, we have documents of the following form:
   doc1:
            field1:123
            field2:A
            field3:456
   doc2:
           field1:123
           field2:B
           field3:789
    doc3:
           field1:23456
           field2:A
           field3:264
We need to retrieve all the documents that the field field2 equals to
B and no other document with the same field field1 value containing
the field field2 with value A.
In SQL this can be done with the operation "not in": select * from doc
where field2 = 'B' and field1 not in (select field1 from doc where
field2 = 'A')
The join operator is the equivalent of the SQL in operator.
Can we use the solr join or another function to implements our needs?
Thanks

A: You need to use nested query for this purposes. Here's same question and answer for it:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/27191274/4304116
Here is query for your example:
q=-_query_:"{!join from=doc_id to=id}field2:'A'"

It will return all docs that not with "A" value for field2.
Also you can just add to q another condition(if you need only "B" value):
q={!join from=doc_id to=id}field2:'B'"

It will return all docs with 'B' value for field2.


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Pence honored to be Trump's vice presidential pick
Indiana governor says he had questions before accepting nomination
Josh McElveen
Political Director, News Anchor, Reporter
Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence said Thursday that he's honored to have been chosen to run with Donald Trump.
Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence said Thursday that he's honored to have been chosen to run with Donald Trump.Click to watch News 9's coverage.Pence spoke with News 9's Josh McElveen the day after he accepted the nomination at the Republican National Convention."This is the greatest honor of my life, to be able to step out, represent my family and my state and accept the nomination," Pence said.Watch: Full interview with Gov. Mike PenceIn contrast to his running mate, Pence displayed a humble confidence. He said that before joining the ticket, he had some questions."We wanted to better know the man and his family, and I also wanted to understand what he thought was the role of a vice president in a Trump administration, and we had some very deep conversations about the latter," Pence said.He said that his role in a Trump administration would be up to the president."The priorities of the Trump presidency will be the priorities of the president, and I will serve in a capacity, if I have the privilege, that the president defines," Pence said. "But in the course of the campaign, I'm just excited about being able to travel all across the country and tell people about this good man who I believe will be a great president, but also to lay out the choice that the American people face."Pence said he believes he can offer his experience to a Trump administration."I think he'll be a great president, but I do think perhaps my 12 years of experience on Capitol Hill, the relationships I've formed with great leaders like (U.S. Sen.) Kelly Ayotte and others might make it possible for me to do what other vice presidents have done in the past, to be a bridge to build relationships and in some small way make it possible for Donald Trump to drive that agenda that I know will make America great again."Pence also addressed the speech made by U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz Wednesday night, in which Cruz didn't endorse Trump. Pence likened it to a disagreement among family members.
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Click to watch News 9's coverage.
1-on-1 with Mike Pence: VP pick 'the greatest honor in my life'
Pence spoke with News 9's Josh McElveen the day after he accepted the nomination at the Republican National Convention.
"This is the greatest honor of my life, to be able to step out, represent my family and my state and accept the nomination," Pence said.
Watch: Full interview with Gov. Mike Pence
In contrast to his running mate, Pence displayed a humble confidence. He said that before joining the ticket, he had some questions.
"We wanted to better know the man and his family, and I also wanted to understand what he thought was the role of a vice president in a Trump administration, and we had some very deep conversations about the latter," Pence said.
He said that his role in a Trump administration would be up to the president.
"The priorities of the Trump presidency will be the priorities of the president, and I will serve in a capacity, if I have the privilege, that the president defines," Pence said. "But in the course of the campaign, I'm just excited about being able to travel all across the country and tell people about this good man who I believe will be a great president, but also to lay out the choice that the American people face."
Pence said he believes he can offer his experience to a Trump administration.
"I think he'll be a great president, but I do think perhaps my 12 years of experience on Capitol Hill, the relationships I've formed with great leaders like (U.S. Sen.) Kelly Ayotte and others might make it possible for me to do what other vice presidents have done in the past, to be a bridge to build relationships and in some small way make it possible for Donald Trump to drive that agenda that I know will make America great again."
Pence also addressed the speech made by U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz Wednesday night, in which Cruz didn't endorse Trump. Pence likened it to a disagreement among family members.


Feb. 08--A King County jury on Thursday awarded about $123 million to the victims and their families in the 2015 Ride the Ducks crash that killed five people and injured more than 60 others.
The jury determined after a four-month civil trial that Ride the Ducks International -- the Branson, Missouri-based manufacturer of the Duck amphibious vehicle -- bore 67 to 70 percent of the responsibility for the crash. The jury also found that Ride the Ducks of Seattle, which operated the tour vehicle, was 30 to 33 percent at fault.
The Superior Court jury determined that two others named in the suit, the city of Seattle and the state of Washington, were not at fault in the crash, which happened when the World War II-era duck vehicle crossed the centerline of Seattle's Aurora Bridge and plowed into a charter bus full of international students on Sept. 24, 2015.
The amount awarded for economic and noneconomic damages was less than the $300 million requested by the lead plaintiffs' attorney, Karen Koehler, in her closing argument last month.
But Koehler said she was pleased with the jurors' decision and said they did exactly what they were asked to do.
She said the jurors believed the plaintiffs' stories and believed them. They recognized, Koehler added, that even the victims who suffered less severe physical injuries "were not OK."
"This jury was always on top of this case and we couldn't have asked any more of them," she said following the verdict.
"Since the accident, we've made significant structural changes to the critical parts of our vehicles and instituted a program of regular testing, done in addition to inspections conducted by the state and United States Coast Guard. We've done a top-to-bottom review of our operations and have unilaterally made a series of changes including removing the Aurora Bridge from our route."
Steve Puz, an attorney for the state, said that while he was pleased with the jurors' decision, there is no such thing as a happy conclusion in a case with so many injured and dead.
Washington's Utilities and Transportation Commission, which regulates commercial charter buses and tourist vehicles statewide, suspended the local company from operating its 20 tourist vehicles after the crash. Ducks Seattle later admitted to 159 critical safety violations and agreed to pay $222,000 in penalties to settle the state complaint before resuming operations.
Attorneys for the two Ducks companies emphasized in their closings the need for jurors to be reasonable and fair in awarding damages. "This, more than anything, is about common sense," Snyder said.
Civil trials differ from criminal trials in that the burden of proof is not as high. In order to convict, juries in criminal trials must unanimously agree that the evidence of guilt against the suspect is "beyond reasonable doubt." In a civil trial in Washington, at least 10 jurors must find that a "preponderance of evidence" supports the plaintiff's claims.
Also in Washington, jurors are asked to determine each respondent's share of responsibility as a percentage due to the state's laws on joint and several liability, which seek to hold defendants jointly responsible for liability and compensation, but may also result in defendants paying more than their court-assigned percentage of the damages.


A great little dip to whizz up if you have friends coming round for drinks and one that's highly nutritious too since avocados are full of good essential fats. This creamy dip is ideal served with root vegetable crisps or crudités and can't be made in advance.
I like to decorate my avocado dip with a little 'dukkah' spice mix available online at www.ottolenghi.co.uk but you could always use a pinch of chilli powder or sweet smoked paprika if you can't get hold of it. Don't go overboard with either the tahini or the lemon juice or you will make the dip taste bitter.
Spoon the dip into your serving dish and sprinkle with your chosen spice.
Serve with crudités or vegetable crisps on the side.