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Audley Shaw says yes ...Declares he will challenge JLP leader Andrew Holness
Published:Sunday | September 15, 2013 | 7:11 PM
Jamaica Labour Party Leader deputy leader, Audley Fitz-Albert Shaw, has declared that he will be challenging Andrew Michael Holness for the post of leadership at the party's upcoming annual conference.
Shaw made the declaration in an address to the national carried on local radio and TV stations a short while ago.
"We must bring back the love and unity into the JLP, and from there bring back the love and unity to the Jamaican people," Shaw said before announcing that he would be taking on the incumbent.
According to Shaw, he made the decision following a series of consultations across Jamaica.
"I have heard the calls. I have listened to your appeals. I have consulted with and received the blessing and support of my family. I have prayed to God for Guidance. I have now come to the decision that I will allow my name to be entered into nomination for the post of Leader of this great 70 year -old movement, the Jamaica Labour Party that was formed by the Right Excellent Sir William Alexander Bustamante," said Shaw.
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My fellow Jamaicans, good evening.
I speak to you this evening as a concerned Jamaican who loves my country, and who has devoted most of my adult life in the service of my country through my beloved Jamaica Labour Party.
As you may be aware I have advised both the leader of the Jamaica Labour Party the Hon. Andrew Holness and the Chairman of the Party Senator Robert Montague, of my intention to embark on an island wide consultation with delegates of the Party to determine whether I should offer myself for the post of Leader of the Party.
In the course of these consultations, I have had several face-to-face meetings and conversations with members and functionaries of the Jamaica Labour Party, and a broad cross-section of civil society, business community and grassroots Jamaicans.
Throughout my consultations, persons have expressed numerous concerns about the state of our country and their alarm at the lack of assertiveness of the Jamaica Labour Party in keeping the present Government accountable, and further, in our inability to present ourselves as a viable government in waiting.
The consultations also revealed that there is a serious lack of motivation and low morale among our party members and functionaries, which is symptomatic of the apathetic state of the wider society to our political affairs. The times we live in require greater participation and re-engagement of the people around the decisions that have to be made to take the country out of the social and economic quagmire in which we find ourselves.
We need to recapture the fervour of the founding years of our nationhood, where every Jamaican believed that they had a stake in the development of this nation.
It is not only the economy that has broken down, and our apathy towards it, the quality of our social interaction has also deteriorated. We have become impatient and hostile in the way we interact with one another.
We need to become a kinder and gentler nation and our Party must lead the way by becoming a kinder and gentler party.
We must bring back the love and unity into the JLP, and from there bring back the love and unity to the Jamaican people.
The consultations further revealed that these are among the hardest times we have seen in Jamaica. Unemployment is unacceptably high and unemployment among young people is close to 40% despite the fact that the bulk of our population is in the most productive years of their lives; cheap imported chicken back is short while chicken farms remain idle and under utililized; The Jamaican dollar is at its lowest in the country's history, trading at well over $102 Jamaican dollars to one United States dollar sending prices through the roof.
Crime is on the rise with an average of 4 persons being murdered each day.
Cost-sharing in school has been re-introduced through the backdoor, hospitals are running dangerously low on critical supplies, and while all of this is happening the people believe that the leadership in the Government has gone to sleep and the Opposition has done little to wake them up or has failed to effectively articulate its vision of a credible alternative government.
These consultations have brought me all over the island and one thing that was constant in the message is that the time is long past for us, as a Party, to collectively shrug off the debilitating and negative effects of electoral defeats and proceed with faith, strength and confidence in carrying out the arduous but necessary task of rebuilding our party polling division by polling division, branch by branch, constituency by constituency, in order to effectively re-engage the Jamaican people and convince them to buy into our vision.
The clear and unambiguous message of the consultations is that the JLP now needs STRONG, VISIONARY AND DECISIVE leadership, a leadership that will rekindle hope in our Party and our country.
I have served the party in many leadership capacities over the years. As General Secretary, as Deputy Leader for 14 years and Member of Parliament for 20 years. The experience I have garnered over the years has prepared me well.
In the 1980s under the leadership of Edward Seaga, I was a major driving force in investment promotion, which saw the creation of thousands of jobs in the free zones and elsewhere.
In 2007 after inheriting from the PNP government 18 years of weak economic performance and the collapse of the financial and productive sectors of the economy, we were able to get the economy back to stability and on a growth path in 2011 despite the worst global recession in 80 years.
I am proud that, as Minister of Finance, we were able to maintain a stable currency, restore economic growth, preserve our Net International Reserves, reduced taxes to promote investment, sharply reduce interest rates and initiated the Jamaica Debt Exchange, which saved hundreds of millions of dollars in high interest and principal payments, and provided a climate in which investors both internationally and domestically, were comfortable and willing to invest in the country, providing many badly-needed jobs, particularly for our young people.
Although we made good progress, we still have much more work to do in order to finish the rebuilding process.
Our mission must now be to rebuild our great Party so that we can form government again at the next general elections, and ensure the maintenance of a strong political base that can support more than one term in government in order to allow the JLP to fulfill its mission of rebuilding the Jamaican economy over a sustained period of time and providing hope, opportunity and love to all Jamaicans.
We will manage the economy as we have done before to achieve high levels of economic growth and job creation while controlling crime.
We must focus on early childhood education, rural development, small businesses and medium enterprises, small farmers and venture capital financing. We must deal decisively with crime while at the same time protecting the environment. And we must harness the intellectual and financial capital in our Jamaican Diaspora in this national thrust.
We cannot rely only on large investment projects; we simply must make it a lot easier to do business in Jamaica.
In the end, our mission must be to create a society in which our people are well trained to world class standards of productivity, are gainfully employed, earn a decent standard of living, and enjoy peace and prosperity in a clean, safe and healthy environment.
I have heard the calls. I have listened to your appeals. I have consulted with and received the blessing and support of my family. I have prayed to God for Guidance. I have now come to the decision that I will allow my name to be entered into nomination for the post of Leader of this great 70 year -old movement, the Jamaica Labour Party that was formed by the Right Excellent Sir William Alexander Bustamante.
If it is God's will and the choice of the delegates that I am to lead this great Party, I will do my best to be worthy of your trust and confidence.
I make this declaration with malice towards none, knowing full well that there must be a place in the Party for everyone, no matter our political antecedents and background, in order to be able to achieve electoral victory and to provide a better and brighter future for all Jamaicans.
I believe we have a golden opportunity now to show Jamaica, the Caribbean and the world, that our Party respects democracy internally, because the affirmation of our own internal democracy will make us better able to secure lasting democracy for our country.
On the 29th of this month, there will be a formal launch of my campaign for leadership, at which time the details of the plans to rebuild our Party will be presented, along with the policy framework and vision that will guide us into the next general elections when we form the next government.
In the course of this campaign, the Party and every Jamaican can be assured that this will be a contest of ideas, plans, programmes and vision; and not one that is based on negative campaigning and personal attacks.
It is time for us to bring back the love, and unite for victory as we build a better and stronger nation.
I feel moved to end with a prayer from Saint Francis of Assisi: "Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace! That where there is hatred, I may bring love. That where there is wrong, I may bring a spirit of forgiveness. That where there is discord, I may bring harmony. Lord, grant that I may seek rather to comfort, than to be comforted. To understand, than to be understood. To love, than to be loved."
May God bless you all and may God bless Jamaica, land we love.
Thank you and good night.
- Audley Shaw
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Bono cites Hume in EU polemic as U2 tour kicks off
Published: 21:00 Friday 31 August 2018 Updated: 09:54 Monday 03 September 2018
Pop singer, Bono, cited John Hume's celebration of diversity in his Nobel Prize-winning speech of 1998 in a pro-EU polemic as U2 kicked off the European leg of its Experience and Innocence tour in Germany this week.
The Dubliner, writing in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, wrote "Europe had made us a better, more confident version of ourselves".
He remarked: "We stand a bit taller among friends. Also, the closer the north and the south of Ireland got to Europe, the closer we got to each other. Propinquity crossed the border and brought the barriers down."
The frontman, whose real name is Paul Hewson, wrote that he was "extraordinarily proud of the Good Friday Agreement and how other countries have rallied behind Ireland on the border issue, revived by Brexit".
He went on to quote Mr. Hume's paean to diversity that he made in his Nobel Lecture in Oslo in December 1998.
"All these achievements are under threat, because respect for diversity - the premise of the whole European system - is being challenged.
"As my countryman John Hume has said: 'All conflict is about difference, whether the difference is race, religion or nationality. The European visionaries decided that difference is not a threat...difference is of the essence of humanity,' and should be respected, celebrated, and even cultivated."
Mr. Hewson concluded by stating that Europe was a "thought that needs to becomed a feeling".

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Hurt and pain to linger after Church's $78m property sell-off
The Uniting Church's $78 million property fire sale prompted by the Acacia College collapse had tested its members' Christian principles with some actively "praying against" the divestment program, according to a report to be presented to this weekend's meeting of the Victorian synod.
Words by Scott Tibballs
The committee in charge of the controversial sell-off project, titled "Uniting our future", notes in the report that "the church's polity was stretched to breaking point".
"The Christian spirituality of the church was found wanting at critical points," the report observes.
It continues: "In every council of the Church, in and through the program, people have been hurt. The angst and pain experienced was real and tangible. Ending the 'Uniting our future' program will not terminate such pain or erase disturbed memories."
The bitterness came despite the Church offloading just 34 properties – around half the number originally slated for sale.
"In every council of the Church, in and through the program, people have been hurt. The angst and pain experienced was real and tangible. Ending the 'Uniting our future' program will not terminate such pain or erase disturbed memories." — report to synod
Strong returns had allowed it to wrap up the divestment program ahead of schedule after it raised the targeted $78 million needed to pay off debts stemming from the 2012 collapse of the low-fee private school in Melbourne's outer north.
Originally, the Church had earmarked 65 properties for possible sale – including churches and other parish assets such as manses, vacant land, halls and tennis courts – sparking widespread angst among congregations, some of which pushed back hard against the plans.
The list was quickly cut to 56 after nine properties were identified as having "high people impact" should they be sold. The Church had given itself until the end of this year to raise the funds.
The fire-sale ended once the Church had reached its target, as promised by the synod general secretary, Rev Dr Mark Lawrence, with the last of the settlements due to be completed this month.
The Church had decided on the tough course of action in May last year, aiming primarily at repaying the Acacia College debt of $36 million but also to bolster "risk management reserves" and improve the synod's overall financial position. Additional costs, including the cost of relocating some services, lifted the final target to $78 million.
The sell-off ultimately involved properties on 29 sites, including 11 churches (several of which were no longer being actively used).
In the end, just four congregations had to be dissolved or relocated as a result — those at St George's in St Kilda East, St Columba's (Balwyn), Moorabbin-Highett-Hemming and South Geelong. A further six missions and church-related groups were also moved.
In most cases, individual churches lost surrounding assets only. Four parted with just their tennis courts (Blackburn, Geelong's St Andrews, Ringwood and Surrey Hills). But Ivanhoe lost several properties, its tennis courts and a rose garden included.
St Stephen's in Williamstown, despite facing the prospect of the sale of its entire complex, parted only with one dwelling after the congregation campaigned hard against the decision, at one stage threatening Supreme Court action against the Church hierarchy.
According to Rob Costa, who headed the divestment project, all Church leaders involved had been deeply affected by the process, with each person having "felt the immense weight" of their responsibility.
"There has been much prayer and long, robust conversations," he says in a cover letter to the committee's report that will be officially tabled at the weekend meeting of about 400 ministers and church representatives.
"[We] observed that there is a sense in which the Church finds it difficult to let go of commitments that have matured to a point where letting go is for the good of all parties." — report to synod
The report reveals that some ministers had expressed "feelings of inadequacy" in dealing with the distress of their parishioners. It also notes that many congregations were concerned that their "good citizenship" would be compromised by the loss of assets such as sports facilities, halls and gardens that were used by non-church community groups. This Christian outreach had forged for parishes "strong links to identity, story and presence in the community".
However, the report observes that the "Uniting our future" program had also provided an opportunity for a closer look at how local traditions and considerations had impacted on the viability of some churches.
"Presbyteries can find their role and functions distracted by the strength of local traditions," the report concludes, noting that mission considerations were often adversely affected by "local histories, past choices, and traditions perpetuated".
"[We] observed that there is a sense in which the Church finds it difficult to let go of commitments that have matured to a point where letting go is for the good of all parties."
The report suggests that in many cases, divesting assets would lead to positive outcomes for individual congregations in the future as a result of their renewed focus, and closer alignment with the mission statement of the Uniting Church.
Despite the trauma around the program, it also notes that in many cases over the course of the sell-off "gracious Christian leadership" was shown, and that congregations not affected were happy to receive those which were.
According to Dr Lawrence, the relocation of some congregations and missions affected by the sales would continue well into 2015.
Date published September 16, 2014
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Race detection and 'real-time Uighur warnings' — inside Dahua's facial recognition technology
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Surveillance cameras on the Dahua Technologies office building in Hangzhou, in east China's Zhejiang province. (AFP / Getty Images)
Facial recognition software developed by China-based Dahua, one of the world's largest manufacturers of video surveillance technology, purports to detect the race of individuals caught on camera and offers to alert police clients when it identifies members of the Turkic ethnic group Uighurs.
Dahua, though among Chinese companies sanctioned by the U.S. government, has a growing presence in the country with sales and support offices in Irvine and Houston. Despite restrictions on its business within the country, the company has at least 80 public contracts in California alone and a deal, reportedly valued at $10 million, with Amazon for 1,500 thermal cameras.
Screenshots of Dahua platforms, provided to The Times by video surveillance research organization IPVM, raise troubling privacy concerns. A user guide for a service targeted at law enforcement clients indicates the company's technology can send a warning when it detects someone it identifies as Uighur; a consumer-facing product offers a feature to sort by race individuals who pass in front of its cameras.
It's unclear if these features have been deployed in real-world applications, which features are available in specific markets, and whether any of them are available in products sold to U.S. companies and agencies. Dahua did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
The previously unreported features come to light weeks after the U.S. government officially declared that China's campaign against the largely Muslim ethnic Uighur minority is genocide. New details about the oppression of Uighurs in Xinjiang have emerged after former detainees spoke to BBC and alleged that women in the "reeducation" camps were systemically raped. The Associated Press reported Uighur women had been systemically sterilized to curb the population. Some have been sent to forced labor camps that are reportedly tied to dozens of U.S. brands. Others have disappeared without a trace, leaving their families to quietly wonder where they have gone.
Bugra Arkin, 30, is among those who fear for the safety of his family members. Arkin, who came to Southern California to pursue his masters at USC, hasn't heard from or spoken to his father since 2018. His conversations with his mother — still living in Xinjiang's capital, Urumqi — over messaging app WeChat are measured and veer away from any discussion of his father or where he could be. She told Arkin that she had to download an app that monitors her phone activity and must report calls she receives at night to police the next day.
Arkin, who has tried to bring awareness to the Uighur genocide in a petition to the United Nations, said he worries the use of any technology that has ties to the Chinese government could be used against not just him but anyone in the U.S. "People are very naive here because they have no idea how is our life in China," Arkin said.
"There is no privacy in China," he said.
Dahua was added to the U.S. entity list in 2019, along with 27 other companies including the tech giant Huawei, for its ties to the "human rights violations and abuses in the implementation of China's campaign of repression," according to the Department of Commerce. Being on the list doesn't restrict U.S. companies or agencies from buying Dahua products — it urges caution when doing so — but blocks those companies from buying American products.
New details shared with The Times show Dahua developed capabilities that could further China's campaign against Uighur Muslims. Screenshots provided by IPVM show product support documents for Dahua's police surveillance platform that include several references to "real-time warning for Uighurs."
Screenshots show that the real-time warning feature requires specific equipment that "support reporting Uighur attributes."
The documents also reference "real-time warning for non-local Uighurs."
Along with tracking members of the ethnic group, the service touts its broad facial recognition capabilities. The documents say this service can categorize every face detected for "similar or same passerby photos."
A guide for a different Dahua policing tool lists categories of people the company can track, including "Uighurs with hidden terrorist inclinations," a screenshot shows.
Muslim women hold posters during a rally outside the Chinese Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, in December 2019. More than 1,000 Muslims staged the rally calling for an end to alleged oppression against the Muslim Uighur ethnic minority in China's Xinjiang region. (Dita Alangkara / Associated Press)
Dahua's ability to use its technology to identify Uighurs was first exposed in November by engineer Serge Bazanski thanks to code the company posted from its software development kit on the public code-hosting platform Github. Among the attributes the code could filter was "EM_NATION_TYPE_UYGUR = 1."
Dahua pulled the code shortly after Bazanski tweeted about it.
At the time, Dahua said in a statement to the South China Morning Post that it "does not sell products that feature [an] ethnicity-focused recognition function."
Additional screenshots from a consumer-facing Dahua platform for examining footage captured using company cameras show a "race" filter available to some users. Other categories included in the company's face recognition filters include age, gender, whether an individual is wearing a mask and whether an individual has a beard. These categories can be used to scan existing video footage and focus future recordings on individuals who meet the chosen criteria.
An archived version of Dahua's publicly available software development kit shows a way the company categorizes people by race: EM_RACE_UNKNOWN = 0, EM_RACE_NODISTI = 1, EM_RACE_YELLOW = 2; EM_RACE_BLACK = 3 and EM_RACE_WHITE = 4.
The consumer-facing race filter alarmed Daniel Lewkovitz, chief executive of Calamity Monitoring, an Australian security company. Lewkovitz said he found the function when using the platform, called SmartPSS, on his desktop computer to look through footage to help the police in a criminal matter. His company will stop working with Dahua due to human rights concerns, he said.
"As soon as I became aware of it, I was absolutely appalled by it and I issued an instruction to my senior management that we are going to be moving away from this vendor," Lewkovitz said.
Although being on the entity list doesn't prohibit U.S. companies from purchasing Dahua equipment, the National Defense Authorization Act has since August prohibited the use of federal funds to enter into, extend or renew any contracts to purchase Dahua equipment. But at least one California contract to purchase Dahua equipment — the biggest in the state, according to public procurement data — used federal funding.
According to purchase documents reviewed by The Times, Modesto City Schools paid $362,000 to buy and install 57 Dahua camera kits in buses in October. School district spokeswoman Becky Fortuna said the cameras were purchased using federal funds and were intended to enhance the district's contact-tracing efforts on school buses.
Fortuna said the district was not aware Dahua was on the entity list or that there were bans on using federal funding to purchase Dahua equipment. The district is seeking advice on how to proceed with the existing camera systems it has installed, she said, but won't be buying anymore Dahua equipment.
Considering the U.S. government has already censured numerous Chinese companies on human rights grounds, anyone doing business with companies such as Dahua — even if those deals are legally compliant — should take into account the genocide against the Uighurs, Arkin said.
"China is buying those technology and those hardware to monitor us and destroy our lives," Arkin said.
Arkin's concerns about the Chinese government's ability to monitor him come from experience. During his last trip to China in 2017, he said he was interrogated by police on three occasions about his education in the U.S., whether he's trying to raise awareness about Uighurs in China and whether he had spoken to any foreign officials. On one occasion, he said, police took pictures of his face from every angle, a blood sample, a voice recording and eyelash samples.
"Face recognition is very dangerous," he said. "They took my photo from every angle so even if I wear a mask they can still catch me."
Police told him it was part of normal procedures and he was too scared to say no, he said.
Times staff writer Alice Su contributed to this report.
This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
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The secret ingredient to sincerely offering or accepting an apology is intention. So, what do we say and do to offer a sincere apology intentionally ? 4. Let them know that inherent in your apology is a promise that you won't do what you did again.
The finest leaders I have known also have an abundance of integrity. It shines from their souls right through their eyes.
Thanks for taking the time to read and comment on our blog.
Thank you, Matt. An apology needs to be a commitment to correct, not a pass for missing the mark. Intentional leaders know this and mentor others in the difference by their actions.
Thank you, Donna – and great to hear from you! Couldn't agree more about the importance of backing up what you say with what you do, and an apology without an adjustment lacks authenticity.


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Q: How to set a Steam group to public? I'm considering setting my Steam community group to public so that anyone may join, but I can't figure out how or where to change the setting.
This Steam Support page states that I should:

*

*Login to your Steam Community Profile. Select GROUPS and click the

*Visit admin page link next to the group you wish to edit.

*Select the Settings tab and click the circle next to the Group Status option that you would like for your group.

*Click Save

But after I click the admin page link, I don't see a Settings tab, nor can I find the Group Status option in any of the other settings sections.
What am I missing? Surely I'm overlooking something here...

A: When I open steam and go to my group, I click "edit group permissions" under Admin tools At the top it says:

Public - Anyone can join
Invite Only - People can only join by being invited

There you can select a circle.
This should do it. Not that hard?
In your case when you click: "visit admin page" go to edit group permissions on the right.

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Whether you'll be driving back to school for the fall, are hoping to fill the rest of your summer with an epic road trip, or simply need to psych yourself up to drive to the gas station, there's nothing like a good road trip movie to put you in the right frame of mind. Even if you're not heading anywhere anytime soon, so many of the best coming-of-age stories happen on the road, so these movies are still more than worth the watch.
Everyone knows about the classic Road Trip and Easy Rider, but there are so many other great road trip movies out there. We found six that are currently streaming on Netflix that we think you'll love!
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Great characters, funny exchanges, and beautiful performances elevate The Fundamentals of Caring to road trip movie greatness. This movie comes the closest to "the great American road trip" of any that you'll find on this list, but that's far from the only reason that you'll love it.
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While the pair have an important destination in mind, their chemistry will leave you hoping that their journey could last forever. Just like all the best road trips!
The Road Within finds three unlikely friends on the road together. The mission? Bring Vincent's mother's ashes to the ocean. It doesn't sound like a huge problem, until you throw in the fact that they're all patients at a treatment center for psychological disorders, and they're being pursued by parents and doctors alike!
While the road trip may be for Vincent, Marie and Alex get just as much out of the memorable and once-in-a-lifetime experience. If you give The Road Within a shot, we promise you'll get something out of it too!
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Some of their dreams are easier to achieve than others, and the journey that they embark on is funny, heartwarming, inspiring, and everything you need in a road trip movie.
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Q: Base table or view not found: 1146 Table Laravel 5.7 Im getting this error when I try to save data to mysql using Laravel 5, other forms and save() methods work fine but this one:

SQLSTATE[42S02]: Base table or view not found: 1146 Table 'datatest.about_category' doesn't exist (SQL: insert into about_category (about_id, category_id) values (11, 4))

Here is my Controller store method:
public function store(AboutRequest $request)
{
    $about = new About();
    $about->title = $request->title;
    $about->body = $request->body;
    $about->save();
    $about->categories()->attach(request('category'));
    return redirect(route('abouts.create'));
}

And here is my model:
About.php
<?php

namespace App;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

class About extends Model
{
    public  $table = "abouts";
    public function categories()
    {
        return $this->belongsToMany(Category::class);
    }
}

Category .php
<?php

namespace App;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

class Category extends Model
{
    protected $table = "categories";

    public  $fillable = ['id' , 'name'];

    public function abouts(){
        return $this->belongsToMany(About::class);
    }
}

For abouts table
public function up()
{
    Schema::create('abouts', function (Blueprint $table) {
        $table->increments('id');
        $table->string('title');
        $table->text('body');
        $table->timestamps();
    });
}

For categories table
public function up()
{
    Schema::create('categories', function (Blueprint $table) {
        $table->increments('id');
        $table->string('name');
        $table->timestamps();
    });
}

A: Your many-to-many relationship requires three tables: abouts, categories, and about_category. You haven't created the about_category table:
Schema::create('about_category', function (Blueprint $table) {
    $table->integer('about_id')->unsigned();
    $table->integer('category_id')->unsigned();

    $table->foreign('about_id')->references('id')->on('abouts');
    $table->foreign('category_id')->references('id')->on('categories');
});


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// M_1_5_03
//
// Generative Gestaltung – Creative Coding im Web
// ISBN: 978-3-87439-902-9, First Edition, Hermann Schmidt, Mainz, 2018
// Benedikt Groß, Hartmut Bohnacker, Julia Laub, Claudius Lazzeroni
// with contributions by Joey Lee and Niels Poldervaart
// Copyright 2018
//
// http://www.generative-gestaltung.de
//
// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
// You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
// limitations under the License.
/**
 * noise values (noise 3d) are used to animate a bunch of agents.
 *
 * KEYS
 * 1-2                 : switch noise mode
 * space               : new noise seed
 * backspace           : clear screen
 * s                   : save png
 */
use nannou::noise::{NoiseFn, Perlin, Seedable};
use nannou::prelude::*;

fn main() {
    nannou::app(model).update(update).run();
}

struct Agent {
    vector: Vector2,
    vector_old: Vector2,
    step_size: f32,
    angle: f32,
    noise_z: f64,
    win_rect: Rect,
}

impl Agent {
    fn new(win_rect: Rect, noise_z: f64) -> Self {
        let vector = vec2(
            random_range(win_rect.left(), win_rect.right()),
            random_range(win_rect.top(), win_rect.bottom()),
        );
        Agent {
            vector,
            vector_old: vector,
            step_size: random_range(1.0, 5.0),
            angle: 0.0,
            noise_z: random_range(0.0, noise_z),
            win_rect,
        }
    }

    fn update(&mut self, noise_z_velocity: f64) {
        self.noise_z += noise_z_velocity;
        self.vector_old = self.vector;

        self.vector.x += self.angle.cos() * self.step_size;
        self.vector.y += self.angle.sin() * self.step_size;

        if self.vector.x < self.win_rect.left() - 10.0 {
            self.vector.x = self.win_rect.right() + 10.0;
            self.vector_old.x = self.vector.x;
        }
        if self.vector.x > self.win_rect.right() + 10.0 {
            self.vector.x = self.win_rect.left() - 10.0;
            self.vector_old.x = self.vector.x;
        }
        if self.vector.y < self.win_rect.bottom() - 10.0 {
            self.vector.y = self.win_rect.top() + 10.0;
            self.vector_old.y = self.vector.y;
        }
        if self.vector.y > self.win_rect.top() + 10.0 {
            self.vector.y = self.win_rect.bottom() - 10.0;
            self.vector_old.y = self.vector.y;
        }
    }

    fn update1(&mut self, noise: Perlin, noise_scale: f64, noise_strength: f64) {
        let n = noise.get([
            self.vector.x as f64 / noise_scale,
            self.vector.y as f64 / noise_scale,
            self.noise_z,
        ]) * noise_strength;
        self.angle = n as f32;
    }

    fn update2(&mut self, noise: Perlin, noise_scale: f64, noise_strength: f64) {
        let n = noise.get([
            self.vector.x as f64 / noise_scale,
            self.vector.y as f64 / noise_scale,
            self.noise_z,
        ]) * 24.0;
        self.angle = n as f32;
        self.angle = (self.angle - self.angle.floor()) * noise_strength as f32;
    }

    fn display(&self, draw: &Draw, stroke_weight: f32, agent_alpha: f32) {
        draw.line()
            .start(self.vector_old)
            .end(self.vector)
            .rgba(0.0, 0.0, 0.0, agent_alpha)
            .stroke_weight(stroke_weight * self.step_size);
    }
}

struct Model {
    agents: Vec<Agent>,
    noise_scale: f64,
    noise_strength: f64,
    noise_z_velocity: f64,
    overlay_alpha: f32,
    agent_alpha: f32,
    stroke_width: f32,
    draw_mode: u8,
    noise_seed: u32,
}

fn model(app: &App) -> Model {
    app.new_window()
        .size(720, 720)
        .view(view)
        .key_released(key_released)
        .build()
        .unwrap();

    let noise_z_range = 0.4;
    let agent_count = 4000;
    let agents = (0..agent_count)
        .map(|_| Agent::new(app.window_rect(), noise_z_range))
        .collect();

    Model {
        agents,
        noise_scale: 300.0,
        noise_strength: 10.0,
        noise_z_velocity: 0.01,
        overlay_alpha: 0.03,
        agent_alpha: 0.35,
        stroke_width: 0.3,
        draw_mode: 1,
        noise_seed: 12,
    }
}

fn update(_app: &App, model: &mut Model, _update: Update) {
    let noise = Perlin::new().set_seed(model.noise_seed);

    for agent in &mut model.agents {
        match model.draw_mode {
            1 => agent.update1(noise, model.noise_scale, model.noise_strength),
            2 => agent.update2(noise, model.noise_scale, model.noise_strength),
            _ => (),
        }
        agent.update(model.noise_z_velocity);
    }
}

fn view(app: &App, model: &Model, frame: Frame) {
    // Begin drawing
    let draw = app.draw();

    if frame.nth() == 0 || app.keys.down.contains(&Key::Delete) {
        draw.background().color(WHITE);
    } else {
        draw.rect()
            .wh(app.window_rect().wh())
            .rgba(1.0, 1.0, 1.0, model.overlay_alpha);
    }

    model.agents.iter().for_each(|agent| {
        agent.display(&draw, model.stroke_width, model.agent_alpha);
    });

    // Write the result of our drawing to the window's frame.
    draw.to_frame(app, &frame).unwrap();
}

fn key_released(app: &App, model: &mut Model, key: Key) {
    match key {
        Key::Key1 => model.draw_mode = 1,
        Key::Key2 => model.draw_mode = 2,
        Key::Space => {
            model.noise_seed = (random_f32() * 10000.0).floor() as u32;
        }
        Key::S => {
            app.main_window()
                .capture_frame(app.exe_name().unwrap() + ".png");
        }
        _other_key => {}
    }
}

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Doom later commanded Valeria and the department of science of Battleworld, the Foundation, to find the interlopers, pinning Strange's murder on them. And in one intriguing story, Doom was granted the pleasure of living in a world without Richards, one where he lead his own version of the Fantastic Four - and the results were about as horrid as one can imagine. As Doom ruminates over ways to dampen Magneto's influence over metal, he discovers an alternate dimension where sorcery is enhanced and the physics of electro-magnetism are weakened. He was raised under a harsh life by his father, who routinely disciplined Victor. Boris. Vol.2 #30 (1991) in two diverging stories. In the previous issue he returned to his castle in Latveria to deal with the puppet king Dimitri Fortunov in a most brutal fashion. Eventually revealed to be Valeria, daughter of Doom and the now-dead Morgan le Fay, the young woman sleeps with Eirik on the eve of battle and ends up pregnant with his child. 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Doom swore that he would avenge his parents by any means necessary, including scien… Andrew is a Los Angeles based freelance writer. To start viewing messages, His mother, Cynthia, was killed in a bargain with Mephisto gone wrong. Daredevil vs. She-Hulk: Who's The Better Comic Book Lawyer? Victor von Doom was born in a gypsy camp outside Haasenstadt, Latveria. Naturally, Doom's enormous ego refuses to accept this, so he plots to kill Magneto and usurp his position as the world's leader. Claiming, falsely, that Doom killed the elder Valeria, brainwashed Valeria Richards, and sent Franklin Richards to Hell, Reed used these allegations as an excuse to invade Latveria, seize Doom's technology, and send the Latverian people's hero to Hell.
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Q: What is this symbol in "The Finite Element Method" by Thomas Hughes I'm reading this book The Finite Element Method: Linear Static and Dynamic Finite Element Analysis by Thomas J. R. Hughes. Does anyone know what these symbols (and their font) are in the picture?

They look like l and g but apparently they are not. Thanks!


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Heterometrus rolciki ist ein indischer Skorpion der Familie Scorpionidae.

Beschreibung
Adulte Exemplare von Hetermetrus rolciki haben eine Länge von 80 bis 100 Millimetern und eine rotbraune bis schwarze Grundfarbe, das Telson kann heller sein. Die Kämme des Kammorgans sind gelb, sie haben bei beiden Geschlechtern 10 bis 12 Zähne. Die Proportionen der Pedipalpen lassen keinen Sexualdimorphismus erkennen. Ihre Chelae sind leicht lappenförmig und mit langen Setae bedeckt. Die dorsalen Oberflächen der Chelae sind glatt, ohne Granulen oder Kiele. Carapax und Mesosoma sind auf der ganzen Oberfläche mit Granulen bedeckt. Das Metasoma ist behaart und auf der gesamten dorsalen Oberfläche mit Granulen bedeckt. Das Telson ist behaart und langgestreckt, Giftblase und Giftstachel sind gleich lang. Die Beine tragen kurze und lange einzeln stehende Setae.

Heterometrus rolciki ähnelt der Art Heterometrus scaber, die in Indien weit verbreitet ist und auch in Tamil Nadu vorkommt. Heterometrus rolciki ist jedoch wesentlich kleiner und weist einige morphologische Unterschiede auf.

Verbreitung
Die Terra typica von Heterometrus rolciki liegt in den Nilgiribergen beim Dorf Kunjappanai, etwa 15 Kilometer südöstlich der Kleinstadt Kotagiri im Distrikt Nilgiris des südindischen Bundesstaats Tamil Nadu (). Sie liegt auf etwa 900 Metern Höhe über dem Meeresspiegel.

Systematik

Erstbeschreibung
Die Erstbeschreibung erfolgte durch František Kovařík im Rahmen seiner 2004 veröffentlichten Revision der Gattung Heterometrus. Grundlage der Erstbeschreibung waren zwischen 1997 und 2001 am Typusfundort und in dessen Umgebung gesammelte Exemplare. Darunter befand sich der männliche Holotyp, der von Kovařík von 2000 bis 2004 im Terrarium gehalten wurde.

Typmaterial
Der Holotyp ist ein 100 Millimeter langes adultes männliches Tier. Daneben gibt es einen adulten Allotyp sowie einen männlichen adulten Skorpion, ein subadultes Tier und zwei Jungtiere als Paratypen. Das Typusmaterial befindet sich in der Sammlung von František Kovařík in Prag.

Etymologie
Der Artname ehrt Jakub Rolčík, einen Privatdozenten an der Palacký-Universität Olmütz und am Institut für Experimentelle Botanik der Akademie der Wissenschaften der Tschechischen Republik. Rolčík, der eine private entomologische Sammlung besitzt, hatte den Holotypen gesammelt und an František Kovařík übergeben.

Literatur
 František Kovařík: A review of the genus Heterometrus Ehrenberg, 1828, with descriptions of seven new species (Scorpiones, Scorpionidae). In: Euscorpius, 2004, Nr. 15, S. 1–60, , 6,3 MB.

Einzelnachweise

Scorpionidae (Familie)
Scorpionidae

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their also needs to be changes of the attitudes of the child services and councils actions in involvement with the families when suspected of harm to their children as a result of sick and twisted lies being told in referrals that more often than not become solid evidence of reason to social workers who then take steps in a joint effort with other professionals who are supposedly offering support to a families lifes when instead they are picking faults and finding weakness to exploit. with the intentions of destroying a family that ultimately causes massive emotional harm to the child. just because they are to scared to act on real child abuse cases. and this is a trait of all the councils child services policys in the uk. worst of it is they can repeatedly get away with it because they are never held accountable for the damage they cause by simply staiting that lessons will be learnt and changes made. that they then manipulate this situation to gaining more power to rouin families lifes. UK GOVERNMENT APPROVED WITH A PAT ON THE BACK.


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First, we would like to invite you to attend one of our events so we may meet each other in person. You will get a feel for the excitement our members have towards their equine partners. We have a Social Potluck the 3rd Wednesday of each month. The potluck starts at 6:30 pm.	Please be sure to let us know when you may be coming; we'll look for you!
Once you have attended a VPR event, you will receive a 3-page packet to complete. The packet includes the membership application, Release of Liability form and a Facility Use Agreement, which explains the rules for the clubhouse and grounds. If desired, we can send you this packet ahead of time and if you have any questions, please give us a call.
Once your packet is returned and you've attended at least one event, it will be presented to the VPR Board at the next monthly Board Meeting. Board meetings are held on the 1st Wednesday of each month. Upon approval, you will receive a Welcome Letter and an invitation to the next Orientation Luncheon where we will show you the VPR grounds and clubhouse.
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package zombiefu.items;

import jade.util.datatype.ColoredChar;
import zombiefu.actor.PassableActor;
import zombiefu.player.Player;
import zombiefu.level.Level;
import zombiefu.util.ZombieGame;

public abstract class Item extends PassableActor {

    protected String name;

    public Item(ColoredChar face, String s) {
        super(face);
        this.name = s;
    }

    public Item(ColoredChar face) {
        this(face, "Unbekannter Gegenstand");
    }

    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }

    protected void pickedUpByPlayer(Player player) {
            ZombieGame.newMessage("Du hast '" + getName() + "' aufgehoben.");
            player.obtainItem(this);
    }

    @Override
    public void act() {
        Level world = (Level) world();
        Player player = world.getActor(Player.class);
        if (player == null) {
            return;
        }
        if (player.pos().equals(pos())) {
            world.removeActor(this);
            pickedUpByPlayer(player);
        }
    }
}


The Ravens are, in fact, beatable at M&T Bank Stadium. Over the past two years, the Ravens had protected their house like Kevin McAllister. No, they didn't use tripwires and other booby traps like the little kid in "Home Alone" and NFL teams are much more formidable than the Wet Bandits. They relied on efficient offense, opportunistic defense and 71,000 or so fans who don't mind going to work hoarse on Monday morning. The Ravens had won 16 straight games at home, including their playoff win over the Houston Texans a year ago, and they had outscored their opponents by an average of 12.2 points. They were so dominant there, it seemed like home wins were a formality. I'm sure a decent chunk of those 71,000 lunatics I just mentioned assumed they would be watching a Ravens victory on Sunday night. After all, the Pittsburgh Steelers came into the game looking like Ben Roethlisberger, their injured star quarterback: down, out and not looking very pretty. But as is usually the case on the road and not in their own building, the Ravens offense wasn't there for a full four quarters and couldn't play keep-away with the football long enough for time to expire. The defense, which was the NFL's stingiest in the month of November, couldn't bail the offense out after a fumble by Joe Flacco and couldn't stop their glacial game-winning drive, one that took the final 6:14 off the clock and put the proverbial celebratory champagne back in the wine cellar at M&T Bank Stadium. Yes, Charlie Batch, who turns 38 in a couple of days and looked more like he was 58 in Pittsburgh's loss to the Cleveland Browns last weekend, completed nearly 70 of his passes while throwing for 276 yards, his highest passing total since 2001, his Detroit Lions days. He methodically dinked them and dunked them down the field at the end of the game -- Paul Kruger's roughing the passer penalty helped him do it -- and the Steelers sent the stunned crowd quietly to their cars with a 42-yard field goal by Shaun Suisham. The home streak was bound to be snapped eventually, and given the nature of this rivalry, it shouldn't be that surprising that the Steelers, the last team to beat the Ravens at M&T Bank Stadium way back on Dec. 5, 2010, were the ones to do it, even though they didn't have Roethlisberger under center. The streak is now gone, but we'll see if the team's aura of invincibility went along with it. Whether the Ravens ran their opponent out of the building in the first half or needed a late scoring drive to secure a win, it always felt like the Ravens were going to find a way to win, including for the first 54 minutes of Sunday's 23-20 loss to the Steelers. But losses happen, and now would be a good time for the Ravens to start a new streak. The AFC North is still up for grabs, as are the two first-round playoff byes. But the Manning boys, leading the defending champion New York Giants and the dangerous Denver Broncos, respectively, come to town later this month. Those aren't exactly the Wet Bandits or the Sticky Bandits.


I love to travel, but not until I get to my destination. The reason is simple: I'm packophobic. Apparently the hunter-gatherer instinct is recessive in my genes (except when it comes to shopping).
Nonetheless, we're a middle-class family fortunate enough to be able to occasionally get away for a spring break trip. This time we found a vacation deal to a Caribbean city in the Dominican Republic called Punta Cana. For those of you familiar with geography, think somewhere east of Elian's Island and west of Gilligan's.
Five days before departure, my husband pulled the suitcases out of the attic and began making his piles: shorts, t-shirts, swim trunks. I told the kids to start packing. Then I unzipped my suitcase, opened it and waited. One day passed ... two. No piles appeared. I wondered: Where's the button to activate the automatic pack feature?
I remembered that scene in the film "Mary Poppins" where she magically cleans up the kids' room. So I tried snapping, burping and armpit farting. Nada. T minus eighteen hours and I'd only gotten as far as peeking at the clean laundry in the dryer.
My husband has learned not to pressure me over this. "Marilyn, do you mind if I put a few things in your suitcase? It looks like you've got a lot of extra space."
"Do I detect a note of sarcasm?" I said sweetly. "Anyway, I'm going to pack but I can't do it between sunset and sunrise." That's one decent excuse. Also, obsessing on not packing is a good way to avoid thinking about my flight. Still, I forced myself to begin a list.
1. Matches. I don't smoke and I'm not a terrorist, but I knew we'd be flying over the Bermuda Triangle. I had seen the film "Cast Away" and watched "Survivor." No way would I want to live through a crash, only to be stranded on a deserted island and have to spend countless weeks rubbing two sticks together. I placed three matchbooks into a Ziplock bag, inside another Ziplock, inside a third.
2. Duct tape. Small roll. Don't leave home without it.
After completing all these chores, I would deserve a vacation.
During a trip to Mexico about seven years ago, several of the buggers were hiding in our hotel room when we checked in. That night, they attacked every inch of skin that protruded from the sheets. Some of my fondest memories of that trip are of my husband and me playing a little-known sport requiring agility, eagle eyes and a rolled-up newspaper: Swat the 'Squites. The few remaining photos from that vacation that I haven't destroyed show my hands and face covered with red, puss-filled welts the size of hockey pucks. Fortunately, I had remembered to pack my ski mask and gloves.
At T minus twelve hours to Punta Cana, in a stroke of genius, I packed a fly swatter and a pair of live, mosquito-eating bats.
The morning we departed for the airport, I grabbed my suitcase and tossed in my sandals, sun hat, snorkel, swimsuit, soap, sailboat, spinning wheel, and anything else I could find starting with "s." Because I have faith in my family members' superior packing abilities, I decided to hold them responsible for items starting with the other twenty-five letters.
Four years ago, I found myself on a flight to Paris. My sister Karen's marriage was in pieces, and I was going to help her pack up her things in preparation for a move back to the States.
Like many travelers, I am a nervous flyer. Between concerns about mechanical failure, pilot error, wind shear, computer glitches and possible hallucinations of a man standing on the wing (a la Twilight Zone), it's hard for me to "...relax and enjoy the flight." Nonetheless, I boarded a plane at Chicago's O'Hare airport for only my second overseas trip and braced myself for an eight-hour ordeal.
I tried to blend in with the rest of the passengers, hoping nobody would notice my white knuckle grip on the armrests during take-off and landing, at the slightest sign of turbulence, or whenever the engine noise level shifted. Fortunately, the jet was equipped with telephones. This made me feel more secure, as long as I kept my therapist's emergency pager number clenched in one fist and my credit card in the other.
The movies provided a distraction but when they ended, the reality of my predicament set in: four more hours until landing. Sleep was out of the question - surely the pilots required my services as their unofficial passenger navigator. My job would be to frequently peer out the window, making certain our path stayed parallel to the horizon, barely visible across the night sky.
A middle-aged woman with dingy blonde hair worn in thin braids sat two over from me at the aisle. During a few brief conversations, I learned that she lived in Colorado, and that her final destination was a city in the south of France. She appeared to be an experienced long distance flyer because she got up repeatedly to stretch her legs. I appreciated that she didn't expect me to become her temporary best friend. Chitchat with a stranger is not my forte, especially when I believe my life is in peril and any diversion of my attention from the business of psychically flying the plane could spell disaster for everyone.
Between horizon checks, I forced myself to accept that the situation was out of my control. All I could do was keep breathing and hope for competent and sober pilots. My fate and the fate of my potentially motherless children rested in their hands.
Me: Where will I meet you?
Karen: I don't know the airport that well, but I'll try to be waiting in a spot right where you come out of customs with your luggage.
Me: Is there only one place that could be? And are there any courtesy phones I could use to page you if we miss each other?
Me: Then I will just call your apartment; I'll have your number with me.
I recall breaking into a sweat during that conversation, yet I dutifully wrote down the French words for "telephone card," and several other key phrases I might need. Thinking about Karen's inclination towards running late, I feared being stranded at de Gaulle until it was time for my return trip home. And I wished I had asked her for a translation of: HELP - I'm a confused American who wants her mommy!
I relinquished my volunteer navigational duties when the flight attendants served us breakfast. For the first time since I'd boarded the plane, it hit me that very shortly, I would be in the city that is home to the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre and "plaster of." What could be more exciting?
Then, over our croissants, my seatmate commented nonchalantly, "I can't believe how sick I've been on this flight." Realizing that we were confined to a small space, breathing the same air for the previous seven hours, I instantly conjured up a scenario in which I was in Karen's eighteenth century flat, shivering with fever on damp sheets, and suffering from a vicious, hacking cough. I understood the serious nature of this trip to literally "be there" for my sister, yet I smiled at the irony. After successfully managing my flight phobia, now I had to worry about contracting a dreaded disease.
"I'm sorry to hear that," I replied to the woman, hoping for more details but afraid to really hear them.
"Yeah," she added, "I must have thrown up at least ten times."


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Take a seat and enjoy these movies
Ricardo Vazquez, Staff • October 29, 2021
Hey Lobos, it's that time of the year again where the spookiest and the scariest movies come on your screen and into your eyeballs for you to remember to the end of time, it can be challenging to look...
Is coffee necessary?
Jazlynn Garcia, Staff • September 26, 2021
Coffee is very beneificial for many people. Teachers here at La Joya Community High School, Ms. Gaucin and Ms. Malmos, give their point of view on drinking coffee and how it affects them and the benefits...
Movies to Look Forward to Before the End of 2021
3 Movies You Can Expect to See Before 2021 Ends
Megan Arvizo , Staff • August 27, 2021
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, there have been many setbacks to many different things, including releases of movies. Here are some of the movies that have been affected by the pandemic, but you can expect...
TOP 3 MOVIES FOR 2021
Edwin Segura Rivera, staff • May 19, 2021
Hey there today I will be breaking down the top 3 list for best the best movies for 2021 so lets get too it starting at number 3 spot we have space jam featuring LeBron James teams up with the Looney...
3 Upcoming Movies to Watch in May
Dominique Sahuaqui Sanchez, Staff • May 17, 2021
Get prepared for a summer filled with movies. However, it begins with the stellar May lineup. In the coming days be prepared for a library of movies to be released in theaters and those that you can watch...